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petroniaE.W. Hornung's Raffles stories: there is nothing I can do to keep my brain from showing these to me in shoujo manga format. Every single other story involving a gentleman thief I have ever read in my entire life has been in shoujo manga format (if not BL altogether). And the POV character is called Bunny, so half the time I suddenly come to and realize that I have been picturing him in tare-chibi form with bunny ears. Stop it, brain! But the part of it that does the movies has never been fully under my conscious control.
These are really well written! Studies in pacing and economy. They make me a little sad and unnerved, though, because they're stories about trying to finance untenable lifestyles - like post-crisis investment bankers or something.
Bleach vol.36-37: only 1.5-2 years late, bawling. There are more tankoubon out in French, even, I just bought these since they containedwee bishounen Byakuya and Gin meaty backstory. All is explained... okay, no, but some is explained. They also served to resurrect my burning love for Yumichika and the giant misguided internalized Don't Ask Don't Tell metaphor that's his relationship with his zanpakutou ;lkjwesdfkl screaming whenever this comes up in the storyline I just want to give him a hug, not to mention hate Kubo Tite for a while because it also invariably comes with a side order of fourth-grader transphobic jokes. The tragic clusterfuckery of it is that he worries about Kenpachi and Ikkaku finding out, because can you imagine either of those dudes seriously caring? For more than five seconds?
At least, in the flashback, you get a giant Guantanamo metaphor to go along with! Oh, Urahara, so very morally relativistic.
These are really well written! Studies in pacing and economy. They make me a little sad and unnerved, though, because they're stories about trying to finance untenable lifestyles - like post-crisis investment bankers or something.
Bleach vol.36-37: only 1.5-2 years late, bawling. There are more tankoubon out in French, even, I just bought these since they contained
At least, in the flashback, you get a giant Guantanamo metaphor to go along with! Oh, Urahara, so very morally relativistic.
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Date: 2011-01-20 04:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-20 06:24 am (UTC)I'LL SEE YOUR TRUE COLORS SHINING THROUGH BB~
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Date: 2011-01-20 08:09 am (UTC)XD for some odd reason I am now completely sold on this series! must go library-crawling soon.
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Date: 2011-01-20 07:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-20 08:10 am (UTC)Bunny is totally moe, isn't he? *laughs*
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Date: 2011-01-20 07:52 pm (UTC)Bunny is like. EVERY HISTORICAL BL MANGA EVER
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Date: 2011-01-20 10:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-20 08:58 pm (UTC)(The question that I have in my mind now is, what is the Court, srsly... read on, Macduff, as it were. XD;)
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Date: 2011-01-20 11:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-20 07:47 pm (UTC)HE DENIES THE TRUE COLORS OF HIS ZANPAKUTOU, like f'reals
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Date: 2011-01-21 03:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-21 04:50 am (UTC)So far 1) the only backstories that aren't covered that I can remember are Isshin and Ryuuken, which I imagine will be revealed sometime during the ten tanks I haven't read (the other 95% of which will consist of swordfights I guess), and 2) it hasn't jossed my Aizen/Gin shota pr0nz o_O/-
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Date: 2011-01-21 06:20 am (UTC)Aizen looked much better when he had the twee square-rims. Come to think this whole manga looked much better when Aizen had glasses! I want to read fic where he has them. Ono Natsume would never have made these changes
Reason A why I prefer manga to anime and paper manga to scans is that you can just flip through that shit. You're reading like 5 volumes per hour.
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Date: 2011-01-20 03:15 pm (UTC)I should continue reading the Raffles stories myself (...if I can find my books ahahaha orz) -- I got stalled at the start of one because Raffles was pissing me off too much with his behaviour towards Bunny, and then forgot to pick it back up again. XD; This is a far too common malady when it comes to my book reading, really (especially with anthologies).
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Date: 2011-01-20 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-20 08:12 pm (UTC)The tragic clusterfuckery of it is that he worries about Kenpachi and Ikkaku finding out, because can you imagine either of those dudes seriously caring? For more than five seconds?
Unfortunately, this is why I can't take Yumichika's serious side, well, seriously. orz
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Date: 2011-01-20 09:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-21 02:56 am (UTC)Haha, I guess behind the "you're some kind of idiot, right?" response, there's a bit of pity that these people who act so close to each are virtually strangers to one another! and Yumi's the only one suffering for it! T.T
Argh, bleach. If you continue reading, I hope you continue to post your reactions; I need to know if the violent head-desking is just me. XD
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