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phosfate ([personal profile] phosfate) wrote2002-06-27 09:47 am
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More manga. Chobits volume 1, CLAMP's take on the beautiful magic/alien/robot chick moves in with boy student genre. As has been pointed out elsewhere on LJ (I'm too lazy to make a link, 'cause...lazy), it's incredibly creepy, taking all the disturbing elements of this genre (e.g., the boy is a whiny bastard interested in porn, and works in a 'hospitality' club, while robogirl is eminently victimizable tabula rasa) and putting them in your face, while still being cyuuuuuuuuute as all get-out. Don't expect the lush art of Clover - this is as close to 'ordinary' art as I've seen them do. Done in Tokyopop's right-to-left format, but much more readable than most of their RTL volumes (glares at the indecipherable Dragon Knights).
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[personal profile] wednesday 2002-06-27 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, it's still That Way? Pants.
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[personal profile] wednesday 2002-06-27 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
Creepy'n'Pandering.
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[identity profile] annlarimer.livejournal.com 2002-06-27 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
It's...I dunno. I have a feeling they're setting up to screw with the genre, but I'm not sure. It's more deliberately creepy, I think, as opposed to the creepiness of Maico 2010. The pandering bits are relatively minimal, and genuinely upsetting.

I'm tempted to find a synopsis of the series somewhere to find out if I'm wasting my money.

[identity profile] nitasee.livejournal.com 2002-06-27 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
My take on Chobits: they gals of Clamp are definitely setting it up to mess with you expectations and screw with the genre.

[identity profile] nitasee.livejournal.com 2002-06-27 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
I think I'm the one who mentioned Chobits. It's wonderfully subversive.

Also, I suggest trying Paradise Kiss (also Tokoyopop). It features the usual innocent, never-been-kissed good girl of, oh, just about every single girls' manga and throws her in with a group of art students all of whom seem to have walked out of the photos in Fruits. It's surprisingly good.
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[identity profile] annlarimer.livejournal.com 2002-06-27 10:41 am (UTC)(link)
Ooooooooo!

Damn! I wish I'd know that before I sent in my Amazon order.

[identity profile] nitasee.livejournal.com 2002-06-27 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Place a second order. It's worth your money. And if the haven't shipped it yet, you can combine orders.
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[identity profile] annlarimer.livejournal.com 2002-06-27 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
You're a smarty every day!
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