A Taishi Zaou lançou dois mangás por esses dias: Bokutachi wa Asu ni Mukatte Ikiru noda e Aruji no Oose no Mama ni. As capas são adoráveis, principalmente a do Aruji:
Koi wa I na Mono Myou na Mono
A história é sobre esse de óculos que sempre teve sonhos premonitórios.
Um deles era que um dia encontraria um rapaz da mesma escola
e os dois se apaixonariam (e pior: ele seria o uke da relação,
o que lhe dava calafrios, hehe). E dito e feito. Mas claro que primeiro
ele tenta fugir do destino a qualquer custo ^^
Por incrível que pareça, Taishi Zaou e Eiki Eiki NÃO são a mesma pessoa! Elas trabalham juntas em doujinshis e tem o traço semelhante (e história semelhantes - como Dear Myself da Eiki Eiki, em que o uke era uke sem querer, porque tinha perdido a memória).
O Bokutachi eu tive a sorte de encontrar os scans raw. E é muito bom! Tasuku, o uke de cabelo pretinho, e Ryuuta são amigos de infância e Tasuku sempre foi apaixonado por ele. No entanto, ele não sabe expressar seus sentimetos e enche o loiro de porrada (ambos são faixas pretas em karatê). O que garante, claro, ótimas gargalhadas para o leitor. Mas no final eles se acertam ^^ (claro, né? isso é BL ¬¬ ).
Tasuku e Ryuuta
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Matéria que saiu na revista Newsweek sobre um otaku que lançou um livro e está fazendo muito sucesso. No livro ele conta como largou a otaquice depois que arranjou a primeira namorada e como sua vida mudou para melhor depois disso.
Can a nerd get the girl?
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Alguém já parou para pensar por que não são feitos doujinshis BL com personagens de shoujos? Estava lendo um email da Emi A., de uma das listas de discussões que participo, e ela comenta um pouquinho sobre o por que desse moe (slash) vir dos personagens de shounen e nunca de shoujo.
Hmmm... this is a good question.
I think what a person finds 'moe' is quite individual.
However, there are certain works that many find 'moe'
and then there is a boom. I noticed that preferences
are slightly different between Japanese and Americans,
but several Western movies made it huge in both
countries, which makes me think that 'moe' - which
depends on both the looks of the character plus story
- has some common factors. For example, "Lord of the
Rings" had a huge following in both. However, the
pairing preferred by the slash community was different
from the Japanese. (Most popular character was
Boromir, Aragorn x Boromir was the most popular
pairing.) "Harry Potter" and "Pirates of the
Carribean" also made a splash in both countries. There
must be something in all of these that inspire 'moe'
in women.
"Koucha Ouji" and "Yakumo" did have some doujinshi
released. I think Yakumo was complete in itself -
nothing left to the imagination. It's the same reason
BL manga doesn't inspire much doujinshi - there has to
be enough freedom in the original to allow for
imagination. Hyakki doesn't have enough attractive
male characters to pair up and it's a complete story
on its own. Koucha Ouji doesn't have enough males plus
it's much too shoujo and 'cute'. Shounen is perfect in
that sense, because they're usually action oriented
with not too much character interaction scenes. In
addition, there are lots of attractive male
characters. Competition/fighting is a plus that's
rarely seen in shoujo. Tragic characters are popular,
too. The only shoujo to make it big with women was
Sailor Moon which had lots of fighting. Interestingly,
shoujo is very popular as doujinshi material among
men. "Maria sama ga Miteru" has been huge with guys
for the last few years.
I noticed that American yaoi fans have much more of a
shoujo bend than the Japanese. I think it may be
because they become fans later in life, and everything
is new and interesting to them. Japanese girls start
reading shoujo at an early age so it's already a phase
they passed through. (Parents generally don't buy
Shounen Jump for a 7 yr old girl so almost everyone
starts out reading shoujo). By the time they're in
high school, they've already figured out genres that
they prefer, and what hits the 'moe' buttons for them.
Shounen Jump in particular seems full of 'moe'
stories, and from what I hear, the editors there are
quite conscious of their female audience. This seems
to be the one magazine many yaoi fans follow. The
current 'big' genre is Full Metal Alchemist (actually
from Enix), and Bleach and Death Note seems to be the
up and coming. Bleach has already been released in
English so you may want to check it out. They're all
quite good - I can see why girls like them.
posted by ha @ 5:53 PM
