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Hakuouki... Or Not

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Kudos to you if you got all the references in this thing. You have as little of a life as I do XD. This was purely <cross>for procrastination</cross> for my own amusement, so I don't expect many people to get it.

The following is a semi-rant... thing... if I were you I'd skip it :P No, really, it's just my pretending that I know what constitutes a good series.

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Remember <a href=[link]>this journal? Well, I watched the first season of Hakuouki: Shinsengumi Kitan as an excuse to make their awesome costumes, lol. Surprisingly, it was more shounen than shoujo in most respects (except for the occasional sparkling bishie moment *twitch*... it's to be expected, I guess), and the romance was only implicit. Tragically there were no "real" vampiric samurai, just some demon juice... I feel like writing a story about samurai vampires, though XD.
However, the weak, annoying brat with disproportionately large eyes that the audience is somehow supposed to relate to bugged the freaking crap out of me. Imagine an Orihime without the phoenix down. Who runs into enemy territory every other episode and goes out of her way to become a damsel in distress. Why the Shinsengumi haven't diced her up yet is beyond me. I figured PMK's Hijikata would have just butchered her on sight, and so this happened (but for the love of God, the next time I try and copy a manga-ka's style, please just shoot me. Nanae Chrono's style is hard enough, but I CAN'T DRAW SHOUJO FOR MY LIFE. WHERE ARE THE FACIAL PROPORTIONS???? A;SDLGJSLGSLDGKJ;IE I never want to see hair shineys again as long as I live... or sparkles *shudder*) There are about a hundred other things I should have been working on. Oh well XD.
Hakuouki was OK, but Shinsengumi Imon Peacemaker and Peacemaker Kurogane were just so much better, and naturally I couldn't help comparing the two (at least least I could laugh at Tetsu's stupidity). Peacemaker and PMK were funnier, and had far better executed characterizations and plotlines, even though both series drew on the same historical events... honestly I think half the amusement I got from watching Hakuouki came from contrasting their portrayals of the same people. Obviously I prefer Chrono's :P
(Of course, I really can't judge quality ^^; trust me, I have awful taste, so who knows... I tend to like everything...)

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Drawing this actually made me go back and read PMK. I stopped after I couldn't find a single English translation of the first three volumes, and wading though the RAWS with my limited Japanese skills took forever (I only got through I volume and a half...) I checked the intarwebz and suddenly some blessed scanlation group had translated the first 4 volumes... I forgot how awesome it was... definitely better than the prequel, now that the backstory has built up... even if Chrono enjoys sucker-punching readers...
Now I can't find translations of volume 5 -_- I really don't want to translate it again....

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Picture © me
Hakuouki © umm.... *looks up* Studio DEEN, apparently
Shinsengumi Imon Peacemaker and Peacemaker Kurogane © Nanae Chrono

I really need to stop using "XD" so much...
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xTsukim's avatar
If I was hijikata, I am positive I'll kill her much more brutally *smile
Besides, Hijikata Has Souji :D

Cool art by the way!