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This sounds kind of terrible.
Blah blah blah, there's a lot of exciting news coming out of the New York Anime Festival. Code Geass on Adult Swim, so now you can ALL enjoy the trainwreck of trainwrecks! Kyou Kara Maou manga licensed, but will we ever see the novels, and will anybody rescue the anime from the black hole created by Geneon's collapse?
But the one thing that really caught my eye was this: An X-Men shoujo manga. No, seriously. Money quote:
Okay.
That sounds kind of terrible.
But, I dunno. If they're really going to go all the way and rip off Ouran, I hope they recast Wolverine as Kitty's tranvestite mother. I mean, if you're going to make a terrible manga, you gotta make a really terrible manga. That's why Code Geass is so good. If it were a bit less awful then it would be merely awful; but it's SO awful that it's actually incredibly entertaining.
ETA: The official press release has more information.
Okay, so Xavier's school is still a school for mutants. Why is it an all-boys school, then? How or why Kitty is enrolled in an all-boys school is not explained. Oh wait, the press release makes it sound kind of like Xavier's school just happens to have an entirely male student body, and Kitty just happens to be the first girl enrolled. (Is it because she's the first girl mutant ever discovered?) Eh, it's really hard to tell from the press release. So Kitty gets caught in a social war between the popular kids (the Hellfire Club, led by Pyro, apparently) and the misfits. And she sides with the misfits. And then the misfits band together and form the X-Men. Hooray!
Sadly, this does not sound anything like Ouran High School Host Club. Mmmmm, needs more male cross-dressing, elaborate tea parties, and lesbian theater productions.
ETA 2: The more I think about this, the more dissappointed I am that Emma Frost hasn't been mentioned so far. Now, we've only got one press release to work from, so that doesn't mean that she won't be in the manga or anything... But if she isn't, what a waste! She would have been perfect as the Queen Bitch Popular Girl who starts out as the heroine's nemesis, turns out to be more complex over time, and then eventually becomes the heroine's reluctant ally.
I don't know how convincing of a shoujo nemesis Pyro can be AU-ed into. Then again, if they keep the detail about him being a dashing romance writer on the side... That will be kind of cool. ;)
ETA 3: The Beat has pictures of the preliminary designs for Wolverine and Jean. They look good! I can't tell how old Jean is supposed to be, though. Is she a student, or an adult?
But the one thing that really caught my eye was this: An X-Men shoujo manga. No, seriously. Money quote:
The first, X-Men, was described as a shōjo title — "X-Men meets Fruits Basket or Ouran High School Host Club" according to one panelist — features Xavier's Institute for Higher Learning as an all-boys' school, with the only female student being Kitty Pryde. The work will be aimed at a manga audience; while the characters will be based on famous X-Men heroes, the manga will not require any prior knowledge of the original X-Men comics. The manga is scripted by Raina Telgemeier and Dave Roman, with art by Indonesia-based artist Anzu.
Okay.
That sounds kind of terrible.
But, I dunno. If they're really going to go all the way and rip off Ouran, I hope they recast Wolverine as Kitty's tranvestite mother. I mean, if you're going to make a terrible manga, you gotta make a really terrible manga. That's why Code Geass is so good. If it were a bit less awful then it would be merely awful; but it's SO awful that it's actually incredibly entertaining.
ETA: The official press release has more information.
Okay, so Xavier's school is still a school for mutants. Why is it an all-boys school, then? How or why Kitty is enrolled in an all-boys school is not explained. Oh wait, the press release makes it sound kind of like Xavier's school just happens to have an entirely male student body, and Kitty just happens to be the first girl enrolled. (Is it because she's the first girl mutant ever discovered?) Eh, it's really hard to tell from the press release. So Kitty gets caught in a social war between the popular kids (the Hellfire Club, led by Pyro, apparently) and the misfits. And she sides with the misfits. And then the misfits band together and form the X-Men. Hooray!
Sadly, this does not sound anything like Ouran High School Host Club. Mmmmm, needs more male cross-dressing, elaborate tea parties, and lesbian theater productions.
ETA 2: The more I think about this, the more dissappointed I am that Emma Frost hasn't been mentioned so far. Now, we've only got one press release to work from, so that doesn't mean that she won't be in the manga or anything... But if she isn't, what a waste! She would have been perfect as the Queen Bitch Popular Girl who starts out as the heroine's nemesis, turns out to be more complex over time, and then eventually becomes the heroine's reluctant ally.
I don't know how convincing of a shoujo nemesis Pyro can be AU-ed into. Then again, if they keep the detail about him being a dashing romance writer on the side... That will be kind of cool. ;)
ETA 3: The Beat has pictures of the preliminary designs for Wolverine and Jean. They look good! I can't tell how old Jean is supposed to be, though. Is she a student, or an adult?
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*dies laughing*
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I wonder if they'll pull it off without making it to cliché. And yeah, I agree that it's gotta be either REALLY GOOD (which I doubt the feedback would call it that), or REALLY BAD to be good. If it's just suck-bad, then that's NG. It's got to be lame-bad.
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The only sad point for me is that obviously, this is going to fail Bechdel all over the show. I *like* girls interacting.
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I'm wondering how they're going to work mutant powers into the story, if at all. Maybe it will be magic! I'm also wondering what sort of school Xavier's school will be. If it's still a school for "powered" people, then why the hell would it be an all-male school?
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I support this xD
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gah...This concept would've made more sense if it had been applied to Batman. Now there's an all boy's club with all the dysfunctional family issues from Fruits Basket!
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Good god, why hasn't DC tried this!? It makes so much more sense!! aargh, no fair!!
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Honestly, is there anything in life that isn't improved by the addition of all that? Especially the lesbian theater productions. Pictures Lost. Yep, better. Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. Better. C-Span coverage of health care debates. Much better...
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Oh, cool, I'd read that! :D
features Xavier's Institute for Higher Learning as an all-boys' school, with the only female student being Kitty Pryde.
...oh, wait, nevermind, no I wouldn't.
Seriously, WHY? It's like, "Do you guys know the REASON that there are so many popular shojo funnybooks set at all-boy schools? (HINT: IT IS NOT FOR HETEROSEXUAL REASONS.)" And this means I don't get Storm, or Rogue, or Jubilee! MARVEL WHY YOU BE DISSIN' ALL THE AWESOME X-GALS?!
(Memo to me: GALS!-themed Xmen comic would be awesome.)
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::sigh:: I am a sick, sad human being,
Tim