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DmonHiro
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Well.....I did not see this one comming
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Leebo
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That is possibly the strangest mash-up I've seen in a while. |
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britannicamoore
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Xmen shojo? I think I might have just puked in my mouth a bit.
so whats going to happen- all of the guys with freaky powers love her but she can't choose? I think X-men and I think angst and action. Not sunshine and buttflies. I'm hoping the X-men fanboys don't hear about this for awhile. |
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Paploo
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Keen! X-men has a long, long, long history with Manga and Manga-influenced artists, so it's not a total surprise. Dave Roman and Raina are excellent writers [and artists! Raina does the Baby Sitters Club Gn's for Scholastic], so this is nothing but win in my book.
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Splitter
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I'll buy this just for the novelty. |
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Aki Ameko
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Definately sounds interesting. But why make her the only girl in an all boys school...? That aspect of the plot sounds a tad dumb to me. (But then again, maybe I don't read as much shojo as I think I do?) In any case, I'll probably check it out. You never know until you try it.
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GATSU
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I dunno. Why not just expand on Scott and Jean's relationship, if they want to go shoujo?
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Paploo
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Been reading X-men for..... 13? years, and I'm not shocked about it. We've had several X-men manga before, and artists like Joe Mad, Frank Miller, Chris Bachalo, Art Adams, etc have all done manga-ish styles on X-men for ages, so it's not a total shock. There was a pretty fun issue of Excalibur from around 1989 where the team [then stuck in a longrunning plot line where they were travelling across alternate universes] landed in a world that was more or less The Dirty Pair's universe. There's been japanese manga artists on X-men over the past 10 years such as the creator of Blame, Kia Asiyama, as well as a manga adaption of the X-men animated series that ran in Japan and was translated by Marvel in 1997/1998. As for flowery X-men, well, Romance is a fairly common theme in X-men (Rogue/Gambit angst has been a prime writer's staple for what, 16 years now? I know WAY too many Rogue/Gambit fangirls), as is humour, and teenagers [New Mutants, Generation X], and strong female characters (which seems to be writer Chris Claremont's favorite fixation). |
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Brand
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No that sounds pretty silly to me. It seems pretty typical shojo though. Though I think I'd rather see it as a coed boarding school. I think the different love triangles would be much more interesting coming out of that kind of situation. I'll at least have to take a look at this when it comes out though. |
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Paploo
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So we can have Cross Dressing Kitty Pryde? Given the series is set in a school [and there's been at least one X-men spinoff series focused on "teenage mutants going to school and their trials and tribulations" since New Mutants, likewise the 60's version], it's a pretty logical setting. It sounds like they're going for an alternate universe story, which is pretty common for X-men spinoffs too. I'm just thankful it's Shojo Kitty Pryde [which makes a lot of sense. Kitty's darned cute], and not more "Skanky Manga Time" Jean Grey/Madeline Pryor comics. [http://comics.org/covers.lasso?SeriesID=17966 circa 2003] DelRey/Marvel, can we have a Mystique/Destiny Yuri manga now? Or howabout an SD-style X-Babies manga? http://comics.org/series.lasso?SeriesID=3838 |
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Paploo
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Cause Jean Grey's dead [again]? There's so many romantic couples in X-men, I imagine it's hard to pick just one....... Last edited by Paploo on Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:02 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Aki Ameko
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Aki Ameko
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minakichan
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I am frightened.
Well, if we think of this as a completely separate project from X-Men, just aimed for girls, it sounds interesting. However, I AM getting major "Evangelion: Angelic Days" vibes from this. I am curious. Curiosity killed the cat, but I will be prodding. |
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GATSU
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Paploo:
Heh |
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