# november 7, 2001 #
np: Ocean Drive -- Lighthouse Family

~o~ : g00gle.

Chuuuu.

Bad cold yesterday and fever this morning, so kaasan allowed me to skip 4 hours of Chem remedial in an air-con room cos I would have used up the whole tissue stock in the house. Did I mention I have Very Sensitive Sinuses? Or sinii, or whatever the plural of a sinus is? I therefore proclaim that if my supposed future husband ever starts smoking I will file for a divorce. *piku* Oyaji really REALLY makes me angry when he comes into the living room and lights up when I'm working on the PC - it always makes me cough and tear up, but he expects ME to go away just because Traditional Asian Fathers Don't Give In To Their Children. *snarl* I might move to the West one day. And Chinese Os sucked. I think my compo was woefully out of context and it was narrative when they wanted descriptive. Hell. (This is going to be a long post...) Mei-chan, I forgot to tell you that I read NV two years ago, thought the art was a little wild and all the charas Something Anorexic but you're right, the plot and storyline more than make up for it. I do heart Seki and Haru - yay !fuckeduppasts. But book 5 looks as if it's somewhere with book 5 of Clover, aka somewhere we'll never see it. Me back on AIM? Hopefully next week - co-curricular activity's being a bitch (miss you too!) ;_; Some holidays.

Now I'm going to talk about G.Defend, Moriomoto Shuw's maiden series. Before that, let me say that I am a huge fan of Morimoto-sensei's works - as a mangaka 'specialised' in m/m her art style is overall very clean, with the lines and inking *balanced* so it makes me feel the characters are 'firm' without being too delicately drifty *KOFFmurakami sachiKOFF* or overdone *KOFFabe miyukiKOFF*. She goes more for biseinen than shounen - no anorexic prettyboys from her. Refreshing, honestly. XD I like the way her couples are always one dark-haired and one light-haired because of added visual appeal, and it makes their juxtapositioning that bit more outstanding. And not only does she draw some very nice scenes of seinen sucking face (amongst other parts), in both Jinjyu Houretsuden and GD there's actually a sound plot and actual storyline progression, though you have to ignore minor detail snags in order to appreciate the full thing. GD in particular has a very well-rounded plot - you have love, friendship, family, enmity, action, drama, blood, humour, angst and sex all rolled up in the tanks. *niko* Jinjyu is also excellent, but for some reason it's almost exclusively s-ai (the word 'love' is only mentioned in context with family and the sole woman >.>) except for one sidestory and a few suggestive pics, so no sex. :p Maa ii saa.

Morimoto-sensei also has a bountiful cast of supporting charas in both her 'long-series' works (and the women are likeable!); even better than  that, she makes efforts to pay attention to everyone in terms of relationship and personal development so everyone gets their fair share of screen time and we know everyone's there for a *purpose* other than visual ornamentation, although I've sorta lost count of the GD charas. ^^; In other words - everyone who sees her stuff (not only GD and Jinjyu, she has one mini-series and one standalone tank out), I honestly encourage you to go look at it. It looks good and reads good. No kidding. No extremities like in uberslashseries *KOFFsaiyuukiKOFF* and she makes her charas say Ai Rabu Yu, but hoi - *I* get tired of !fuckedupness (aka angst and blood and gore and fetishes and men fucking ten other men). I'm female, after all. Hook me on feelings and subtlety, and to heck with reality. XP So go READ. (Meia-tachi, especially you, since we live in the same country and CC stocks both Jinjyu and GD)    

Now on to G.Defend. ^^;;;;; Basic plot: In AD 2002 Japan, terrorists are commiting numerous acts of violence with technological advancements. To counter them, the national council has set up an 'emergency police' force (I don't know how to translate this properly >_>) headed by a 'kyoukan' or chief commander. This kyoukan is almost always the terrorists' main target as the entire police force would likely crumble without his direction. So far 7 kyoukan have died in the line of duty, but the 8th one, Ishikawa Haruka, has survived thus far with the aid of his 'hosakan' or second commander, Special Police Iwase Motohisa, who acts as his right-hand man and personal 24-hour bodyguard. Iwase makes no secret that he fell head over ass for Ishikawa-kyoukan since he first transferred from his LA training centre to Ishikawa himself, and will gladly sacrifice himself to protect him. ("Please let me kiss you!" "No! Someone will see!") Ishikawa himself is confused about Why The Hell Do You Like Me So Much and upset that Iwase is always in danger when they're together. But he finally realises how much he needs Iwase with him, and the story takes off after he secretly kisses Iwase when he's asleep with a head wound from saving him one night.   

No, I don't JUST like GD so much because I'm also a member of the school's police cadet corps unit. XP I picked it up last week and only got round to reading on Monday, and I've already finished the 11 tanks Chinese-translated so far. Heart it much much much for the art, which gets better as the story moves, fast-moving plot and rich cast - Nishiwaki and the Doctor rockass. ^_^ There are about 5 couples in the special police (99.9% male-populated) unit the story shows, although it's actually a rule that members aren't supposed to fall in love with one another as it might affect their work, and ALL get time to touch and kiss and make me go Kyaa while reading. Cons? The plot and charas are a little stiff at first - you want to SMACK Ishikawa when he keeps trying to shove Iwase away, the stamina and unity of the police unit seems really rather too wonderful to be true, and why do half the men want to molest Ishikawa-kyoukan? (though you can't blame them :p) Iwase's unfulfilled libido scenes are Gya Ha Ha, though: (*kiss*BAGUN* "I TOLD you not to put your tongue in! Bastard!") and on a whole I really enjoy how their relationship progresses. In fact all the characters really *grow* throughout the course of the story: Ishikawa learns to accept love, Iwase controls his bullishness, the Doctor opens up, etc, etc. Except perhaps for Nishiwaki, who was already quite a developed chara from the start. I love how Morimoto-sensei shows the graduation and *koff*fulfillment of each couple's relationship in the main plot and sidestories, although she overdoes the mush slightly in spots. Iwase's possessiveness makes up for it though, and Ishikawa is nothing else but adorable when flustered over his koibito. <3

Dakara? Dakara, I'm waiting on teeterhooks for tanks 12 and on to be translated, that is if she's even drawn them yet cos she took a  4-year hiatus in 1997 to draw Jinjyu (13 tanks finis) and only published tanks 10 and 11 of GD this year. O_o;; How lucky can I get? But I guess the hiatus was worth it - the art for tanks 10 and 11 is GOOD, even crisper and tighter than before. Of course there's practically NOTHING for Morimoto-sensi's stuff in th fandom dept., though. I need a new scanner and an elephant assworth's more of free time to rectify that, dammit. *kanashii*

Still, I'm a happy girl, yes. ^_^ On top of that, I also have a two-book finis Deedlit story in the Lodoss War world, Koori 14 and 15, and Hanakimi 11 to be Sparkly over. Fruitsbasket 7 is out too, but I dunno - I don't really like it even though it's cute. *shrugs* Other than the fact that I think Kyo and Yuki need some serious monkeysex to quash them both, Tooru irritates me sometimes. She's just too nice and gentle. >_> So shoot me - the art doesn't really grab me all that much either. Anyway. In contrast, I *like* Mizuki even if Sano's prettier than she is, because she's just so *real* - she gets messed up and she's outspoken and she tries her best all the time, but she doesn't make you go Geh when she gets all 'ganbatte'-ish because she knows what she's feeling and what she needs to do. If that made sense. I'm biased, I suppose, but I don't like Tooru and Yuki as a couple anyway. >_>a Huh. I don't even like such sparkly shoujo stuff normally, but Hanakimi's an exception just because of Umeda-sensei. *NIKO*

Longest post I've written in a while - I'm going to go finish up my NP stuff, re-read GD and Jinjyu (hwah! XDv) and then hit the sack. Nat, raishuu ne~ :)   

tsuzuki deflowered a sakura tree at 10:08 p.m.