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masterofmidgets ([personal profile] masterofmidgets) wrote2008-11-10 10:04 pm

We're Just Gonna Eat Your Brains

FIND OF THE WEEK:

I was bumming around in the bookstore today, as you do, when my eye was caught by what is, quite possibly, the most incredibly awesome thing I have ever seen ever. BEHOLD:

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Why, oh why, has no one ever told me such a thing existed before?! The level of crackitude here, the sheer WTFery, is simply mind-blowing. MANGA. SHAKESPEARE. HAMLET AS A WHITE-HAIRED BISHIE. IT IS SET IN 2170. WTF. FUTURISTIC SAMURAI MACBETH. WTF.

The truly awesome part is that, although they're abridged, the manga use pretty much the orginal text - it's actually Shakespeare, just instead of having boring old dialogue tags, they have spiky-haired manga versions of everyone running around. And there's a bunch of them, too - most of the major tragedies and a good few of the comedies, it looks like. I want to buy them soooooo baaaaaad. I don't know if I'm going to be able to stop myself.

This pretty much made my entire day. That and passing a Harry Potter and a Gandalf on my way to class. Why there were so many people cosplaying on campus today (and by so many I mean any at all WTF) I do not know, but I'm not protesting anything that makes my day that much more surreal. XD

[identity profile] happymediocrity.livejournal.com 2008-11-11 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
^_^ my joy was pretty similar when I found a Manga Bible at the library. I was like OMGWTF! and taking pictures of the illustrations and sending them to my friend. Adam had spiky hair and Eve had like ridiculous curves.

I love seeing random cosplayers! :D