sakende yaruze... anybody have it and want to share?

[meretricula]

Um... all of you who happen to be fans of Sakende Yaruze (who am I kidding, I know it's just etiolation)... did anyone by any chance happen to grab chapters 7, 9, 12 or 14 off neoterica before their bandwidth went kaput? Because let me tell you, it's IMMENSELY frustrating to read a manga while you're missing some of the chapters. Also, I want the pretty. ...maybe I'll go hunting for Japanese bookstores.
~lusts after the pretty (which is... hmm, Nakaya, Akihi, Shino, Tenryuu, Mizusawa and Sakende Yaruze in general. Why can't I read Japanese?) and weeps~

Comments

[sylvie-the-elf.livejournal.com]

The reason why you can't read Japanese is because otherwise you'd be a total Mary-Sue.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

hee! aww, but I *want* to be a Mary-Sue!

[sylvie-the-elf.livejournal.com]

Some people are never ever satisfied!

...I thought you were going to be a Mary-Sue assassin with me! Traitor!

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

...doesn't a Mary-Sue assassin sound a bit like a Mary-Sue? We're talking tight black leather, dangerous yet sexy guns, heavy black eyeliner... the gothic Mary-Sue!

[sylvie-the-elf.livejournal.com]

Hmm, no, I think that would be a character with Mary-Sue elements, if you see what I mean. (Why am I vaguely suspicious that you were thinking of Trinity whilst writing that?)

I think the proper, ff.net Mary-Sue authors' (and I use that term in the broadest sense) idea of a "gothy" Mary-Sue is someone who:

- wears lots and lots of black
- has the trademark weirdly-coloured eyes
- has an attractive-but-rare facial feature (possibly eye colour, see above) that gets them teased mercilessly but will cause the right man to fall in love with her at the right time
- is hardcore (i.e. says "damn" a lot)
- is ghostly pale
- has an obligatory fat friend who says how beautiful they are and how jealous everyone else is
- has scary grammar/spelling/punctuation

I'm sorry, doll, you just don't fit in.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

well, i wasn't thinking of Trinity at the time, but now that you mention it...
and dearest, it is all too true. also, i have written characters like that... ~cries~
well, except the bad grammar. I never write bad grammar. =P

[etiolation.livejournal.com]

Eheu, I do not have. I've been reading Mandayuu no Ore and Dildo Company these days so ummm..yeah. X_x

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

oh well. and I'm guessing you don't have the books, either. ~le sigh~ I'll just have to have someone explain IRC to me.

Mandayuu... I started reading that, went "er, what?" over the extreme graphic-ness in the first chapter, and gave up. Does it actually have a plot?