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Oct. 28th, 2005 01:46 amHave you ever had one of those all-nighters where you think, this is so STUPID, it's only three hours of work so why am I spending all night on it? Yeah. On the plus side I did manage to finish two books during my "break" from lab-report writing. (On the minus side, they weren't very good books. ;_; C.J. Cherryh, I'm realizing, can be almost entirely desribed by the phrase "unnatural preoccupation with sentient alien lizards.")
This entry is part of my ongoing struggle to post shorter entries! I'm a natural lumper so this splitting-content thing is hard even if it is more organized. Poll!
[Poll #599957]
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memlu's on an uploading roll! Her summaries are really good too. The two series she's done recently are:
1. Gokusen and
2. Hana Yori Dango
1. Gokusen
Gokusen's basically a yakuza/high school gag comic, like Giant Step or GTO or Cromartie High School. It was made into a live-action drama a few years ago. The drama's cuter than the manga, but ultimately not as funny *I* thought (although on the plus side it did have a fairly hot guy playing Shin).
I love Gokusen with all my heart, however I am sort of bummed that in the ONE case where I am all for student-teacher, the student-teacher relationship isn't canon. Or, well, it sort of is, but it is also canonically problematic and so...perhaps I take these things too seriously. Repeat to self, they aren't real yakuza, they're manga yakuza. They aren't real yakuza. Yeah.
2. Hana Yori Dango
aka that manga I had this nagging feeling of having heard of before, but didn't actually know anything about. (tarigwaemir wrote fic for it? And team7 sometimes mentions Meteor Garden, the live-action soap opera. Other than that, nothing.)
I'm up to volume 5! I'm having a really hard time. I swore in the first volume I'd never like That Jerk With the Pouffy Black Hair and, horrible track record aside, I haven't really seen anything to change my mind. It's less that Dyou-whatever is a terrible monster (this isn't Hot Gimmick) than that I can't STAND it when he succeeds in guilt-tripping Tsukkaki for something that is OBVIOUSLY not her fault.
It's a shame about HYD, actually, because how many times in shojo manga does the heroine NOT end up with the first guy she shares a panel with? In a way it's subversive.
This entry is part of my ongoing struggle to post shorter entries! I'm a natural lumper so this splitting-content thing is hard even if it is more organized. Poll!
[Poll #599957]
memlu's on an uploading roll! Her summaries are really good too. The two series she's done recently are:1. Gokusen and
2. Hana Yori Dango
1. Gokusen
Gokusen's basically a yakuza/high school gag comic, like Giant Step or GTO or Cromartie High School. It was made into a live-action drama a few years ago. The drama's cuter than the manga, but ultimately not as funny *I* thought (although on the plus side it did have a fairly hot guy playing Shin).
I love Gokusen with all my heart, however I am sort of bummed that in the ONE case where I am all for student-teacher, the student-teacher relationship isn't canon. Or, well, it sort of is, but it is also canonically problematic and so...perhaps I take these things too seriously. Repeat to self, they aren't real yakuza, they're manga yakuza. They aren't real yakuza. Yeah.
2. Hana Yori Dango
aka that manga I had this nagging feeling of having heard of before, but didn't actually know anything about. (
tarigwaemir wrote fic for it? And team7 sometimes mentions Meteor Garden, the live-action soap opera. Other than that, nothing.)I'm up to volume 5! I'm having a really hard time. I swore in the first volume I'd never like That Jerk With the Pouffy Black Hair and, horrible track record aside, I haven't really seen anything to change my mind. It's less that Dyou-whatever is a terrible monster (this isn't Hot Gimmick) than that I can't STAND it when he succeeds in guilt-tripping Tsukkaki for something that is OBVIOUSLY not her fault.
It's a shame about HYD, actually, because how many times in shojo manga does the heroine NOT end up with the first guy she shares a panel with? In a way it's subversive.