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Apr. 7th, 2002 07:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaBraindumping into lj, because still awake and may as well be hanged for sheep as for lamb:
Gravitation as a series has a talent for making me feel paranoid. Witness the fact that it reproduces onscreen word-for-word conversations that have occurred between me and my best friend, except with names changed to protect the innocent. Witness the fact that said friend would do the best Shuuichi impression in the universe... if it weren't unintentional. Witness the case of Rage. (The character from the Gravimanga - which is much more fun than the anime - not the emotion.) I don't like Rage exactly, because she's not meant to be liked, but she kills me dead. Rage is the first and only instance I have ever encountered in manga of the AMERICAN YAOI FANGIRL. She is also rude, loud, obnoxious, has abysmal fashion sense, socially retarded and even *more* violent than K. In fact come to think of it, every American by birth in Gravitation is gun-obsessed. I have mentioned the part about the death penalty?
They really do think y'all are barbarians.
OTOH, Rage does fulfill a yaoi fangirl fantasy by taping ze big Yuki x Shuuichi emotional extravaganza. (The emotion on Yuki's side being supplied by teleprompter, but hey.) She also causes Judy Winchester to deliver the immortal line, "but you *like* gay asian men, don't you?"
...Now Judy I'm quite fond of. She looks like an Angel Sanctuary character, and she watches Iron Chef.
On a slightly peripheral note, when I went to look for Gravitation, I was spoken to by the rental desk clerk for the first time in my life. Normally you get a girl who stamps you through in a bored manner, punctuated by bargaining over the return date. That day I got a boyclerk - an extremely mincy, fluttery boyclerk - who chirped at me that he thought the manga was "really funny". I said indeed, and didn't I wish there was more to it on the shelf than the last couple of volumes. He nikoniko-ed at me beatifically and offered no other response.
Gravitation as a series has a talent for making me feel paranoid. Witness the fact that it reproduces onscreen word-for-word conversations that have occurred between me and my best friend, except with names changed to protect the innocent. Witness the fact that said friend would do the best Shuuichi impression in the universe... if it weren't unintentional. Witness the case of Rage. (The character from the Gravimanga - which is much more fun than the anime - not the emotion.) I don't like Rage exactly, because she's not meant to be liked, but she kills me dead. Rage is the first and only instance I have ever encountered in manga of the AMERICAN YAOI FANGIRL. She is also rude, loud, obnoxious, has abysmal fashion sense, socially retarded and even *more* violent than K. In fact come to think of it, every American by birth in Gravitation is gun-obsessed. I have mentioned the part about the death penalty?
They really do think y'all are barbarians.
OTOH, Rage does fulfill a yaoi fangirl fantasy by taping ze big Yuki x Shuuichi emotional extravaganza. (The emotion on Yuki's side being supplied by teleprompter, but hey.) She also causes Judy Winchester to deliver the immortal line, "but you *like* gay asian men, don't you?"
...Now Judy I'm quite fond of. She looks like an Angel Sanctuary character, and she watches Iron Chef.
On a slightly peripheral note, when I went to look for Gravitation, I was spoken to by the rental desk clerk for the first time in my life. Normally you get a girl who stamps you through in a bored manner, punctuated by bargaining over the return date. That day I got a boyclerk - an extremely mincy, fluttery boyclerk - who chirped at me that he thought the manga was "really funny". I said indeed, and didn't I wish there was more to it on the shelf than the last couple of volumes. He nikoniko-ed at me beatifically and offered no other response.
