I wrote this entry a few hours ago but forgot to post it ^^;

[petronia]

The infamous Bleach chapter 179 itself, it turns out, answers all the questions Charmian and I asked each other yesterday and then some. Kubo Tite, you fail at shounen. Please to go write Dickensian-period shoujo manga for Hana to Yume kthx. ...No, I kid of course. Stay and subvert the WJ dominant paradigm with Ooba and Obata sensei-tachi.

Tonight I make paella with Justin. He asked me to burn him the Bleach manga, so I did (with Death Note to pad out the CD, ohohohoho). However he's only been watching the anime, so I cannot break out my store of nuclear spoilers. Physical hell.

Actually, something the Trinity Blood anime is either purposefully leaving out or leaving unclear is that Ax agents - Abel especially - tend not to kill unless their hand is forced. For instance, in the first episode it's not Abel who makes the guy squish his own heart; he was latently hypnotized by Rosen Kreuz to commit suicide before giving away any information. Their usual goal is to arrest the vampires and hand them over to the Inquisition for questioning (mind you I don't know what happens to them after that...). There's even a standard legal formula for it that goes something like, "John Doe, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, I place you under arrest upon suspicion of forty-seven counts of forcible exsanguination."

However vampires are tough to kill. It has to be the standard silver bullet through the head or stake through the heart or chopped in two at the neck, or they won't die period. So a lot of the time, Abel or Tres would immobilise the arrestee by, like, shooting their arms and legs off and leaving the torso to wiggle on the ground in wrath. ^^;;;

Finished RAM 1, back to Mirage of Blaze 16 (almost regrettably, as methinks the entire cast heads for North Africa in ROM 2 and I'm always up for a starry night in Algiers). Naoe just found the patch of grass Takaya bled over before the ambulance crew carried him off. Rairyuu is in big trouble. XD

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[motorbike.livejournal.com]

Wait, who was Hisana again?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

In the chapter just before Byakuya leaves the house to watch Rukia's execution, there's a scene of him gazing at the photo of a girl who resembles Rukia to a T, in a little shrine in his closet. "I'm going, Hisana," he says to the picture, and does.

...Don't remember that? NEITHER DID I. Then I tried to read the fandom speculation and it was all like Hisana Hisana Hisana and I had to make worldserpent explain it to me.

So basically, the shock value is that Byakuya was married when I would've said he was too uptight to actually, like, have sex with anybody, and furthermore was married to a girl who was Rukia's sister and LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE HER. And even FURTHER MORE THAN THAT broke the rules for Love over the protests of his clan that he was soiling the bloodline by marrying a penniless commoner. I mean, who the heck was ghostwriting this one, the Bronte sisters?

[motorbike.livejournal.com]

Hisana only appears in one previous scene? And suddenly it's all like WIFE WIFE WIFE -SLEPT WITH BYAKUYA- AND HAD RUKIA FOR A SISTER WIFE?

Thanks for letting me know, I'd probably have never found that previous bit, anyway.

All of it IS out of a nineteenth-century novel about family ties and how they fuck people up. But I don't mind? I'll take this Jane Austen crap over three chapters of fighting ANYDAY?

But even though I enjoy the surprises, I must object, since when did Byakuya play matryr and apologize to people and MARRY? This seems terribly out of character, and not in a WOW SHOCK way, but in a KT messed up with the lack of foreshadowing way.

Also, creepy likeness between Miss Wife and Rukia is going to goad on the ByakuRuki like BOLLOCKS. KT probably means to convey something about how Wow Byakuya Is Actually A Nice Brother Figure, but it's coming off so. Wrong.