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Danish | Jan 17, 2012 4:16 PM
Finally got around to reading All My Darling Daughters a few days ago and I enjoyed it much more than I expected. It was very delightful. I have a bad habit of buying comics and not reading them for a long time. |
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zawa113 | Jan 17, 2012 3:43 PM
As long as the subtitles aren't in Fakespeare, I quite have something to look forward to! And volume 7 should come out in America this summer! |
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Brand | Jan 17, 2012 7:15 AM
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers Manga Gets Live-Action TV Drama, 2nd Film TV drama adaptation of Fumi Yoshinaga's manga to start in October; film to open in December Fumi Yoshinaga's Ōoku: The Inner Chambers manga will receive a live action television drama adaptation and a new film adaptation in October and December, respectively. The television drama, titled Ōoku: Arikoto・Iemitsu Hen, will premiere in October. The drama will cover volumes 2-4 of the manga. Masato Sakai (Honey and Clover's Shuuji, Buddha: The Great Departure, Aoi Bungaku Series) will play Arikoto, the monk turned Ōoku member, and Mikako Tabe (Kimi ni Todoke's Sawako) will play the female shogun Iemitsu Tokugawa. The movie, titled Ōoku: Emonnosuke・Tsunayoshi Hen will open on December 22, immediately after the TV drama ends. The movie will cover volumes 4-6 of the manga. Masato Sakai will play the Ōoku member Emonnosuke, and Miho Kanno (Tomie's title character) will play the female shogun Tsunayoshi Tokugawa. Additional cast members for the drama and film will be announced in July. Fuminori Kaneko, a director best known for the live-action Kisarazu Cat's Eye and Ikebukuro West Gate Park television series, will return to direct both the drama and the second film, and Minako Kamiyama is handling the scripts. The manga already received a live-action film adaptation in October 2010. That film covered the first volume of Yoshinaga's manga. The historical science fiction story takes place in an alternate-history version of medieval Japan, in which a bizarre disease has dwindled the male population. This has led to a matriarchal society where women outnumber men by 4 to 1. The shogun and de facto ruler of Japan keeps her own harem of men, or Ōoku. The previous flim starred Arashi J-pop group member Kazunari Ninomiya (Tekkonkinkreet, Letters from Iwo Jima), and singer/actress Kou Shibasaki (Battle Royale, Dororo, Sekai no Chūshin de, Ai wo Sakebu) played Shogun Yoshimune herself. Viz Media released the sixth volume of the manga in North America in July 2011. The manga won the 2009 James Tiptree, Jr. Award, and it also won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2009. [source] |
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zawa113 | Aug 23, 2011 6:13 PM
Hooray for a new member! The club is fairly new so if you know any other fans, by all means invite them!the Manga Bookshelf actually just had a Yoshinaga week too! |
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Julianne | Aug 23, 2011 2:56 PM
Hiya Yoshinaga-sensei's fans^^ Although there are quite a few of us I am glad such club exists! I am a very long term Yoshinaga addict. Nice to meet you all~ |
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Brand | Aug 12, 2011 10:19 AM
Well my favorite yaoi mangaka is Naono Bohra. Sadly the only work of hers to be officially translated in to English is Yokai's Hunger which is cute but I don't think would inspire anyone not into yaoi to get into it. What I do like about a lot of her stuff is they have actual plots outside of the romance. My favorite work of hers is Three Wolves Mountain which is a cute supernatural story.Other then that title that really stuck with me where Under Grand Hotel. Which is one of the few manga titles in general to feature a black guy as a main character. It also has some plot and I do feel you really feel the building of the relationship between the two main characters. If I remember it was kind of rape-y but it does take place in a prison so I guess that is kind of expected.. Another favorite is Hoshi no Yakata which straight up is most hard core yaoi and S&M titles I've read period. That said it's still one of the few that has a really rememberable plot. It starts out and short one off stories that the common thread is they all take place in the same S&M club but soon develop into a crazy love/lust plot featuring politicians, brandings, piercings, rival clubs, and much more. As said though this isn't for the faint of heart. Now, I know FallnKnightFakir tastes and I'm not sure any of these would fall into her taste range. Maybe worth a look at for curiosity's sake. |
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Queen2408 | Aug 8, 2011 8:08 PM
Oh by the way...Yes, Ooku is amazing! (L) |
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Queen2408 | Aug 8, 2011 8:06 PM
Nothing is like Yoshinaga Fumi...even her yaoi is a world appart. it still sounds like an epic undertaking that is easier for me to let others shift through It is an epic undertaking, I feel kind of numb by now. That means that I tend to agree with Bran :D, it has to be really good or really terrible to become memorable. They are licensing more BL now with the DMG but I haven't seen anything that I could recommend you as memorable FallnKnight. Hmm, maybe Kinoshita Keiko's titles because they are kind of slice-of-lifeish and her art has something very...I don't know, soft and nostalgic? What do you think Brand? I'm checking the titles and they licensed this...the cover makes me terribly curious. |
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Brand | Aug 8, 2011 7:00 PM
I tend to like my things really good or really terrible so it all works out for me (for the most part, lol). |
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zawa113 | Aug 7, 2011 7:37 PM
Well to quote you, Brand "most of it is a cesspool of terrible, terriblely written crap" so yeah, that's honestly not the hunt or me. Sure, it doesn't sound as bad as hunting through chatroulette for not some dude's penis or hunting 4chan for actually good pics, but it still sounds like an epic undertaking that is easier for me to let others shift through, lol, sorry to mooch off your hard work! |
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Brand | Aug 7, 2011 9:52 AM
Sadly, yes very little yaoi is as awesome as Yoshinaga's works. |
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zawa113 | Aug 6, 2011 10:44 PM
Oh man! I just read Gerard & Jacques and IT WAS AWESOME!!!Sadly, I take it that most yaoi are never going to be this awesome....dammit.... |
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zawa113 | Jun 7, 2011 9:29 AM
Oh, and Ooku only comes out in Japan at a rate of one volume ever 8 months (if it's 4 chapters per volume) since it's bi-monthly. Once vol 6 comes out here, we're caught up with Japan so we're in for a good 3-4 year wait for the series to finish (Wikipedia says it's projected to be 10 volumes), it will be very very painful to wait, won't it :( |
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zawa113 | Jun 7, 2011 8:27 AM
Hooray!!! There's a bit of irony in that vol 1 is kinda the ending to the series, vol 2 starts off fresh then it goes from there straightforward. Vol 1 could damn near stand on its own, I wanna re-read it once the whole series is out and I've read it all, see if vol 1 is equally awesome as both the first and last volume of the series.But it's damn wordy, am I right? |
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Brand | Jun 7, 2011 6:42 AM
I finally got around to reading the first volume of Ōoku: The Inner Chambers. OMG, it was so good. I stayed up way later then I should have reading it. |
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Queen2408 | Apr 29, 2011 7:19 PM
That one is good Brand. There are actually some pretty good yaois around but...well, maybe only 10% of them are as good as Yoshinaga Fumi's story-wise! |
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Brand | Apr 29, 2011 12:13 PM
Man, Gerard & Jacques ended up being really good. If more yaoi works were only half this good. |
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Brand | Apr 18, 2011 7:12 PM
I know, I was looking today and I was like no fan club for her? No way! Must rectify this at once. |
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zawa113 | Apr 18, 2011 6:34 PM
Dude, how did this club not exist before?!I need to get me more Yoshinaga, but I do eventually plan to have all her manga on my bookshelves soon enough, mwahahahaha! I'm not even that much into yaoi, but she's something special (besides, I got into it through her non-yaoi) |