Manga rental shop gets in a new shipment

[petronia]

Upon which NaNoProcrastination reaches operatic heights:

Blade of the Immortal 13
Vagabond 15-17
Gorgeous Carat 3-4
Prince of Tennis 1-5

And because some of this is new shipment schtuff still in its plastic wrap, I have to read all of it by Monday! Ha! *falls over* They had tons of other series too, like Gouhou Drug and Zeus and Kizuna and Saiyuki Reload (of course they decide to stock it after I'd fulminated curses at the distribution system for two years and bought it in Japanese. >_> Oy vey. At this point I'm just happy there is a Taiwanese Chinese version of Reload, of which I hadn't been certain at all), but there's only so much I can carry with my string-bean arms - months of yoga to the despite - and the ojisan was already giving me the beady eye. "Three days! That's Monday, you understand? Did you read the new posted rules yet?"

Actually I went for Peace Maker: the six tankoubon of the first series came in with the shipment, due to my powerful universe-warping manga attraction sk1ll0rz, but since I didn't grab them immediately last evening someone else did. :D;;; As you see, I console myself with other varieties of katana pr0n. TeniPuri because well it must be a fun read, or so many of you wouldn't like it so much. ...Learn? Of course I never learn. I think I honestly believe every single time that X series would be "a fun read", to which I could never lose large chunks of my time, soul and existence. Oh, well, perhaps it will be true this time - and perhaps pot-bellied pigs will fly (into the lily-white arms of Okita Souji).

(Watched PMK 2-3 last night, which went something like this:

*episode ends*
Sabina: ......
Sabina: *checks manga imprint*
Sabina: "Nope, still shounen. Not that that seems to be worth a hill of beans nowadays..."

My natural impulse is to go do some brush-up reading. I've been clamping down on it like mad, though, because I'm pretty sure my brain would be far less broken than it currently is if I didn't so much as know any of these people's names. Are there going to be actual Ishin innit? Should I ph33r? Stupid question. Of course I should ph33r.)

Comments

[luckykitty.livejournal.com]

i want all your comics! *weeeeeps*

hm, i don't think i really associate PMK with any of my "real" shinsengumi interest/knowlege, although, having learned of the shinsengumi through RK helps (they've always felt fictional to me.) but those blue and white outfits are definitely a fetish of mine. Mmmmmmmm.

well, but maybe that's not true. i've never held much as sacred ;), so long as the end result is violent and yummy and fun.

if you keep watching, beware episode 4. it still makes me cry.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

My problem is Oshima Nagisa, as noted previously. (I wonder: if I'd tracked down his Shiro Amakusa, would it have made the last Kenshin anime arc more watchable? Or would I not have survived?) I'll definitely keep watching, though, as it's great fun even tho' it does make me twitch. XD It's obviously supposed to make one twitch, anyway, as it assumes a certain level of audience knowledge.

[luckykitty.livejournal.com]

it does. i wonder how much fun it is for people who don't know anything about them at all?

gohatto... i need to watch that again. i enjoyed it both times i watched it, but always felt like i was missing A LOT...

[petronia.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me that the historical personage most broken so far is actually Nagakura Shinpachi. Silly mangaka; everyone knows you're only allowed one short genki redhead boy per samurai manga. I can't wait to see what's been done to, say, Saitou and Kanryuusai. *thump*

The thing with Gohatto is that you're really not supposed to know what happened factually, but the metaphorical aspect is clear. ...Well, for certain definitions of clear. XD I've come up with something like three different allegorical interpretations of the surface narrative, all of which seem to be equally valid, and (I'm sure) equally intended. (Bishounen as metaphor for death, bishounen as metaphor for bushi ideal, said ideal being itself the "seductive death" of Japanese society at large and thus must be destroyed to preserve order, fate of Shinsengumi - and fannish obsession with Shinsengumi - as representative of above, et cetera ad nauseam.) But all that is far clearer than who's-sleeping-with-whom, and who-actually-killed-whom. XD;;

I need to write, like, an essay on this movie explaining how No North American Film Critics Got It (tm). The wank, it burnses us.

[ayatsujik.livejournal.com]

*killing self cackling* HOPE!

PoT - really is little more than bois with rather flat characters, ghei over the place and the usual sports ethos of Motto Tsukoyu Ni Nare. I freely admit that it's the pairings that keep me hooked onto this series. And how was SD any different, you might ask? Touche, but IMO the SD boys get significantly more development, dynamics included. Grittier backstories and the need to overcome circumstances - Shohoku's a nobody and Seigaku is already a top private chuugakkou in every way, and I won't get into a half-baked series comparison here. XD;;;

Anyway. Hope you *do* like it, though, because the bois are darlings and there's enough details of their lives given for the fans to do interesting moulds with them in fic HINT HINT even if the series itself is too busy earning fangirl revenue to really care about fleshing them out. (ano.)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well, I wouldn't hope too much; given that I have yet to write any fic for SD for cripes' sakes. XD;;; We shall see, we shall see.