Prankitty Prank Prank: KISS - The Manga
Okay, I know I’m going to come across as a total know-it-all smartass, but I am amazed at how many people have fallen for Ye Olde Comick Booke Blogge’s KISS manga hoax.
Now, I’ll be the first to admit that when I first read the blurb on Manga Blog, I totally fell for it. 100%. After Courtney Love and Avril Lavigne, not to mention the fact that KISS has done comics before? Yeah, barely bat an eye.
But as soon as I looked at YOCBB’s post, skepticism set in. First off: a KISS yaoi? Weird. And then Be Beautiful actually issuing a press release to a blog? Now that’s just crazy.
Then I scrolled down and saw the picture - c’mon, people, shouldn’t any anime or manga blogger worth their salt at least be able to recognize a ’shop of some art with Shinji and Kaworu from Evangelion? Even if you haven’t seen the show…I mean, Shinji’s towl even says NERV on it. o_o
That said, I still think it was a pretty cute joke idea, so credit to YOCBB for that. ♥
Tags: evangelion, pranks, yaoi
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Haha after staring at it for a few seconds I realized it was from Evangelion…pretty funny.
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Well, I’ll cop to not spotting the art, because I don’t read or watch NGE. But it looked fishy, which is why I mentioned in the first post that it looked like a hoax.
That and the fact that, in fact, BeBeautiful does indeed send press releases to blogs, and I was puzzled why I didn’t get that one.
August 3rd, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Yeah, I know, I just like to poke fun at BB because their online communications (or occasional lack thereof) are not always a shining example of Internet marketing ;)
August 4th, 2007 at 8:54 am
Glad you guys got a chuckle. We figured manga fans would spot the hoax in a matter of minutes, but were hoping it would really spread like wildfire among KISS fans, the majority of whom probably wouldn’t have a clue that yaoi even existed, much less who these characters are.
August 4th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Out of curiosity, have you seen ANY reaction from KISS fans? I’d be interested to know what they would have thought.
But yeah, as soon as Brigid spotted it, it was definitely going to hit the manga world fast - everyone reads her. ;)