JUNJOU TERRORIST FUCKING FINALLY!
There was some really hilarious Engrish this week: “I was lolling on the floor laughing.” Miyagi’s VA on the other hand can speak English pretty well in comparison.
Holy shit, Shinobu’s VA is playing Jouslain in Tytania? I don’t believe it. They sound nothing alike! Shinobu’s so much more… moe. Okay, I guess SRS Shinobu sounds similar.
Anyhow, the first half of the episode was pretty dull, but the confession scene at the grave was pretty well done.
Ah, I’m dead. He’s too adorable when he’s all upset like that (also, fuck is this a shitty raw or what?). The moe overload this week largely made up for the lack of homo fanservice (also this being the least developed of the three couples, it’s more understandable). Woah woah woah, wait– DID THEY JUST SKIP OVER THE SEX SCENE COMPLETELY?! That one was vaguely plot-relevant too! ;_; Bastards…
And it looks like we’re back to Junjou Romantica next week. GODDAMNIT.
Wow. I had no idea so many people were blogging about Junjou Romantica on WordPress. I am enjoying Junjou Romantica, with its weird combination of gay denial and desire.
What are other BL do you recommend? Which ones are most “moe” and have most sex scenes?
By: jaredinnakano on 2008/12/01
at 04:38
Mm, yeah. Well, it’s pretty popular after all, so I guess it’s to be expected. Junjou Romantica is rather typical of most BL series, I think–though the manga (and the first season of the anime more-or-less) has a much higher frequency of sex scenes than the usual long-running BL series (usually you only get a few every so often, Junjou has a scene at the end of each chapter most of the time).
As for recomendations, Antique Bakery is probably the best, recent BL series I can think of in terms of plot and character (even though it’s really only tenuiously a BL series to be honest). Honestly most of the stuff that makes it into anime is pretty cheesy or just downright bad, but for a genre that’s main draw is fanservice (and not just incidental fanservice, in BL it’s much more integrated into the story) it’s hard to get away from cheese/etc. Gravitation’s pretty classic, it’s cheesy as hell but it doesn’t take itself too seriously. Sukisyo is the only other BL TV series I can think of that I actually finished, it wasn’t terrible. I know there are some other series that are in the whole vampire/occult bent, but that’s not really my thing.
Loveless was pretty interesting, I don’t think it’s technically classed as BL but it’s got a lot of over/undertones. The artwork is nice but the story doesn’t really go anywhere (the TV series just cut off without a real ending, there’s still the manga but it was getting just plain weird the last time I was still up on it).
As for sex scenes, most TV-anime seem to avoid them pretty effectively (at best you might get one really vague scene at the end). The first season of Junjou Romantica was more explicit than most things that are sold as porn (I wish I was joking about that). Okane ga Nai/No Money has a fair amount of sex scenes, it’s a porn-class OVA series but it’s hardly explicit enough to be porn; the art’s pretty inconsistant too. Really the only series with explicit, pornographic sex scenes I can think of is the aptly named Sensitive Pornograph (and probably that Enzai OVA but that was just terrible on all levels)–so if you’re not looking for porn just about anything else in that same category (er… I guess porn-like-OVA series? they’re marketed that way despite what teh content actually is) is probably a decent choice since even in those series you might get one or two scenes over 2-3 episodes and you never actually see anything.
Oh my, that was a long response…. Aha…
By: citrinitas668 on 2008/12/01
at 09:21
There’s also Ikoku irokoi romantan OVAs but I can’t recall how explicit they were.
By: DramaQ on 2008/12/01
at 16:36