Showcase: 50x50
Jul. 23rd, 2010 01:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foolish_m0rtalSo, I don't like yaoi (we mean in anime/manga and are differentiating this from BL/shonen-ai, by the way). I think most of it is just ridiculous graphic fanservice, and doesn't have much of a plot. (Yama nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi, right?) I don't sympathise with the characters, they're usually really stereotypical and flat.
But oh MAN, I LOVE 50x50 by Kunieda Saika. I think I've read it about three times already, and it never gets old! I was completely disillusioned by the summary posted on mangafox, but I read some good things about it in the forum, so I said what the hell let's go for it. And I'm glad the summary didn't put me off, because it's terrific and I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. (A BL with plot and comedy- what?)
Summary in my own words:
Meet professional womanizers Higashino and Kawanishi who have known each other since high school and now work in the same company. They've never fought over girls because they have completely different tastes in women, but the one thing they have in common is their break-up cycles are aligned. They always end up getting dumped at the same time, getting drunk, acting like idiots, and then mysteriously waking up together. Cue denial, fierce defensive womanizing, getting dumped, binge drinking...uh oh, does this sound familiar? ^__^
The comedy in this series really makes the two characters come alive as three dimensional people. The women in this series are great and stand as characters by themselves rather than serving as a vehicle for the story. I like that this manga has no embarrassingly graphic scenes and in fact makes fun of stereotypical moments in BL manga. And again, I LOVE Higashino and Kawanishi. Totally lovable woman-objectifying morons who spend as much time punching each other, acting like psychotic weirdos in public, and getting wasted at expensive restaurants as they do growing close to each other. (If by 'growing closer' you mean punching each other, acting like psychotic weirdos in public, and getting wasted at expensive restaurants)
50x50- check the hell out of this! Just don't ask me about the meaning of the title!
Title: 50x50
Mangaka: Kunieda Saika
Genre: BL, Comedy
Rating: mm, I'd say PG-13? There's maybe like...one panel that's iffy.
Note: Status says ongoing, but I think it's finished. The translators aren't completely sure, but they're pretty damn sure
But oh MAN, I LOVE 50x50 by Kunieda Saika. I think I've read it about three times already, and it never gets old! I was completely disillusioned by the summary posted on mangafox, but I read some good things about it in the forum, so I said what the hell let's go for it. And I'm glad the summary didn't put me off, because it's terrific and I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. (A BL with plot and comedy- what?)
Summary in my own words:
Meet professional womanizers Higashino and Kawanishi who have known each other since high school and now work in the same company. They've never fought over girls because they have completely different tastes in women, but the one thing they have in common is their break-up cycles are aligned. They always end up getting dumped at the same time, getting drunk, acting like idiots, and then mysteriously waking up together. Cue denial, fierce defensive womanizing, getting dumped, binge drinking...uh oh, does this sound familiar? ^__^
The comedy in this series really makes the two characters come alive as three dimensional people. The women in this series are great and stand as characters by themselves rather than serving as a vehicle for the story. I like that this manga has no embarrassingly graphic scenes and in fact makes fun of stereotypical moments in BL manga. And again, I LOVE Higashino and Kawanishi. Totally lovable woman-objectifying morons who spend as much time punching each other, acting like psychotic weirdos in public, and getting wasted at expensive restaurants as they do growing close to each other. (If by 'growing closer' you mean punching each other, acting like psychotic weirdos in public, and getting wasted at expensive restaurants)
50x50- check the hell out of this! Just don't ask me about the meaning of the title!
Title: 50x50
Mangaka: Kunieda Saika
Genre: BL, Comedy
Rating: mm, I'd say PG-13? There's maybe like...one panel that's iffy.
Note: Status says ongoing, but I think it's finished. The translators aren't completely sure, but they're pretty damn sure
