Journey into Mystery

1. So new FMA anime on the works

On one hand, I'm not bitter enough to say it's going to suck enormously regardless of how they do it. On the other, I've been brokenhearted enough by anime of my favorite things (incidentally, it wasn't Hagaren itself but XXXHOLiC what kicked me in the nuts the most) not to going to be jumping for joy if/when they say it's based on manga. It could bring good things and funny scenes, perhaps, but BONES does have a history of putting cactus juice in their screenwriters' drinking water. So, I can't be sure they're not going to screw it up, but I'm not grinch enough to be sure so soon it will be screwed up. Benefit of the doubt and all.

(And I'll be sort of pissed if they do an almost flawless adaptation of the manga but it doesn't become as liked as the first series (or more). Or people don't watch it because they've already seen one FMA anime, or try to boycott it because it's not Edward And Alphonse's Most Excellent Gypsy Adventures In Nazi Germany. Urgh.)

2. So new Slayers anime gets C&D'd

I guess this means no relying on LJ to know when clandestine subs will come out, right? GodDAMMIT, I hate it enough when we foreign fans are screwed up by American licenses. But it's even more annoying if it's not even licensed yet to begin with! The levels of paranoia are just so high. I don't know about you guys, but I'll pretty much check illegal torrent sites once or twice a week in hopes to see a sub or resort to slow-as-hell Spanish fansub groups if it doesn't work. I'm not bothering with raws and text translations. I'm multitask, but not that desperate.

My thoughts on yesterday and today's Avatar episodes tomorrow. Some quickies:

1. Bought The World Ends With You on second hand at Game. And as long as the autoplay for the top screen is on, I'm doing fine -about to start day three. Not taking this game seriously, however, since it's Squeenix and Nomura. Besides, Neku and Shiki's character designs are just painful to look at. It's fun to poke and slash at shit with the stylus, so I'll just ignore it. But dayum, and you thought CLAMP characters were anorexic-skinny!

2. Slayers Revolution #3 in two words: LOL JELLYFISH.

3. Suddenly, this week I'm seeing Neil Patrick Harris everywhere. Well, no, only I started How I Met Your Mother and I keep hearing about this Doctor Horrible stuff. But still, weird universe is weird.

4. How did I not see this piece of pure awesomeness before? *_* Apollo Justice characters... wait for it... drawn as Okami characters! ♥ I'm mesmerized by Trucy's hat (so fitting!) and Ema's big drawer of medicines chemicals. ...Thank God Klavier doesn't look that much like Ushiwaka, or I would've needed years of therapy.

Catsitting day two. Things going well, except when I accidentally smashed the chipmunk's paw tip with the cage door. OUCH OUCH. Tried to make it up to him with bread.

Either way, I just finished the first part of Slayers, and let's see if I can finish Slayers Next before Revolution starts. I really enjoyed this season. Like I commented before, I had forgotten Amelia is fucking awesome. I also had forgotten mostly everything about Sylphiel, and honestly? I think she's pretty cool and strong in her own way and doesn't deserve hate. I mean dude, why wouldn't she cry a bit when she just lost everything? Why is it a huge deal that she forms a love triangle? I even thought the crush was cute, and I'm a huge L/G shipper. As the season goes on, her character is less about ZOMGGOURRYSAMA and is extremely useful. And she's not "perfect" enough to be called a canon Sue, either. I guess I might be broken with this anime because I actually like all females people find annoying. I might understand not liking her, sure, but it's not remotely as bad as I imagined. She's a nice girl.

And even more stuff about Slayers Revolution comes out. I honestly, HONESTLY must do a marathon of the previous seasons because I'm psyched and need a fix. And I listen to old openings and endings, and I stare at illustrations and want to make more icons.

( ETA: decided to LJ-cut )

...Why am I ranting about Slayers? What's with the tl;dr? Why aren't I lj-cutting this? Why aren't there versions of the OP/ED videos with no credits on them besides VHS-quality Latino Spanish subs? Why do I keep asking questions to myself?

Probably most of you knew about Japan going retro and making new anime for two old franchises: one Trigun (a movie)... the other Slayers (a TV series).

Now, I heard the news a couple of days ago, but I decided to be impressed about the new Slayers series if and only if it was a Gourry arc. Well, scans from the Dragon Magazine announcement popped in, and who are the characters in the image? Lina. Gourry. Zelgadiss. Amelia. ETA: And Xelloss!

In short, AGDFHGAS DHSGA HFHB ♥ I feel like I'm seventeen again *___*

And now I feel like rewatching the whole anime again, and roleplaying as Lina Inverse. And I think I will, at Mansión as my second (or third...?) pup, when I refresh my memory with a marathon.

In other news, you know what's really uncomfortable about wanting to play a videogame-origined muse? That I have this need to replay their whole canon, notepad open, and write down every fact, every dialog, every third character commenting about them. It doesn't happen to me with anime/manga characters; then again, when I need to know something about those I just open the right volume/.avi and that's it. With videogames, I'm too focused on the plot or the gaming, and having to make gazillion saves for every cutscene/conversation with the character is too geeky or sometimes just impossible.

But my problem is that I -have to- write the info down. I just roll like that. I thought I did it with Ushiwaka because I'm building him a fansite/shrine. But now that I want to roleplay this other game character (I refuse to say who right now, because it embarrasses me), and I knew I had to replay and write things down because Wiki and fansites don't give me enough tidbits and data...? I understood it was me being an as-IC-as-possible geek. Am I the only one doing this?

This has been a curious day. Let's start with bullet points:

- By this moment you all must've heard about LJ's new Russian overlords. I still don't know what to think about that soup.

- Chávez lost an election. Chávez lost an election. CHÁVEZ LOST AN ELECTION. OK, I'm sure 80% of you don't really get what's with that, and I don't feel like talking about third-world, banana republic politics, so let's leave it like this: it's something that's never happened before in the history of, like, ever. Cynical me thinks it's a matter of time before Mico-mandante says the results are not valid because... of reasons he just made up or something.

- Since I have some munny, I went and bid for a couple of Japanese artbooks on eBay Spain. The first one is the first Hiromu Arakawa artbook, we all know this one. The second is rarer, and I'm sure someone will outbid me soon: the Dra-mata, a Rui Araizumi's Slayers novel/manga artbook. But really, I had never seen this image O_O It's so cute to find art with the four main characters of the Gourry era looking all happy. And LOL at Zelgadiss blushing! XD His face is all "why the fuck is Amelia clinging to my arm?!"

Eh, I just fear the fact both bids end during a holiday afternoon around the time I'll be having lunch. I'm sort of not counting with winning any. But dammit, now I want to see all of Dra-mata scanned ;_;

- We can't find normal chocolate panettone. IT MAKES NO SENSE. Aren't we, like, two countries away from Italy? And I can't eat the fruitcake one.

Now that I'm half done with the Wawku Shrine, I can say with a base I HATE THAT FUCKING DUNGEON. Too bad, because the twin demons and the battles against them with Oki and [insert spoiler character] are pretty cool, but the place itself is HATRED.

Incidentally, I'm way passed the point of no return. No, not in-game, in-fandom. I've already written fic and done graphics that aren't icons. Ahem. I'm screwed, yeah. But I love that game too much.

Speaking of love, eeeeeeeh the Slayers memorial clip is made of win! Lina/Gourry is win. Amelia posing is win. Zelgadis showing up riding what must be the world's stongest horse is win. Xelloss in the distance stalking is win. I miss that series a lot. I really must do a marathon.

Cartoon Network had The Iron Giant on, but I missed the first minutes. What a cute movie! I almost cried.

haro asked me these (by the way, I'll comment in the meme soon, sorry guys)

shin shunkaden: A one-shot CLAMP manga with their take on a classic Korean love story. Except there's not so much of romance, and the characters are radically different, and there's magic and martial arts. But that's why I like it. The main character is awesome and adorable, and the love interest is extremely cool and flirty and hot. They bicker and eat a lot and set to travel together. Yeah, my kind of ship :D

wish: Another CLAMP series. This is one of the fluffy ones with a naive main character and without gore, so that means it has like no fandom. But I like the secondary and minor characters, especially the archangel and the demon prince who eloped together (and that, kids, shows a CLAMP bishounen IS able to lose an eye in a cute way). Well, I pretty much like everyone but Kohaku and Shuichirou (the first). It's a good change from the waaaangst (even if there IS angst and deaths and tragic destiny).

good omens: Heh, another series with angels and demons. This is a novel written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, so by default it's FTW. It's a humorous take on the apocalypse, although not missing philosophical and psychological issues to address between the jokes. Also great because the main characters are a demon and an angel (who are BFF) who have adapted to human nature too well and don't want the apocalypse to happen, so they have to face their superiors and challenge them. And the antichrist is a normal eleven year-old. And so on. Just for that fact you gotta understand this book is really original and great.


There's a character in Card Captor Sakura called Takashi Yamazaki. His hobby is telling far-fetched, made-up stories to their classmates and girlfriend XD That kid has such the imagination. This image comes from one of his tales, involving the fact emperor penguins can outgrow human beings. I like this lie because it's very Monty Python of him.


If I were a Hogwarts student, I think I might sorted to Ravenclaw (although I do have some Hufflepuff and Gryffindor traits). I liked that claw-esque quote, because I'm a computer scientist and it sounded so true and nerdy. (Source code are the instructions of a program in the language it's been originally written in, or the HTML code of a web page. Basically, if you can read the language and have the code, you can kinda understand what it does, so knowing life's 'source code' would be quite useful)


It's an XXXHOLiC thing. Watanuki, the main character, spazzes a lot. One of his best friends, Himawari, tends to imagine him as an angry kitty almost all the time XDDDD It's funny, really. So here's one of Kitty!Watanuki's scenes. The toy mouse the kitty is bitchslapping is, by context, Doumeki.

I scanned this doodle a long time ago, but only now I colored it.

In other news,
1) I'm trying to finish that character and pairing meme today, OR write some fic in Spanish. Please notice it's a logical "or" operator, so it's "at least one".
2) The whole Slayers TV series (all three seasons) is downloaded! *goes fetch blank DVDs*

Okay, I think I'm obsessing over Slayers all over again ♥ Be still my heart, you have a lot to study.

This news isn't helping. It probably will only be teasing (actually, I hope it is; I like the indirect-yet-obvious canonness of L/G as it is)

...And it's four am. I got distracted by a plotbunny. GO TO BED, ME.

Also, am I the only one in fandom who still thinks Watanuki is BI? I dunno, the fact CLAMP is setting boyfriends on Watanuki on radio shows and the canonness of D/W won't change the fact he has had the hots for a girl, with boobies and no penis and all that. Unless they pull a reversed Li Syaoran on him -aka, it wasn't me, it was my magic attracting you!-, but until then? As bi as Touya Kinomoto for me. And hell, I don't ship him with anyone, so please don't wank on me for my thoughts...

I think I'm lost with the purpose of the infamous CAPSLOCK comms, besides typing like OotP!Harry Potter would. I go to one and I see silly canon rants, I go to another and I see crackful (and most of the times crappy or tasteless) fanstuff, and I go to some other and they're mocking the idiots with badly-disguised sarcasm. Does it depend on the fandom or the members decide what to be capslock-y about?

I've been thinking about the manganime merchandise I'd love to have one day, probably when I have a job and stuff. Because most of this is expensive:

( Wishlist in progress )