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Sep. 21st, 2006
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Finally finished the copy of Bus Gamer I got a few days ago. For those of you who don't know, this is another Kazuya Minekura series that was started and then put on hiatus, then continued, then put on hiatus and eventually put on a back burner, but was eventually collected into a tankoubon, and has now been translated and published by Tokyopop. The story is just barely begun, and there's an afterward by Minekura saying that she fully intends on continuing it.
It's really good, once you get past the silliness of the setup. :) Bus Gaming is short for 'business gmaing' where corporations go head-to-head by fielding three-man teams whose jobs are to protect data disks with essential company files on them. The three-man team at the center of this story is made of three young men who all have their own reasons for taking on this crazy job (which pays well - if their team is the last team standing, they each get three million dollars).
It's hard to judge the story since it's just starting, but we've got lots of questions about the three being set up: on the surface, none of them seem to have a need for the money. We get a few hints about the past of one of the characters, but no more.
The art is great - using the mature Minekura style, similar to Saiyuki Reload, but with even more emphasis on the inking and almost no tones used (which is exactly what I want to do with my work). And you won't miss the nod to Saiyuki. XD
And speaking of Saiyuki, one of you guys mentioned seeing it as a Saiyuki reincarnation story....
( Cut for speculation and spoilers )
It's really good, once you get past the silliness of the setup. :) Bus Gaming is short for 'business gmaing' where corporations go head-to-head by fielding three-man teams whose jobs are to protect data disks with essential company files on them. The three-man team at the center of this story is made of three young men who all have their own reasons for taking on this crazy job (which pays well - if their team is the last team standing, they each get three million dollars).
It's hard to judge the story since it's just starting, but we've got lots of questions about the three being set up: on the surface, none of them seem to have a need for the money. We get a few hints about the past of one of the characters, but no more.
The art is great - using the mature Minekura style, similar to Saiyuki Reload, but with even more emphasis on the inking and almost no tones used (which is exactly what I want to do with my work). And you won't miss the nod to Saiyuki. XD
And speaking of Saiyuki, one of you guys mentioned seeing it as a Saiyuki reincarnation story....
( Cut for speculation and spoilers )
OK, so today I dug up the 6000 words I'd written towards a story about 2 or 3 years ago. Original fic, guys, not fanfic, but it was about the Can't Sleep Con Will Eat Me guys. I'm rereading it, and am about 6 pages in and: hey, it's not as bad as I'd feared! Rough, yes. Overrun with heavy-handed metaphors, yes. In desperate need of editing, yes. But - so far - it's more readable than I remembered. I'm toying with the idea of signing up for NaNoWriMo again to see if I can get farther along on it, but every time I do that, someone comes along and wants to pay me money to do something in November and that ends up taking precedence. (Which, come to think of it, might not be a bad idea: I can always use someone paying me for something. :D)
Plus, the reason I stalled out on it, I realized after I spent a week staring at the thing, not being able to come up with more, is that I'd solved the problem that I'd set the main character up with. I think in order to go on, I need to set up more problems, and I'm not sure what they'd be or where to fit them in. Hrm. *ponders*
At any rate, anyone wanna read it? :D I think I'm going to create a filter for it and post it, in all its rough glory. And to that end, a poll!
[Poll #827097]
Plus, the reason I stalled out on it, I realized after I spent a week staring at the thing, not being able to come up with more, is that I'd solved the problem that I'd set the main character up with. I think in order to go on, I need to set up more problems, and I'm not sure what they'd be or where to fit them in. Hrm. *ponders*
At any rate, anyone wanna read it? :D I think I'm going to create a filter for it and post it, in all its rough glory. And to that end, a poll!
[Poll #827097]