2/20/09

Do you purchase your anime at Best Buy?

Me too! This news is a mixture of good and bad, though. Starting March 1st 460 Best Buy stores will start selling their anime at 50% off. Awesome, right?! Now here's the bad part, after March 26th, 500 of these stores will only have 20 anime SKUS (wow >_<), but the top 200 Best Buy stores will carry 100 anime SKUS. So, yeah, that sucks. Whenever I wanted to purchase a new release I always went to Best Buy and the one I live near has a very broad selection. Hopefully the store I go to will be one that will have 100 SKU's. But call up your local Best Buy and see if they're taking part in the sale.

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The Best Type of Crush

Spring break is in two weeks! Unlike the small minority of people who go out partying, I’m part of the majority and I go home to chill. I plan on renting a few games to play with my brother, but I’m also looking into getting some movies. Now, I’m not a big movie person. I don’t go to watch’em in the theater, I very rarely rent ‘em, and I almost never buy ‘em. But I recently came upon a site that sells gay and lesbian movies and found a title called Schoolboy Crush. It has intrigued me.

This is a Japanese movie that follows a teacher who pays to sleep with a teen boy prostitute but, oh noes, the same teen ends up being a new transfer into his class. Sounds like your typical yaoi, doesn't it? The acting looks horrible and the guys are meh looking, but I have a weird love of all things terrible. I do, however, think the movie looks breathtaking. And I was all ready to purchase it until I fell upon this:

Bangkok Love Story is a movie from Thailand and it looks like a lot of fun. And that cover image, you gotta admit, is hot. I'm leaning more towards this one just because the plot sounds more interesting (and the guys are hotter). But I'm going to do more research on both films before I make a purchase. But in the end, it will probably come down to what my family will want to see.

2/17/09

KakaIru Love-Love Tuesdays -2-

Haven't been updating because of midterms. Hoping things will slow down after next week. But, here, KakaIru for you! Ha-ha, I like to think Iruka did that to himself in a last ditch attempt to escape from pervert Kakashi XD.

2/10/09

KakaIru Love-Love Tuesdays -1-

Tuesday and Thursday's are super busy for me, so I wanted to do something on those days that would be relatively easy for me to post. So, welcome to KakaIru Love-Love Tuesdays! On Tuesday I'll try and update with a sketch of everyone's favorite ninja couple. Mostly doing this to force myself to draw these two. They're one of my favorite yaoi pairings but I very rarely draw them.

Still not sure what I want to do for Thursday. So this week you might not see an update. But hopefully this weekend I'll be able to figure something out.

2/9/09

Gravitation's Yuki Eiri Needs a Sexy Voice

I recently purchased Gravitation and have slowly been making my way through the DVD's. I've been trying to watch the English dub, but I can't ever make it through a whole episode before switching back to Japanese. If you've watched the dub of Gravi you know how bad the acting is. The only character I find slightly tolerable is Shuichi and that's only a quarter of the time. The biggest disappointment is Yuki Eiri. The English dub Yuki delivers his lines flatly and with no emotion, which is a stark contrast from the great performance Inoue Kazuhiko gave.

I want a Yuki with a deep gravely voice! What's that, yaoi fairy, there is such an English Yuki in existence and I can find it on YouTube?

Aside from being totally hysterical (funny sound effects ftw) you have to admit this Yuki is 100 times better than the Right Stuf dub. And maybe it's just me, but dude sounds like Steve Blum in my opinion. And Blum's voice is ooey-gooey sex on a stick (a very sexy stick). And Yuki needs to sound sexy! So, kudos to you, Cheapss Production's, whoever you are, for making my dream of a hot sounding Yuki come true.

Also, check out Right Stuf if you're looking for the DVD's for cheap. They only have volumes 1-3 in stock, but you won't be able to find them anywhere else for the great price of 6 dollars each.

EDIT: Oh-ho-ho, found more.

This is the second half of the first episode. So, yes, elevator scene again. But you know you love that scene. And I think I kinda miss the whiny Shuichi from the other one, lol. But, oh, more sexy Yuki? Yes please!

Here's the Youtube profile page for Laliophobia Studios. Check it out!

2/7/09

Be x Boy April Cover

Libre has updated their Be x Boy magazine page. You can go there to check out the previews and see if any of your fave artist are in this issue. I usually like to check and see what to look forward to the next month. And lo and behold there was a nice little surprise waiting for me:

Tanaka Suzuki will be doing the cover art for the April issue of Be x Boy! I have been a fan of her work since I discovered it in 2002, and I can be wrong, but I don't think since then she hasn't done any cover work for this particular magazine (and if I am wrong, please do share her cover art). Maybe she did one during the run of Menkui!, but I wouldn't know. Anyway, snatching this up just to add it to my burgeoning Tanaka Suzuki collection.

Christian Yaoi Fans

So I found this video on youtube and boy did it bring back some memories. Basically the video is girl confessing how she's a Christian and she *gaspity* likes yaoi. I know, in my case, it was something I really struggled with when I was a teenager. I’ve been reading yaoi fanfics and doujinshi since I was about thirteen. As I stated in a previous entry the only people I was open about it with were my two sisters. And just like the girl in the video who had to get doom and gloom from her friends I received the same talk from them. Constantly. Fire and brimstone and gnashing of teeth and all that fun stuff.

Did their scare tactics work? You better believe it. I would go for months without reading yaoi and BL but then relapse like an alcoholic. At certain points I had my sister trash my BL collection. Seriously. My Japanese Gravitation manga, my knockoff gravitation dvds, Menkui!, Bokura no Okuku, and I could go on and on, they all went in the dumpster. Gone. I had my sister toss ‘em because I couldn’t do it. I was quite obviously, a weak Christian. But why would I have her do something so wasteful? Why not sell the manga (which I wanted to do)? I can’t remember specifically, but I know there is a certain passage in the bible that had a group of people burning unholy books. It was better to burn the books then to spend an eternity in hell, I guess. And also, it was better to just dump ‘em because if I sold them I would be spreading temptation to others and that was just as wrong as reading the yaoi myself.

So, how did I rationalize my attraction to this material? I would tell my sisters I read it for the story, not the sex. Oh, wow. Really. How could anybody believe that? Especially when I read things like Under Grand Hotel. The thing is, they didn’t know I was reading such graphic material, so I could trick ’em. But how did I rationalize it to myself? At first I told myself I would eventually grow out of it. But as I neared my 20’s it was quite obvious it wasn’t going anywhere. So, next I turned to the bible and nowhere in it will you find Peter, Paul, Matthew, John, Mary, Job, or your mom ever say anything about how wrong it was for two male cartoon characters to engage in hot sex. So I had an out! I was free to read and watch as much as I wanted and have no fear of burning eternally! Right? Right? Wrong. The problem is I knew I was BSing and my sisters knew I was BSing and that just made it worse.

What turned everything around for me is when I said screw it and just opened up about it. I told my mom, my brothers, my friends, anybody and everybody who would let me ramble about it. I don’t want to sound cliché or corny but really and truly, accepting that part of me helped me let go of a lot of agony I put myself through. During my last years as a Christian, yaoi wasn’t a issue anymore. I accepted it and the people who filled my life accepted it. And boy what a relief it was to be as open about liking it as I was about liking something such as Final Fantasy VI (the best final fantasy EVER).

So, yes, it is possible to like yaoi and be a Christian and not have to feel guilty about it. I know in some family’s you can’t tell your mom, dad or your friends without severe repercussions, but as long as you’re okay with it, it’s not really necessary to tell anyone else. Life is too short, so if reading yaoi makes you happy, keep on keepin’ on.

2/2/09

Ippo, the Super Uke

I was browsing through the Hajime no Ippo doujinshi on the Japanese Yahoo Auction page and it would seem the majority (if not all) of doujin available have Ippo as a bottom. When it comes to Miyata and Ippo, though, I just don't know. I guess I can see them switchin' it up, but then the real problem is I really can't picture these two in a sexual relationship. If anything, I see Miyata basically screwing with Ippo. Like leading him on and then pulling back just when Ippo thinks he has him. That sounds like a plot that could be used for a comedy doujin, which, yeah, I do prefer over the yaoi ones. Funny thing is I can so see Sendo and Ippo having sex. But when it comes to Miyata, I just can't see the relationship going past Ippo's crazy obsession. Does anyone else feel the same way?

Speaking of Ippo doujinshi, I totally want this one:

It's Takamura/Ippo. There's also a couple Sendo/Ippo ones I'd like to snatch up. Miyata/Ippo? No, no, no! I'm just not there yet. Maybe someday. But right now I'm content with Ippo being with everyone but Miyata.

2/1/09

February 2009 BL Releases

BLUManga Releases

Title: Black Knight Vol. 4
Creator: Kai Tsurugi
Pages: 176
Price: 12.99
ISBN: 1427812810
Release Date: February 3

Deux Press Releases

Title: Love Round!!
Creator: Hinako Takanaga
Pages: 192
Price: 12.95
ISBN: 1934496553
Release Date: February
June Manga Releases

Title: Clan of the Nakagamis Volume 2: The Devil Cometh
Creator: Homerun Ken
Pages: 200
Price: 12.95
ISBN: 1569700338
Release Date: February 25

Title: Pure Heart
Creator: Hyouta Fujiyama
Pages: 184
Price: 12.95
ISBN: 1569700273
Release Date: February 25

Title: The Way to Heaven
Creator: Yamimaru Enjin
Pages: 200
Price: 12.95
ISBN: 1569700281
Release Date: February 25

Yet again I left some titles off because Amazon is listing them for a March Release. Love Round!! is suppose to come out March 1st, but usually books arrive in bookstores a week ahead so I went ahead and put it here because more likely then not it will hit bookshelves this month.

The Way to Heaven is the only title I'll probably pick up this month. Although the titles by Homerun Ken and Hinako Takanaga do peak my interest because I'm a fan of their art. As always, if I missed anything feel free to inform me and I'll add it to the above listing.