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

[oyceter]

Takarazuka, AWESOME!

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

I also entertained myself by spending money I shouldn't have and acquiring the Wao Yoka/Hanafusa Mari Phantom. My Xmas gift to myself, I think.

[oyceter]

Oh, what's that?

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Takarazuka doing a version of Phantom of the Opera. It's the version done by the guys who were racing Webber to the stage back when the copyright on the novel was running out. Webber won, and so Kopit and Yeston's Phantom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_%28musical%29) was relegated to off-Broadway. Takarazuka decided to adapt it, and it's been performed twice: once by Soragumi, with Wao Yoka and Hanafusa Mari, and once by Hanagumi, by Haruno Sumire (drooooooooool) and Sakurano Ayane.

Phantom was on my list of 'Zuka future acquisitions, though down the list from, say, Ernest in Love (musical 'Zuka version of The Importance of Being Ernest), but I just ran across someone today who was clearing out some of her collection, so I pounced. I've been ridiculously cheerful ever since. :)

[oyceter]

Awesome!