Wild Angel's Gate: Bronze

[meteordust]

Gravitation was not the first BL series I was into.

bronze.clockworkwings.net

Three interesting facts about Bronze:

* The official title is Bronze: Zetsuai Since 1989. It has been *twenty years* since Koji and Izumi met! They ought to be pushing forty by now. (Actually, it would be interesting to see a story where Koji is an aging washed up rocker and Izumi has retired from soccer to coaching.)

* It has been almost that long in real life since the manga began. And it's *still going*. I don't know if it's accurate to say it's jumped the shark - more like it's jumped the shark, circled around, and jumped it a couple more times for good measure.

* For all its status as one of the classic BL manga, it has still not been licensed for English translation.

(You know, now that I have my own domain, I could inflict *all* my ancient websites on the world! Including the one from Tripod with embedded MIDI files of my favourite angsty songs.)

(But I won't.)

Comments

[-leareth.livejournal.com]

Z/B is STILL going? O.O zomg ....

BTW, don't know if you already have them, but some years ago I managed to snag most if not all of the Z/B songs on .mp3 >:P

[meteordust.livejournal.com]

Ooh, cool! I have some of them, but I know others were out of print...

I don't know if Minami Ozaki ever plans to write any other series. Or finish this one, for that matter.

[-leareth.livejournal.com]

Well, tell me what Zetsuai/Bronze songs you have/don't have and I'll see if I can fill in your collection -- I have a friend who's obsessed with Z/B so I'm pretty sure I'll have most if not all the songs.