Huh, this rather silly. I feel like writing a post, but I haven’t done anything post-worthy recently. Not that anything I ever do is post worthy. Let’s talk about manga I probably otherwise won’t normally talk about ie. not Kimi no Iru Machi, Bakuman, Candy Boy etc.
Usagi Drop
A cute manga, but by no means the current OH SHIT AWESOMEEEEE manga of the day. I just got to the time skip, and I must say, subtly tsundere Rin is subtly tsundere. Then again, she’s also too cool, too skilled, and too smart, isn’t she? But she’s a tsundere. Not to mention in for some incest doujin. I don’t like Kouki. I’ve never liked Kouki. I somehow knew he would turn out like this… Where’s his mother? Daikichi needs some lovin’ (fromrin). All in all, I liked the manga better when Rin was a kid; she was a lot cuter.
Mahou Sensei Negima
Um yea. Akamatsu is one of the first authors I read, with Love Hina. I liked Love Hina, and MSN looked interesting, so I gave it a try. The thing is, I started MSN at volume 8, when I bought in an airport on a trip to the Bahamas. I’ve never taken the time to go back to the beginning, and sort of started a little while after volume 8. By beginning, I mean very beginning; I’ve never read any of the first volume, and for some reason decided to buy 2 before 10 and 11, and then jumped back down to 4, and finally, 9. I’ve had an eccentric reading pattern throughout this entire series, but it really doesn’t take a lot to know what’s going on so that’s A-okay. I’ve totally forgotten the span of time, though, so it seems like a lot longer than it probably has been. I should go back to volume 8 and start reading from there through the tournament. There’s a terribly different feel to volume 8 than the rest of the series. It may probably be because it’s the end of a collection of random episodes, as I’m seeing it, and the beginning of a larger, more cohesive narrative (the festival into the tournament, which is a little more episodic, into Chao into finding Nagi in the magic world etc etc). Anyways, good stuff, good stuff.
Also, I was browsing Touhou doujin, and someone made a comment about Chi– Hong Meirin and Mulan’s “I’ll Make a Man Out of You.” I was inspired to rewrite it for Meiling. And then everything else.
I’ll Make a Guard Out of You (v1)
Let’s get down to business
to protect the gate!
Did they send me Nineball
when I asked for rice?!
It’s the saddest day I’ve ever stood
and you can bet, before I’m through
Sakuya, she’ll wake me with some knives.
Tranquil as a forest,
but on fire without.
Once I slip to dreamland
she is sure to shout!
I’m a spineless, pale
and starving guard
and I haven’t got a clue
as to why I never
get a break!!!!!
I’m never gonna catch my breath
Please stop calling me China!
Boy was I a fool for letting black-white gooooo
Milady’s got me scared to death!
Hope she doesn’t spear right through me!
Now I really wish I had something to eat!
(Hong Meiling!)
I must be swift as a mountain tengu
(Hong Meiling!)
With all the strength of a drunk oni
(Hong Meiling!)
With all the force of a thrifty miko
and mysterious as the dark side of Aliiiiiiice!!!
Bullets racing towards me
as I lose again.
Heed my hopeless pleading
and I might survive!
I’m unsuited for this danmaku
so I’ll pack up, go home, I’m through.
Too bad I’ll cannot leave
I’m a foooool!!!!
(Hong Meiling!)
I must be smart like the undead doctor
(Hong Meiling!)
With all the strength of the black-white witch
(Hong Meiling!)
I’ve got the gut of that glutton ghost
Too bad that I’m kept on
leftovers each day!!!!
(HONG MEILING!)
I must persist like that spring time fairy
(HONG MEILING!)
With all the might of that gap youkai
(HONG MEILING!)
I’ll get a big meal when I defeat you
So “Yukkuri Shiteitte Ne” JAAAOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Fly Me to the Moon
Fly me to the moon
and dodge some danmaku with me
Let me see what spring is like
upon the lunar sea.
In other words
bring some snacks.
In other words
Youmu feed me.
Fill my pocketbook
and let me take a little break!
These are all I long for
and then maybe some pension
In other words
I’m on strike.
In other words
feed yourself.
I have no life… at all.
