Watching a bit more anime, for once

[petronia]

Before I forget, surely like the absentminded creature I am: Happy Birthday, metempsychosis! ^_^

Tonight's Concordia Anime Club showing was amusing because - in what much have been some obscure act of fangirl revenge - a crapzoid-quality fansub of Kizuna OAV3 was sprung at twenty past ten, on an auditorium full of fanboys lulled by the sterling femmeslash possibilities of Read Or Die. XD Natsukashikatta, Shoujocon 2001, only at the con the screams were of enthusiasm and not unalloyed horror.

...Okay, I exaggerate. Some of them stayed!

This after I spent a good chunk of time on Friday, reading GB shousetsu with Mylène Farmer playing on the 'amp. Shouldn't do that too often; Japanese BLfic is a straight shot of girly even without Mylène. XD;; I wub, but I also ph33r. (And I have a debilitating amount of HTMLing to do, because for once I'm doing so much translation and ficcing that web mark-up has become the bottleneck. GB bunnies are eating me alive like in that one chapter of Petshop of Horrors, upon which they birth exponential litters of fanged descendants - and Schwarzfic business as usual on top of that, don't forget. And what did happen to that one IniD story...? Right, I never finished it! Haha.)

R.O.D. is the greatest anime of all time, though. Really, it is. I rest easier at night just knowing that there are superheroine librarians watching over the world. Yomiko r00lz. And how geeky is it that I can recognise the old British Museum Reading Room at a sight, without ever having been there? (Okay, my dad's painting of it. But still. Too many images like that in my head, too much useless mythology. Going by previous experience, when I finally get to see Tokyo Tower it'll feel preternaturally normal, as if I pass it by every day of my life.)

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[luxetumbra.livejournal.com]

and Schwarzfic business as usual on top of that, don't forget

::perks up ears at the mention of Schwarzfic and goes off and rereads TBD for the twentieth time::

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not tBD yet, but FWIW chapter 2 (http://www.kekkai.org/sabina/NnY/fiction/openclose2.html) of Open/Close is up... :P

[luxetumbra.livejournal.com]

hee, too late, read everything again.

Can't decide which one I like more though. TBD reminds me of something noirish. And Open/Close is just plain funny. Trying to picture Schuldig as a SD FF7 character hurts my brain though.

::goes off looking for Schwartz chibis::

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well, TBD is sort of my Tokyo Babylon, and Open/Close is... my Tsubasa Chronicle. >_> Which is why I find it so difficult to diss CLAMP even when they're engaging in obvious depravity.

I have a Schuldig sprite somewhere. XD (Also, to really hurt your brain you have to picture Farfarello playing FFVII with Reno and Schuldig wandering around and talking to each other in blue speech bubbles, which is what I do.)

[luxetumbra.livejournal.com]

Also, to really hurt your brain you have to picture Farfarello playing FFVII with Reno and Schuldig wandering around and talking to each other in blue speech bubbles, which is what I do.

^o^

god, if I only had any sort of artistic talent I'd make you a fanart of this.

::passes out from laughing too hard::

[(Anonymous)]

You have seen the Tokyo Tower. The original doesn't look any different. It looks like the Eiffel Tower only less so. The version for home consumption. (Then go to Kourakuen the green park not the amusement park for famous Chinese landscape points- mountains, waterfalls- done to Japanese scale. It's a tradition they have. Can't climb the real Fuji cause it's sacred and off-limits to commoners? Here's a hill-sized version to climb instead, and you don't even have to leave Edo. One of those is supposed to be still around, somewhere in Shinjuku ward I think.)
-mjj

[petronia.livejournal.com]

But I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower either (nor most famous Chinese landscape points, alas). Perhaps I should do a scale models tour at that. *g*

The Japanese really are the miniaturists of the world, aren't they?

[(Anonymous)]

You've seen the Eiffel Tower the way you've seen the Mona Lisa. The real thing isn't much different from the travel ads and the reproductions, which is scary. Bigger than you'd think in the first case and smaller in the second, but that's about it. The TT is the Eiffel Tower the size you feel it ought to be. And red, IIRC.
-mjj

[incandescens]

R.O.D. is magnificent. I have seen it and loved it, I have introduced parents and friends to it, and I have chanted, "Hon! Hon!" along with our beloved heroine. Yes, being a passionate booklover can help you save the world.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

It's sobering yet marvelous to see one's own oddities of character apotheosed into a world-saving superpower. XD And the choices of historical characters were so very offbeat.

[angrybabble.livejournal.com]

LET ME SEE YOU STRIPPED!
LET ME SEE YOU MAKE! DECISION!!
WITHOUT YOUR TELLY VISION!!!

... XD

anyway, uh, I always feel like there must be something wrong with me when I say this, but I don't like Read or Die very much. I thought Yomiko was cute for the first 5 minutes because I too love to read... but she cares more about books than people. She actually has a self-conflict at one point--should I save the book or the person? (and I believe if she had just chosen the person without wasting time waffling she probably would have had time to save the book too. -_-) I just can't stand that kind of attitude. I think I'm supposed to find it to be a charming funny personality quirk, but it just annoys me instead. >_>;

[petronia.livejournal.com]

(I know - 'tis one special cover. XD)

Yomiko grows as a character, though, that's the point of the thing. In the beginning she only has eyes for books, and at the end she learns to care about people as well.