Entries tagged with manga: shounen-ai

And they make even less sense. Which is difficult.

I KNOW I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO CARE ABOUT HOW DEAD GUYS CAN DIE, we've gone over this. I also should not care about all the inconsistent characterization - in this case, I don't think it's real productive to spend more time thinking about fictional characters than the person who made them up did.*

I nonetheless cannot stop myself. I keep trying to come up with ways to induce Tsuzuki's decisions to make some kind of emotional sense - I go, well, maybe there were a cutscene in between where he and Hisoka have a fight, or where he has a conversation with Muraki. Or gets amnesia. Maybe there's a shinigami rule that you can't kill albinos.

Tatsumi's Aura Of Competence in the anime makes more sense when viewed in light of his occasional displays of competence in the manga. Though maybe I am not well-enough indoctrinated into anime tropes - his being The Dark-Haired Guy With Glasses is surely sufficient to explain all.

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* The implication of this sentence is that in some cases it is productive. This blog's existence is reliant on that assumption, so I have no problem with it.

Before bed last night I was considering my vague dissatisfaction with Saiyuki, and my feeling that it was not going anywhere quickly. My subconscious mind solved this by forcing its narrative into a rigid plot-token-intensive infrastructure. Apparently there are four angels, with six magical guardians each - and they have some relationship to suits of cards, I think? Just to make all this even more codified - and Sanzo is one of the angels, Hazel is another, and a third is a little girl who looks vaguely like Flonne from Disgaea, except it was clear that she was doomed to die tragically.

Considering this logically, Kougaiji is probably the fourth angel - I don't think it's Ni, because he is Not A Team Player. But basically, they will all have to gather up the remainder of their teams of magical guardians for a final battle, and that's where the plot movement's going to be.

"There," says my brain triumphantly. "I fixed it!"

Brain, listen. The current make-up of Team Sanzo is obviously geometrically perfect. You did not fix it.

I have read the Yami no Matsuei volumes which relate to the TV show.

So I have had another revisionist anime dream.