Thoughts in 2D

I don't know why it's taken me so long to get around to actually watch the Petshop of Horrors OVA series. I sat down and watched all 4 episodes. I really like Count D. As fey as he is. He's really cool. He's got to be the best business man in the world if so many people die after buying pets from him. Making them sign a contract goes a long way I guess. After watching the series I cracked open the manga I had laying in the pile of "I'll get to it one of these days" and the very first page nearly made me spray my tea all over the book, laughing so hard. The first page makes a direct reference to Gremlins . The rules of the contract he quotes: 1) keep them out of bright light.. 2) Don't get them wet... 3) Don't feed them after midnight (paraphrased of course.) The case the man has carrying "Gizmo" out in is even the same! This made me laugh... I'll scan a pick while at work tomorrow. This couldn't have been anything other than a hom...

So, after beating Comcast over the head with a stick to get my internet back... I'm here! :) yay for me. So my general quiet search for non-pissy (emasculated) bottoms in yaoi manga has turned slightly more toward doing an actual research paper for my art history class. Who would have thought there'd be so much 16th & 17th century explicit images of men having sex in japanese literature?! Now I have to actually pick an image or two and bring my paper into focus. How ever will I survive looking at such graphic images and stay objective? :P

After watching the first season of Meine Liebe I've come to the conclusion that "My Love" refers to the country of Kuchen where the story takes place versus a specific character in the anime. Additionally, this series doesn't count as shounen-ai or yaoi. Many might disagree with me, but it's true. I do agree that it's extremely slashable. The characters go through enough angst that I can see how it's mistaken for a shounen-ai series. Let's see: 5 bishounen main characters following a j-rock group formala, female characters are non-entities except when they're evil bitches, each of the 5 main characters has a different yet equally angst filled past that makes you want to cry.

Last week I stumbled across the first episode of Meine Liebe Wieder, curious I looked up on it and realized that it was the second season of and anime called Meine Liebe, German for "my love". Having only a very very rudimentary understanding of German, I thought nothing of this. Then I got talking to Kalinara about it, and she noted that for an anime about an all boys elite school... this title is a bit off. I had a nice giggle about it. I've only seen the first two episodes so far and it's rather intriguing. Though if they have any more goofy names I'm going to have a difficult time watching it without cackling myself to an early grave. One of the main characters' name is Orpheus Furst von Marmelade. ...

Ok so I was going to talk about something else with this post but err. well nevermind:-P I'll talk about this picture instead :) It's from Desire. There's a really funny story on how I actually came to buy this manga as I don't normally buy yaoi manga. It's just never enticed me enough to want to buy it. However, two Christmases ago I saw Desire in a Walden Books wrapped in celophane. Just sitting there. Now the only other manga I'd really seen before that randomly had celophane on was volume 7 of Fake. And based on the original volumes I have. I absolutely knew why they'd wrapped just volume 7 in celophane. I just had to see it. Yes, I'm a packaging major's dream shopper. If the package is shiny and pretty I want to buy it. (I have a bottle of chinese liquour as proof of that) With my next paycheck I went back to Walden books and wouldn't you know? It was gone!! Months past as I longingly looked at the shelves every few days at Walden Boo...

I just realized that I'd posted this on my sentai instead of here... yes i'm a bit slow sometimes. Anyway... on with the show :P Once in a while I'd like to see male bottoms as men. My quest continues in the search for non-emasculated uke (bottoms). This image is sadly not one of them. We shall play a quick game of where's waldo for a moment. Can you tell whose moping and acting like the whiney uke he is? This is from Yabai Kimochi commercially published as Desire. It's about an 11th grader with a crush on his best friend,Ryoji, who is a lady's man and pretty much sleeps with any girl with a pretty face. There's the pining -- the endless pining -- and then Toru's wish comes true... sort of. Things get complicated (as they always do) and needless to say Ryoji finally sees the light by the end of this oneshot yaoi manga. Stay tuned for the next installment of Guess the Uke!

In a recent post by Kalinara she talks about how sick Johnny Sorrow is for molesting poor innocent Sand in her comic blog. I replied to her saying that creepy villains go to a convention every year and trade notes on how they molest our heroes. This both makes me laugh and choke back a bit of fear at the same time. On one hand you have a bunch of comic/manga characters getting together and that in itself is kind of funny seeing them in a weird cosplayish way, but then the subject mannor hits you and it's just wrong. Some of the molestors you almost feel sorry for. Almost. Like say for instance Naoe from Mirage of Blaze . He's psychotic after waiting 400 years of lusting after his commander, Kagetora, whom clearly lusts after him too, but won't do anything about it. If you think Sorrow's a bad boy, try a lust crazed 400 year old Japanese guy. Who in the last life, rapes his commander's fiance (this is a speculation the events are still a bit muddled since they're...

I recently went back and read my copy of Gohou Drug (Legal Drug) by Clamp, and it made me hate Clamp all over again. I don't understand this Manga groups inability to complete a series. I found this little gem of a story online and became near obsessed (ok very obsessed) with finding the whole story. It's about two guys (naturally), Kudo and Rikuo. Both have special abilities and work for the owner of a local pharmacy (hence the title of the manga). Both are searching for someone they've lost. Kudo has clairvoyance and psychometic abilities and Rikuo has the ability to break things. Together they are sent on missions by Kakei (the drugstore owner/landlord) where Kudo usually ends up cross-dressing and even voted the "bride" at an all boys school for a festival. As the story unfolds the characters' lives get more interesting and certain revelations are made about Kakei and Saiga as well as the past behind Kudo and Rikuo. By the end of volume 3 I was left with t...

Allo ^_^ Welcome to my wonderful new blog dedicated entirely to anime and manga. a warning, most of the manga I read tends toward the YAOI and Shounen-Ai variety, meaning stories and situations dealing with male-male love. If this is not your cup of tea, don't harass me about how I stole your precious innocence away. Comments on my skewed perspectives in a genuinely educated away are accepted. (ie. you suck and your ideas are horrid will not be accepted, however, I think your viewpoint on this particular matter is uneducated in the ways of men having sex with each other, that position is in fact plausible/implausible and you know nothing about what it's like to be a gay man, however are accepted. Because really I don't know what it's like to be a gay man, I'm a yaoi fangirl that can take correctly spelled criticism.)