[xxxholic Parody] Insanity as a Selling Point
I wrote it because sometimes, we need to laugh at the things we love. ^^U
Now if you feel up to it, get your crack goggles on, and dig in!
(For all those who think this looks familiar, yes, it’s the same one I posted on my journal a while back, but it’s longer, not f-locked and has been seen by the keen eyes of my betas , who are most ( Read more... )
Now if you feel up to it, get your crack goggles on, and dig in!
(For all those who think this looks familiar, yes, it’s the same one I posted on my journal a while back, but it’s longer, not f-locked and has been seen by the keen eyes of my betas , who are most ( Read more... )
I personally rather liked Nachi. He just had very rotten luck to be faced with Ikki in his very first fight... *pats pats*
(I honestly learned all the names and "titles" of all the characters that ever showed up in the old series, and can still recall most of them... it's only the ones in the Hades saga that I never learned because it hadn't been animated yet and I didn't have access to the manga)
I wish I spoke enough Spanish to read the parody
I don't have it anymore and I honestly don't think I can get it back, but I still remember many of the jokes.
Like one that pointed out how in Saint Seiya, guys being thrown against walls and leaving an imprint of their bodies on them was treated as serious and dramatic, while it was hilarious if Willy E. Coyote did it. XD
And there was one that was commenting on how weird it was that the cloths were alive, and wondering what they ate and if they had gases as well. XD
They also made cruel fun of the fact that they could spend eternities just looking at each other and talking instead of, you know, actually fighting, even when there was always a time limit to their fights.
And they twisted all the names, too... "Pegaso" ("Pegasus") was "Pedazo" (slang for "Moron"), "Andrómeda" was "Andrógina" ("Androginous"), "Dragón" was "Tragón" (slang for "C*cks*cker") and so on. Hence "Whatanookie" and "Duhmeki". XD
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I'm not as familiar with Hades, because I watched the first arc two or three times but haven't finished reading/watching Hades arc yet. It's great, though, because I love Andromeda!
HAHAHAHAHAHA THOSE NAMES. Andromeda is the most androgynous character I've ever seen in anything ever. FITTING.
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It certainly didn't help that his cloth has boobs... first episode I ever watched, I clearly remember asking my friend (who'd been watching for longer than me): "who's the girl in the pink armour?" ^^UU
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But seriously, cute/effeminate guys is what made this show popular! It was about the first show meant for guys who got a huge female following simply because the characters weren't all ugly (compare it with "Fist of the North Star" or "Dragon Ball" to get why I'm saying this...)
It seems ridiculous now when most shows can attract a following from the opposite gender, but this show started in 1986... things were different then. Just to give you a measure of how influential Saint Seiya was: Saint Seiya Doujinshi popularized the term "yaoi"... it was by no means the first one to have fan-made same-sex stories about it, but because it was so darn popular (and because they had such few women in the show) it became normal for a shounen series to have doujinshi made by women about their male characters afterwards...
And want to know something more? CLAMP started as a doujinshi group making, among other things, doujinshi about Saint Seiya.
'Nuff said.
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I did not know that about CLAMP! I mean, I knew they got their start making doujinshi, but I had no idea they did Saint Seiya doujinshi. ...honestly I wish very much I knew how to track down because early CLAMP style + Saint Seiya can only be amazing.
Man, makes me wish I'd been around to have been in the fandom when it was so big - it's pretty quiet now, which is sad. It's such a terrific show.
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Yeah, me too... unfortunately, doujinshis are privately published, generally in very small numbers (the huge groups may print a thousand or more of each, but the normal is a hundred or so), and these ones in particular are impossible to track down now. Believe me, I tried. The closest I got was a tiny scan of the cover of a Hyoga/Shun one. The drawing style was what you could expect in CLAMP Campus Detectives, which looked kind of odd for them, but not as much as most of the Saint Seiya doujinshi of the time (seriously, it took effort and imagination to identify who was supposed to be who. If it wasn't for the fact that they always wear the same clothes, it would have been impossible O_oU).
Unfortunately, I've long since lost that scan. -_-UU
You have it easy. At least you got into the fandom when the Hades saga was already animated... do you know how frustrating it was to have to wait ten years to see more of our favourite guys in the screen, receiveing adamant negatives form the creator all the time? The Hades saga was the Holy Grail of the fandom... it hadn't been translated to Spanish yet, and whoever got their hands on the (raw) manga was treated with awe and respect by the others... many of the fans I knew learned Japanese solely to be able to read it. Saint Seiya was that big.
We'd all lost hope when it was finally announced that the ovas were forthcoming... and by that time, sadly, most of the fans had lost their enthusiasm. Ten years without any new material was a bit too much to ask.
Still, when the first episode came out, I remember spending all night online downloading a low quality version of it with my painfully slow dial-up connection... I didn't care if my parents yelled at me when they got the phone bill, I'd waited ten years for the thing and I wasn't about to deprive myself from the pleasure of finally (finally!) watching it.
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