Yaoi manga, squee!
Mar. 22nd, 2008 08:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elabyFirst, the only thing I'll say about the LJ strike: I don't care whether you str... stroke? Striked? Stroked? Ah! Participated in the strike or not, the only thing that bothers me is when people post condemning other people as stupid or bad for whatever they chose to do. I'm equally frustrated by someone who would post "All you people striking are so stupid and what you're doing is totally pointless!" as by someone who would post "Anyone who doesn't strike is a sell-out bigoted pansy!" I'm not talking about anyone who rationally expressed an opinion on the matter, either, because I read posts that did that and I completely respect them. Anyway.
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caitirin, _melisande_, and her sister and I went down to Boston today, and it was wicked tons of fun! I had yasai katsu curry at Wagamama for lunch (SO good!) and picked up some nice stuff at LUSH. I also got a new manga at the anime store - Garden Dreams by Fumi Yoshinaga. She also wrote Antique Bakery - which I need the last volume of - and that was good. Not incredible, but at the top of the range as far as BL manga goes. Garden Dreams was a VERY different sort of BL manga, and I really, really liked it.
It's about a baron living in the "west" (these are the only distinctions they make) and two bards from the "east" who travel to the west after a large war. It looked generally around the 14-1500's from the clothing. The only kissing in the story is het, and backstory, and utterly tame, and obviously doomed to tragedy from the beginning. The story focuses on friendship between the baron and the younger bard, and between the younger bard and the older bard. It's also a story about how different people deal with loss.
The end is... well, it's very happy, but it's also really weird - not at all unsatisfying, but odd. Fumi Yoshinaga's art style is simple but beautiful, and it's really growing on me. I'm very glad I bought this one, and that doesn't happen that often with randomly bought boy's love manga ^_^
caitirin, _melisande_, and her sister and I went down to Boston today, and it was wicked tons of fun! I had yasai katsu curry at Wagamama for lunch (SO good!) and picked up some nice stuff at LUSH. I also got a new manga at the anime store - Garden Dreams by Fumi Yoshinaga. She also wrote Antique Bakery - which I need the last volume of - and that was good. Not incredible, but at the top of the range as far as BL manga goes. Garden Dreams was a VERY different sort of BL manga, and I really, really liked it.It's about a baron living in the "west" (these are the only distinctions they make) and two bards from the "east" who travel to the west after a large war. It looked generally around the 14-1500's from the clothing. The only kissing in the story is het, and backstory, and utterly tame, and obviously doomed to tragedy from the beginning. The story focuses on friendship between the baron and the younger bard, and between the younger bard and the older bard. It's also a story about how different people deal with loss.
The end is... well, it's very happy, but it's also really weird - not at all unsatisfying, but odd. Fumi Yoshinaga's art style is simple but beautiful, and it's really growing on me. I'm very glad I bought this one, and that doesn't happen that often with randomly bought boy's love manga ^_^
