i feel like babbling
Jul. 31st, 2005 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
insanenekoI'm amazed at how....good I feel today. The last couple of Sundays I've been dead to the world, but today I feel pretty alive. ^_^ I started out the day watching the episode of Top Runner I had taped last night. It featured...CLAMP! Apparently it's the first time they've ever been on TV, and it was fascinating seeing and hearing them for the first time. And since I really don't know much about their personal history, everything I heard was new to me. They really fit my image of them--normal (slightly introverted) women, people I could see at a doujinshi event or two.
The single coolest thing was seeing their studio and their individual work areas. Really nice. Not that surprising, as they've sold 88 million copies of their works so far. *_* One thing that made me squee in delight was that they were working on xxxHOLIC in the shots of them in their work spaces.
The part that made me nod my head in agreement and shake my fist in fury was when they were explaining how at one point they were so absorbed in writing the story as they wanted, that they kept keeping things shrouded in mystery and secret and prolonging and protracting the story progression. They have come to realize that a story needs a beginning, impetus, and a conclusion, and try to strive for that now. I kept screaming X! X! X! Finish the damn thing! ;_;
I hope someone had captured the airing and will distribute the file, because I think it's worth watching for any fan. I have it on tape and no way to transfer it to a digital format. :P
I've been reading the Mirage doujinshi I picked up in Japan, and I was surprised to find that four out of the five were AUs. The only non-AU one was a collection of drabbles that...ended up being mostly smutty, in that NaoTaka way. You know, dirty talk, some sadistic and masochistic tendencies, themes of subjugation and conquest, and obsession. I think the drabble format really worked, and the writer is pretty good.
The others were more substantial and, frankly, highly amusing. My favorite premise is the one where Takaya is a normal high school student whose father is a locksmith (why a locksmith you ask? So that Takaya can easily open the quadruple locked door to the roof of the school and hang out, that's why!). Ayako is his "older sister" type childhood friend who tries to kind of be a mom substitute since his real mom died. Chiaki is the school nurse (I snorted at that, it works so well). And Naoe is...Takaya's kouhai. But though he may be younger in age, he's certainly got that "mature" air about him. I really got tickled every time he called Takaya "sempai." ^_^ And Naoe is Naoe is Naoe, as the first time they meet is on the roof, when Takaya is hanging out on the roof and finds that a pair of students had taken refuge there for a tryst. Takaya, being a normal high school student, is kind of shocked and dumbfounded. The guy sees him looking, but doesn't react in embarrassment or anything. Oh, no. He just smiles in amusement. Who is the guy? Naoe, of course.
Hm, I guess I should actually do productive things since I have so much energy.
The single coolest thing was seeing their studio and their individual work areas. Really nice. Not that surprising, as they've sold 88 million copies of their works so far. *_* One thing that made me squee in delight was that they were working on xxxHOLIC in the shots of them in their work spaces.
The part that made me nod my head in agreement and shake my fist in fury was when they were explaining how at one point they were so absorbed in writing the story as they wanted, that they kept keeping things shrouded in mystery and secret and prolonging and protracting the story progression. They have come to realize that a story needs a beginning, impetus, and a conclusion, and try to strive for that now. I kept screaming X! X! X! Finish the damn thing! ;_;
I hope someone had captured the airing and will distribute the file, because I think it's worth watching for any fan. I have it on tape and no way to transfer it to a digital format. :P
I've been reading the Mirage doujinshi I picked up in Japan, and I was surprised to find that four out of the five were AUs. The only non-AU one was a collection of drabbles that...ended up being mostly smutty, in that NaoTaka way. You know, dirty talk, some sadistic and masochistic tendencies, themes of subjugation and conquest, and obsession. I think the drabble format really worked, and the writer is pretty good.
The others were more substantial and, frankly, highly amusing. My favorite premise is the one where Takaya is a normal high school student whose father is a locksmith (why a locksmith you ask? So that Takaya can easily open the quadruple locked door to the roof of the school and hang out, that's why!). Ayako is his "older sister" type childhood friend who tries to kind of be a mom substitute since his real mom died. Chiaki is the school nurse (I snorted at that, it works so well). And Naoe is...Takaya's kouhai. But though he may be younger in age, he's certainly got that "mature" air about him. I really got tickled every time he called Takaya "sempai." ^_^ And Naoe is Naoe is Naoe, as the first time they meet is on the roof, when Takaya is hanging out on the roof and finds that a pair of students had taken refuge there for a tryst. Takaya, being a normal high school student, is kind of shocked and dumbfounded. The guy sees him looking, but doesn't react in embarrassment or anything. Oh, no. He just smiles in amusement. Who is the guy? Naoe, of course.
Hm, I guess I should actually do productive things since I have so much energy.