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la_vie_noire) wrote2008-11-30 04:08 am
la_vie_noire) wrote2008-11-30 04:08 am
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I'm spamming like there is no tomorrow, but will pay you back. I will disappear this week.
Being up to date with the manga, of course I have to write my thoughts!
I was talking about the recent sample objectification, not because it didn't exist already in the manga; but because, before, women's bodies were always secondary and not the focus: no uber-big boobs, there were muscles, and the clothes were, well, not like that. The exaggeration of women's secondary sexual-characteristics (specially in Lucienda and Agatha's awakened forms) was more prominent than in earlier volumes. And there are these new 'deserter's uniforms' which...
Anyway. Comments, theories and the likes:
1) Isley. Where is he? He wasn't with Priscilla and Raki. Seven years passed. Raki knows Priscilla isn't human, but he seems okay with that because she isn't eating anybody, he claims. He still hates Yoma, kills them, and says he copes with Priscilla because he doesn't 'know another way of staying alive.' Meanwhile, Priscilla seems very fond of him. I don't think Isley is dead because Riful would know it, but I think an scenario in which Raki discovered Isley and Priscilla's true nature, and ended up shocked and despaired isn't unlikely. This of course would've affected Priscilla, who is a lot fonder of Raki than she is of Isley, so she decided to part ways with the latter to follow the former. Or maybe Priscilla just killed Isley because he bothered Raki, but that seems unlikely.
2) Does someone else want to bet their limbs that Cynthia is the one Riful is looking for? The woman has been looking for An Eye even since before Lucienda and Isley battled, and Cynthia looks even more talented than Clare and some Single Digits.
4) The informant was Rubel after all. No surprises there.
5) Helen and Deneve are so married. I'm waiting for the manga to make them canon. They are always together. Deneve's hometown is close to Helen's, coincidentally. "I don't have interest in going; but if you go, I don't have another choice." "I don't want to disobey Miria's orders, but if you want to save them, I don't have another choice." They are like... finishing each other sentences. They are the Touya/Yukito of shonen's shoujo-ai.
6) Miria and Hilda. That was incredibly sad. Damn you, little psychopath Ophelia.
7) I like Riful. There. I said it. She is funny, smart, powerful, cunning, and totally not sexualized. Her awakened form has boobs in a way that is more creepy than sexy. I know she is a sick sadist, but.
8) OTOH, I hated Ophelia.
9) I like how this turned out. The issues of humanity, and power and its gray moral ground were appealing to me even in all their shoneness (yeah, I just coined that word). Priscilla wanted to kill Teresa because she was a 'traitor' of The Organization and that made her evil. Teresa told her, "the world doesn't work that way, young lady!" and she was right, of course. Girls were used in awful ways by The Organization, which doesn't care at all about lives, but about power. The experiments, the expendability of the warriors are addressed in a way that leaves me satisfied.
And I liked that Miria and the others survived at the North, not by wining over anyone, but by faking their deaths. Not heroic, but practical.
10) They are all women! Lone-ruthless warriors who accept their job even if they have the power to oppose it just because they are past the point of caring, psychopaths, smart strategists, witty laid-backs, cool and composed and passionate energetic types, mentors, muscled show-offs. All women. Very white, bleached-haired (due to being half Yoma), skinny women, but women nonetheless. I take what I can.
I was talking about the recent sample objectification, not because it didn't exist already in the manga; but because, before, women's bodies were always secondary and not the focus: no uber-big boobs, there were muscles, and the clothes were, well, not like that. The exaggeration of women's secondary sexual-characteristics (specially in Lucienda and Agatha's awakened forms) was more prominent than in earlier volumes. And there are these new 'deserter's uniforms' which...
Anyway. Comments, theories and the likes:
1) Isley. Where is he? He wasn't with Priscilla and Raki. Seven years passed. Raki knows Priscilla isn't human, but he seems okay with that because she isn't eating anybody, he claims. He still hates Yoma, kills them, and says he copes with Priscilla because he doesn't 'know another way of staying alive.' Meanwhile, Priscilla seems very fond of him. I don't think Isley is dead because Riful would know it, but I think an scenario in which Raki discovered Isley and Priscilla's true nature, and ended up shocked and despaired isn't unlikely. This of course would've affected Priscilla, who is a lot fonder of Raki than she is of Isley, so she decided to part ways with the latter to follow the former. Or maybe Priscilla just killed Isley because he bothered Raki, but that seems unlikely.
2) Does someone else want to bet their limbs that Cynthia is the one Riful is looking for? The woman has been looking for An Eye even since before Lucienda and Isley battled, and Cynthia looks even more talented than Clare and some Single Digits.
4) The informant was Rubel after all. No surprises there.
5) Helen and Deneve are so married. I'm waiting for the manga to make them canon. They are always together. Deneve's hometown is close to Helen's, coincidentally. "I don't have interest in going; but if you go, I don't have another choice." "I don't want to disobey Miria's orders, but if you want to save them, I don't have another choice." They are like... finishing each other sentences. They are the Touya/Yukito of shonen's shoujo-ai.
6) Miria and Hilda. That was incredibly sad. Damn you, little psychopath Ophelia.
7) I like Riful. There. I said it. She is funny, smart, powerful, cunning, and totally not sexualized. Her awakened form has boobs in a way that is more creepy than sexy. I know she is a sick sadist, but.
8) OTOH, I hated Ophelia.
9) I like how this turned out. The issues of humanity, and power and its gray moral ground were appealing to me even in all their shoneness (yeah, I just coined that word). Priscilla wanted to kill Teresa because she was a 'traitor' of The Organization and that made her evil. Teresa told her, "the world doesn't work that way, young lady!" and she was right, of course. Girls were used in awful ways by The Organization, which doesn't care at all about lives, but about power. The experiments, the expendability of the warriors are addressed in a way that leaves me satisfied.
And I liked that Miria and the others survived at the North, not by wining over anyone, but by faking their deaths. Not heroic, but practical.
10) They are all women! Lone-ruthless warriors who accept their job even if they have the power to oppose it just because they are past the point of caring, psychopaths, smart strategists, witty laid-backs, cool and composed and passionate energetic types, mentors, muscled show-offs. All women. Very white, bleached-haired (due to being half Yoma), skinny women, but women nonetheless. I take what I can.
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