GB manga, vol.22

[petronia]

Would rather not have to explain the mpreg!Emishi business again (yes, sahib, that's exactly what I said), so just scanned in that double page. Picture worth a thousand words and all that.

Natsuki Amon's twisted imagination

I should probably start taking this sort of thing to the comms. *shrugs* But it's all about sharing my pain with my friends, see, not traumatising random strangers.

And now for my next trick, I scan Ginji sobbing over Akabane. (If you haven't noticed, we're well into one of those OMGWTF bits recurrent in the storyline. My theory is that the T&A saabisu, the ghei saabisu, the shounen battle saabisu and the WTFness alternate in an esoteric pattern, like the odd-even Star Trek movie thing.)

Comments

[ayabai.livejournal.com]

....

so what we've determined is that amon wants to have lots of kids with emishi >D >D >D >D "いやよ！" i like the one that looks like amon. dammit, that image shattered my brain into a thousand, tiny, screaming pieces, but i forgive amon because HE AND EMISHI ARE STILL GODDAMN CUTE. *rolls around on the floor*

[angrybabble.livejournal.com]

I like Amon and Emishi too. ^^; I hope their inevitable battle turns out well. ^^;;

[luxetumbra.livejournal.com]

Ah yay - it seems as though it's just Ayamine and Aoki letting their inner fangirls out to play...

because otherwise...

YEARS off my life, I tell you, YEARS.

@_@

Thanks for the scans....

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Inner fangirls, you say? ^^;

(As with Ban's Kiss of Life bit, no one warned me and my brain crashed. I avoid spoilers under normal circumstances, but with this series I'm all for an early-warning system, hence I do my part. Upon objective consideration GB's not really an anomaly in the history of shounen manga - JoJo's scary, and let's not talk about Patarillo - but it is one of the oddities.)

Patarillo?

[(Anonymous)]

Patarillo is a shoujo - at least my tank were published by Hana to Yume. Doesn't help it make sense in the least, but...

Thank you soooo~ much for the ongoing v.22 translations, BTW...my own Japanese is at the word-by-word decoder-ring level of comprehension. Now if Sasuga's would just send me my copy...can't wait to read 'em with the pictures ^^;;

X-parrot
<xparrot@xmagicalx.net>

Re: Patarillo?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Patarillo is a shoujo - at least my tank were published by Hana to Yume.

Is it? I'd always assumed it was shounen, perhaps because it was drawn by a guy. And also because most of it didn't particularly seem to be girly material, shounen-ai to the despite. But... well, I guess that makes it a bizarre shoujo manga, as opposed to a bizarre shounen manga. XD

You're welcome to the translations. ^_^ I've been enjoying your fic, btw, I have ff.net set to alert me to them.

This series has something for every fangirl

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

...doesn't it? I swear I will not get into getbackers. I swear.

So what is with Akabane anyway? WTF indeed. I am confused by the events of recent zasshi, so that's a sign I need to redouble my Japanese efforts, though it'll probably take years before I'm that level.

Re: This series has something for every fangirl

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I swear I will not get into getbackers. I swear.

Heh. You and me and - er, wait.

It's very fun. And for a series containing so much gratuitously odd and/or borderline tasteless fanservice (not that I mind tastelessness per se XD), it stands up awfully well to analysis. Densely populated, is what it is.

Akabane? ...Umm, not sure really, given that I only skimmed those chapters and am only now settling into the read. He sort of got himself killed due to massive distraction at the "beauty" of Ginji's fighting technique during a melee, though. >_> (His opponent knows him and calls him by first name, but I haven't figured out more than that.)

Re: This series has something for every fangirl

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the only thing stopping me is dialup and the dauntingness of waiting ages for Tpop to release up to where we are now.

Well, I'm pretty enured to tastelessness after reading through GTO. In comparison, this is mild.

Re: Akabane. He got slashed by guy-dressed-as-monk, right? The "I'd call it OCC if it was in fic but this is canon" moment happens later, I think.

Re: This series has something for every fangirl

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Though truth be told, something odd is happening w/ Akabane already. I think he's going to end up consciously seeking his own death just to find out what it would feel like.