Well, since quaint_twilight  wanted to see other MoB fans try this meme... ^^

( Write 10 different categories of fic, each in 10 words or less. )

Tags: meme, mirage

 Someone on my flist (I think) recently announced that a manga was being made for the MoB prequels, and that Hotaka Ran had been chosen as the artist. 

Tags: mirage

 http://ritsu2.livejournal.com/42431.html

I ran across this post on ritsu2's lj. In the comments were some interesting comparisons between Kyo Kara Maoh and Mirage of Blaze, including these tidbits:



 

Tags: commentary, kkm, links, mirage

 Okay, I'm going to break my "this is fandom ONLY" journal thing this time, because...I HAVE OFFICIALLY GRADUATED FROM UNIVERSITY!
*happy tears* 
There were times when I wondered if this day would ever come, and now, it is here! JOY.

On a completely unrelated note, I have been watching copious amounts of Kyou Kara Maoh, and....is it wrong that Josak sometimes sorta slightly reminds me of Chiaki? 
Somebody shoot me.
Of course, that just gives me images of Chiaki crossdressing...XD
There's a fic in that somewhere, I swear.

In other news, rebelintosanity and I have forged a pact to switch fandoms for a fic. Which means, I will be attempting to write a Phoenix Wright fic involving Edgeworth and Gumshoe in some way in the near future. o.O Seeing as how I've played, like, two sections of a game and know practically nothing at all about PW...it shall be very interesting. 

On the other hand, this means that rebelintosanity will be writing a MoB fic with Haruie and Kagetora.  :D Can't wait to see how that turns out!

So I watched "Gohatto" (Taboo) on youtube today. 
For those who don't know, it's a Japanese film set in the bakumatsu period (end of the samurai in the mid-19th century) in which a beautiful young man joins the local militia and wreaks havoc among his love-crazed fellow samurai. 

Ha, I actually watched it thinking that it might help me understand Kagetora's situation a little better in his first life. I was thinking about Cerise Tennyo's "Tsukiyo" the whole time, to be honest. True, it's set in a much later period, but the main theme is the same. An incredibly desirable youth who inadvertantly (ahem) drives the men around him mad with passion, and brings trouble upon himself as a result. It also has a very interesting little twist in it. 

It made me laugh at some inappropriate moments, as well, because I kept imagining Kagetora's possible reaction to some of the lines the guys were using. "I don't want to die before making love to you," or "I would give my life to hear the nightingale's song after having held you in my arms all night long." 
XD I can just imagine Kagetora's expression.

Ah, warning for anyone who may watch it- there is some smut at one point. 

Tags: mirage, rl

 And here's another comment that grew into a post. This time I was thinking about Naoe and rape. Sure, he raped Minako, and he was terribly sorry for it. But I would argue that not only did he mount serious sexual assaults on Takaya (six, to be exact), he actually raped him on three of those occasions. Love Naoe as I do, I'm not going to excuse his actions. The fact that most people, and Naoe himself, do not consider these three rapes to have been rapes and thus deserving at least some regret or apology concerns me. So here's my "comment": 

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Tags: commentary, mirage

As is often the case, I began writing a comment to someone else's post, but wound up deciding not to put it up after all because it got too long and off-topic. ^^;
I decided that it was an interesting enough topic to stand on its own in my journal, however, so here are some thoughts on Naoe's voice:

Tags: commentary, mirage

Whoo-hoo! I also found a page with most (all?) of the MoB novel covers. Some of these I have been seeking for AGES.
http://cobalt.shueisha.co.jp/meisaku/mirage/series.html

Tags: links, mirage

Okay,  I just ran across a german MoB fansite with a TON of screencaptures from the main series and OVA. Thought I'd go ahead and post the link in the hope that someone will make icons others may enjoy them. I am so charitable that I astonish myself sometimes. XD

http://www.mangaplanet.net/mirageofblaze/ff.php

There's a pretty good capture of that moment in the Minako flashback where Naoe is cradling Kagetora's corpse. You can't see them real well, but enough to notice that 1) Kagetora does look to be about the same age as Naoe (which feels very strange- I've gotten too used to having them at different ages) and 2) Kagetora looks kinda HOT. As does Naoe. It's really a pity that the animators don't give us a clearer image of them. I understand why they didn't, but...*sigh*

Oh, and for rebelintosanity only, there are Ranmaru pics under the "TV" category in Pictures. They probably won't be that interesting to you- they just have some close-ups of this fairly pretty guy. Don't know why they didn't capture him looking more sinister...oh well. Now you can't say I never gave you anything Ranmaru-related! 

Tags: links, mirage

 

As part of my search for The Real Kagetora, I think I will occasionally post random little things I think I have discovered about Kagetora. 

Today's thought: Kagetora= Not a cocktease.

Tags: commentary, mirage

Okay, so I've been trying to get a handle on the characters of Mirage of Blaze for a while, now. They are all pretty difficult, but Kagetora is probably still the most mysterious to me. We see something of Takaya, but our perception of Takaya is nearly as confused as Takaya's view of himself. Takaya never really had a lot of self-knowledge to begin with, and adding a bunch of muddled memories and an identity crisis into the mix doesn't help any. Kagetora, in his full centuries-spanning warlord-ly glory is hinted at, but we just never get as clear an image of him as of the other characters. 

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Tags: commentary, mirage