Coffee Spoons

Yoshihara Yuki’s works differ from mainstream shoujo manga and bears its own distinctive style even within the josei genre due to the mangaka’s drunkenly blunt sense of humor and her clever manipulation of the gender dynamics between her female heroines and their love interests. Her protagonists are outspoken, aggressive, and unabashedly sexual in the pursuit of their romantic interests. They do not bother to put up a front of being docile or coy in their intentions. Their antics are hilarious. They steal their lover’s underwear, they talk dirty without being sexy about it, they are loud about wanting sex and can’t be bothered to beat around the bushes, they stalk their love interests and terrorize them with their monstrous libidos, and still they’re so much fun to read about that I can’t get through a chapter of any of her works without nearly bursting my gut from laughing so hard.

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itsubun’s new blog/subdomain

Thank you, Ashley for the hookup and Brian for setting up this new subdomain at Curry-Fury. You guys can split my soul and trick moneyz, etc.

For those of you who actually bother keeping up with my blogging and hysteria, please update your blogroll to http://coffee-spoons.curry-fury.com/

Also, new feedburner: http://coffee-spoons.curry-fury.com/feed/

itsubun is going to be deleted once I tie up the last of my loose ends and finish settling in here.

In other news, the summer lineup for 2008 is a disappointment to say the least [harem, harem, harem, with a side of harem]. But that means I can finally start chipping away at my HUEG backlog. Because Hige has been loitering outside of my window with his trashbags and babbling about being a hobo for a month in an attempt to move my cold, cold heart, I’m thinking I should probably pick up FLCL some time soon before he follows through with his hard luvin’.

Hope summer is going well for all of you.

So I finally got around to watching TTGL after a fun week of Hige standing over me with his whip ever since I mentioned that I’ve kinda, sorta [totally] been ignoring all of the internet hype about it when it first premiered and therefore, have been living under a rock. So the existence of this entry is due in large part to his aggressive pimping enthusiastic encouragement to give TTGL a try.

All fun poking at Hige aside, I’m glad I didn’t miss out on this series. Funny, fantastical, all the right proportions of giddy excitement for epic adventures and deep empathy for the depiction of private and universal human struggles, TTGL is a Win.

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