Anime Tropes etc. website

[chomiji]

I have no idea how good or accurate this site is, but it's pretty entertaining, and of course most of it is valid (or invalid, as the case may be) for manga as well. You can find entries for things like the ever-popular paper fan of doom (wielded with such authority by Sanzo in Saiyuki, among others), individual shows (including Fruits Basket and Bleach) - with notes about which tropes each includes- , and character types, like the Wrench Wench and the Idiot from Osaka.

It's also a Wiki, so if you're into that, you can help build it better, deeper, and more complete.

Comments

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

I started thinking about what Muramasa said about Yuya being the glue that holds the rest of them together. She's in way over her head as a fighter, which is kind of disappointing. The same thing happened to Kaoru in Rurouni Kenshin. But she hold her own as a person and a character. It's almost like she's there in that miserable world to represent the indomitable spirit of the ordinary person.

[chomiji]

>>the indomitable spirit of the ordinary person<<

Hold that thought ... ! But at the rate Tokyopop is going, you'll be holding it for quite a while ...

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wish they'd speed up the release schedule.

[chomiji]

They've supposedly speeded it up "for the summer," so we're getting vol. 23 next month instead of August, and vol. 24 in September. I hope they don't go back to quarterly after that ... .

There should be some good stuff in those volumes, anyway - more with Shindara (remember him?) in 23 and Kotaro (and remember him?) in 24 ... plus lots of background bits about the others and of course more dastardly Mibu plotting. (I'm picking bits out of the descriptions in French on http://www.sdkpowaaa.com, which also has lovely art galleries.)