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Mar. 17th, 2008 01:35 pmI spent part of Friday and Saturday watching the rest of the 3-DVD set of Princess Princess anime series so I could lend it to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
skyoxford, who as it turned out wasn't at writer's night on Saturday. Oh well, I lent it to miertam instead. It's a silly fluff series but I enjoyed it, and it's fairly true to the manga. This is a manga that is not quite a "boy's love" manga, but flirts with that idea quite a bit.
One of the fun things about this series is that one of the main characters, Mikoto, was the boyfriend of the main character in the author's previous series, Day of Revolution. In addition, one of the other important characters in Princess Princess was the main character in another series of hers, Family Complex. I need to go out and pick that one up -- I think it's just one volume, or at least, that's all that is available in English at the moment.
I also spent part of Friday and Saturday finishing up the last of the 4 volumes I have of the manga series Vampire Doll Guilt-na-zan... so I could lend them toskyoxford, who I guess will get them at Norwescon. This is another silly series -- extremely silly, in fact -- but with fun characters. There are a lot of stupid jokes and breaking of the 4th wall in this one. At one point near the end of volume 3 and into the beginning of volume 4 they tell a fairly serious story about Guilt-na's past, and it has a sad ending. In the next chapter when Guilt-na goes looking for her master (a bishonen man who dresses in frilly gothic shirts -- one of the big jokes in the series is that most of the characters are typical gothic/bishonen pretty-boy men, and the actual plotline is anything but) and he's in his room with a Hawaiian shirt on playing on a ukelele. When Guilt-na asks him what he's doing, he rattles off the Hawaiian name of the song. When she yells at him to stop spouting gibberish, he says, "Oh, are we still doing this comic? The last chapter had such a sad ending, I thought we were all done." In another story one of the characters appears near the end of the story simply to say that tea is ready, and someone else comments that he's apparently desperate to get himself into that chapter's storyline.
So, like I said, quite silly stuff.
( more manga ramblings )
skyoxford, who as it turned out wasn't at writer's night on Saturday. Oh well, I lent it to miertam instead. It's a silly fluff series but I enjoyed it, and it's fairly true to the manga. This is a manga that is not quite a "boy's love" manga, but flirts with that idea quite a bit.One of the fun things about this series is that one of the main characters, Mikoto, was the boyfriend of the main character in the author's previous series, Day of Revolution. In addition, one of the other important characters in Princess Princess was the main character in another series of hers, Family Complex. I need to go out and pick that one up -- I think it's just one volume, or at least, that's all that is available in English at the moment.
I also spent part of Friday and Saturday finishing up the last of the 4 volumes I have of the manga series Vampire Doll Guilt-na-zan... so I could lend them to
skyoxford, who I guess will get them at Norwescon. This is another silly series -- extremely silly, in fact -- but with fun characters. There are a lot of stupid jokes and breaking of the 4th wall in this one. At one point near the end of volume 3 and into the beginning of volume 4 they tell a fairly serious story about Guilt-na's past, and it has a sad ending. In the next chapter when Guilt-na goes looking for her master (a bishonen man who dresses in frilly gothic shirts -- one of the big jokes in the series is that most of the characters are typical gothic/bishonen pretty-boy men, and the actual plotline is anything but) and he's in his room with a Hawaiian shirt on playing on a ukelele. When Guilt-na asks him what he's doing, he rattles off the Hawaiian name of the song. When she yells at him to stop spouting gibberish, he says, "Oh, are we still doing this comic? The last chapter had such a sad ending, I thought we were all done." In another story one of the characters appears near the end of the story simply to say that tea is ready, and someone else comments that he's apparently desperate to get himself into that chapter's storyline.So, like I said, quite silly stuff.
( more manga ramblings )
