Truth or Drabble update

ririkit wrote my request; in fact she appears to have been plugged directly into my brain, or the same angel was whispering in both our ears or something. XD Go read it now. It's a Death Note / Prince of Tennis crossover.

tongari's up next...

Kuwabara Mizuno will pay for making me lose sleep :O

Or maybe that was the cappuccino I drank at 7PM last night. ...But anyway! I went to see GitS: Innocence at the Festival de nouveau cinéma last night. I'll probably watch it again this week, because helvetius in her infinite wisdom sent me a CD copy. XD Theatre-sized screen if you can get it, though. Mamoru Oshii is still the only person ever to make a film that provides an experience similar to reading William Gibson's early novels. Which is obviously not to say that he's the only person to make a good cyberpunk film, any more than it is to say that Gibson wrote the definitive cyberpunk novel, or even that the parallel I'm compelled to draw has anything to do with the culturally-stripmined concept of quote cyberpunk unquote. In fact Innocence suffers from the same basic issues as all Gibson's novels, namely plot-as-plot-device and narrative dwelling on the metaphysics of the brand name of the futuristic Japanese gum stuck to the character's shoe instead of the actual route he took to get from point A to point B, but it's really about the beautiful scenes of cognitive dissonance you wend through in order to reach the arbitrary ending. Not to mention I live to analyze futuristic Japanese gum wrappers. It's all a matter of taste IOW; you'll like it if you liked the first one. XD

(Also, cannot wait until the Google plugin is available for my head, so I too can converse in nothing but portentous and witty literary quotations appropriate to the situation at hand. Seriously, now. Where do I sign up for the beta?)

Then I went home and watched the second episode of the Mirage of Blaze OAV. I've forgotten what it was, to lose sleep due to an overwhelming urge to beat fictional characters over the head. >_> ( Incoherent rant ensues that you may want to just skip. )

Afterward it occurred to me that I have a real thing for professionalism. Section 9, the Meikai Uesugi-gun, Schwarz, the Turks, the retrievers and transporters and what else in GetBackers... It may be a devotion to the team ideal, or personal work ethics, or even just an ability to recognize when one's interests happen to coincide with that of others, but what I like about all these characters is the ability to set personal conflict/feelings aside and get the job done. Or, less innocuous and much more frustrating, the ability to completely disregard any UST one might have with one's team members or partner in favour of getting the job done. But a dash of frustration is what keeps fans coming back, isn't it. >_>