Western Kirby is angry

[taotrooper]

SO YOU KEEP ON TROLLING, CLAMP. Let's talk a bit about Gate 7 and pretend I'm still in this fandom. Dibs on the "megane guy is a Clow descendant" theo-- oh wait, he totally is, this is not 2004 anymore. Nevermind then |D Of course, by the looks of it, there's no way in hell this could ever be a one-shot like they originally said. They either planned to serialize it from the beginning, or they changed their minds and redid it from scratch. I lean to the latter: by that time XXXHOLiC or Kobato might be ending, so they need a new cash cow to milk. So when I heard this thing was going to continue, I just grinned, shook my head, and thought "oh you!" And of course the characters look really cute so far, but the X vibes of whatever the premise is don't bode well for them. My favorite character design is the light-haired Kurogane lookalike but I love megane boy's ;o; faces. But yeah, I don't want to get attached because it is CLAMP and I have moved on and I know better. Or so I hope.

INCIDENTALLY, MORE OKAMIDEN BULLSHIT. I don't know, guys. I'm both fascinated and terrified by this stupid game. I even check the Pixiv tag. Either way, the second weirdest WTF ever in an interview is that in here, Eshiro said that the plot is sort of inspired by the film Stand By Me. Yeah... I don't even. Ah, another thing is that the American cover is out, and probably the Konohana cherry tree in the background of the Japanese cover isn't badass and manly enough to make it.



I think, though, it could be a lot worse and it sort of looks like Okami's Western cover for the PS2 anyway. (For the record, I also think the Western cover is an improvement from the Japanese which is not a common occurrence in video games.) Oh well... Stand By Me, really? Yeah, so compatible with the "ancient faux!Japan with magical godmode wolves" setting.

But let's talk about shinier things that perhaps don't kick me in the ovaries! My current anime/manga obsession is Kuragehime. I don't even like josei! But I really like everyone a lot and I can't wait until more of gets released. I'll probably do a lengthier post when the next episode is out all my impressions until now.

Comments

Re: Gate7

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Dude, you know Kurogane and Subaru will be fandom's OTP.

Re: Gate7

[jyuufish.livejournal.com]

That's like the prettiest Juri icon I've ever seen.. EVER.

Re: Gate7

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I didn't made it though, I immediately fell in love with it and told myself I should have it when I saw it years ago. ;)

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Fffff, it totally will be. And most of their fanbrats will be loud and weird like with every popular m/m pairing in CLAMP fandom. Man, this fandom is so predictable :'D I have no idea about their personalities, especially Sparkly Subaru's, and yet I can see they'll be slashable regardless of their kind of relation.

[jyuufish.livejournal.com]

Unless of course Sparkly Subaru happens to be a girl.. or some sort of androgynous creature a'la Ashura (whom that little pipsqueak reminds me of) Makes me go, "I bet you that cute little guy/girl/it will be the harbringer of destruction.. it's always the cute ones"

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

lol, it is! The Patterns of CLAMP Fandom.

But man, the art is so gorgeous.

[jlarinda.livejournal.com]

/already ships them so much

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

pfft, lol, they do scream CLAMP pairing wherever you see them. I predict lots of angst and sacrifice. And a deep dark secret about Hana.

[jyuufish.livejournal.com]

CLAMP is like the abusive husband/waifu that you keep coming back too.. INCREDIBLY ABUSIVE.. and yet despite yourself you try to convince yourself that he/she still loves you.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

LOL, probably. Personally I think I'm over it, but considering there are series that were consistently good even when I look back and never jumped the shark or made me want to kick CLAMP's kitties... so I think I'll still check their new works because they might be one of those rare and elusive manga of theirs.

[jyuufish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, see.. they haven't yet topped my favorite manga of their's, RG Veda, but then it takes alot to top homosexual cannibalism in my mimd's eye.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

I'm not even going to touch Gate 7. I learned my lesson about trusting CLAMP already, thank you. :|

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I wish I could, but then I remember the five or so manga of theirs that are actually still neat and don't go through their crazy twists. And I wonder if Gate 7 is one of the cool ones. I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt, but as soon as something odd happens I'm jumping ship.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

I'm actually worried that I will end up liking it, heh. I don't want to go through another HOLiC.

[outou.livejournal.com]

I've fallen in love with Gate 7 already. I'm doomed. (We can think about it this way, though: if CLAMP focuses on making the series look as good as possible, they'll be less inclined to spend a lot of work on xxxHOLiC, so they'll wrap the story up and finally kill it off!)

That same illustration of the weeping cherry is used on the lyrics pamphlet for the official soundtrack -- it's really very beautiful when you see it up close.

[jyuufish.livejournal.com]

After all these years, I'm quite bored with Tsubasa/xxxHolic so I'm kinda glad they are embarking on a new project. It'll be nice to have something to go "OH SQUEE" over and recapture my interest in CLAMP, hopefully...

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I'm not that optimistic. There was a chance that Kobato could do that with TRC/HOLiC, and while they did finish Tsubasa, I don't know if it was because three manga were too much and they're getting old. No idea.

I like the background, but Chibi and Kuni(nushi) look odd and pastede on yay to me. Then again I'm not an artist.

[jlarinda.livejournal.com]

or they changed their minds and redid it from scratch

Definitely has to be that D| The original preview pic for the series is so different from what this one-shot had.

Regarding the actual series, I suck and of course fell for it hardcore already. B-but I'm easy to please.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I do wonder if there's any of the original Paprika/Inception dreamscape plot left? Unless that kekkai Megane stepped into was a dream and he accidentally yumemi'd into it, it seemed kind of generic supernatural CLAMP fight from the scans.

[sairei.livejournal.com]

I know better than to give CLAMP another chance after xxxHOLiC crashed and burned into a spectacular trainwreck (it used to be so good whyyyy ;~;)

However, I'll probably buy into Gate 7. Like a drug, CLAMP is.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I'd say wait until next year, when the real series starts, see other people's reactions, and then decide if you REALLY want to go through that nightmare again. But dude, this! This is exactly my thoughts on HOLiC. To make things worst, there's a flaily boy with glasses as a protagonist (but unlike Watanuki's initial DX flail he's all ;o; flail)

[lodelco.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Gate 7 rubs me the wrong way. When CLAMP does their Supernatural work it tends to go in one direction.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Er. But almost every CLAMP manga (except 3-4 series at most) has the supernatural in some way. That's kind of their thing. They're mostly into fantasy/sci-fi after all.

[ayasugi-san.livejournal.com]

I'm so behind. What's the premise of Gate 7?

...am I the only one who thinks that that double sun on the Okamiden box looks like the two moons from Dark Cloud 2? And is now expecting it to be a plot point where [MAJOR SPOILERS FOR DC2]?

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I can't recall now, but the summary BEFORE it came out had to be with dreamscapes and Inception-like bullshit. But in this chapter there wasn't even a mention of dreams and it was all cryptic random X-like mystic action + a quirky breakfast scene with absolutely no exposition. SO NO ONE KNOWS SHIT. BUT IT HAS A FANDOM ALREADY BECAUSE OF THE PRETTY. WTF.