ADULT TALK?? + manga

[nekokoban]

For some reason I don't feel like today is Sunday night and tomorrow is Monday for work. D:

Busy weekend! Managed to hit both local farmer's markets (the one in the U-District and the one in Ballard) AND Pike's Place Market within a weekend, on top of other random shopping, to the point where my feet still hurt and I'll actually be glad to be stuck sitting most of tomorrow. XD; I ended up buying a copy of Lynn Flewelling's Oracle's Queen for zinjadu (as a birthday present) and for myself, only she reads faster than me and I'm nowhere near done. D: BUT AT LEAST I WILL FINALLY KNOW IF KI DIES OR NOT. D:

--in other news, I officially bought my first porn! At Kinokuniya, through some weird pervy serendipity, they had volume 2 of Yamato Nase's "Chintsubu!" manga. The one with the talking emoting penii with faces.

"A man jealous of his own penis ... you're probably the only one in the whole world."
"Shut up."

^---100% genuine translation

I honestly don't like the traditional boy's love genre; the "dark" and the "obsessed" and "tragic" that most of the yaoi fangirls seem to keel over and die for really bores me. Also, reading a story like that -- for me, a romance story succeeds when it makes me care about the characters. If Character A is a jerk to Character B, and I don't give a damn, the story fails; if I go BUT WAIT NOOOOO YOU LOVE EACH OTHER T______T then it's a success! And honestly, I've yet to have that reaction to an actual romance story. I do it a lot more with stories that aren't romantic at all, which maybe says something about me. :p

In fact, that's where the movie "Chocolat" (or however the accent goes) absolutely fails for me -- the story of the movie hinges on you feeling the same way for the main female character that the movie-characters do; it's hard to buy that she's a wonderful, life-changing, beautiful wonderful person if you look at her and think that she's sort of like a teen's Mary Sue stepped onto the movie screen. (Granted, I have friends who liked it, enough to see it more than once -- but for me, not even the copious amounts of tasty-looking chocolate could redeem that movie.)

BUT BACK ON TOPIC, I have to confess I really like Yamato-sensei's stuff. It's cute and fluffy, kind of like mindcandy, the porn isn't a bunch of fluids and open mouths going "annnnn~" and well. It's often really, really funny. I mean, she's pulled off two+ volumes about boys who've had their penises switched and with faces and personalities -- and I'm with Kamiya, I want to know why the "Iwabuchinko" has glasses. It's hardly something to go crazy over, but it's cute and I giggled like an idiot in the store before I decided to go ahead and buy it. XD The guy at the counter gave me a Look, which suspiciously (?!) lessened when I assured him I was over eighteen and disappeared fully when I had to show ID for my credit card. Dear world: I am not a cartoon character and I am in fact old enough to legally buy booze in both Canada and America.

Also, Yamato-sensei's little omake comics about herself (her reactions to "Chintsubu!" being made into a drama CD and her reactions to the recordings are hilariously cute -- or cutely hilarious, maybe both) are all kinds of win. Plus, some love for the tiny girlyboy uke getting annoyed that his seme is trying to rape him (in the body of seme-san's younger brother -- it's, er, a long story) and then punching him in the crotch. And stomping it a few times. All in shades of Dramatic Chibi.

On top of that, for some unexpected reason, Kinokuniya had a copy of tactics special edition 8. WHICH MEANS I HAVE OBTAINED THE SPECIAL DRAMA CD I win at something, possibly life♥ If my computer forgives it, I will probably rip it for any interested parties, haha.



P.S. Sakurai Takahiro is possibly the cutest dork I've seen in a long time. D: I want to pet his fuzzy gelled head. (The tactics DVD comes with a freetalk between him and Miyata Kouki, including a section on Valentine's Day -- from what they said, the DVD originally went on sale in Japan during February -- including a "Valentine's memory" [painful for both of them] and "do you like sweets? or hate them?"

Sakurai: "I have to say, I hate whipped cream. DDDD: There's too much of it and it fills me up really fast, and I always look like I'm concentrating too hard! I don't like it. DDD: I have to eat as fast as I can to reduce the volume!")

But I haven't been brave enough to listen to the dub yet, though apparently Ed Elric = Sugino.

That's all.

Comments

[sjen.livejournal.com]

Yay for Chintsubu! I luv it and hate normal BL manga for all the reasons you mentioned, of course. ^__^ Hooray funny~

And duuuuude I wanna hear the drama CD, waaaaaaah~ *hugs you*

[nekokoban]

Chintsubu! is hilarious~ :D She has a little omake extra on the evolution of how she drew the Kamiya-chinko, from the serious |:[ face to the crybaby chibi face it has all the time now. XD

I will rip it soon, barring my computer going DUHR JAPANESE CD DOES NOT COMPUTE? at me. :D I'm so excited~~

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

Images of Sakurai Takahiro inhaling whipped cream as fast as he can = AHAHAHA WIN x93827498374 :D

[nekokoban]

... the thing is, he is really really CUTE, too. D: And I keep thinking yet you voice in BL dramas all the TIME man and. AUGH.

I think maybe I went there. D:

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

HOW VERY FREUDIAN. He doesn't like whipped cream so he has to lap it up as quickly as possible AHAHAHAHA o god. xDDD

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

(oh and I totally can't read Chintsubu, I tried once and it just left me brain damaged and scarred for life, jesus god, talking penises scare me.)

[nekokoban]

BUT IT'S SO FUNNY. :DDDDDDDDDD

"DON'T SAY 'DICK' LIKE IT'S A BAD THING~~~~~~~~ T________________________T"
"I think he's talking in his sleep."

[hiza-chan.livejournal.com]

Haha. I've never read it, but the porn sounds incredibly amusing.

And yes, I am an interested party?

Yay for Tactics! I love both the anime and the manga, though if I buy the anime boxset I'm waiting for the prices to go down a bit...

And if you're wondering who I am... well, after reading your Alexverse stuff and your Tactics one-shots and drabbles I decided that I had to friend you! ^_^

[nekokoban]

It's all-and-out hilarious -- there's an entire story where the penis of one of the guys (his name's Iwabuchi, so they've nicknamed the smaller head "Iwabuchinko") loses his glasses, though WHY he has GLASSES is what the rest of us want to know, and the Dramatic Harrowing Tale Of Its Return!

--my sense of humor is really juvenile and really easily tickled. That does not make this manga any less funny. XD

AND HUZZAH ANOTHER TACTICS FAN♥♥♥♥ I rewatched the first two episodes with one of my roommates and I am all about the love for it. [coughs]

But I will try to get that drama ripped asap, since people are interested♥

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

Ah, the talking penis manga. Like someone else who already commented, I could not get through it. It made my brain hurt.

But that didn't stop me from getting this nifty icon from it. XD

[nekokoban]

But come onnnnn, once you get past the first chapter or so, the brain-hurty just sort of ... goes away. 8D

I think if I were to make an icon from it, though, it would more likely involve Yamato-sensei's drawings of herself reacting to the series. XD

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

I loved the stories she wrote about herself too. I on where she was at a convention and really sleep deprived. A fan came up asking for her autograph and she absent-mindedly drew a penis. The other mangaka saw it, gasped, and quickly turned it into a flower. That story had me in tears.

[nekokoban]

YES, that one -- and also the one where they went to the "museum of oddities," such as it was. XD "Let's fix it! Let's fix it!"

The ones where she's observing the recordings for the drama are also hilarious. XD At one point, she tearfully comments that this must be "chinko no tengoku naa" or something similiar, but -- it was definitely that sort of IDEA. XD

[white_aster]

Talking penises for the win! I keep hoping that more scanlations will come out. It broke my brain, but is so funny! :)

[nekokoban]

Seriously -- I've only got 1-8 scanlations, but I own the second volume now, and it seems like the drama goes all the way through the first two. Though I heard after that, she ended up just doing the series as doujinshi, so it's harder to get ahold of, now. D:

Hilarity is great♥

[white_aster]

Ah, well. It's good to know that there were only really 2 vols put out. I was wondering if there was a lot more and it just wasn't being scanlated. Yes, so saaaad! And...um...it's not the type of thing to be licensed, unfortunately. o.o;

[nekokoban]

I think yaoi_daily had a few scans from the doujinshi Yamato-sensei did for it AFTER the first two volumes, but this was some months back -- it was sort of more of the same in that their situations hadn't been fixed, and they were still being stupid funny boys. XD

And I don't think it'll ever get licensed, which is both good and bad, but. At least there's some stuff out there, and even a drama! And honestly, the freetalk is probably one of the best parts, because you get the other actors yelling "CHINKO CHINKO CHINKO" in various tones of voices in the background as any one gives his greetings/thanks for listening. XD

[white_aster]

Oh man, I'll have to go look and seeif I can find that sometime. So they do eventually get fixed? I dont' think I've seen scanlations to that part yet. Heee, I was wondering if they ever would get fixed, because hey, it'd deprive us of the funneh!

Oh man, that sounds hiLARIOUS. That's just something that can't...just can't be translated sufficiently. I mean...I don't even know how they'd translate "chinko" and keep all the right type of connotations to it. ^__^

[nekokoban]

By the end of the drama CD they hadn't (and honestly? I was glad XD), and inasfar as I know, they're still stuck in their current predicament. On the one hand, it'd be nice if they'd finally get back to "normal," but on the other, it's still hilarious. :D

Honestly, I don't listen to BL dramas for the smut -- I listen for the freetalks at the end, because the seiyuu are just hilarious when they're allowed to relax and talk out of character. XD There's one where Koyasu and Sakurai play lovers who were on a cruise ship, and they spend at least five minutes of the free talk trying to figure out how to properly pronounce "aurora" because in the story, they see the Northern Lights. And yeah. XD

(Plus, there's a pun on Iwabuchi's being called "Iwabuchinko," which is just lost in translation. XD)

[white_aster]

oh man, yeah, outtakes and stuff are always way too fun. :) And really, if they got back to normal, that'd probably have to be really near the end. :)

[nekokoban]

If I can find my copy of the drama at any point soon (i.e., somewhere in my CDs, aieee), I'll probably throw up the freetalk at least, because you honestly don't even need to know Japanese to get that they're being really juvenile and silly about the whole "we just spent 70+ minutes pretending to be penii" and ... yeah. XD

Also, I keep looking at your icon and wanting to make one of my own. I FEEL THIS IS A BAD THING, but I am still compelled. XD

[white_aster]

Here, have another! ^_____^

[torsui.livejournal.com]

vic mignogna is sugino?

.... wow. great. mental image slaying me. XD;

have you tried 'yellow'? it's like a mix between getbackers and FAKE, if you like those two.

[nekokoban]

There was actually, from what I understand, quite a bit of crossing over between the FMA dub and the tactics dub. Greed's VA is voicing Haruka, if I remember right. XD

And I haven't heard of that one yet -- I'll take a look around for it, the next time I make my way down to Kinos~

[white_aster]

Actually, Yellow's out in English, too, if you want to try and take a look at it at Borders or something. Done by...DMP, I think? And I second the suggestion. I liked Yellow a lot. :)

[nekokoban]

In all honesty, it would be easier for me to drop by Kinos on the way home from work, but I'm more likely to check out the U-Bookstore or Half-Price because those are on the way to/from grocery shopping. XD

I will give it a look, then! Once I remember and I'm at a store. XD

[sharky-chan.livejournal.com]

In fact, that's where the movie "Chocolat" (or however the accent goes) absolutely fails for me
Thank you. Thank you. I despise that movie. I loathe it. I can't stand that selfish bitch of a woman. I don't care if it has Johnny Depp; he's not interesting enough to make up for the rest of the movie's stupidity.

Sorry, you hit a sore spot for me ^^;;.

[nekokoban]

No, that's QUITE okay, because, well -- you saw, I hated that movie too. XD Johnny Depp is probably the one redeeming part of that movie, and really, that's not enough, especially since he's supposedly in love with the woman in the first place.

That movie was so ultimately irritating to me. XD;

[nightmajik.livejournal.com]

I don't like the dark, obsessed, and tragic, either... I mean, I'm an angst-lover at heart in general, but I don't know. The shounen ai manga I read tends to shounen ai on the side of an actual story, or just really odd and funny situations. Fluffy or silly as opposed to darkanddepressingandgrawrgratuitoussex.

[nekokoban]

I have a bunch of friends who DO like the tragic, the dark, and the obsessed -- and hey, more power to them! It just seems to me that it'd be really exhausting, to keep up with that; I like dorks and happy people who CAN be serious, but don't necessarily NEED to be.

And with boyslove stuff, dude, I'm not reading that stuff for great literature; I'm reading it for cute escapism. If it's not fluffy, or silly, or cute, or all of the above, I've no real reason to keep up with it. XD; <--so biased

[elanor-pam.livejournal.com]

I'm completely clueless on the rest, so just dropping by to say SAKURAI!!

Poor Cloud, it seems he's voiced by a penis seiyuu. He'll never escape the gay label now.

I badly need a rofl icon.