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Post By Pyro. 21/01/08, 05:27 pm

Right, well I was scanning through the Angelic Layer wikipedia, happily reading about all the obvious happenings in it; when I read that Angelic Layer was the precursor to Chobits, and both are set in the same timeline, and therefore Chobits is, in a way, a sequel.

Then I read something else-

Spoiler:

I mean, he's my favorite character! How could they do that to him?! HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE ONE OF THOSE INTELLIGENT BUT OPTIMISTIC PEOPLE WHO SERVE AS COMIC RELIEF, DAMNIT! He's not one of the kinds that's
Spoiler:

So, I am now pissed off. Thank you, CLAMP, for doing this to the best character in the entire universe of Angelic Layer/Chobits. I shall now go sleep in a coffin for thirty years and brood over how you have done this to, like, one of my favorite two characters you have ever created. /END RANT/

Has anyone else come across maddening plot points in manga that make you want to tear your hair out? Or anime, for that matter?

I am damn annoyed over this. It makes me want to stop reading Angelic Layer (but I can't! ICCHAN'S SO ADORABLE AND I AM SAVORING HIS ADORABLENESS WHILE I CAN.)

Bad/Sad/Maddening plot points/devices, anyone?

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Post By bekah. 22/01/08, 05:28 am

I was reading 'A Perfect Day for Love Letters' (good-ish review here), and I was reading the story 'Flowers Blooming in the Snow'.

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Flowers Blooming in the Snow
This one wasn’t so much about a love letter, but a letter crying out for help. Kumashiro receives a letter from his classmate, Miyashita, saying she may be disappearing soon. Her life has been going poorly, with all sorts of family problems and bullying at school because of her family situation. Kumashiro tries to help her and ends up falling in love in the process. This story was quite different from the others, with a darker and more dramatic story that does something a little different from the typical happy ending.
And it was pretty depressing, like Miyashita is so 'clumsy' and nearly kills herself and nearly gets raped etc :s
Kumashiro falls in love with her, but she tries to like reject him etc. etc. because she thinks he won't like her because of what happened to her in the past.
She tells Kumashiro what happened to her, and runs off into the snow, and he, of course, follows her coz he's in looove~ and finds her crying in the snow and she tells him (something along the lines of), "I can never see the flowers."
And he replies,
"You are my flower."

AAAAAAAAAAH. I had tears in my eyes ;o;
So yeah, that was my sad manga experience.
That's the first time I've ever felt truly said reading manga @__@
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Post By Pyro. 22/01/08, 07:04 am

I cried at something similarly sad, at the end of Chrno Crusade.

Spoiler:

It was SOOO sad.
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Post By bekah. 22/01/08, 07:27 am

;o;

I'm a sucker for sad movies/books/anything.
Maybe I should read that~
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Post By SoraFangirl. 22/01/08, 12:53 pm

Haha. Fruits Basket makes me cry alot, it's one of the most depressing/sad/blue mangas I've ever read, I mean, ALL THE SOHMA CHILDREN HAS PROBLEMS WITH THEIR FAMILY/LOVE-LIFE!! It's so depressing!!

Oh. And Volume 3 of Chobits is pretty sad too, well... More like Chapter 27...
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Post By Pyro. 22/01/08, 01:01 pm

Whats-his-face doesn't.

Hiro or whatever his name is. xD

ORLY? What happens?
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Post By SoraFangirl. 22/01/08, 01:05 pm

Hiro has 'love-life' problems with Kisa, but that wasn't too sad.

Oh, Chapter 27 of Chobits is just about Ms. Shimzu and her persocom-crazy husband. ^^
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Post By Pyro. 22/01/08, 01:18 pm

Wait, crazy husband?

Would that be Icchan, by any chance? 8D
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Post By SoraFangirl. 22/01/08, 01:20 pm

No, it's some other dude who isn't named... Isn't Icchan the husband of ******. Uh... I'm still figuring out how to use the Spoiler tag, so, for now, I'll have to type stars... And I'm NOT SWEARING, dammit!
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Post By sakuramiyabi. 24/01/08, 09:18 am

lol i never got round to reading the manga for chrno crusade ... but that ending spoiler made me tear up *sniffs*

and Fruits Basket the manga made me tear up so many times

lol
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