unproofed and random post of much fangirling
Well, I paid for my day of fangirling by being totally exhausted on Sunday. :P Trying to work when feeling like jello is not fun...
In any case, went over to my friend's house and saw the last DVD of Ai Yori Aoshi Enishi. I enjoyed the episodes, especially the ones with Kaoru and Aoi...but...the whole thing with Tina was so damn lame it annoyed the hell out of me. I don't understand why she was angsting so badly about leaving Japan and never coming back. And here I thought she had some extenuating circumstances that would prevent her from buying a plane ticket and flying over (you don't even need a visa to visit!). And her not telling anyone that she wasn't intending to come back from her visit home was...selfish, in my view. Leaving her friends hanging like that for months, wondering when she'll come back, is not in any way good for them. Of course it turned out to be all okay, but...BUT....
Then I showed people the openings and endings of Tsubasa and Loveless. I think they were pretty interested. XD My friend owns a couple volumes of Negima in English, so I asked to see them to see what the character Minagawa Junko plays in the anime looks like. The series is so something I don't care to read (like Love Hina--I'm amazed I bothered to flip through the whole series in Japanese and English...that was also very derivative, too. It did what other manga in the genre did [better]. In one case one friend claims an entire chapter was basically a copy of something from Maison Ikkoku...) with gratutious nudity and the one added bonus of squasi-shota stuff with poor ten-year-old boy getting his face shoved into well-endowed chests! *gags*
I also saw two episodes of Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex. Damn, I love the music from that show. Not really my kind of show, but I really like the Tachikoma. They are these "highly intelligent super-tank[s]" (as described by a random website). They are really cute! They have cute child-like voices and chatter amongst themselves. The contrast between their child-like emotional level and the deep philosophical and metaphysical content of their discussions is just fabulous. ^_^
One good thing about Stand Alone Complex is that it is a thousand million billion trillion times better than the utterly cold and uninspiring Ghost in the Shell movie.
I also went on a Spiral fangirl-fest with my fellow Spiral fangirl friend. XD She introduced me to the anime, which I do like even if the ending was....um...weak. It's all because I like Ayumu, the main character. I like his character design, his voice, his personality, that he plays piano, his earring...In any case, the anime was dissapointing because they didn't develop his potential, or really explain or resolve anything. I recently found my set of Spiral manga that I had bought but never read, and was looking through them. O_o Much much better! I only have up to volume 9, which left a major set of events unresolved. Luckily, I discovered last week that Borders has begun carrying Japanese manga! I saw Ichigo 100% and I think Bleach, but I don't remember the others because my eyes were quickly drawn to the complete set of Spiral manga!!! I restrained my desire to squee and immediately flipped through 10 through 12. Wow. It's good. It's much better than the anime. It develops Ayumu's character. It introduces intriguing new characters. It reveals more secrets while at the same time creating more. It's just...good. I want to read volume 13 really badly.
The only downside to the Borders bringing in Japanese manga thing is that each manga was priced at $12.00. *_* Takai!! Oh, and looked like it was all shonen stuff, too. :P But they don't seal their manga thus allowing for much tachiyomi-ing.
I've found to my sorrow that I am apparently not very good at relating angsty stories in a serious manner. I seem to make them amusing...I was telling my friends about the BL novel Kao no Nai Otoko (Man without a face) and I managed to make them laugh. I didn't mean to make them laugh. I don't think it helped that I kept saying "dayofsex" as one word. Every time I said that they laughed. :P Of course, I managed to make a table full of friends laugh with my notsupposedtobefunny summary of Bronze/Zetsuai...
I spent Sunday night rereading bits of Mirage and laughing my head off instead of doing the evil t-word....
( why some things should not be read when really really tired )
In any case, went over to my friend's house and saw the last DVD of Ai Yori Aoshi Enishi. I enjoyed the episodes, especially the ones with Kaoru and Aoi...but...the whole thing with Tina was so damn lame it annoyed the hell out of me. I don't understand why she was angsting so badly about leaving Japan and never coming back. And here I thought she had some extenuating circumstances that would prevent her from buying a plane ticket and flying over (you don't even need a visa to visit!). And her not telling anyone that she wasn't intending to come back from her visit home was...selfish, in my view. Leaving her friends hanging like that for months, wondering when she'll come back, is not in any way good for them. Of course it turned out to be all okay, but...BUT....
Then I showed people the openings and endings of Tsubasa and Loveless. I think they were pretty interested. XD My friend owns a couple volumes of Negima in English, so I asked to see them to see what the character Minagawa Junko plays in the anime looks like. The series is so something I don't care to read (like Love Hina--I'm amazed I bothered to flip through the whole series in Japanese and English...that was also very derivative, too. It did what other manga in the genre did [better]. In one case one friend claims an entire chapter was basically a copy of something from Maison Ikkoku...) with gratutious nudity and the one added bonus of squasi-shota stuff with poor ten-year-old boy getting his face shoved into well-endowed chests! *gags*
I also saw two episodes of Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex. Damn, I love the music from that show. Not really my kind of show, but I really like the Tachikoma. They are these "highly intelligent super-tank[s]" (as described by a random website). They are really cute! They have cute child-like voices and chatter amongst themselves. The contrast between their child-like emotional level and the deep philosophical and metaphysical content of their discussions is just fabulous. ^_^
One good thing about Stand Alone Complex is that it is a thousand million billion trillion times better than the utterly cold and uninspiring Ghost in the Shell movie.
I also went on a Spiral fangirl-fest with my fellow Spiral fangirl friend. XD She introduced me to the anime, which I do like even if the ending was....um...weak. It's all because I like Ayumu, the main character. I like his character design, his voice, his personality, that he plays piano, his earring...In any case, the anime was dissapointing because they didn't develop his potential, or really explain or resolve anything. I recently found my set of Spiral manga that I had bought but never read, and was looking through them. O_o Much much better! I only have up to volume 9, which left a major set of events unresolved. Luckily, I discovered last week that Borders has begun carrying Japanese manga! I saw Ichigo 100% and I think Bleach, but I don't remember the others because my eyes were quickly drawn to the complete set of Spiral manga!!! I restrained my desire to squee and immediately flipped through 10 through 12. Wow. It's good. It's much better than the anime. It develops Ayumu's character. It introduces intriguing new characters. It reveals more secrets while at the same time creating more. It's just...good. I want to read volume 13 really badly.
The only downside to the Borders bringing in Japanese manga thing is that each manga was priced at $12.00. *_* Takai!! Oh, and looked like it was all shonen stuff, too. :P But they don't seal their manga thus allowing for much tachiyomi-ing.
I've found to my sorrow that I am apparently not very good at relating angsty stories in a serious manner. I seem to make them amusing...I was telling my friends about the BL novel Kao no Nai Otoko (Man without a face) and I managed to make them laugh. I didn't mean to make them laugh. I don't think it helped that I kept saying "dayofsex" as one word. Every time I said that they laughed. :P Of course, I managed to make a table full of friends laugh with my notsupposedtobefunny summary of Bronze/Zetsuai...
I spent Sunday night rereading bits of Mirage and laughing my head off instead of doing the evil t-word....
( why some things should not be read when really really tired )