Kuroshitsuji in Aniway

[tacuma]

So, did any of you Dutchies read the article in Aniway about Kuroshitsuji? There is this most awesome Kuro poster in it, which is making my wall even more awesome than it already was (even thought I promised not to put up more posters)!

But back to the article, I think we found a guy that is PMS-ing!! Why else would he write about Kuro being such a bad series? Did he even bother to read it? I think he was really negative, even before reading it, and didn't want to see anything positive about it, just because so many yaoi fans love it. If he knew he wouldn't start liking it he shouldn't have agreed on writing the damn article.

He says Sebastian is boring because he is perfect! O_o Okay, please leave me a comment and tell me if you think Sebastian is boring and making the story boring! Doesn't his perfectness makes you wonder how he is going to solve the next difficult problem?

He says Kuroshitsuji is predictable. He probably never reached the part about Noa's arc or better, the zombie filled ship. They contain things I think were not predictable at all.

He says the first chaps are only written to get Sebastian en Ciel in one room. Okay, gotta agree that the beginning is especially lovey-dovey. But normal people call that an introduction (but a PMS-ing guy is not normal, so can't expect much of him, can we?). We gotta get to know the characters and the way they live right? And the lovey-dovey-ness is all fake, because there is so much blood and death in the later chapters!

He says the side characters are a bit cliche and don't have much of a background. Either read more of the manga or watch the anime already. There we get to know more about Bard, Finnian and Maylin and why they are so clumsy. And even if they were super flat characters, gotta love at least one of them, ne?

He is allowed to have his own opinion about Kuro, but he didn't start reading this with an open mind. He could only think about the big, bad yaoi and couldn't see the wonderful story that's behind the love between master and butler. Kinda sad. 

Comments

[mimi91chan.livejournal.com]

This post totally contains my thoughts about the article. The cool poster makes it up a tiny little bit. Damn PMS-ing guy! Really, I wanted to kill while I went through the article! D:< I just loooove the lovey-dovey part and if Sebastian wasn't perfect, then the whole setting of this story wouldn't be fun anymore >_< And pleeeease, the side-characters are totally not cliche. I mean, in the anime we learn about the history of Madame Red, Maylene, Bard, Finnian, Undertaker (a bit) and ofcourse Ciel's. Even the shinigami got some background story later in the OVAs. That guy totally didn't dive into the series! That makes me sooo mad. To look at a series with such a mind. If you want to make a good and fair review, you should start watching/reading with an open mind!
OPEN MIND!

[psiten]

Sebastian, boring?! He's awesome! First of all, this columnist clearly knows nothing about butler archetypes or establishing relative power dynamics in a system where a high-level demon is living among normal humans. Second, he's got no eye whatsoever for character interaction or personality. They're the only thing that make "perfect" characters work long term (for example, the valet who basically created the character type of the "perfect butler", Jeeves in Jeeves and Wooster), and Kuroshitsuji delivers 100% on giving these people interesting personalities and chemistry! And not even just Sebastian and Ciel's obvious subtext... the whole cast meshes brilliantly.

In short, that guy's full of crap - QED.

[willeke4439.livejournal.com]

I agreed with the article, it perfecly captures why I don't think the series is good. ^^; If you'd take out the yaoi there'd be nothing substantial left. But that doesn't mean you can't enjoy it for what it is. ^^

[sindraa.livejournal.com]

I guess I totally agree with you the article didn't really give a fair idea about the manga. My first surprise was actually when he wrote he thought it was a yaoi manga and there were too much hints toward SebastianxCiel. I actually never even considered the manga to have much homoerotic stuff... except for Grell that is. (The rest is just teasing...? Maybe a bit lovey-dovey...? But certainly no yaoi for as far I look. I guess there's as much yaoi as you want there to be.)
And well, since he apparently thinks is BL and doesn't like BL, he just says the whole manga is terrible. He's allowed to have his own opinion, but he might have considered to say something that didn't come down to: "You'll love it if you love yoai, if you don't love yoai this is just rubbish." There's also something in-between there. People who just enjoy the series because Sebastian is so incredibly perfect and hot? Or because they think Ciel has an amazing personality? There's much more reasons than yaoi to like the series.

Anyway, the poster is making up a little, but the article is just rubbish. (Come on, if the series was really that bad, why would they still publish it?)

[paranoid-fridge.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I usually skip anything written by supposed "mainstream" media on anime or manga. Thus I was utterly suprised when at one point I learned that watching anime has become a socially accepted way to spend time sometime during the last ten years. O.o

Back to Kuroshitsuji - while the series hasn't gotten to me as Pandora Hearts has, I still enjoy the monthly installments very, very much. :) Sure, the clichés are all there. But they're so much there, they're actually being subverted. For authors as the guy you described, having a closer look might pay of. I love the very particular sense of humor in Kuroshitsuji, and the wonderful play with clichés - which is admittedly not easy to see, especially when one isn't inclined to.

So boo for payroll writers that don't do the research and rather turn up their nose instead of doing what they're paid to. <.<