[he] turned your way and saw || something he was not looking for || both a beginning and an end
Om nom nom. Alive ate my brain. It's been a while since I've last truly enjoyed a manga not revolving around buttsex relationships. I tried Katekyo Hitman Reborn, but the constant crack and the engineered-for-the-ADHD-generation length and structure of the chapters made me want to dig my eyes out with a particularly rusty spoon... which of course doesn't mean that I don't ship Yamamoto/Gokudera with the power of a thousand suns because sfkjhOTP ;3;
Anyway, Alive. It's an actually interesting survival story with ~*~mysterious~*~ powers manifesting in normal people after a particularly nasty virus/it-came-from-space!thingamajig/wuteva makes people commit suicide in droves. The protagonist, Kanou Taisuke, is an all around nice guy with a weakling uke of a best friend called Hiroshi and a feisty, slap-happy girlfriend, Megu (except that they're not officially dating, but whatever). Hiroshi and Taisuke both end up with powers, which unfortunately makes Hiroshi go a little nuts. He ends up kidnapping Megu and heading north to meet with other "comrades" (other people with these mysterious powers). Taisuke ends up chasing after them and that's where the story begins.
I luuuurrrve the art, it's incredibly beautiful for a shounen series (the hands are just hfkjsahkjh!). The plot's actually interesting, fairly gruesome at times and I actually like Megu despite the fact that she naturally ends up the ~*~captured princess~*~ waiting for her knight (Taisuke) to come and save her. It's not her fault, just like it's not Taisuke's sister's fault that her boobs keep popping up as her defining characteristic, it's just Japan the genre.
...Alive also has the cutest shota!boy I have ever seen ;3;
As already mentioned, Taisuke ends up chasing after his best friends up north to find out what's happened to them all. On the way there, he meets another boy with powers called Yuuta. Their first meeting isn't very amicable, as Yuuta almost kills a bunch of people by isolating them in a cube (that's his power :B). Yuuta gives Taisuke an ultimatum: either kill him or watch all the captured people die. Taisuke doesn't want to kill anyone, so he tries to find another way out. Desperate, Yuuta grabs a knife and tries to kill himself while having a nicely convenient flashback to his mother committing suicide, but Taisuke's not about to allow Yuuta to die.
So Taisuke grabs the knife and correctly guesses that Yuuta doesn't actually want to die, he just wants his mommy. Yuuta has a good cry in the arms of a woman he thought looks like his mother and falls asleep. After he wakes up, the woman's gone, but Taisuke's still there because he was waiting for Yuuta to take him home. Yuuta, who of course no longer has a home, answers Taisuke's question with a simple "North". And that's how they start on their long journey together ♥
But hee. The cuteness doesn't end there. In the third volume the boys get trapped in a world full of illusions. Poor Yuuta's completely lost, wandering around with nowhere to go. Taisuke finds him, but Yuuta's completely unresponsive to his prodding. Then there's a bright light with blah blah plotcakes and Taisuke ends up leaving Yuuta alone, telling him that he'll be right back.
Shit happens and Taisuke ends up almost falling off a ferris wheel (it's a long story, buy the manga if you want to know). Yuuta, who somehow managed to break the illusion he was trapped in, swoops in to save the day with a "You didn't come right back, you idiot. So I came to you instead." Aww~. Then of course moar plot happens and it's genuinely interesting, if a bit crappily resolved in the end and blah blah blah.
...And then my otp!radar started beeping like mad. Because! ;3;
O.T.P 4eva. I'm not kidding. Yuuta is such a tsundere!
Aaaand naturally there's no fandom for this series. Motherf...
In other, RL news: I leave for Nice on Sunday, but I'm off to Espoo already on Saturday. If the brochure EF sent me is at all accurate, I should have intarwebs access in the dorms. Woo.
*fails at life transitions, explaining stuff and English in general~*
[lyrics in subject line from Brothers on a Hotel Bed by Death Cab for Cutie. For some probably perverted reason, these lyrics always remind of Vaan and Balthier ♥]
Anyway, Alive. It's an actually interesting survival story with ~*~mysterious~*~ powers manifesting in normal people after a particularly nasty virus/it-came-from-space!thingamajig/wuteva makes people commit suicide in droves. The protagonist, Kanou Taisuke, is an all around nice guy with a weakling uke of a best friend called Hiroshi and a feisty, slap-happy girlfriend, Megu (except that they're not officially dating, but whatever). Hiroshi and Taisuke both end up with powers, which unfortunately makes Hiroshi go a little nuts. He ends up kidnapping Megu and heading north to meet with other "comrades" (other people with these mysterious powers). Taisuke ends up chasing after them and that's where the story begins.
I luuuurrrve the art, it's incredibly beautiful for a shounen series (the hands are just hfkjsahkjh!). The plot's actually interesting, fairly gruesome at times and I actually like Megu despite the fact that she naturally ends up the ~*~captured princess~*~ waiting for her knight (Taisuke) to come and save her. It's not her fault, just like it's not Taisuke's sister's fault that her boobs keep popping up as her defining characteristic, it's just Japan the genre.
...Alive also has the cutest shota!boy I have ever seen ;3;
As already mentioned, Taisuke ends up chasing after his best friends up north to find out what's happened to them all. On the way there, he meets another boy with powers called Yuuta. Their first meeting isn't very amicable, as Yuuta almost kills a bunch of people by isolating them in a cube (that's his power :B). Yuuta gives Taisuke an ultimatum: either kill him or watch all the captured people die. Taisuke doesn't want to kill anyone, so he tries to find another way out. Desperate, Yuuta grabs a knife and tries to kill himself while having a nicely convenient flashback to his mother committing suicide, but Taisuke's not about to allow Yuuta to die.
So Taisuke grabs the knife and correctly guesses that Yuuta doesn't actually want to die, he just wants his mommy. Yuuta has a good cry in the arms of a woman he thought looks like his mother and falls asleep. After he wakes up, the woman's gone, but Taisuke's still there because he was waiting for Yuuta to take him home. Yuuta, who of course no longer has a home, answers Taisuke's question with a simple "North". And that's how they start on their long journey together ♥
But hee. The cuteness doesn't end there. In the third volume the boys get trapped in a world full of illusions. Poor Yuuta's completely lost, wandering around with nowhere to go. Taisuke finds him, but Yuuta's completely unresponsive to his prodding. Then there's a bright light with blah blah plotcakes and Taisuke ends up leaving Yuuta alone, telling him that he'll be right back.
Shit happens and Taisuke ends up almost falling off a ferris wheel (it's a long story, buy the manga if you want to know). Yuuta, who somehow managed to break the illusion he was trapped in, swoops in to save the day with a "You didn't come right back, you idiot. So I came to you instead." Aww~. Then of course moar plot happens and it's genuinely interesting, if a bit crappily resolved in the end and blah blah blah.
...And then my otp!radar started beeping like mad. Because! ;3;
O.T.P 4eva. I'm not kidding. Yuuta is such a tsundere!
Aaaand naturally there's no fandom for this series. Motherf...
In other, RL news: I leave for Nice on Sunday, but I'm off to Espoo already on Saturday. If the brochure EF sent me is at all accurate, I should have intarwebs access in the dorms. Woo.
*fails at life transitions, explaining stuff and English in general~*
[lyrics in subject line from Brothers on a Hotel Bed by Death Cab for Cutie. For some probably perverted reason, these lyrics always remind of Vaan and Balthier ♥]