studying about that good old way

[cerusee]

HIIIIIII FLIST. HIIIIIIIIIIIIII. kr, I would so take you up on that offer if I could.

I'm not quite as utterly fucking batshit as I was last night, but I'm still crazy mood swinging all over the place. I CANNOT GET THIS SONG OUT OF MY HEAD. I have a weakness for hymns, and this one is very catchy.

On Manga:

I'm sulking right now because I spent my lunch break reading a Shoujo Beat sampler, and I was half ready to subscribe to the Shoujo Beat magazine until I realized the sampler was just for Viz's upcoming shoujo graphic novels, not the titles carried in the magazine itself. But I am now very much in a shoujo manga mood, and I have no shoujo manga.

Current wish list (excluding all those volumes of Prince of Tennis and Naruto and Alice 19th I don't have yet): MeriPuri, Ultra Maniac, W Juliet, Tramps Like Us, Paradise Kiss, and Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden. And while I'm at it, why don't I wish for all the untranslated works of Moto Hagio? (Hanshin blew my mind. Jesus.)

Can anyone give me a good idea of whether or not I'll hate myself if I buy Vol. 1 of Hot Gimmick just to see what all the fuss is about?

Comments

[who-shot-kr.livejournal.com]

Too bad one cannot download alky-hol right off teh internets.

why don't I have a booze icon?

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

Screw this "smelling stuff over the internet" technology. That is the future of the internet: the virtual tap.

[octopedingenue]

My senior year in high school, the school choir I was in sang that song in six-part a cappella harmony, while holding candles in the dark, for the Christmas concert. It was AMAZING.

RE: Hot Gimmick: You will hate yourself a lot. But you will not be able to turn away from the beautiful cracktastic trainwreck of evil. It offends every feminist bone in my body, but I love it so much and hate myself for it. I have deep, deep issues with Hot Gimmick, and it fascinates me, and I have not read scanslations because I want to make it last as long as possible because it is only 12 volumes NOOOOO. (It could be worse: it could be "Teacher's Pet", the HG mangaka's latest manga, which is RAPE FANTASY PORN.)

I have Merupuri volumes 1-3 (WANT FOUR WANT WAAAAH) and all of Alice 19th and the first 4(?) volumes of Fushigi Yugi Genbu Kaiden (WANT ALL WAAAANT WAAAAH). I'm trying to stay away from W Juliet scanlations because I also want to make it last as long as possible.

Can you use IRC (and FTP)? I can point you to the sites to hook up with shoujo crack. (The real crack jackpots are not on IRC; the real crack jackpots are the FTP addresses/passwords that you find listed on IRC. I downloaded about 30 volumes of shoujo from a ShoujoMagic FTP archive last night, just for the hell of it.)

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to be good and buy stuff that's licensed and translated and sitting on the shelf at the store where I work for the low low price of ten bucks a pop minus my discount, whenever it kicks in. Which is why this is a wishlist, and not a list of stuff I'm reading. (Speaking stuff I didn't buy, someone recommended I look at Clover for the white space. I remember it on the comic book store shelves about five years ago, when I laughed at the very idea of CLAMP and their funny lanky limbs; now that I'm wildly into CLAMP, of course, all you can find on the shelves is Tsubasa, which I dislike, so I went ahead and downloaded Clover, and damn, it was pretty. Ever read it?) Not having read stuff already makes it easier for me to justify spending the money when I have it.

I think maybe I'll just put Hot Gimmick really low on the list, so I won't buy it until I already own all of, say, Fruits Basket.

(I sort of ehed at W Juliet for awhile until I actually picked it up in the store and discovered the premise, at which point my kinky brain was sold. I also keep looking at romance novels and thinking "That sounds nice," even though very few of them are likely to incorporate cross-dressing Ahhhh, shoujo, you corrupter.)

[thawrecka]

Yes, even if you really love it you will still hate yourself if you buy Hot Gimmick. As the rest of us do.

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

I've heard basically two things about Hot Gimmick: from men, that it's awesome, and from women, that it's awesome and addictive and evil and they have serious issues with it, but can't put it down.

I think I'll steer clear for now, because I have not heard "You need to read this in order to understand what the manga scene's about," and there's a long waiting list of titles less controversial I know I want to read.

[thawrecka]

It's a very interesting manga and the art is quite lovely but it is a good idea to put it off until later. Some of the gender politics in Hot Gimmick make me very uncomfortable.

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

I can get you scanslations of MeruPuri! I know it's not as good as the actual manga, but if you're just looking for shojo to read right now....

(PS. W Juliet is fantastic and genderfuckalicious.)

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

>_< I am extrodinarily tempted by that, especially since I don't get my whopping discount until I get my paycheck next week. Grah.

>_> I'll be good, and wait. Thanks, though.