CLAMP - Legal Drug, vol. 01-03 (Eng. trans.)
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oyceterLalalala I am so susceptible to CLAMP!
Much like Her Majesty's Dog, I very much enjoyed this, despite the very thin veneer of plot. Actually, I don't even remember the characters' names.
I think I may have read too much manga this weekend.
Or: since there is no such thing as too much manga, I think all the cracktasticness may have addled my brain.
Anyhow, there's a Pretty Blonde Boy, rescued by a larger Dark-Haired Guy. There is a beautiful panel of the rescue in the snow. Pretty Blonde Boy and Dark-Haired Guy become roommates and work together at a drugstore (legal! Not crack!) run by a blonde guy with glasses (hereby known as Glasses). Glasses seems to have some sort of relationship with a tall, dark-haired guy who always wears shades (hereby known as Shades).
When introducing the manga to me,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rachelmanija mentioned that the relationships in the series were very subtext-y. Then there was the page in which Shades was nearly licking Glasses' ear, pulling down his turtleneck, and turning Glasses' face toward him. We both decided that that was very much text.
Glasses has some weird jobs on the side, which he frequently sends Pretty Blonde Boy out on. These jobs frequently involve cross-dressing, prettification, and very revealing situations which enable Dark-Haired Guy to come to his rescue.
Oh yeah, Pretty Blonde Boy is somewhat psychic.
Obviously, this is all a ruse to get pretty boys together, but since they are so pretty, I don't mind very much at all. In fact, I feel rather bad for Dark-Haired Guy, who is quite obviously pining away in a very Gothic but non-bloody fashion, since Pretty Blonde Boy has the emotional maturity of a mushroom. I must specify that Dark-Haired Guy does not want to possess Pretty Blonde Boy's eyeballs, stalk him, kill him, torture him, torture his friends, be his twin star, steal his destiny, steal his organic sword (literally! No phallic symbols involved!) or drive him insane. I say Gothic just because it is CLAMP and because the romance between Dark-Haired Guy and Pretty Blonde Boy is pushed forward by things like possession.
While I am enchanted by Dark-Haired Guy's silent angst (he doesn't actually angst, but I imagine that he must angst a whole lot. See above re: Pretty Blonde Boy and mushrooms), I am even more entranced by the love of the two guys with glasses. I think they should get their own series called Framed and have many perfectly innocuous conversations that would be completely devoid of innuendo if they weren't pulling down each other's turtlenecks and licking fingers.
Much like Her Majesty's Dog, I very much enjoyed this, despite the very thin veneer of plot. Actually, I don't even remember the characters' names.
I think I may have read too much manga this weekend.
Or: since there is no such thing as too much manga, I think all the cracktasticness may have addled my brain.
Anyhow, there's a Pretty Blonde Boy, rescued by a larger Dark-Haired Guy. There is a beautiful panel of the rescue in the snow. Pretty Blonde Boy and Dark-Haired Guy become roommates and work together at a drugstore (legal! Not crack!) run by a blonde guy with glasses (hereby known as Glasses). Glasses seems to have some sort of relationship with a tall, dark-haired guy who always wears shades (hereby known as Shades).
When introducing the manga to me,
rachelmanija mentioned that the relationships in the series were very subtext-y. Then there was the page in which Shades was nearly licking Glasses' ear, pulling down his turtleneck, and turning Glasses' face toward him. We both decided that that was very much text. Glasses has some weird jobs on the side, which he frequently sends Pretty Blonde Boy out on. These jobs frequently involve cross-dressing, prettification, and very revealing situations which enable Dark-Haired Guy to come to his rescue.
Oh yeah, Pretty Blonde Boy is somewhat psychic.
Obviously, this is all a ruse to get pretty boys together, but since they are so pretty, I don't mind very much at all. In fact, I feel rather bad for Dark-Haired Guy, who is quite obviously pining away in a very Gothic but non-bloody fashion, since Pretty Blonde Boy has the emotional maturity of a mushroom. I must specify that Dark-Haired Guy does not want to possess Pretty Blonde Boy's eyeballs, stalk him, kill him, torture him, torture his friends, be his twin star, steal his destiny, steal his organic sword (literally! No phallic symbols involved!) or drive him insane. I say Gothic just because it is CLAMP and because the romance between Dark-Haired Guy and Pretty Blonde Boy is pushed forward by things like possession.
While I am enchanted by Dark-Haired Guy's silent angst (he doesn't actually angst, but I imagine that he must angst a whole lot. See above re: Pretty Blonde Boy and mushrooms), I am even more entranced by the love of the two guys with glasses. I think they should get their own series called Framed and have many perfectly innocuous conversations that would be completely devoid of innuendo if they weren't pulling down each other's turtlenecks and licking fingers.
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Thu, Jul. 6th, 2006 09:13 pm (UTC)I really love the stylization of xxxHolic, but it's really interesting reading their older stuff, particularly because the only thing I've followed of theirs had been X.
If only they'd finish that too!
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Fri, Jul. 7th, 2006 05:23 am (UTC)But yeah, Jamie got a little jokey in the rewrite, and the original is plenty hilarious just the way it is. :-)