I don't know why I'm watching the Mirage of Blaze anime. If I want to hear people going bwah-hah-hah like that I can go read Zakuro. Who isn't drawn in hommage to CLAMP style either.
I couldn't get that far into MoB. I wonder if reading the novels helps keeping the interest level up.
Speaking of pretty boy shows, word from Moonphase (http://www.moonphase.cc/Html/anime.html) is that a sequel to Meine Liebe is coming out in January. Who knew that show ws doing so well?
"That show and that RPG and that manga..." and the love of mindless pretty with swoony VAs. And I'm in no position to talk, getting all swoony over the sex life of stick marionettes.
I can't imagine the novels being that good. She started them young. Bet they're full of obsidian eyed youths.
Actually they're not at all flowery; unlike Tanaka Kuwabara doesn't like to describe her characters' physical characteristics at all, oddly. *g* It starts shounen-ish YA novel style and the BL content sort of works its way in by the fifth book or so. The anime skips most of the early episodes, and is... not all that great, to be honest. Some of that is due to plot condensation cheap animation et patati but the major reason is because the characters' motivations are delivered in the form of exhaustive sessions of introspection/self-critique/rationalisation (if not ratiocination) in the novels; in the anime you see merely what they do and say and a lot of it seems quite mad. I mean, they are quite mad but you don't follow why at all.
IIRC you didn't like Zetsuai so you're probably not going to like Mirage either. *g* But you might find the historical aspect interesting. She has a great and obvious love of geography and local history, when she's not occupied in magically tearing landmarks down.
No, I am not an admirer of Zetsuai, and am pleased it made it to the gratuitously depressing literature (http://www.livejournal.com/users/rachelmanija/229752.html) finals with so many voices of acclamation. Obsessive love ranks is up there with pro wrestling on my 'I don't get it' gauge. I pretty much figured Mirage wasn't for me. Especially since it has a Proud and Lonely Hero TM. I shall stick to 12 Kingdoms, which only has shota going against it.
The anime at least has zombie!warriors, though if someone would like to expalin why the zombie bodies haven't rotted during their 400 years of inhumation in Japan's notoriously dank soil and humid climate, I'd be interested to hear it.
Ahaha I think they're spiritual manifestations, not fleshly zombies per se? XD The question very rapidly becomes, how does the government not notice that something odd is going on with all the mysterious fires and shrines falling in on themselves and instances of mass hypnosis.
Naoe's feelings for Kagetora are more along the lines of simmering inferiority complex combined with artistic (if politics could be said to be an art) jealousy, no joke. The text references Salieri and Mozart in Amadeus a lot.
Hehehe - the extras (on the OVA disk there should be a great interview with Hayami Sho where he talks about the uncanny resemblance between his hotel room and the animated one. Very amusing. :D) (whoops, apologies for the spoiler. :()
That's a spoiler? I assume his character would stay in a hotel room at some point. The real spoiler I assume is why Kagetora forgets who he is this time around, but I'm assuming it's the Perennial BL one.
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Bwahaha :D
Speaking of pretty boy shows, word from Moonphase (http://www.moonphase.cc/Html/anime.html) is that a sequel to Meine Liebe is coming out in January. Who knew that show ws doing so well?
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I can't imagine the novels being that good. She started them young. Bet they're full of obsidian eyed youths.
Re: Bwahaha :D
IIRC you didn't like Zetsuai so you're probably not going to like Mirage either. *g* But you might find the historical aspect interesting. She has a great and obvious love of geography and local history, when she's not occupied in magically tearing landmarks down.
Re: Bwahaha :D
The anime at least has zombie!warriors, though if someone would like to expalin why the zombie bodies haven't rotted during their 400 years of inhumation in Japan's notoriously dank soil and humid climate, I'd be interested to hear it.
Re: Bwahaha :D
Naoe's feelings for Kagetora are more along the lines of simmering inferiority complex combined with artistic (if politics could be said to be an art) jealousy, no joke. The text references Salieri and Mozart in Amadeus a lot.
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