I can understand that: it's like I was with Samurai Deeper Kyo, my first manga. I had no idea that what seemed so special to me was in some cases typical of manga, especially shounen. Yukimura's "no one gets to kill you except me, Kyo!" was so wonderful ... I didn't realize how many shounen characters had already said that to their frenemies.
And the depth of the multiple levels of betrayal and conflicting loyalties ... . It's not that I'd never known anything like it (several people I know have agreed that Dorothy Dunnett's 6-volume historical adventure, the Lymond Chronicles, would make a great manga), but I'd never expected a comic to be like that, plus the online community aspect of things was amazing.
And yeah, that's really how I ended up on LJ. I went looking for more info online about SDK and found sanada's translation site, and she suggested I start with LJ because there was an SDK comm. She also suggested Saiyuki when I was thinking of trying other manga.
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Date: 2015-03-09 01:22 am (UTC)I can understand that: it's like I was with Samurai Deeper Kyo, my first manga. I had no idea that what seemed so special to me was in some cases typical of manga, especially shounen. Yukimura's "no one gets to kill you except me, Kyo!" was so wonderful ... I didn't realize how many shounen characters had already said that to their frenemies.
And the depth of the multiple levels of betrayal and conflicting loyalties ... . It's not that I'd never known anything like it (several people I know have agreed that Dorothy Dunnett's 6-volume historical adventure, the Lymond Chronicles, would make a great manga), but I'd never expected a comic to be like that, plus the online community aspect of things was amazing.
And yeah, that's really how I ended up on LJ. I went looking for more info online about SDK and found![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sanada's translation site, and she suggested I start with LJ because there was an SDK comm. She also suggested Saiyuki when I was thinking of trying other manga.