Noooo, no my English teacups!

[taotrooper]

Note to self: when reading shoujo manga/manhwa, and you find yourself thinking that all the potential love interests are creepy assholes who irritate you, especially the one the main character obviously ends up falling for? Just... forget that shit and move on. It most definitely will get more annoying with time, unless it's explicitly a comedy.

I'm so picky for shoujo and shounen, really.

Also, is there more good non-conventional shoujo where a heroine (or hero, if shounen-ai) with a strong will and personality doesn't turn to a weepy "omg mah wub is everything!1!" idiot as soon as she hooks up with the guy (or girl, if yuri), and keeps most of her original traits? Any recs, guys?



Okay, so there's a flash demo for The Edgeworth and Gumshoe Show Ace Attorney Investigations. So far it's not as funny as the Defense games (needs even moar sarcasm, Edgey) but then again it's only the first few minutes of the game we have here. The gameplay looks cool and challenging, though. I doubt I'll buy this but I will play the shit out of its ROM.

Speaking of things this game needs moar: Ema Skye. I was looking at some official art.
- Age and height. 18 years old, 154cm. Girl, no wonder you're using those heels as an adult |D You grew well so fine, but didn't really grow up that high.
- Sketches. Behold hair down and no hat and long trousers, and ponytail in some other. So pretty!

ETA: answers to lyrics meme

Comments

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Ashita no Ou is fantastic, but not available outside of Japan unless you read scanlations. (It's up on Onemanga if you do, and I highly recommend it!)

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Uuuuuuuuh, it's josei. It's a pretty neat genre, yes, but I haven't gotten into even the ones everyone loves, such as Nodame Canterbille or Honey and Clover which sound sort of similar to this one. I'm still too green for such slice-of-life realistic settings, I guess. Thanks anyway!

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Oh whurps. I forgot about that. I read too much stuff in too many genres, I think. 8D;;;;

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Don't worry! I used to read a lot of different stuff, but now I'm too picky as I grew older. Now it's all quirky seinen, a couple of shounen, a couple of shoujo, and that's it.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mostly read josei and seinen now, with a couple random shounen/shoujo thrown in, hahaha. It's just hard to keep track of what's what sometimes, since there's so much genre overlap. (You know, the stuff that feels like a shounen manga, but it's published in a seinen magazine so it's technically a seinen manga....WHY'S IT GOTTA BE SO HARD?!)

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

True that! There's seinen that feels like shounen, and then there's the elusive shounen that's only so because they picked to publish it in a shounen magazine (I always say, for instance, the manga of Fullmetal Alchemist should've been a seinen because it's too different to Jump franchises; and there there's the gorey shoujo series that would be more a seinen with bishounen). So complicated!

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Fullmetal Alchemist should have definitely been seinen! Yeah, sure, it had a lot of similarities in type to a battle manga, but the core of it was a lot more complex than shounen manga usually ever get!

Also, I am loving the medicine seller icon you have. Have you read the mononoke manga? (It's based on the Ayakashi bakeneko arc)

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I've seen a lot of epic shounen-esque fights like those in seinen and shoujo. The difference between shounen, I think, is the main focus on the fights themselves and leveling up for those, in chunky units of plot (arcs). FMA is more one big block of plot with occasional fights (I've never seen parts of FMA being called arcs). Jump series are fights with scattered pieces of plot in between and follow the arc divisions.

I read the first chapter of the Mononoke manga and I always forget to get up to date. Is it good?

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

I thought it was lovely, personally. When it got translated to manga, the artist decided to use the updated Mononoke series character designs, which was kind of nice, seeing the Ayakashi arc art being consistent with the Mononoke art.

I thought it translated pretty well into a manga, too. If there were more of it, I'd buy the rest (I bought the two existing volumes, so.).

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Awesome! :D Then I must read what's been released.

[hamsterfactor.livejournal.com]

*writes down the title* :)