Gravitation

Gravitation

By Maki Murakami

Overall: Pretty Much Awesome

Smex Factor: Chaste

Art: It ranges from super crappy to pretty

Status: 12 volumes; Complete, but there's a sequel that....well, I'm not even gonna go into that.

Review: Murakami does whatever the hell she wants to do, and nobody stops her. Because, somehow, it's brilliant. Mainly because it doesn't make any sense at all.

You should know what Gravitation's about, at least. It's a classic. It's about Shuuichi, who's a rock star, and Yuuki, who's a jerk. I mean writer. The series starts off normally enough, but it all goes down from there.

There's a whole section in the story where Yuki just...doesn't show up. Gone. And then they all go to America, and there's a giant robot panda, and there's K. K, who shoots Shuuichi in the head sometimes. Who likes to blow up things. I love K. And then in EX (the sequel) Yuuki loses his sight in one eye, and Shuuichi gets into a coma, and Ryuuichi claims he loves Shuuichi or something. IT'S LIKE A SOAP OPERA ON CRACK. AND RED BULL. AND METH.

In fact...I think Murakami forgets that she's writing a BL in the middle of the series. Because it's really not romantic at all. Shuuichi is pretty uke, but he's so retarded, and I was never fully convinced that Yuuki actually likes him at all.

................But it's all freakin' hilarious, so who cares about any of that? Murakami is hellishly insane. If you haven't read Gravitation already, you are committing a grave travesty.

Don't watch the anime though. It's super crap. "Hotel Algonquin." PFFFFFFT. Please kill me.

Also, the art is pretty much totally unrecognizable by the end. I have never seen a style change like that in the course of a series.