RANDOM THOUGHTS FROM THE FLOOR OF A CHAPTERS

[pikabot]

1. WTF, you have volumes four through twenty of Eyeshield 21, but not the first three? FAIL.

Oh well, it's a Viz release. It probably sucks anyways. =/

2. Why would anyone in their right mind want to buy a Naruto art book? Kishimoto's art is decent at BEST.

3. Look, I realize I'm not the target audience. I'm male, adult, and I like my manga with punching up ins and not so much the boring romance plots and sparkles.

But, regardless, I'm appalled that Shojo Beat magazine felt that this monstrosity was a good choice for cover art.

Seriously, it's horrifying. Someone better have lost their job over this. Christ.

Comments

[kanthia.livejournal.com]

:/

Fugly cover art always turns me off, regardless of the content. It took a glowing review from Anime News Network (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/minima/gn-1) to make me even consider checking out Minima!- they specifically say in the review that the story and art are much better than the crap on the cover.

For srs, people. Don't you know how everybody judges books?

[pikabot]

...wow, that's some pretty bad cover art!

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

What the hell was that Shojo Beat thing alfdasl

[pikabot]

AN ABOMINATION BEFORE GOD AND MEN

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

It...it's like Tohru Honda, only 10 clonings later, with brain cells dying with each generation. (Mind you, I'm very fond of Tohru, but that girl looks scary...)

[pikabot]

I have no idea who that is, but outside of that it sounds like a very apt description!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Tohru Honda is the main character of Fruits Basket. She's very dim but all heart (and has some pretty impressive angst for a fluffheaded shoujo heroine) and has giant, empty eyes that threaten to suck out your soul. I love the girl, but there isn't much upstairs, and that art makes her look like a genius.

(For some strange reason, I suddenly wanted to compare her to Orihime, though I don't know why. They're both big hearted and smarter than they initally appear[though intuitive is probably more accurate in Tohru's case] but really not very alike.)

[pikabot]

Ah, I see. I always get thrown out when characters have names I more commonly associate with types of cars. :p

(Oh, Orihime. How is it even possible for people to hate you? I just do not understand)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

It probably doesn't help that Tohru is also usually a boy's name.

(I don't know! I mean, I get dismissing her early on, because it initially looks like she's just the nice-but-ultimately-unimportant girl with a crush on Ichigo, but she tries so hard! And is so determined! How can they not love her??!?!)

[pikabot]

If people do not adore Orihime after this page, I think they must be broken inside. It's the most adorable thing I've ever seen.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Ha Ha...yes.

(Trying to catch him? Oh, Orihime... Though I guess she could have thought her...uhm..."padding" would help...)

[pikabot]

I don't really get how Bleach fandom can get so polarized over Rukia and Orihime. I mean, gang, you don't have to pick one or the other. You can like both. =/

(Actually I suspect she was just running up to see if he was alright and then her natural klutziness did the rest)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I mean, if there was anything vaguely resembling an actual triangle over Rukia/Ichigo/Orihime, I could possibly understand it(strongly disagree with it, but then at least I'd know where the insanity was coming from) but it's just so...bizarre.

(I think she was thinking "OH NO! Boy I have a massive crush on is falling! Must catch!")

ETA: BTW, does the Fairy Tail fandom do this (or anything like it) over LUcy and Ezra? Or is it even big enough to have those issues?

[pikabot]

If they do it, I haven't noticed. In my limited experience, Fairy Tail fandom seems like a miniaturized version of One Piece fandom, which is one of the saner, calmer fandoms I've ever been in.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Ah, cool. I don't know yet if I'm even going to look into the fandom as most manga fandoms assume you read the scanslations, and I haven't decided whether or not I'm going to do that, or stick with the US releases. Of course, I thought the D.Gray-Man fandom was sane, and then I learned it was "Lenalee was hurt in battle that one time she saved everyone's lives and couldn't fight for a while, so obviously she's useless and sucks."

[pikabot]

I personally always read scanlations, because I'm waaaaay too impatient to wait for the (generally slow) US releases. And I don't generally trust manga localizing teams to do a good job (although Del Ray did a completely awesome job with Fairy Tail, I must admit).

Well, i doubt Fairy Tail will keep to One Piece levels of sanity. The real reason for One Piece fandom being so sane is that there's pretty much no ship wars at all. This is due to the manga being a completely romance-free zone. I mean yeah, there's not exactly a lot of romance stuff going on in FairyM Tail either, but at the same time Fairy Tail's creator hasn't specifically said in response to a reader question that all the characters were already in love...with adventure.

Since nobody's ship is going to be canon, there's little in the way of jealousy or ship rivalry. Keeps everything sane and balanced.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I hate being behind, but I really just can't stand reading manga on the computer. The series I read scanslations of are mostly series where most of the people I know do read the scanslations, and assume everyone's up-to-date, so it's mostly anti-spoiler preservation. The exceptions are D.Gray-Man and Claymore, where I read a volume and couldn't wait to see what happened next.

I've peeked around a teeny bit and noticed some Lucy/Natsu and Ezra/Gray stuff, but that's about it. I assume there's Natsu/Gray out there, as it fits the standard slash trends, but I haven't seen it. (Nor do I want to.)

[paperclipchains.livejournal.com]

I expected a lot worse when you called it a monstrosity and now it looks kind of okay by comparison.

[rebbe]

Ugly cover art should go die in a hole |: MARKETING SMARTS, PEOPLE. HAS YOU THEM?

And ewww, fuck, what, Naruto artbook? GROSS.

[pikabot]

YEAH IDK EITHER. Kishimoto has a half-decent design sense and when he tries he can be servicable but god so much of his art is SO BAD.

[fyretoppaaa.livejournal.com]

FAILGET

It looks like a peach with blond hair on top :[