(Catboy) Virgins and Vampires

[lokifan_import]

So yesterday I met up with slashers, for the first time ever! There’ll probably be a happy, squee-ful post about it tomorrow. For now I’ll just mention that we stopped in two bookshops and I now own three new mangas. Have read Gravitation already and I love it. The hero wants to be a rockstar and he’s so emotional and melodramatic and has constant pratfalls; he goes after Eiri Yuki, the slick blond writer, in utter fury when he’s told his lyrics are no good. Adorable.

And there’s this clever, sexy, cheerful best-friend guitarist named Hiro. *sigh* Once again, I’m falling for the secondary character.

I got the first volume of Loveless too, because lilith1631 told me to. Virgin boys with cat ears and tails! LOVE. And I’m now reading June’s Freefall Romance. Not what you’d call great literature, but there’s a blond and a brunet, and they’re both in suits and ties when they’re not naked and there’s delicious explicit boysex.

Besides, I also have Diana Wynne Jones’ new book! House of Many Ways is extremely awesome so far, even counting its Fiery Redheaded Heroine (TM), and the Entirely Unsurprising Exploitative Uncle (TM to DWJ). This is fantasy everyone should read, unlike... Well.

Youngest Sister, who’s thirteen, has finally picked up a book for the first time in a year.

It’s Twilight.

Comments

[iwantasoda.livejournal.com]

OMG I love Loveless! I need to read the manga, but someone gave me the anime on dvd and I swear I was so glad I was watching it alone because there was far too much squeeing XD

[lokifan]

LOL! Totally know what you mean. I can't watch Doctor Who around my family any more due to the squeeage.

[koishii-hime.livejournal.com]

YES. LOVELESS. <3 Haha. Gravitation is pretty awesome too. x)

D: BUT NO. NOT TWILIGHT. ARRRRGH. *melts*

[lokifan]

Now reading Loveless. OMG. He's just so cute. He's like a catboy!Colin Craven.

NOT TWILIGHT. ARRRRGH. *melts*

LMAO. I'm developing a nervous twitch - every time I see her with that thing I just want to grab it and throw it into the air! "Noooo!"

[azamihr.livejournal.com]

Gravitation was the first shounen-ai manga I ever read, lol I liked it but I gave up on it when I can't find the other volumes in every bookstore here. >.< Loveless, now that's one I'm still waiting to finish, loved the anime, love the manga more. :)

[lokifan]

Oh, I fail! I just found your comment, sorry I'm so late replying!

I'm going to try tracking down the rest of Gravitation. I just finished Loveless #1 and I adore it! Gotta find the anime now.

[dysonrules.livejournal.com]

GUH, I love Gravitation, even though it descends into stupidity by the end. Yuki is still my fav hot seme of all time.

Loveless is unfinished...

(Both animes are the LOVE, Gravitation and Loveless both.)

And YES to Hiro!!!!!!! OMG, isn't he adorable???

[lokifan]

I love Gravitation, even though it descends into stupidity by the end.

Nooo! Do not tell me this!

Although Prince of Tennis was total crack by the end and I just found it hilarious. OH HAI, RANDOM AMNESIA!

And yes, Hiro is SO adorable!!!! When Shucichi was all 'why couldn't I have fallen in love with Hiro?' I was just going, 'yeah, why couldn't you?!'

[dysonrules.livejournal.com]

Yeah, later in the fic she scraps romance for blowing shit up. I was like, WTF????

Yes, Shuichi should definitely fallen for Hiro. He would have been less traumatized. But NO, he had to fall for the JERK. (Yeah, me too. LOL!)

[lilith1631.livejournal.com]

To my lovely I've-met-you-in-person friend,

Brian has left for Spain today and I must return to the normal world of working, but our trip to London will forever remain in my head. Especially me trying to put a sex manual in the religious section.

Here is a link to Loveless, the anime. After you have read your book of it, go and watch this because it will have you CRAVING for more. And the more you buy, the more i can borrow, hehe.

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ICraveForAnime&search_query=loveless

Lilith
Slash a day keeps boredom at bay

P.S. My shoes are STILL wet.

[lokifan]

Aww! A world without a Brian right there is a sad world.

Especially me trying to put a sex manual in the religious section.

LMAO. The Guide To Cunnilingus will forever remain in my head too! And The Great Cock Hunt, obv.

I has link! YAYS! I'm halfway through Loveless and it's awesome. Ritsuka is so adorable and bratty and defensive and I LOVE him.

My shoes are still wet too.

[kuri-taichou.livejournal.com]

Gravitation was one of the things that threw me into the slash fandom, but now I don't like it so much. :/
But Loveless is pure win. 'Cept it makes me feel like a pedo...

[lokifan]

Gravitation was one of the things that threw me into the slash fandom, but now I don't like it so much.

Between you and dysonrules, I'm kind of afraid of where Gravitation is going to end up! But if it helped bring you into the slash fandom, I can only be grateful for it. *hugs you*

Loveless is pure win. 'Cept it makes me feel like a pedo...

Oh God, yes. I find Ritsuka RIDICULOUSLY adorable, and mostly it doesn't make me feel like a pedo because it's just in that 'oh you're so cute and rude and cocky' way. And then I want him to get fucked.

Oh well. We can feel twisted together!

[kuri-taichou.livejournal.com]

Between you and [info]dysonrules, I'm kind of afraid of where Gravitation is going to end up!

It's not really THAT bad... the manga is definitely better than the anime, anyway. The only real problem I have with it is that after a while the plot pretty much dissolves and it just becomes ridiculous, like Maki Murakami was on drugs when she made it. lol

Oh God, yes. I find Ritsuka RIDICULOUSLY adorable, and mostly it doesn't make me feel like a pedo because it's just in that 'oh you're so cute and rude and cocky' way. And then I want him to get fucked.

Oh well. We can feel twisted together!

LMAO. Yeah, I like to pretend Ritsuka's at least 16 so I don't feel as bad... XD Oh, but guess what? There's also a yuri couple in Loveless! And it's wonderful, and the girls aren't as young. XD

ONLY *3* new mangas?

[lynntownsend.livejournal.com]

Um...did you get the *entire* Gravitation series? (12 volumes,
but that *might* count as one...I'm just pissed that Volume 2
of Gravitation EX was never published as of this point [Not
even in Japanese...*morns!*])

Re: ONLY *3* new mangas?

[lokifan]

LOL. Just the first one! The other 11 will have to wait until I have some cash.

Um...about <i>Loveless...</i>

[lynntownsend.livejournal.com]

Is it slashy? Based on the summeries that I've read, I don't
really think so, but ALL sources I've had contact with claim
it's as slashy as hell!

Tell me please...Is it slashy, and if so, how?

Re: Um...about <i>Loveless...</i>

[lokifan]

Yes, it's seriously slashy! The main character, Ritsuka (who's twelve) meets Soubi very early on. Ritsuka's big brother, Seimei, was murdered - and was in a relationship with Soubi. Soubi, who's twenty, basically promises to obey Ritsuka as he did Seimei, and promises to take Ritsuka's ears! In the story, the characters are all catboys until they lose their virginity, you see. Plus, snogging.

Re: Um...about <i>Loveless...</i>

[(Anonymous)]

*SQUEES!*

(NOTE:NO ONE else who've I've asked will say
ANYTHING about it, BUT on ALL the websites that
you can order stuff on, ALL of them will have a link
regarding, "If you liked [Something involving Yaoi],
you WILL like this...but the summery doesn't really
bear that out. (And-for the record-I've been the
victim of "bait & switch" before about this sort of
thing...)

Re: Um...about <i>Loveless...</i>

[lokifan]

It's not bait and switch, I promise!

Re: Um...about <i>Loveless...</i>

[lynntownsend.livejournal.com]

*Drowns in own drool*

Re: Um...about <i>Loveless...</i>

[lokifan]

LOL. Same!