Kotobuki Tarako - Love Pistols, vol. 03-04 (Eng. trans.)
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oyceterThe art is so bad! The characters are so horrifying! The premise is so insane! And yet, I borrowed volumes 3 and 4 from Rachel anyway.
Sadly, I read volume 3 at Mariposa, so I cannot quote the most insane bits. I suspect the one that had me boggling the most was (one male character re: another) "I won't let anyone fuck my bitch! He's mine!"
This would not be amiss coming from a villain, but in an OH JOHN RINGO NO manner, it is supposed to be taken as very romantic.
There were probably also multiple references to womb worms that I read aloud to anyone who would listen (I feel the bogglement must be spread around), but I have thankfully wiped them from my brain.
Volume 3 contains a rather sweet story about a mongoose and a snake, complete with a womb worm in a condom -- probably the Zoomen's way of sticking a pin through a condom. Sadly, the rest of the volume is about Norio and Kunimasa, both of whom I care nothing about, as Norio is annoying, whiny, spineless, and his face contorts in a grotesquely Play-Doh-esque fashion when he has strong emotions (which is almost always), and Kunimasa is the person who said above quote.
Volume 4 continues with them, but thankfully, the second half has another strangely sweet story about Kunimasa's parents. Or his father. Or his mother. Or his father and his brother's mother. I would like to note here that both of them are men, for those of you as confused as me, and it leads to situations like this:
HIDEKUNI: There's a woman in the family by the name of Makio Madarame. She's Kunimasa and Yonekuni's "mother."
NORIO: What? I thought the landlady was their mother.
HIDEKUNI: No, not her. She's Shinobu and Manami's mother. Makio is Kunimasa and Yonekuni's "mother" and Shinobu and Manami's "father."
Kotobuki thoughtfully includes a family tree later, for which I thank her.
But, complicated family trees are not the problem! The problem is that Kunimasa's mother is .... a prostitute mediator!
Every time I think the series cannot get weirder, it does. And then it weirds me out further by having a badly-drawn but largely normal, non-rape-like, not-overly-misogynistic story at the end!
In conclusion: BZUH?
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coniraya! This is the insane animals-as-humans mpreg series I was telling you about!
Sadly, I read volume 3 at Mariposa, so I cannot quote the most insane bits. I suspect the one that had me boggling the most was (one male character re: another) "I won't let anyone fuck my bitch! He's mine!"
This would not be amiss coming from a villain, but in an OH JOHN RINGO NO manner, it is supposed to be taken as very romantic.
There were probably also multiple references to womb worms that I read aloud to anyone who would listen (I feel the bogglement must be spread around), but I have thankfully wiped them from my brain.
Volume 3 contains a rather sweet story about a mongoose and a snake, complete with a womb worm in a condom -- probably the Zoomen's way of sticking a pin through a condom. Sadly, the rest of the volume is about Norio and Kunimasa, both of whom I care nothing about, as Norio is annoying, whiny, spineless, and his face contorts in a grotesquely Play-Doh-esque fashion when he has strong emotions (which is almost always), and Kunimasa is the person who said above quote.
Volume 4 continues with them, but thankfully, the second half has another strangely sweet story about Kunimasa's parents. Or his father. Or his mother. Or his father and his brother's mother. I would like to note here that both of them are men, for those of you as confused as me, and it leads to situations like this:
HIDEKUNI: There's a woman in the family by the name of Makio Madarame. She's Kunimasa and Yonekuni's "mother."
NORIO: What? I thought the landlady was their mother.
HIDEKUNI: No, not her. She's Shinobu and Manami's mother. Makio is Kunimasa and Yonekuni's "mother" and Shinobu and Manami's "father."
Kotobuki thoughtfully includes a family tree later, for which I thank her.
But, complicated family trees are not the problem! The problem is that Kunimasa's mother is .... a prostitute mediator!
Every time I think the series cannot get weirder, it does. And then it weirds me out further by having a badly-drawn but largely normal, non-rape-like, not-overly-misogynistic story at the end!
In conclusion: BZUH?
ETA:
coniraya! This is the insane animals-as-humans mpreg series I was telling you about!
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Tue, Apr. 29th, 2008 07:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Tue, Apr. 29th, 2008 08:09 am (UTC)That "OH JOHN RINGO NO" thing is the new big internet slang, I guess.
It sounds like this manga could go toe-to-toe with him in that department though. (The best part is that I've been told these plot points before, in even greater detail, yet, they still shock me.)
*more saucer eyes*
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Tue, Apr. 29th, 2008 07:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Tue, Apr. 29th, 2008 08:47 am (UTC)I am actually very pleased by the way that gender is imploding around their family structure. And I think the mangaka may be teaching herself to draw.
But I know a lot of that is pure rationalization on my part.
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Tue, Apr. 29th, 2008 07:51 pm (UTC)I like the blurring of boundaries as to who can be mother and father, but I am less pleased about gender as a whole in the series, largely because all her women are evil or annoying or both, the lesbian couple is sidelined, and the mother is a prostitute mediator intent on thrusting more women upon Kunimasa!
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Tue, Apr. 29th, 2008 06:05 pm (UTC)What would happen if a prostitute mediator teamed up with Whoreverine, I wonder?
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