makeste: (I'm not broke)
makeste ([personal profile] makeste) wrote2009-07-12 05:10 pm

ITP: Amano is a goddamn tease.

WHY MUST SHE ALWAYS BE WAVING THOSE PROVERBIAL CARROTS IN FRONT OF US, sob!


1. Well, thank you very much, Amano, but I for one did not need this adorable little status update, because I am a smug little nerd who has been obsessively keeping track of everything happening in this round. *adjusts glasses!!1*

...though I did lol at everyone's squishy little faces. XD I think Irie looks the funniest, with Genkishi (RIP) coming in a close, close second.


2. Oh God, look at those two, flying around like Superman. Tsuna was one thing, but ET TU YAMAMOTO? SHOW-OFFS, THE BOTH OF YOU.


3. The top of page 6 totally cracks me up. Yama going "!" with his trusty bird sidekick alongside him. It makes me think, "WHAT'S THAT BOY? YOU HEAR SOMETHING?"

By the way, what is this nonsense about waiting until Tsuna's contact lenses are "fixed"? Shou, Spanner, WERE YOU EVEN WATCHING THAT LAST FIGHT? Did you not see Yamamoto flying around and being a godmode? If he's within range of the Millefiore base unit, fucking let him go on the attack. Or did it not occur to them that THIS MIGHT BE A DELAYING TACTIC?

I don't even care that they immediately changed their minds on the next page. NEXT TIME PLEASE BE SMARTER, orz.


4. Okay, on page 8 Yama is flying and holding a flaming sword. I'm just going to go ahead and call it: ladies and gentlemen, we are now officially in a videogame. And not just any videogame. A DBZ videogame.

A DBZ videogame with flaming swords.


5. THERE HE IS. THERE'S MY RIGHT HAND MAN. *PINCHES HIS CHEEKS* |D

I love how he's just standing there in the middle of the street like a complete fucking badass. YOU SHALL NOT PASS and all that. I swear, Gokudera, you are the ONLY character who can make me fangirl simply by standing still and doing nothing. (Well. MAYBE Squalo. Maybe.)


6. On page 10, though, Amano has officially gone just a little too shoujou for me. HE IS A BOY DAMN IT PLEASE DRAW HIM LIKE ONE. XD I don't know, that just completely took me out of the scene for a sec and almost nullified the coolness of Kikyou's whole flash-step thing.

Though, that flash-step. Whoa. I'M ADDING "IS SCARY" TO THE LIST OF THINGS WE KNOW ABOUT KIKYOU.


7. OH MY GOD. Is that the first time he's summoned Uri and the cat hasn't immediately either a) ignored him or b) tried to claw his goddamn face off? SOO OOOO OOO BADASSSSS.

I just wish he hadn't. Immediately been bitchslapped afterward. ...Yeah. XD


8. GODDAMMIT I was wondering when one of the bad guys was going to notice that as awesome as Dera has gotten since he mastered the Sistema C.A.I., speed seems to still be his one glaring weakness.

BUT AT LEAST HE GOT ADVICE FROM SQUALO! Useless, obvious advice! But I like to think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship in which they form a club that meets twice a month in order to talk about how stupid Yamamoto is.


9. Amano! I forgive you on page 13 for what you did on page 10. |D So. Pretty. asdlfkj

But damn it, YOU CAN'T JUST TEASE US WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW SISTEMA C.A.I. AND THEN FUCKING TAKE IT AWAY. I WAS ALL SET TO GO, "OMG YES THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD JUST GOT BETTER" and then you do this. Why. :| And just look at how shocked you made poor little Basil.

I'm gonna go ahead and assume that Gokudera's major fight is going to be in the next round, then. Meaning we'll have to wait another day to see how MYSTERIOUSLY IDENTICAL he no doubt is to the first Storm Guardian, and so forth. SIGH.


10. Oh fuck you, Torikabuto, you're going down, bitch. Tsuna, use your mantle and destroy him already. LET'S WRAP THIS THING UP.


All in all, good chapter. But needs more Sistema C.A.I.

[identity profile] nilly-chan.livejournal.com 2009-07-12 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
The way Amano draws Gokudera these days makes me go "Yes, we know that he's probably the most beautiful person in this world (and all others). We get it already! Give him some masculinity to even out all that beauty! SHEESH."

And Gokudera totally failing to even open his boxes so he ends up only standing around like a dumbass? FAIL.
I kept wondering why he didn't start up his Sistema C.A.I. at once or at least when he started seeing the explosions. Why wait around like that? He's supposed to be a genius!

[identity profile] dame-batsie.livejournal.com 2009-07-13 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
I, TOO, WAS LIKE @___@ AT FLYING!YAMAMOTO. Like, WTF. We already have TYLRyohei flying with his rocket boots and Tsuna flying with this gloves...do we really need more aerial mafia boys? XD

A DBZ videogame with flaming swords.
...whose power level is over 9,000. *shot*

But I like to think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship in which they form a club that meets twice a month in order to talk about how stupid Yamamoto is.
HOMG HOMG HOMG THE 'YAMAMOTO IS STUPID' CLUB. I LOVE IT, I REALLY DO. IT NEEDS TO BE FICCED.

[identity profile] makeste.livejournal.com 2009-07-13 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, at some points it really is too much. LONG EYELASHES and FLOWING HAIR and an increasingly girly chin, etc. etc. etc. But I liked the art style best around the end of the Varia arc and the beginning of the Future arc, because like you said, she still gave him some masculinity to balance out the prettiness.

I mean, at this rate, even Ryohei will be looking more pretty than manly before too long. XD

And I've pretty much accepted at this point that plot is keeping Dera from fighting this round. I think there's like some plot mist clouding his thoughts and preventing him from thinking things like, "Hey, maybe I should open my boxes before the creepy bad guy takes me by surprise, JUST IN CASE," for the sake of the story. :P

[identity profile] rikasaurus.livejournal.com 2009-07-13 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
2. LOL The whole flying thing is hilarious...Tsuna and his guardians are probably the weirdest mafia out there.

4. OH GOD DBZ I WAS AFRAID THAT WOULD HAPPEN. THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO SHOUNEN MANGA XD

6. Everything about that page was overly shoujo. Kikyou sure is a pretty lady. I am also waiting on the horde of Kikyou/Gokudera shippers to surface.

8. But I like to think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship in which they form a club that meets twice a month in order to talk about how stupid Yamamoto is. That would be so hilarious. I can totally imagine Squalo and Gokudera badmouthing poor (and maybe stupid) Yamamoto XD

[identity profile] makeste.livejournal.com 2009-07-13 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Don't forget that Gokudera was flying around on one of his C.A.I. shields in a couple panels" during the Gamma rematch. At this rate, I won't be surprised if they're all flying in some way or another before the end of this arc. XD

WHAT NINE THOUSAND?!

Half the time their stories are about how he somehow managed to walk/bump/crash into yet another wall. Yamamoto probably does a lot of sneezing every time they meet up. XD

[identity profile] makeste.livejournal.com 2009-07-13 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
2. Well, right now they are having a randomized duel with dying will pokemon and motorcycles while flying around in suits. I think at this point, we don't even need to add the "probably." XD

4. If you think about it, Tsuna basically goes Super Saiyan and flies around shooting Kamehamehas whenever he fights. We probably should have seen this coming.

6. I wouldn't be surprised if a couple people wrote Kikyou/Gokudera oneshots based just on that one rapey shojou scene. SHIPS HAVE BEEN BORN FROM LESS.

8. Between obsessing over their respective bosses and sharing a mutual opinion of poor Yama, they actually have a lot in common. XD

[identity profile] nilly-chan.livejournal.com 2009-07-13 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
While I know that Gokudera must be good looking (because you don't fall for the bad boy unless he's handsome/sexy/beautiful/whatever), there is something that's called exaggerating. -___-

I dread that day. I am now going to suppress that thought, because it is scary.

I should hope so. If Amano just made him act like a dumbass for the sake of bugging the audience, I'll flip my shit. Honestly.

[identity profile] dame-batsie.livejournal.com 2009-07-13 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
YES, NINE THOUSAND.

First meeting of Stupid Yamamoto is Stupid Club:

Gokudera: Did you hear how the baseball idiot was defeated by Genkishi's wall?

Squalo: Of course, that's why I came to Japan. Damn sword brat.

Gokudera: He's a fucking idiot.

Squalo: He kept running into the walls of the training room so I had to move us to the forest WHERE THERE WERE NO WALLS BUT HE ENDED UP CRASHING INTO THE TREES. I seriously fucking don't know how to deal with him.

Gokudera: WTF?! Does he, like, have an affinity for walls and such?

Squalo: Tell me about it. God, what a pathetic moron.

Gokudera: You know, we could make a fortune if we sell his weak point to the enemies. Plus, it'd make us look better if we cover for him when he's down. Because it's not fair how he gets all the glory with his "natural hitman" reflexes and stupid lucky moves and I haven't won a real battle in ages.

Squalo: How the fuck does that make me look better? No way am I going to let people think I trained a fucking weakling! Though I could use the money to get this line of hair care products I've been dying to try.

Gokudera: Uh, okay, did your balls get sliced off or something?

Squalo: *in the most manliest snarl* VOOOOIIII!

[identity profile] talklikeazombie.livejournal.com 2009-07-13 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
YOU SHALL NOT PASS
Omfg that reminds me of the South Park episode when they parodied Lord Of The Rings.
"Y-y-y-ou sh-sh-shaaaall n-n-not pahh... paawwwhh... paaaawwssshskdjhsakjh!"

And I totally thought the same thing when Kikyou all got in Gokudera;s face, it reminds of those high school shojo mangas where the girls gets all dazzled by the guy. DO I DAZZLE YOU GOKUDERA?

This chapter was such a tease, here we just got some badass and Yama and I was expecting some badass Goku.. and I got fail Goku :[

[identity profile] cleartempest.livejournal.com 2009-07-13 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I actually haven't gotten this far yet /sobs

~*REBORN HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SHOUJO MANGA*~

LOL BUT THAT LOOK ON GOKUDERA'S FACE WAS MORE LIKE "PARTED LIP MAIDEN SURPRISE" RATHER THAN "O SHIT DID THAT GUY JUST APPEAR IN FRONT OF ME"
OTL|||

[identity profile] teruame.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
=_= Amano-sensei...what exactly is on your mind right now? Gokudera-san needs more awesome fights, not more awesome looks (he already looks mega-awesome as he is) -sigh- This chapter didn't exactly please me very much. ^^; Let's just say that I had hoped for something epic that expanded the combat universe and all.

Gokudera-san! What are you doing watching all the time? You're supposed to plan something and set up a blockade to keep that imbecile Kikyo from passing!

At least...that's what I had expected him to do, considering that it's HIM, GOKUDERA. :-(

[identity profile] makeste.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
lol I've never seen that episode of South Park. I MUST FIND IT ON YOUTUBE OR SOMETHING.

DO I DAZZLE YOU GOKUDERA?

OH MY GOD THAT'S IT EXACTLY. That is now the official caption for that panel.

Yeah, it was a little disappointing on that front. The only reason I'm not actually more upset is because I know that when Gokudera actually does get to be badass, I will instantly stop caring about everything that happened before that because I am so easily pacified. XD

[identity profile] makeste.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
fffffff I'm sorry if I spoiled you orz.

ALL SHOUNEN MANGA ARE REALLY SHOUJOU IN DISGUISE IF YOU LOOK CAREFULLY ENOUGH. But that doesn't mean they need to be drawn that way. :/

And omg, "Parted Lip Maiden Surprise" needs to be a band name like now. RIGHT. NOW. XDDD

[identity profile] makeste.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Like I said to [livejournal.com profile] talklikeazombie, the only reason I'm not more disappointed is because I know I'll inevitably forgive Amano the instant Dera finally DOES get his awesome fight. XD

Lol, I know, was he just standing there in the street alone and unarmed the whole time? AMANO DID YOU FORGET THE PART WHERE HE'S A GENIUS orz.

Next round... he'll get his turn next round. That's the mantra I keep repeating to myself. :P

This is Indi, too lazy to log out of her RP account XD;

[identity profile] axekicker.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
the beginning of a beautiful friendship in which they form a club that meets twice a month in order to talk about how stupid Yamamoto is.


THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN. It would be so perfect. D8 <3

AMANOO. Give me my awesome Gokudera battle, so I can see how much greater the new Sistema C.A.I. is D8

Also, MUKURO. EIGHTY CHAPTERS. WHERE IS THE LOVE MAN.

lol, okay XD

[identity profile] makeste.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd be satisfied even with a little omake of them sitting around bitching about him over a plate of sushi or something. It'd be awesome. |D

Easily the worst part about it for me is that she had to go and mention the C.A.I. upgrade, and THEN cockblock his battle. WHAT THE HELL. That was just cruel. UNBELIEVABLY CRUEL.

She seems to think that it's cool as long as she tosses him into a color spread every once and a while. THIS IS FALSE.

/whinebitchwhine!

Re: lol, okay XD

[identity profile] axekicker.livejournal.com 2009-07-14 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
AGREED. XD

Amano is just a sadistic tease. I bet she loves hearing our tales of woe. XD

FALSE INDEED. I wanna see Mukuro in action, not just a pretty picture. ;-;

(Anonymous) 2009-07-17 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
Arrrgh! Totally agree about the Systema C.A.I. But I guess they didn't want too much badass in one battle, ya know? Kikyou was such a trap! I thought I didn't get fooled any more, but.... That panel with the flash step, and Gokudera and Kikyou are face to face, and they're both ridiculously girly orz. Oh well.

And Yamamoto flying around was too much. If everyone can fly, it's no longer cool. Tsuna will pwn Torikabito man. It's still his showing-off chapter. XD

Keep the awesome chapter summaries up! They're so fun to read, and you always notice cool things! Like poor, scared Basil haha.

[identity profile] makeste.livejournal.com 2009-07-17 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I suppose that if Yamamoto and Gokudera both started kicking ass and taking names in the same fight, and then on top of that we also had Tsunaman flying around and blowing up illusions and stuff, the plot would completely lose all sense of urgency because it would just be like, "Okay, Byakuran, do you really still want to take all these guys on? Really?" XD

It really is too much, but that just makes it funnier, I guess. I'm now anticipating all of the other guardians learning to fly one by one, so that they'll just be this crazy flying superman mafia. TAKING MANGA TO WHOLE NEW LEVELS.

Haha, thanks! I'm glad they're fun to read, since I love rambling on about everything so much. XD