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jadis31 loaning me her copies of FAKE volumes 2-7, I have now read the entire series. (vixenette also offered. Many thanks to both of you!)
Mixed reviews. The series definitely improved as it went along. After reading the first volume, I wasn't interested enough to buy the rest of the series, but I did like FAKE fanfiction enough that I wanted to read them--hence my very grateful acceptance of Jo's offer.
I guess I'm just not an anime/manga fan. I became irritated whenever the characters overreacted to things and had "Daffy Duck"-esque hissy fits--or when they behaved OoC (if one can accuse canon of getting its own characters wrong)--or whenever Dee repeatedly attempted to rape Ryo.
But as the series went on, I became more immune to Daffy Duck-ness, the characters became less two dimensional (not quite three dimensional though--two and a half dimensional?), and Dee actually started to act like he cared about Ryo and didn't just want to fuck him senseless.
So, yes, I got hooked. I have now read them over and over. (Although I now skip all frames in which their noses have disappeared). And whoa--loved those R-rated sections of volume 7.
Will I ever write any FAKE fanfiction? I might. As Jo pointed out, the very deficencies of FAKE canon give us lots of leeway, and leeway is what we fanfic writers thrive upon. Why else have we embraced the MWPP generation of HP so thoroughly?
I am no longer singing Because the Night around the house. I knew I had to stop when I heard my four-year-old son sing, "Because the night belongs to lovers..."
jadis31 loaning me her copies of FAKE volumes 2-7, I have now read the entire series. (vixenette also offered. Many thanks to both of you!)Mixed reviews. The series definitely improved as it went along. After reading the first volume, I wasn't interested enough to buy the rest of the series, but I did like FAKE fanfiction enough that I wanted to read them--hence my very grateful acceptance of Jo's offer.
I guess I'm just not an anime/manga fan. I became irritated whenever the characters overreacted to things and had "Daffy Duck"-esque hissy fits--or when they behaved OoC (if one can accuse canon of getting its own characters wrong)--or whenever Dee repeatedly attempted to rape Ryo.
But as the series went on, I became more immune to Daffy Duck-ness, the characters became less two dimensional (not quite three dimensional though--two and a half dimensional?), and Dee actually started to act like he cared about Ryo and didn't just want to fuck him senseless.
So, yes, I got hooked. I have now read them over and over. (Although I now skip all frames in which their noses have disappeared). And whoa--loved those R-rated sections of volume 7.
Will I ever write any FAKE fanfiction? I might. As Jo pointed out, the very deficencies of FAKE canon give us lots of leeway, and leeway is what we fanfic writers thrive upon. Why else have we embraced the MWPP generation of HP so thoroughly?
I am no longer singing Because the Night around the house. I knew I had to stop when I heard my four-year-old son sing, "Because the night belongs to lovers..."