"Non-stop after-school exorcist action!"

[larryhammer]

1. Entertaining fourth-wall breakage: In a later volume of Hwang Mi Ri's Hot Blooded Woman, <spoiler> tries to get romantic with the gang-leader heroine, getting far enough into his spiel that shoujo feathers start floating around them -- which makes her break out in hives, as if in allergic reaction to real feathers. Now that's genre-aware comedy.

2. Take Hikaru no Go, replace go with shogi, the boys with bishoujos, and the ghost story with a psychological thriller, and you have something pretty close Shion no Ou. Note, however, that this process also leaches out the heroinlike addictiveness.

3. I would just like to point out that I remain not at all bitter at the continuing TOTAL ABSENCE OF ACTUAL PENGUINS from Penguin Revolution. Worlds of not bitter, I tell you. WORLDS.

4. Anime Peanuts characters. Not sure I believe that Sally.

5. Proposition: member (or opponent) of the Shinsengumi : manga :: member of Wellington's staff : Regency romance. Discuss.

---L the NOT BITTER.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I don't know about discussion, but woo-eeee, I'd read your number five in a HEARTBEAT.

[larryhammer]

What, a samurai in London for a Season? Heh.

---L.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I love the anime Peppermint Patty and Marcie. That Charlie Brown is SCARY though!

[larryhammer]

*g*

With just enough self-possession, he would be cranky, though, rather than mopey.

---L.

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

What I found for you

http://lol.ianloic.com/lj/lnhammer

[larryhammer]

Hee. The "Notes Toward a Panel That Didn't Happen" is pretty good. As is "On Not Needing Monkeys".

---L.