Pigeons! Raised by pigeons!

[oyceter]

Every single time I think manga cannot possibly surprise me further (I feel this is a logical conclusion after coming across things like canonical mpreg, psalm-writing mass murderer poets, and all of Godchild), I do.

telophase presents: RAISED BY PIGEONS!

I kid you not! A character! RAISED BY PIGEONS! She hugs them! She calls them "mom" and "dad"! There is a pigeon on her head at all times! She KNOWS PIGEON KARATE!

I just...

RAISED BY PIGEONS!

that is all.

Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

POOOOOOO! PO POOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[oyceter]

I was going to say that the sound effects totally make it, except the sound effects plus the pigeon karate plus the name of the moves plus the PIGEON ON HER HEAD all totally make it. I just... PIGEONS!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It's going to take a hell of a lot to top this.

I have faith that some manga, somewhere, will do it.

[oyceter]

I know! Although given the rate I have been seeing these things this year, I am sure I will come across something next week. Probably when I read Love Pistols 3!

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

Oh my God. That is....wow.

[oyceter]

I KNOW! Did you see the scans?! Pigeons! Pigeons! OMG!

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

YES, my boyfriend and I looked at them after I read all of the descriptive posts out loud to him. We are....awed and impressed.

[oyceter]

It is so awesome! It made me yell "RAISED BY PIGEONS!" for an entire day!

[minnow1212.livejournal.com]

...so every statue is a bathroom to her? Because...that's what I think of when I think of pigeons and the lessons they might impart.

[oyceter]

Apparently not! Apparently they taught her pigeon karate!

Although she does cluck when she does it.

[minnow1212.livejournal.com]

she clucks! oh man. that's pretty cool.

[oyceter]

I know!!!

[cicer.livejournal.com]

...Raised by pigeons. Raised by bloody pigeons. Oh my god, don't they have Child Protective Services in that world?

[oyceter]

*snort* I know! Clearly not! Clearly Child Protection Services was dismantled when TECHNOLOGY WENT INSANE!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Does it not sound like the most amazing thing known to man?

It makes you seriously wonder WHAT they put in the water in japan.

[oyceter]

Hee, well, it's just some manga. I read a lot that's wonderful and understated too.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I very much appreciate that kind of manga, too. But the mere concept of Hikkatsu fills me with awe and glee(but then, so does the concept of something like Bride of the Water God, just in different ways.)

[oyceter]

Hee, yes. PIGEONS!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I read it at work. I may never recover. This is a good thing.

[rilina.livejournal.com]

The pigeon on her head is the clincher!

(Did I ever tell you about the time I walked through Boston Common and saw a man sitting on a bench with his arms stretched out like a scarecrow and pigeons perched all over him? It was one of the most disgusting things I'd ever seen.)

[oyceter]

I know! The pigeon! On her head! The clucking pigeon karate!

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

There's canonical mpreg in Journey to the West. I think it probably qualifies as the earliest mpreg story ever written down in a novel...

... but raised by pigeons wins, I think.

[oyceter]

This is true! But I bet it is not canonical mpreg like Love Pistols. I think very few things are like Love Pistols, and that is probably good.

[rydra_wong]

... PIGEONS!

(Sorry, I have nothing to add; I just feel the need to participate in the general exclamation. Because: PIGEONS!)

[oyceter]

I KNOW! PIGEONS!

(dude, you are talking to the person who basically spent an hour at work unable to think of anything except "RAISED BY PIGEONS! AWESOME!")

[maerhys.livejournal.com]

Hot coffee snorted up the nose hurts, FYI.

[oyceter]

Hee!

Um, I mean, sorry! ;)