Too-short Sunday
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petroniaI like Daylight Saving Time, actually, long sunny summer evenings are what I'm all about (and I hear it's being extended this year), but the switch plays havoc with my sleep pattern. On top of which it's a Sunday, so instead of sleeping in til one I slept in til two. XD Now I'm going to be horribly awake.
Stuff I have read recently (mostly inconsequential):
1) xxxHolic vol.6. I had the scans but was missing the chapters at the beginning. Watanuki flails so predictably. XD (The interactions between the characters could stand more nuance - things happen to deepen and evolve relationships but by the next chapter they're back to the same gags. Then again CLAMP has never been good at gradual development; they prefer long plateaus and steep steps taken at a fall.)
2) Sex Pistols chapter 26, which wraps the arc. I think I'm the only person I know who liked this storyline? Love polygons tend to irritate me but it's one of those narrative elements where my reception depends on the actual plot (like non-con), and I'm a sucker for politics even when wildly improbable. XD I would've preferred reading the last few chapters at a single go, though, I get the feeling Seth is the only character to remain consistent. Meanwhile the "Madara Gossip" extra thing totally cracked me up.
3) JoJo's Bizarre Adventures. What the title says.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
angrybabble sent me a whole bunch of scanlations I'm rumbling through; am currently midway through volume 4. The first arc of this (vol.1-5) is set in the 1880s, and unexpectedly it actually reads like a 19th-century sensationalist novel...... sort of. With more punches to the face. Maybe if Wilkie Collins was in a bar fight with Bram Stoker and the Shaw Brothers. I guess because there's a straightforwardness about it? Like, gentlemen have honour, evil people are congenital degenerates, and there is nothing Hollywood-schlocky about VAMPIRIC AZTEC DEMON MASKS because this is the Modern Age and investigations into the paranormal are conducted in a spirit of scientific inquiry. That is, for a couple dozen chapters, and then it starts tipping into "Oh wait, this is shounen manga". XD I can buy Will A. Zeppeli (who looks like he stepped out of a copperplate engraving) and his Tibetan monks but not the "English" "history" "infodumps". Though granted it would have been way cooler if Mary Stuart did command knights who could strangle people and wield greatswords with their hair alone.
Anyhoo. The art is kind of fugly in this but it's not bad, just intentional. If that makes sense. XD
Now for your amusement, I will... watch some anime!
Stuff I have read recently (mostly inconsequential):
1) xxxHolic vol.6. I had the scans but was missing the chapters at the beginning. Watanuki flails so predictably. XD (The interactions between the characters could stand more nuance - things happen to deepen and evolve relationships but by the next chapter they're back to the same gags. Then again CLAMP has never been good at gradual development; they prefer long plateaus and steep steps taken at a fall.)
2) Sex Pistols chapter 26, which wraps the arc. I think I'm the only person I know who liked this storyline? Love polygons tend to irritate me but it's one of those narrative elements where my reception depends on the actual plot (like non-con), and I'm a sucker for politics even when wildly improbable. XD I would've preferred reading the last few chapters at a single go, though, I get the feeling Seth is the only character to remain consistent. Meanwhile the "Madara Gossip" extra thing totally cracked me up.
3) JoJo's Bizarre Adventures. What the title says.
angrybabble sent me a whole bunch of scanlations I'm rumbling through; am currently midway through volume 4. The first arc of this (vol.1-5) is set in the 1880s, and unexpectedly it actually reads like a 19th-century sensationalist novel...... sort of. With more punches to the face. Maybe if Wilkie Collins was in a bar fight with Bram Stoker and the Shaw Brothers. I guess because there's a straightforwardness about it? Like, gentlemen have honour, evil people are congenital degenerates, and there is nothing Hollywood-schlocky about VAMPIRIC AZTEC DEMON MASKS because this is the Modern Age and investigations into the paranormal are conducted in a spirit of scientific inquiry. That is, for a couple dozen chapters, and then it starts tipping into "Oh wait, this is shounen manga". XD I can buy Will A. Zeppeli (who looks like he stepped out of a copperplate engraving) and his Tibetan monks but not the "English" "history" "infodumps". Though granted it would have been way cooler if Mary Stuart did command knights who could strangle people and wield greatswords with their hair alone.Anyhoo. The art is kind of fugly in this but it's not bad, just intentional. If that makes sense. XD
Now for your amusement, I will... watch some anime!
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Date: 2006-04-03 07:54 pm (UTC)Although I was afraid when I saw it that he was going to take a shot of eyebeam juiceno subject
Date: 2006-04-03 11:04 pm (UTC)And FINALLY, you have to FEAR Araki when he returns to any of his older works, because then, with his art nowadays, you will have stuff like this (http://pics.livejournal.com/nemissa/pic/0007ycw7) and this (http://pics.livejournal.com/nemissa/pic/0007zz06) and this (http://pics.livejournal.com/nemissa/pic/00080set) (Joseph and his three Aztec buddies)
Or you'll have KA'S FAVORITE PICTURE OF ALL, Jonathan vs. Dio. (http://pics.livejournal.com/nemissa/pic/0007gpq1)
HEE HEE HEE.
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Date: 2006-04-04 03:24 am (UTC)(I don't understand how at some point it became impossible to tell people's genders in this! I mean they're still damn buff by normal standards, just... uh.
Even the stone mask is pink. :0)
Thanks for the upload! I won't be able to get it before Saturday though. m(_ _)m Will look for the Viz release in the manga shop.
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Date: 2006-04-04 04:19 am (UTC)Also, there's no rush for the zip; it's been up for a while and will remain up! :D
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Date: 2006-04-04 04:30 am (UTC)