All finished except for the 'side story,' which I am currently downloading.
:D It was so... cute! Yay.
Some more serious thoughts: the idea of being 'filled up' with someone (which might be a strange translation or a literal one... but a nice one, at any rate) is so, so appealing to my love-aesthetic (or whatever the fuck it is). The repetition of longing. Ee.
Awesome line: After randomstalkerguykatsumi says, "are you crying?" Fujio: "what if I am?"
!!!
And: all of Yamazaki. He is a very recognizable 'type' of character, yes. The pretty, bitchy, spoilt, cruel, petulant, sensual uke-type... and yet, he completely isn't. I mean, he is, but. It is like a commentary on yaoi (at the beginning the translator, i think, mentioned the real definition - the purposeless, the lack of climax and there's a sort of ringing-true moment there when you think about the utter hopelessness of this [fujio and yamazaki's] sort of love - its totality. no peaking, no waning, consuming). He is all these things and yet he somehow breaks them all, is fleshed out. He tops (!!!! That makes me happy like you can't believe), he's not just 'gay' (a lot of ukes I've run across are 'only gay' [or... whatever. don't exactly understand it myself] while the seme is more 'straight'), he's masculine sometimes, he's unselfish, he's... Ah. So much love for Yamazaki.
And as for Fujio... he also transcends his character type (the unassuming, sweet, too-kind and yet self-deprecating, slighty doofy guy) when he loses his unaffectedness. When he longs. A lot of times, his character-type only ever really... loves. You know, like, sweetly and adoringly and such-a-pretty-uke-let-me-molest-you-ly. But, Fujio acquires the emotional traits of Yamazaki's stereotype, to some degree - the almost-depression of love, the yearning and "being broken" and... that's nice too. :)
So, yes. Enjoyed the manga, obviously. The art was consistently fabulous. The expressions!!!! YES!!!! Yamazaki and Reiko (who I actually liked - a bizarre thing for me. I almost never like female characters in anime/manga) had the best of the expressions. The smirks and smiles and those intense, evil looks. ;> Yessss. *loves*
And (again) the last picture in chapter seven. !!!!. Still floors me and makes be blush like a schoolgirl. I want to... post it in my journal. And then keep looking at it. Endlessly. Make a shrine for the definition of "hot" because... well, that's what it is, quite honestly. GAH.
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Finished it!
Date: 2005-09-20 09:52 pm (UTC)All finished except for the 'side story,' which I am currently downloading.
:D It was so... cute! Yay.
Some more serious thoughts: the idea of being 'filled up' with someone (which might be a strange translation or a literal one... but a nice one, at any rate) is so, so appealing to my love-aesthetic (or whatever the fuck it is). The repetition of longing. Ee.
Awesome line:
After randomstalkerguykatsumi says, "are you crying?"
Fujio: "what if I am?"
!!!
And: all of Yamazaki. He is a very recognizable 'type' of character, yes. The pretty, bitchy, spoilt, cruel, petulant, sensual uke-type... and yet, he completely isn't. I mean, he is, but. It is like a commentary on yaoi (at the beginning the translator, i think, mentioned the real definition - the purposeless, the lack of climax and there's a sort of ringing-true moment there when you think about the utter hopelessness of this [fujio and yamazaki's] sort of love - its totality. no peaking, no waning, consuming). He is all these things and yet he somehow breaks them all, is fleshed out. He tops (!!!! That makes me happy like you can't believe), he's not just 'gay' (a lot of ukes I've run across are 'only gay' [or... whatever. don't exactly understand it myself] while the seme is more 'straight'), he's masculine sometimes, he's unselfish, he's... Ah. So much love for Yamazaki.
And as for Fujio... he also transcends his character type (the unassuming, sweet, too-kind and yet self-deprecating, slighty doofy guy) when he loses his unaffectedness. When he longs. A lot of times, his character-type only ever really... loves. You know, like, sweetly and adoringly and such-a-pretty-uke-let-me-molest-you-ly. But, Fujio acquires the emotional traits of Yamazaki's stereotype, to some degree - the almost-depression of love, the yearning and "being broken" and... that's nice too. :)
So, yes. Enjoyed the manga, obviously. The art was consistently fabulous. The expressions!!!! YES!!!! Yamazaki and Reiko (who I actually liked - a bizarre thing for me. I almost never like female characters in anime/manga) had the best of the expressions. The smirks and smiles and those intense, evil looks. ;> Yessss. *loves*
And (again) the last picture in chapter seven. !!!!. Still floors me and makes be blush like a schoolgirl. I want to... post it in my journal. And then keep looking at it. Endlessly. Make a shrine for the definition of "hot" because... well, that's what it is, quite honestly. GAH.
♥