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 know! I'm kinda sad now that it's not a RESTORE THE FAMILY GROCERY SHOP manga!

[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!

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Nobuta wo Produce is actually a drama, not a manga

[artemisiabrisol.livejournal.com]

What entertained me today?

The live action of Nodame Cantabile has filled me with girlish glee. Cracktastic hijinks! Classical music! The retina burning hotness of Tamaki Hiroshi! Did I mention the classical music? The end credits are set to "Rhapsody in Blue."

There is a real lack of menacing vegetables in manga. I'm rather disappointed in the lack of produce in Nobuta wo Produce.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

When I'm having a bad/long/harrowing day, I entertain myself by searching YouTube for Takarazuka clips.

Today was a good find, an otokoyaku being "priestly" and then being pawed up by the forces of darkness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmK_rVSHitE). Heee.

[oyceter]

I know! It would be like Yakitatte! Japan, only with produce! And less puns. But still.

[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.

[oyceter]

Thanks, corrected.

[oyceter]

Yes, there definitely should be more menacing vegetables in general.

Oooo credits to Rhapsody in Blue!

[oyceter]

Takarazuka, AWESOME!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It writes itself!

[oyceter]

I know! Now I want to read it!

[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.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

OMG, it's just a drama? I thought it was manga-turned-drama! Geez, talk about mistaken!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I accidentally left some mushrooms at Yoon's place yesterday, and emailed her to eat them before they went bad. I suggested sauteeing them with the garlic I also accidentally left there.

She replied, "So that's where the garlic came from! I had thought Heero might have teleported it in as a distraction."

[oyceter]

Hee! (also mmmmm, mushrooms)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Qwan...where a little boy who eats demons keeps trying to eat a little girl raised by demons but who isn't and is Very Determined that he gets to eat her...yet they end up a mass collision of cute.

And avatar...Avatar is basically GOOD amerimanga...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

it's quite good though...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Hmm...I've been thinking for the last year and a half that there WAS a manga...just an obscure one...

[cicer.livejournal.com]

M: Well, there is the mpreg human-looking dinosaurs live among us series, but I never got past v1.

...There is? What is it?!

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

Is Tamaki Hiroshi playing Chiaki? In which case: eye-burning hotness indeed.

NwP has many, many redeeming qualities though. It's well-acted, and... generally wonderful.

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

Eventually, I'm going to finish 20th Century Boys, find some way to buy the entire set in English, so I can recommend it to people. How is it so good?

[oyceter]

Oh, what's that?

[oyceter]

I know, I thought so too! It totally sounds like manga (both the shounen-grocery version and the shoujo-Pygmalion version).

[oyceter]

I really need to read more Qwan! I think I read v. 1 quite some time ago, but haven't picked up the rest.

It is nice to see you mainlining Avatar too!