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New glasses = urgent & key
Sep. 5th, 2007 12:21 amSo apparently it tasks my vision to follow a PowerPoint presentation from the back of a classroom that seats fifty people? Yeah. Not slides filled with meeny text, either.
Stuff-I've-read updates:
Fullmetal Alchemist vol.9: where I'm at now (series currently serves as my commute reading). At this point the storyline's pretty much diverged from the anime, and it's funny how disorienting I find it - doesn't fit well into the usual conceptual boxes. XD It's a shounen manga that doesn't have story arcs. It's a quest narrative that goes in circles. And so on. Stuff seems to happen mainly as a result of the last thing that happened. Characters with a stake in the proceedings are introduced, their psychology is developed, then they die (not unlike Death Note). Meanwhile "colour" characters resurface unexpectedly. I also can't grasp the "moe value" at all, which is kind of weird because I know there's a huge fandom and I don't usually deviate that far from the fangirl mean. XD;
( Some rambling that's too abstract to be spoilers. )
The best hope I have is that the mangaka really is painstakingly putting together a very large jigsaw puzzle and it's just at the stage where even the pieces that fit together have no greater context in which to relate to each other. XD Will know more once I finish up to vol.16, I guess.
Stuff-I've-read updates:
Fullmetal Alchemist vol.9: where I'm at now (series currently serves as my commute reading). At this point the storyline's pretty much diverged from the anime, and it's funny how disorienting I find it - doesn't fit well into the usual conceptual boxes. XD It's a shounen manga that doesn't have story arcs. It's a quest narrative that goes in circles. And so on. Stuff seems to happen mainly as a result of the last thing that happened. Characters with a stake in the proceedings are introduced, their psychology is developed, then they die (not unlike Death Note). Meanwhile "colour" characters resurface unexpectedly. I also can't grasp the "moe value" at all, which is kind of weird because I know there's a huge fandom and I don't usually deviate that far from the fangirl mean. XD;
( Some rambling that's too abstract to be spoilers. )
The best hope I have is that the mangaka really is painstakingly putting together a very large jigsaw puzzle and it's just at the stage where even the pieces that fit together have no greater context in which to relate to each other. XD Will know more once I finish up to vol.16, I guess.
