a note on Farscape 3.15

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manga: Otomen Vol 1

Asuka is smart and stoic and the captain of the kendo team, and is widely regarded as being a masculine guy. He’s also in love with anything remotely feminine, cooks, and loves pink, scented baths and sewing. Actually, he’s a monster sewer. To be honest, if mpreg were real, he’d probably be the spawn of Bleach’s Ichigo and Ishida. As raised by Orihime. He falls in love at first sight with Ryo, a tomboy who can’t cook or sew, knows martial arts, and was raised by her father who has taught her to only admire the manliest of men.

In one of the sidebars, the mangaka basically says that she writes Asuka as herself, and Ryo as a thick-skinned and clueless, but cool, shoujo hero. It shows in all the best ways. The cover blurb implies that Asuka keeps his real self a secret, but Ryo actually knows about it almost right off the bat. And, in true shoujo hero form, wants to protect him, and is utterly clueless about how he likes her. Thrown into the mix is Juta, a playboy who flirts with Ryo and latches on to Asuka as his new best friend. He also seems to be abnormally interested in pushing the two together.

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Cute, with a hero who absolutely must meet Haruna of High School Debut so they can bond over imprinting on shoujo characters of the opposite gender for how to act when in love.

The Forsyte Saga eps 3-4

It’s probably a testament of some sort as to the overall quality of this that I can keep watching something where there are so many characters I dislike.

( Spoilers include a tangent with ranting about people and shoujo and a spoiler for Season 6 of Buffy. I'm like that. )

My wooly sheep-ness shows.

Seen all over the place:

Tell me five subjects/things you associate with me, and I'll make a post elaborating on them.

(I make no promises about when I'll actually make the post.)

Naruto/shounen pondering

So,octopedingenueis kicking offreread_no_jutsu, a community whose description reads "It's like Fight Club, only more Book Group. Because the only thing better than reading ten years' and 400+ chapters' worth of babyninja punching each other is figuring out why we'd do it all over again."

I'm not participating because until I whittle down the backlog and catch up with various series, I'm not allowed to reread Basara Blade of the Immortal Fullmetal Alchemist Claymore Cantarella xxxHolic/Tsubasa Skip-Beat manga I really really like, much less a series that I dropped a good while back. I'll be following the discussions, though. That does create the threat of my being swallowed up in a deep dark hole of moral shame and guilt that I read about 15 volumes further in scanslations than what I bought of the licensed volumes, but I shall attempt to be strong.

As a frame of reference for how far I got/how long it's been, when I stopped it was somewhere around or just past Vol 30 in Japan, and Viz was about a month into "Let's spam the US market by releasing for volumes a month AND ALL FOUR VOLUMES THE SAME DAY!" (I have no idea if they're still doing that, or doing it again.) The last thing I remember happening was (assume this could be as far into the series as about Vol 35...and I could be thinking I read further than I did) Sakura, Naruto, Sai and their teacher had run into Sasuke. About a dozen or so chapters after that. Sai, IIRC, had played some sort of fanservice to slash fans.

 

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And so I have made my yearly or so post on Naruto. (You know, when I was reading the series, I knew about 3 people who read it. Now I see at least 1 post a day on it, usually more. And that was before the idea of the community started to be tossed around.)

Please use the spoiler code for any spoilers. I know at least one person on the f-list is currently reading Naruto for the first time, and others are are playing catchup forreread_no_jutsu . Spoiler code:

<span style="color: #333333;background-color: #333333">Spoilers here.</span>

P.S.: You almost got a huge rant because LJ ate this!  But then LJ gave it back, so it's ok.

P.P.S.:  I swear I used to have a Naruto tag, but it seems to be gone.  *makes new one*