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Kiri ☂ ([personal profile] taotrooper) wrote2007-04-28 06:47 pm

Very appropiate icon to use

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 [livejournal.com profile] 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.
ext_387179: A sea turtle swimming (Harry / I'll be waiting / teh_indy)

[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2007-04-29 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
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.