I should've gotten that booster shot

[xparrot]

I 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
--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
--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.

Comments

Re: *Refusing* to clicky

[rgbrobbie.livejournal.com]

Actually, if I were really going to pimp something else manga-y out to you I'd be shoving GetBackers your way.

*cough*still in my Netflix queue*cough*

Or One Piece

Been meaning to ask you where the sub streams are, since on your word I removed the sanitized, bastardized version from my queue in favor of tracking down the REAL THING.

(See what I mean? You've done more than enough already. Stop it.)

...refusing to click might be the best choice. Sanzo can be the jealous type, you know ^_^

Speaking of which... ::nudges you gently in the direction of the final chapters of "Remembering to Breathe:: Because better that I nudge you gently than jealous!Sanzo pull his gun on you, right? ;)

(And OMG Reload #5 is out in America now OMG must go to Borders on the way home OMG)

Re: *Refusing* to clicky

[stitcher2ficcer.livejournal.com]

Oh, so let Sanzo snicker or be jealous or pull his gun. Ban/Ginji and Luffy & Co are definitely worth straying a bit from the Sanzo Ikkou, just so long as you come back to give them attention now and again. And xparrot's B/G ficlets are very sweet and her GB and OP fics very satisfying. Definitely what got me interested in OP. But you won't be any happier about how she left off on "Darkness Visible" and "Tiger Hunt" than where she left off on "Remembering to Breathe." And now she's succumbed to a NEW distraction?! Demons and football? As if the Kaiba Brothers weren't bad enough! **sighs and shakes head, resigned to this pattern**

I really do need to read the GB and OP manga and continue where I left off on the OP anime.... although god knows, I really don't have time for series that are that long!

But right now bed. Very tired after five hours driving to Maine and several talking to Mom on only four hours sleep. **yawn** **head droops onto keyboard** **zzzzzz**

Re: *Refusing* to clicky

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

One Piece fansubs here. You'll need Bittorrent to get them (if you don't have a client, I use Bitcoment but there's lots available (freeware, naturally.)

And actually I just opened the R2B doc this morning...sorry about that, I'm just a little too easily distracted ^^;

Re: *Refusing* to clicky

[rgbrobbie.livejournal.com]

One Piece fansubs here.

Thank you! I will probably wait until I get my new/old computer (with luck, this weekend) to work on downloading. Of course, I have dialup so it might be February before the torrents are actually viewable... :( (Oh for DSL or broadband, sigh....)

And actually I just opened the R2B doc this morning...

Squee! ::Gojyo kisses you on my behalf::

I'm just a little too easily distracted ^^

And that makes two of us. :D