Wild Adapter: Difference between revisions

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* [[Art Evolution]]: [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wild_adapter/v01/c001/18.html Take a look at volume one.] [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wild_adapter/v06/c041/10.html Now look at volume six.] [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wild_adapter/v01/c001/23.html Now back to one.] [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wild_adapter/v06/c041/4.html Now back to six.] Drawn over eight years, there is a perceptible shift to more realistic detail and proportion (though not as pronounced as ''[[Saiyuki]]''); the early images on the character sheets in later volumes are a ready illustration.

* [[Body Horror]]: For "wild adapter" read "metamorphoses users into hirsute, beclawed, hyper-aggressive zombies, then makes their organs explode."

{{quote| '''Kasai''': This is the sixth body we've found that seems to have transformed into a beast - in attitude and appearance - after taking the drug. But he's the only one that died from a gunshot wound. The rest were [[Ludicrous Gibs|exploded into gory little pieces]].}}

{{quote|'''Kasai''': This is the sixth body we've found that seems to have transformed into a beast - in attitude and appearance - after taking the drug. But he's the only one that died from a gunshot wound. The rest were [[Ludicrous Gibs|exploded into gory little pieces]].}}

* [[Boys Love Genre]]: Technically accurate - the series ran in a BL magazine - but [[Boys Love Tropes]] are usually averted, when they aren't subverted or parodied.

{{quote| '''Kubota''': "We're seeking spiritual guidance because we're a gay, sex-addicted couple... [[Incest Is Relative|who are half-brothers]], disowned by our family after the consummation of our forbidden love." How's that? [[Undercover As Lovers|Isn't it perfect?]]<br />

{{quote|'''Kubota''': "We're seeking spiritual guidance because we're a gay, sex-addicted couple... [[Incest Is Relative|who are half-brothers]], disowned by our family after the consummation of our forbidden love." How's that? [[Undercover As Lovers|Isn't it perfect?]]<br />

'''Tokito''': Wha - wha - wha - [[Take That|what the hell is that?!]] No fucking way! }}

* [[Driving Question]]: Where does W.A. come from, and [[Quest for Identity|what happened to Tokito?]]

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* [[Gangsta Style]]: [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wild_adapter/v01/c001/10.html Is] [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wild_adapter/v01/c006/17.html a] [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wild_adapter/v02/c011/9.html rather] [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wild_adapter/v02/c011/16.html oft-][http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wild_adapter/v02/c011/17.html recurring] [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wild_adapter/v06/c037/8.html image] [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wild_adapter/v06/c038/14.html of] [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wild_adapter/v06/c040/10.html Kubota].

* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]: On the cynical end of the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|scale]]. While the antagonists shoot first, the protagonists are [[Disproportionate Retribution|more]] [[Curb Stomp Battle|dangerous]], and both sides are motivated by self-interest. Lampshaded in the kidnapping arc, a [[Perspective Flip]] with a [[Mook Horror Show]].

{{quote| '''Kubota''': If we're monsters... maybe you should have let us be.}}

{{quote|'''Kubota''': If we're monsters... maybe you should have let us be.}}

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Kubota and Tokito.

* [[Ho Yay]]: Kubota and Tokito. Despite the series' [[Seinen]] sensibility and lack of [[Subtext|overt romance]], it did run in a [[Boys Love Genre|BL]] [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys|magazine]]. Komiya, [[Ambiguously Gay|Sanada]], and [[Depraved Homosexual|Sekiya]] have their moments [[Even the Guys Want Him|with Kubota]], too.

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* [[No Export for You]]: Due to the [[Series Hiatus]], six chapters were never [[Keep Circulating the Tapes|officially]] released in English.

* [[Parental Neglect]]: Endemic. Kubota was ignored; Komiya [[The Caretaker|is responsible for]] his mother; [[Teen Pregnancy|Saori's]] family washes their hands of her; Shouta is a latchkey kid; Yoshirou was abused and disowned.

{{quote| '''Kubota''': They're around. But that's all they are.}}

* [[Quest for Identity]]: [[Amnesiac Hero|Tokito]] and Kubota investigate W.A. for what it can tell them about Tokito's [[Dark and Troubled Past]].

* [[Running Gag]]: Tokito is a stray cat that Makoto took in.

{{quote| '''Tokito:''' "Will you stop it with the house pet thing?!"}}

{{quote|'''Tokito:''' "Will you stop it with the house pet thing?!"}}

* [[Series Hiatus]]: Due to illness and [[Screwed by the Lawyers|contractual obligations]] after rumoured [[Executive Meddling|creative differences]] with its magazine.

* [[Ship Tease]]: Between Kubota and Tokito, both played straight and for laughs at [[Boys Love Tropes|yaoi tropes]].