chocolate_chip

This is why I pretty much stopped reading manga forums.

"And plus, it would seem silly to tag a story, such as this one, where the main character is a boy working as a maid, as Shoujo. It just wouldn't work that way, nor would it fit. Just plain Shounen, possibly. But Shoujo? I think not."

After I explained Manga Genres and What They Mean:

"But isn't it silly to put what's to be directed for the audience as the genre of the story?
That'd be like putting a yaoi as "Shoujo" if it's directed to female audience, don't you think?
I'm probably misunderstanding your logic, but meh, it happens.

I'd still say this story is leaning more towards Shounen-Ai than it is Shoujo, only because:
I.) The main character is a young boy.
II.) The sub-main character is an older hot guy.
III.) Even though there's no sign of romance, there's a possibility that some might develop in here. So far, only 5 chapters are shown, but we don't know yet.

I'm sticking with my thoughts and opinions, but that's just me. (:"

I don't even know how to respond without being bitchy about it. It doesn't help that this person also thinks little boys being raped is ~*soooooooo kawaii*~.

*stabs another impossible-to-translate page*

New icon, yey.

"Sickish" turned into an all out cold. The upside of this: tea. I bought some tea at Lupicia a while back, because even though I'm not a tea drinker, it smelled just too good not to try it. But I hadn't drunk any, because who wants to drink tea in the middle of summer? So today I tried it for the first time. Oh. My. God. Amazing. I've been drinking Fantasy and Peach Melba, and they are both the best thing you can put in a cup. No way can I go back to choking down Lipton after this.

After weeks of training, I've finally evolved my Pupitar into Tyranitaur, which means I've now completed Gen I and Gen II of my pokédex. Current count, 461 seen and 436 obtained. Goal: complete pokédex by Sept. 18.

I have a new manga obsession: Shounen Maid. I saw this at Animate, but didn't buy it, because it was in the BL section, and this is Japan. It turns out that my fears were well-founded, as a few minutes on google told me that there's a completely unrelated manga with almost the same name ("Shounen Maid Kuro") which is hardcore shota rape/torture porn. >_< DNW. But Shounen Maid itself is adorable! And not shota at all, at least not yet. (After all, this is Japan.) It's about a neat-freak grade schooler named Chihiro who's sent to live with his rich, emotionally needy, boderline-hikikomori uncle when his mother dies. Chihiro was taught by his mother that he should always work honestly for everything, so he refuses to live off his uncle's money. Rather than force him to stay against his will, Chihiro's uncle offers him a job as his housekeeper, and lols ensue. The art is amazing. Since the current trend in porny manga is "screw plot development, put sex in the first chapter" (a rant for a different time), I'm pretty sure that if this was going to get skeevy, it would have already gotten skeevy. That's what I keep telling myself, anyway. The first two chapters are scanlated here (not very well, since they got the uncle's name wrong when the furigana is right there), and raw scans of the first two volumes are here. If I wasn't already overwhelmed with stuff, I would totally scanlate it myself. I might anyway. I LOVE that Chihiro is not being forced to work as a maid, or being taken advantage of in any way. And it's pretty sad that that's something I find refreshing in a manga.