Catching Up
Jan. 15th, 2008 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sub_divided1. Is Silver Diamond some kind of weird band AU? ...It's just, I was re-reading the chapter where Senrou's goofy non-prescription glasses come off as he smooths back his soaking-wet hair and, gazing earnestly out of the panel, asks, "Are you all right?" (Rakan is silent for a moment until he realizes that this guy is Chigusa.) And I thought, huh, Senrou is kind of like Gackt? In the sense that he's freakishly handsome and competant "but also, let's face it, a total weirdo" (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
supacat's words)?
And then I started thinking, the other members of the Fab Four have similar delicate good looks...and they spend a good portion of the manga hanging all over each other...but in a way you know won't lead anywhere. Just like band members! Either there's something to this, or JE/VK/Bandom craze that's been going around has finally gotten to me.
2. Caught up on Full Metal Alchemist and Kekkaishi. FMA would be better if it stopped following shounen fight conventions. (Not that this happens often, but when it does, it's really jarring.) And Kekkaishi would be better if it didn't insist on a shounen personality for the protagonist. (Or if it had the shounen personality minus the stupidity, like in Jojo or Hunter x Hunter.) But they're still pretty awesome. ^^; FMA manga has been worth following just for the destruction of Xerxes.
3. Also caught up on Naruto, Bleach, xxxHolic, Tsubasa.
Naruto: The leader of the Akatsuki does have a grandiose-yet-nihilistic goal! I knew the money-making scheme couldn't be it.
Bleach: Wake me up when it's over.
xxxHolic: Watanuki is nice to Doumeki, Doumeki asks Are You Feeling Okay?
Tsubasa: OH GAWD NO COMMENT.
Except: CLAMP finally Went There and skewered Sakura. Apparently it was only her good luck standing between herself and edged weapons. So now the entire cast has been mutilated. Also all we need now is for Kurogane to not be the real Kurogane, and we'll have that complete set as well.
4. Read what's been translated of Historie. It's so obvious what the author is doing here, I know what he's doing, and yet I have still fallen for it, BECAUSE I'M EASY. Just make the protagonist intelligent, resourceful, and a little bit spacey/odd/distant, and you've got me. ^^; Historie is the untold childhood of Eumenides, Alexander the Great's personal secretary. It's solidly researched, but nothing to write home about -- mostly literature and geography references so far -- but there is some pretty good Greek/non-Greek tension going on, as well as constant reminders of the ubiquity of slavery. I also really liked that there was more justice and happiness (as we'd perceive it) in the "barbarian" village than in the Greek town.
5. Where's the internet quiz that will assess the relative weight each of us places on the five spheres of morality?
supacat's words)? And then I started thinking, the other members of the Fab Four have similar delicate good looks...and they spend a good portion of the manga hanging all over each other...but in a way you know won't lead anywhere. Just like band members! Either there's something to this, or JE/VK/Bandom craze that's been going around has finally gotten to me.
2. Caught up on Full Metal Alchemist and Kekkaishi. FMA would be better if it stopped following shounen fight conventions. (Not that this happens often, but when it does, it's really jarring.) And Kekkaishi would be better if it didn't insist on a shounen personality for the protagonist. (Or if it had the shounen personality minus the stupidity, like in Jojo or Hunter x Hunter.) But they're still pretty awesome. ^^; FMA manga has been worth following just for the destruction of Xerxes.
3. Also caught up on Naruto, Bleach, xxxHolic, Tsubasa.
Naruto: The leader of the Akatsuki does have a grandiose-yet-nihilistic goal! I knew the money-making scheme couldn't be it.
Bleach: Wake me up when it's over.
xxxHolic: Watanuki is nice to Doumeki, Doumeki asks Are You Feeling Okay?
Tsubasa: OH GAWD NO COMMENT.
Except: CLAMP finally Went There and skewered Sakura. Apparently it was only her good luck standing between herself and edged weapons. So now the entire cast has been mutilated. Also all we need now is for Kurogane to not be the real Kurogane, and we'll have that complete set as well.
4. Read what's been translated of Historie. It's so obvious what the author is doing here, I know what he's doing, and yet I have still fallen for it, BECAUSE I'M EASY. Just make the protagonist intelligent, resourceful, and a little bit spacey/odd/distant, and you've got me. ^^; Historie is the untold childhood of Eumenides, Alexander the Great's personal secretary. It's solidly researched, but nothing to write home about -- mostly literature and geography references so far -- but there is some pretty good Greek/non-Greek tension going on, as well as constant reminders of the ubiquity of slavery. I also really liked that there was more justice and happiness (as we'd perceive it) in the "barbarian" village than in the Greek town.
5. Where's the internet quiz that will assess the relative weight each of us places on the five spheres of morality?