Manga

[prillalar]

Genius 292 raw (YSI, zip) -- Everyone probably has this already but it's here for completeness.

Genius 293 raw (YSI, zip) -- Just dropped tonight. On the title page, Oishi is wearing a hat that's uglier than his hair.


I spent the whole evening reading Slam Dunk. I've finished the manga now. I didn't mean to spend so much time, but I got caught up in the game and just couldn't stop. I more or less sobbed my way through the entire last volume. It's been over an hour and I'm still so keyed up I don't know how I'll sleep.

I'd like to post about it, to discuss it a bit, but later, later. I'm still in the middle of it all now.

Just the OVAs to watch and then I'm done.

Comments

[heart-of-butter.livejournal.com]

What? How can there be a hat stupider-looking than Oishi's "hair"? That's impos-

...Oh.

That is a stupid hat.

[prillalar]

Konomi just keeps pushing the envelope. *g*

[mitethe.livejournal.com]

It's the Ooishi!Smurf! XD

[prillalar]

Hee! That's a frightening thought. Though now I'd like to see them all drawn as smurfs.

[mitethe.livejournal.com]

What I wouldn't give for Photoshop sk11z RIGHT NOW. Kaidou is so obviously Grouchy Smurf, and there can be no other for Atobe than Vanity Smurf!

[tabimendou.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Slam Dunk... I have a random japanese manga volume of that I picked up in London once XD I have no idea what's going on in it, but I was happy to find something I'd heard of ^o^

[prillalar]

Hee! I've been reading scanlations. It's so good, especially later on in the series.

[tabimendou.livejournal.com]

Oooh, scanslations... where did you get hold of them from? :3 *curious, curious*

[prillalar]

I got both the manga and the anime at boxtorrents.com.

[flonnebonne]

*squints* Is that a condom on Oishi's head? A jumbo-sized, half-unrolled condom?

Glad to see the Golden Pair is starting to glow golden. That's a most essential skill in tennis.

Isn't Slam Dunk awesome? Isn't it? ISN'T IT?!?

My god Sakuragi's hair is red in your icon.

[prillalar]

Okay, I don't want to think about Oishi's hat anymore now. *g*

Slam Dunk is beyond awesome. It's the essence of what I love about sports manga/anime. I want more, dammit!

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Hi. I am kinda procrastinatey so I surfed onto your journal randomly from wickedcherub and just started reading entries.

I so know what you mean about Slam Dunk! Is it weird that the only manga I've ever felt teary about are shounen? I'm kind of sad because I finally decided I'm never going to reread it and am getting rid of my books, but it's so hard. I loved that series.

[prillalar]

Something about Slam Dunk was just so intense! I never thought I could get so worked up by a game, especially when it was drawn, not live or animated. But the characters were so involving.

It is sad that you have to get rid of your books. :( I can never do that.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Until Slam Dunk I never thought I'd be interested in sports manga at all, but it was about so much more than just the game.

At the height of my manga collecting I had over a thousand volumes... If I had never sold anything I bought, I probably would have 1500+ right now, so there's just no way. ^_^;; Some things I can part with as soon as I've read them, but there were a lot that I hung on to for years and years, but now we're trying to get rid of stuff in preparation for hopefully moving next year, so I've been getting rid of even more. It's hard to part with them, but if I'm honest with myself, I will probably never read them again, since there's always new stuff coming out...