Journey into Mystery

So, apparently they're changing Asuka's last name for the Evangelion movies to 'Shikinami Asuka Langley'. I don't particularly feel outraged, even if I was one of the three non-horny-fanboy people who liked her at the time, but I just can't see the point? Why change it now, so many years later? My theory is that they wanted the fanbase to be arguing about the symbolism and meta behind the name change since they hadn't mindfucked the audience yet.

Besides, it's easier to pronounce Sohryu, WTF. Like the full name wasn't mouthful at it were!

( I was tagged for that character meme. VERY RANDOM characters inside )

Not tagging anyone, because I always forget anyway.

1. I feel all polemic... almost:

Hah, I still haven't replied on the Evangelion comments because it's such a subjective issue I don't know what to say XD I do assure you I a) never took it as a 'religion' or teh bestest anime evah when I was eighteen, and b) am *also* liking the manga canon better. I can't argue about the Shinji thing because it's a personal preference, and I can see why he annoys a lot of people.

Also, I'm wondering if the origins of why I can't get into the wooden-faced, silent-and-devoted type of characters may lay on Rei Ayanami. But never mind about my own peeves, or why Rei rubbed me the wrong way in the old days, because that's also subjective.

Ah! And I've always wanted to watch Escaflowne, by the way. I never really considered it mecha because it's more fantasy than anything, though. Kinda like Rayearth, actually.

2. On this season's anime:

I started Denno Coil today out of curiosity. I've only watched two episodes so I can't say a lot, but so far it's been quite appealing to me. Also, screw cyberpets: I want to have a Mojo. They're like... so fluffy! With the antenna! Gah, I was squeeing every time they were on screen, even though they're kinda creepy whatever they are (don't spoil me).

I tried to check Baccano!, but I found no uploaded episodes on the stream sites I know. I'll check Mononoke when I'm up to date with Coil.

Lovely Complex is still my guilty pleasure. *facepalm* Sigh.

3. And now some Avatar shit:

There's a HQ version (not cam recorded) of the season 3 trailer. Awesome sauce. Can't wait till September! D: Also, you Earth King (or Bosco, or Sokka) fans -you know who you are- might want to check this out XDDDDD LOLarious.

4. And speaking of ANOTHER king with glasses...

Continuing with the OMGWTFBBQness of yesterday's reaction to the Tsubasa deluxe cover, I must add something.

Clow/Eriol's original sun staff has eleven points. King Clow's has nine. As I see it, either:

a) we cling to the possibility it's not the same staff, for sanity's sake! yay!

b) or Mokona forgot how many points it had ¬_¬

Back home. So, we went to the summer carnival in El Burgo last night. Since I still have teeth problems, I just rode the ferris wheel, thinking it was tame, but wasn't exactly an easy ride since it was totally unstable and fast and made with shabby materials. Ugh.

Also, the giant speakers with techno music (each speaker playing a different song, to make it more special) were made of special. Oh, sonic pollution...

At least my mom bought me two bags in the flea market. One is a bluish gray messenger bag, the other a black tote bag. I like them a lot, and can't wait to use them. She wanted to get me a black leather handbag, but everything she'd show me was too adult for my style (yes, I'm aware I'm 25 and I lack an actual style, shut up).

Brother Danny bought a bow with arrows and a gun that shoots little balls. No, I'm not kidding. Yeah, it is creepy. He's not aiming at people, but it's still scary. Hopefully he'll run out of ammo soon.

So! I'm looking forward to September and the third Avatar season. It looks so fucked up and badass, even with Aang's interesting hair. (Also, are Zutarians wanking yet? XD)

And now I'll reply to pending comments. Oh, and allow me to be an attention whore and re-plug first impressions meme.

ETA: Oh, and I just saw this plugged on my flistflist. Evangelion/Suzumiya crossovers!

Zankoku na Tenshi no you ni, with Suzumiya characters.

Hare Hare no Yukai, danced by EVA units! If Gundams can, why can't they?

Hope you had a decent New Year~

I had it boring, but I like it boring. I've been kind of watching for occasions the Keroro Gunso marathon on Cartoon Network. *insert sweatdrop*

I admit I laugh my ass out when they pull Evangelion parodies. I expected more Gundam references than EVA spoofs.

( It's an angel! )

I downloaded the Eva manga volume 10 in raw from a torrent tonight. Because I like the manga characterization better than anime's, and I was curious. I had read some summaries of the two first chapters, so a lot of surprises waited for me.

IT WAS SO GAY.

No, really! I didn't ship Kaworu/Shinji back in the days. I did think it was cute, but I prefered Asuka/Shinji. However...

I don't know. I like them in the manga as a pairing. In part, because it's sooo not fluffy sap like in the anime, and because I prefer this Kaworu better than the like-Jesus one from the anime.

But dude, this volume? Sadamoto pushed the fanservice to a level, I had to check during and after it to make sure I wasn't reading some pre-yaoi doujinshi. How can this happen in canon of a shounen mecha manga, again?

( Kaworu KISSES Shinji )