Wha-wai-doo-wha...huh?

This has been going around for a few days, but it only just registered maybe 10 minutes ago.

They're doing a jdrama of Rumiko Takahashi's One Pound Gospel.  So...weird.  Now, I like Rumiko Takahashi.  I'm very fond of Ranma 1/2 and Inu Yasha(which some will recall my having a serious fangirl craze over some time back, which I can sometimes be convinced to slip back in to) as well as her Mermaid Saga books.  I like Maison Ikkoku, though I eventually gave up on it because it was rather meandering, and in a dragging way, not an entertaining one, and thought the bit of Lum that I read was fun.

But One Pound Gospel?  I admit, I looked for it back when I was binging on Ranma 1/2 and Inu Yasha, but it was more of a cursory thing, and the books were hard to find at the time(a large part of why I only ever read one volume of Lum.)

Now I read and watch a LOT of stuff that's out there, but this is something that's "out there" on a whole other level.  OPG is about a binge-eating boxer who...falls in love with a nun.  Somehow, it breaks my mind.  The fact the Kamenashi "Kame" Kazuya, one of the skinniest and least tough-looking JE Boys out there is playing him breaks my mind even more.

Somehow, this both scares and fascinates me.

Wha-wai-doo-wha...huh?

This has been going around for a few days, but it only just registered maybe 10 minutes ago.

They're doing a jdrama of Rumiko Takahashi's One Pound Gospel.  So...weird.  Now, I like Rumiko Takahashi.  I'm very fond of Ranma 1/2 and Inu Yasha(which some will recall my having a serious fangirl craze over some time back, which I can sometimes be convinced to slip back in to) as well as her Mermaid Saga books.  I like Maison Ikkoku, though I eventually gave up on it because it was rather meandering, and in a dragging way, not an entertaining one, and thought the bit of Lum that I read was fun.

But One Pound Gospel?  I admit, I looked for it back when I was binging on Ranma 1/2 and Inu Yasha, but it was more of a cursory thing, and the books were hard to find at the time(a large part of why I only ever read one volume of Lum.)

Now I read and watch a LOT of stuff that's out there, but this is something that's "out there" on a whole other level.  OPG is about a binge-eating boxer who...falls in love with a nun.  Somehow, it breaks my mind.  The fact the Kamenashi "Kame" Kazuya, one of the skinniest and least tough-looking JE Boys out there is playing him breaks my mind even more.

Somehow, this both scares and fascinates me.

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Where has Nordic Blondie gone?  She has not been seen since Martuff died...I'm rather fond of her and the fact that Anisse and Freya are  ill-advised enough to lust after different guys...

After Tangent, I have determined that Teal'c and O'Neill simply should not attempt to engage in any thinking without Carter being there to do it for them.  They tend to make things worse doing that.  Speaking of Teal'c, that was some serious Pain and Torture in Beneath the Surface and The Serpent's Venom.  I was rather in awe.

I have also somehow started liking Marborne.  I have no idea when or how this happened.  I wonder who feels dirtier about working with him...Carter or O'Neill.

There should be more Apophis.  The other villains just don't seem to measure up.

I shall now go ponder why I don't love Daniel anywhere near as much as I do everyone else.

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Where has Nordic Blondie gone?  She has not been seen since Martuff died...I'm rather fond of her and the fact that Anisse and Freya are  ill-advised enough to lust after different guys...

After Tangent, I have determined that Teal'c and O'Neill simply should not attempt to engage in any thinking without Carter being there to do it for them.  They tend to make things worse doing that.  Speaking of Teal'c, that was some serious Pain and Torture in Beneath the Surface and The Serpent's Venom.  I was rather in awe.

I have also somehow started liking Marborne.  I have no idea when or how this happened.  I wonder who feels dirtier about working with him...Carter or O'Neill.

There should be more Apophis.  The other villains just don't seem to measure up.

I shall now go ponder why I don't love Daniel anywhere near as much as I do everyone else.

Togari Vol 2

I have decided that yes, I most definately love this manga.  I wish the action scenes weren't so reliant on speed lines, but that's ok.  Where else can I get conversations like this:

Hero: My head feels like it's gonna split open.
Sidekick:  Most heads do split open after being struck with rocks.
Hero: Yeah, but it hurt more when you really did split my head open in hell, you bastard.
Sidekick: And why was that?  Because you tried to escape.

*giant rock in question finally breaks in half from the head smashing earlier*

The "person from the past being overwhelmed by modern conveniences" thing is pretty common, but it doesn't feel very well-trod here, maybe because Tobei didn't really function in the society of his own time, either.  He's very strongly associated with being a stray, feral animal, with itsuki being the nice girl who fed and petted it and took it home.  And just to make sure we get the point, Itsuki remembers a feral kitten she found once but was told to leave alone, and we immediately cut to Ose being confronted outside the house with a larger, older version of the cat.  Apparently, taking in strays is her thing.  The fact that this stray is completely owned by her by her ability to master a tie and his conviction that she has the ability to trap samurai in the TV(something both she and her grandfather have great fun with.)

I wish I could feel suspense over the nd of Vol 2, but I fear I've been reading Samurai Deeper Kyo and Saiyuki too long to think an excuse to save won't be found.

Hmmm...I have found it to DL and am now tempted to post scans...

Togari Vol 2

I have decided that yes, I most definately love this manga.  I wish the action scenes weren't so reliant on speed lines, but that's ok.  Where else can I get conversations like this:

Hero: My head feels like it's gonna split open.
Sidekick:  Most heads do split open after being struck with rocks.
Hero: Yeah, but it hurt more when you really did split my head open in hell, you bastard.
Sidekick: And why was that?  Because you tried to escape.

*giant rock in question finally breaks in half from the head smashing earlier*

The "person from the past being overwhelmed by modern conveniences" thing is pretty common, but it doesn't feel very well-trod here, maybe because Tobei didn't really function in the society of his own time, either.  He's very strongly associated with being a stray, feral animal, with itsuki being the nice girl who fed and petted it and took it home.  And just to make sure we get the point, Itsuki remembers a feral kitten she found once but was told to leave alone, and we immediately cut to Ose being confronted outside the house with a larger, older version of the cat.  Apparently, taking in strays is her thing.  The fact that this stray is completely owned by her by her ability to master a tie and his conviction that she has the ability to trap samurai in the TV(something both she and her grandfather have great fun with.)

I wish I could feel suspense over the nd of Vol 2, but I fear I've been reading Samurai Deeper Kyo and Saiyuki too long to think an excuse to save won't be found.

Hmmm...I have found it to DL and am now tempted to post scans...

*sigh*

I've tried about 6-7 books this last week  and the only thing that's stuck is Dragon Sword and Moon Child...it's not that they've been bad, just that I've been going" read read re...nah..."

Hence, so much manga getting read lately.

This is A) unusual and B) irksome.

*sigh*

I've tried about 6-7 books this last week  and the only thing that's stuck is Dragon Sword and Moon Child...it's not that they've been bad, just that I've been going" read read re...nah..."

Hence, so much manga getting read lately.

This is A) unusual and B) irksome.

aah, my friend, it is a strange, sometimes cruel world you have entered...

calixa , watching Spiral MVs after finishing the series, her second anime ever.

*twitches*

Why don't they like Hiyono?

I DON'T...UNDERSTAND

If they don't like Hiyono, who do they ship him with?

Rio?

meganbmoore, who has had years of anime and manga to help her prepare for such things:  

I dunno, probably Eyes or Kousuke.

aah, my friend, it is a strange, sometimes cruel world you have entered...

calixa , watching Spiral MVs after finishing the series, her second anime ever.

*twitches*

Why don't they like Hiyono?

I DON'T...UNDERSTAND

If they don't like Hiyono, who do they ship him with?

Rio?

meganbmoore, who has had years of anime and manga to help her prepare for such things:  

I dunno, probably Eyes or Kousuke.