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rachelmanija) wrote2004-07-05 08:50 pm
rachelmanija) wrote2004-07-05 08:50 pm
Manga spoils
CLOVER 3 & 4, by CLAMP. Covers amazingly intact. The rest of a beautiful, meditative series in a strange cyberpunkish world which I didn't review here because Melymbrosia already did it better.
TOKYO BABYLON 2, by CLAMP.
PLANET LADDER 1, by Yuri Harushima. Having flipped through # 6 at Ojai, I was sufficiently hooked to start yet another story about a modern schoolgirl who finds a destiny in an alternate universe.
PLEASE SAVE MY EARTH 2, by Saki Hiwatori. A girl with an affinity for plants meets two boys who share the same dreams of being scientists on a space station overlooking the Earth, and an annoying kid who wants to marry her. This promises to be a madly complex series, as it looks like the present-day characters all had relationships as their alter egos or past lives, in addition to their current (some of whom are gender-switched) identities.
PRINCE OF TENNIS 1, by Takeshi Konomi
SAIYUKI 3, by Kazuya Minekura. This is the only one I've had a chance to read so far. I'm really enjoying this series. The creator is one sick puppy who was obviously warped by reading too many doujinshi at a tender age. She includes all these pin-up drawings of her characters in modern dress, in a prison cell, what have you. They're often very sado-masochistic or bondage-y or just plain weird, like the one in # 2 of Hakkai looking scholarly in a preppy suit and holding a book labeled "Abortion." I don't think I want to know what that's about.
# 3 features Hakkai (again), wearing a crucifix necklace, all disheveled and roughed-up and tied with thorn vines and looking like he didn't necessarily have a bad time. The caption is "God, please violate me." Okay, that is SO disturbing on so many levels, not the least of which is that it's a pretty sexy picture, but I kind of feel like a perv for thinking so. Incidentally, that one actually makes sense for his character, though you don't yet know that at this point in the story.
X-DAY, by Setona Mizushiro. High school kids plan to blow up the school. I am so down with that. And I so can't believe that no guardians of public morality have made Tokyopop shrink-wrap it.
RED RIVER, by Chie Shinohara. A modern schoolgirl is swept into ancient Hattusa (the Hittites' city), where she will presumably find a destiny. I started flipping through and got hooked on the story, plus I like the Rumiko Takahashi-esque character designs.
MARS 7 & 8, by Fuyumi Soryo. Still hooked.
ALICE 19th 3, by Yu Watase. Still hooked.
IMADOKI 1, by Yu Watase. A realistic schoolgirl romance. I couldn't resist the somewhat Tamahome-esque boy who appears on page 1.
PLANETES 2 & 3, by Makoto Yukimura. Still hooked. C. J. Cherryh meets Robert A. Heinlein for ultra-realistic manga space adventures.
TOKYO BABYLON 2, by CLAMP.
PLANET LADDER 1, by Yuri Harushima. Having flipped through # 6 at Ojai, I was sufficiently hooked to start yet another story about a modern schoolgirl who finds a destiny in an alternate universe.
PLEASE SAVE MY EARTH 2, by Saki Hiwatori. A girl with an affinity for plants meets two boys who share the same dreams of being scientists on a space station overlooking the Earth, and an annoying kid who wants to marry her. This promises to be a madly complex series, as it looks like the present-day characters all had relationships as their alter egos or past lives, in addition to their current (some of whom are gender-switched) identities.
PRINCE OF TENNIS 1, by Takeshi Konomi
SAIYUKI 3, by Kazuya Minekura. This is the only one I've had a chance to read so far. I'm really enjoying this series. The creator is one sick puppy who was obviously warped by reading too many doujinshi at a tender age. She includes all these pin-up drawings of her characters in modern dress, in a prison cell, what have you. They're often very sado-masochistic or bondage-y or just plain weird, like the one in # 2 of Hakkai looking scholarly in a preppy suit and holding a book labeled "Abortion." I don't think I want to know what that's about.
# 3 features Hakkai (again), wearing a crucifix necklace, all disheveled and roughed-up and tied with thorn vines and looking like he didn't necessarily have a bad time. The caption is "God, please violate me." Okay, that is SO disturbing on so many levels, not the least of which is that it's a pretty sexy picture, but I kind of feel like a perv for thinking so. Incidentally, that one actually makes sense for his character, though you don't yet know that at this point in the story.
X-DAY, by Setona Mizushiro. High school kids plan to blow up the school. I am so down with that. And I so can't believe that no guardians of public morality have made Tokyopop shrink-wrap it.
RED RIVER, by Chie Shinohara. A modern schoolgirl is swept into ancient Hattusa (the Hittites' city), where she will presumably find a destiny. I started flipping through and got hooked on the story, plus I like the Rumiko Takahashi-esque character designs.
MARS 7 & 8, by Fuyumi Soryo. Still hooked.
ALICE 19th 3, by Yu Watase. Still hooked.
IMADOKI 1, by Yu Watase. A realistic schoolgirl romance. I couldn't resist the somewhat Tamahome-esque boy who appears on page 1.
PLANETES 2 & 3, by Makoto Yukimura. Still hooked. C. J. Cherryh meets Robert A. Heinlein for ultra-realistic manga space adventures.
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If you email me your mailing address, I can send you these fansubs :)
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Have you noticed how Hakkai gets all the really strange pin-ups? I looked up the bad translation of the one captioned, "My despised skin told me with these fingers that soon will be the day we kill the gods" and concluded that the Tokyopop one was probably as accurate as any. I understand the part about killing the gods, I think, but as a whole the sentence... will probably make perfect sense at some later point in the story.
On a tangentially related note, have you read Mark Salzman's novel The Soloist? The "kill the Buddha" koan gets discussed at some length, but with a different interpretation. I highly recommend the novel, by the way.
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Some of the translations were so weird I assumed they were more Japanese English.