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

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it is but when you're hoping it'd be about a family grocery store that'd fallen onto hard times because the father got into a debt with the yakuza and was in danger of losing the store so the brave sons would have to win it back with battles involving cabbages, daikon radishes and red bell peppers... It's just not the same.

Um. Obviously I've been smoking some special crack or something.

[oyceter]

I think this should be written! It would be called "Nobuta no Produce" instead!''

Also, now I am picturing the rush to get the freshest seafood! Haggling with farmers for the best vegetables! Finding that one family farm is poor and losing their farm and you want to support them but don't have the resources!

Oh wait, this is a movie already.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

uhm...uh...how about a boy whose parents sold his organs to the yakuza and a rich girl thinks he loves her so she "buys" him and then spends the rest of his life battling mecha and tiger and teachers and such for her and I'm POSITIVE there have been produce battles at some point? It's the best I could come up with...

Of course, nothing shall ever top "Hikkatsu! Strike A Blow to Vivify" in the crack department...

[oyceter]

Wait, is that Hayate the Combat Butler?

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

BUT OF COURSE!

I have a deep love for Hayate and his sad fate.

How do I not love a boy who goes "hmm...I may need a machine gun today..." and then goes and gets one...and he bitchslaps mecha.

[oyceter]

Oh good! I was afraid there would be TWO manga with that storyline! But given that I have just discovered "mpreg human-looking animals living among us" manga is not limited to Sex Pistols, I am sure there is another sells-organs-gets-bought series out there.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

The idea of 2 sets of manga parents selling their teenaged son's organs to the yakuza does not scare me. the idea of 2 "mpreg human-looking animals living among us" manga terrifies me.

There should be more manga like Hayate the Combat Butler and Hikkatsu! Strike A Blow to Vivify.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Hikkatsu is very, very hard to top. I'm sure one day it will be surpassed but it will be a long, hard uphill battle.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

i'm just impressedthat it topped Hayate the Combat Butler...