Doujinshi, doujinshi

[petronia]

It's pathetic how, if I don't blog for two-three days, I feel the urge to make some kind of PSA to the effect that I am not deceased (I've been practicing the righteous art of the individually tailored sl0re these past couple of weeks, which is why lj activity has gone down. OTOH my various fandoms have quietly gained members >D). But yes. The third package I was awaiting came (from tsutanai), so now on top of having Naruto doujinshi I don't understand, I have Juuni Kokki doujinshi I don't understand. XD <3 Definitely must watch more, as is obv. filled with dashing long-haired men and cute little boys, not to mention giant squirrels. Actually, so is Naruto according to Yamada D. Yonezou - except for the giant squirrels. I'm not sure I trust her.

(I don't understand Chibi Bunny Takaya either, but I have a feeling that series spoilers won't do it any good.)

There's also really funny Saiyuki parody, and I still have to start reading "Slide", and... well, no lack for reading material during the next week. XD I'm starting to run out of space for the things, though.

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Listening to the new Chara CDs like mad. ^^; It feels like I've spent the summer listening to no other voice. A real album artist is rare enough these days; and her lyrics hit me hard sometimes, with their emotional frankness. Openness, is maybe a better word.

Comments

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

I have never learned this skill called sl0re, sadly. If LJ fandom were an console RPG, I'd be a woefully underpowered character. (Hah, are you going to start reading Naruto now? XD I don't recall squirrels, but there definitely are other giant talking animal summons)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I don't think you'd be underpowered so much as you'd be an NPC. XD (I haven't the gumption to start Naruto, although I've been acquiring series knowledge through osmosis; RL friends have been watching it as well as online.)

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

NPC? You mean I'd run an item shop or something? Or I could show up, say cryptic things, and be annoying.

(Mmm, it is quite worth reading and watching, although the thing about it is that it is really frustrating to follow because the mangaka makes the fight scenes last 10 episodes, so the serialization is mad irritating.)

Chara

[smurfmatic.livejournal.com]

I've been listening to a lot of Chara as well. First encountered her on the Yen Town Band of Swallowtail Buttefly fame, but thought was it. And rediscovered the rest of her works this summer and got hooked up on it (as I kept on playing the Sun Yanzi on repeat this winter).

-Ced

Re: Chara

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well, me too. Sounds of summer, man. <3

[(Anonymous)]

Anonymous browser-reader-lurker here, but -- if I prodded at you hard enough, would you do the icon meme (http://www.livejournal.com/users/merichan/490834.html)? I am curious. XD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

You'd like me to explain my icons? XD Well, why not.

[tsutanai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I really didn't get the bunny thing either. Save that it had to do with that curse/poison (purse? oy, jet lag) thing. I thought. Didn't really bother to reread after I could read the Japanese, because... well.

(And the Saiyuki gag one is pretty amusing, no?)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I wish they'd annotate doujinshi covers with serialisation point sometimes, not just pairing/focus: some equivalent of "spoils up to episode/volume 10", perhaps. It'd come in handy for some of these. At least it'll let me know if I'm not getting it because I'm not there in the plot yet, or if I'm not getting it because the djka's on crack.

The Saiyuki gag one is hysterical.

[takenaga.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Naurto is full of pretty boys ;p There aren't any giant squirrels, but there are giant frogs, snakes, and slugs ;p

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's always good to know. XD;; (You folks are responding as if I gave off the impression that the giant squirrel was a definite selling point. Well. It is cute, and I don't mind frogs or snakes either...)

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

RE: Chara, you now have most of what I have, with the exception of Happy Toy, I think, and maybe some odd b-sides although I don't have nearly all her singles, alas.

Openness, yeah, in that childlike way which is so different from the lolikon fake-childishness some other Japanese female artists pretend at, or are obliged in the name of marketing to pretend at...with Chara it's not creepy, because one gets the sense that she really does, on some level, continue to be six years old. In a good way. While at the same time being a grown woman and a mature artist and a mother of two children etc. I also continue to be six years old, so.

RE: 12K, but of course there are dashing long-haired men and underage unicorn boys; what kind of pimp do you take me for? >_< Should I just lend you my HK bootleg DVD set, and save you the trouble of schlepping godknowswhere to rent? The English subs are laughable but the Chinese ones may be better. I should hope they're better. They can't be worse.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Oh, renting doesn't take me all that far out of my way. ^^; I really haven't anything to plead but, ah, proverbial "busy-ness". Will get cracking post-trip, yes.

There's still a good deal of listening yet in these. XD The second disc of the live set is indeed ace. I also really like the original version of "Are wa ne" and "Tiny Tiny Tiny". I find it quite interesting that Chara's funk/soul shaded right over into house music on a few tracks in the early nineties, before she chucked it all for alt.folk.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Juuni Kokki has a human-size mouse. If they put a squirrel in the dj it's just for the cross-species bestiality.

Juuni Kokki has /one/ dashing man and his chibi kirin and I wish you hadn't reminded me what the djka probably make of that.

Juuni Kokki IMO is practically unwatchable up to ep 8 at least. It improves dramatically after that.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Is it a mouse? It looks more like a squirrel to me from the dj but I defer to the people who've actually watched the series. XD The dj I have are purely PG cuteness/plottiness, though I'm sure some djka somewhere has made something of, well, anything and everything.

[angrybabble.livejournal.com]

LUV FOR THE GIANT MOUSE OMG!!!!!11

Yeah, gotta say I was like "what, giant squirrel in JK? Is it some kind of youma?"

As for watching more, I've got the whole thing fansubbed, so if you would like it just hit me up for it.

I also agree that until ep #5 at least, I found it obnoxiously unfun to watch, but after that I became more and more enamored.

The dashing long-haired main is OMG AWESOME. Also of the few situations in which I would ever read shota fic if it was well-done and would totally pretend it doesn't bother me. ^^; (Such a hypocrite am I! @_@)

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

That reminds me, I've just read Nana 1-9 (as much as I could read of the French), and your soundtrack was so dead on that it's become inextricably linked with the comic. I'm reading it to my completely French-illiterate friend who is another Ai Yazawa fanatic, and as I read it to her I play the appropriate song and read her your notes on it--it's a great experience. Do you have Paypal? Will pay for an FST of Parakiss. Also, you mentioned a "star-studded j-dorama" in your notes. If Nana became an anime, who would you cast? (I vote Megumi Ogata or Mayumi Asano for Shin, as he's my faaaaaaaaaaaaaayvorite.)

You can email me about the Paypal thing at pere(underscore)chan(at)yahoo(dot)com.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked the Nana FST. XD It is the one that seems to connect most with people, which is just as well given that it's the one I worked the hardest on. I think I wasted as much brain juice for it as for a fic, all told... Cannot in good conscience even think of accepting money for a Parakiss FST, as I know two people who've soundtracked that series for free. ^^; Could upload Jae's for you if you like - or cobble together my own of course, but it will take some time. XD

Have never thought about seiyuu for Nana. Would self-combust from rampant imaginings if I ever ventured down that path. Best to exercise self-restraint. <3

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

Self-restraint? Que'est-ce que? (I may have gotten that wrong...)There are so many characters whose voices I already hear in my head. Takumi in particular is SO Hayami Sho I could hurt myself, and I haven't heard Megumi Ogata for a while so I thought she'd be lovely as Shin. *strangles rampant imaginings*

Thank you so much! You can definitely upload the existing Parakiss FST. I was starting to cobble something together myself, so maybe we can compare playlists. I just really loved your notes for the Nana one; I've even started listening to Evanescence again, because I can tolerate and even enjoy their lyrics when I think of them as Trapnest.