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[louiselux]

I had a great weekend and visit from daegaer and toscas_kiss. On Saturday we picked up some romance novels (don't ask) from a jumble sale-- it's hard to comprehend that people can still willingly write dialogue like 'You treacherous little vixen!' but they do. Or, 'kiss me before I die of loving you.' *heaves* OR 'When the teacup began to sway they simply smiled and attributed it to the magic of their love.' Their love is teacup-shaking! And:

'She met him thrust for hungry thrust, soaring through the primeval jungle of desire that took them to the beginning of time and slung them back into the future.'

Anyway, moving somewhat dizzily on, I have much love for xxxHolic by CLAMP. Okay, I'm going to change my stance on CLAMP art yet again because I love the art in this. The story is very cute, reminiscent of Legal Drug but with a much better plot so far. The black and white, tone free art is very pretty.

I finally watched episodes 18-26 of Samurai Champloo. For the first few I was wondering where the plot had gone and what had happened to the art, but then the last three turned out to be very good indeed and wow Jin walking up from the sea in his torn kimono and long hair... And young Jin! So cute. I was so scared they were all going to die and when they didn't-- relief! Because fic can be written without misery. I very much liked the ending, with them all going their separate ways, but happy about it instead of sad because they love each other and they all sort of, kinda said so. How long will they stay apart, really? With my slash goggles I can plainly see the Jin/Mugen and definitely Jin/Fuu/Mugen-- because why should she have to choose between them. Carefully removing the slash goggles, I can see it's just as squeeful that Jin knows he's found the thing he's looking for in Mugen and tells him so. And Mugen says 'I feel strange. I don't want to kill you anymore.' It made me so happy.

Comments

[wildelamassu.livejournal.com]

I love the Art Nouveau look of xxxHolic. Manga as drawn by Aubrey Beardsley!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Hee! It is. I wonder if it's deliberate. The style of decorative swirls and flower patterns is so very similar, and also the elongated heads and bodies.