I should've gotten that booster shot
Oct. 4th, 2006 03:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xparrotI thought I was safe. I thought I was immune; I thought I was taking the necessary precautions, abstaining from the fangirl-decimating plague that is Prince of Tennis--only to go and come down with a bad case of an entirely different sports shounen.
The irony is, I don't even like sports. And of all the sports in all the arenas - American Football?? The most mind-numbingly boring sport in the world, as pretty much all the world except America agrees. And yet.
My Eyeshield 21 infection can be attributed to the following vectors:
--Hiruma
--The rest of the Deimon Devil Bats, every damn adorable one of them
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--Hiruma
--Blatant emotional manipulation, not limited to moments including: ice cubes, cream puffs, Death Marches, football games
--Distractingly sexy boys, even allowing that football has the ugliest uniforms known to mankind.
--Laudable levels of slashiness in the rival teams (see: the Shin/Sakuraba/Takami affair, Akaba/Koutarou, Kakei/the stripping ex-swim-team sweetie whose name I never remember, the Kid/Tetsuma (What? Oh, come on, they totally love each other.), Banba/Harao ("We've been doing it together for three years already." Haw.) Edit: can't forget Panther/Homer!)
--Hiruma
--"We're going to the Christmas Bowl!"
--"You're thirteen thousand, two hundred and ninety-seven hours and forty-nine minutes late."
--Hiruma
--Hiruma
--Hiruma
Eyeshield 21 isn't the easiest manga to pimp out. Oh, it's funny, and pretty, and exciting for sure. But the slashy bits are mostly in the other teams; the Devil Bats are fun as anything, but while they certainly can be hot, and they could be doing each other, it's not handed to you on a PoT-shaped silver platter. But. There's Hiruma. Who's worth reading the manga for all on his own, if you go for obscene, evilly brilliant blond demons with an unhealthy penchant for firearms, unnaturally sharp teeth, and an unholy obsession with football. And while Hiruma is distracting you, his teammates sneak up, whack you over the head with a cute stick and drag you into their cavern of laughter and friendship and sportly team antics.
Knowing Hiruma? This is his wicked plan all along. Damn it.
Warning: Highly contagious. Click at your own risk: Torrent for ch.1-160
And before certain people start panicking/chewing me out - no, I'm not writing fic.Yet. Now, doujinshi, that's another story....5 and counting.
The irony is, I don't even like sports. And of all the sports in all the arenas - American Football?? The most mind-numbingly boring sport in the world, as pretty much all the world except America agrees. And yet.
My Eyeshield 21 infection can be attributed to the following vectors:
--Hiruma
--The rest of the Deimon Devil Bats, every damn adorable one of them
--
immicolia (fine, fine, we're even for GetBackers)--Hiruma
--Blatant emotional manipulation, not limited to moments including: ice cubes, cream puffs, Death Marches, football games
--Distractingly sexy boys, even allowing that football has the ugliest uniforms known to mankind.
--Laudable levels of slashiness in the rival teams (see: the Shin/Sakuraba/Takami affair, Akaba/Koutarou, Kakei/the stripping ex-swim-team sweetie whose name I never remember, the Kid/Tetsuma (What? Oh, come on, they totally love each other.), Banba/Harao ("We've been doing it together for three years already." Haw.) Edit: can't forget Panther/Homer!)
--Hiruma
--"We're going to the Christmas Bowl!"
--"You're thirteen thousand, two hundred and ninety-seven hours and forty-nine minutes late."
--Hiruma
--Hiruma
Eyeshield 21 isn't the easiest manga to pimp out. Oh, it's funny, and pretty, and exciting for sure. But the slashy bits are mostly in the other teams; the Devil Bats are fun as anything, but while they certainly can be hot, and they could be doing each other, it's not handed to you on a PoT-shaped silver platter. But. There's Hiruma. Who's worth reading the manga for all on his own, if you go for obscene, evilly brilliant blond demons with an unhealthy penchant for firearms, unnaturally sharp teeth, and an unholy obsession with football. And while Hiruma is distracting you, his teammates sneak up, whack you over the head with a cute stick and drag you into their cavern of laughter and friendship and sportly team antics.
Knowing Hiruma? This is his wicked plan all along. Damn it.
Warning: Highly contagious. Click at your own risk: Torrent for ch.1-160
And before certain people start panicking/chewing me out - no, I'm not writing fic.
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Date: 2006-10-03 07:31 pm (UTC)(Although I'm still wickedly tempted by Supernatural. When Season 1's out on DVD, I just may have a marathon.)
I read a few chapters of Eyeshield awhile back, when Toriyama World was fanscanning it. Hiruma (he's the guy with pointy teeth, right?) was the main draw for me, too. But I just didn't read enough of it to get into the characters enough to forget that I'm reading about FOOTBALL, the least compelling sport known to man or woman-kind.
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Date: 2006-10-03 08:21 pm (UTC)Eyeshield - yep, Hiruma's the demon. And yeah, the football thing takes some getting over. But the chars were entertaining enough to keep me reading, and eventually it passes a point that the sports become as fun as the rest of it...the last big game, I was practically hyperventilating, it got so tense. And this is knowing how it's going to end, because the heroes always have to win in the end in these things, but I was still cheering them on in their desperate straights and getting amazed at their wildly unexpected tactics and...yeah. It kinda sucks you in, eventually, if you give it half a chance ^^;;;
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Date: 2006-10-04 05:14 pm (UTC)Aaiieeee! My doom is at hand!
We need something new anyway ... we've been working our way through "Blake's 7" lately, but that one is best in small doses, because otherwise you get too distracted by the laughably bad 1970s BBC f/x.
And I wish that they'd hurry up and finish getting out all of Fullmetal Alchemist, too. I *love* that show, and I actually stopped downloading the torrents when it got licensed, for a change -- which means I have yet to see the last half of the series, and have, so far, managed to remain blessedly spoiler-free for it, too. Oh, and I still need to finish watching the Saiyuki anime! Okay, maybe I *don't* need something new after all. ;) Not that it'll stop me, I'm sure ...