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The 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?

ETA: [livejournal.com profile] 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)
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Posted by [identity profile] cychi.livejournal.com
BZUH! haha very excellent summary. It seems like reading does not reduce confusioning, making it unlikely i will ever read the series ;P

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Tue, Apr. 29th, 2008 08:09 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com
*saucer eyes*

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 08:56 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com
Yes. It's like...the Kaori Yuki crack I can't really get into when I read the series, but I love the posts. Love Pistols is something where I see posts and go "nonononono" AND I STILL CLICK!!!

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Tue, Apr. 29th, 2008 08:47 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com
I have still not gotten over the fact that just when I was whimpering to myself in vol. 4 about needing a flowchart... THERE WAS A FLOWCHART. Like, two pages later.

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 06:05 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] rachelmanija.livejournal.com
OH KOTOBUKI TARAKO NO!

What would happen if a prostitute mediator teamed up with Whoreverine, I wonder?

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