Ho ho horrrrr

[taotrooper]

Greatest way to wake up the first day of vacations: My package finally arrived! So now I'm the proud (?) owner of the first FMA manga artbook and a Slayers one~~

I'll make a list of the artbooks I own for the heck of it:

• CLAMP - X Zero
  
• CLAMP - X Infinity
  
• CLAMP - Hiten Muma (RG Veda)
  
• CLAMP - North Side
  
• CLAMP - Cardcaptor Sakura Art Book 2
  
• CLAMP - Soel to Larg: Mokona Modoki no Bouken (...it's half artbook?)
  
• Arakawa Hiromu - Fullmetal Alchemist
  
• Araizumi Rui - Slayers Dra-mata

As you see, I don't have a lot of artbooks, but they're still a lot. North Side and the CCS one are the Spanish edition, which are smaller than my Japanese ones but the notes are translated.

On a sidenote, I can't recognize even half of the background people at the Dra-mata XD It makes me wonder which ones I'll remember with a TV series marathon, which ones I'd understand if I watched the movies/OVAs or read the manga series, and which ones would remain an enigma because they're from the Special novels. Confession time: I do have some movie/OVA on CD. I've just never gave a rat's ass for the Naga part of the canon, because I'm too used to Lina having cute, (usually) caring friends, and I fear her past with Naga as associate wouldn't feel like Slayers to me. So I'm not sure I want to poke that canon with a ten-foot pole... does that make me a bad fan?

The Hagaren one is just shiny familiar stuff ♥

Comments

[haro.livejournal.com]

Dramata was the first artbook I ever owned, and I still don't know a bunch of characters in it. It doesn't help that characters like Rezo look so lolishly not like their anime counterpart (lol sideburns).

As for the Naga parts, I don't think it makes you a bad fan. The two parts of the story (pre- meeting Gourry and post- meeting Gourry) really feel distinctly different. I can enjoy them in small doses, but it is a bit lacking to me without the rest of the Lina-tachi. This isn't helped by the fact that more than about twenty minutes of Naga drives me a bit batty. Even Lina seems a bit different, somehow. Lots of Slayers fans don't care that much about the Naga stories. There are even some fans of the Naga stories that don't care much about the tv storyline.

Also, it could just be me but they aren't even close to as funny. Maybe it's because there's no main males to put in drag. xp

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

LOL, I don't recall seeing Rezo, so I'll have to look at the images more carefully.

It does seem that Naga is the kind of character who'd annoy me (while being a bit like her, at least Martina was so nuts she cracked me up; but what's the fun on Naga besides angering Lina?), and maybe that's why I've been avoiding her canon like the plague. Or maybe it's my 16 year-old self pouting because it's pre-OTP and there are no cute guys.

Maybe it's because there's no main males to put in drag. xp
Oh lawl XD And now dragqueen!Xelloss invaded my head with his fruitiness.

[csakuras.livejournal.com]

The only Naga canon parts I've seen are the first movie and the first volume of the Special manga, and just from that I already think that it's very repetitive and not funny. :/ So no, I don't think it makes you a bad fan. Naga is not a good replacement for Gourry, Zelgadis, and Amelia, IMO.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

It's kind of odd, since it looks like the author of the novels loves to write Naga for some fucked up reason. There are only 15 novels with Gourry and no plans to make any more, while Naga has like over thirty books and it's not closed and they keep piling on!

Maybe I don't understand it, but it just doesn't seem fair. Either the fanboys buy the Naga novels like bread because of the boobage, or Hajime Kanzaka has really strange taste when it comes to preferences over his own characters :/