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[whitereflection]

You know, it is sort of an awesome day when, on one of my work mailing lists, I see the subject heading Re:[ACAT]Yaoi. (It's a message briefly describing yaoi and shounen-ai, in response to a thread on subject headings for teenage romance and how to work in concepts from other cultures.) Just makes me kinda go :D! Though it really shouldn't feel that unusual that it would show up in discussion--public libraries especially are very commonly carrying manga of all kinds in their collections nowadays. But still. :D! Amused geek is amused.

Speaking of geek, one of the network people had to do some stuff to our computers because of a server problem this morning. And I didn't think to fully shut down my machine for her--so I stood outside my officelet blushing like mad and telling her to ignore my desktop wallpaper >_> In all it's brilliantly colored Jack and Yuusei Yugioh 5D's glory. >_> (http://www.janime.info/5DS/images/wallpaper/02_1280.jpg See? -__- ) DUR HUR HUR, yes I must remind my coworkers how much of a dork I am.

It is rather warm in here, second day in a row. >_< I hope they finish the construction walls soon so they can stop turning off the air handlers.

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[whitereflection.livejournal.com]

Well, to be honest I'm really, really very new to any Yugioh at all--only finally started getting into the fandom and reading manga for the original series and such end of last year. So I've missed GX entirely. I've read up a small bit about it on wiki sites, just enough to get a basic familiarity on a couple characters (like Yubel). But I really know next to nothing on the show or it's plot.

However, there is a basic continuity between all three series, it sounds like. Allegedly this is some (not specified exactly) time in the future, and it's definitely a very different feel to the world. Not quite the same Domino you'd remember. :x But someone who was/is a GX fan felt that the way the world is in 5D's fits in with certain events at the end of GX. There's definitely a darker feel to the world and series--more serious, grittier I guess you could say.

As far as what's better--honestly, I couldn't really compare them :x I love the original series, and I'm *really* enjoying this new one. There's good/bad points to each. I'd say it's at least worth giving a chance. They're up to 10 eps now (9 subbed)--but even just 4-5 episodes should be possible to tell if it's hooking ya or not. ^^