Defenders of justice and cafeteria lunch!

[taotrooper]

Right, so my local manga shop still hasn't gotten CLAMP no Kiseki... *is emo*

For some reason I decided to buy the first volume of Duklyon. I have no idea why, considering I think the CLAMP Campus manga series are the cheesiest ones from their CV.

However, Duklyon is so cheesy on purpose it becomes hilarious XD I enjoyed one volume of this more than the whole CCD series.

Kentarou, good Lord. You're such a fag, but in a good way. It's the first time I see someone being so obvious over the classmate he likes in a CLAMP series, and even without the need of trees. He makes Takeshi bentou, he says inappropiate phrases ("Aren't we more than friends?!") in front of their class. And also, sometimes, he channelizes Tamaki Suoh. Rly.

Takeshi is awesome because he's the only SANE one. I swear, the rest of the cast have serious mental issues. Hell, Takeshi is even saner than Nokoru's dog. Then again, the fact he's reading on the first page he's in, and that gets my approval. It's so funny how he goes "I SWEAR I DON'T KNOW HIM!" near Kentarou because he embarrasses him and makes people question his sexuality. But he's getting softer and now he eats his food.

Erii is such a violent chick she's my heroine. Yay 20-ton mallets! And LOL, she likes Kotobuki back! XD (But really, girl, why the fuck you can't realize who he really is and then hit him with the mallet; I think there's a high chance he's a masochistic and he'd appreciate that? What are you, inverse!Lois Lane?)

Kotobuki ♥ You're the lamest villain evah! But the cheesiness and the dorkiness wins me. The 80's hairdo is a pain to the eyes, though. But really, I can't understand it. Can't anyone notice the leader of the bad guys is Kotobuki without the glasses, and wearing a butt-ugly armour and bad make-up? Jesus. He's so adorable with Erii. "Er, e-e-excuse me... Here, have these fruits! *runs*"

The fights are as lame as you can imagine, because this IS a sentai parody. But the best monster of them all is the wool sheep thing with the static electricity XDDD And everyone, even the bad guys, touching it anyway XDDD They're so stupid.

So, anyway.

Kentarou/Takeshi -it's getting so canon even the whole cast ships them!

Erii/Kotobuki

Such OTPs.

Yes.

ETA: Wow. The Spanish Saiyuki edition is amazing. The volumes are larger than the usual sizes by the other editorials, they kept the color pages -all glossy-, and they even added some translation notes with background info. And it's .50 cents cheaper than a Norma manga! Wow, Mangaline! You're making me buy all Saiyuki because it's just delightful.

Comments

[miyazawa-lulu.livejournal.com]

Yo juro que no me había reído tanto con nada de las CLAMP hasta que conocí Duklyon (literalmente, en mi cama de madrugada me daban ataques de risa que intentaba ahogar XD). Lo compré cuando salió por puro coleccionismo clámpico, pensando que iba a ser algo normalito, pero tontamente descubrí que es uno de mis mangas favoritos de ellas. Realmente me demostraron con ello que pueden hacer todo tipo de géneros y bien cuando quieren.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Yo leí un pedazo en el BUS. Fue horrible.

Sí, yo me esperaba algo más flojo en plan CCD o 20MnO (será porque los protas salen de secundarios y tal), y no este nivel de crack tan espectacular. Aunque admito que yo, más por coleccionismo, supongo que el hecho de que ellas admitieran en AX que la pasaron tan bien dibujando Duklyon me hizo entrar el gusanillo de la curiosidad. Y ahora no me sorprende su elección en absoluto XD

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I agree with EVERYTHING you said about Duklyon. 'Tis love, that serie. I wish I could find Kentarou/Takeshi fics on the net ^^

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Wow, there aren't? That sucks D: I like them more as a couple than, say, Rikuou/Kazahaya and Doumeki/Watanuki. CLAMP fandom sucks.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

there might be but I never did find any

I like Rikuou/Kazahaya ^^;

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I do like R/K, but my OTP in Gohou Drug is Kakei/Saiga.

I have no GD icon D: Woe.

[telrunya.livejournal.com]

Yo cuando leí Duklyon nunca me esperé disfrutarla tanto xD, tengo que decir que estoy totalmente de acuerdo con todo lo que dices y que dios, cómo me encantaron las parejas que manejó CLAMP.

Ahora tengo ganas de releerlo ♥.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Yo tampoco esperaba disfrutarlo XDDD En la entrevista más reciente, las CLAMP dijeron que la obra que más gozaron hacer fue ésta, y supongo que eso aunado a que mañana sale Tsubasa para quemar el cerebro y necesito algo ligero a la mano que leer me empujaron a probarlo. Las parejas son un vacilón.

Yo tengo ganas de comprar el segundo T_T Pero me da pereza volver al centro de la ciudad con este clima tan raro.

Otro manga de ellas que me gustó mucho más de lo que esperaba, aunque por desgracia quedó cortado, fue Shin Shunkaden (La leyenda de Chunyan). Si puedes encontrarlo, léetelo. La cosa es que creo que en México no lo han licenciado.

[telrunya.livejournal.com]

Sí, cuando leí eso en la entrevista que le hicieron a CLAMP me atacó la risa xD, porque entiendo justamente por qué lo gozaron tanto al dibujarlo. Es bastante ligera y disfrutable, el segundo es sumamente divertido también. Incluso creo que ese es mi favorito, espero puedas comprarlo pronto ^^.

Siempre tuve curiosidad por Shin Shunkaden, voy a tener que buscar si existe algún tipo de scanlation o esperar a que Vid se decida a sacarlo ;_;.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Tampoco tiene scanlations D: La de rabia que me da eso.

[telrunya.livejournal.com]

¿En serio? ;_;. Voy a spamear a editorial Vid entonces para que lo licencien, quizá lo hagan porque andan sacando poco a poco todos los títulos de CLAMP, pero igual y tardan, sigh. O cuando tenga algo de dinero extra lo busco en inglés, ¿lo tienen licenciado en EUA, no?

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Sip. Por eso no hay scanlations. (manga que no es fenómeno de masas + licencia = imposible)

[elihice.livejournal.com]

Mmmm I might have to read that one.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

It's a tad hard to get, though. There are ZERO scanlations or raw scans, which is rather frustrating. And I suck too much at scanning to oblige.

[elihice.livejournal.com]

Meaning I'll have to keep my eye on that one at the anual book fair. Compared to Spain, it's hard to get manga here.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

It can't be worst than Venezuela. It's almost impossible to find manga anywhere, and not even special events helped. And I lived in the capital, mind you.