meganbmoore | X/1999 Vol 9-10

People kept saying “there can be only one.” It made me think of Highlander.

So…uhm…somewhere in volume 9, I think the book crossed from “melodramatic, but pretty genuinely tragic and angsty” and into “so angsty it’s almost unintentionally funny.” I blame the endless spreads with feathers and clockwork gears. Pretty, but also a little on the pretentious side.

I finally got to the head hugging and screaming. It no doubt says concerning things about me that I’ve been anticipating that, despite being very fond of Kotori. (Actually, I think things are slightly less interesting with her gone.) It remains a fine moment of screaming romantic angst, but thanks to Tsubasa (for the angst) and Claymore (for the head hugging) it doesn’t have quite the “oomph” that it did when I first saw it in the anime.

Kotori’s wings and the scene where she says goodbye to Kakyo were as gorgeous as the dreamworld spreads in previous volumes, but the other dreamworld spreads weren’t as pretty. Did I mention that they started getting a bit pretentious at about that time?

And why did they let Kamui keep Kotori’s head after bandaging him up? (Not that I’m complaining about the angst there…) And for that matter, how did Kamui survive getting stabbed with so much glass?

Karen is still lurking around, sitting on tree branches and showing off her garters. I do love Karen. I love Sorata saying that hiding the sword in a fountain is silly almost as much. Though even better was Arashi facepalming in the background when Yuzuhira said the secret chamber looked like a super-robot launching bay.

And the flashbacks! Kusanagi and Yuzuhira bonding over Inuki was cute, but I suspect it will result in my being scandalized by Clamp’s age-inappropriate pairing tendencies again. And there was wee!Arashi! So cute!

Oh, and wee!Fuma picked up his mother’s head and licked her blood off his fingers. I’ll get to work on banishing that one from my head now.

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Karen is love and Sorata is win ♥

I do like Kotori, but I actually think the manga starts kicking after her death ^_^ sloooooow starting manga.

And for that matter, how did Kamui survive getting stabbed with so much glass?
Magical powers of Kamui-ness.

I'm pretty certain they never finished X due to problems with their publisher - who wanted them to tone down the gore and angst - not because they got lazy or didn't want to.

I heard part of it was due to the earthquake in Japan at the time and the publishers and artists being afraid of offending as there were some similarities on building and deaths of groups of people or something like that.

It was a VERY slow starting manga, but when it kicked in, there was a bit of shock at all the gore. I don't mind a bit of gore, but sometimes it went over the top. Some things can be left to the imagination.

Yes, I think the earthquake played a part, too, although that was ten years ago, and that was one of the reasons the publishers wanted them to tone in down

I never minded the gore, but I'm not surprised some people found it to be too much for them. It's a very violent manga.

The gore doesn't bother me, but there's so much emphasis on men hugging women's decapitated heads (we're up to 3 cases now?) that they end up emphasizing it too much.

Kamui hugs men's people head, too! He's bisexual that way :D

Are they decapitated heads accompanied by screaming angst?

Lemme look...

okay, he doesn't exactly craddle it, just a caress it, but there is screaming angst :)

I haven't heard "lazy" put forth except in whining, really, but I've heard conflicting bits on other parts.

I think that part of the thing with Kotori is that I don't actually like Kamui a lot (I don't dislike him, and he's a good lead, but...) but I like him more when he's being protective of or nice to or behaving for Kotori.

well, when people complain by saying that they didn't bother finishing it, I get a bit touchy I guess :)

Oh, but Kamui's personnality changes totally when Kotori dies. He's this total brat at the beginning, except sometimes with Kotori, then he becomes a weeping wuss. It's one of the funny thing about him... yeah, I don't like Kamui a lot either XD

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