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I had totally forgotten that the Oscars were on Sunday, so I was kind of interested when the local Japanese radio station reported the results on Monday morning. It was really really funny hearing the poor guy stumble over the names of the movies and people, even as I winced. He had particular problem with Reese Witherspoon, utterly butchering her name. The best part, though, was when he described Brokeback mountain. I guess I'm used to the annoying "gay cowboy movie" tag, so I actually laughed out loud when he said it was a story about "a forbidden love between cowboys" (カウボーイ同士の禁断の愛 or something like that). It sounds like a stupid ending line for a BL novel/manga blurb (though it needs the addition of several exclamation points), but even that's better than "gay cowboy movie." Though both are better than, as one person described it, "gay sheepherder movie."

Manga artist survery

The April Pafu also had (as they do every year) a short survey that quite a number of manga artists reply to. I thought the first question was kind of interesting, to see what some of my favorite artists were into. There were A LOT of manga mentioned that I had never heard of and didn't know how to romanize. Oh boy did that turn into a hassle. :P In any case, after a while I got lazy and didn't type out every artist I recognized. Lots of BL artists, a couple of shonen and shoujo thrown in.

( Please tell us, from the manga (or anime, game, novels, movies, etc) you read in 2005, which left an impression on you. )