Catching Up
Jan. 15th, 2008 10:35 pm1. Is Silver Diamond some kind of weird band AU? ( Read more... )
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.
( ...a small comment )
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?
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.
( ...a small comment )
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?
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