Crawling back into fandom bubble

[petronia]

Finished the Mirage of Blaze - no, not novel. I've likely neglected to mention that 5.5 is actually two disparate novellas, so the first half of the book, and saints alone know if the second half will give me as much trouble - last night. Was baffled to discover that it ends nothing like what happened in the anime. If I'd been a Japanese fan of the novels previous to the anime I'd have raged at how they handled it, methinks. ^^; T told me last night (when I went over to her place with the express intent of getting drunk on cheap wine) that when she first met me, geological eons ago at the Marianopolis Anime Club, I was really into CLAMP and SxS. This may well have been. I have no memory of the obsession, because I never wrote SxS, and I have to write for a fandom before I believe I'm really in it. If not it slips away, and I hit a worrying blank when I try to remember what I was doing with my time online. But conscious memory or not, it does leave an effect. And let me tell you: in the world according to me, there is no excuse whatsoever for leaving out blood and sakura when you are animating something that had blood and sakura in it in the first place.

I think in a certain sense, I'm more PO'd that they didn't do Sassa Narimasa and Sayuri-hime than that they left out all the Naoe/Takaya scenes. It's a good lesson in how to construct a novel where there's a plot arc and a relationship arc simultaneously, actually: the themes redouble and echo until you start believing the melodrama is tragedy. To add insult to injury I think she must have taken barely more time to write the thing than I took to read it. XD;;

(It also explains who those characters in the OAVs were. They're the Pure Land sect. Damned warrior monks and their spiritual barriers against exorcism! :O :O)

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[smurfmatic.livejournal.com]

Speaking of the Marianopolis Anime Club, my cousin told me last weekend that when he wanted to join at the beginning of the year (after I recounted to him the "too many connections between my friends" story several times), it wasn't there anymore. Reason? "Too many illegal activities, lol". >_>

So he joined the ping-pong club, the next best thing I suppose.

(I guess it's as if my student newspaper got banned or anything; now I'm still curious what everyone's reaction would be.)

-Ced

[sandpanther.livejournal.com]

Hope you don't mind me going back through your old entries and commenting on stuff that I just read... (This is what I get for being too nervous to dive into taking on full novels in Japanese...) Tell me if you do mind, and I'll knock it off.

Yeah, I agree with you that if I saw the novel version of all this first I would have been irked with what they did in the anime. The novel version just flows better than the anime version, which just ended up with too many ???? what was that? moments.

Is it just me, or does Kuwabara-sensei do a lot of echoing themes? I just got finished with the third book, and enjoyed her echoing the whole theme of mothers between Takaya and Masamune.

And since I'm a geography goober, I just gotta say, it sucks to be Takaya, having to take the train back from Toyama. It would take about 5 hours to get back to Matsumoto, just 'cause there really aren't any direct train routes. And just to add insult to injury, one of the two possible transfer would have to be done in a town named 直江津.