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I dislike when I try to tell people that I'm having trouble with an IRC channel/server and they reply to me like I'm retarded, telling me how to use IRC or simply repeating the channel words. Grr, what part of "Channel won't load" makes it seem that I'm not using IRC or idling in the channel or whatever.
Bought Duelist 5 and HikaGo 4 today. Duelist 5 is god! I could write my entire Yami/Kaiba analysis using it alone. The slash is far more rampant than in the anime, with Kaiba and Yami both going on about how the fight exhilerates them and with Kaiba explaining how he admires Yami's strategy and why he's the only one that could ever defeat Pegaus and how they are destined to fight each other. Not to mention that it's clear how psychotic Kaiba is in this volume, with his threatening to slam his briefcase closed on Croquet's neck, his gun play, and his honest belief that if he can't save Mokuba, his life means nothing. It's still partially a threat because he knows Yugi and Yami so well, but there's more of a sense of honesty in the manga. You see Kaiba actually standing down Yami's final attack with this totally acceptant expression, just before Yugi intervenes. The whole fight is more intense than the anime. It's the best volume yet, though I only read the First Series Yugioh once and not in such detail as I went through this one. I also found it touching that Mokuba is the one who put the card pendant on Kaiba while he was unconscious. Kaiba was sweeter toward Mokuba at this point in the anime, but in this you see how truly crushed Kaiba is at realizing that he failed his brother in many ways up until this moment. Manga!Kaiba seems more complex in this way than Anime!Kaiba, especially with attempts to recover the missing pieces of his heart. It sounds corny but it's done really well, with child!Kaiba giving hints and death glares.
( Some thoughts on KaiJou and what makes me dislike its fandom while still enjoying the pairing. )
EDIT: Cross-posting KaiJou essay to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
yugi_fans because I'm some sort of masochist or as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
quebelly tells me, I'm just no good at making friends.
Bought Duelist 5 and HikaGo 4 today. Duelist 5 is god! I could write my entire Yami/Kaiba analysis using it alone. The slash is far more rampant than in the anime, with Kaiba and Yami both going on about how the fight exhilerates them and with Kaiba explaining how he admires Yami's strategy and why he's the only one that could ever defeat Pegaus and how they are destined to fight each other. Not to mention that it's clear how psychotic Kaiba is in this volume, with his threatening to slam his briefcase closed on Croquet's neck, his gun play, and his honest belief that if he can't save Mokuba, his life means nothing. It's still partially a threat because he knows Yugi and Yami so well, but there's more of a sense of honesty in the manga. You see Kaiba actually standing down Yami's final attack with this totally acceptant expression, just before Yugi intervenes. The whole fight is more intense than the anime. It's the best volume yet, though I only read the First Series Yugioh once and not in such detail as I went through this one. I also found it touching that Mokuba is the one who put the card pendant on Kaiba while he was unconscious. Kaiba was sweeter toward Mokuba at this point in the anime, but in this you see how truly crushed Kaiba is at realizing that he failed his brother in many ways up until this moment. Manga!Kaiba seems more complex in this way than Anime!Kaiba, especially with attempts to recover the missing pieces of his heart. It sounds corny but it's done really well, with child!Kaiba giving hints and death glares.
( Some thoughts on KaiJou and what makes me dislike its fandom while still enjoying the pairing. )
EDIT: Cross-posting KaiJou essay to
yugi_fans because I'm some sort of masochist or as quebelly tells me, I'm just no good at making friends.
