Webmistress blues

[taotrooper]

This morning, I was considering to put Kimihiro.net in an official hiatus. Like, making a splash as the front page and announce it formally, as I haven't touched the fansite in over a year.

What I want to do (in theory) is waiting for the series to end, and THEN updating the character profiles and making full-length summaries. With all these pauses I can't recall most of the things they've said by now. Also, I get the feelings I must make sections with Tsubasa to explain WTF is happening, and I ain't touching that one-eyed (pun intended) monster until all the Watanuki-related TWISTS!1! are revealed throughout both series.

Yet now I see we're getting more Hiatus Of Doom in the magazine (you know the type: stopping it until they're caught up with TRC's current mindfuck in order to crossover) during most of July and possibly all of August. At this pace, I'll be pretty much forsaking the poor site for years if I wait for CLAMP.

There's also the fact I have to collect all information and download goodies about Kei. I never made an anime gallery, either. And to be honest, I'm dreading the whole thing because I'm not giving a damn. I'm not even looking forward to the OVA. I don't want my site to look so... with so many anime sections. Like, 1) movie, 2) first season, 3) second season, 4) OAD. But I have to make it complete or I'd feel bad about it. /thoughts on yaoi HOLiC anime

tl;dr: So, I don't know what to do about the fansite. With the anti-climatic way the serialization is going, I'm not feeling so enthusiastic about the series to have the website updated and complete, or at least not until the manga ends (which will be around when TRC ends, let's be honest). And I give a fuck about the anime. Any thoughts? What would you do? Should I just put a hiatus note to say all the info is obsolete until further notice?

Comments

[miyazawa-lulu.livejournal.com]

En parte te entiendo, es mucho más fácil (y muchísimo más cansado T_T) llevar Crossed ya que de TRC siempre hay chorraditas por aquí y por allá aunque no salgan capítulos (y a excepción del último parón de un mes, la serialización no es tan irregular). Hay veces que cuando leo xxxHOLiC, me cuesta trabajo recordar detalles y pierdo cosas o incluso no me entero todo lo bien que debería T_T Si además te encuentras algo desganada, yo apoyo tu idea de esperar al final y entonces recopilarlo todo. Eso sí, de vez en cuando tendrías que ir apuntando o adelantando trabajo, si no se te acumulará todo de manera bestial cuando termine el manga y cuando veas todo lo que tienes que hacer se te quitarán todas las ganas XD

I might be just bitter and jealous they were able to get Madhouse to animate fucking Acid Tokyo, and this manga-based HOLiC anime feature is still stuck with Production I.G's fugly-as-hell skillz
But, but... Tsubasa TOKYO REVELATIONS was also P.I.G.'s, not MADHOUSE XD (in fact, with the exception of HOLiC's anime director, the staff in TTR and HOLiC OADs is pretty much the same). I must admit sometimes, specially in the second OAD, the character designs were deformed with their animation style, but apart from that I don't have any complains, they did a really good job in my opinion. With xxxHOLiC and xxxHOLiC · Kei TV, not so much (in the character design and animation departments, the general feeling of the series is still ok if we exclude Kohane's arc ^^u).

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

En serio no era de Madhouse? Ya hice el ridículo otra vez por confundir las cosas D: Supongo que como se veía bien la primera (que fue la que vi), se me olvidó que era de P.I.G

I still find the characters in Kei so goddamned ugly when I see the screencaps, though. I'd have hopes for an OAD, but... in Midsummer's Night Dream they looked even worse. I mean, probably you're right and they'll do it well this time, but I guess I don't trust them anymore with anything HOLiC. No one can't animate Yuuko well all the time, not even Madhouse.

ETA: Ah, y supongo que puede ser que Crossed sea más fácil de llevar no por la serie en sí (si te soy sincera, Tsubasa me confunde MÁS que HOLiC y se me olvidan más cosas), sino porque vosotros sois dos y yo soy sólo una. Aunque considerando que también llevan un fansub y una pila de proyectos más, tal vez sea una excusa vacía ^^;;;

[miyazawa-lulu.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about that little mistake ^^

In my opinion, the problem with xxxHOLiC's art is that it looks so well and unique in the manga, but it's difficult as hell to translate into anime. Long extremities, tall bodies and pale skins look so artistic and ukiyo-e like in paper, but when you animate it the best you can get is a bizarre, strange look ^^u

(I just thought it'd look better with SHAFT's style XD The ones that did Sayônara Zetsubo-sensei... it'd be weird, but kind of cool, I guess XD).

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

True, but Kurogane and Fay are also not that far in TRC, and yet they can be adapted well. I think the character designers shouldn't try to make the HOLiC crowd exactly like the manga counterparts. With a normal body build and keeping the faces/hairs, it could still work. They do it in other adaptations all the time. they can take liberties in hair colors and yet they keep the anorexia? fail

(oh, actually that doesn't sound bad at all! the teacher and his family are already spot on Watanuki XDDD)