Comments on: Genshiken Book 8 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/05/23/genshiken-book-8/ Independent Opinions on Comics of All Kinds Fri, 25 May 2012 18:40:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Genshiken Book 9 » Comics Worth Reading http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/05/23/genshiken-book-8/comment-page-1/#comment-77658 Genshiken Book 9 » Comics Worth Reading Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:40:44 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/05/23/genshiken-book-8/#comment-77658 [...] have previously reviewed Book 8. A complimentary copy for this review was provided by the publisher. [...]

[...] have previously reviewed Book 8. A complimentary copy for this review was provided by the publisher. [...]

]]> By: Amy http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/05/23/genshiken-book-8/comment-page-1/#comment-67012 Amy Fri, 25 May 2007 20:22:04 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/05/23/genshiken-book-8/#comment-67012 Thanks for your review on this book! I'd heard about this series before but hadn't been too interested because I didn't know there were any female otaku characters in it. The thing about the girl making yaoi really interested me so I bought the book today (it was the only one in the series they had...it's a small bookstore) and was able to get the gist of almost all of it even without having read the earlier books. I really loved Sasahara's acceptance of being a character in her yaoi and how he even admitted he briefly became hard from it. I also really liked the friendships between all the members & am looking forward to reading more about that in the other volumes. My inter-library loan system has #1, 2, & 7 so I can get those from them and will probably end up buying the rest. Thanks for your review on this book! I’d heard about this series before but hadn’t been too interested because I didn’t know there were any female otaku characters in it. The thing about the girl making yaoi really interested me so I bought the book today (it was the only one in the series they had…it’s a small bookstore) and was able to get the gist of almost all of it even without having read the earlier books.

I really loved Sasahara’s acceptance of being a character in her yaoi and how he even admitted he briefly became hard from it. I also really liked the friendships between all the members & am looking forward to reading more about that in the other volumes.

My inter-library loan system has #1, 2, & 7 so I can get those from them and will probably end up buying the rest.

]]> By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » May 24, 2007: The long tentacles of Dullsville http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/05/23/genshiken-book-8/comment-page-1/#comment-66967 Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » May 24, 2007: The long tentacles of Dullsville Thu, 24 May 2007 10:44:58 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/05/23/genshiken-book-8/#comment-66967 [...] manga reviews from Johanna Draper Carlson: here’s the eighth volume of Kio Shimoku’s Genshiken, and the second volume of Yukiya Sakuragi’s Inubaka: Crazy for [...]

[...] manga reviews from Johanna Draper Carlson: here’s the eighth volume of Kio Shimoku’s Genshiken, and the second volume of Yukiya Sakuragi’s Inubaka: Crazy for [...]

]]> By: Joshua Macy http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/05/23/genshiken-book-8/comment-page-1/#comment-66922 Joshua Macy Wed, 23 May 2007 12:40:48 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/05/23/genshiken-book-8/#comment-66922 As I read it drawing real people as models in her fantasies is part of what makes Ogiue tick. She could draw characters based on other sources (and in fact does, in the Kujibiki Unbalance doujinshi she makes and sells at the con), but the ones that are her real secret fantasies, the material that fills her with self-loathing at the same time it excites her, all revolve around real people. For instance, in the scene where she starts drawing Sasahara and Madarame a couple books back, she doesn't set out to draw porn involving them--she's just sketching idly...it's just their faces. But that's enough to set her off, and start imagining scenarios... As I read it drawing real people as models in her fantasies is part of what makes Ogiue tick. She could draw characters based on other sources (and in fact does, in the Kujibiki Unbalance doujinshi she makes and sells at the con), but the ones that are her real secret fantasies, the material that fills her with self-loathing at the same time it excites her, all revolve around real people. For instance, in the scene where she starts drawing Sasahara and Madarame a couple books back, she doesn’t set out to draw porn involving them–she’s just sketching idly…it’s just their faces. But that’s enough to set her off, and start imagining scenarios…

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