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piranhawell, i wrote a longish, reviewish post, and LJ ate it -- that'll hopefully teach me to return to writing posts in an editor instead of a web form.
back to starting the post with what i originally had meant to do, log which episode i am on in the various series i am watching. i'm not sure whether i'll write the rest of it again.
get backers 35
death note 12
saiunkoku monogatari 28
gankutsuou 3
kamichu! 2
prince of tennis 57
battlestar galactica 3x11
i've decided to stop watching BSG until the end of season 3 -- watching each episode as it airs doesn't pull me enough into the story and i consequently feel distant and don't care a whole lot.
get backers rocks. adventure, mystery, fighting (but not too much), some fantastical abilities so we can have special effects for the fighting, humour, characters that grow more complex, angsty backstory -- what's not to like? i also adore that the canon throws just enough innuendo around so anyone who wants to ship somebody can do so; gen, slash, or even femslash, but the canon itself for the most part stays away from settling this in any way. me, i like akabane all on his own, black and amoral as he comes, and his seiyuu, tobita nobuo, is now on my favourites list; not for any inherent quality of his voice, but for the way he uses it. lucky me, he's also in gankutsuou as it turns out.
death note went along a completely different path from where i thought it would go -- or rather, it went where i thought it would eventually go, but immediately, and then went down other avenues, but i like it a lot. mangaka obata takeshi is on my "must watch" list. no slash. (not that it's not possible; i just saw a light/L doujinshi -- but i am refusing.)
saiunkoku monogatari continues to give me a heroine i can actually like, aside from its large cast of impossibly pretty men with long hair. it's also got loads of interesting period stuff (chinese tang dynasty), and lovely period music. it doesn't touch me emotionally, which is probably not surprising because it has an epic sweep to it, and i don't get into epic sagas much. but also, while dangerous and even some momentous things happen, the way the story is told is not edge-of-the-seat, nail-bitingly exciting. in fact, it seems overall very quiet and calm. i've got to think more about why that is. i am enjoying it even though i don't love it. huge slash potential, but i'm not doing anything with it.
gankutsuou is very different. it's somewhat based on dumas' count of monte cristo, but it's remarkable for its innovative use of texturing and rendering techniques. i am not sure whether i actually like it; i will have to watch more episodes. the "swimming" of the textures is disorienting, though i find it amusing that the creators have decided to turn something into a feature that's heretoforth been known as a bug.
kamichu! is the story of a small girl who becomes a kami (god). it's a thing of beauty; very expressive. i am missing major cultural referents though; need to read up on shinto.
look, no smut!
back to starting the post with what i originally had meant to do, log which episode i am on in the various series i am watching. i'm not sure whether i'll write the rest of it again.
get backers 35
death note 12
saiunkoku monogatari 28
gankutsuou 3
kamichu! 2
prince of tennis 57
battlestar galactica 3x11
i've decided to stop watching BSG until the end of season 3 -- watching each episode as it airs doesn't pull me enough into the story and i consequently feel distant and don't care a whole lot.
get backers rocks. adventure, mystery, fighting (but not too much), some fantastical abilities so we can have special effects for the fighting, humour, characters that grow more complex, angsty backstory -- what's not to like? i also adore that the canon throws just enough innuendo around so anyone who wants to ship somebody can do so; gen, slash, or even femslash, but the canon itself for the most part stays away from settling this in any way. me, i like akabane all on his own, black and amoral as he comes, and his seiyuu, tobita nobuo, is now on my favourites list; not for any inherent quality of his voice, but for the way he uses it. lucky me, he's also in gankutsuou as it turns out.
death note went along a completely different path from where i thought it would go -- or rather, it went where i thought it would eventually go, but immediately, and then went down other avenues, but i like it a lot. mangaka obata takeshi is on my "must watch" list. no slash. (not that it's not possible; i just saw a light/L doujinshi -- but i am refusing.)
saiunkoku monogatari continues to give me a heroine i can actually like, aside from its large cast of impossibly pretty men with long hair. it's also got loads of interesting period stuff (chinese tang dynasty), and lovely period music. it doesn't touch me emotionally, which is probably not surprising because it has an epic sweep to it, and i don't get into epic sagas much. but also, while dangerous and even some momentous things happen, the way the story is told is not edge-of-the-seat, nail-bitingly exciting. in fact, it seems overall very quiet and calm. i've got to think more about why that is. i am enjoying it even though i don't love it. huge slash potential, but i'm not doing anything with it.
gankutsuou is very different. it's somewhat based on dumas' count of monte cristo, but it's remarkable for its innovative use of texturing and rendering techniques. i am not sure whether i actually like it; i will have to watch more episodes. the "swimming" of the textures is disorienting, though i find it amusing that the creators have decided to turn something into a feature that's heretoforth been known as a bug.
kamichu! is the story of a small girl who becomes a kami (god). it's a thing of beauty; very expressive. i am missing major cultural referents though; need to read up on shinto.
look, no smut!
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on 2007-02-04 11:57 (UTC)no subject
on 2007-02-04 12:23 (UTC)no subject
on 2007-02-04 14:32 (UTC)Yeah, it's really something hard to say, because Westernly, we give the 'chiefs' the props, not the middle range. Most of the Eastern have actually enough gods/powers/what have you, that the Celestial Bureaucracy meme isn't totally a joke.
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on 2007-02-04 20:05 (UTC)it is pretty obvious from the anime that whatever kind of god yurie is, it's not the judeo-christian kind.
i do know enough japanese to get annoyed at translations now, but this isn't one that i found particularly irksome -- maybe because for me "god" is already a very stretchable concept due to knowing a fair bit about the greek, roman, and norse ones.
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on 2007-02-04 20:21 (UTC)"Excuse Me" for a big example in Japanese.
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on 2007-02-04 14:34 (UTC)With your reaction to Saiunkoku, I wonder how you'd feel about 12 Kingdoms. On the one hand, more epic, on the other hand a bit more desparate tone, at least the first volume I grabbed. Sadly, my funds got limited and I just never got back to it.
12 kingdoms
on 2007-02-04 20:40 (UTC)dunno about 12 kingdoms. it's on my list of "possibly interesting" series because from what i've read there is a lot of political intrigue, and there's of course the mythology, and i do enjoy that sort of thing. and, as is obvious from me continuing saiunkoku, i am not dead set against epic, at least not when it doesn't span generations (the latter leaves me completely cold). also, koyasu takehito :). and it appears to have a good female lead character.
what speaks against this is also that, *wah*, here's another series based on novels! saiunkoku is as well, as is fujimi orchestra -- there's little hope that those long novel runs will be translated into english, and my japanese will suck too much for several years yet to read novels.
but i will probably give it a try anyway.