Miscellaneous things make a post

[oyceter]

1. I am lazy and do not feel like writing things up, even though I am super behind on sequential art posts. On the plus side, Bride of the Water God is out to volume 5 here, which really beats waiting another EIGHT MONTHS for Dark Horse to release v. 3 in the US. Also, I have copies of Umino Chica's new manga, Yoshinaga Fumi's new food manga, a Mizushiro Setona series I have never read, and more Nan Kongyuu books! Also also, I have found another manhua I like! This one is called Fried Chicken Princess (Ji Pai Gong Chu) and is all about a girl who starts a club to appreciate fried chicken (the Taiwan kind, like fried chicken steaks, heavily seasoned)! What other unlicensed stuff should I be keeping an eye out for here?


2. Who is going to Wiscon? Does anyone have panel ideas? I want to suggest another one on shoujo manga but I cannot think of one outside of something like "Shounen Bodies: Women's and girls' bodies in shounen manga" which is clearly not on shoujo. Also, I probably have not read enough shounen to be a good contributor.


3. Dunkin' Donuts is now in Taiwan, and they are copying Mister Donuts' round mochi-esque donuts! I would be annoyed, except this means I can get my tasty round mochi-esque donuts at more places now.


4. I cannot find the old place that sold egg cakes, but the new one nearby is just as good. Yay!

Comments

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

I am going to Wiscon! I will go to any panels on manga!

Maybe we could explore women's agency in shounen manga - who is powerful, who is powerless, and why do so many ladies have exorbitantly large breasts with low cleavage?

We could also talk about shounen manga were women have lots of power (Fullmetal Alchemist, Claymore), and why they win at life.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

If I went to the con and attended a shounen panel, I'd reserve some time for ranting about Ral Grad, in which women's bodies and sexuality are explicitly said to be rewards for men's heroism. Yeah, the main character spouting the philosophy is 14, raised in a pitch dark cage, and totally overwhelmed by his hormones, but the plot doesn't question it and shows him to be right. With a side dose of the only women who take control of their own sexuality are EVIL or TRAITORS.

[oyceter]

WHOO! I really am dying to talk about Claymore at Wiscon, especially about monstrous bodies in shounen and how they tie in with physical power and the line between being really strong and powerful and being monstrous, which is one of the areas in shounen that I find really interesting.

Also, women's agency sounds good!

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

OMF! Can we also talk about limb-sharing? And how limbs are reattached with one's MIND?!

[oyceter]

Yes!!!