Comments | mangaroo: One-shots, two-shots, red shots, blue shots

mangaroo

One-shots, two-shots, red shots, blue shots

Feb 05, 2006 22:12

The Challenge
I challenge you ... to name your top five (ten, if you want to be ambitious) BL manga short stories. Please include the title of the volume it's collected in (if collected) and the name of the artist.

The RulesA short story should be complete in one chapter. If it stretches to two, you should note that in your comments (and I'm ( Read more... )

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Not quite 40 pages wednesday_10_00 February 6 2006, 07:40:47 UTC

Why, indeed? Was it merely because he was drunk, and/or had never been hit on by another man, which would mean Nagao is justified in not wanting him to drink with anyone else? Or was it because something about Nagao that attracted him?

As fangirls, we have to believe there was some sort of attraction. (Because we know Katsumi wouldn't just go off ホイホイ with any man that asked him.) So what was it that attracted him? The scene fades out before we see anything other than Nagao saying hello, but we can assume they didn't have some deep, meaningful conversation at the bar because A) Nagao wouldn't do that and B) They didn't even know each other's names ( ... )

Re: Not quite 40 pages mangaroo February 6 2006, 11:38:32 UTC

Noooooooooooo! I was in the middle of writing a huge response to this when I tried to turn on international fonts to type a Japanese phrase and Firefox crashed.

I do know your excellent analysis is wasted in my comments page, where only 3-4 people will ever see it. You should set it free.

So what was it that attracted him?It's very easy for me to see what would initially attract anyone -- particularly someone a little depressed, like Katsumi-san -- to Nagao. He's stylish and charismatic and (usually) very self-confident. And his features are all nicely symmetrical. Yum. (Of course, I'm not so shallow. What attracts me to Nagao is that he fell in love with Katsumi-san. Those tightly-wound salaryman types drive me crazy, too ( ... )

Re: Not quite 40 pages wednesday_10_00 February 6 2006, 12:34:00 UTC

I was in the middle of writing a huge response to this when I tried to turn on international fonts to type a Japanese phrase and Firefox crashed.

T_T I HATE that.

I do know your excellent analysis is wasted in my comments page, where only 3-4 people will ever see it. You should set it free.

Eh. I'm more interested in discussing it with you than announcing it to the world at large.

What attracts me to Nagao is that he fell in love with Katsumi-san.

Heh. I love him because (Sara, you'd better not be reading this!) .................... he cried in the elevator. Well, maybe not because of that, exactly, but that was when I fell in love? Or something.

Would Katsumi-san have gone off after a one-night stand without any regrets or desire to see Nagao again?

Ooh, that's an interesting question. I certainly don't think he would have made a move on his own, but it's hard to say how much he would have felt for Nagao. I don't think he fell nearly as fast as Nagao did.

The text seems to imply this scenario as wellAh, but it's only ( ... )

*headdesk* looks so //lonely// there mangaroo February 6 2006, 13:42:48 UTC

how many of these were the original five you had picked out?
4 out 5. The Megumu Minami was the only one I added, and I let it bump a Bohra Naono short because choosing just one Bohra Naono story out of 5 nominees seemed silly. However, I really had no intention of doing the two-shots until I started systematically working through my manga, so maybe the huge delay was worth it?

I'm more interested in discussing it with you than announcing it to the world at large.
There are little cartoon hearts flying all around my head right now.

................... he cried in the elevator.
An irresistible moment. First, the angsty single tear rolling down his beautiful face. Then the toddler face as he starts to bawl, followed by the cuff dragged across his eyes and the clinging! But I was totally owned when he clutched Katsumi-san's cuff on the way back to his apartment.

That seems awfully accepting for someone who's always thought he was 100% straight.I guess that's my point. If Katsumi's sexuality had been a point of concern on the first ( ... )

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spacealien_vamp February 6 2006, 08:16:46 UTC

I could have filled both lists with nothing but Bohra Naono titles.

I was so sad that all my anthologies except the most recent one are in Michigan, and therefore I couldn't pick stories from them. I wanted to pick a story from Desire Boy on general principles...but I didn't really like any of them enough to include in a top five list. ;_;

mangaroo February 6 2006, 11:41:30 UTC

Same rule applies to you as to wednesday_10_00: you must re-post when you and your manga are reunited. (I feel for both of you. I couldn't have done this without my manga.)

sara_tanaquil February 6 2006, 16:44:21 UTC

Yay, you liked Tsunagatte too! Out of curiosity, have you read Love Magic yet? I'm just curious whether any of the stories in that volume floated your boat.

You have Oujisama no Kiss... is the Yasashii Koibito story definitely in there, then?

I should have thought of Hinata and its sequel! That story is so sweet. But I don't have it in Japanese (yet).

Thanks for the other recommendations!

mangaroo February 7 2006, 02:13:58 UTC

Yasashii!?Koibito is definitely in Oujisama no Kiss. One warning: half the volume is shota (and that's not even counting the first part of the title story).

最強のＬＯＶＥ〓ＭＡＧＩＣ was in my giant pile of things to be sold whenever I get around to updating my books database. (See? Procrastination is our friend.) To be honest, the only story that made an impression on me was "Koi wa Yami no Shita de" (the ultra-pervy voyeuristic one)...though I note there were more sex toys in the LOVE stories. The sameness of Chitose's character designs works against her. I don't know why. Every manga artist repeats designs, and I find the smooth curves of Chitose's stylized bodies erotic (the heads are often a little pinheady, alas). Maybe it's that she doesn't vary her art with "deformed"/chibified designs for comedic effect, which limits the range of emotions to sexy, sad, and serene. Apparently, I'm a cuteaholic.

sara_tanaquil February 7 2006, 17:17:03 UTC

Maybe it's that she doesn't vary her art with "deformed"/chibified designs for comedic effect

Yes, she certainly doesn't use chibis much. Except for the silly little background designs (the fire breathing dragons are love!) her humor is more verbal than visual, I guess. Not that it's particularly sophisticated, more just silly.

The line in S** Friend that gets me every time is when the hero is trying to say "Please stay with me (soba ni) forever," only he can't get anything out but the word "soba," and finally he blurts out "Will you come have some soba with me?" And in the next frame they're in a soba shop.

I'm easily amused, apparently. ^_^;;