fascinating...

[meretricula]

dear f-list,
for those of you who have read Prince of Tennis, watched it, or are in the process of either, this is fascinating. Go check it out. While you're at it, read Branch's fic. It's better than fascinating, it's also hot as hell.
love,
Belladonna

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[lhaw-en-edhel.livejournal.com]

aaaagh. more reading material! I thought PoT would stop ruining my life once I finished reading up to 288...

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

~snuggles~ not so long as I'm around to find more shit for you to read!

[nansuo.livejournal.com]

I pretend I don't like analytical pieces because it hurts my brain. But I read them anyways, haha.

"It strikes me that one of the major things PoT is also about is what great talent means in a culture like Japan. It puts you out of step, and most of the characters don't really cope well with that. All the really, extremely talented characters are really, extremely odd, with the exception of Echizen who just has Attitude.

Fuji is disconnected. In his own way, so is Tezuka, though he's managed to do it in a pattern more likely to let him slide through life with the strangeness unnoticed. Akutsu is a freaking psycho. Atobe has problems of his own, while we're discussing destructive tendencies, and so does Kirihara. Sanada seems to cope by clinging to the forms of tradition. And Yukimura appears to maintain two very different sides, a gentle and cheerful one for social purposes, and a steel-edged ruthless one for tennis purposes."

Best. two. paragraphs. ever. And I think, it's a very Asian element in stories, in that no one can have that "perfect" life. There are WAY too many Chinese dramas about intelligent/talented people who turn insane/homicidal/paranoid/etc., and those shows are over-the-roof popular. Tenipuri, while I don't think is as extreme, does have some of that. Sadistic television viewers. ^^

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

now i want more Sanada smut. ~sulks~ she always makes me love Sanada best. ~huggles the grumpy Sanada bunny~