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May. 25th, 2024 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavread 'history of hentai manga' not too long ago. i've forgotten some of the finer points but before I forget the rest.....
* if you're serious about doing erotic comics / doujinshi, you need to read this. the author explains why certian visual tropes like the aheago face and the tit-headlights came about (usually in relation to the artist experimenting new ways of exaggerating the *feeling* of sex rather than trying to be realistic). i also loved seeing the different "waves" of styles explained where the author walked you through how realistic it used to be in the 70's, the boob inflation craze, the moe craze, and then how each of those waves was usually a response to what came before. felt very much tangible history.
* overall i thought it was a truly endearing, professional, and honest walkthrough of the genre by a real enthusiast who knew his shit inside and out. it didn't stick to just one sub-genre or one era of history and truly spanned from the 70's all the way up to the early 2010's
* there was a cool section where the author interviewed a roundtable of women especially and got their thoughts on hentai since hentai is steryotypically a male-gaze genre (ironically there's a lot of women artists who draw under an adrogynous pen name). it didn't go super deep into, hn, individual pros/cons/nuanced thought, but it was a nice snapshot of time gesture.
* i do think the author rambled on a bit repetitively about the individual styles. a good editor could have probably reduced this book by a third; i know i skimmed some chunks while googling the artists that caught my attention. having nhentai/fakku up on a different window made this such a cool read though.
also watched blade (1998)!
* how tf this movie managed to be far more politically incisive than black panther.... also just funnier, sincerely, in general.
* it was both more and less kinky than i expected it would be.... like there's shades of it, definitely hornier than your average marvel movie these days, and the vampires had a genuine sexual edge but it also didn't quite go as far as i actually thought it would?
* i was not expecting that much mommy/son kink there at the end though omfg. actual chemistry there.
* it was a little cheesy - like it's not the kind of film i'd watch with the parents even with the above (they tend to only like stuff that's genuinely serious/sincere), but it's almost like the kind twilight mashed with hellsing mashed with iron man (the first one) in terms of mix of badass cheese and then weirdly compelling blips of moments. ACTUALLY... i take that back, remember the first spy kids? blade is one hundred per-cent a grown up spy-kids movie with gallons of blood.
* the sets felt so nice.... i missed 90's/80s sets that feel genuinely intimate and tactile.
* i wouldn't rewatch it again but i'm glad i watched it... crow's up next!
edit: also tried watching fallout (tv series).
opening was pretty emotionally solid. (it helps i was mildly convinced into watching it due to one really horny gifset of wolton.)
rest of the episode kinda lost me though... not out of any one Thing but every shot was the kind of creepily immaculate that turns me off much like anything made after 2014 or so? boys doing army boy things in a post apocalyptic setting should not have immaculately perfect not sweaty/dirty/stained skin, power armor should also not be spotless, the lighting in the vaults shouldn't be maximally perfect, etc. i'm okay with fo3 (and that one charon/lone wanderer fic) remaining peak fallout for me; i'll settle for hot ghoul gifsets.
* if you're serious about doing erotic comics / doujinshi, you need to read this. the author explains why certian visual tropes like the aheago face and the tit-headlights came about (usually in relation to the artist experimenting new ways of exaggerating the *feeling* of sex rather than trying to be realistic). i also loved seeing the different "waves" of styles explained where the author walked you through how realistic it used to be in the 70's, the boob inflation craze, the moe craze, and then how each of those waves was usually a response to what came before. felt very much tangible history.
* overall i thought it was a truly endearing, professional, and honest walkthrough of the genre by a real enthusiast who knew his shit inside and out. it didn't stick to just one sub-genre or one era of history and truly spanned from the 70's all the way up to the early 2010's
* there was a cool section where the author interviewed a roundtable of women especially and got their thoughts on hentai since hentai is steryotypically a male-gaze genre (ironically there's a lot of women artists who draw under an adrogynous pen name). it didn't go super deep into, hn, individual pros/cons/nuanced thought, but it was a nice snapshot of time gesture.
* i do think the author rambled on a bit repetitively about the individual styles. a good editor could have probably reduced this book by a third; i know i skimmed some chunks while googling the artists that caught my attention. having nhentai/fakku up on a different window made this such a cool read though.
also watched blade (1998)!
* how tf this movie managed to be far more politically incisive than black panther.... also just funnier, sincerely, in general.
* it was both more and less kinky than i expected it would be.... like there's shades of it, definitely hornier than your average marvel movie these days, and the vampires had a genuine sexual edge but it also didn't quite go as far as i actually thought it would?
* i was not expecting that much mommy/son kink there at the end though omfg. actual chemistry there.
* it was a little cheesy - like it's not the kind of film i'd watch with the parents even with the above (they tend to only like stuff that's genuinely serious/sincere), but it's almost like the kind twilight mashed with hellsing mashed with iron man (the first one) in terms of mix of badass cheese and then weirdly compelling blips of moments. ACTUALLY... i take that back, remember the first spy kids? blade is one hundred per-cent a grown up spy-kids movie with gallons of blood.
* the sets felt so nice.... i missed 90's/80s sets that feel genuinely intimate and tactile.
* i wouldn't rewatch it again but i'm glad i watched it... crow's up next!
edit: also tried watching fallout (tv series).
opening was pretty emotionally solid. (it helps i was mildly convinced into watching it due to one really horny gifset of wolton.)
rest of the episode kinda lost me though... not out of any one Thing but every shot was the kind of creepily immaculate that turns me off much like anything made after 2014 or so? boys doing army boy things in a post apocalyptic setting should not have immaculately perfect not sweaty/dirty/stained skin, power armor should also not be spotless, the lighting in the vaults shouldn't be maximally perfect, etc. i'm okay with fo3 (and that one charon/lone wanderer fic) remaining peak fallout for me; i'll settle for hot ghoul gifsets.
