Samurai Deeper Kyo Takes on the World!

[chomiji]

Onime-no-Kyo continues his LJ conquest ... a couple of months ago, it was telophase who had succumbed (scroll to near bottom), and now it's rachelmanija, who discusses the situation both without spoilers (she compares it to Lymond! squee!) and with spoilers (through vol. 5 ... don't mess it up for her!).

This makes me very, very happy. SDK is a wonderful series - once you get past the first couple of volumes - and deserves more attention than it's had. It's a fantasy adventure, a political thriller, and a soap opera - all at once.

Comments

[ipperne.livejournal.com]

Um, that has been Kyo's secret plan all along; first to take over LJ, then the entire web, and then the World!
All together with his merry band of bishies we all love so much^^

[sanada.livejournal.com]

Today, we conquer LJ... tomorrow, THE WORLD...!!

*laugh* I always recommend that people start with volume 3... but I've noticed that the first two or three volumes of most shounen series suck. I guess they have to be formulaic and full of fanservice to hook new readers (especially in the very competitive weekly shounen magazines where a lot of new series get axed before they make it to two volumes). And of course SDK was Kamijyo's first series, too, so you can see her adjust to the learning curve and go from from bad-guy-of-the-week to bad-guy-of-the-week-that-readers-actually-care-about to real-developed-villains. (Of course, being an assistant to Takahashi Rumiko, one of the most famous and beloved mangaka in Japan and the US, probably gave Kamijyo some much-needed experience.)