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

[anenko.livejournal.com]

Eyeshield 21. I hate football in real life, but I freaking adore this series--it's a typical sports manga, I suppose, but the characters get me every time. There are two volumes that made me a bit uncomfortable (an American coach prejudiced against black and Japanese players), but other than that I'm feeling nothing but love.

Skip Beat! is the shoujo title that currently owns my heart. One of the big things I love about the series is the strong female friendship between Kyoko and Moko, and the fact that men have nothing to do with their initial rivalry, or their eventual friendship. They don't even talk about men until volume nine!

[oyceter]

Oh cool! I have not read either of those, thanks@

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Skip-Beat is most, most awesome.

[anenko.livejournal.com]

I wrote an introductory post to Skip Beat! (http://anenko.livejournal.com/150757.html), if you're interested (details as to the basic plot; very vague spoilers for later volumes, mostly relationship-based).

xparrot has a lovely post on why Eyeshield 21 is awesome (http://xparrot.livejournal.com/37239.html) (I've read up to volume 17, and there are spoilers past that point, so . . . ) We also have a Hiruma/Mamori picspam (http://muffytaj.livejournal.com/347550.html) from muffytaj.

[oyceter]

Ooo thanks for the pimp posts!