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chomijiI've been having much too much fun with my icons. At first I felt very protective and parental and didn't want to let any of them go, but now that I have lots of them, I don't mind so much ... and it's very warm and fuzzy to see them show up in other folks' posts.
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Some Notes:
9. Lyrics adapted from those of a traditional British folk tune.
10. With apologies to certain boutique popular with Gen Y.
12. Inspired by the Young Lady, who said that Gojyo's going-adventuring wardrobe in the first books made her think of what happens when you let preschoolers dress themselves.
27. Yes, I know, everyone makes an icon out of this picture. But there's so little good Furuba art online. Let me know if you have a pipeline to some more! (And besides, I messed with his mouth a little to make it look more like the manga Hatori.) Lyrics from The Who, of course, in "Tommy."
28. Ummm ... there may be a generation gap issue here. The reference is to Dr. Suess' immortal work On Beyond Zebra.
29. Lyrics from folksinger Carrie Newcomer (song: "It's Not OK")
If there's another one I use regularly that you'd like to have, you can always ask ... (the ones I still feel the most protective about are the Yukimura ones I use regularly), and I love making them by request too.
ETA: And I meant to put all the disclaimers: no hotlinking to my poor Earthlink account, please credit, etc. etc.
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Date: 2008-03-28 03:51 am (UTC)I knew that those icons had to be in a series. There's was just a feel/texture/look --something about them that gave off that vibe. It's good to know I was right. :) I figured that one of the two "idiot" icons was part of that series I just wasn't sure which one. Each of those in the set just seems like the perfect character portrait. It summed them up with just the right phrase and a great pic. I'm so glad you're going to share them because when I saw them I was like OMG those are so perfect I have to go show..... everyone!
I assume SDK= Samurai Deeper Kyo? I saw the anime a few months back and fell in love! I haven't read the manga yet, but intend to soon.... Probably even sooner now that you've reminded me! ;P I hate it when an anime series ends before the Manga does. And SDK was just so perfect. I've got the DVDs on my Amazon wish list.
I'm going to have to go check out nancybuttons now!
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Date: 2008-03-28 04:05 am (UTC)Ohh, man, if you've only seen the anime of Kyo, you've got a lot coming! The anime, from what I understand, covers roughly vols. 1-10 with a little of the stuff from the Mibu Arc - the arc of the rest of the story - thrown in and hashed up. The real story is deep in angst and character history (OK, not quite as much as Saiyuki, but a helluva lot more than any of the other shounen manga I've read so far). You can probably skip the first two volumes - they're pretty bad, and you know the gist from the anime. The series ran to 38 volumes in Japan; the English volumes are at vol. 27, and stuff is really hitting the fan for our heroes ... and for some of the villains, too. (SDK has very complex villains, in the manga.)
And the art is much nicer in the manga ... here's an article-thing I wrote about an aspect of it back when I was starting my LJ (SDK was my first manga). And meganbmoore has a nice gallery of color covers and extras (from calendars and such).
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Date: 2008-03-28 07:34 am (UTC)38 volumes!!! I'll definitely have to go read this now. You've got me intrigued. Hopefully I can find SDK volume downloads. I don't think my budget could handle that many manga volumes at once. And yes, I'm fanatical once I start reading I have to read it all NOW! LOL!
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Date: 2008-03-30 04:39 am (UTC)I did the icon post!
(And I also realized I gave you to wrong like for megan's SDK gallery: it's over here.)
I don't know where to get downloads of the earlier SDK volumes - manga is my main vice, so I buy 'em, except for things like Saiyuki Gaiden that aren't buyable in English. But once you get caught up, most of the future volumes are at sanada's hana-mi.net site. (She's responsible for my being on LJ - I found the hana-mi site when I was first reading SDK and trying to find more info about the story online. And she told me about the Love Deeper community here on LJ - which now also features Kamijyo's short-lived second series, Shirogane no Karasu.)
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Date: 2008-03-31 03:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-01 02:30 am (UTC)It is a start, and through vol. 13/14 will definitely get you into the intense parts of the series.
Yes, I'm familiar with despair's fine products! But Nancy has SF&F stuff and also, I sort of know her (we recognize each other enough to say "Hi... um, yeah, you're that person ...").
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Date: 2008-04-08 06:30 am (UTC)This is all your fault!!!! ;P
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Date: 2008-04-08 11:23 am (UTC)XD
I'm sorry, but I'm sort of not sorry too ... isn't it great? What a crazy series. Once you start getting into the Mibu arc, there's no turning back. I love the mix of over-the-top shounen action and angsty back-stories. Who's your favorite character, or do you have several? Yukimura is my man, obviously. But I'm also very fond of Muramasa, and I have a soft spot for Akira.
Once you get through 22, let me know, and I'll get you the link to a very pretty extra cartoon that appears in the art book. But it's a bit of a spoiler for some of the things that are revealed in that volume.
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Date: 2008-04-25 05:47 am (UTC)ps can you point me in the direction of some good SDK fan fics?
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Date: 2008-04-25 06:26 pm (UTC)Enjoy! You're getting into the really meaty, involved part of the story!
Fanfic is kind of a problem ... I should take another look at the Pit of Voles and see whether it's all as bad as I remember. (meganbmoore recently described as making her want "to claw my eyes out.") Otherwise there is some on the love_deeper LJ community, but ... one of love_deeper's major activities for a while was fan translations of the new Japanese issues as they came out. So the vast majority of the fic there is full of really, really important spoilers for the end of the series.
There are a few little things:
1sentence for Akira/Benitora - many of them surprisingly effective and pithy.
Flash fic. Sasuke musing on survival instincts ... and Benitora
Give and Take (PG; Kyo/Hotaru)
Also, from Yuletide:
Casual Observer (G; gen, Yukimura-centric, but mostly about - you guessed it, Kyo/Yuya. Still, pretty well-written.)
And, um > blush < I've written a few things myself.
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Date: 2008-05-29 09:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-30 01:46 am (UTC)Hmmm ... sanada's Hana-mi SDK site has scans/trans for 33 onward, and she filled in a couple of the translations betwen those and now, but no one seems to have done the scans. I think that the fangirls were just really getting going with LJ etc. at that point in the Japanese publications. The late lamented SDKPowaaa site, which was French, had scans ... but the webmaster got bored and just pulled the plug one day. All that great stuff - GONE!
Hmmm .. this looks like vol. 29 here and the first chapter of vol. 30. But I'm not having much luck finding the others. Sorry!
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Date: 2008-05-30 04:23 am (UTC)I think you said something about 33 Volumes so far. I've read some comments that say spoiler for the end of SDK, etc. I was just wondering is SDK finished in Japan or is it still ongoing?
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Date: 2008-05-30 04:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-02 11:53 am (UTC)>> Ok I'm a dork. I just scrolled up in our conversation and saw you said the series went to 38 Volumes. <<
Not to worry! Yes, the series ended in Japan in the early fall of 2006 - just about the time I first got into it!