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I fully understand none of you care about this, however... I can't stop myself, so.

You know, I actually tried to stop reading `Basara' when I ran out of licensed releases, but I just couldn't. I tried reading other mangas, but they all seem pretty 'bleh' and not as good in any way. My motivation to read pretty much anything else is zilch, though I did write a bit of my own H/D hug!fic. So scanlations it is for me....

Okay, so there's this boy and his best friend, and they're both rebel 'gang' leaders in a mountainous rural region, right, and one of them is a complete feral crackhead whale-hunter slash future priest (that'd be Nachi), and the other is the son of the local leader, also expert in Japanese sword-fighting (that'd be Hijiri), and he's all cool-headed and practical and caring and competent (and he has this cute gang tattoo on his face...). They're sort of adorably doting with one another, it's just almost painful to watch. It's the sort of thing where it's not like I want to improve/liven it up with sex or anything, it's just that they're already so married, it's not even funny. I mean, when you're married, you might as well go all the way, right?

I almost had a small coronary 'cause I thought Nachi was about to die (I literally cried... I never cry during books or comics, never, and I was seriously about to lose it because she could've killed -anyone- but my happy-go-lucky wildcat boy, ahhhhh *fawns over*). Actually, I'd really rebel if she killed Ageha too, but it wouldn't be as -wrong-, 'cause Ageha isn't so innocent and crazy and darling, I dunno. Basically, what it comes down to, for me, is not Nachi, and he's not even my favorite. Well, everyone's my favorite except the stupid Blue King, who annoys me and sometimes reminds me of Draco a bit, but not in a good way, except when he's being a brat and not a psychotic manipulative asshole. *sigh*

Anyway, my point was... my point was....

Hijiri thinks Nachi is about to die from multiple sword-wounds on enemy territory, and he's losing a lot of blood, right, and weakening/conking out and so on... and he... and he....

HE TEARS OPEN HIS ARM AND TRIES TO FEED NACHI HIS BLOOD. With his teeth. And Nachi's like, 'um... not a vampire, kthnx', and Hijiri's like, 'I DON'T CARE, I WILL MAKE YOU A VAMPIRE!!!' (...Neither of them are vampiric, obviously.)

...

...

I JUST WANTED YOU ALL TO DIE RIGHT ALONG WITH ME NOW (...though I know, that's prolly not possible.) STILL THOUGH!! STILL!! >:O

Date: 2005-08-26 12:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/
Yes, that's why I enjoyed it so much - I do hate the cow-like faces often, but I loved the equal-yet-different dynamic between her and Momo from the get go. I think I called it better-than-slash (though that might have been Perfect Girl ...) I've been trying to convert people but there's not even a good website for it :)

Date: 2005-08-26 12:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] notrafficlights.livejournal.com
I know. No websites suck. And I hate the title they gave the English translation (Sumire? Tramp? I DON'T THINK SO!). It's like HanaKimi for me - really queer het stories XD. They're the ones I like the best from the mainstream genres, and the ones I stick with outside of my ridiculous yaoi addiction. Like G-Senjou no Heaven's Door. Lots of hilarity and silly subtext-reading in that one.

Date: 2005-08-26 01:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/
I just spent half an hour looking for my post on Kimi Wa Pet and realised I had never unlocked it (have 837 draft posts hidden), but I listed one site there used to be, now dead of course!
They even call it Tramps Like Us in German *headdesk*

The yaoi ones currently published are so boring - stories like old-fashioned Harlequin romances, and no sexy images let alone actual sex, despite them coming in wrappers. I don't think I know Heaven's Door.

Date: 2005-08-27 12:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] notrafficlights.livejournal.com
Oh so right about the boring romance ones. Which is why I get all mine scanlated. I can find all the interesting stuff then XD (Kazusa Takashima! Nanao Bohra! Under Grand Hotel! Dr Ten!).

G-senjour no Heaven's Door is actually a shounen manga about kids drawing manga (haha, meta) with lots of messed-up relationships and very very cool art. It's being done by Mangascreener here (http://mangascreener.com/project.php?id=51).

Date: 2005-08-26 04:07 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] arboretum
omg whut. I have only read this manga in the licensed english version (one of the TWO! TWO! that I picked up totally out of nowhere from the bookstore) -- they changed her name? What is it really, then?

Date: 2005-08-27 12:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] notrafficlights.livejournal.com
Oh, they didn't change her name, I just object to the title being applied to Sumire (she ain't no tramp... even if Momo is).

Date: 2005-08-27 06:51 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] arboretum
Ah, ok, gotcha. I'm with you on that one. :P

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