Fannish report
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petroniaInternet exists again. All's right with the world. Downloaded PMK4 from Lux and watched it; would watch it again to make sure I didn't imagine it, if I didn't think a second go would make capillaries burst in my brain. Shounen really isn't what it used to be. (Also cannot shake the impression that the damned series should have been subtitled "Secret Life Of The Shinsengumi: Or, What Himura Kenshin Never Knew". Oshima Nagisa may actually have been less of a crackwhore.)
Off to read the manga, then! Dash it all, I don't want to get into this series. It's like reading Dumas' Musketeer books; it's all very well and good and fun until everyone goes on a HISTORICALLY DOOMED VENTURE, isn't it?
...Much as I say I have universe-warping manga attraction sk1ll0rz, I have no idea how I'm going to get hold of GB 23 when it comes out. _O_ (And that calendar. O, that calendar... Must I order? I suppose I must. Every once in a while I have a sudden blink of realisation that I'm a nominal adult and can do certain things, like walk into Renaud-Bray and buy the entire set of Angélique novels including the ones I have not yet read.)
Meanwhile, Gorgeous Carat 3-4: this is my frou-frou series, which I cackle at and plot fanfic for in Baroness Orczy's prose style, complete with hyphenated triple exclamation marks (--!!!) to mark mental emphasis. I adore Higuri Yuu because she's apparently never embarrassed by anything. I mean, I try to picture myself writing Florian's shimmering amethyst orbs as the plot point they are, and all I can think is that I'd have to shave my head and take vows, being unfit to face society afterward. I suppose it does help that the art is pwetty enough to hold up to the hyperbole.
The other good thing is that after a tankoubon's worth of Florian's flopping around without a backbone - I mean this literally, Noir has to carry him around like a rag doll - even PMK's Okita starts to look seme. He's like fanon!Louis out of VampChron spec, only much blonder and ditzier.
(Apparently, too, it continueth in Mystery B-Street! I must find it! I must learn why the perfidious Moroccan Berber mafioso who's secretly the adopted son of an American millionaire was searching for the Holy Grail in the first place! *falls over* Well, he's hot. Especially in the business suit with the short(er) hair, because I certainly wasn't expecting it. What damned period is this anyway?)
Followed up immediately with chaser of TeniPuri. Ahh, sports manga. XD Why is it that the only thing I can think is, Ayn Rand would've loved Ryoma? XD;; Answer: because I have to learn all the other characters' names before I can comment on them. XD;;; That's the downside of sports manga.
Blade of the Immortal: Anotsu still kick-ass even when adorably rumpled and feverish. Makie still self-destructive bishounen despite being female. Series still lacking in angsty gratuitous sex scenes between the two. Rin getting cooler. Manji effortlessly cool. Bakufu is teh 3b1l. /is stabbed by Hijikata/ Status quo preserved, news at eleven.
Off to read the manga, then! Dash it all, I don't want to get into this series. It's like reading Dumas' Musketeer books; it's all very well and good and fun until everyone goes on a HISTORICALLY DOOMED VENTURE, isn't it?
...Much as I say I have universe-warping manga attraction sk1ll0rz, I have no idea how I'm going to get hold of GB 23 when it comes out. _O_ (And that calendar. O, that calendar... Must I order? I suppose I must. Every once in a while I have a sudden blink of realisation that I'm a nominal adult and can do certain things, like walk into Renaud-Bray and buy the entire set of Angélique novels including the ones I have not yet read.)
Meanwhile, Gorgeous Carat 3-4: this is my frou-frou series, which I cackle at and plot fanfic for in Baroness Orczy's prose style, complete with hyphenated triple exclamation marks (--!!!) to mark mental emphasis. I adore Higuri Yuu because she's apparently never embarrassed by anything. I mean, I try to picture myself writing Florian's shimmering amethyst orbs as the plot point they are, and all I can think is that I'd have to shave my head and take vows, being unfit to face society afterward. I suppose it does help that the art is pwetty enough to hold up to the hyperbole.
The other good thing is that after a tankoubon's worth of Florian's flopping around without a backbone - I mean this literally, Noir has to carry him around like a rag doll - even PMK's Okita starts to look seme. He's like fanon!Louis out of VampChron spec, only much blonder and ditzier.
(Apparently, too, it continueth in Mystery B-Street! I must find it! I must learn why the perfidious Moroccan Berber mafioso who's secretly the adopted son of an American millionaire was searching for the Holy Grail in the first place! *falls over* Well, he's hot. Especially in the business suit with the short(er) hair, because I certainly wasn't expecting it. What damned period is this anyway?)
Followed up immediately with chaser of TeniPuri. Ahh, sports manga. XD Why is it that the only thing I can think is, Ayn Rand would've loved Ryoma? XD;; Answer: because I have to learn all the other characters' names before I can comment on them. XD;;; That's the downside of sports manga.
Blade of the Immortal: Anotsu still kick-ass even when adorably rumpled and feverish. Makie still self-destructive bishounen despite being female. Series still lacking in angsty gratuitous sex scenes between the two. Rin getting cooler. Manji effortlessly cool. Bakufu is teh 3b1l. /is stabbed by Hijikata/ Status quo preserved, news at eleven.
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Date: 2003-11-09 11:06 pm (UTC)(.... Dies in not saying a catchphrase in order not to spoil....)