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[taotrooper]

Got this email last night from this Corey person:

Hi,

I'm a HUGE fan of Ling Yao from the Fullmetal Alchemist series, and I was just wondering...can you get all of your members from the fanlisting to e-mail as many fan request as they can to BONES so they can make an anime or an OVA of Ling Yao and the Xing characters? ^_^

*headwall*

Should I email him back with a snarky/rude remark, or just pretend I never read this missive?

Anyway. Because you don't care about what I've been doing this afternoon (really, you don't, it involves watching videos of Okami and taking notes) here are the icons and interests abarero asked me.

emperor penguins: Yet another of my favorite animals. They're not only pretty, but also have a pretty much hardcore life in which they could just die any minute just for their reproduction's sake. It sucks to be then, but they stick togather and hang on. That's remarkable.

kujaku: My favorite character from RG Veda. Anything I could say about him is a huge fat spoiler, so I'll just say he's extremely awesome and the kind of character I love to pieces. Think of a fortune-telling Xelloss but with GOOD intentions. Visual aid.

ten-oh: I'm the only one who spells the name like this. Tenoh is also from RG Veda and a very minor character who's the main character's twin brother and the main antagonist's son. Besides being raised as a prince and related to three psychopaths, he turned out to be pretty much normal and a sweety so I like him very much. Visual aid.


This is an in-joke XD Basically, you have to know who Clow Reed is to get it. In Card Captor Sakura, he died by splitting himself and reincarnating in two guys. The thing is, only one reincarnation was labeled as such in the anime, so most people don't think of the other guy as a Clow half. But there are some traits in metacanon!Clow that remind you of guy #2 a lot, and in one post I commented that he was like Diet Clow. The joke went downhill, to comparing most Clow descendants and creations with Coca-cola products. So yeah, crack stuff.


This is my OTP in The Last Unicorn: Schmendrick the magician and Molly Grue. I like them better in the novel, because they're totally canon and Schmendrick is and looks cooler, but for icons you have to settle with the movie.


The T-shirt he's wearing amused me XD But anyway, this is my Discworld series icon, and the character on it (Ponder) is a wizard working at the Unseen University. He's, ironically, the biggest science and computer nerd I've seen in a fantasy book ever.

Comments

[kirarakim.livejournal.com]

I love the internet *wipes tears*

Maybe you should write back and say great idea and while we are at it we can request Bones to rewrite the entire anime series.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

One vote for snark, then *draws a stick to the left*

[kirarakim.livejournal.com]

Actually I am the type of person who would love to be snarky (and this person deserves it) but would only do it behind their backs. I wouldn't want to hurt their feelings. I am a chicken in that respect. XD

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I snark a lot in LJ and boards, but personally, what holds me back to tell him anything back is the fact he emailed me, and I find it rude to tell him something like that in private, as I'm pretty much insulting his hopes in person.

My reply would've been "Personally, I doubt any Japanese studio is going to jump and start a project just because a few people in the Western market demand it on the Internet, since their target ARE the Japanese after all. Besides, Arakawa herself desired the anime to be different from her works, and Xing just doesn't work in the equation. If they were to adapt Ling and Mei and the rest to the anime canon, or a new rendition of the series in canon, they most likely wouldn't be the same characters.

Besides, I don't think all Ling fans want to see him animated. I'm really sorry, but I don't want to see any Xing character animated, so I wouldn't sign any petition. I apologize, but I'm actually firmly against it. That's one of the things that make the manga special to me.

Contacting members of a fanlisting in mass could be seen as spam mail. I think you have a better chance finding kindred spirits if you discuss it in forums and fan communities. Good luck."

But hell, yours is funny.

[haro.livejournal.com]

I like kirarakim's idea. XD

Fear BONES'd Xingians.

I am glad I understand Clow Cola now. I had been quite curious about it.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Me too, but I'm too chickened out to do that. See my comment to her.

I'd LOATHE Xinguese characters BONESized. I know it. I don't need to meet them to know I will. Probably they'll have Lan Fan dressed up as a girly girl and giving up her job as a bodyguard at the end or some shit like that. And Mei Chan would be brooding over her poverty past ALL the time when she's not being cute (and loli moe fodder). I don't want to think what would happen to Ling; perhaps he wouldn't get past the comedy relief treatment. Fu would stay as background noise or would be shipped with Pinako or some weird shit.

Or something. It'd be TOXIC.

[abarero]

I'm voting for the 'whole series rewrite' snark back XD

I figured Clow-Cola had some amusing in-joke backstory to it XD

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

So I won't repeat myself, see my comments above :D

My in-jokes are more bizarrely dorky than funny. I've compared this man to a dairy factory and the Coca-cola company so far. He created/bred other characters too much.

[piratelicker.livejournal.com]

set mode to: KILL >DDD

I've whacked ppl for lesser transgressions.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

O_O

*decides not to anger piratelicker just in case*