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Monday, March 14th, 2011 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ruakiHaving exhausted one scanlator's hoard of TajiHana doujin, I decided I really was tired of adolescent romance and wanted something a bit more mature. So I decided to hunt down some ChikaNari doujin. DateSana is super popular in the English fandom, but surely there's a few folks out there that jumped on the Japanese love for the Setouchi pair?
I found some books from this scanlator. They don't know anything about SenBasa--they only picked up the books because the doujin were done by Kodaka Kazuma, a well-known BL artist. They upfront admit their lack of knowledge for SenBasa canon... and proceeded to describe what they did know, based off the book:
Motochika is a scarred, uncouth pirate; Motonari is a kimono-wearing, easily angered territorial lord. Their meetings for peace usually involve hawt, passionate bedroom activity.
I'll admit, I lol'd when I read that--and felt my face starting to burn red with shame. It seriously sounds like it came off the back of a (gay) Harlequin romance novel. As I was telling Sha, I guess that's the appeal of Setouchi orz...
(Of course, upon reading the book, I can see why they described ChikaNari that way; Kodaka takes a much more gentle approach toward Motonari's personality and a more mellow take on their relationship/rivalry.)
Still. I'm so embarrassed. orz Nothing like an outsider's view on something you like to kinda break it down to its most shameful cliches. but i still otp setouchi
Meanwhile, just generally playing SenBasa3. SB2H came in but I promised myself I couldn't play it until I got 100% in SenBasa3. (Almost there!) Keep finding out new moves though; here I thought I knew everything. I'm getting pretty pro!
I found some books from this scanlator. They don't know anything about SenBasa--they only picked up the books because the doujin were done by Kodaka Kazuma, a well-known BL artist. They upfront admit their lack of knowledge for SenBasa canon... and proceeded to describe what they did know, based off the book:
Motochika is a scarred, uncouth pirate; Motonari is a kimono-wearing, easily angered territorial lord. Their meetings for peace usually involve hawt, passionate bedroom activity.
I'll admit, I lol'd when I read that--and felt my face starting to burn red with shame. It seriously sounds like it came off the back of a (gay) Harlequin romance novel. As I was telling Sha, I guess that's the appeal of Setouchi orz...
(Of course, upon reading the book, I can see why they described ChikaNari that way; Kodaka takes a much more gentle approach toward Motonari's personality and a more mellow take on their relationship/rivalry.)
Still. I'm so embarrassed. orz Nothing like an outsider's view on something you like to kinda break it down to its most shameful cliches. but i still otp setouchi
Meanwhile, just generally playing SenBasa3. SB2H came in but I promised myself I couldn't play it until I got 100% in SenBasa3. (Almost there!) Keep finding out new moves though; here I thought I knew everything. I'm getting pretty pro!