First of I wanna talk about a very unfortunate man called Christopher Handley who right now is in danger of being prosecuted for owning child pornography. Only problem is; he doesn't. What he might go to jail for is owning yaoi and lolicon manga. Now, I don't know all that much about lolicon, but I know that it is not child pornography. Yaoi on the other hand I have read, and I even own some, and that is not child pornography at all.
You can read more about this case here: Splash Page
Yaoi is homoerotic manga (japanese comics) mainly written for a female audience. It's not really porn, as it most often focuses on the feelings between the two guys, and the tension, and all that emotive business that often sail way over the heads of many men. The point of it is really that the girls who read it can be attracted by one of the men. Many yaoi manga get at least as many fangirls as regular manga squealing over which guy is cutest. And of course there is the occasional more or less explicit sexscene, but no less that regular manga. And as far as I know yaoi characters that have sex have to be of age, which means they have to be 20 or older, and thus does not fall into any kind of definition of a child. It's just the style they are drawn in that makes them seem younger. (I might be wrong about the age thing thou...)
On to less sinister business I saw an amazing movie yesterday. Okey, maybe not less sinister...
I saw Snakes and Earrings, which as you can probably see has a non-existent imdb entry. I'll see what I can do about that.XD
It's about a girl named Liu who meets a boy named Ama, who could be a needle pillow for all the piercings stuck in him. Ama takes Liu to meet Shiba, who could be a porcupine (he has sharp-looking objects protruding from his faceXP), who is a piercer and a tattoo artist. He gets her tongue pierced and decides to get tattoo on her back. She starts a relationship Shiba, even thou she is with Ama, and Ama kills a yakuza to prove his love for her. And all that goes along with things like that.
The movie is mostly about being lost and trying to find oneself. Liu uses bodymod and abusive sex as a way to not lose her self, she only feels alive when she is in pain.
I absolutely loved it. Fiancé was less than impressed howeverXP It's not that he didn't like, it's just not his kind of movie. He said something funny thou, that I usually like movies with "damaged" leading characters. And I started thinking about it, and it turns out, in almost all my favorite, non-childrens movies the main characters are damaged in some way. In Interview with the Vampire, Luis is totally torn, and Claudia is positively frightening sometimes. In Sweeney Todd most of the characters are just about deranged. In Sabrina Audrey Hepburn in torn apart by her love for David, and in Breakfast at Tiffany's she certainly is a bit damaged. Marilyn Monroe is one of my favorite actors of all time, and she certainly wads damaged.
And I started wondering why it is that I'm always drawn to the broken ones? That's one for the shrink to be sureXP But I guess it's because I'm broken myself, and it's easier to relate to the broken ones. I've always been sort of drawn to the underdog, which has landed me with some pretty crappy friends occasionally. (This does not include any of my present darlings BTW, but if you know me I bet you have heard all about themXP)
Anyway, it was a great movie (and it's based on a great book by Hitomi Kanehara), and as long as you don't have problems with needles, nudity or sex I really recommend it.
Oh! And I am skipping a grade in my Japanese class. I just finished grade 3 today, and my teacher told me she really thought I should skip a grade, because I am so talented. Now I must say, compliments are nice, but if you want to really make me happy, tell me I'm really good at something. I don't really care how I look, and I'm not gonna change myself for anyone, but I really like to be complimented on my mind, seeing as I consider that my greatest asset=D
I am really psyched right now=D I'm gonna go home and get my Japanese books tomorrow to start get up to their level=D=D
Showing posts with label manga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manga. Show all posts
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
My first sale^^,
I made my first sale today^^, Tupperware ofcourse^^, I'm so proud. My good friend A decided she needed stuff, and so I sold her stuff.^^,
I bought manga to celebrate. Manga that I collect and that I could not afford the last ones of until she paid me^^, NANA 12 and Mamotte Shugogetten 2 to be exact^^,
NANA is my all time favorite manga, even if I hate it to pieces sometimes. Realistic manga are so stupid sometimes, because they act just as stupid as real people do. Maybe a tad stupider for the drama effect, but mostly realistic stupid. And because of that sometimes I hate them all. All the stupid manga people who go around doing the wrong people and saying the wrong things. But if they weren't stupid it would be boring ne? So maybe it's good that they are stupid.
Mamotte Shugogetten is a variation over the classic Oh! My goddess manga. Boy meets goddess/shugotten. Boy falls in love with goddess/shugogetten. All sorts of complications arises. Very predictable, but oh! so adorable^^, Shao is just too cute. Even Ruan is cute, in a really annoying, please-leave-the-heck-alone kind of wayXP
Word of the day:
売る - uru - to sell
I bought manga to celebrate. Manga that I collect and that I could not afford the last ones of until she paid me^^, NANA 12 and Mamotte Shugogetten 2 to be exact^^,
NANA is my all time favorite manga, even if I hate it to pieces sometimes. Realistic manga are so stupid sometimes, because they act just as stupid as real people do. Maybe a tad stupider for the drama effect, but mostly realistic stupid. And because of that sometimes I hate them all. All the stupid manga people who go around doing the wrong people and saying the wrong things. But if they weren't stupid it would be boring ne? So maybe it's good that they are stupid.
Mamotte Shugogetten is a variation over the classic Oh! My goddess manga. Boy meets goddess/shugotten. Boy falls in love with goddess/shugogetten. All sorts of complications arises. Very predictable, but oh! so adorable^^, Shao is just too cute. Even Ruan is cute, in a really annoying, please-leave-the-heck-alone kind of wayXP
Word of the day:
売る - uru - to sell
Friday, August 29, 2008
Princess Ai goodness
I should be reading the Mao biography, but I am so sick of it. It's a very good book and all, but I have to be done by Monday, and I have bit over 80 pages left. I don't want to stress read on Monday, so I am trying to be done by Sunday, which means I have to read 30 pages a day (I had a bit over 90 pages when I started today). I have been trying to cram in as much reading time as possible, but the thing is I am addicted to television. It's on all the time, and it's kind of distracting me from reading. I can do homework and blog and surf and pretty much everything with the stupefyingbox on, but I can't read, and if I turn it off it becomes eerily quiet, and if I put on music on Playground it becomes dark, and if I play music on the DVD player all the movement from the screen goes away, and yah, I'm addicted to TV. What I have been doing is reading to MTV (before noon when it actually plays music >.<) or VoiceTV, but then there is an interesting video or the commercial break comes all with all it's stupid, loud, distracting, annoying, obnoxious... *running out of adjectives* commercials that distract and annoy me. Another thing I have been doing is reading in the commercial breaks with the sound off. Anywho, I have too little time to read, and reading in the breaks at school, and on the bus just isn't enough. And I have to do my homework as well. So yah....
What I was going to say was: I should really finish off the Mao biography, but I really needed to read something purdy, so I have been reading Princess Ai today. I am a slow manga reader, so it took me a good 4 hours, after all what is the point of beautiful art if I'm not going to ogle it? I spent probably double the time drooling over Ai and Kent that I spent actually reading...>.<
I loved it either way thou. The art is to die for, Ai apperance shift subtly throughout the story to suit her mood, and the things going on. When she is happy and bouncy, she looks cartoonish and ditzy and when she is angry or serious there are much more detail and she looks fierce and dangerously beautiful. The story, thin thou it might be, is very well told. The use of suspence is put in the right places is just the right amount, it holds back without being tedious. The lyrics to the songs she sings are tantalizing, and I have got to find out if some has put music to those lyrics. And if they have, I need to have that album. The characters are faceted and evolves in just the right way.
It's a wonderfully executed movie on paper. And I hope they do make it a movie. I think Mana would be great as Ai. Yes I do know Mana is a man, and I do know he has this thing about not talking in public, but he looks just right, all mysterious and aloof and gorgeous. And he wears gothic lolita fashion already. But I have no idea if he can sing, which would be essential, and I honestly don't think he could be as ditzy and bouncy as Ai tends to be sometimes, and come to think of it he would probably be horrible in that role. But he would look amazing while being horrible>.<
姫 - hime - princess, young lady of noble birth
Light Princess Ai spoilers ahoy. Again, I am not able to make my point without revealing some of the content. Not much, but spoilers are spoilers so proceed with caution.
What I was going to say was: I should really finish off the Mao biography, but I really needed to read something purdy, so I have been reading Princess Ai today. I am a slow manga reader, so it took me a good 4 hours, after all what is the point of beautiful art if I'm not going to ogle it? I spent probably double the time drooling over Ai and Kent that I spent actually reading...>.<
Realm of spoilers end here^^,
I loved it either way thou. The art is to die for, Ai apperance shift subtly throughout the story to suit her mood, and the things going on. When she is happy and bouncy, she looks cartoonish and ditzy and when she is angry or serious there are much more detail and she looks fierce and dangerously beautiful. The story, thin thou it might be, is very well told. The use of suspence is put in the right places is just the right amount, it holds back without being tedious. The lyrics to the songs she sings are tantalizing, and I have got to find out if some has put music to those lyrics. And if they have, I need to have that album. The characters are faceted and evolves in just the right way.
It's a wonderfully executed movie on paper. And I hope they do make it a movie. I think Mana would be great as Ai. Yes I do know Mana is a man, and I do know he has this thing about not talking in public, but he looks just right, all mysterious and aloof and gorgeous. And he wears gothic lolita fashion already. But I have no idea if he can sing, which would be essential, and I honestly don't think he could be as ditzy and bouncy as Ai tends to be sometimes, and come to think of it he would probably be horrible in that role. But he would look amazing while being horrible>.<
姫 - hime - princess, young lady of noble birth
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Birthday partay
My darling little sister turned 17 today. She's growing up fast^^, She got lots of great gifts and I think she had a good birthday. We woke her up with soda and Seigmenn at 6 in the morning. I got her sunglasses in Barcelona, she looked amazing in them, of course. We have a saying in Norway that roughly translates to everything looks good on pretty people, which is very true with my sister. She has this mass of golden hair that makes her look gorgeous in sunglasses. I wish I had her hair, but it probably wouldn't look as good on me. My sister is one of the most important persons in the world to me.^^,
I updated the book list. 5 books finished: Chain Mail, Halfmoon Investigations, Kitty goes to Washington, Drømmer, lengsler og mørke skoger, and one more I as a matter of course forgot after I removed it from the list. I will add it when I can think of it. Typical.
I also broke my promise to myself and bought books. Two of the books I bought at the airport on the way to Barcelona, in case I ran out of books, which I almost did. Those would be The SEANCE, and Throne of Jade. Plus I bought NANA essentials and NANA 11, the latter of which I finished the same day, and both of which I was "allowed" to buy, seeing as the fall into the "ongoing manga series"-clause. ^.~
I thought Chain Mail became worse as it went, even thou it started out very good. The ending was kind of blah, but it was overall an okey book, not too long, and not all too boring.
Halfmoon Investigations was very obviously written for people younger than me, but I would recommend it to 13-15 year olds. I had very high expectations thou, seeing as I really liked the Artemis Fowl series by the same author.
Kitty goes to Washington was very good. I like the fact that the Kitty series follows almost like a TV series, the books follow on to each other, and could not be read very well separately. I really like Carrie Vaughn's style of writing, and she has a good flow to her stories. I am very much looking forward to when my list gets short enough for me to buy the next book in the series.
Drømmer, lengsler og mørke skoger was a wonderfully whimsical book, but I felt very keenly that it is the last book from a world that I have not read anything from earlier. I felt that I would have liked to know more about the workings of this world, and maybe I will read more from this world sometime. And maybe not, we'll see. There were illustrations in this book too, beautiful ink on white paper illustrations, I liked them the most.
Word of the day:
tanjoubi - birthday
I updated the book list. 5 books finished: Chain Mail, Halfmoon Investigations, Kitty goes to Washington, Drømmer, lengsler og mørke skoger, and one more I as a matter of course forgot after I removed it from the list. I will add it when I can think of it. Typical.
I also broke my promise to myself and bought books. Two of the books I bought at the airport on the way to Barcelona, in case I ran out of books, which I almost did. Those would be The SEANCE, and Throne of Jade. Plus I bought NANA essentials and NANA 11, the latter of which I finished the same day, and both of which I was "allowed" to buy, seeing as the fall into the "ongoing manga series"-clause. ^.~
I thought Chain Mail became worse as it went, even thou it started out very good. The ending was kind of blah, but it was overall an okey book, not too long, and not all too boring.
Halfmoon Investigations was very obviously written for people younger than me, but I would recommend it to 13-15 year olds. I had very high expectations thou, seeing as I really liked the Artemis Fowl series by the same author.
Kitty goes to Washington was very good. I like the fact that the Kitty series follows almost like a TV series, the books follow on to each other, and could not be read very well separately. I really like Carrie Vaughn's style of writing, and she has a good flow to her stories. I am very much looking forward to when my list gets short enough for me to buy the next book in the series.
Drømmer, lengsler og mørke skoger was a wonderfully whimsical book, but I felt very keenly that it is the last book from a world that I have not read anything from earlier. I felt that I would have liked to know more about the workings of this world, and maybe I will read more from this world sometime. And maybe not, we'll see. There were illustrations in this book too, beautiful ink on white paper illustrations, I liked them the most.
Word of the day:
tanjoubi - birthday
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