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Oyceter ([personal profile] oyceter) wrote2007-10-30 09:03 pm

Kotobuki Tarako - Love Pistols, vol. 01-02 (Eng. trans.)

(originally published as Sex Pistols, but the title was changed as Blu didn't want a lawsuit here)

Um, so you know how I said After School Nightmare was the strangest thing I've read this year? I have found competition! ASN is still the strangest thing I have read all year, but Love Pistols is the most insane, and not in the good Yuki Kaori way.

Actually, I think Love Pistols will be the absolute worst thing I read all year that I was still compelled to finish (as opposed to the worst thing I read all year that I didn't finish because I chucked it at the wall in rage).

The thing is, I knew pretty much all of the cracktastic and insane bits in it, and it still does not compare to the real thing.

I will not give a plot summary, as there is no plot. Instead, there are zooman beings and womb worms (omg my brain will never be the same again) and "This is the first time I've had sex with you while you were conscious" (roughly). And lots of bodily liquids.

Um. So yeah. There is canonical mpreg and incredibly disturbingly ugly art. The proportions are all wrong, no one looks sexy, people's feet are frequently larger than their head and neck combined, and did I mention the ugly art?

Also, womb worms. I feel this says everything.

For those of you reading who haven't read the series out of fascinated horror, womb worms are basically worms that men stick up their asses. They end up creating some sort of womb via a process that I really don't want to think about any more.

This leads to the incredibly sexy and romantic line: "I'll fuck you so hard I'll drown that worm in you!" (roughly).

EW. EW EW EW EW EW.

The mangaka also seems to think that alpha males to the nth power are incredibly sexy, as all the alpha males not only tower over their partners, they also bully their partners into sex, attempt to rape their partners, possessively mark their partners, and generally think that their partners are their own property. I am sure people find this sexy, but I really do not. Particularly when accompanied by unconscious sex and rape scenarios. And womb worms.

In conclusion: my brain just broke again.

You forgot...

[identity profile] rachelmanija.livejournal.com 2007-10-31 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
1. The learned footnotes giving the scientific names of various animals.

2. The children's book explaining zoomanity.

3. The facial.

4. The headless man.



[identity profile] jinian.livejournal.com 2007-10-31 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
I kind of have a thing for ASN thank to you, but I think I shall be giving this one a wide berth.
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[personal profile] octopedingenue 2007-10-31 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
It is so bad. So bad! The portrayal of women! The unsexy expressions and screeching and monkeys! The giant waffle hands! I have deleted it from my hard drive so many times! Only to go in search of it when I have to read the bit with the snake-crocodile guy who so does not reserve his human guy friend unrequitedly in love with him. WTF BRAIN. He's a snake-crocodile! In high school! Whose biggest concern is whether or not he will be gay for his guy friend! Who is not a snake-crocodile! I have read this volume like 5 times! OWWW BRAIN!

Have you gotten to the culturally sensitive Arabic manharem yet? Please don't get to the culturally sensitive Arabic manharem.
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[personal profile] octopedingenue 2007-10-31 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
deserve not reserve, as in brain is dead
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[identity profile] bravecows.livejournal.com 2007-10-31 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Yuletide has got at least one great Sex Pistols story! You should go read it. Um, unless you don't want to. But it's great! I find Sex Pistols is much more fun to read when you remember to turn your sanity off.
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[identity profile] desdenova.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Also, womb worms. I feel this says everything.

Urk.

Thank you for reading bad manga so I don't have to...
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[identity profile] buymeaclue.livejournal.com 2007-11-06 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
While reading this, first I raised my eyebrows. Then they leaped up to the ceiling. They're currently clinging to the light fixture whimpering.
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[identity profile] buymeaclue.livejournal.com 2007-11-06 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, no, insane is good! Just, maybe not _this_ kind. :-p