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[telophase]

baka_neko lets us all know that Princess Diana manga manhua exists. (See comments on LJ version of the post - it's Chinese.)

Oh, Japan.

And vito_excalibur presents Vito's Unauthorized Puppet Theatre about the recent Realms of Fantasy cover brouhaha.

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[maiteoida.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to note that the Princess Diana manga is actually Chinese, as I found out when I read this utterly hilarious blog that summarizes each chapter and comments on it (which, of course, I can't find at this time). For added hilarity, the creator actually says that he had no choice but to draw Di and Charles as he does because in reality they're pretty ugly. Charles, I can see where he's coming from since he's no looker, but Princess Di? Wasn't she a fashion icon of her own?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Noted and edited, thanks!

Wow. My first thought when I looked at the picture of Di from the manhua was that she pretty much was a shoujo character already...

[baka-neko.livejournal.com]

if you remember where it was, please share! :)

haha but you are forgetting that the mangaka cometh from a land where the ideal of beauty is a tiny Asian girl with doe eyes, fair skin, and looks about as resilient as tofu. Princess Diana is beautiful; but compared to any generic Asian idol, she's a veritable Amazon woman.

I rarely make the distinction between manhua and manga, so I forgot to mention that yeah, it's done by Kao Yung, who is Taiwanese.

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

ahaha oh my god I want that manhua now! Tell me I'm wrong. So wrong.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I am right there with ya.

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised there weren't more Di comics out there; she was so popular! I remember when she and Charles came through our city on their honeymoon tour. I was a wee thing and we bought a rose to give the princess and they rode in a carriage down the street. Smells like shoujo to me! =p

For the record, I would SO give a magazine with the mock cover a second look. That mermaid cover, meh, not so much.

[larryhammer]

If I had realized you didn't know about the Princess Di manhua, I would have pointed it out earlier.

---L.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

She actually looks more like her than I would've thought! And I do believe Camilla Parker-Bowles has evil laser eyes IRL.