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Jun. 25th, 2010 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
