![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Wild Angel's Gate: Bronze
May. 8th, 2009 11:37 pmGravitation 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.)
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.)
