Pimp-bending! YES! And yup, I'm all caught up and looking forward to The Boiling Rock. :)
I went looking for True Tears (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6257) because I saw some icons that looked pretty (the main character is quietly good-looking and the general production values are A+++). Ostensibly, the main character is going through his RL and using it as inspiration for this comic he's trying to write. I can't even begin to explain the plot. Suffice to say, it revolves around tears, and thus is dark and twisty. Except when it is about chickens, and then it is kind of shiny and cute. Lots of unrequited love in lots of weird and taboo places. I did say it was a soap. Works well as a guilty pleasure though, especially since it's so pretty looking.
Mikoto is indeed the one with the girlfriend (he doesn't want to do it at all; the "new one," Tohru, is doing it for the money). Except his girlfriend used to be a BOY, HAHAHA. He/she is the main character of The Day of Revolution, where he finds out that he is biologically female (intersexual or some such, it's actually scientific) and decides to have the operation to become a girl. But when he comes back to school after the procedure, all his/her old guy friends start chasing after her. It is awesome. Mikoto shows up in the second volume and basically steals the show with his pure and earnest heart. Oh yes, indeed. ♥♥♥
The anime is really not that great when compared with the manga, which is prettier and more awesome. Also, the manga is more heavy on the sho-ai hints (although there is no actual development). From what I've read and watched of the drama (1 1/2 episodes), that's the version that brings the most gay (Mikoto is even girlfriend-less in it).
AGH, futanari. I found a scanlated doujin, and there was this note about how they'd found it in a futanari bin, so I got curious about what that was and got squicked. Then I downloaded the doujin anyway because they ARE guys, but UGH, NO. It was totally futanari style. SQUICK TO THE MAX. ONLY IN JAPAN.
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I went looking for True Tears (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6257) because I saw some icons that looked pretty (the main character is quietly good-looking and the general production values are A+++). Ostensibly, the main character is going through his RL and using it as inspiration for this comic he's trying to write. I can't even begin to explain the plot. Suffice to say, it revolves around tears, and thus is dark and twisty. Except when it is about chickens, and then it is kind of shiny and cute. Lots of unrequited love in lots of weird and taboo places. I did say it was a soap. Works well as a guilty pleasure though, especially since it's so pretty looking.
Mikoto is indeed the one with the girlfriend (he doesn't want to do it at all; the "new one," Tohru, is doing it for the money). Except his girlfriend used to be a BOY, HAHAHA. He/she is the main character of The Day of Revolution, where he finds out that he is biologically female (intersexual or some such, it's actually scientific) and decides to have the operation to become a girl. But when he comes back to school after the procedure, all his/her old guy friends start chasing after her. It is awesome. Mikoto shows up in the second volume and basically steals the show with his pure and earnest heart. Oh yes, indeed. ♥♥♥
The anime is really not that great when compared with the manga, which is prettier and more awesome. Also, the manga is more heavy on the sho-ai hints (although there is no actual development). From what I've read and watched of the drama (1 1/2 episodes), that's the version that brings the most gay (Mikoto is even girlfriend-less in it).
AGH, futanari. I found a scanlated doujin, and there was this note about how they'd found it in a futanari bin, so I got curious about what that was and got squicked. Then I downloaded the doujin anyway because they ARE guys, but UGH, NO. It was totally futanari style. SQUICK TO THE MAX. ONLY IN JAPAN.