Sports = sex

[branchandroot]

I, and others, have said this before, but it bears repeating.

Sports, in shounen, equals sex.

This becomes very clear when you try to write actual matches of any kind. It is just like writing a sex scene, complete with the need to balance technical description with emotive/experiential description.

Most of the vocabulary is even the same.

And if you're not in a good mental space to write a sex scene, a match scene isn't going to come easily either.

*sighs*

Comments

[sinises.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I concur ♥~

What's even more bizarre is that I started thinking about Eyeshield 21 when I read your entry. . .only to see Hiruma Youichi as your layout when I made a comment.

Life sure is weird (:D)~

[branchandroot]

*grins* Hiruma is ubiquitous; he shows up everywhere and controls everything.

... except when the tenipuri muses boot him out.

[sinises.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the two series where sports is undoubtedly an equivocal word. . .*ahem*. Oooh~ the power of shounen manga (XD)