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glicine

I almost burst my drink....

Sep 02, 2009 02:07

On my poor laptop.

I first read this manga when I was a little girl, how could I have known this pair is actually based on real people?

Oh gosh, what was Ms. Ikeda thinking while drawing this? I guess it would break thousand hearts if people get to know "Lady Oscar", the rose of Versailles is modelled after a man...

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glicine September 2 2009, 00:50:12 UTC

Just editted my post and added another pic!LOL.

funkycanuck September 2 2009, 00:57:54 UTC

I love magna! Is that what it's referred to as? I'm sorta ignorant on this subject LOL. My fave is Ai no Kusabi (sp). Mind you I'd rather see Iason slobbering all over Raoul Am.

OOh, must make an Iason/Raoul icon... *wanders off*

I always thought these two dudes in my icon were modelled after magna. It was my first encounter with two dudes together. I was a lil girl of thirteen when I first discovered slash. But I had no idea slash existed! Or fan fiction! Or magna! Or...anything! Eeek. All I knew is that the Golden Youth and Wez looked very hawt together!

glicine September 2 2009, 01:08:42 UTC

Manga is the japanese word for comics and printed cartoon.

Awww, Iason/Raoul! Ai no Kusabi was a primer for me into the slash world as well! LOL.

The two in your icon indeed look very manga-ish. But it's a bit hard to tell if the manga artist took the image from real people or vice versa.

chibichi15 September 2 2009, 03:58:50 UTC

AAAHHHHHHHH!!!! love the second pic...yummy XD

and create_a_fable...LOVE your icon.. ;)

<3

glicine September 2 2009, 08:54:40 UTC

Hey hon, have you received the piece I sent to you?

chibichi15 September 2 2009, 12:36:46 UTC

yes ma'am! :) will get to it after my exams tonight :P

blow_your_horn September 2 2009, 05:31:52 UTC

OMG REALLY!!?? Ive watched part of the anime, but Oscar is a woman, right? haha I find it somehow funny they modelled a manly woman after Robert :)

glicine September 2 2009, 08:48:09 UTC

Yes, Oscar is a woman. It's interesting that both Oscar and Julius(the heroine in The Window of Orpheus) are both women who but raised as men. Ms. Ikeda's little trick, LOL.

Back in the 70s the slash/yaoi manga was still a courageous idea. Ms. Yasuko Aoike is one of the first mangakas who brought the gay scene in, and her most famous character (Eroica) is modelled after Robert as well : p.

cerisaye September 2 2009, 10:08:35 UTC

To my eye Jimmy is prettier and more feminine than Robert, who is an Adonis with a distinctly masculine beauty and physique.

Nice pics. :)

glicine September 2 2009, 10:21:48 UTC

I see where you are coming.^^

Back in the 70s it was totally fashion in Japan to adore the "ideal blond" type, golden long hair, blue eyes, tall and beautiful. Robert in his youth was almost a living male Barbie- doll in their eyes.

Jimmy, with his dark hair and grey-green eyes and the mystique around him, was probably more exotic and attractive for the western girls. But it didn't have that strong affection on the japanese girls.

That's what I've got from some japanese female rock fans, and I once talked with Miss Nastukawa(she was a fan and photographer when Led Zeppelin went to Japan), she said Jimmy's aura was bewitching(notice both the positiveness and negativeness there) and it scared her.