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Del Rey, Marvel to Collaborate on X-Men, Wolverine
Oh! But it gets better!
"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."
My first reaction: An X-Men/Ouran High School Host Club fusion or even crossover would be really freaking funny.
Second reaction: Fruits Basket and Ouran probably aren't the best examples for this (Tohru =/= Kitty), unless they're trying to say "Reverse Harem".
Third reaction: I am extremely curious how this is going to translate. Morbidly curious, even, since I do not mentally connect the stereotypes of shōjo with the X-Men.
Ah, who am I kidding. I just want to see this explode into pairing wars. AND IT WILL. Such is the joy of the Harem genre. ::pops some popcorn::
Del Rey, Marvel to Collaborate on X-Men, Wolverine
Oh! But it gets better!
"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."
My first reaction: An X-Men/Ouran High School Host Club fusion or even crossover would be really freaking funny.
Second reaction: Fruits Basket and Ouran probably aren't the best examples for this (Tohru =/= Kitty), unless they're trying to say "Reverse Harem".
Third reaction: I am extremely curious how this is going to translate. Morbidly curious, even, since I do not mentally connect the stereotypes of shōjo with the X-Men.
Ah, who am I kidding. I just want to see this explode into pairing wars. AND IT WILL. Such is the joy of the Harem genre. ::pops some popcorn::
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Date: 2007-12-10 11:04 pm (UTC)I think the one chance this has at ACTUALLY being decent is how Kitty is handled as the lead. They use both Fruits Basket and Ouran as examples, but the female leads in those series are very different. Given that it's a "all-boy's school", then the reason Kitty is even there might be more in line with Haruhi's backstory in Ouran. Tohru is an okay character (she reminds me a lot of my college roomie), but I'd say that Haruhi is the more charming of the two.