a fangirly post
Happy birthday to my littlest brother, who is now 21!! He's back at school now, but it was nice having him back for Thanksgiving and a birthday dinner last night. Afterwards we played a sorta-strategy-game (Tongiaki-I say "sorta-strategy" because I don't like strategy games in general, but this one is simple and fun enough that I make an exception for it) and I played with yellow pieces rather than purple and won. I think the yellow acts as camouflage on the sand-coloured board pieces, so my ships' spread over all the islands weren't quite as noticeable, and therefore weren't as easily thwarted by the other players. Ha ha ha~
The rest of this post is for rambling about things I've read/watched recently.
I just watched ep 6 of Princess Jellyfish tonight. It's an awfully cute and fun show, but I think I may be rooting for the wrong guy, the older brother character. Not that he's a bad guy, but I think it's fairly obvious he's not the one the main character will fall for in the end (or if she does there'll probably be some heartbreaking twist or something). Siiigh, but he's so adorably awkward!! And wears glasses, la la la~ Kura, who is almost certainly The Prince of the show, is such a brat. Why should he be so surprised that Tsukimi is cute? Mmh. Big bro's honest reactions are much nicer.
My Girlfriend's a Geek/Fujoshi Kanojo is hilarious. I'm not even a BL reader but I feel like I get all the jokes anyway... I wonder what that means. Is it just something that comes with being so immersed in manga-culture(?)? Reading manga about delusional fangirls is nice for a change, though. I can relate, just a little. And again, I love any manga that can make me laugh. This series makes me laugh a lot.
I made another CDJapan order recently, because Gakuen Babysitters 2 came out and it was necessary to obtain the unbelievable cuteness of 186 pages of tiny manga children. As expected, it is impossibly cute. I was a little sad that there are no Christmas stories in this volume, since the cover was very Christmas themed and that is Tokeino-sensei's specialty, but perhaps next volume. In any case, it's still very happy-making. There's a bonus story about a crying panda told in the bottom 1/4 panels. Ooh, I want this to get licensed here!! But I don't know how successful Me & My Brothers was for Tokyopop... (I guess it was at least popular enough to be consistently released when they were putting other titles on hiatus?) TP had a poll recently asking "if you were to make a manga, what would it be like?" I was one of only two people (out of 115!) who voted for "Cute and cuddy story with lots of children and small animals." Too bad. Kids these days don't know where it's at. Relatedly, I just placed an order at Powells' website (they had a one-day extra 16% off sale!) and ordered a bunch of Viz' slightly older Baby & Me manga series about a kid and his tiny kid brother. I expect good things.
Also in my order: volume one of Film Girl, by the mangaka of Flower in a Storm. I read a chapter in a LaLaDX magazine from last winter, and it was quite charming, so I tried out the first volume, and it was also charming! It's got an adorably silly lead guy and a cute and sweet and somewhat more sensible lead girl, and it's about Modeling!! Japan must be overrun with highschool models. But I'd like to see this one licensed too. I think it would do well-even reading it in Japanese, I felt like it was a little better put-together than Flower in a Storm, which was fun but felt rushed and sometimes had transitions that didn't make sense. And the girl in Film Girl is more enthusiastic about all the shoujo-craziness going on around her, while Flower's heroine always seemed like she'd rather be somewhere else (that was a little more sane). Which is probably a realistic reaction, but girl, you've got a stylish-if-foolish guy (with quite fashionable glasses!) proclaiming his love to you from a helicopter! Just go with it!
Aaaand other than that (I haven't read Berry Berry 3 or Hitai ni Mikazuki yet), Oki ni Mesu Mama? !!! Eeeeeeeeeeeee! It's got little 1-panel comics under the slipcover, yay! And Honjo in glasses!!! *faints* There was also that wonderful multi-page sequence involving Senko and Maki and some delightfully comedic violence with blowdarts and spirits. And Senko's wedding-speech at the end of the volume. I will love all these characters forever.
The end!
The rest of this post is for rambling about things I've read/watched recently.
I just watched ep 6 of Princess Jellyfish tonight. It's an awfully cute and fun show, but I think I may be rooting for the wrong guy, the older brother character. Not that he's a bad guy, but I think it's fairly obvious he's not the one the main character will fall for in the end (or if she does there'll probably be some heartbreaking twist or something). Siiigh, but he's so adorably awkward!! And wears glasses, la la la~ Kura, who is almost certainly The Prince of the show, is such a brat. Why should he be so surprised that Tsukimi is cute? Mmh. Big bro's honest reactions are much nicer.
My Girlfriend's a Geek/Fujoshi Kanojo is hilarious. I'm not even a BL reader but I feel like I get all the jokes anyway... I wonder what that means. Is it just something that comes with being so immersed in manga-culture(?)? Reading manga about delusional fangirls is nice for a change, though. I can relate, just a little. And again, I love any manga that can make me laugh. This series makes me laugh a lot.
I made another CDJapan order recently, because Gakuen Babysitters 2 came out and it was necessary to obtain the unbelievable cuteness of 186 pages of tiny manga children. As expected, it is impossibly cute. I was a little sad that there are no Christmas stories in this volume, since the cover was very Christmas themed and that is Tokeino-sensei's specialty, but perhaps next volume. In any case, it's still very happy-making. There's a bonus story about a crying panda told in the bottom 1/4 panels. Ooh, I want this to get licensed here!! But I don't know how successful Me & My Brothers was for Tokyopop... (I guess it was at least popular enough to be consistently released when they were putting other titles on hiatus?) TP had a poll recently asking "if you were to make a manga, what would it be like?" I was one of only two people (out of 115!) who voted for "Cute and cuddy story with lots of children and small animals." Too bad. Kids these days don't know where it's at. Relatedly, I just placed an order at Powells' website (they had a one-day extra 16% off sale!) and ordered a bunch of Viz' slightly older Baby & Me manga series about a kid and his tiny kid brother. I expect good things.
Also in my order: volume one of Film Girl, by the mangaka of Flower in a Storm. I read a chapter in a LaLaDX magazine from last winter, and it was quite charming, so I tried out the first volume, and it was also charming! It's got an adorably silly lead guy and a cute and sweet and somewhat more sensible lead girl, and it's about Modeling!! Japan must be overrun with highschool models. But I'd like to see this one licensed too. I think it would do well-even reading it in Japanese, I felt like it was a little better put-together than Flower in a Storm, which was fun but felt rushed and sometimes had transitions that didn't make sense. And the girl in Film Girl is more enthusiastic about all the shoujo-craziness going on around her, while Flower's heroine always seemed like she'd rather be somewhere else (that was a little more sane). Which is probably a realistic reaction, but girl, you've got a stylish-if-foolish guy (with quite fashionable glasses!) proclaiming his love to you from a helicopter! Just go with it!
Aaaand other than that (I haven't read Berry Berry 3 or Hitai ni Mikazuki yet), Oki ni Mesu Mama? !!! Eeeeeeeeeeeee! It's got little 1-panel comics under the slipcover, yay! And Honjo in glasses!!! *faints* There was also that wonderful multi-page sequence involving Senko and Maki and some delightfully comedic violence with blowdarts and spirits. And Senko's wedding-speech at the end of the volume. I will love all these characters forever.
The end!