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: 2003-11-08 10:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-08 10:54 pm (UTC)(Intellectually, I understand that one can see slash in anything, I see it in the Speilburg and Lucas buildings which are standing a little too close to each other after all, but I just Don't Get It in terms of TeniPuri. They're junior high boys defying physics via rackets. More than that, I just... really can't see. Even if their heights aren't in proper scale for that age, I think. Maa, whatever.)
By the by, this week's and next Musashi (in LA, that is: we're months behind) just goes to prove that Tokugawa Bakufu is Evil. Sneakies, yessssssss, preciouss. Yesss. (I should have bought the Kurogane manga when I first noted the name at the exhibition in Ikebukuro, curses. Not prescient in terms of that, I wasn't.)
If you get to and through the point with the Western-educated doctor in BotI, let me know if it's worth getting back into. Because I just couldn't continue come that point.
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Date: 2003-11-09 09:21 am (UTC)I'll have to see more PMK. The first ep was relentlessly fight shounen, in a 'how many cliches can we fit into 20 minutes' way...
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Date: 2003-11-09 09:31 am (UTC)Ayn Rand liking a character is a Bad Sign. I couldn't finish Fountainhead without poking mine eyeballs out. This bodes not well for tenipuri XD
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Date: 2003-11-09 04:25 pm (UTC)The reporter girl is veddy amusing. They know us, oh they know us so well... I suspect the scary oneesan is in the process of becoming a stock comedic character in manga, like the scary otakuboi and the scary hentai oyaji. As it is, the series gives me flashbacks to being annilated at table tennis by my dad - those damned curve balls that fly back up in your face.
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Date: 2003-11-09 04:34 pm (UTC)I think I'm already through the doctor point. Or was that the spy...? Well, I'm not sure. I'm at vol.13 but I've been reading it so long that I've lost plot points and characters along the way. BotI is fantasy anyhow (though far more *obviously* fantastic in the beginning than it is currently); unlike Kenshin or Kurogane, which are all about merrily twisting historicity into pretzels in order to accomodate quasi-supernatural happenings, it takes place in the same odd yet broad space that wuxia happens in. I read it like I would read steampunk - jidaigekipunk, as it were.
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Date: 2003-11-09 04:47 pm (UTC)Isn't he? XD I just love the fact that he's named Florian. I mean, not even a teenaged fangirl MS writer would try to pull off a character named Florian. My sister burst out laughing when I told her.
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that was getting contractual obligations out of the way so as to make room for the rampant gheiyou might want to try the manga, actually. It's better paced than the anime, provides more details of characterisation, and the inkwork is astonishing. It doesn't look like shounen manga so much as someone's doujinshi of shounen manga.no subject
Date: 2003-11-09 04:50 pm (UTC)...Forget Ayn Rand, what Bodes Not Well is that my mother likes this series better than I do. She's two tankoubon ahead of me. XD;;;;;
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Date: 2003-11-09 05:50 pm (UTC)Peacemaker manga==crack, duly noted.
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Date: 2003-11-09 11:06 pm (UTC)(.... Dies in not saying a catchphrase in order not to spoil....)
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Date: 2003-11-10 06:57 am (UTC)Peace Maker manga is crack, but it is veddy pwetty crack...