Comments on: Wanted Mini Review (manga)

By: Lianne

Lianne — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:04:22 +0000

Now back to my praying for both. Maybe Otaku God can nudge Ai Yazawa to that direction…

Eh, I was thinking more Yumi Tamura. Ai Yazawa can do some amazing work and all, but she’s more present-day soap stuff. I can’t see her doing a period piece or anything with a thread of fantasy.

As far as vampire shoujo goes, I really like the yaoi game Messiah…although that’s decidedly 18+. If Yuri Narushima tried to do a vampire shoujo, I think the genre would get the overhaul you so crave. Oh, man…now I’m thinking about it. *squeal*

By: Miki

Miki — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:04:51 +0000

O.o And I’m sorry I forayed into the whole vampire thing. But I think the two actually go hand-in-hand, in that they have the same forbidden air, and get the same mistreatment, and therefore bring a lot of the same crowd. And Matsuri Hino did both, which doesn’t surprise me.

What pirates has over vampires? It’s not as dead-gone overdone and overpraised by fangirls everywhere that it stops being amusing and turns annoying yet.

Now back to my praying for both. Maybe Otaku God can nudge Ai Yazawa to that direction… Now that would be awesome! Glamor meets sexiness meets characters and plots.

By: Miki

Miki — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:45:48 +0000

Yes, I totally want someone to get swashbuckling shojo right. Vampire shojo too. Which NO ONE DOES (to be fair, novels don’t either. Twilight, the novel twin of Vampire Knight, anyone?) It would just be so good if they did. All the tasty situations one could put oneself in as a vampire… no pun intended. But seriously, vampires and pirates are cliches, but there is a lot that hasn’t been explored. The morality issues, the involving angst of being with one, and, I don’t know, some complex characters and their development?! And who says you still can’t have the sexiness?

But it’s generally very mistreated… *sigh* Oh, Otaku God, please send us a sexy swashbuckling shojo….