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

[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.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Me neither. Me neither. Perhaps by next year they learned their lesson and will return to shorter manga and more normal pacing, and I won't have to suffer through it. I'm still not entirely bought on the series yet, fortunately.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

More normal pacing would be a blessing! I still think I'd rather wait to see other people's reactions, though, to be honest.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I say you wait for the actual series to come out. Even if the intro "one-shot" is any good once translated, they might as well retcon this shit next year.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is sort of like a pilot, right? I'm completely out of the loop.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

We have NO IDEA what it is. This was SUPPOSED to be a one-shot, but then at the last moment it was like GUESS WHAT, IT'LL BE A NEW SERIES NEXT YEAR WE JUST TROLLED YA AGAIN LOLOLOL!

So... I call it an intro, but maybe this has nothing to do with whatever they're doing later. Maybe it's a prequel. Maybe it's retconned. No fucking clue.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

... oh, CLAMP.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I was looking forward to it because it was supposed to be short D: Now who knows, it's been like ages since they last finished a series in under 10 volumes (canceled/hiatus don't count), maybe they forgot how to.