Sloggin' away at the neverending anime
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petroniaMade it through the St.-Rudolph matches. It's not that I don't enjoy it. Of course I do. But if it were something that I was following on TV every week for two-three years it wouldn't make me feel as if I were putting the rest of my (fannish) life on hold. ^^; To be honest, I don't have the stamina for long series. Of anime like Ranma 1/2 or Sailor Moon or Inu Yasha, I've seen only a few episodes if at all. And of story series... literally the only 50-odd episode series I've ever watched from beginning to end is Fushigi Yuugi, and that only the once. Never finished Kenshin, never finished Slayers, never finished Slam Dunk, never finished Get Backers, even. (I'm still compulsively saving a couple of episodes in the mid-40s. XD;;) And the horrific self-discipline it took to get through one run of both Weiss series...
FWIW the only things I've watched on North American TV for the past 4-5 years are award shows, sports and the occasional documentary or movie-of-the-week. The last series I followed consistently was The X-Files... season four. (And about half a season of American Idol, aha.) So I have a huge attention deficit for television in general, and the least distraction sends me running back to the printed page. XD If it's a series I like, I'll breeze through thirty volumes of manga and whine for the continuation.
So why watch TeniPuri? ...Well, because it's sparkly and it's there (thanks, Lux XD), but mostly because the two versions are very different**, and the anime is a lot more ficcable than the manga. In other words, data gathering. XD;;; I mean, obviously I don't have enough ficcage on my plate.
Was reading GB23 - in detail - and got through about a chapter and a half before my eyes gave out. -_-; Ayamine-sensei needs to lay off the skinny pens. I can't differentiate between the foreground and background anymore, jaw-droppingly gorgeous though the toning might be. (Oh, and he knows the kid in Akabane's flashback looks like little Ginji. "It wasn't planned," quoth he, "I drew him like that without thinking. But maybe we'll work it into the story somehow. What with Semimaru and Akabane being connected, which is like a recipe for confusion." Mmm, I do love how the creators know exactly what they're doing ahead of time! XD;;)
**Or my reactions are different. I chugged through the St.-R chapters of the manga on the steam of my virulent hatred for Mizuki, but somehow I can't muster up the h4t3 for his anime incarnation. Ishida Akira's giggling disarms me - that and the hair-twirling. Or maybe it's just that I know how it ends. ^^; Much more is shown of the psychology and family history between Fuji and Yuuta, to the effect that's it's actually rather different from what I'd assumed from the manga. Makes me feel even more sorry for them. ;_; (I have a tendency to identify with the aniki/niisan characters in animanga - for some reason there are very few protective older-sister charas. To me the idea of having a little brother who doesn't want to be one's little brother is the saddest thing ever, and the more so because it's no one's fault.)
FWIW the only things I've watched on North American TV for the past 4-5 years are award shows, sports and the occasional documentary or movie-of-the-week. The last series I followed consistently was The X-Files... season four. (And about half a season of American Idol, aha.) So I have a huge attention deficit for television in general, and the least distraction sends me running back to the printed page. XD If it's a series I like, I'll breeze through thirty volumes of manga and whine for the continuation.
So why watch TeniPuri? ...Well, because it's sparkly and it's there (thanks, Lux XD), but mostly because the two versions are very different**, and the anime is a lot more ficcable than the manga. In other words, data gathering. XD;;; I mean, obviously I don't have enough ficcage on my plate.
Was reading GB23 - in detail - and got through about a chapter and a half before my eyes gave out. -_-; Ayamine-sensei needs to lay off the skinny pens. I can't differentiate between the foreground and background anymore, jaw-droppingly gorgeous though the toning might be. (Oh, and he knows the kid in Akabane's flashback looks like little Ginji. "It wasn't planned," quoth he, "I drew him like that without thinking. But maybe we'll work it into the story somehow. What with Semimaru and Akabane being connected, which is like a recipe for confusion." Mmm, I do love how the creators know exactly what they're doing ahead of time! XD;;)
**Or my reactions are different. I chugged through the St.-R chapters of the manga on the steam of my virulent hatred for Mizuki, but somehow I can't muster up the h4t3 for his anime incarnation. Ishida Akira's giggling disarms me - that and the hair-twirling. Or maybe it's just that I know how it ends. ^^; Much more is shown of the psychology and family history between Fuji and Yuuta, to the effect that's it's actually rather different from what I'd assumed from the manga. Makes me feel even more sorry for them. ;_; (I have a tendency to identify with the aniki/niisan characters in animanga - for some reason there are very few protective older-sister charas. To me the idea of having a little brother who doesn't want to be one's little brother is the saddest thing ever, and the more so because it's no one's fault.)
