Jojo moodtheme (saved from last week)

Jotaro mood theme: lame joke taken too far, or lame joke taken much too far?

( Answer inside! )

Manga I am Purchasing

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure
Twelve Kingdoms (novel translation)
Pearl Pink
Mushishi

Quick comments on some others:

Land of the Blindfolded: This got really, really good in volumes 5-8, but sadly the author backs off in the final volume and returns to WAFF (and what’s worse, “standard” oneshot storylines). Still, it was fun.

NANA: Binged up to the latest chapter and ugh. It’s dragging, the mangaka’s started to draw flashbacks and future-flashes with no warning (confusing!) and above all I’m getting really annoyed with the treatment of the female characters. On the other hand it’s fun reading about a “punk” band who have become stars before even releasing an album, and the endless rounds of gameshows they’re replaced their musical careers with. And their fanclub, OH MY GOD. It’s run like a paramilitary organization, I’m really not kidding.

Overall I think NANA’s main selling point is “realism” and that it’s a pretty realistic look at the Japanese music industry, though dramatized, of course. I like the way the relationships are handled, where they don’t go in foreseeable directions. But I liked Parakiss better because it was a lot tighter.

Silver Diamond: What I love most about this series is that every chapter is sixty pages long with tons of dialog. So when a new chapter comes out, I can enjoy it for up to twenty minutes before I get to the end and have to suffer waiting for the next one. ^__^

What makes it really great is that the mangaka doesn’t forget anything. I hear she only plans two or three chapters in advance? But considering the size of the chapters this is like planning an entire volume in advance. Anyway I’m horribly tempted to make yet another One Piece comparison even though I’m pretty sure I went over my quota, like, months ago. It’s that solid.

Silver Diamond, by the way, is the mildest of mild BL. It’s a fantasy set in another world where clouds cover the sun, but it never rains, so all the plants are dying and the world is slowly turning into a desert. Also: guns, clocks, and flashlights grow on trees. The Prince is secretly a demon sucking the life out of everything, but luckily there is this high school student, Rakan, who looks just like him but lives in our world. (Hobbies include: cooking, cleaning, laundry) Rakkan has the ability to make plants grow. One day, the semi-immortal “monstrous traitor” Senrou Chigusa falls through a hole between the worlds to land in Rakan’s flower garden, and…

Originally published at SD Alternative. You can comment here or there.

Jotaro~

Originally published at SD Alternative. You can comment here or there.