The latest SDK volume had some wonderful scenes for Yukimura ... including a dynamite sword fight with Kyo that had my very het husband saying "Ahh, they're just having sex in public!" No subtext, eh? XD I need to blog the whole thing, but there will be some spoilers, so you shouldn't go past the cut. Things are starting to happen hot and heavy in that series. In fact, that same "OMG OMG, how they're suffering, what's going to happen next EEEK!" that I had with The Maze is about what the last 6 or so volumes of SDK are like (I read them in scanslations, with sanada doing the translation part). Of course it's a mainstream T-rated shounen manga, so there isn't any of the weirder rape-type stuff ... although at one point Hishigi does walk over to a magically frozen-in-place Kyo and stroke his face and say "You still have such lovely eyes, Kyo ... ."
Now I'm obsessing over how, with the way that dice game works, one could make money as a professional gambler unless one was in on yakuza machinations involving it. The Mr. suggested maybe my SDK-era Gojyo should play Go or Shoji for money as well, since those are skills-based.
Plot would be basically, Gojyo in an inn some night, tight on cash, having trouble making it up through gambling, and then to add to the insult, his usual ploy with the girls isn't working because those kind of girls are already all over Yukimura (which is canon for him as well) ... but Yukimura decides Gojyo is more interesting than the girls, and has to figure out a way to get this across without hurting Gojyo's pride.
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Date: 2008-03-17 03:39 am (UTC)The latest SDK volume had some wonderful scenes for Yukimura ... including a dynamite sword fight with Kyo that had my very het husband saying "Ahh, they're just having sex in public!" No subtext, eh? XD I need to blog the whole thing, but there will be some spoilers, so you shouldn't go past the cut. Things are starting to happen hot and heavy in that series. In fact, that same "OMG OMG, how they're suffering, what's going to happen next EEEK!" that I had with The Maze is about what the last 6 or so volumes of SDK are like (I read them in scanslations, with sanada doing the translation part). Of course it's a mainstream T-rated shounen manga, so there isn't any of the weirder rape-type stuff ... although at one point Hishigi does walk over to a magically frozen-in-place Kyo and stroke his face and say "You still have such lovely eyes, Kyo ... ."
Now I'm obsessing over how, with the way that dice game works, one could make money as a professional gambler unless one was in on yakuza machinations involving it. The Mr. suggested maybe my SDK-era Gojyo should play Go or Shoji for money as well, since those are skills-based.
Plot would be basically, Gojyo in an inn some night, tight on cash, having trouble making it up through gambling, and then to add to the insult, his usual ploy with the girls isn't working because those kind of girls are already all over Yukimura (which is canon for him as well) ... but Yukimura decides Gojyo is more interesting than the girls, and has to figure out a way to get this across without hurting Gojyo's pride.