Only two more days till the weekend! Yay! I spent all of Labor Day watching videos. I initially tried to watch the ROD TV show and had to give up after one and a half episodes because all the main characters made me want to spork them. My god, so irritating. I was told it was a good series, too. To cleanse my mind I watched Pride and Prejudice (the ( Read more... )

Holy crap, they are manga-izing Deadlock? I am so getting it, I don't think I've ever seen Takashina Yuh do a full-blown manga!!

I checked out the latest Yoneda Kou manga that's been making the rounds, Saezuru tori ha habatakanai, and was rather underwhelmed. I appreciate how the main character is a fucked-up sexed-up uke yakuza boss and all (as ( Read more... )

I sort of reread the Deadlock series by Aida Saki today...Oh, the details are so hilarious! I just can't get over the disgustingly lovey-dovey crap Yuhto and Dick say to each other. One bit that jumped out at me because it apparently didn't register in earlier readings was when Yuuto mentions wanting to go to In-N-Out Burger when he gets to LA in ( Read more... )

Read two fun bonus stories in the Deadlock series. One is set in the first book when leader of the Latinos Net (?) is released from solitary and sees Tonia, his "girl." You know...I didn't know Tonia is actually his younger brother but they are not a real incestuous couple. Did this come out in the original series and I somehow missed it or was it ( Read more... )

Koyoi, tenshi to sakazuki wo by Aida Saki and illustrated by Yamada Sakurako is a book that should have kicked ass but somehow didn't. The main character and the premise are so deliciously set up...And yet...*sighs*

Basically, there's a salaryman in his thirties who one day wakes up in a love hotel with a yakuza. The yakuza has a tattoo of an ( Read more... )

I just read and thoroughly enjoyed DP Scanlations' recent release of the first chapter of a manga by Aida Saki and Yamada Yugi called Taka ga koi daro. First off, thank goodness for decent scanlations! I couldn't find Japanese scans so had to settle with the English, but luckily this one was good. In any case, it has one of my favorite set-ups...A ( Read more... )

All the not so nice things I've said about Deadlock? I take it all back! Aida Saki, you rock! Any author that can have their manly men say things like "my boy got hard in an instant like an airbag fantasizing about you"[1] during the big romantic scene is just too awesome for words! How the hell did I miss that line the first time I read it ( Read more... )

Huh, I think there'll be a lot of fangirls filled with glee when they hear that the novel "S" by Aida Saki and illustrated by Nara Chiharu has been licensed by Juné (complete list of new licenses here--There's a bunch of novels in addition to "S," none of which I've read...Hmm, are any of them any good?). I can't help but shrug in indifference. I ( Read more... )

Been trying to avoid the PoT manga posts I've seen around as I am planning on reading it in one fell swoop when the series ends...but the squeeing that erupted over Genius 349 defeated my resolve. leviosa8's post just killed me. I...can't quite believe that one infamous panel. Fanservice, much? I can't take it seriously (even though I do ship that pairing ( Read more... )