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PSAs, le weekend, and Slam Dunk
Prince of Tennis: Genius 191 raw. (YSI, zip) These are the good quality scans, as good as you're going to get from weekly Jump, anyhow. There are often LQ scans available a little earlier, but I don't bother putting them up here. I don't really have anything to say about the issue.
Meine Liebe: At last, a sub of the final episode - 13. (Haven't watched it yet.) Torrent file.
Harry Potter: There's a Snape/Harry, James/Snape doujinshi scanlation up at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
yaoi_daily. NOT WORK SAFE. You have to join the community to view and you have to be over 18 to join. The link is to the third of three posts; you can get to the first two from there. Harry is at school, so he's young, but this isn't shota. And if you're not used to reading doujinshi or manga, the panels go right to left. Not much of a story, but very pretty.
And there's a raw Dr Ten Hughes/Roy doujinshi being posted as well. It's so gorgeous.
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I've just had 5 days off. I did read LJ during that time, but didn't really comment like I should have. I got work done on my projects, though less writing on my current WIP than I would have liked. I foolishly decided it needed to have seven sections and I've only got through one so far.
I re-read The Fifth Elephant and Night Watch because after Thud! I needed more Vimes. Never enough Vimes! Night Watch, especially, I love. Vimes and Vetinari. They're not friends but they could never do without the other.
I drank a lot of coffee, but no whisky at all for no very good reason. And I ate most of a box of expensive chocolate creams. Ah! The best part about the Boy doing Atkins is that I never have to share my treats. :)
All in all, a productive time. It would have been productive-er if I had thought to write watch 50 episodes of Slam Dunk on my to-do list. As it stands, I guess that was just slacking.
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I've been watching Slam Dunk on and off for a while, but I just went crazy and watched, yes, 50 episodes over the last three days. (There are only about 17-18 minutes of new material per episode; it's not like watching 50 episodes of Buffy.) The games go on for fricking ever -- when it get down to the last ten minutes, you can count on an episode for each two minutes at least and sometimes for each one.
As you might guess, Slam Dunk is a basketball anime. (My second -- the first was Dear Boys.) Basketball and a little gang fighting (which I so enjoy). It's pretty hard-core shonen -- I could do with about 15% more character stuff -- but I'm really enjoying it anyhow. (Obviously, or I wouldn't be watching so much.)
I did read some of the manga earlier on, but the scans I had were pretty bad in terms of visual quality and it hurt too much to read them. (If anyone has good versions, please let me know.) It took me a while to warm to Sakuragi and Rukawa is not my favourite, but I do enjoy their dynamic. And I love everyone now. Yohei is my boyfriend. He's so the Kenickie to Sakuragi's Zuko. But he's more mature and you can tell he's always looking out for Sakuragi. Such a sweetie.
Since I haven't finished the canon yet -- I'm up to ep, hmm, 88 I think, and then there are the OVAs after that -- I haven't gone looking for fic, because I don't want to be spoiled. So I don't know what the main slash pairs are, except for the obvious Sakuragi/Rukawa. For me, they're what I think of as a Schrödinger's Ship -- I'm waiting for the event to occur that will collapse the waveform and then I'll either have shipped them from the beginning or never.
Kind of how it was with Sasuke and Naruto, actually, whose dynamic is very similar. You've got the annoying comic relief who is also the main character (Sakuragi, Naruto). He is a loser, but holds great potential inside. His greatest desires are to be acknowledged and to defeat his rival. You've got the rookie with amazing skills (Rukawa, Sasuke). He's a loner, he's taciturn, he's justifiably proud of his skills, and he looks down at the main character. Even though they are rivals, they are on the same team and must learn to work together. And you've got the girl (Haruko, Sakura). She is loved by the annoying one and loves the taciturn one, who does not return her affection.
Me, though, I'm shipping Kogure/Mitsui. I'm shipping them hard. To the point where there will be fic, even if nobody wants to read it. It's been a while since I had the thrill of going through new canon like this, looking for the little moments between my chosen pair. Any look, any word, any touch will do.
I also hope that Miyagi and Ayako will get together. How can she resist him?
I've just got through the qualifying tournament. That was pretty amazing. Seeing Akagi and Uozumi crying in each other's arms after the Ryonan game, I almost cried too. And in the Shoyo game, Kogure helping Mitsui off the court. And Anzai-sensei! He's a great coach.
I wouldn't necessarily tell you to run out and download this, unless you really like sports anime. Which I do. If you do too, give it a try.
And who do you ship, if you're a fan?
Meine Liebe: At last, a sub of the final episode - 13. (Haven't watched it yet.) Torrent file.
Harry Potter: There's a Snape/Harry, James/Snape doujinshi scanlation up at
yaoi_daily. NOT WORK SAFE. You have to join the community to view and you have to be over 18 to join. The link is to the third of three posts; you can get to the first two from there. Harry is at school, so he's young, but this isn't shota. And if you're not used to reading doujinshi or manga, the panels go right to left. Not much of a story, but very pretty.And there's a raw Dr Ten Hughes/Roy doujinshi being posted as well. It's so gorgeous.
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I've just had 5 days off. I did read LJ during that time, but didn't really comment like I should have. I got work done on my projects, though less writing on my current WIP than I would have liked. I foolishly decided it needed to have seven sections and I've only got through one so far.
I re-read The Fifth Elephant and Night Watch because after Thud! I needed more Vimes. Never enough Vimes! Night Watch, especially, I love. Vimes and Vetinari. They're not friends but they could never do without the other.
I drank a lot of coffee, but no whisky at all for no very good reason. And I ate most of a box of expensive chocolate creams. Ah! The best part about the Boy doing Atkins is that I never have to share my treats. :)
All in all, a productive time. It would have been productive-er if I had thought to write watch 50 episodes of Slam Dunk on my to-do list. As it stands, I guess that was just slacking.
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I've been watching Slam Dunk on and off for a while, but I just went crazy and watched, yes, 50 episodes over the last three days. (There are only about 17-18 minutes of new material per episode; it's not like watching 50 episodes of Buffy.) The games go on for fricking ever -- when it get down to the last ten minutes, you can count on an episode for each two minutes at least and sometimes for each one.
As you might guess, Slam Dunk is a basketball anime. (My second -- the first was Dear Boys.) Basketball and a little gang fighting (which I so enjoy). It's pretty hard-core shonen -- I could do with about 15% more character stuff -- but I'm really enjoying it anyhow. (Obviously, or I wouldn't be watching so much.)
I did read some of the manga earlier on, but the scans I had were pretty bad in terms of visual quality and it hurt too much to read them. (If anyone has good versions, please let me know.) It took me a while to warm to Sakuragi and Rukawa is not my favourite, but I do enjoy their dynamic. And I love everyone now. Yohei is my boyfriend. He's so the Kenickie to Sakuragi's Zuko. But he's more mature and you can tell he's always looking out for Sakuragi. Such a sweetie.
Since I haven't finished the canon yet -- I'm up to ep, hmm, 88 I think, and then there are the OVAs after that -- I haven't gone looking for fic, because I don't want to be spoiled. So I don't know what the main slash pairs are, except for the obvious Sakuragi/Rukawa. For me, they're what I think of as a Schrödinger's Ship -- I'm waiting for the event to occur that will collapse the waveform and then I'll either have shipped them from the beginning or never.
Kind of how it was with Sasuke and Naruto, actually, whose dynamic is very similar. You've got the annoying comic relief who is also the main character (Sakuragi, Naruto). He is a loser, but holds great potential inside. His greatest desires are to be acknowledged and to defeat his rival. You've got the rookie with amazing skills (Rukawa, Sasuke). He's a loner, he's taciturn, he's justifiably proud of his skills, and he looks down at the main character. Even though they are rivals, they are on the same team and must learn to work together. And you've got the girl (Haruko, Sakura). She is loved by the annoying one and loves the taciturn one, who does not return her affection.
Me, though, I'm shipping Kogure/Mitsui. I'm shipping them hard. To the point where there will be fic, even if nobody wants to read it. It's been a while since I had the thrill of going through new canon like this, looking for the little moments between my chosen pair. Any look, any word, any touch will do.
I also hope that Miyagi and Ayako will get together. How can she resist him?
I've just got through the qualifying tournament. That was pretty amazing. Seeing Akagi and Uozumi crying in each other's arms after the Ryonan game, I almost cried too. And in the Shoyo game, Kogure helping Mitsui off the court. And Anzai-sensei! He's a great coach.
I wouldn't necessarily tell you to run out and download this, unless you really like sports anime. Which I do. If you do too, give it a try.
And who do you ship, if you're a fan?
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Another popular pairing is Sendo x Koshino.
Did you know that the annoying Hikoichi, from Ryonan had PoT Momo's voice? ^^
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Oh, that sounds nice. I like Sendoh a lot.
Akagi x Kogure is also interesting, but Akagi is too much basketball obsessed. He's like everyone's big brother.
I sort of see that as one-sided for Kogure. They're friends and Kogure wishes it were more but never, never lets on. I do adore Akagi.
Did you know that the annoying Hikoichi, from Ryonan had PoT Momo's voice?
Christ, Onosaka voiced Hikoichi, another kid on the Shohoku team, and 73% of all random character voices. It got so I wanted to kick him in the head every time I heard his voice. And I still have a bunch more to watch...
Hikoichi was pretty funny though. He's all, must research, must take data, but what he's really doing is keeping scrapbooks on all the players he fanboys. *g*
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You probably already know this, but the manga goes on for quite a bit longer than the anime (the OAVs are completely different). Plus the manga is a lot better, if you ask me, in terms of the artwork and pacing. I would recommend at least reading the later chapters that aren't covered in the anime. Where did you get your manga scans from? I read the manga at the Tensai Manga Project website, which had pretty good quality scans, but those links are all dead now. I know boxtorrents.com has a torrent for the whole manga, but I don't know what the quality is like.
I have .zip files of the later chapters that I could send you, but they're on the computer at my parents' house. Let me know if you want them and I'll send them when I'm visiting my parents next weekend. Slam Dunk is one of my all-time favourite manga so I'm always happy to share. :)
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I do really enjoy Sakuragi and Rukawa's interaction, but I don't think I want to see it go anywhere slashy. Not so far, anyhow. Anyhow, I'd have to wait until I got out of the misty candy-pink haze of LOOOOVE I've got over Kogure/Mitsui right now. God, I love getting new fandoms.
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When you're done reading the manga and can't be spoiled anymore, throw up a post and I'll rec you some fics. :)
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As for Eyeshield 21... there's no captains/vice-captains on the team, so difficult to say... But the pairing I like most on ES21 is much more Otori/Shishido like, I'd say ^^
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The manga is(was?) actually being commercially translated by Viz, I think. The art starts out shaky, but gets *gorgeous* later on. (You think the guys look hot in PoT?) Takehiko Inoue is one of the best manga artists I've seen. I also feel like I see his influence all over current sports manga like PoT.
I don't know if much has changed in the past 2 years, but at that time there was not much good SD fic. Adorable fic, yes. Fic where Sakuragi turns into a girl, or Rukawa turns into a baby, or Mitsui is a vampire, or the teams are really dog-sled racers in Alaska... and of course most of the authors were writing in English only because it was the 2nd language they all shared. (It was an intensely adorable fandom.)
You might have better luck looking for dj. I'll admit to my shallowness: I got into SD at first because the art was awesome and then more seriously because... 5 years ago it seemed to have the bestest doujinshi. (There's no crack built into the anime, but the artists had no problem supplying it themselves.) There's *tons* of SD dj out there, and much of it was of really good quality, though it might be hard to find scanlations or even scans. Still, you can probably find scanlations of more big-name artists. Kodaka Kazuma has a MitKo dj or 2, and Ayano Yamane's RuHana djs...I adore them.
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I'll have to check on the licensed manga, even if it is being done by VIZ, Destroyer of Worlds. I liked what I read of the manga early on, but it was just too much of a pain to read.
Kodaka Kazuma has a MitKo dj or 2
These are the words every fangirl longs to hear about her OTP.
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These are the words every fangirl longs to hear about her OTP.
... I hate her to never /really/ do my OTP T___T
*looks at her K² dôjinshi collection desperately*
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Now that I'm older/wiser(?), YouHana has much more to recommend it, but RuHana and SenHana just bring out some imprintings of teenage squee.
If all else fails and you feel a burning desire to see the MitKo dj by K2, I'm sure I can dig mine up and scan it in. I think Yoshinaga Fumi started out with MitKo dj as well. Given how nice her current pro stuff is, her MitKo dj are no doubt fairly good. (Really, SD used to be so big, it seems like everyone tried their hand at it.)
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And eh read the manga. The manga has loads more stuff towards the end. And I cried at the end, and I cried again when I read it for the second time... And I'm not usually such a big crybaby.
I got my manga off boxtorrents. The first few volumes aren't too good in quality (but still readable) but the quality does pick up towards the end (which really is the more important bit, really :P)
But of course the anime still rocks cos you can really see the action and because Mitsui has Tezuka's voice. ;)
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I'm grabbing the manga from BoxTorrents as we speak!
Mitsui has Tezuka's voice
I think 80% of the anime I watch has Okiayu in it. And I'm not complaining. :)
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I ship Fukuda (Ryounan) x Jin Soichiro (Kainan) mostly. It's odd but they are really, really cute. And Ryouta/Ayako is my all-time SD OTP coz Ryouta is just too adorable. HanaRu, like NaruSasu doens't have any appeal at all and IMO, no chemistry that way other. But there is a MomoKai appeal to their rivalry, if you see it that way.
And err, Maki belongs to Atobe so there XD XD
As for fics, these are the pple I know who write good SD stuff:
Shounen-ai/yaoi - all good writers
Het
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I wasn't too enamoured of SD at first, but it has really grown on me and now I love it a lot. I'm glad there are people still into it. I know it's a pretty old fandom so I wondered if anyone was really still active.
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SD is overwhelmingly shounen too hence it doesn't have many fans because there's very few bishies there - Rukawa being the only one that comes close. Sendoh and Maki, though, IMO, typify classic masculine good looks. Esp Maki XD But that's part of the charm - it's realistic. Though I'll never argue against the idea of bishies strewn around the way they are in Tenipuri either ^^
The manga is long but worth it, as I'm sure you're discovering now. I know you're favouring MitKo currently but has anybody else struck your fancy? Just curious.
As for activity, there aren't too many currently - those abovementioned are definitely the active writers for SD currently. We'd certainly love to have more pple join in the fun so if you start writing for SD too, I'd be sure to pimp out your fics, since I remember seeing your name for non-anime fandoms. Must be either SW or LOTR. LOTR, I think.
And I forgot,
And *joins
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Hmm, besides Kogure and Mitusi, well, I do dearly love all the Shohoku guys. And I'm kind of shipping Sakuragi and Youhei. From other schools, no ships as yet, but I'm *very* fond of Fujima. He's probably the coolest character of them all. Sendoh, Hanagata. And of course Uozumi. I really like his relationship with Akagi.
And I really, really like the Akagi-Sakuragi relationship. It's very sibling-like. I've just got up to the Kainan game in the manga and the way Akagi comforts Sakuragi after the game is lovely to see.
I'm pretty sure I'll be writing some fic, at least. Actually, I really want to write some MitKo now now now, but I'm trying to hold off until I've finished the canon and read some other fic. We'll see if I last. *g*
And I must start making myself a few icons as well. I keep meaning to look for good scans when I read the manga, but then I get caught up in the story and forget.
I did write in both LotR and SW. And a bunch of other fandoms too, starting with X-Files.
I have never read Sex Pistols, no. I think I've seen it mentioned here and there, but I don't know what it's about.
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And I really, really like the Akagi-Sakuragi relationship. It's very sibling-like.
Ditto that. I love it the way he treats Sakuragi like his long-lost kid brother. He doesn't show it but he knows the perfect balance between discipline and encouragement for Sakuragi and it all helps to develop Sakuragi as a person. And there's this totally brilliant scene in the manga when for once, the tables are turned and Akagi needed Sakuragi to get out of a funk.
Actually, I really want to write some MitKo now now now,,
Oh, just do it XD XD I know you want to. No need to wait that long! *grin* And Sakuragi/Youhei - would love to see that.
As for SP - I'll see what I can do about getting it up for you. Maybe via YSI or something. *continues her pimpage*
Where do you get your manga from? I own the volumes but I do need the scans for iconage purposes myself and aherm, I don't want to damage my books. And *coughs* I made some SD icons if you're so interested - you can find them at
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I got the manga from BoxTorrents.com. It's pretty good quality. I'm missing part of volume 6, though, for some reason. Maybe the file was corrupted in download. I've not yet canvassed my flist for those files, but I imagine I'll find them at some point.
I enjoyed checking out your icons! I prefer to make my own just because, but yours look really great.