some bitching, some ranting, and a wee bit o' fangirling

[insaneneko]

Oh my god. I shared the Loveless preanime CD thing that I had grabbed from seiyuu with a friend, adding a link to Obsession's scanlations of the manga for background. She wrote back saying she tried reading the first two chapters and was confused. She wasn't sure if it was her poor tired brain or Kouga Yun doing her incomprehensible storytelling again. Curious, I downloaded the first file and read it...and was put off by the bad English. Kouya Yun's style is already a bit sketchy, but this English it only makes the problem so much worse. I decided to grab my Japanese volume 1 and compare the scanlation with the original...and just from the first two pages I found so many mistakes and problems it completely annoyed me. I mean, the translator left out simple adjectives and adverbs, mistranslated sentences, had some simple errors...along with the bad English it just amounts to crap in my book. GAH. I wonder if any other groups are scanlating this? *sigh*

One thing I am very excited and annoyed about...I read the newest Fujimi Orchestra book and it was so damn good! I just blazed through it, ranted about it at a friend, then reread it a couple of times. I finally looked at the insert in the book, and it was an announcement that a manga version was coming out in celebration of the series' tenth year anniversary in May! It's coming out along with a side story book written for the book and not for any magazine. ^_^ I totally look forward to that...but what irritates me is that I desperately want to read the next proper book in the series, but looking at the track record of releases it looks like I won't get it for at least another four months...GAAH!!

I kind of want to listen to the drama CDs...I guess I should go search for them...

Speaking of drama CDs, I am very very curious about the drama CD of Soshite koi ga hajimaru (And the love begins), a wonderful novel by Tsukimura Kei. I had already really enjoyed another novel of hers and was looking forward to reading this one, and I was not disappointed at all. She just has this way of writing that feels so fluid and gentle yet still a bit sorrowful and sad...a truly lovely novel. I so need the sequel. I must fight the urge to collect every book of hers out there...

I stumbled across another Valentine's fic at a Japanese TezuRyo fanfic site 3min called My Sweet Darling...and it isn't very sweet. Why the hell am I coming across these rather bittersweet Valentine's Day stories?? I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised about reading this kind of story at this site because this author tends to write a rather callous and um...libidinous Tezuka...In any case, while it isn't very happy I thought it was pretty good...I like the repetition of phrases and the way the sentences seem to lead nowhere and the disturbing eroticism of it all.

Comments

[mitethe.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Thanks for the vote of confidence. ^_-

(Am still working at the Yukikaze review - I keep getting distracted and re-watching it.)

[mirichan.livejournal.com]

Oh... being distracted by it is good.

You know I've done FOUR AMVs of Yukikaze, right? (plus one sick-fuck x-over :P).

And a painting?

And even wrote 2 ficlets?

Yukikaze is dangerous for one's health ^_^

[mitethe.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I demand in future that these things come with warnings! :P

[mirichan.livejournal.com]

*lol*

[insaneneko.livejournal.com]

You watched Yukikaze??

[mirichan.livejournal.com]

^__^

Don't you know?

I broke her mind a few days ago... I sent her the Jack/Giroro x-over AMV. I wonder if she's gotten over that shock to her system :)

[mitethe.livejournal.com]

THE WORLD WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN! *sobs*

It does make re-watching the series an...interesting experience (need to stop cracking up at inappropriate moments).

[mirichan.livejournal.com]

:)

I haven't really rewatched it since I did that crackpot thing... I wonder how it will go ^_^

[insaneneko.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched that AMV so I don't delve into your posts regarding it...

Poor thing. She sounds traumatized...

[mirichan.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha.

You have no idea what you're missing. It's complete crack (but it's rather silly... nothing as bad as that fanboy boobies & panties horror that is Mave-chan).

[insaneneko.livejournal.com]

Heh, I had skipped it because it's a cross-over and I don't know the other series...

Ugh, don't mention Mave-chan. *shudder*

[mirichan.livejournal.com]

Oh...

But nobody knows... it's not important. It's just a red frog ^_^

But I then killed her totally by clipping a scene where you HEAR "Jack" doing the frog (aka Giroro in Keroro Gunso)... That's part of killing her brain.

If you want to try it, I can send you both YSI links. You can watch Giroro THEN watch the silly stupid thing I did with it :)

[mitethe.livejournal.com]

Aid and abetted by Manon. ^_^;;

Am in the middle of typing up a review but it keeps devolving into fangirl babbling when I'm trying to sound reasonably intelligent. At this point I might just throw in the towel and give in to the arm-waving. XD

[mirichan.livejournal.com]

and arm-waving is good.

BTW, it's all part of my nefarious plot. To get Japanese-knowledgeable fans so I don't die in WTFness when #5 is out ^______^

[insaneneko.livejournal.com]

*laugh* I'm all for nefarious plots! Increase the pool of fangirls! We must fight the evil fanboy serviceness that is...um...an unmentionable show that was mentioned not too long ago...

[mirichan.livejournal.com]

The one they will PUT on the the US DVD that will contain OVA 5?

Eww ewww ewwwwwwwwwwwwww...

[insaneneko.livejournal.com]

....

some things should be conveniently forgotten and ignored

so...wrong...

[mitethe.livejournal.com]

I knew it! :P

And I'm not if I'll be that much help when OVA 5 comes out. It was amusing reading the thoughts of one Japanese fan for #4...they were going "WTF?!" as much as we were.

[mitethe.livejournal.com]

That would be "not sure". *sigh* Should get back to bed.

[mirichan.livejournal.com]

Oh... but you'll be able to summarize (both of you will...).

Imagine a French-speaking looking at this and going WTF even more since I did not even understood why they were on earth for a start!

The WTFness of Yukikaze, by itself, is another story... no matter the language, we would still go O.O a lot, I guess :)

[mitethe.livejournal.com]

I can barely imagine how torturous it must have been to watch #4 with no clue as to what was happening!

Gonzo certainly seems to enjoy putting the "WTFness" (cool, new word!) into their series so we'll probably all do the collective gaping thing at the end. But as long as it's good WTF I don't mind. ^_^

[insaneneko.livejournal.com]

Heh, at least your getting sucked into good series. Fangirl babble is great. We'll all just babble together and be happy. It doesn't have to be intelligible to anyone else.

[mitethe.livejournal.com]

But I'm trying to be intelligible to suck more victims fans into the series!

[mirichan.livejournal.com]

*lol*

I've sucked many people in it while just fangirling like crazy :P

[insaneneko.livejournal.com]

I've sucked people into other series from fangirling as well. I guess we make some sot of sense while going off about things?