My Thanksgiving will be so Gorgeous, it will make straight men swoon and moonbeams bashful.
Bryce is encouraging my guilty addiction. He bought me VHD The Rose Princess last Wednesday. I'll probably finish it today. It's great. I really enjoy seeing Kikuchi do better and better at character development. After everyone being completely and utterly vile for the first three books, now everyone is sympathetic or at least has some redeeming qualities.
There has been nothing really laugh out loud funny in the past few books. Just a few subtle reminders that D is so gorgeous he can make straight men swoon and moonbeams bashful. Like when he saves the obligatory girl from the angry town mob.
At last, the people turned and saw the gorgeous young man on the horse. Before him on the saddle sat a boy of about five, while a burly man with gray hairs scattered among the black stood beside the mount.
"Blasko!"
"And that's his boy Cusca up on the horse. What are they doing with..."
"They're here because I had need of a blacksmith," said D.
This was the first time the villagers had ever heard D's voice. The cheeks of every last woman flushed, while the men grew dazed and even enthralled.
AND Bryce bought me the first volume of the VHD manga. It's a retelling of the first book, with is also what the first anime movie is based off of. I was a little disappointed in that, until I realized how fun it is to compare it with everything else. So far it's a retelling of the book and hasn't diverged at all.
Well, first off the book and manga are different from the movie where D and obligatory girl (Doris, in this one) meet. In the movie, D's riding along, looking all stoic, mysterious, and gorgeous. Then he rides up to this random chick who attacks him with a whip. Hate it when that happens. He avoids her attacks with minimal effort and begins to continue on his way. Then she cries out for him to stop. She apologizes for attacking him and offers to hire him to kill the pesky vampire that wants to marry her. She's poor, but can pay him in food and sex. Score!
In both the book and the manga, D rides along and comes up to Doris, who attacks him with her whip (kinky). He avoids her first attack with minimal effort, so she whips off her cloak, which she was running around commando under.
The book:
And the Manga, where someone needs to feed that girl a sandwich!
Doris thinks very highly of herself and thinks that being naked is enough to distract a warrior into losing. It doesn't; D wins and she apologizes, and offers to hire his Vampire Hunting services to kill that pesky vampire in exchange for food and sex. Score!
Well not so much of a score. She offered her body to him and he says "The nobility might prove better company than the likes of me." Way to sell yourself short, D.
So she came at him with some logic I can't begin to understand, but ends with her preferring to whore herself out to D than become a vampire's wife. "Very well," says D. "But if I may make one thing clear..."
I cannot think of D ever saying those words. I revisited the first book to see, and he does tell her upfront there, too. He usually lets his obligatory girl tag-a-long find out in whatever shocking revelation they receive from the villain or other third party. I'm not positive, but I think there are even books where the obligatory girl never even knew he was half vampire. She only knew he had this otherworldly quality thing going on. I mean, running around and announcing that you're half vampire is a good way to get yourself run out of town. I guess D has a thing for girls who come at him with whips. It's probably because Doris actually wants to employ him. I'll have to look into the other books and double check who employs him. I can think of one other girl than Doris, but I think that she's the one who never even knew. But she also didn't have any much romantic interest in him, either. Oh well.
And D looks so sad. Is he sad because he's a dhampir? He's one of those self-hating dhampirs? Is he just afraid that Doris won't sleep with him now? Fortunately, Doris is forward-thinking and this shocking revelation only phases her for one panel. She offers to shake hands with him two panels later.
There has been nothing really laugh out loud funny in the past few books. Just a few subtle reminders that D is so gorgeous he can make straight men swoon and moonbeams bashful. Like when he saves the obligatory girl from the angry town mob.
At last, the people turned and saw the gorgeous young man on the horse. Before him on the saddle sat a boy of about five, while a burly man with gray hairs scattered among the black stood beside the mount.
"Blasko!"
"And that's his boy Cusca up on the horse. What are they doing with..."
"They're here because I had need of a blacksmith," said D.
This was the first time the villagers had ever heard D's voice. The cheeks of every last woman flushed, while the men grew dazed and even enthralled.
AND Bryce bought me the first volume of the VHD manga. It's a retelling of the first book, with is also what the first anime movie is based off of. I was a little disappointed in that, until I realized how fun it is to compare it with everything else. So far it's a retelling of the book and hasn't diverged at all.
Well, first off the book and manga are different from the movie where D and obligatory girl (Doris, in this one) meet. In the movie, D's riding along, looking all stoic, mysterious, and gorgeous. Then he rides up to this random chick who attacks him with a whip. Hate it when that happens. He avoids her attacks with minimal effort and begins to continue on his way. Then she cries out for him to stop. She apologizes for attacking him and offers to hire him to kill the pesky vampire that wants to marry her. She's poor, but can pay him in food and sex. Score!
In both the book and the manga, D rides along and comes up to Doris, who attacks him with her whip (kinky). He avoids her first attack with minimal effort, so she whips off her cloak, which she was running around commando under.
The book:
And the Manga, where someone needs to feed that girl a sandwich!
Doris thinks very highly of herself and thinks that being naked is enough to distract a warrior into losing. It doesn't; D wins and she apologizes, and offers to hire his Vampire Hunting services to kill that pesky vampire in exchange for food and sex. Score!
Well not so much of a score. She offered her body to him and he says "The nobility might prove better company than the likes of me." Way to sell yourself short, D.
So she came at him with some logic I can't begin to understand, but ends with her preferring to whore herself out to D than become a vampire's wife. "Very well," says D. "But if I may make one thing clear..."
I cannot think of D ever saying those words. I revisited the first book to see, and he does tell her upfront there, too. He usually lets his obligatory girl tag-a-long find out in whatever shocking revelation they receive from the villain or other third party. I'm not positive, but I think there are even books where the obligatory girl never even knew he was half vampire. She only knew he had this otherworldly quality thing going on. I mean, running around and announcing that you're half vampire is a good way to get yourself run out of town. I guess D has a thing for girls who come at him with whips. It's probably because Doris actually wants to employ him. I'll have to look into the other books and double check who employs him. I can think of one other girl than Doris, but I think that she's the one who never even knew. But she also didn't have any much romantic interest in him, either. Oh well.
And D looks so sad. Is he sad because he's a dhampir? He's one of those self-hating dhampirs? Is he just afraid that Doris won't sleep with him now? Fortunately, Doris is forward-thinking and this shocking revelation only phases her for one panel. She offers to shake hands with him two panels later.