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Get Backers! The Soul-Consuming Obsession That Is!
Okay. It's been a while since I wrote in here. It's totally not my fault. Blame it on ZERO Mark 1, who hated me and had to be sent away, and then the fact that I was without reliable Internet for a while, and then the fact that when I got back ZERO Mark 2, who seems reasonably fond of me, I was consumed by Planet Ladder and Get Backers and disenchantment with Scryed.
The fifth volume of Planet Ladder came out recently, and I keep turning pages and going, "I knew it. SO COOL." Because even though I knew certain things right away, like Kaguya and Kagami being siblings (you hear me, budding fandom?! she's his KID SISTER! I KNEW she was! you can't make them date each other, okay?!), it was all still handled in ways that made me squeal over the shininess. I mean, yes, Bambi's kind of EVIL now, but she's still flamingly lesbian and in love with Kaguya and has a really twisted Bambi-logic about it. And Laguna and Kura are TOTALLY wanna-be lovers, but Laguna had this whole tragic thing going on, and even though he walked willingly to his death, he kept a sense of humor about it. He was SO SWEET.
I want him to live happily ever after with Kura. *sob* But nooooo, he goes home and gets killed by the people he loves so much. I'm frigging PROUD of Kura for wiping them out now.
Kura proceeds to go home to Geo, marries a princess who they tell you looks different from other girls from Geo and who actually looks a suspicious amount like Laguna, and genuinely mourns when she dies. I liked her. She never got a name. ~_~ And, and, and then things start BLOWING UP.
Oh, and Kagami seems kinda... evil to me now. But no less amazingly, amazingly cool.
As for Scryed... Well, I've got the manga now. I was reading through it, and it just seems... icky. Like, there's all sorts of massive boobtacular women, especially Sherrice, who also gets all manner of panty shot and tentacle scenes et al. And by the way, Eternal Devote requires Sherrice to take all her clothes off, straddle a half-naked Ryuhou's hips, their crotches to glow, and both of them to cry out in... joy, one supposes. That hurts me deeply. I'm sorry, guys, that's just not what I'm reading for. Asuka's girlfriend doesn't come back (if she ever existed at all!) but on the other hand, Cougar stays dead. This is a brutal disappointment, especially since he doesn't seem to have even gotten his cool stuff going. Then I'm all like, "I can't even FIND Mujou Kyouji in this mess." And there's this random new character who really, really wishes he were a girl, and in the end decides to become a transvestite and marry this other guy who looks like he is ten feet of solid muscle. Or maybe those are muscle-shaped bricks.
Sherrice gets Ryuhou in the end. Mimori and Ryuhou stand there and stare at each other for like, ten minutes, leaving Sherrice feeling a little out of place. And then both of them think, "I really loved you." Mimori gives the pendant to Sherrice and wishes her the best, and then just walks away. Ryuhou puts his arm around Sherrice's waist and they leave. I'm like, whatthefuck?
Everything I liked about Scryed is kinda... trivialized and/or jilted in the manga, as far as I can tell. I'm very disappointed. The art isn't even good -- I don't like the style at all. I think I'll stick to the anime if I plan on being interested in it.
But you know what? I'm not. Because now I have Get Backers. ^_^
What do I love about GB? That's too extensive a question to ask. What DON'T I love about GB? *pause* Maybe... HEVN's boobtacular personality. We like to say that HEVN is just a carrying case for Left and Right. Don't get me wrong, HEVN's kinda cool, but you think she wouldn't be wearing a strap of leather under her immense mammaries and a teensy little miniskirt when walking into a lawless den of brutality and nighmares where you're liable to get mugged, beated, or killed at any street corner. And Himiko is kind of sub-cool for the standard. I like HEVN better for some reason.
Pairings? Why, thank you for asking. And if you want to know why there are so many gay pairings here, it's because Get Backers is composed of 90% gay pairings. I swear to God. They're not established, but they're so heavily hinted at that even the staunchest of our male friends was forced to acknowledge that, okay, [fillintheblank] is really gay. There's only one straight guy among the heroes AND the villains. We were talking about putting him in a wildlife preserve as an endangered species. There's a couple of bisexual guys, and a couple of ASEXUAL guys (I'm sorry, Akabane just doesn't get to have sex -- ever)...
Ban/Ginji: Well, DUH. If you don't see this pairing, you haven't seen the SHOW. They're our heroes, and Ginji worships Ban-chan, which is a good thing because Ban is the one with all the brains of the Get Backers. (It's their initials! See! G and B! Hah! They're such dorks.) Whenever they are separated, half of their thought processes appear to be, "I want to see [insert other guy's name here] quickly..." or "where are you, [insert other guy's name here]..." Still, there are other pairings I like for these two, although you'll only see one of them here because the others are just gratuitous. ^^
Jubei/Kazuki:
No, wait, maybe I'm moving too fast.
Kazuki: Kazuki is gayer than a whole flock of flamingoes. Queer as a three-dollar bill. When Kazuki was a little girl he wore pink women's kimono with all the fluffy little extras that make it for females; he had long unbound brown hair that was rich and thick and so very girly; he admits that he and his family did this on PURPOSE. Thus, we call recollections of his youth "flashbacks to when Kazuki was a little girl". Today he does not wear ladies' kimono, because he wears jeans... and a white wisp of shirt that has no shoulders. It's kind of like one of those fluffy white artist's shirts, only it's missing the half that goes above your biceps. His hair is down to his ankles, although tied around in interesting styles. He fights with string, is just a little bit mentally unstable, and used to be a leader of a gang of thugs called "Elegance". Only Kazuki would name a gang "Elegance"... and only he could make them scary.
Jubei/Kazuki: Jubei is voiced by Koyasu Takehito, which should give you an idea of his personality. I hate that man because he's everywhere, and usually hate the characters he plays because they're universally emotional cardboard cut-outs, but Jubei is an exception because he and Kazuki make me squeal like a fangirl. Jubei's family have been physicians/guardians to Kazuki's for 500 years, and when Jubei was a kid he took this very seriously, like every twenty seconds, to get inordinately close to Kazuki to see if he had scratches or whatnot. Apparently, even once Kazuki politely told him that he WASN'T a little girl, sorry to disappoint, this didn't deter Jubei, who has said something like four times that I've seen "I was born to protect you". The way they glow around each other would be freaky if I didn't love them to death.
Shido/Madoka: Oh my GOD, they are SO CUTE. Shido thinks that he's Trowa, and he kind of is (down to the lions!) but his particular violinist is a rich GIRL named Madoka, and they are so so so adorable. Madoka-chan is smart as well as sweet -- the kind of girl who won't give up on what she wants no matter what, and who will blush cutely whenever someone hints that she might've fallen for Shido, and punch a man in the privates if he hurts her friends. ("He did have a weakness after all!") And she's blind. You GO, Madoka-chan! Shido getting all awkward because he doesn't want to hurt her feelings even though they're enemies is just... overdose of cuteness. (There's this one scene in the manga where she asks him to attend one of her concerts and he politely refuses. She looks sad. Twenty seconds pass before he caves in, unable to help himself.) So even though Emishi wants Shido, he can't have him. Shido's straight, and he's got his little girlfriend. ^_^
Ban/Clayman: Because Clayman is DAMN COOL, and she knows how to deflate Ban's ego and/or manipulate him to her cause. I have every intention of writing them a fanfic. It's all because of this one scene where she charged them a bill for damages done to her studio while on a job for her, and the charge was 300,000 yen (Ginji couldn't even comprehend this amount of money; he had to ask Natsumi, who is not much smarter and whose only comment was, "That's a lot, isn't it?") and Ban immediately called Clayman up on his cel phone to yell at her and try and get her to drop some of the charges. She'd just gotten out of the shower, wasn't even fully dressed, and was not ruffled in the least; she sort of prodded him gently into agreeing to pay the full amount, and then put down the receiver to listen to him yell from across the room while she dried her hair. ^_^ I LIKE their dynamic. I wish I knew her real name.
Akabane: --is the coolest thing ever in the history of ever. But he doesn't get to have sex. Ever. I'm sorry. That's what we in the business like to call "bad touch".
MAKUBEX/Sakura: Um... I think someone should hit me for this one. Sakura is 23 and MAKUBEX is 14. But... but... But I think they'd be cute together. ;_; Besides, Sakura is devoted to MAKUBEX in much the same way that Jubei is devoted to Kazuki, so... Besides, I think MAKUBEX has a crush on her anyway. I'm already writing a fic for them.
Oh, and: "You figure out what Sakura feels about MAKUBEX and I'll figure out what kind of present he gets on his eighteenth birthday, desshou ne? ^^ "
I love Neesama.
The fifth volume of Planet Ladder came out recently, and I keep turning pages and going, "I knew it. SO COOL." Because even though I knew certain things right away, like Kaguya and Kagami being siblings (you hear me, budding fandom?! she's his KID SISTER! I KNEW she was! you can't make them date each other, okay?!), it was all still handled in ways that made me squeal over the shininess. I mean, yes, Bambi's kind of EVIL now, but she's still flamingly lesbian and in love with Kaguya and has a really twisted Bambi-logic about it. And Laguna and Kura are TOTALLY wanna-be lovers, but Laguna had this whole tragic thing going on, and even though he walked willingly to his death, he kept a sense of humor about it. He was SO SWEET.
Kura: They'll kill you if you go back.
Laguna: I know.
Kura: *startled* You're a fool!
Laguna: *smiling* You did not realize this from the beginning?
I want him to live happily ever after with Kura. *sob* But nooooo, he goes home and gets killed by the people he loves so much. I'm frigging PROUD of Kura for wiping them out now.
Kura proceeds to go home to Geo, marries a princess who they tell you looks different from other girls from Geo and who actually looks a suspicious amount like Laguna, and genuinely mourns when she dies. I liked her. She never got a name. ~_~ And, and, and then things start BLOWING UP.
Oh, and Kagami seems kinda... evil to me now. But no less amazingly, amazingly cool.
As for Scryed... Well, I've got the manga now. I was reading through it, and it just seems... icky. Like, there's all sorts of massive boobtacular women, especially Sherrice, who also gets all manner of panty shot and tentacle scenes et al. And by the way, Eternal Devote requires Sherrice to take all her clothes off, straddle a half-naked Ryuhou's hips, their crotches to glow, and both of them to cry out in... joy, one supposes. That hurts me deeply. I'm sorry, guys, that's just not what I'm reading for. Asuka's girlfriend doesn't come back (if she ever existed at all!) but on the other hand, Cougar stays dead. This is a brutal disappointment, especially since he doesn't seem to have even gotten his cool stuff going. Then I'm all like, "I can't even FIND Mujou Kyouji in this mess." And there's this random new character who really, really wishes he were a girl, and in the end decides to become a transvestite and marry this other guy who looks like he is ten feet of solid muscle. Or maybe those are muscle-shaped bricks.
Sherrice gets Ryuhou in the end. Mimori and Ryuhou stand there and stare at each other for like, ten minutes, leaving Sherrice feeling a little out of place. And then both of them think, "I really loved you." Mimori gives the pendant to Sherrice and wishes her the best, and then just walks away. Ryuhou puts his arm around Sherrice's waist and they leave. I'm like, whatthefuck?
Everything I liked about Scryed is kinda... trivialized and/or jilted in the manga, as far as I can tell. I'm very disappointed. The art isn't even good -- I don't like the style at all. I think I'll stick to the anime if I plan on being interested in it.
But you know what? I'm not. Because now I have Get Backers. ^_^
What do I love about GB? That's too extensive a question to ask. What DON'T I love about GB? *pause* Maybe... HEVN's boobtacular personality. We like to say that HEVN is just a carrying case for Left and Right. Don't get me wrong, HEVN's kinda cool, but you think she wouldn't be wearing a strap of leather under her immense mammaries and a teensy little miniskirt when walking into a lawless den of brutality and nighmares where you're liable to get mugged, beated, or killed at any street corner. And Himiko is kind of sub-cool for the standard. I like HEVN better for some reason.
Pairings? Why, thank you for asking. And if you want to know why there are so many gay pairings here, it's because Get Backers is composed of 90% gay pairings. I swear to God. They're not established, but they're so heavily hinted at that even the staunchest of our male friends was forced to acknowledge that, okay, [fillintheblank] is really gay. There's only one straight guy among the heroes AND the villains. We were talking about putting him in a wildlife preserve as an endangered species. There's a couple of bisexual guys, and a couple of ASEXUAL guys (I'm sorry, Akabane just doesn't get to have sex -- ever)...
Ban/Ginji: Well, DUH. If you don't see this pairing, you haven't seen the SHOW. They're our heroes, and Ginji worships Ban-chan, which is a good thing because Ban is the one with all the brains of the Get Backers. (It's their initials! See! G and B! Hah! They're such dorks.) Whenever they are separated, half of their thought processes appear to be, "I want to see [insert other guy's name here] quickly..." or "where are you, [insert other guy's name here]..." Still, there are other pairings I like for these two, although you'll only see one of them here because the others are just gratuitous. ^^
Jubei/Kazuki:
No, wait, maybe I'm moving too fast.
Kazuki: Kazuki is gayer than a whole flock of flamingoes. Queer as a three-dollar bill. When Kazuki was a little girl he wore pink women's kimono with all the fluffy little extras that make it for females; he had long unbound brown hair that was rich and thick and so very girly; he admits that he and his family did this on PURPOSE. Thus, we call recollections of his youth "flashbacks to when Kazuki was a little girl". Today he does not wear ladies' kimono, because he wears jeans... and a white wisp of shirt that has no shoulders. It's kind of like one of those fluffy white artist's shirts, only it's missing the half that goes above your biceps. His hair is down to his ankles, although tied around in interesting styles. He fights with string, is just a little bit mentally unstable, and used to be a leader of a gang of thugs called "Elegance". Only Kazuki would name a gang "Elegance"... and only he could make them scary.
Jubei/Kazuki: Jubei is voiced by Koyasu Takehito, which should give you an idea of his personality. I hate that man because he's everywhere, and usually hate the characters he plays because they're universally emotional cardboard cut-outs, but Jubei is an exception because he and Kazuki make me squeal like a fangirl. Jubei's family have been physicians/guardians to Kazuki's for 500 years, and when Jubei was a kid he took this very seriously, like every twenty seconds, to get inordinately close to Kazuki to see if he had scratches or whatnot. Apparently, even once Kazuki politely told him that he WASN'T a little girl, sorry to disappoint, this didn't deter Jubei, who has said something like four times that I've seen "I was born to protect you". The way they glow around each other would be freaky if I didn't love them to death.
Shido/Madoka: Oh my GOD, they are SO CUTE. Shido thinks that he's Trowa, and he kind of is (down to the lions!) but his particular violinist is a rich GIRL named Madoka, and they are so so so adorable. Madoka-chan is smart as well as sweet -- the kind of girl who won't give up on what she wants no matter what, and who will blush cutely whenever someone hints that she might've fallen for Shido, and punch a man in the privates if he hurts her friends. ("He did have a weakness after all!") And she's blind. You GO, Madoka-chan! Shido getting all awkward because he doesn't want to hurt her feelings even though they're enemies is just... overdose of cuteness. (There's this one scene in the manga where she asks him to attend one of her concerts and he politely refuses. She looks sad. Twenty seconds pass before he caves in, unable to help himself.) So even though Emishi wants Shido, he can't have him. Shido's straight, and he's got his little girlfriend. ^_^
Ban/Clayman: Because Clayman is DAMN COOL, and she knows how to deflate Ban's ego and/or manipulate him to her cause. I have every intention of writing them a fanfic. It's all because of this one scene where she charged them a bill for damages done to her studio while on a job for her, and the charge was 300,000 yen (Ginji couldn't even comprehend this amount of money; he had to ask Natsumi, who is not much smarter and whose only comment was, "That's a lot, isn't it?") and Ban immediately called Clayman up on his cel phone to yell at her and try and get her to drop some of the charges. She'd just gotten out of the shower, wasn't even fully dressed, and was not ruffled in the least; she sort of prodded him gently into agreeing to pay the full amount, and then put down the receiver to listen to him yell from across the room while she dried her hair. ^_^ I LIKE their dynamic. I wish I knew her real name.
Akabane: --is the coolest thing ever in the history of ever. But he doesn't get to have sex. Ever. I'm sorry. That's what we in the business like to call "bad touch".
MAKUBEX/Sakura: Um... I think someone should hit me for this one. Sakura is 23 and MAKUBEX is 14. But... but... But I think they'd be cute together. ;_; Besides, Sakura is devoted to MAKUBEX in much the same way that Jubei is devoted to Kazuki, so... Besides, I think MAKUBEX has a crush on her anyway. I'm already writing a fic for them.
Oh, and: "You figure out what Sakura feels about MAKUBEX and I'll figure out what kind of present he gets on his eighteenth birthday, desshou ne? ^^ "
I love Neesama.
Sorry to barge in
Don't say that to an Aya fan, they get scary. ^^;; Have you seen the B Side Manga?
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And I humbly bow before your Aya-fanness. ^^ I happen to dislike the guy, but I'm not going to say that hundreds of thousands of fangirls are wrong... and risk getting set upon by a lynch mob. ^_~
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Anyway, I have a few links to the new manga. 4 new characters ^^ Want them? Though, if you are a Yoji or Omi fav, let me warn you, so far they have yet to show. I think they're upset with Aya's seiyuu right now... Please forgive me for not remembering the god of Seiyuu's name :P *Heavy on the Sarcasm*