I lol'd at your new icons (especially the default one), I lol'd at the image macro at the top of the post, and hell, I lol'd through about 99% of this post itself.
But mostly: But, of course, everything has to be totally fucked up to epic proportions, so instead I get Shuichi crying and drooling all over himself looking like’s getting raped. And that’s the most normal one.
GOD, THIS. I just. I don't even know. I'm not sure if I should be like, "That Murakami, what a cheeky, sexually-liberated lady!" or like, "OH MY GOD DO NOT WANT."
I wish more manga artists drew their own doujinshi. I know Yoshinaga Fumi does (I have scans of a bunch of her Antique Bakery doujinshi), and I know Zaou Taishi does (rarely), but I can't think of many others.
But yeah, Gravitation. It's rare to find a series that so deftly combines retarded fangirl LOL CRACK 3 A.M. SUGAR HIGH RANDOM KAWAII-NEKO-CHAN =^____^= WHEEEEE-type "comedy" with child rape. Hilarious child rape
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But yeah, Gravitation. It's rare to find a series that so deftly combines retarded fangirl LOL CRACK 3 A.M. SUGAR HIGH RANDOM KAWAII-NEKO-CHAN =^____^= WHEEEEE-type "comedy" with child rape. Hilarious child rape!I tried to become disgusted with that attempted rape scene. I really did, but when you've got such horrid voice acting and translation combined with the ten dollar thing(seriously, seriously, what the hell? I know it was Murakami's idea of a sick joke. It had to have been. Success, lady. Success.)I couldn't do anything but have a giggle fit and give Yuki credit for being the most epic boozed up asshole to ever asshole in the history of anime. Well, that and Kitazawa's character actually made some sense. Good thing he died. I shudder to think what Murakami would have done with him if he somehow survived. Ugh
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Seriously, that icon. THE MONEY IS GLOWING. LIKE A SHINING BEACON OF UNINTENTIONAL LULZ.
I am so tempted to rewatch this show just to laugh at it but man 13 episodes is kind of daunting. :/
It's the anime artbook (but for some reason has a Murakami-illustrated poster? IDK all I remember is that I used to have it up in my room because it was sort of cheeky and I mistakenly thought I was being ~daring~, lolsob) because at the time I was really enamored of the anime character designs. I bought it in hopes that it'd have pictures of the design sheets, but it didn't, to my recollection.
I respect Gravitation's place as a series that sort of mainstreamed BL, especially anime-wise (like, would a more risque show like Junjou Romantica have made it onto TV without Gravitation blazing that trail? Probably not!), but I'm a little resentful that the big trailblazing mainstream explicitly-BL-themed (as opposed to implicitly) TV anime was such a shitpile and not an anime adaptation of something actually goodBut you're right, the anime is way
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lol It kind of reminds me of the "The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo which is just totally fucked up and lolzy.
Damn, what a rip(All the images must already be online.). I thought almost every art book had design sheets. At least my Kyo Kara Maoh one does and all types of good information I can sadly not read. :/
That's a good point though. It did pave the way. I really need to watch Junjou Romantica sometime. It doesn't look half bad.
You have the most fantastic rants. Putting this in my memories, so when people ask me why Gravitation isn't my thing, I can just point them to it.
Whenever he starts thinking about something serious, something stupid pops up in his head right before he finishes his thought, and he then runs around like a jackass. YES. :[ Shuichi is perhaps one of the main reasons I didn't make it to the end of either the manga or the anime. One of many.
Gravitation was recc'd to me, too, when I was younger and first started getting into BL, and I was pretty disappointed. It didn't help that the only other BL series I had really been invested in before that was FAKE. As much as two dudes fucking is awesome, I'd love excellent characters and a great plot to go along with it. The romance doesn't mean a thing if there's no real logical basis for it.
lol Thanks. In the case, I'll de-F-lock this fucked shit.
I can't blame you for not finishing the manga. Omg, does she draw it out with the stupidest shit ever. I do hope you watched episode 13 for one of the funniest scenes ever though. XD
Yeah, once you read the best out there, FAKE, there's no way you could find this good. Fake managed to make the relationship seem real, instead of "omg I luv u. I luv you too. *shitty 2 page sex scene.*The end."
When it comes to downright stupidity and fucked up-ness, only Earthian can really compare.
I agree with most of the things you said. Murakami doesn't seem to take her own series seriously. It's like she makes it up as she goes.
The whole YukixShuichi thing is so fucked up. Whenever Shuichi showed a backbone it all went backwards, and the same with Yuki's niceness. To me, they were both needy idiots. However, it could have been interesting if she actually dealt with it instead of all those random "funny" scenes that make you think she's on crack.
I don't really like Gravi anymore, but I still have a spot for it. It had so much potential, and it ended up dissapointing me.
Btw, I'm happy I never read the remixes. So gross. Doesn't she even respect her own pairing's relationship?? Or is she trying to show how fucked up their relationship is?? Ugh.
I don't read much yaoi though, and all I've read sucks. It's either cheesy and cliched, or fucked up like Let Dai. Or both. I kind of like Loveless, but I can't make myself ok with the fact he's 12.
Yeah, exactly. Its as if she drew the first volume just to test the waters and it happened to do well enough where she had to go "Oh, shit now I actually have come up with what happens next
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Hello I know this is old but uhh I stumbled upon this when looking up info about Yuki having PTSD. I'm a fan of Gravi, yes, but I am not here to like..go batshit insane rabid fangirl on you LOL you bring up A LOT of good points. Stuff I noticed myself..trust me not all of us are stupid. Besides rping Yuki, cosplaying Gravi and having a blast with the series with a friend who is also sane, I stay away from the fandom. First thing I wanna talk about is the remix doujin you mentioned..particularly the one with young Yuki. You don't know how freakin disturbed I was when I found that one. How can the CREATOR sexualize the trauma her own baby suffered! Yes, baby, because as a creator, your characters are your creations and you love all of them even the evil ones to an extent. I couldn't last two pages in..how fucked up for someone to even wank to this shit nevermind actually DRAW this. I knew about the others (which honestly I think they are all drawn bad) but I only found about this one a week ago. So disgusted, I definitely don't respect
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Before I end this, I think it would be interesting to say when I rp Yuki, I try to make more reasonable moodswings rather than poorly executed ones because Murakami just likes Yuki to be a dick to Shuichi for no reason..much like Stephanie Meyer is with Edward and Bella. My Shuichi also makes Shu more realistic than super hyper in serious moments. In other words, we make the series somewhat better I guess..hahaha. Oh..and..its a tumblr, so someone asked me 'How do you feel about seeing fancomics of yourself?' I made mention of that awful doujin I talked about, and it felt great to have Eiri himself say 'youre fucked up if you jerk off to someone's trauma' and the person liked it! Haha. Its the one part of the series that's supposed to be taken seriously and not see as arousing..and Murakami threw that out the window
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Oh no problem whatsoever. I love talking about fandoms no matter how old. And this rant was more hating on it for fun then anything. XD I wouldn't mind friending you so we could talk more abut gavi and other fandoms, if that's okay? I'm actually really friendly. I only f-locked my journal because I got sick of separating personal posts from fandom ones. XD
Hello I know this is old but uhh I stumbled upon this when looking up info about Yuki having PTSDLOL That's pretty amusing, but it makes sense because I used to look up fan explanations myself before I wrote this to see if there were any intelligent discussions going on or even a some fanfictions that attempted a more realistic prototypical of the manga, or any part of it. I found one good one on FF.net that was post-rape Shu. with Yuki actually comforting him in strange way, but it made sense due to the circumstances in the manga, as in the author took Shu.'s attempt to seduce Yuki seriously, and had Yuki take of all that school girl crap he was wearing, clean him up, and eventually Shu. kept begging for sex to make Yuki prove he was still attracted to him even though he was raped, and Yuki, unhappily does so, but is pretty disturbed by it, since Shu. is bleeding still and he's gentle, but never cums, and after Shu. goes to sleep he barfs in the bathroom and feels disgusted
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But, of course, everything has to be totally fucked up to epic proportions, so instead I get Shuichi crying and drooling all over himself looking like’s getting raped. And that’s the most normal one.
GOD, THIS. I just. I don't even know. I'm not sure if I should be like, "That Murakami, what a cheeky, sexually-liberated lady!" or like, "OH MY GOD DO NOT WANT."
I wish more manga artists drew their own doujinshi. I know Yoshinaga Fumi does (I have scans of a bunch of her Antique Bakery doujinshi), and I know Zaou Taishi does (rarely), but I can't think of many others.
But yeah, Gravitation. It's rare to find a series that so deftly combines retarded fangirl LOL CRACK 3 A.M. SUGAR HIGH RANDOM KAWAII-NEKO-CHAN =^____^= WHEEEEE-type "comedy" with child rape. Hilarious child rape ( ... )
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But yeah, Gravitation. It's rare to find a series that so deftly combines retarded fangirl LOL CRACK 3 A.M. SUGAR HIGH RANDOM KAWAII-NEKO-CHAN =^____^= WHEEEEE-type "comedy" with child rape. Hilarious child rape!I tried to become disgusted with that attempted rape scene. I really did, but when you've got such horrid voice acting and translation combined with the ten dollar thing(seriously, seriously, what the hell? I know it was Murakami's idea of a sick joke. It had to have been. Success, lady. Success.)I couldn't do anything but have a giggle fit and give Yuki credit for being the most epic boozed up asshole to ever asshole in the history of anime. Well, that and Kitazawa's character actually made some sense. Good thing he died. I shudder to think what Murakami would have done with him if he somehow survived. Ugh ( ... )
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I am so tempted to rewatch this show just to laugh at it but man 13 episodes is kind of daunting. :/
It's the anime artbook (but for some reason has a Murakami-illustrated poster? IDK all I remember is that I used to have it up in my room because it was sort of cheeky and I mistakenly thought I was being ~daring~, lolsob) because at the time I was really enamored of the anime character designs. I bought it in hopes that it'd have pictures of the design sheets, but it didn't, to my recollection.
I respect Gravitation's place as a series that sort of mainstreamed BL, especially anime-wise (like, would a more risque show like Junjou Romantica have made it onto TV without Gravitation blazing that trail? Probably not!), but I'm a little resentful that the big trailblazing mainstream explicitly-BL-themed (as opposed to implicitly) TV anime was such a shitpile and not an anime adaptation of something actually goodBut you're right, the anime is way ( ... )
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Damn, what a rip(All the images must already be online.). I thought almost every art book had design sheets. At least my Kyo Kara Maoh one does and all types of good information I can sadly not read. :/
That's a good point though. It did pave the way. I really need to watch Junjou Romantica sometime. It doesn't look half bad.
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Whenever he starts thinking about something serious, something stupid pops up in his head right before he finishes his thought, and he then runs around like a jackass. YES. :[ Shuichi is perhaps one of the main reasons I didn't make it to the end of either the manga or the anime. One of many.
Gravitation was recc'd to me, too, when I was younger and first started getting into BL, and I was pretty disappointed. It didn't help that the only other BL series I had really been invested in before that was FAKE. As much as two dudes fucking is awesome, I'd love excellent characters and a great plot to go along with it. The romance doesn't mean a thing if there's no real logical basis for it.
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I can't blame you for not finishing the manga. Omg, does she draw it out with the stupidest shit ever. I do hope you watched episode 13 for one of the funniest scenes ever though. XD
Yeah, once you read the best out there, FAKE, there's no way you could find this good. Fake managed to make the relationship seem real, instead of "omg I luv u. I luv you too. *shitty 2 page sex scene.*The end."
When it comes to downright stupidity and fucked up-ness, only Earthian can really compare.
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The whole YukixShuichi thing is so fucked up. Whenever Shuichi showed a backbone it all went backwards, and the same with Yuki's niceness. To me, they were both needy idiots. However, it could have been interesting if she actually dealt with it instead of all those random "funny" scenes that make you think she's on crack.
I don't really like Gravi anymore, but I still have a spot for it. It had so much potential, and it ended up dissapointing me.
Btw, I'm happy I never read the remixes. So gross. Doesn't she even respect her own pairing's relationship?? Or is she trying to show how fucked up their relationship is?? Ugh.
I don't read much yaoi though, and all I've read sucks. It's either cheesy and cliched, or fucked up like Let Dai. Or both. I kind of like Loveless, but I can't make myself ok with the fact he's 12.
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Hello I know this is old but uhh I stumbled upon this when looking up info about Yuki having PTSDLOL That's pretty amusing, but it makes sense because I used to look up fan explanations myself before I wrote this to see if there were any intelligent discussions going on or even a some fanfictions that attempted a more realistic prototypical of the manga, or any part of it. I found one good one on FF.net that was post-rape Shu. with Yuki actually comforting him in strange way, but it made sense due to the circumstances in the manga, as in the author took Shu.'s attempt to seduce Yuki seriously, and had Yuki take of all that school girl crap he was wearing, clean him up, and eventually Shu. kept begging for sex to make Yuki prove he was still attracted to him even though he was raped, and Yuki, unhappily does so, but is pretty disturbed by it, since Shu. is bleeding still and he's gentle, but never cums, and after Shu. goes to sleep he barfs in the bathroom and feels disgusted ( ... )
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