tezuka: where conversation goes to die

[cimorene]

Conversations did not start with Tezuka; conversations went to Tezuka to die.

AHHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

the long descriptive passages about tezuka and ryoma in the beginning of this story are so amusing that they outweigh the silliness (thus far) of the plot¹.


ps: watched ep 22 "the troubles of kaoru" and it was almost as inexpressibly wonderful as 71 "it's a date" (and, indeed, belongs directly to the same arc). also, i'm extremely squeeful now about shinji too. i wish there were more fudomine fic. ♥♥ fudomine!


eta 1. but then it gets worse.

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[bookshop.livejournal.com]

YES YOU'RE READING FOCUS. *_* *_* *_* ISN'T IT AWFUL AND GREAT? :D :D :D

I love the group conversations in that fic, too. Hilarious.

I also love ep 22. Momo/Nanjiroh. AND SHINJI IS SO MUCH LOVE YOU WILL NEVER RECOVER. also, ATTICS' ART IN YOUR ICON. I LOVE THAT YOU LOVE TEZUKA. it is such a huge huge relief when all my friends love Tezuka, because when they don't it is horrid. :(( And. uh. what was i saying. oh yeah. The ep where Kirihara comes to Seigaku and Ryoma plays basketball with a broom and a tennis ball is maybe my favorite of the non-chibi!crack eps. They're all brilliant, though. So great. God I love this fandom.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

oh, god, yes, it is awful and great. there are all these lines and bits of dialogue that are hilarious, and even the internal narration... and then it makes no sense and is like. yeah. great and awful!

ep 22 for me... okay, well, i love nanjiroh a lot and the momo/nanjiroh in that ep is admittedly great, but i can BARELY EVEN SEE IT through the haze of my love for shinji and kamio and shinji/kamio and the fact that they interrupt them apparently on a date and their little date outfits and ölksdjfaöslkdfjaklösdjfkl shinji in the sports store with ryoma and his glare and muttering and aölksdjföasljdf. his little necklace! his baseball cap! i will never recover, i can TELL. and THE SUPER-DRAMATIC, YELLOW-TINTED FORESHADOWING CAMERA FOR THE SCENE AT THE END WHERE TEZUKA SCOWLINGLY DEMANDS TO BE ALLOWED TO PLAY AGAINST RYOMA. this whole plot with his obsession with ryoma is the greatest thing ever and it's also really hilarious.

and how can you not love tezuka? i mean, he's. yes. i love him. i have a special weakness for characters of his general type (gruff deadpan possibly humourless ones), possibly because they appeal to my sense of humour, possibly because they remind me of wax_jism. and tezuka is also so very earnest and simultaneously selfless and slightly selfish and somewhat proud! i don't have to write an essay for you about how great he is, though.

i haven't seen this basketball ep of which you speak (i have watched through 24), so now i have something else to watch out for. ♥♥ who said something about too much canon? i'm so gleeful that i'm not going to run out for a long time!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Damn. I was hoping for Osamu Tezuka RPS.

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

oh god, Shinji is seriously the greatest character ever. I named my tennis racket after him. He has my love forever.

this whole plot with his obsession with ryoma is the greatest thing ever and it's also really hilarious.

it's also never-ending. seriously, focal point of the series, which you will quickly learn, if you haven't already.

And you've seen the date ep so you've already seen one of the most famous examples of Tezuka's flashes of dry humor, when he constantly hangs up on Inui. :D :D :D but god, yes. yes yes. he's so eminently wonderful and amazing and mockable and perfect and AMAZING. and if he reminds you of wax then no wonder you have been together forever and ever, because how could you ever leave THAT. :))))))))))))))

there's SO MUCH canon!!! so much! 300+ issues of Manga! nearly 200 eps! standalone eps! gay boat movies! boy band au! Going on, what, nine musicals! and now SIX NEW OVAS AND A MOVIE. GOD.

And ALL OF CANON SHIPS TEZUKA/RYOMA. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. seriously, i think this is the greatest ship ever in terms of canon support. except for possibly House/Wilson, but house/wilson is more canon than, you know, life.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i'm noticing how tenipuri has a bunch of really great characters like shinji. it's like they build these characters around one memorable or provocative idea (or several of them), and most of them are kind of great, but some of them inspire, you know, fandom-wide (or almost) adoration and aölskdjfaösldkjfaksldjing. everyone seems to love shinji, for instance, and then, like, fuji and atobe and to a lesser extent, like, tezuka, inui, and i'm sure other ones i haven't met yet.

okay, i've figured out that the obsession is the focal point of the series. aölskdjfaösklj how great is it that this show is all about puberty and growing up and like, uh, feelings, and your soul pouring out of your body (or whatever they say in the chorus) and other soul-related things like being deeply passionate and honest and becoming the pillar of seigaku... and the whole plot built with the brilliant little prodigy and his crazy dad and then this painfully shy and weird and reserved guy who becomes a role model after deliberately shouldering his way in but, of course, all only for his own good. there's so much symbolism and stuff about puberty and things in this show that my head swims, and then they hammer home like with a hammer that playing tennis because you want to beat your dad isn't enough so what's left then? what else is at the end of the tunnel, huh? TEZUKA, OF COURSE. but of course, tezuka is the foremost example and the symbol of a whole different approach to tennis: playing because you love it instead of just to beat your opponent.

wow, that was a lot of babble.

and i didn't even get into the part about how wonderfully and brilliantly and delightfully sneaky it was the way he gradually introduced the tezuka/ryoma obsession up until this episode, and then sort of, well, slammed it home. again and again and again. in slow-motion, tinted gold, after switching to the left hand for the first time.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i'm sorry to disappoint! but the likelihood of that is small since i don't know who it is.

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, exactly. And from here on out it's just so in your face, even when it isn't. So like when they'll be playing unrelated matches the comparison between tezuka and ryoma will always be drawn --canon will focus you on how X match relates to the two of them and their developing dynamic with each other, and not just, you know, Tezuka or Ryoma playing the opponent in front of them. Which is ironic, considering how that plays out later.

Also, I was going to remark this on some other comment you left but now I can't keep up - every season except for the Kantou Tournament ends with some sort of deliberate Tezuka/Ryoma match. They play each other three times over the course of the anime (well, four if you count a spoiler during hyotei). Their first match ends the first season, their second match comes in the middle of the third season, and their fourth match is the very last episode. Their relationship literally bookend the series and serve as huge giant benchmarks along the way.

Gah. I need to go to work and I can't stop talking to you about PoT. :))

[cimness.livejournal.com]

ölkjöfalksjdölasjöflasjdf. but it's so perfect. it's like a really, really wonderful EPICALLY long slash fic! that just happens to be either artfully inexplicit or preslash (or what's that called? right, smarm)(ahahah, smarm) through the whole thing until you're just screaming for them to kiss already across the net by the end. but it's so mind-blowingly great that that really is the whole point. aösldkjfaöslfakls. it's really the deeply meaningful, moving, and emotional story of tezuka and ryoma and tezuka's tennis and ryoma's tennis, guest-starring ryoma's dad's tennis.

Their relationship literally bookend the series and serve as huge giant benchmarks along the way.

which makes sense because ryoma totally returns the obsession and he's the pov character more or less, but STILL, IT'S STILL INDESCRIBABLY WONDERFUL.

i hunger for pot discussion, but i should not prevent you from working. or myself for that matter.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

and also, okay, given the way all of canon ships them, which i don't find at all hard to believe... how can anyone ship anything else? it's like shipping something other than holmes/watson (or house/wilson if you will) or kirk/spock or...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

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