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OMG OMG OMG I am going to become a huge Miyano Mamoru fan at this rate. I downloaded the raw Death Note episode 1 and...well...was on the whole blown away. ( It is a first rate production. )

I also downloaded and watched the sub of D.Gray-man. ( My thoughts on it. )

While searching for something else online, I came across one blogger's comments on this fall's anime and took a look. Code Geass - Lelouch of the Rebellion? I...laughed watching the trailer made me laugh because it could be...so overdone, so badly. But I'll take a look. I like the character designs (yes, I am a CLAMP whore). I like angsty mecha anime. I hope it's good.

I've seen Shonen Onmyoji novels all over the place and thought the illustrations were pretty but had never picked it up. I'll check it out to see what the story is like. I couldn't find a stinkin' trailer but I think it will broadcast soon so I can just wait till then. :P

I am amazed I even care about the season's anime. Perhaps I'm swinging back into the anime side of things again.

I need to watch Ouran 25 and 26...the other day a second RL friend brought it up and we weren't able to talk about it because I hadn't seen it yet.

Wow. I was going to do a bunch of things on Saturday, none of which happened. Partly it was because I wasn't as over the cold as I was hoping, but partly it was because I read fanfics all day long. It kind of started when I was looking for a particular SGA fanfic. I didn't remember the title or the author, only a kind of vague memory of the story and that it was really good. So...I started looking for it. Of course, looking for meant clicking on lots of fics because "summaries" can often be totally unhelpful, and clicking on fics meant I read them. I read a lot of them until I finally had the realization that night that I was totally looking in the wrong places. And promptly found it in 5 minutes. -_- But at least I found even more good fic (at the cost of the entire day), and I even felt pretty good.

And speaking of fanfics, I found a finished LJ post I hadn't bothered posting for some reason. I really don't feel like editing it to make it work now, so I'll just tack it on at the end of this. XD

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I haven't exactly been going on fanfic hunting/reading marathons, but somehow I managed to get a sizable number of fics to rec, from a very diverse array of fandoms (for me, that is). I need to clear out my tabs (bookmarking and memories are far too logical. my method of keeping fic is that handy-dandy tab feature...).

( amazing how the fics pile up )

I have this terrible habit of leaving tabs open of various pages I want to talk about or go back to later. I should be doing something else (really, really badly), but I need to clear my tabs (and mind) and so I'll just write about them all now.

Penny Arcade comic titled "As Regards Spoilification" that made me laugh and laugh and laugh. Warning: Spoilers for King Kong AND Passion of the Christ. XD

Some lovely D.Gray-man icons -- I especially like the "my fandom's golden snitch can beat up your fandom's golden snitch," "such a nice boy," "i eat puppies," and "um...hi." XD

afterwards by idees_fixes is a TezuRyo fic I've already pimped before, but I rediscovered it last night. Nothing good can't be pimped over and over and over again, right?

Speaking of rediscovering things, I found myself at one of my favorite AkiHika fanart sites, 月光雪花. I must beg her to mail order stuff to me...she has four doujinshi I don't own and I WANT. In any case, the pic I squealed over too much: Serious Kaioh Akira and Hikaru (with glasses!). Some other particular favorites of mine: an earlier pic of Kaioh Hikaru with glasses, little boy Akira and Hikaru, and grown up Hikaru with sweater.

Oh, and petronia did a text translation of the newest Viewfinder chapter. I noticed there's a scanlation out already, but I trust her translation on principle.

Okay, back to the stuff I need to be doing...I hope.

D.Gray-man rabu! Thanks to thanatoseve, I managed to get the raws of more recent chapters…though the stupid arc isn’t over, at least I got past the killer ending of volume 6. XD The nice thing is that the site, Timcanpi, has scanlations of quite a bit of the manga as well as raws. So you can pick either to read the English or the Japanese. No clue if the translation is any good, though.

I downloaded the first three episodes of the Black Cat anime and watched them. I had kind of read part of the series back when I was buying JUMP, but I’d forgotten almost everything about the story. I’m not sure if the storytelling is compelling enough to keep my interest…but I do like Train and Sven’s voices. And I’ll probably keep watching (for now) because the fight scenes are pretty cool (kind of reminds me of how I used to watch Noir mainly for the kick-ass fight sequences—and the music—though I was amused by the lesbian shit, as well as the overwhelming melodrama of it all…). I randomly picked a subber, Bakakazoku, at animesuki and was happy to find good video and audio quality, as well as good translation (at least, the couple of lines that I did happen to read were fine).

And since this is a JUMP post, I will add some extremely superficial comments about Bleach, some of which may be spoilerish. I spent about an hour the other day with my Bleach obsessed friend where she spoiled me for a good deal of the manga. I finally found out who Yorimichi was, and I must say I like her character design. VERY appealing. Rukia’s brother’s hair in those pins is just…stupid. He looked so much better when it was down at the end of his fight with Ichigo (I was flipping through volume 19). I was surprised at the really young looking, rather cute characters who turned out to be Captains or Vice-Captains. The biggest surprise for me is finding out that Ichigo’s father was a shinigami, and perhaps was even a Captain. Since I only saw the very beginning of the series, equating that dorky image with the I kick ass in black shinigami thing is very difficult. The color pages are a very nice touch. I wish they had done that for…say, Hikago. I did like the two page spread in volume 19 where a bunch of them are bank robbers or something.

Speaking of Hikago, I wish they had made a second art book, with art from the latter part of the series where the boys grow up and become bishounen art got so much nicer. It’s hard to settle for just that last manga calendar (though that was very lovely). *sighs*

I was rereading D.Grayman the other day, and got up to volume 4. I still can't see a good basis for Kanda/Allen, besides the aesthetic part. I was talking to a friend about it, and she came up with a good reason. Because while Kanda has an attitude towards Allen, Allen doesn't. At least, up to the part I've read he doesn't. I need my UST a bit more two-way (or for Kanda to become like whoa!obsessed or something) for my slash-radar to go off.

I then started pondering who'd I could imagine voicing Allen in an anime (the production of which I assume can only be a matter of time). I immediately eliminated Paku Romi and MinaJun, because they just weren't right. I thought maybe Al's VA from FMA, but she'd have to pitch lower for Allen than for Al and I have no idea if she can. I then racked my brains for more women who voice boys (because I'm sorry, Allen so calls for a female VA. I'd be totally shocked if he was voiced by a guy), and...I came up with a possible candidate! Kobayashi Sanae, as in Akira from Hikago! She can do a little lower, calm and polite, and do the yelling passionate crap, too. Of course it could just be my sad brain clutching at straws because I was coming up blank...