wednesday_10_00 | re: Flesh & Blood 21

*keyboard mashing*
*incoherent flailing*

OMG FINALLYYYYYY T^T <-- tears of joy

OK, seriously: 21 books. No characters in the history of ever have taken this long to have sex. (Excluding the ones who never do, obviously.) But...maybe it was worth it? No, I'm not sure about that. Oh, so many frustrations to get to this point! But still, I'm glad she devoted basically the whole book to it. I mean the love scene itself was maybe 1/4 of the book (which is nothing to sneeze at!), but there was also the setup and aftermath, so all told, it was basically the entire book (basically just have to ~~ignore~~ ~~skim~~ ~~try not to fall asleep during~~ get through the Vicente chapters).

I honestly had sort of given up on this happening until the end of the series, after the notes at the end of 20 saying that she felt like she needed to Kaito and Geoffrey lots of time in that book to be lovey-dovey because the big battle with Spain was coming up. But then when I got 21, the obi said "nobody will interrupt their third night together!" Yay! But...wait, "third"? Really? We're counting that time when Kaito was dying of TB and was all, "hey, we could do it if you're careful and don't kiss me!"? Kaito, that was not your finest moment. I'm gonna go ahead and call that your worst idea ever, and that includes running away and getting captured by Vicente.

Ummm....I had a point here. I think it was "this book is awesome"? Because it is awesome. Highly satisfying. And I say that not just because the sex scene exists, but because it was a very, very nice sex scene.

(Very nice.)

Other stray thoughts:

Kaito seducing Geoffrey is maybe the cutest thing ever. I really wanted to give him a kick in the pants when he wasn't going to go along with it. (Thank goodness I could tell from the pictures that he was going to change his mind, or I would have been SO MAD.)
Geoffrey has the BL-est PTSD ever. I mean: he sleeps fine (as long as Kaito is there), and doesn't have any kind of anger or mood problems...he's just impotent, that is, until he eats some figs and Kaito shows some interest in having sex.
What's the deal with Kaito saying that coffee is something couples drink the morning after having sex for the first time? Is that a British thing? Because on this side of the pond, we just drink coffee every day. (If it was a Japanese thing, surely that would have come up in some BL manga, right? I can't remember ever seeing it.)
Nigel knows right away, because of course he does.
I seriously think I never want to read Nigel's POV again for the rest of the series. "I'll love Kaito forever, and I'm miserable, but I want my friends to be happy, I'm such a martyr blah blah blah--" Look, Nigel, I love you, but seriously, give it a rest and get with Kit. We'll all be much happier.
When Vicente said goodbye to Alonso (Look, I paid attention to something in Vicente's chapter!), I was suddenly worried that Alonso was going to die in battle. Dangit. I sort of don't want anybody to die in the upcoming battle, except maybe Raul because ughhhhh so bored of him.
Speaking of Raul...he's evil but he wants Spain to lose, so...conflicted? The happy outcome of the battle is England wins but Raul's plot is somehow foiled anyway? (What about the guys from Spain that we actually like? It's going to be a bittersweet victory, I guess.) To be honest, I get so bored when Raul comes on screen lately that I'm not even sure what his plot IS, exactly (other than Spain needs to lose), so I don't even know if that's possible. I guess his plot is foiled if he dies, though, and they'll totally let Juan get his revenge, right?

This just came out, but I'm already anxious for the next one. *gasp* I love this series again! Yay!

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By the way... when will 22 be out and would you provide a summary again? Sorry for bothering you but I really like the series and can't read Japanese >.

Aww, now I feel bad because 22 is already out (in fact, 24 comes out later this month). I should get back to writing summaries, knowing people are using that to follow to series. If I remember correctly, 22 starts with a long (SO LONG, like three chapters or something UGH) Vicente section and I got bored when I tried to read it. I will try to persevere and actually write something about it!

Oh thanks a lot! Of course if it's too much trouble to do so and you don't have time, it's alright! I just wanted to know what happens in the story since I ended up too into the series...

Just wondering but is Kaito cured of his tuberculosis?

He is! He went back to the 21st century to get fixed up by modern medicine. If I'm remembering right, the two things he brought with him back to the past were antibiotics (just in case) and red hair dye (haha).

Haha really? Those were the only two things that he brought back to him? Good to hear that he's cured!

I listened to the drama cd, it's like you said, Kazuya really is creepy about his feels towards Kaito...

I think Kaito purposely didn't want to bring any 21st century stuff back with him, so just those two things.

Ahhh...I haven't kept up with the drama CDs, but yeah, I can imagine. I really wish everyone in this series wasn't so in love with Kaito, but...oh well.

I can't really read Japanese so the drama CD was only the thing I could use to understand the story.

Ah I know what you mean, some of their thoughts about Kaito are just so...

Is the story progressing in a good light now though? Also I'm sorry for bothering you!

You're not a bother at all!! I always love to chat about BL series.

I really enjoyed the arc with Kaito going back to 21st century, and then getting back to the past/rescuing Geoffrey, but starting with volume 22 it looks like it's going to focus on the war with Spain, and I'm kinda not into that. I hope I'll enjoy it once I actually get back into reading it, though.

(It's just hard right now because Haikyuu kind of ate my brain and I'm having trouble caring much about anything that's not sports anime, haha.)

That's a relief, would be bad if I was bothering you!

Kaito certainly worked hard to get back to the 21st Century! There's one part that I didn't really understood from the Drama CD, why did Kaito say that Geoffrey is supposed to die?

Hopefully the war doesn't last too long, would be a drag if it's like 5 books long about the war that I'm pretty sure the readers are really into. I really like how Kaito matures as each book progresses though!

Ah I understand how you feel since when I first started Haikyuu I ended up really into it too (Back then the was no Anime so there weren't much fans to talk about the series with)

Kaito had assumed that he hadn't heard Geoffrey's name because of the discrepancies between the past he's traveling to and the past he's studied in "our" world. But when he went back to the 21st century, he decided to do some research to make sure, and he found Geoffrey's name listed in some old record book as having died in prison. So Kaito knew he needed to go back to the past and save Geoffrey.

(I'm honestly not sure where the author is going with the discrepancies and whatnot and it kinda doesn't make sense to me, but whatever.)

Agreed that Kaito maturing is one of the best parts of the series. He's really grown up a lot and it's pretty awesome.

Haikyuu is awesome! I'm sorry not many people were into it when you were; there's a pretty active fandom on tumblr now. (And probably it will get more popular with the 2nd anime season this fall...)

Oh so that's what happened! No wonder he was panicking so much and telling Nigel that they got to save Geoffrey otherwise he would die. But if Geoffrey is supposed to die and Kaito managed to save him from that there's bound to be discrepancies unless the record was faked(?) to list him as dead so that they could leave or something. I guess we won't know till it comes out.

He's maturing at a really fast pace and probably because we see him growing each book that the fans get attached to him and like him. Although I kind of get annoyed by him whenever he goes that he's sorry that he's hurting people because he chose Geoffrey, etc.

It probably will grow since Kuroko No Basuke's anime is ending those that want to watch sports anime would most likely would head to Haikyuu!! I hope the recent chapter will finally show an end to the current tie match Karasuno is having now.

Well, I think they're supposed to be parallel universes, not the same timeline? So it's okay that there are differences. Not that Kaito would care anyway, I guess. But, again, I'm not really sure where the author is going with the discrepancies (if anywhere?), so who knows?

I think (hope?) next week's Haikyuu chapter will be the end of the current set, but seeing as how it's a five set match, I think the match won't end for a while, sadly.

Kaito 100% would not care about it as long as Geoffrey is alive and he manages to help Spain win because of Geoffrey. I kind of wonder where the author is going with the other characters and how it's going to end too.

The recent HQ!! chapter I think it's still a tie? But it focuses on Tsukki. I hope they start the next set soon!!

Yeah, I'm also curious about where she's going with a lot of things...which means I really should put more of an effort into getting past the boring parts of 22, haha.

Ah....yeah, I haven't read that chapter (though I did see some spoilers for it). I subscribe to the digital version of Shounen Jump, which (sadly) means I see chapters almost a week after everyone who's just reading scans online. (The speed and prevalence of Chinese scanlations causes me no end of annoyance, since I can't read a word of Chinese.)

Haha I can see why you were bored when the parts on Vincent usually bores me too. I do wonder if he ever understands what Kaito left behind in order to save him though.

Ah I see. The Chinese scans do come up real quickly so I tend to read them first before English. My Chinese reading skills are decent enough to understand the important parts but often there are some words I can't read. XD;;;

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