Entertain me!

[oyceter]

Why I love manga, #1:

[edited to correct my bad spelling and other grammar stuff)
Mely: DINOSAURS!
Oyce: I know! I want more dinosaurs! Why is there not a giant subgenre of dinosaur manga?
M: I was so disappointed when they turned out to be metaphorical dinosaurs. I thought the series was going to be about human reincarnations of dinosaur scientists who set up a moonbase.
O: OMG! It so should have been!
M: Well, there is the mpreg human-looking dinosaurs live among us series, but I never got past v1.
O: O_o
O: Wow.
O: And I thought Sex Pistols was the only mpreg human-looking animals living among us series out there.
M: In retrospect, that was somewhat naive of you.
O: Truly, it was.

Why I love manga, #2:

Several of us thinking Nobuta wo Produce was a shounen-sports-take manga on a boy working with all his might to restore a grocery store, when in actuality it is a shoujo-Pygmalion manga drama.

Suddenly, the "wo Produce" part of the title makes that much more sense ("wo" signifies an object, so it is "Producing Nobuta" sort of a la producing a movie).

Still, I am sad there are no random cabbages or other vegetables of DOOM.

Why I love manga, #3:

RAISED BY PIGEONS!

(Yes! The pigeons still amuse me!)

Your turn! Tell me what has entertained you today!

Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I ran across a reference today in a book I'm reading that I intend to post about. It's called The Haunted: A Social History of Ghosts and is by an academic who's analyzing the last 500 years of ghost reportings in the UK through the viewpoint of social trends and suchlike - it's not about whether they're real or not. It's really good so far.

Anyway, he's talking about ghost hunters in this one section and mentions in passing of the Cornish folklorist William Henry Paynter who zipped about the country in the 1940s investigating hauntings with the Prince Birabongse Bhanubandh, in the Prince's sports car.

IS THAT NOT GENIUS? And it's REAL! It only requires a missing eye and a severed head to be a manga!

[oyceter]

That is awesome. It would be even better if William were actually a cross-dressing woman who did so to get more freedom while investigating (we would get a reveal of Wilhelmina in gorgeously tailored forties clothes) and secretly pining for the prince. The prince, of course, is attracted to her but thinks he must hide it because he thinks she is a guy and because royal scandal!

And they would have lots of UST while investigating Gothic mansions, and the prince would tragically lose an eye in an emotionally wrenching scene.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It writes itself!

[oyceter]

I know! Now I want to read it!

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

As I was saying to telophase over in her journal, this is totally an Emma fanfic, in which the Indian prince and the protagonist (during one of the occasions he is Tragically Separated from Emma) go tooling around the country investigating hauntings *from the back of an elephant*.

And then the hauntings turn out to have been the prince's retinue of dancing girls all along, because they get really, really bored during all the times they aren't appearing out of nowhere to traumatize stuffy British people.

[oyceter]

! That would be so awesome!