yakitate!! japan

[naanima]

Alive, just no real fandom related talk except for the re-reading of Hikaru no Go, which hurt, because my brain can only handle so much Chinese without the aid of my Chinese to English dictionary, and a little manga called Yakitate!! Japan. I have made a five volume skirmish into the series, which is beyond my normal experience. There's crack like PoT, there's mind!fuck like Death Note but very few manga is so completely over the bend as Yakitate!! Japan. The tempo to this series is really fast, and this is quite important considering this series is about bread making.

I'm also terribly smitten with most of the cast. The female cast isn't annoying (competent, manipulative, down right evil, but not annoying or stupid), Tsukino makes a really cool female lead; ambitious, competent and NOT in love with any of the male characters. It is ALL about the bread making! Furthermore, I am convinced that Kuroyanagi is into S&M, and had a long love affair with Shigeru, which probably ended horribly when Shigeru professed he finds mold much more sexy and is really his life long love. But that doesn't mean Shigeru can't still mess with Kuroyanagi's mind, he's an evil genius after all.

hissori_danko has a much better summary of the series up here.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hissori/]

Yay, you succumbed to Yakitate too! XD *cackles in glee*

Oh man, Kuroyan SO had an affair with Shigeru, and I bet he left it totally screwed up in the head, too. Shigeru/Kuroyan (yes, in that order) seems to be a rather popular pairing in the J-fandom, and the fics about Shigeru messing with Kuroyan are way too amusing.

Just wait till you get to the Monaco Cup arc, though. Even more crack, especially with Pierrot! <3

[naanima.livejournal.com]

Shigeru/Kuroyan. Definitely! As if Kuroyan could have any control with Shigeru. The Evil One will be the one who is Teh Man *coughs* in the relationship. And completely screwed, no questions about it. Poor Kuroyan, him and his uh, issues -_-;; There are fics?!

I'll be getting the rest sometime soon ^_^V

(And I LOVE the Meister! OMFG! *screeches*)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hissori/]

Yeah, there are fics in the J-fandom. XD I once read one where Shigeru drugged the bread he made for the competition, so when Kuroyan tasted it, he passed out. When he woke up, he was in the hospital room, and found Shigeru there with him. And after that... *coughs*

Meister Kirisaki is AWESOME. XD But if you think he's love now, wait until you see how he judges the finals!

[amei.livejournal.com]

OH SHIT THAT ZOOLANDER ICON IS GENIUS!

[naanima.livejournal.com]

WTF?! NAKKID DUDE WITH CHAINSAW! AND BOKKEN! OMFG!!!!!!

ARGHHHHHHHHHHH!

(how have you been? we should get together sometime in the near future. I might even phone you sometime soon... possibly tomorrow evening).

Hmmm...

[nekomancy.livejournal.com]

Why indeed does the all the scrip on this page go into Jap? >_<

Anyways, wondering when you got time to meet an old friend & trade in laundry detergent?

[i-smile.livejournal.com]

I love this manga&show because it is about BREAD. Deathly serious bread, :D. Man. If only there were more fic for it; I've seen only... two, I think. :/

[naanima.livejournal.com]

Deathly serious bread. Exactly. And I love it for those reasons ^_^ (and the evil genius, and the crack, and the plot, and the.... you get my drift).

fics in English? WHERE?! WHERE?!

[i-smile.livejournal.com]

:D It is great!

You might already have seen one, and the other two are friends-locked, :/! In any case: one (http://www.livejournal.com/users/two_if_by_sea/57705.html) by two_if_by_sea; the others are absenceofmind's, both Kawachi/Azuma. She doesn't bite. :)