Alchemist of Al-Revis ([info]rubyprism) wrote in [info]raburesu,
2009-12-09 06:48:00
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Time it takes to read Loveless





I love the manga to pieces; I think Yun Kouga does almost everything perfectly (at least, to my taste)-- except for placement of speech bubbles. I do rather wish the characters weren't always confusingly talking over each other's heads...
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[info]execharmonious

December 9 2009, 14:51:48 UTC 2 years ago

The purple section: OH GODS YES.

I think I also have a section for "going 'aaaawww, omg, Soubi. ♥'" And for "laughing feverishly at one of the little wisecracks because the scene that preceded it was so heartbreaking and emotionally affecting that now I'm all tensed up"....

[info]rubyprism

December 9 2009, 16:31:58 UTC 2 years ago

I think I also have a section for "going 'aaaawww, omg, Soubi. ♥'"

Okay, to be fair that comprises a huge chunk of the time for me too...

[info]curaga

December 9 2009, 15:13:20 UTC 2 years ago

I'M SO GUILTY OF THE GREEN PART :'D And brown would take half of the pie chart for me, it wrecks my brain like nothing else does. And I think I got used to the bubbles by now, especially if Soubi doing the talking.

[info]rubyprism

December 9 2009, 16:32:40 UTC 2 years ago

Yeah, sometimes it's easiest to figure out the bubbles based on who it sounds like would say that...

[info]aquila_black

2 years ago

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[info]rubyprism

December 9 2009, 16:33:02 UTC 2 years ago

Glad to entertain. :)

[info]battour

December 9 2009, 15:27:11 UTC 2 years ago

Truer words have never been spoken. Er, graphed.

[info]rubyprism

December 9 2009, 16:33:58 UTC 2 years ago

Including wordspells? ;)

[info]uncieloazul

December 9 2009, 15:32:39 UTC 2 years ago

THIS ♥

[info]rubyprism

December 9 2009, 16:34:30 UTC 2 years ago

I couldn't resist the idea. ;)

[info]aquila_black

December 9 2009, 15:33:07 UTC 2 years ago

You forgot "cursing oneself for reading too quickly". (Doesn't everyone do that with Loveless?) :P That said, I'm just giving you a hard time. I'd say your pie chart is spot on.

[info]keyllastic

December 9 2009, 15:41:42 UTC 2 years ago

Hahaha yeah, I read a volume in 5 minutes with no trouble. :|

[info]aquila_black

2 years ago

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[info]resurgam_fuisse

December 9 2009, 15:37:08 UTC 2 years ago

Best graph made, EVER. Agreeing with this entirely! The purple section being the biggest too is spot on. Think I'm also guilty of all these things not only with Loveless, but with the other manga books I've read too, LOL! 8D

[info]rubyprism

December 9 2009, 16:36:26 UTC 2 years ago

XD Some things are just how manga is. Though Loveless does have quite a lot of words in it. Which is thematically appropriate and nice because I like words, but I also like to know which ones are coming from whom. =D

[info]resurgam_fuisse

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[info]lost_hitsu

December 9 2009, 17:14:20 UTC 2 years ago

Seriously considering the use of your graph as a wallpaper.

Made of so much win!

[info]rubyprism

December 9 2009, 17:32:27 UTC 2 years ago

Go for it! :)

[info]phyrexians

December 9 2009, 17:15:06 UTC 2 years ago

Rereading loveless like 8 times to figure out what they meant when they said that XDDDD.

[info]rubyprism

December 9 2009, 17:33:03 UTC 2 years ago

Analysis ftw. :)

[info]mochalatt3

December 9 2009, 17:59:24 UTC 2 years ago

If it were me I'd have a section that reads "thinking you understood something then reading for 15 pages, realizing you were wrong and then flipping back through the manga to figure out where the heck you veered off course"

that's probably to long to fit on a pie chart though XD

[info]rubyprism

December 21 2009, 18:48:31 UTC 2 years ago

If you think that's bad, I thought Kio was a girl for the first several volumes.

[info]arisingsymphony

December 9 2009, 20:25:29 UTC 2 years ago

:,D

Ahaha... *tear* That is amazing, and yes, sooo effing true.

LOL and [info]'s "thinking you understood something then reading for 15 pages, realizing you were wrong and then flipping back through the manga to figure out where the heck you veered off course" melts right in there between "wondering what someone meant by something" and the 2% spent actually trying to follow plots. XDDD

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[info]rubyprism

December 21 2009, 18:50:29 UTC 2 years ago

I cannot for the life of me figure things out like, if Soubi REALLY LIKES PAIN OR *NOT*.

I suspect that he likes physical pain when it is inflicted with a meaning, but he doesn't like emotional pain, and he doesn't like pain that's meaningless.

And sometimes I think he's just messing around. He wouldn't get a tattoo because needles hurt? Pffff, he's just lying. Really he wouldn't get one because he already has all the markings that he needs to mean what they need to mean. But he makes excuses a lot, I think.

[info]jeza_jezaro

December 10 2009, 10:27:32 UTC 2 years ago

Am I the only one that doesn`t have a problem with following the story? *wonders*

But seriousy on the first reading my graph would be: 87% reading and following the story, 13% drooling over the art. Then if I make it to the second reading my attention would be only on the art.

[info]aquila_black

December 11 2009, 02:41:13 UTC 2 years ago

It depends how you define 'following the story'. In broad terms, I think Loveless is reasonably comprehensible. It's more that when you get into the nitty gritty of a scene like the one between Soubi and Nisei (in volume 6, chapter 4) and most of the dialog at the bottom of page 71 is behind Soubi, it's hard to figure out who's saying what. And since Loveless is on the dialog-heavy side, for a manga, this sort of ambiguity crops up often.

*shrugs* Then there's the issue of some translations being more readily comprehensible than others. Which do you favor?

[info]execharmonious

2 years ago

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[info]kagaminouso

December 10 2009, 21:16:30 UTC 2 years ago

Hahaha, this is awesome!
For me I'd have to add a section for "squinting to read the REEEEALLY tiny text that's randomly thrown in every now and then" or something like that. XD Am I the only one who has this problem?
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