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Angel Sanctuary.
Aug. 11th, 2006 06:01 pmAfter finishing Mirage of Blaze, I was craving more of the same, and somehow ended up reading Angel Sanctuary. It didn't satisfy any of the BL-craving, but if I was looking for more twisted love, I certainly got a lot of that.
[I also started reading Tokyo Babylon, another series on my "to read" list that's plenty dark and BL, but I think my brain is subconsciously rebelling against Japanese. Plus, TB Subaru is just too innocent for my taste.]
So. Angel Sanctuary. And I thought CLAMP was complicated. Even the OVA was enough to figure out that no one would be who he seemed, but I was still surprised by some of the twists. It was a bit too grotesque for me at times -- I don't mind blood and gore a la X, but huge disembodied heads with tubes coming out of the mouth and deformed babies crawling all over it will give me nightmares. After I finished around 3am, I went to the kitchen for water, and a white power cable in our living room that stood out in the dark scared the hell out of me.
Overall, I thought it was a pretty good series. The characters are all well-developed and the story is delightfully overcomplicated. The presentation is confusing sometimes -- I had trouble figuring out what was going on in a lot of fast-paced action scenes, and also when there was a lot of abrupt cutting from one character to another. But that can be effective, too. Unfortunately, the ending sucked. Up to the very end, it seemed like there would be something, but then it just fell apart.
( Cut for spoilers, and excessive rambling. )
And, because I don't know how I'll ever work this into another entry... in an attempt to detox, I went and read all of the languishing drafts of stories and fanfics I have in progress, and I found a file called puns.doc in my Sailor Moon/Xanth crossover directory. There was only one line in it.
She criticized my apartment, so I knocked her flat.
Now, I have no clue whether this is a pun I came up with, or whether I found it somewhere and found it worth reusing. But oh, the groan-inducing-ness. I would be proud if it was mine.
The only potentially decent pun I've ever come up with was "sheets of rain", which is something I'd really wanted to submit to Piers Anthony for use in Xanth (because it goes perfectly in the Water Wing), but I never dared.
[I also started reading Tokyo Babylon, another series on my "to read" list that's plenty dark and BL, but I think my brain is subconsciously rebelling against Japanese. Plus, TB Subaru is just too innocent for my taste.]
So. Angel Sanctuary. And I thought CLAMP was complicated. Even the OVA was enough to figure out that no one would be who he seemed, but I was still surprised by some of the twists. It was a bit too grotesque for me at times -- I don't mind blood and gore a la X, but huge disembodied heads with tubes coming out of the mouth and deformed babies crawling all over it will give me nightmares. After I finished around 3am, I went to the kitchen for water, and a white power cable in our living room that stood out in the dark scared the hell out of me.
Overall, I thought it was a pretty good series. The characters are all well-developed and the story is delightfully overcomplicated. The presentation is confusing sometimes -- I had trouble figuring out what was going on in a lot of fast-paced action scenes, and also when there was a lot of abrupt cutting from one character to another. But that can be effective, too. Unfortunately, the ending sucked. Up to the very end, it seemed like there would be something, but then it just fell apart.
( Cut for spoilers, and excessive rambling. )
And, because I don't know how I'll ever work this into another entry... in an attempt to detox, I went and read all of the languishing drafts of stories and fanfics I have in progress, and I found a file called puns.doc in my Sailor Moon/Xanth crossover directory. There was only one line in it.
She criticized my apartment, so I knocked her flat.
Now, I have no clue whether this is a pun I came up with, or whether I found it somewhere and found it worth reusing. But oh, the groan-inducing-ness. I would be proud if it was mine.
The only potentially decent pun I've ever come up with was "sheets of rain", which is something I'd really wanted to submit to Piers Anthony for use in Xanth (because it goes perfectly in the Water Wing), but I never dared.
