of fandom and BL artists
You guys, you guys! I TOOK MY LSAT TODAY.
You know what that means? It means it's over and, even if I'm busy with school, I at least won't have Giant Test of Doom That Will Affect My Entire Future looming over my head anymore. So, hiatus? It's over! See my flail, see me cheer! *\o/*
Which means--yes, I know, you're on the edge of your seats--expect a lot of spam from me in the future. :D For one, expect pics (tomorrow-ish) of my new haircut!(!11) and some memes. Lots of memes. I like memes. They are a productive waste of my time. Possibly also fic (psst, go read blind_go. I somehow managed to actually write fic for that, despite being on hiatus and, er, so studiously studying for my LSAT), but we'll see.
And so while I'm recovering from an overload of logic and reasoning from the LSAT, I thought I'd read some p0rn. That made me think too hard on my BL series. So here are some thoughts on my favorite BL manga artists (because you care, lol):
Honami Yukine: She is my unequivocal favorite. Her art isn't the prettiest out there, necessarily, but god it's so proportional and soft and lovely and alkdjld. She's always the artist to someone else's story, which unfortunately means she's often stuck drawing for less-than-amazing storylines, but her art more than makes up for it. I fawn over all of her work (especially the more recent stuff). I am so biased. Rin! and Kiss Scandal (GAY POLITICIANS) are eternal favorites, but I adore Kimi ni wa Katenai too. Oh boys' school drama! I love it.
Yamane Ayano: I know she's really popular (I also know mistress #1 hates her uke-seme stereotypes, especially in regards to SD doujin) but--what can I say? Her boys are pretty. Not just girly pretty either, but pretty with manly muscles and slicked back hair and mafia power and guhhh. Okay, I admit it: I'm utterly superficial. Why are you surprised? I hardly read boyp0rn for the plot, now do I? Her artbook is the loveliest eye-candy ever. I have to admit, though, as much as I love Viewfinder, I love her same-age (schoolboys!) art best. There's just something so hot about friends/rivals/classmates together. ::starry-eyed::
Fujiyama Hyouta: I love her art. She's a recent favorite, actually, but her art--it's just--gahh. It's a lovely balance of realistic (for BL, FOR BL, that is always my qualifer) and pretty eye-candy. I don't know. :| I'm sure I had real reasons but I don't remember them. Junjou seems to be her most popular work, but I liked Stories of Love in 1K Apartment (licensed as Lover's Flat) best. Honki Ja Nee Kara was also sweet and not too sappy or overblown in terms of plot.
Minase Masara: This is all about the eye-candy. Good lord, her proportions are utterly unrealistic. Her boys' bodies makes me a little upset because she makes 'em a little too skinny and not exactly well-defined. I want my men to be a little more manly, please! Her ukes have a tendency of looking very similar too; she likes the dark-haired seme and long-blond-haired uke stereotypes (in both Empty Heart and Lies & Kisses, for example). But her art is so pretty (the eyes, the eyes) and she is so prolific (so many one-shots) that I don't care. Heh. I love her longer works best, though (see above cited series). Gokujou no Koibito is probably my current favorite, but I think that's because it's ongoing...
Takaaki Kusaka: HER ART IS SO CUTE. SO CUTE. I swear to god she has the cutest chibis ever but I can't because there are a couple of others I could list for the same honor. ;__; But, seriously, the first thing that turned me on to her art was You Pray Happiness with the utterly irresistably cute main character alkdjslk. She tends to make them a tad too naive and childlike, but their flailing and blushing is just SO ADORABLE that realism can just be thrown out the window. SO CUTE OMG. She also connects all her series (the characters are all related somehow), which is fantastic and tons of fun, even if it gets a little confusing sometimes. My favorites are You Pray Happiness and Aisareru Hito e Tsugu. :3
Yamoto Nase: CUTEST CHIBIS EVAR. Seriously, seriously. I was so addicted to collecting all of her series a year or two ago but, looking back, I don't love her art as much. It's too cute for me. :\ Her chibis will forever be the cutest things in the world, though. I swear to God. I will always love her for Chintsubu (that's the one with talking penises. Yes, really.) though, LOL. Such mind-bending crack, but omg. I've never seen dicks so cute. (Never thought I'd say those words either...) From what I've seen of the first chapter of Mr. Convenience, her art style's matured some and not as cutesy anymore. I like!
Zaou Taishi: ...her boys' faces are freaking hot. I was reading Bokutachi wa asu ni mukatte ikiru no da yesterday and I realized that, yes, that was very true. Her p0rn is also hot. But what bugs me? Her hands. They are clunky and awkward and not slim and beautiful. THIS BOTHERS ME, OKAY? Let me sulk in peace. Favorites? Bokutachi and Koi wa Ina Mono Myouna Mono.
Tateno Makoto: She is a lovely balance of hot (and unrealistic) boys and cute chibis. Her angry chibis are the best! I remember having read a lot of her works in the past without being terribly impressed, but after Yellow, I seem to have grown to like her boys a lot more. :) She actually has plot too, which is fabulous! She's another one that tends to make her boys look similar, or that might just because she has so many works and boys and only so many ways to distinguish them...her biggest challenge was probably Hero Heel. If you weren't a close observer of hair styles and dialogue, you'd be so confused (reminded me of Boy Princess in that aspect). I like her storytelling though; it's pretty good and has decent emotional impact. Add in her lovely art and p0rn, all is well! Favorite is definitely Muse Gakuen de Aou. Pop idols and boys' schools? Best combo ever!
Sakuragi Yaya: Her boys' hands are HUGE and they're so tall and skinny and they faces are pointy and their mouths are wide and I LOVE HER ART SO MUCH. I can't explain it. Well, it's not like her art's hideous by any means. It's just so ridiculous disproportionate. And yet she makes her boys so hot. Her eyes, her eyes are fucking unbelievable. Gorgeous. So intense and expressive. alksdjfl I love Renai Kyoutei Nukegake Nashi best because it was the first I read and it's so, So Classic. Plus Suwabe Junichi (ATOBE ♥) is in the drama CD. Oh, my soul. P.S. Hot sex, y/y?
Nishimura Shuuko: I didn't start liking her art until afascinante scanlated Kishidou Club. :| I can't explain what I love about her art other than than the hot boy bods and the hot sex they have with each other. I'm pretty sure that's it. Oh, her chibis are cute too...but nothing exceptional. All chibis are cute. IDK I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT. My favorite series is actually Asayake no Diamond (hee, baseball), but Go Con is tons of fun.
Kawai Toko: I should definitely have listed her sooner. Kawai Toko is one of my favoritest (I can't find real words to express this) manga-ka ever. She--her art is kind of loose and scribbly (but not messy), full of angles, but it's still so easy on the eyes. More than that, though, are her stories. Oh god, her stories rip me apart. They make me ;__________; and they make me wibble and the fluff makes me clutch at it to make the hurt go away. Her smut scenes are unfuckingbelievable and her cute boys are just too cute for words. I wish I could pick a favorite. BondZ and Cut are both amazing and hurtful and wonderful, but I also love Cafe Latte Rhapsody [C1 C2] and Ano kado wo magatta tokoro. ::flails:: I can't choose!
Toujou Asami: I love Denkou Sekka Boys. It's among my top favorite BL series because, hee, high school and pop idols and jealousy and tons of fun! Her at was gorgeous back then too--I'm so much less fond of her newer style. I actually kind of hate it. :| Why, Toujou-sensei, why?
Takanaga Hinako: Ahhhh, her art is pretty and cute and so very classic BL-ish! I don't know what else to say about it because among her many works (and all those fangirls who fangirl said works), I've only read the first part of Bukiyou na Silent and The Tyrant Who Falls in Love [V1 V2 V3c1 V3end]. The latter reminds me strongly of Umeda/Akiha of HanaKimi (Doctor/Retard, anyone?), which explains why beckerbell loves them so much. ;) If anyone has the complete scanlations of Bukiyou na Silent, though, I'd love you a lot...
Itsuki Kaname: Her style is hit-or-miss with me. I don't like most of her art (or stories, I guess). Lost Boys was a big fat flop with me, but I adored Tsuki Yadoru (mm, faux-incest), and Futari Yuugi (twincest!). Very unmanly boys, but so pretty to look at it when it hits me right. :D
Yoshinaga Fumi: I--I don't know what to say. Her art is so different and minimalistic and just...different. I lose the words. But I love her art, I do. She is especially good at the French Revolution era, oh yes, Gerard et Jacques, which I love to little pieces. Soflege made me cry like the sap I am, and--yeah. She doesn't do explicit a lot (I don't think?), but she hints very well. And sometimes she suggests very well without the in-your-face-fluids-everywhere kind of thing. Definitely a stand-out.
Kotobuki Tarako: Sex Pistols is her claim to fame. It's also possibly the most cracked-out, best thing EVER. Seriously. I had so much doubt for why people liked this series (and it's definitely not going to be everyone's thing), especially when the art was not amazing, there was furry/bestiality-type-things and mpreg. :| I said. :| :| :| WHY. But when I finally read it, I alksjfld-ed over it and LOL-ed and started to ♥. Yeah. It reduces me to emoticons, haha. I definitely have favorite pairings (Yonekuni/Pres!) and people I don't like (oh whatshisface), and the people connections are so hard to keep straight, but it's such a fun series. I'm so mad that it's licensed. I'm going to have to wait so long for volume 6. ::cry:: (P.S. The art really, really, really grew on me. I can't explain it. Also Ju's Sex Pistols fics are some of my favorite in the world.)
Abe Miyuki: This lady draws my number one favorite BL series of all time: Komatta Toki ni wa Hoshi ni Kike. It is ridiculously PG and long (26 volumes, watch me cry) but the relationship between Kiyomine and Takara puts me beyond words into a state of bliss that nothing will ever describe. I love them so, so much. I love this series to pieces. I love all the minor characters, I love the side-stories, I love the drama CD (with MINAJUN, people, MINAJUN). I hate so much that Peccatore Sanctuary has only scanlated through V9c1 and have pretty much done nothing since February. That is why I have volumes 9-26 in Chinese. Yes, I am that desperate. This is the ultimate story of friendship and dependence and as badly as I want some real kissing and petting and frottage (I love that word ahaha), part of me doesn't even need it because of how touchy-feely and dependent Kiyomine and Takara already are with each other. They're so irreplaceable. ;^; ♥ I want to fic them so badly. Omg.
...so, er, before I shut up:
Chitose Piyoko: I hate her art. I hate her boys and their pointy, unnatural hair. I hate their elongated, disproportionate bodies. I hate their lovely tight asses in the clingiest, most unrealistic pants ever. Hate hate hate. I have no idea why her series are popular at all--okay, I lie. I do know. But it doesn't make me like her any better. Her plot is crap on top of her art. I HATE HER ART ALSKJFLDK. GAHHH. /out of system!
Okay, I'm better now. There are lots of other BL manga artists I like but don't adore enough to babble on about so...;) Talk to me about them! Oh, and I've only linked downloads for series I already had up on MediaFire, so just poke me if you want anything else I've mentioned. Or you could send me stuff too! Pimp me a manga-ka you love? Yesss.
ALSO, GD GOT RID OF HIS GAY-BUN. I LOVE HIS NEW HAIR SO MUCH. (Even though I kind of grew used to his gay-bun and ♥ed at it some, shh.) He's so--unhappy in the newest performance (MusicBank 280907) though. D: Unenthusiastic and quiet. What's wrong, baby?
Everyone should also watch Attack on the Pin-Up Boys. Funniest movie ever, y/y? (There's even plot! I swear!) It taught me all 13 Super Junior members' names! I totally ship Pin-Up Boys AU!Donghae/Kibum. Do not attempt to persuade me otherwise, muwahaha.
SO FLIST, HOW ARE YOU? ♥
You know what that means? It means it's over and, even if I'm busy with school, I at least won't have Giant Test of Doom That Will Affect My Entire Future looming over my head anymore. So, hiatus? It's over! See my flail, see me cheer! *\o/*
Which means--yes, I know, you're on the edge of your seats--expect a lot of spam from me in the future. :D For one, expect pics (tomorrow-ish) of my new haircut!(!11) and some memes. Lots of memes. I like memes. They are a productive waste of my time. Possibly also fic (psst, go read blind_go. I somehow managed to actually write fic for that, despite being on hiatus and, er, so studiously studying for my LSAT), but we'll see.
And so while I'm recovering from an overload of logic and reasoning from the LSAT, I thought I'd read some p0rn. That made me think too hard on my BL series. So here are some thoughts on my favorite BL manga artists (because you care, lol):
Honami Yukine: She is my unequivocal favorite. Her art isn't the prettiest out there, necessarily, but god it's so proportional and soft and lovely and alkdjld. She's always the artist to someone else's story, which unfortunately means she's often stuck drawing for less-than-amazing storylines, but her art more than makes up for it. I fawn over all of her work (especially the more recent stuff). I am so biased. Rin! and Kiss Scandal (GAY POLITICIANS) are eternal favorites, but I adore Kimi ni wa Katenai too. Oh boys' school drama! I love it.
Yamane Ayano: I know she's really popular (I also know mistress #1 hates her uke-seme stereotypes, especially in regards to SD doujin) but--what can I say? Her boys are pretty. Not just girly pretty either, but pretty with manly muscles and slicked back hair and mafia power and guhhh. Okay, I admit it: I'm utterly superficial. Why are you surprised? I hardly read boyp0rn for the plot, now do I? Her artbook is the loveliest eye-candy ever. I have to admit, though, as much as I love Viewfinder, I love her same-age (schoolboys!) art best. There's just something so hot about friends/rivals/classmates together. ::starry-eyed::
Fujiyama Hyouta: I love her art. She's a recent favorite, actually, but her art--it's just--gahh. It's a lovely balance of realistic (for BL, FOR BL, that is always my qualifer) and pretty eye-candy. I don't know. :| I'm sure I had real reasons but I don't remember them. Junjou seems to be her most popular work, but I liked Stories of Love in 1K Apartment (licensed as Lover's Flat) best. Honki Ja Nee Kara was also sweet and not too sappy or overblown in terms of plot.
Minase Masara: This is all about the eye-candy. Good lord, her proportions are utterly unrealistic. Her boys' bodies makes me a little upset because she makes 'em a little too skinny and not exactly well-defined. I want my men to be a little more manly, please! Her ukes have a tendency of looking very similar too; she likes the dark-haired seme and long-blond-haired uke stereotypes (in both Empty Heart and Lies & Kisses, for example). But her art is so pretty (the eyes, the eyes) and she is so prolific (so many one-shots) that I don't care. Heh. I love her longer works best, though (see above cited series). Gokujou no Koibito is probably my current favorite, but I think that's because it's ongoing...
Takaaki Kusaka: HER ART IS SO CUTE. SO CUTE. I swear to god she has the cutest chibis ever but I can't because there are a couple of others I could list for the same honor. ;__; But, seriously, the first thing that turned me on to her art was You Pray Happiness with the utterly irresistably cute main character alkdjslk. She tends to make them a tad too naive and childlike, but their flailing and blushing is just SO ADORABLE that realism can just be thrown out the window. SO CUTE OMG. She also connects all her series (the characters are all related somehow), which is fantastic and tons of fun, even if it gets a little confusing sometimes. My favorites are You Pray Happiness and Aisareru Hito e Tsugu. :3
Yamoto Nase: CUTEST CHIBIS EVAR. Seriously, seriously. I was so addicted to collecting all of her series a year or two ago but, looking back, I don't love her art as much. It's too cute for me. :\ Her chibis will forever be the cutest things in the world, though. I swear to God. I will always love her for Chintsubu (that's the one with talking penises. Yes, really.) though, LOL. Such mind-bending crack, but omg. I've never seen dicks so cute. (Never thought I'd say those words either...) From what I've seen of the first chapter of Mr. Convenience, her art style's matured some and not as cutesy anymore. I like!
Zaou Taishi: ...her boys' faces are freaking hot. I was reading Bokutachi wa asu ni mukatte ikiru no da yesterday and I realized that, yes, that was very true. Her p0rn is also hot. But what bugs me? Her hands. They are clunky and awkward and not slim and beautiful. THIS BOTHERS ME, OKAY? Let me sulk in peace. Favorites? Bokutachi and Koi wa Ina Mono Myouna Mono.
Tateno Makoto: She is a lovely balance of hot (and unrealistic) boys and cute chibis. Her angry chibis are the best! I remember having read a lot of her works in the past without being terribly impressed, but after Yellow, I seem to have grown to like her boys a lot more. :) She actually has plot too, which is fabulous! She's another one that tends to make her boys look similar, or that might just because she has so many works and boys and only so many ways to distinguish them...her biggest challenge was probably Hero Heel. If you weren't a close observer of hair styles and dialogue, you'd be so confused (reminded me of Boy Princess in that aspect). I like her storytelling though; it's pretty good and has decent emotional impact. Add in her lovely art and p0rn, all is well! Favorite is definitely Muse Gakuen de Aou. Pop idols and boys' schools? Best combo ever!
Sakuragi Yaya: Her boys' hands are HUGE and they're so tall and skinny and they faces are pointy and their mouths are wide and I LOVE HER ART SO MUCH. I can't explain it. Well, it's not like her art's hideous by any means. It's just so ridiculous disproportionate. And yet she makes her boys so hot. Her eyes, her eyes are fucking unbelievable. Gorgeous. So intense and expressive. alksdjfl I love Renai Kyoutei Nukegake Nashi best because it was the first I read and it's so, So Classic. Plus Suwabe Junichi (ATOBE ♥) is in the drama CD. Oh, my soul. P.S. Hot sex, y/y?
Nishimura Shuuko: I didn't start liking her art until afascinante scanlated Kishidou Club. :| I can't explain what I love about her art other than than the hot boy bods and the hot sex they have with each other. I'm pretty sure that's it. Oh, her chibis are cute too...but nothing exceptional. All chibis are cute. IDK I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT. My favorite series is actually Asayake no Diamond (hee, baseball), but Go Con is tons of fun.
Kawai Toko: I should definitely have listed her sooner. Kawai Toko is one of my favoritest (I can't find real words to express this) manga-ka ever. She--her art is kind of loose and scribbly (but not messy), full of angles, but it's still so easy on the eyes. More than that, though, are her stories. Oh god, her stories rip me apart. They make me ;__________; and they make me wibble and the fluff makes me clutch at it to make the hurt go away. Her smut scenes are unfuckingbelievable and her cute boys are just too cute for words. I wish I could pick a favorite. BondZ and Cut are both amazing and hurtful and wonderful, but I also love Cafe Latte Rhapsody [C1 C2] and Ano kado wo magatta tokoro. ::flails:: I can't choose!
Toujou Asami: I love Denkou Sekka Boys. It's among my top favorite BL series because, hee, high school and pop idols and jealousy and tons of fun! Her at was gorgeous back then too--I'm so much less fond of her newer style. I actually kind of hate it. :| Why, Toujou-sensei, why?
Takanaga Hinako: Ahhhh, her art is pretty and cute and so very classic BL-ish! I don't know what else to say about it because among her many works (and all those fangirls who fangirl said works), I've only read the first part of Bukiyou na Silent and The Tyrant Who Falls in Love [V1 V2 V3c1 V3end]. The latter reminds me strongly of Umeda/Akiha of HanaKimi (Doctor/Retard, anyone?), which explains why beckerbell loves them so much. ;) If anyone has the complete scanlations of Bukiyou na Silent, though, I'd love you a lot...
Itsuki Kaname: Her style is hit-or-miss with me. I don't like most of her art (or stories, I guess). Lost Boys was a big fat flop with me, but I adored Tsuki Yadoru (mm, faux-incest), and Futari Yuugi (twincest!). Very unmanly boys, but so pretty to look at it when it hits me right. :D
Yoshinaga Fumi: I--I don't know what to say. Her art is so different and minimalistic and just...different. I lose the words. But I love her art, I do. She is especially good at the French Revolution era, oh yes, Gerard et Jacques, which I love to little pieces. Soflege made me cry like the sap I am, and--yeah. She doesn't do explicit a lot (I don't think?), but she hints very well. And sometimes she suggests very well without the in-your-face-fluids-everywhere kind of thing. Definitely a stand-out.
Kotobuki Tarako: Sex Pistols is her claim to fame. It's also possibly the most cracked-out, best thing EVER. Seriously. I had so much doubt for why people liked this series (and it's definitely not going to be everyone's thing), especially when the art was not amazing, there was furry/bestiality-type-things and mpreg. :| I said. :| :| :| WHY. But when I finally read it, I alksjfld-ed over it and LOL-ed and started to ♥. Yeah. It reduces me to emoticons, haha. I definitely have favorite pairings (Yonekuni/Pres!) and people I don't like (oh whatshisface), and the people connections are so hard to keep straight, but it's such a fun series. I'm so mad that it's licensed. I'm going to have to wait so long for volume 6. ::cry:: (P.S. The art really, really, really grew on me. I can't explain it. Also Ju's Sex Pistols fics are some of my favorite in the world.)
Abe Miyuki: This lady draws my number one favorite BL series of all time: Komatta Toki ni wa Hoshi ni Kike. It is ridiculously PG and long (26 volumes, watch me cry) but the relationship between Kiyomine and Takara puts me beyond words into a state of bliss that nothing will ever describe. I love them so, so much. I love this series to pieces. I love all the minor characters, I love the side-stories, I love the drama CD (with MINAJUN, people, MINAJUN). I hate so much that Peccatore Sanctuary has only scanlated through V9c1 and have pretty much done nothing since February. That is why I have volumes 9-26 in Chinese. Yes, I am that desperate. This is the ultimate story of friendship and dependence and as badly as I want some real kissing and petting and frottage (I love that word ahaha), part of me doesn't even need it because of how touchy-feely and dependent Kiyomine and Takara already are with each other. They're so irreplaceable. ;^; ♥ I want to fic them so badly. Omg.
...so, er, before I shut up:
Chitose Piyoko: I hate her art. I hate her boys and their pointy, unnatural hair. I hate their elongated, disproportionate bodies. I hate their lovely tight asses in the clingiest, most unrealistic pants ever. Hate hate hate. I have no idea why her series are popular at all--okay, I lie. I do know. But it doesn't make me like her any better. Her plot is crap on top of her art. I HATE HER ART ALSKJFLDK. GAHHH. /out of system!
Okay, I'm better now. There are lots of other BL manga artists I like but don't adore enough to babble on about so...;) Talk to me about them! Oh, and I've only linked downloads for series I already had up on MediaFire, so just poke me if you want anything else I've mentioned. Or you could send me stuff too! Pimp me a manga-ka you love? Yesss.
ALSO, GD GOT RID OF HIS GAY-BUN. I LOVE HIS NEW HAIR SO MUCH. (Even though I kind of grew used to his gay-bun and ♥ed at it some, shh.) He's so--unhappy in the newest performance (MusicBank 280907) though. D: Unenthusiastic and quiet. What's wrong, baby?
Everyone should also watch Attack on the Pin-Up Boys. Funniest movie ever, y/y? (There's even plot! I swear!) It taught me all 13 Super Junior members' names! I totally ship Pin-Up Boys AU!Donghae/Kibum. Do not attempt to persuade me otherwise, muwahaha.
SO FLIST, HOW ARE YOU? ♥