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Poison (RK: Lenz/Takuto-Con E/K)
Oct. 1st, 2006 08:56 pmA change of pace from the usual Yamaguchirow K/K-- this doujinshi is still based on Rurouni Kenshin; in fact, it's the first RK (or indeed any) doujinshi I ever bought. When I got it, I was fairly new to RK and Viz hadn't even licensed the English-language version of the original manga yet, so I only knew the vague outlines of the Jinchuu Arc although I was already developing a crush on Enishi. So at the time, while I knew this Enishi/Kaoru story was likely to be somewhat noncanonical, I wasn't really sure how much it diverged.
As it turns out, rather a lot. Instead of the Six Comrades and Wu Heishin, Enishi has a support staff of other bishounen (a few of them have cameos at the beginning of this story, but there's a much larger cast involved in a complex drama throughout several more doujinshi by this circle). I don't have a good idea who they are, but there's a lengthy preface which might need to be translated as well to give a better idea of what's going on and why.
The general style is significantly different from Yamaguchirow-- instead of Kaoru having voluptuous boobage despite everyone's chibi-esque body proportions, the character designs here are long and lean. Facial expressions are somewhat more limited, and tend toward cool elegance rather than sweaty passions. The sexual content is also much less explicit, both in terms of detail and general presentation. And jeez, there's a lot of (small blurry) kanji in the first few pages-- Lenz uses kanji for a lot of common words which Yamaguchi usually leaves in kana.
Progress: done, I think; or at least dragged more or less all the way to the end with about as much doneness as I'll be likely to ever manage.
Standard (in)accuracy disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm doing, except for juggling a lot of reference books and web lookups. Please do not convert these into English-language scanslations or I will be cross, and there's a good chance they'd be wrong anyway.( Read more... )
As it turns out, rather a lot. Instead of the Six Comrades and Wu Heishin, Enishi has a support staff of other bishounen (a few of them have cameos at the beginning of this story, but there's a much larger cast involved in a complex drama throughout several more doujinshi by this circle). I don't have a good idea who they are, but there's a lengthy preface which might need to be translated as well to give a better idea of what's going on and why.
The general style is significantly different from Yamaguchirow-- instead of Kaoru having voluptuous boobage despite everyone's chibi-esque body proportions, the character designs here are long and lean. Facial expressions are somewhat more limited, and tend toward cool elegance rather than sweaty passions. The sexual content is also much less explicit, both in terms of detail and general presentation. And jeez, there's a lot of (small blurry) kanji in the first few pages-- Lenz uses kanji for a lot of common words which Yamaguchi usually leaves in kana.
Progress: done, I think; or at least dragged more or less all the way to the end with about as much doneness as I'll be likely to ever manage.
Standard (in)accuracy disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm doing, except for juggling a lot of reference books and web lookups. Please do not convert these into English-language scanslations or I will be cross, and there's a good chance they'd be wrong anyway.( Read more... )