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la_vie_noire ([personal profile] la_vie_noire) wrote2010-03-17 07:02 pm
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Ooku

Ooku wins James Tiptree Award. It's the first time a manga has won. Ooku has also was "recipient of special prize at The Japanese Association of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy's fifth annual Sense of Gender awards (2005), Excellence Award for manga at Japan Media Arts Festival (2006), and Grand Prize in Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize (2009)".

I post this because I can. And because, against all economy odds, I ordered the first two volumes. Oops.

Oh God. How much I don't want to study Biochemistry. Let me count the ways.
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[personal profile] starlady 2010-03-17 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, it's so cool that it won! *is ridiculously excited*

The Tezuka Award is huge, too; I hadn't realized about that one.
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[personal profile] la_vie_noire 2010-03-18 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Yah, I know!

Really? But yeah, it's pretty great.
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[personal profile] starlady 2010-03-18 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, the Tezuka Prize is basically the highest award a manga can receive in Japan.

Also, apparently this already won the Japanese Tiptree, which I didn't know until [personal profile] coffeeandink mentioned it. Even more awesome.
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[personal profile] la_vie_noire 2010-03-19 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I think that one is the Sense of Gender Award, isn't it?
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[personal profile] starlady 2010-03-19 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
According to what C&I said, yes. I will admit I had no idea that there was a Japanese Tiptree until this afternoon.
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[identity profile] etrangere.livejournal.com 2010-03-17 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Love that manga, it totally deserves it :)
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[identity profile] etrangere.livejournal.com 2010-03-17 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's not like I have read everything so i can't make a perfect comparison, but it was definitely one of the most well told, clever and thought inducing fictional work about gender roles I've seen in ages.

[identity profile] la-vie-noire.livejournal.com 2010-03-18 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Yaaaaaay! <3 *wants to have it*

[identity profile] suikascented.livejournal.com 2010-03-17 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
You know there is going to be a film right? Ohkura is in it, being gay. Our fandoms collide once again!!

[identity profile] la-vie-noire.livejournal.com 2010-03-18 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Ahaha, lo sé, hon! XDDD <333

(Por cierto, randomente, sos la persona que mas comentarios tiene en mi journal! XP)

[identity profile] danly.livejournal.com 2010-03-18 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Sabes que tienes que prestármelos, verdad?

[identity profile] la-vie-noire.livejournal.com 2010-03-18 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
NO! ME LOS GUARDARÉ!!! XP (Claro que sí, che! XD)

[identity profile] danly.livejournal.com 2010-03-18 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
TE LOS ROBARÉ ENTONCES!!11! (Yay <3)
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