No Hero

All right, finished reading what's currently published of No Hero (6 volumes). :'D Volume 7 should be the last volume. Now I have no more from Yu Wo to read. T___T;; Oh, but she did recently post up a new part of Female Warrior. (part 9) :DDD



To sum this series up, it's about a vampire butler and his half-android master living in a city protected by 4 heroes. The necessity of the heroes is questioned later in the story, and humans, the church, and non-humans (vampires, werewolves, gargoyles...) start coming into conflict with each other... there is also modeling. Lots and lots of modeling. XD; I wondered where this "modeling" part fit in! Secret identities EVERYWHERE, but I wish we got more of people's reactions to finding out secret identities... we don't, because everything is told from ZhaoSuo's POV, who is not a part of a lot of the action.

So, the outsider POV I mentioned in my previous post. ZhaoSuo, who is not a fighter but a butler, sees a lot of happenings through TV, through surveillance cameras, and the like. He's mostly not at the actual scenes where things are happening. It's a strange way to move the story along. I kept wanting more of the action, except we only ever see what ZhaoSuo sees, so we miss quite a lot of the action. (I don't know how many times I went, "Nooo, don't leave, ZhaoSuo! I want to see what that guy does!!" *flails* "Don't faint here!") Yu Wo mentions in her author notes that she wavered between 1st person and 3rd person before she settled on 1st person because she wanted to write the story through a butler's stance on heroes. Yu Wo's 1st person POV stories are quite awesome. 1/2 Prince and Legend of Sun Knight are both evidence of that. I feel like her 1st person POV stories are more popular...? I wonder if anyone else feels the same way.

It's pretty funny that in one of Yu Wo's plurks, she mentioned that people requested, "Please write a story with ZhaoSuo as the main character!" She burst out laughing because ZhaoSuo is the main character of all of No Hero (that's seven volumes!) but he's always commenting on other people's actions that his own presence is... very thin. XD; This outsider POV thing is quite interesting. I feel like playing with something like this in my own writing.

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7 questions meme part 2

7 questions meme, part 2! If you haven't gotten questions from me and want some, let me know~

Answers to questions from ashkahchan and darkicedragon.

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Went to Kinokuniya today and picked up volume 09 of the Tenipuri Kanzenban s2. Yagyuu and Niou on the cover. <3333 My store never had this in stock! Or if they did, they sold out, so I had to special order it. =/ I ended up getting v10 before I got volume 9. The three page comic at the end of volume 9 is a continuation of the beetle match between Atobe and Shiraishi, haha. Yagyuu in casual clothes on the inside~ ♥ This volume is so worth it.

I also picked up
-Ouji to Majou to Himegimi to v1 (there are more volumes out, but I wanted to see if I liked this series. It's about a prince who's reincarnated as a girl, and a bunch of princesses who are reincarnated as guys. They were all cursed by a witch)
-Otomen v14
-Yukarism v1-2 (also about reincarnation. girl reincarnated as a guy XD;; )
-Shiawase Shokutaku (a collection of short manga by Minami Maki who draws Seiyuu Ka + Special A)
-Magic Kaito special edition volume 4 (Whoot, looks like there'll also be a volume 5 of Magic Kaito!)
-Gyakuten Kenji artbook (finally I get to see what Ema Skye's shoes look like! =P I so needed this when I was cosplaying her)

Usotsuki Lily v6 should be out, but my store doesn't have it in stock. =/ A good chunk of what I buy lately... are genderbenders.