[Friday, May 2, 2003] np: For Fruits Basket - Horie Yui
Just got back from X2 with Ali's family...was fun, but Ali is an X-Men geek from early childhood, and afterwards she talked my ear off about this and that from the original.
(on Tuesday) Ali: Who wants to go see X2? Me/Tara: ME. HUGH JACKMAN. Tara: *stares at me* Hey, did you see- Me: -Kate and Leopold and- Me/Tara: HE WAS SO CUTE IN THAT. Ali: *disgusted* Doesn't anyone want to...see it for the action? And things? Me/Tara: ... *blink*
(Not entirely true, am not all that shallow in that particular.) Anyway, t'was good - not all that drastically different from the first movie in style, but more going on and funnier and a great script. Random squealing:
-that first scene in the school with Wolverine was SO PATHETIC. We were snickering like CRAZY. Try to count the love triangling. ("Iceman likes Rogue likes Wolverine likes Jean likes Cyclops~~!")
-the scene at Iceman's house. His mom - the moment she got that look on her face, I was mouthing the sentence several beats ahead of her - her look was EXACTLY LIKE JOYCE'S on Buffy when it was the same phrase: "Have you tried not being a mutant?" XDXDXD
-Ian McKlellan is just awesome. Magneto actually nabbed the majority of the best lines in the movie...I particularly liked the bit where he and Mystique were giggling at Rogue's hair in the corner like two...gossiping teenage girls. And when he actually uttered the word "dorky".
-Nightcrawler was really fun to watch and just...really cute. The first scene was really fun to see.
-Overall the movie was just too soap opera for me...it started at that first school scene and just NEVER STOPPED.
-Am I the only one who's noticed that Cerebro does a lot more harm than good? At this point, a password might be a better idea than a retinal scan.
only one wing @ 11:03 p.m.
[Thursday, May 1, 2003] Meimi: And what about next week? Alicia: Sexapalooza. Meimi: O.O
(Later, unable to resist...) Meimi: *downloads promo* Michelle Branch: GOOOODBYEEEEE, TO YOU---U.... Promo: END OF BUFFY SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX! Promo Screen: HOW WOULD YOU SPEND YOUR LAST MOMENTS ON EARTH? Meimi: *jaw drops* ...... XO ....THAT. THAT. I can't believe they DID that. I can't believe the third to last episode is entirely APOCALYPSE SEX. .....that promo is something I would have thought up! XDXDXD
(Actual couplings made me cringe somewhat, but not all bad. DEAR GOD I can't believe they made a COMMERCIAL to BRAG about that. XD I'm ENTIRELY TOO AMUSED right now.) only one wing @ 09:04 p.m.
[Wednesday, April 30, 2003]
*kicks Kazaa*
The first time it was annoying, the second time I was angry, now this is the THIRD TIME I've downloaded "this week's Buffy episode - THIS one's the REAL version!" and had it be a random season seven episode that WASN'T new. *gnashes teeth* If I can keep getting "lucky" enough to get episodes I hadn't downloaded already, I'll have all of season seven on CD courtesy of MORONS on Kazaa before the season's up. only one wing @ 07:00 p.m.
[Tuesday, April 29, 2003] np: Ginga Ichi Mibun Chigai na Kataomoi - Sailormoon
My chem teacher was absent. No papers were collected. I get two more days. YAY.
And this is to the bastards on Kazaa who take some kind of SICK FUCKING PLEASURE in renaming "Storyteller" to the new Buffy episode EVERY WEEK SINCE "Storyteller" aired - I've fallen for it EVERY TIME and to my poor pathetic dialup, that's a real sacrifice of downloading time. And snarls to the other person who caught onto this fun trend, except I'm not quite as furious since I got an episode I didn't already have (yay! crazy!Spike!).
Alicia and I are such geeks. Today I dragged her into the media center to read silly Harry/Draco smutfic. Unfortunately, it was also The Fist Ever Poetry Reading Day there, too (mostly teachers who were probably forced into it). So we have Mr. Y behind us, reading this Robert Frost poem, while we're trying to swallow our giggles at the H/D smut ("I've been a naughty Seeker, oh yeees...").
Overall was evil day, since I had an English essay first thing (I was seriously considering printing "fuck you" in very neat block letters and turning that in - I HATE my teacher), a psych test, and messed up in drama. Waaah. I'm so glad I don't have work tomorrow. only one wing @ 07:23 p.m.
[Monday, April 28, 2003]
MEIMI'S GUIDE TO WRITING A TERM PAPER
10:00AM (free block) playing on net 11:00AM (chem - free block) "Alicia, let's go pretend to work on our term papers and really swap fic together!" A noble plan, but the media center was full, and we ended up gabbing in the quad together instead. 3:00PM come to the realization that maybe I'm not entirely over being sick, at least not to the point I can flip my sleeping schedule upside down. At least brat duo is not at work. 5:00PM begin to feel as though I'm falling when I'm walking. Leave work, but have to sternly remind myself to keep my eyes open while driving. Snagged california roll takeout as dinner, am now completely broke and blew $10 on food in one day. Crap. 6:00PM ate my california roll and grabbed a leftover chocolate bunny almost the length of my arm, and went upstairs with the noble intentions of working until eleven-thirty. We note I said "intentions", because... 8:30PM ...I woke up feeling no less like crap than when I fell asleep. 9:00PM "I'm tired and I was just sick a little while ago and I ache all over. I. Am. Taking. A. Bubble. Bath." And I did. 9:48PM Sitting right now in front of the screen. With not much more more of my paper written than last night. I'm roughly THIS CLOSE to saying forget the whole thing, except I really can't turn in a five-page-long term paper. I'll stop at six and a halfish. =_= Waaaaaaaaah. only one wing @ 09:42 p.m.
[Monday, April 28, 2003]
Zzz. Okay, I absolutely need to finish my chem paper before eleven, because I can't afford an all-nighter. My sleep schedule got completely messed up and it's a wonder I didn't crash the car on the way home from work as the result of obvious sleepiness. Except I was extremely lucky, as the brats that absorb all my time, patience, and energy at work were BOTH gone. Wonderful.
Also, Ali bought DNAngel 8 for me. Now, this may be just because I've been too lazy to really read it, but am the only one who just didn't care about the Ice and Snow sideplot? I don't see how it advanced anything in the big scheme of things. I sparkled at the picture of Satoshi carrying Risa, and then mentally slapped myself. BAD me. Riku/Daisuke still SO DAMN CUTE though. XO Can't wait for the Satoshi/Daisuke goodness of vol 9.
Waaah and I also have to memorize my new Spoon River reading for tomorrow's drama class, AND I got roped into performing the Abbott and Costello "who's on first base" routine at next Saturday's fashion show. @__@ Why can I not say no to that man? Well, because he's so amazing. Nobody should be that cool.
Ingrid, screencapping problem...you screencap it and paste it into Photoshop once. Then retake the exact same cap and try pasting again. For some reason it's black the first time and shows up the second. Don't know why. only one wing @ 06:30 p.m.
[Sunday, April 27, 2003] np: 1/3 no Junjou na Kanjou - Siam Shade
Les: Want more Harry/Draco fic recs? Meimi: Les. I have to write seven pages at least of my chem term paper. Meimi: ....of course I want Harry/Draco fic.
(five hours later. don't think I genuinely enjoyed a single fic I read.) Les: So how far are you on your paper? Meimi: The window is open? Les: But you could technically get away with writing a page and that's it? Meimi: It's my term paper and worth a test and a half, so no. But no, there's no limit. Meimi: Minimum. Whatever. Brain has turned to Harry/Draco sludge. only one wing @ 09:55 p.m.
[Sunday, April 27, 2003]
Oh, and because I don't think I've actually said so officially yet, I'll be a freshman at the University of San Francisco next year. Go me. That's pretty much exactly where I thought I was going to end up, and I think I'm pretty lucky.
I hate chemistry. I don't want to write my term paper. To the point that I spent over an hour curled up with my AP English practice book, trying to convince myself I wasn't procrastinating because I was doing something worthwhile. only one wing @ 04:33 p.m.
[Sunday, April 27, 2003] np: Sugar Baby Love - Ishida Youko
I *heart* Les. She just reminded me of our astounding lack of morals where serious gay is concerned. Namely, even though DNAngel anime is a world of SUCK, we will go frolicking back to it with open arms when they manage to add gay that even Sugisaki didn't have. (Namely: "What's he wearing under that sheet?" "FEATHER KIIIIIINK!") Of course, whole Dark/Daisuke thing is stupid and inconsistent, but like I said, lack of morals and integrity when they slap that much gay into an episode.
She sent me like, twenty screenshots from the episode. I think I almost fainted from the sparkles. Would it be very bad if I did a two Sat/Dai layouts in a row? Of course it wouldn't. only one wing @ 04:33 p.m.
[Saturday, April 26, 2003]
And because if there's a SINGLE PERSON who HASN'T READ THIS, they absolutely MUST, Underwater Light. I ordinarily loathe DracoxHarry of the serious variety. Loathe it, I tell you! But this is the sole exception. I read this all in one sitting one night, and I was actually chanting, "...kiss! ...KIIIISS!" at the screen, and howled in anguish when they ABSOLUTELY NEVER DID and kept wondering if this was just preslash friendshippy, and words can not explain my anguish when I realized it was a WIP. Draco is just...snarkily likable without being OOC, because the fic shows how his brain works and it makes perfect sense. The newest part just came out, and I've spent the last few minutes with a huge grin on my face giggling like an absolute MANIAC. HA. HA. HAAAAAAAAAH. All the Draco dialogue is just so much FUN! "Potter, what - oh. Oh, no. Oh, tell me I didn't sleep in a field. Oh, how completely plebeian."
only one wing @ 09:57 p.m.
[Friday, April 25, 2003] np: Kiss de Okoshite - aiko
Arghhhh. I can't sleep and I'm really tired, too...I'm so stressed over everything I have to do~~~ But making a to-do list, of course, makes me feel like I've done half the work already.
-write my chem term paper. It should be twenty pages, will probably be ten, is currently three.
-hey, and write my English/Psych papers. Or at least start some research for them. Oh, who am I kidding, those have over a week to go, right?
-clean my room
-beat FF8
-finish drawing Bound act 3
-pick out the rest of Spoon River readings and memorize them
-get rest of community service hours only one wing @ 03:36 a.m.
[Wednesday, April 23, 2003] np: Soramimi Cake - Azumanga Daioh
HAH.
Had the most wonderful kind of day; the perfect one for being a little sick and too tired to study or draw or read...I played FF8 for eight hours straight and I'm almost done disc one X3 Amazing how much faster everything goes when you already know where you're going and how to use the junction system completely (my first time it took more than twice as many hours)...at this rate I really might still finish the game before break is over like I planned! *hearts*
Still feeling a liiiittle feverish~~ off to rot my brain by watching TV until I fall asleep. If being sick wasn't so miserable, it would be such an easy life otherwise. only one wing @ 06:47 p.m.
[Wednesday, April 23, 2003] np: Toki ni Ai wa - Utena: Adolescence Mokushiroku
...
Oh, I don't feel like I'm dying anymore. Yay.
Of course now my sleep schedule is going to be messed up beyond all reason, as three AM is just not a good time to start the day ^^;; I'm probably going to go play FF8 (I got to disc four but my levels aren't high enough...decided it would be faster in the long run just to start over from disc one ;__; waaah) oh, and I'll finish Bound for sure this week, I only need to draw about four more pages! Yosh~
Thank you~~ ^__^ I can't wait to see you this summer too ^^ oh, and I loooved the Keiichi/Fuuma picture *_* only one wing @ 04:16 a.m.
[Tuesday, April 22, 2003]
*muffled sobs of paaaaainnnnn*
The weird ballet fever dreams have stopped (and I'm thinking these are slightly more than dreams, way too vivid). Now am having bizarre dreams of Buffy-themed war where the college campus has to get blown up by launching me at it with explosives tied to my back. From the pounding headache I have now, suspect mission in dream was a dazzling success.
I repeat, it sounds funny but it is NOT and I'm going to go collapse back into bed and have more strange dreams. And would be sobbing if I had the energy for it. Ow. only one wing @ 07:59 p.m.
[Tuesday, April 22, 2003]
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah *thunk*
Just as a warning, if any of you even suspect you're on the verge of getting sick, that's the one time NOT to marathon Tutu. Oh oh oh. I've been throwing up the entire night, never really sleeping (only dozing), freezing under five blankets...and while dozing, I kept having the most fucking twisted (whatever the opposite of fever is) dreams. I believe upon waking up at one point, I was utterly convinced that there were twirling ballerina cats living inside me and making my stomach turn upside down. It sounds funny but it's NOT.
I'm going to go crawl downstairs with my five blankets, camp out in front of the bathroom, and possibly sob in agony. Ugh. only one wing @ 07:28 a.m.
[Monday, April 21, 2003] np: Aisubeki Ashita - Fruits Basket
Oh, and last night I finally got around to reading a few of the Gravi remix doujin Les sent me on CD. I think my brain is still bleeding. Murakami is a sick sick woman, in mostly good ways. I almost fell off my chair during the one with the Yuuji/Shuuichi/K/Hiro foursome, when Yuuji made Shuuichi dress up as a cateared high school girl, and then...right in the middle of...everything, Yuuji and K got into an arguement on cosplay suggestions for Shuuichi ("He has such short hair, maybe we should have dressed him up as Ayanami!" "Ayanami?! NO! Asuka!" "Oh, that could work." "Or Yuffie from Final Fantasy!" "That could work too!") *dies* only one wing @ 11:55 p.m.
[Monday, April 21, 2003] Jin, I now have entered The Flowery Pit Of Hell. Or, as I call it, Shoujo Brainmush Stage, aka, "Fire bad. Fakia-voice pretty."
Oh, look! Bell fell prey to the flowery goodness too. *hearts*
Lisaaaa, thank youuuu X3 I had sooo much fun watching this, I sat down this afternoon and popped the first CD in...and (except for the sake of caffiene, crackers, and a brief reality TV fix) did not get up until the end of episode thirteen.
Overall... (not really all spoilers but eh)
I understand why people compared it to Utena...it didn't really feel that way to me, but I can't think of anything else to compare it to (although the animation style and atmosphere reminded me of Pretear a bit (especially the whole atmosphere of Clare reminded me of Takako) - same production company, maybe?). I knew I was going to be into it from the first episode, though I felt it lagged around the middle, but once it got intense...I screamed at the screen almost the entire time. X3
I want to kidnap Okizaki Ritsuko and beg her to follow me around singing and playing music 24/7. I think my life would feel constantly complete and whole.
And at the first line, I knew: "*KA-CHING* ...that. THAT. THAAAAT WAS THE HAYATE VOICE. OH, MY DARLING HAYATE-VOICE!!" (I couldn't nail down any of the other seiyuu though, 'cept Shiratori Yuri. Anybody knows who Mute/Ruu are?)
I enjoyed it, definitely; especially the fairy tale openings....I thought the ending was kind of cruel, though; they made that whole thing where they were obviously setting up Fakia/Ahiru and then did the whole mini-ending with Mute/Ahiru...yarghhhh. I'm glad that wasn't the ending, though, as there were still hanging threads (what happened to Ruu? what's Mute like with a possible personality? will Fakia and Ahiru find truuuue raaaaabu as episode twelve hinted?).
Still, overall, it was suprisingly fluffy...like, maybe a cross between Utena and Pretear but with ballet, only much more the Pretear and it wasn't nearly as intelligently bizarre as Utena. I admit I was slightly disappointed in that area, but all the fluffy intelligence was fun too. Everyone must watch! only one wing @ 10:53 p.m.
[Sunday, April 20, 2003] np: Saikou ni Happy! - Tokyo Mew Mew
One huge fight with my mom later (in which cons were called juvenile, a waste of money, time, and my life), I'm fairly guaranteed to be at Fanime (noooo prereeeeeg). AX is still iffy. "Iffy" means my mom said NO and I momentarily agreed, while thinking, "I've got a few months yet to convince you."
I'll just go...frolick, now. And think about options for a summer job, since now I really need one if I'll be trotting around cons. only one wing @ 05:40 p.m.
[Saturday, April 19, 2003] np: Shell - Witch Hunter ROBIN
*rubs eyes* Still working on TMM CG...I really really need a tablet. I'm really loathe to spend money on anything expensive these next few months before college, but that's probably the one thing I'll shell out for. My eyes hurt from staring at all the PINK for hours, and it's not worth it when it still looks like crap. *grumbles*
Continued mad shopping trip today for the sake of having things to wear at college. Bought an extremely cute trenchcoat that's on the slightly short side, a long khaki skirt, and a white linen skirt with lacy designs. Mmm. (I'm addicted to clothes. Sad, but true.)
Realized rather belatedly that over the first three days of school after break, I have to somehow manage to pull together five hours of on-campus service, or not graduate. Hopefully can convince Mr. Y to give me an hour or two for putting together the musical program. =_= only one wing @ 12:07 a.m.
[Friday, April 18, 2003] np: My Sweet Heart - Tokyo Mew Mew
Meimi: *types away at computer* Pop-Up Window: STOP POP-UP ADS FOREVER! Meimi: ... only one wing @ 07:26 p.m.
[Thursday, April 17, 2003] Ingrid, but they only sang the one line. Not that it wasn't great, but very short good moment in a boring episode. About all they established (for plot's sake next time you watch) is goddess-lady's blood mixing with other people's is the key to breaking the spell, and in a truly lame deus ex machina, "HEY! Since Cordelia is her MOTHER, her blood must work just as well!" So they bled her and mixed Cordelia's blood with other people's. Now everyone in Angel Inc. is back to normal except for Connor, though they mixed his blood with hers too (I would guess his blood is weird too since he's her father), and the episode ended with him running off to rat the rest of the group out.
In other news, much to my disappointment, I seem to not be going to the prom. It's been very on-and-off, but all in all due to the fact that I go to an all-girl's school, I have very few guy acquaintances (much less friends, acquaintances are because they're my friends' boyfriends), and unless it was a very desperate setup, nobody would want me; I shall be spending that night in May minus the snazzy dress and possibly eating ice cream while watching chick flicks.
I'm not all that disappointed, I mostly just wanted to have the fun of dressing up. But today I got five pieces of everyday wear clothing for two-thirds the price of the dress I wanted, which is far more practical with college on the horizon anyway, non? Especially since I got everything I bought today (all at The Limited or Express) for 50% off, and it was a real sale. Usually at those stores, they hang up really massive signs, but there's just a really sad pile in the back of clothes that either A) don't look like they would survive a trip in the washing machine B) are cute things in horrid colors, or C) are just. plain. hideous.
*sparklesparkle* I got pants and a shirt to exercise in, and a jacket that's kind of supposed to go with that but could really go with anything, and a striped version of a top I already bought and loved, aaaand a really really beautiful black top with these huge, huge sleeves that look like something a, um, very stylish witch would wear. Really. only one wing @ 09:53 p.m.
[Thursday, April 17, 2003] Ingrid, Angel this week was nothing special at all. Except for the part where Angel and Connor sang "Mandy" with revised lyrics in order to worship goddess-lady ("Oooooh Jaaaasmine~~! You caaaame and you gaaaaave without taaaaking~~"), you didn't miss much. Buffy this week was much better, though it also made me cover my eyes but still look through my fingers in a way I haven't done since I was, like, six. only one wing @ 11:04 a.m.
[Tuesday, April 15, 2003]
=_____= We were supposed to go to SD tomorrow. I was not supposed to go to school tomorrow. Which was good, because the rough draft of my chem term paper is due tomorrow and I figured I could get, you know, um...an extra week or two...
Mom walks in. Says we aren't going to SD, and I'm going to school.
Fuck. I have the rest of the night to pound out total crap that my teacher isn't going to READ, just is going to CHECK OFF but it still has to look like I, you know, WROTE THINGS and right now I only have two pages. ;___; PLUS I have to now help with a prayer service, and my teacher will get all furious at me for messing up his organization when I said I wouldn't be there. Waaaaah.
Provided I do not mess it up on inking, I'm almost done the next layout picture. Oh lord, the pink, the pink...and other various bright colors that will be involved in coloring...I wanted to draw Ichigo/Aoyama but my first attempt was sad and pathetic (might try again), so now... "Youkoso! Cafe Mew-Mew! *HEART*"
...or something.
And ARGHHHHH *stabs Kazaa* all I wanted was to watch the new Buffy and there aren't enough people sharing it and it WON'T resume and I'm ALMOST done downloading and *SCREEEEEAM*...if I don't watch it tonight, Alicia will spoil me rotten (in the almost literal sense) tomorrow. With this hell of a chem paper I'm procrastinating on, you'd at least think I could have more Faith viewage to look forward to, but nooo... only one wing @ 10:01 p.m.
[Tuesday, April 15, 2003] np: Koi wa A LA MODE - Tokyo Mew Mew
The next layout will be Tokyo Mew Mew, no way 'round it. And I was so set on it being Utena.. *whimper*
In other non-shoujo-series news, I went on my second visit to USF today - all that's left is to sign the form of intent to enroll and send them the check, I'm pretty much set on going. I sat in a graphic design class for an hour in the morning just to make absolutely certain that the art program didn't suck. The teacher was really young, very laid-back in attitude but definitely insisting on hard work - just hard work in a fun, non-stressful way. I also sat in a studio class while waiting for the other one to start, and that one was great, too...and both the classes were around ten or fifteen people. It's pretty near perfect, just not quite as many varied courses as I'd like, but oh well.
Then I went to go talk to the advisor in charge of the programs abroad. As long as I get into all the right classes beforehand, I should be in Japan for my junior year. My only ish is that the classes themselves are...well, pretty restricted to just Japanese-related things (yeah, yeah, I know; what was I expecting)...rather, it's just a fear that I won't be able to fit in everything I actually want to learn as classes go. And I actually, you know, have a vague direction I'm walking towards - how do people who don't have a vague idea at the start manage? o_o only one wing @ 07:10 p.m.
[Tuesday, April 15, 2003] np: Koi wa A LA MODE - Tokyo Mew Mew
Jin, that sounds like the most cracked-out idea I've heard in a while. I MUST SEE THIS. It'll probably get stuck on my "something to download in my first week of college when I'm out of DIALUP HELL", though (the list is gettingly increasingly long).
But I need new shoujo. Because, probably because of this song, I am doing Horrible Shoujo Things that only a Desperate Shoujo Fan In Withdrawal would do (i.e. I'm considering retreating back into Watase Yuu's clutches).
Last night I pulled out the old Nakayoshi and cackled madly over the Tokyo Mew-Mew installments. *dies* I want the tankouban, but in particular tankoubon five and on, because I think Aoyama/Ichigo are so. damn. cute. Generic shoujo coupleness and all.
I'm almost tempted to go after the anime, but I watched one episode and was horrified: I didn't think (in the age of computer animation) that they even made badly-animated, incredibly poorly directed anime like that nowadays. But damned if the theme songs aren't catchy - wish I could find the image song collections online... only one wing @ 04:22 p.m.
[Monday, April 14, 2003] np: Koi wa A LA MODE - Tokyo Mew Mew
Okay, this is the plan...until Furuba season two goes into confirmed prepoduction, we survive merely on chocolate (because not even Furuba is worth lack of comfort food), caffiene, and yaoi fanservicey manga/anime viewage.
....actually, that doesn't sound much different from my life right now. Huh.
What, exactly, is Princess Tutu about? If its atmosphere is vaguely Utena... *KIRARAN* And I don't know if I'd call Full Moon "decent shoujo" - I do love Tanemura manga more than anythiiiiing, but I don't see how you can make a 52 episode series of (albeit vaguely supernatural) cutely traumatic idol stories. But I wanted to watch just because I thought Meroko's design was cute (her outfit screams "cosplay me", yes) and I am madly madly madly madly in raaaabu with her seiyuu. only one wing @ 08:45 p.m.
[Sunday, April 13, 2003] np: Eyes On Me - Final Fantasy VIII
Wah. Watched an obscene amount of movies yesterday.
Ingrid, I suspect it's something similar to the Giles/Anya kiss that taunted viewers in the preview to Tabula Rasa: possibly amusing, almost certainly utterly meaningless. If it's not, then my head will start to spin from all the love triangling. (*rolls eyes* Gunn and Fred were together but now they broke up, and now Gunn is with Gwen, and Wes, Willow, and now possibly Angel are all after Fred (not really Willow, but). Meanwhile Wesley is being haunted by his dead...I don't know if I could properly call Lilah a girlfriend...Angel has been reeling from his son getting the girl he loves pregnant...I don't think Buffy ever was this soap opera...)
And you know, I feel badly ranting about DNAngel when I never get to see the new episodes right away, but I have to listen to Les howling in rage (I'm starting to suspect this'll be a weekly ritual). Apparently the bit in the first episode where the family is chanting in the basement in robes is an actual - you know - SERIOUS PLOT POINT, not them being INSANE. Because now Dark is a Good Kaitou who only steals Evil Cursed stuff at the museum (not just to annoy the Hikari family) and the family waves little wands over it in the basement to seal the evilness away.
...Risa now also has an obsession with tarot cards, Dark and Daisuke can't SPEAK to each other at ALL (Dark leave Daisuke a NOTE, a NOTE - how can they form a friendship?!), Dark apparently has a thing for Risa because she reminds him of a girl from his past, and in episode three, Risa will be kidnapped by a fucking UNICORN.
Is there a single decent shoujo anime out there today? I propose forming a team that'll go on a hunger strike until they make a second season of Furuba. Who's with me? only one wing @ 11:50 a.m.
[Friday, April 11, 2003]
Fiiiinally got to see DNAngel anime...
Overall I do agree with the idea that it isn't the sort of anime I would "get" unless I'd already read the manga...I also thought the pacing of the episode was really really off. Shots of characters would linger far too long. I guess I'd prefer to have long shots of pretty animation, than to have lots with bad animation, but I felt like Daisuke's entire trip to school took like, half the episode. WHY? Meanwhile, the explanation about Dark took about thirty seconds.
Random thoughts: Daisuke: I know people mocked Hoshi Souichirou, but I really did like him better than the TV seiyuu... ^^;; He sounds too much like a boy, yeah. But he's such a sweetheart - I loved all the blushing!! Risa: Felt like they were trying to make her more likable. But I actually don't mind Risa that much - she's really shallow, yes, but there's a charm to her being so incredibly stupid. I missed the manga scene where she speeches about needing a boyfriend to beat Riku, to make up for her being behind in chest size. XD; I actually thought the twins sounded an awful lot alike - while Sakura Tange in the drama was painfully shrill, I felt like you knew exactly who Risa was the moment you heard her. Riku: Barely in the episode. Still mourning loss of Imai Yuka, whom I thought was The Perfect Riku Voice, The One That Was In My Head As I Read The Manga. Wah. Satoshi: *shrugs* Ishida isn't exactly painful to listen to, but he's no more Satoshi than Seki was...I wish he'd play him a bit more low-key and soft. At least they upped the gay scenage, except the scene where he jumped on Dark was so quick-moving and not as fanservicey. Dark: Okiayu sounds exactly how I expected he would. Applause. He's no Onosaka, but nobody is, and I trust he'll be almost as perfect - minus a little sexiness, but that's okay. I love Okiayu. XD Krad: *swoons* KUSAO. TAKESHI. I think I need to hear him again, the yelling wasn't really typical Krad. Emiko/Daiki: Hey, they sound exactly like their drama voices. Score. Not like you can really go wrong with them. Events: Wait, Dark was all dokidoki over RISA?!! So in the anime they're changing it?!! I guess that might kind of make sense (they're never together in the manga, but I found them entertaining in the dramas when they went on dates - I love it when she goes, "Atashi, sonna ni wagamama?" and he says, "Onna no ko no wagamama wa, kirai ja nai.") but then there's not much cute arguing over Riku. Oh, and the end of this episode? That was kind of the most randomized kiss ever. They made it look like it was a total accident on BOTH their parts.
I'm coming to grips with the fact that I actually enjoyed the dramas far more than I should have. I thought they were sparkly-perfect in most ways, and any imperfections were easily overlooked. only one wing @ 10:11 a.m.
[Tuesday, April 8, 2003] np: Letters - Utada Hikaru
Eh. Not exactly feeling super, but if today wasn't the end of being miserable, tomorrow definitely will be. I think I might have lost my A in every single class I'm taking, over the span of today and yesterday. Even prayer. Do you have any idea how mortifying it'll be to get a B in prayer, in which sleeping during class is actually encouraged?
Okay, I take it back, I'll still get an A in drama because it's impossible to get anything but, and I don't think I messed up very badly in econ, so I should still get by. But prayer, English, Psych, and Chem? Yeah, I'll be lucky if I scrape by with all B's in the lot of them.
I know everyone says it's the eighth semester so I shouldn't worry, but I can't help it...but I'm so tired right now anyway. I'm going to school tomorrow (I have all the classes I hate tomorrow, argh) and when it's done, I'm leaving straight for home and I'll rot my brain for hours. Not exactly sure how, but doesn't really matter, right? I'll just play from the time I get home until bedtime, because these past few days have lacked anything vaguely resembling playtime.
I still haven't gotten hold of DNAngel. Starting to hear positive things trickling in now that the France shock value has worn off. But come on, France? I'll absolutely grant that running around on the streets might be a little more fun with France as the backdrop, but the school life in the manga was so unmistakably Japanese... T-T Bell, by the way, openings and endings should definitely be in episode two...I can't wait to hear/see them, even though I don't recognize the groups that are singing~~ only one wing @ 09:17 p.m.
[Monday, April 7, 2003]
I feel much much better now. Much much. My mom and I had a massive fight, and it was probably the worst ever...but I talked to Les and felt better. Pretty much all anyone needs to be reminded of after several hours of being screamed at by their mother, is, I think, that somebody loves them.
I'm really tired though, and I just want to spend the rest of the week in bed. I'm just so tired. I hate how after you cry, no matter how many hours you sleep, it's never enough. You stil wake up with your eyes all puffy and horrible-looking. only one wing @ 08:24 a.m.
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