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skygiantsI just read Volume 9 of Twentieth Century Boys, and a.) I think volumes 8 and 9 may be my favorite yet despite the tragic general lack of Kenji; b.) HOW IS IT TWO MONTHS BEFORE ANOTHER VOLUME COMES OUT.
First and most importantly: I LOVE KOIZUMI KYOKO. Partly just because she makes the most epic shocked faces in the world (see icon.) But also, dude, I am pretty sure that Urasawa put her in just to make me happy. She's a slacker teenager with stealth common sense who spends most of her time cutting school to listen to terrible music; she gets caught up in the EPIC completely by accident, and subsequently stomps around making YOU ARE ALL WEIRDOS faces at everyone involved. She's too normal to be brainwashed! The bad guys try, and she is mostly just extremely grumpy that they took away her iPod. Bending spoons does not impress her, and neither do terrorists/revolutionaries and their terrible bowl haircuts, SHE JUST WANTS TO GO HOME, OKAY. She had better come back and be awesome after [spoiler], that is all I have to say!
Other things that reduce me to incoherent flailings of joy: Kyoko having to babysit a bunch of baby terrorists; Kenji being super bitchy that the bad guys are trying to stomp Tokyo with SUCH A LAME ROBOT; Yukiji and her lawyer friend and their SECRET REVOLUTIONARY AGENDA (Yukiji's lawyer friend is rapidly becoming one of my other favorite characters in the series; this was a good couple of volumes for awesome ladies); Kanna's hilariously ill-thought-out plans of sheer ballsy charisma (I kept hearing "ohhhh the mobsters and the homeless should be friends!" in my head for that whole scene); Otcho pulling a Fakir and DIVING THROUGH THE WINDOW IN A SHOWER OF SPARKLY GLASS. Who knew Otcho was such a secret dramallama?
And I am MORE EXCITED FOR KANNA'S MOM THAN WORDS CAN EVEN EXPRESS.
In other comics news: I have also read volumes 4-6 of Bone. I continue to enjoy it a lot! HOWEVER, Jeff Smith, I would just like to say - if your series is already as charming and good at tugging at the heartstrings as Bone is, it kind of unfair to then go on and load the dice with an army of tiny plucky orphaned baby animals. I've got my eye on you!
In other awesome ladies news: I would very much like to participate in the Awesome Ladies ficathon (on LJ and dreamwidth), but every time I go over there I just kind of stare at the sheer number of awesome prompts and awesome ficlets in overwhelmed panic and then run away. (Also I still owe a ton of drabbles from the last request post I did, so those take priority anyway.) All the same, it makes me so very happy that it exists! Between this and the glorious zombie tennis match commentary that everyone has already seen (and if by some chance you have not: go there now, scroll down to 4:05 in the liveblog, and REJOICE IN LULZ FOREVER), my heart is full of love for the world.
First and most importantly: I LOVE KOIZUMI KYOKO. Partly just because she makes the most epic shocked faces in the world (see icon.) But also, dude, I am pretty sure that Urasawa put her in just to make me happy. She's a slacker teenager with stealth common sense who spends most of her time cutting school to listen to terrible music; she gets caught up in the EPIC completely by accident, and subsequently stomps around making YOU ARE ALL WEIRDOS faces at everyone involved. She's too normal to be brainwashed! The bad guys try, and she is mostly just extremely grumpy that they took away her iPod. Bending spoons does not impress her, and neither do terrorists/revolutionaries and their terrible bowl haircuts, SHE JUST WANTS TO GO HOME, OKAY. She had better come back and be awesome after [spoiler], that is all I have to say!
Other things that reduce me to incoherent flailings of joy: Kyoko having to babysit a bunch of baby terrorists; Kenji being super bitchy that the bad guys are trying to stomp Tokyo with SUCH A LAME ROBOT; Yukiji and her lawyer friend and their SECRET REVOLUTIONARY AGENDA (Yukiji's lawyer friend is rapidly becoming one of my other favorite characters in the series; this was a good couple of volumes for awesome ladies); Kanna's hilariously ill-thought-out plans of sheer ballsy charisma (I kept hearing "ohhhh the mobsters and the homeless should be friends!" in my head for that whole scene); Otcho pulling a Fakir and DIVING THROUGH THE WINDOW IN A SHOWER OF SPARKLY GLASS. Who knew Otcho was such a secret dramallama?
And I am MORE EXCITED FOR KANNA'S MOM THAN WORDS CAN EVEN EXPRESS.
In other comics news: I have also read volumes 4-6 of Bone. I continue to enjoy it a lot! HOWEVER, Jeff Smith, I would just like to say - if your series is already as charming and good at tugging at the heartstrings as Bone is, it kind of unfair to then go on and load the dice with an army of tiny plucky orphaned baby animals. I've got my eye on you!
In other awesome ladies news: I would very much like to participate in the Awesome Ladies ficathon (on LJ and dreamwidth), but every time I go over there I just kind of stare at the sheer number of awesome prompts and awesome ficlets in overwhelmed panic and then run away. (Also I still owe a ton of drabbles from the last request post I did, so those take priority anyway.) All the same, it makes me so very happy that it exists! Between this and the glorious zombie tennis match commentary that everyone has already seen (and if by some chance you have not: go there now, scroll down to 4:05 in the liveblog, and REJOICE IN LULZ FOREVER), my heart is full of love for the world.
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Date: 2010-06-25 05:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-25 05:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-25 06:01 pm (UTC)The one I found, I was just looking and then went oh, I can write that.
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Date: 2010-06-25 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-25 06:11 pm (UTC)Damier Ebene Canvas
Date: 2010-06-25 06:07 pm (UTC)It was at I think page 48 last night so I wouldn't be surprised if its passed 50 now.
The one I found, I was just looking and then went oh, I can write that.
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Date: 2010-06-25 07:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-25 08:03 pm (UTC)(But seriously, I mean, he already had the trio of tiny plucky baby possums! AND THEN THERE WERE MULTITUDES. Bonus points for the "What are you, hiding from your parents?" "MY PARENTS ARE DEEEEEEEEEEEAD!" moment.)
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Date: 2010-06-25 11:50 pm (UTC)If I'm not refreshing like a mofo, I'm working on a fic, and if I'm not working on a fic or refreshing like a mofo, I'm reading through oodles and oodles of amazing fic for canons I thought I was seriously the only fan of!
IT IS AMAZING and I am baffled and impressed and in awe of it.
In fact, it's kind of a problem. I feel like there are some prompts I know I would like to try but am far too afraid to give a shot because I'm like, "OMG SOMEONE ELSE CAN WRITE THIS BETTER THAN ME" so ... yeah.
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Date: 2010-06-26 12:15 am (UTC)(Also there is that insecurity thing yeah.)
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Date: 2010-06-26 03:51 am (UTC)(Yukiji's lawyer friend is a great match for Yukiji in terms of sheer awesome.)
And OTCHOOO~ The window scene is one of those things you see coming from a mile away and yet you still have to cheer when it happens. (And then Urasawa promptly turns around and goes "but the heroes are all being played for idiots." Because it's Urasawa.)
Icon of a baby revolutionary terrorist, for good measure.
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Date: 2010-06-26 04:29 am (UTC)(I love her SO MUCH. Toting around her giant bags of files!)
It's so true. Otcho! Fakir totally would like to take Otcho as his role model (and it will never work, because Otcho is actually badass and Fakir is just adorkable.)
Baby revolutionary terrorists: still the most adorable! Oh, man, baby Yoshitsune, I want to HUG HIM FOREVER. He tried so hard!
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Date: 2010-06-26 04:49 am (UTC)(YOU CANNOT KEEP A GOOD LAWYER DOWN.)
...I can actually see Otcho mentoring Fakir, if simply because Fakir is a dork who wants to be a badass and Otcho has a lot of friends like that. XD The problem is that Otcho shows up and mentors for three days and then mysteriously disappears for weeks. After which he comes back by breaking into Charon's.
If you can believe it, baby Yoshitsune is even more hardcore and adorable than you think at this point! Baby revolutionary terrorists, how I love you.
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Date: 2010-06-26 05:16 am (UTC)(Psh, whatever, crazy cult world leaders! She will defy you with the power of PAPERWORK.)
Hah! It's true, Fakir is at least a more promising pupil than Kenji is . . . Charon is not sure he approves of this guy breaking in all the time though. (But Raetsel thinks he's kind of cute. Duck is just like, is it okay to break into people's houses like that? :O)
I believe it! Baby Yoshitsune has my forever love and respect already, I have no doubt that it will only increase. Because my love and respect for EVERYONE is increasing ALL THE TIME.