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Pseudo-Elf Princess Speaks:
Tuesday, March 30, 2004 08:47 p.m.
So. Taking the advice of Megan-san, I have figured out a use for this site. I even have a partial layout. Would anyone be willing to host a picture for it for me? *looks hopeful* I'm sure I could figure something else out if no one can, though . . .
Um, yeah. So anyway, this site will be undergoing a little bit of a makeover (nothing so big that it's actually hard though. Hah!) So, um, be aware. Not that it matters . . . *blink blink* And, no, I won't tell you about the purpose til the site is ready. In case you were thinking about asking. Um . . . okay, that's all. Peace out : P
Saturday, March 27, 2004 11:06 p.m.
Maybe I should make this my 'anime comments' blog . . .
Tonight I had the great pleasure of watching the Ah! My Goddess movie (on Internationl Channel, so there were presumably no cuts in material ^^). I enjoyed it so much that I wish I would've taped it, but I didn't really expect it to be on (and I haven't recorded anything in ages).
Here's the basics: Keiichi and Belldandy have been together for three years (or springs, at least). Everything is going wonderfully until Belldandy's old instructor, Celestine (that's a guy, by the way), is released from his confinement by a fairy named Morgan. He returns to Belldandy and, by erasing her memories of Keiichi, begins to use her as a tool in his plan to create a new world--one with no suffering, but by getting rid of the old one.
This was carried out with beauty and emotion and so on (though I'm not sure the story is quite as strong as it should be, but that's basically irrelevant), but the main focus of the story is the relationship between Keiichi and Belldandy. Something about it that I can't quite put my finger on is just so sweet and so pure that I was cooing and sighing and saying "Awww!" almost the entire movie. (Luckily, I was alone, otherwise it would have been pretty embarrassing). It was just so sweet! WAIII!! I LOVE ROMANCE!!! *sobs*
*ahem* Anyway, the animation was slightly above the level of Tenchi (though with much, much prettier character designs ^^). I was hoping for a little bit better from a movie, but perhaps the DVD quality would be more up to snuff. And it isn't that new. Late 90's, I would guess. Actually, it kind of reminded me of the Rayearth OVA. Not perfect, but very acceptable.
The music is lovely, of course. We have the gentle "Coro di Dea" as the "climatic moment" theme (though the song itself isn't so much climatic as exuberant) and numerous other nice incidentals. The little bit I heard of the song that runs during the end credits sounded pleasant also.
As for the voice acting . . . well, since it was on International Channel (which hasn't used subtitles since Slayers ended), it was in dub. But that was all right, because, though I don't have the Japanese or subtitles to compare it to, I was satisfied with what I heard. I mean, Celestine was played by Steven Blum (yes, Spike Spiegal), but none of the actors' voices were annoying, and I thought that they all did a good job.
Overall, I enjoyed it a lot--so much that it'll be added to my shopping list (which doesn't necessarily mean I'll ever buy it since my list is miles long) and hope IC shows it again so I can tape it ^_^ Peace out : P
Tuesday, March 23, 2004 06:17 p.m.
NOOOOO!!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE HE KILLED OFF COL. HUGHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAAHHHHHHHHH!!
*sniffles* Was reading Fullmetal Alchemist manga. It's just past the point of the anime released so far. And they killed off a good character (actually, they're all good characters...) *sniffles* And he had a wife! And a daughter he constantly bragged about! And now he's DEAD!!
Or, at least, that's what they want you to think. *hopeful* Maybe he's just mortally wounded. Or. . . or. . . WAHHHH!
*sniffles* Peace *sniffles* out ;_;
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 10:28 p.m.
Truly, sometimes I think pitas is faster in the logging in process. And speed is key since it's nearly 10:30 and I haven't started my pre-calc yet (BAH!)
I'm going to be sick quite soon, I think. My nose is a leaky faucet that's about to be turned on (I can feel it about to happen). *sighs* At least no one's depending on my voice for the musical.
I don't even know why I'm writing. I think it's that OCD thing again. Writing like this relieves my paranoia to an extent. So I'm here instead of doing what I should be doing. Bad bad me. Gotta go. Peace out : P
Sunday, March 7, 2004 07:20 p.m.
I figured I had better update, though I don't really have much to say and I have much to do off-line. But here I am, so here I shall stay for this task.
Kare Kano vol. 8 and Vampire Game vol. 5 are out soon or now, and I'm dying to get them. But I can say the same for a number of other things. And foremost on my mind, unfortunately, is a very new and very weird series. Yes, I can hear your groans. But I'm mostly thinking on 12 Kingdoms and Infinite Ryvius, both of which I am still crazy about. RahXephon . . . I adore it. I still want to get to the end. But at the same time, I am absolutely terrified of the ending, because I keep stumbling on bits of information, and, for land's sake, if anyone goes looking for something on the ending, I don't want to hear a word of it. It's just one of those things that I think is going to be a big surprise, and I don't want to know. Some series I wish I had known the end at the beginning so I wouldn't have wasted my time (like Shingetsutan Tsukihime--bah, it was swinging between interesting and slow, but the ending totally killed it--no pun intended), but I just really don't want to know the ending of this one. My, my, this entry is rambly and has nothing to do with anyone reading it >_<
Um. Point is, I guess, I like to spend money, and there's much to spend it on, and I can't go more than a few weeks or months without buying something. Which is annoying. And I'll stop now. But at least I got another entry on this page, ne? Peace out : P
Sunday, February 29, 2004 06:25 p.m.
Time for my weekly *ha* update. Bah.
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I really have nothing to say. Um, I have lots of homework. I should really do homework. Matantei Loki Ragnarok (the manga) has been liscensed by ADV manga. Woo-hoo. Hopefully that means they also have Matantei Loki (the first one). Hopefully it comes out fast, because I didn't get past chapter 6 of volume 2, and I wanna read more ;_; Now. Um. I'm think I'm going to go watch Di Gi Charat Nyo now. Nyo! Nyu! Gema! :3 Peace out.
Sunday, February 22, 2004 07:31 p.m.
Wah. *pokes pitas* Are you dead yet? Don't diiiiiieeee! *blinks* Okay, it's all my fault anyway. *sucks thumb*
I don't really feel like saying much. Um. I'm watching Jubei-chan 2 right now. It's pretty weeeeiiiird. In an oddly semi-likeable way. Yes and no. I'm just doing it for the snot-nosed adorable chibi, darnit! So don't bug me about it.
*sigh* I'm just cranky because I really don't want to go to school tomorrow. Can I just . . . drop out or something? I keep procrastinating on this thing that I completely dread doing, and now there are two things that I dread doing and they're both for the Echo and I probably have to do them both by the next deadline and I keep putting it off because if there was any way at all to get out of it I would. You know, excluding asking Frau for anything because I think she would kill me and excluding dropping the class because it would kill my GPA (which has been injured enough by Physics) and I would be breaking the promise that got me in the class in the first place. Of course, I didn't promise I'd stay the whole year . . . did I? I don't remember. *sighs* I don't wanna go . . . I wanna skip. This is what journalism has done to me. Ayiyi.
. . . I wanna watch Scrapped Princess and my drives won't open, darnit! *kicks computer* Stupid piece of crap. If it's not opening, it's freezing my actions and forcing me to shut it down for no good reason. Grr. I'll stop making you listen to my complaining now. >_< This sucks. Peace out.
Friday, February 13, 2004 06:41 p.m.
In an effort to assure myself that this lovely pitas site is not just a waste of space on the internet, I'm writing here tonight instead of on my LJ. But I'll be posting something there, too, so feel free to visit ^__^
Today *momentous pause* I went shopping. *dead silence* You know, it's not really that when I have money I feel the need to immediately spend it on something! ANYTHING! *blinks* It's more like, whenever I have money on hand, I happen to look at my list of things to buy (which grows by the hour), and I feel the need to cross one off. So it's not like I love spending. I just love buying. And saving, too. And I did both today. I bought vol. 3 of RahXephon. For now, I think I'm going to try to pretend that I didn't buy it yet, because I'd like to save it for a time when I'm anime starved. But I doubt that resolve will last long. I also bought some manga, including vol. 1 of Fruits Basket. Yay. I like manga ^^ I wish I could buy a copy of nearly everything on the market. Unfortunately, that would be very, very expensive. But I got some good stuff. So I should be happy. And I might be. I think. It's hard to tell sometimes, you know? I think perhaps, if I can, I'll watch the Royal Tenenbaums tonight. That sounds good. Peace out : P
Thursday, February 12, 2004 07:42 p.m.
WHEEE!! . . . Okay, so it's pretty useless to try to pretend that I'm as hyped up now as I was from about 3 to 6, but I wish I could've conveyed that psychoness to you guys. Of course, all I would need for it to return would be a few more high sugar suckers, a can of MD, and some LMAO!!!!!!1111 fanfiction. Um, but since you probably don't want to see that persona anyway, you get me ^^;
During the time in which I was hyper, I had the pleasure of renting movies from the rental place down the street. This is a momentous occasion, because I probably haven't rented anything since last summer (if not last Valentine's Day). But now I am, because I begged my mom to let me have Monty Python to watch for Valentine's Day (a 'new tradition' so to speak, that I began last year), and our library doesn't exactly carry that, er, nature of program. So my mom relented, and, since it's the best deal, I now have 5 (older, VHS) movies for 5 days for 5 bucks.
My five for-the-most-part-spur-of-the-moment choices were: MP Life of Brian, MP Meaning of Life, Final Destination, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Emma (because it's rated PG and looks cute, making it on the opposite end of the spectrum from everything else). Like I said, kind of random. There are dozens of other things that I could've picked, but these were in view and my mom didn't want me to take too long, so . . . there you have it. And that finally brings me to the point.
Or will, eventually. Tonight I watched Final Destination, the single horror movie (the rest being comedies). Hm. It's a good thing that going to Illiana has gotten me used to hearing f*** this, f*** that, because otherwise I would probably be quite appalled at the language. In the way of plot, at first my plan was to make fun of it, which would've worked if my mother hadn't stood there watching the first few minutes with me (where they swore and swore again F*** F*** F***!!!). I still laughed when the plane exploded within the first few minutes (for some reason, even with my mother standing there, it struck me as being very funny) but overall I lost my hyperness and reverted back to my anxiety-ridden self, which caused me to fast forward any part that had suspense right before someone was about to die. Because I'm either making fun of what's going to happen (which I was able to do a bit of) or scared to death of what's going to happen (which the ffwd-ing prevented). This probably lessened my enjoyment of the movie, but I suppose it didn't stink too badly. I have a love/hate relationship with horror movies. Sometimes they amuse me. Sometimes they annoy me with the characters' stupidity. Sometimes they even scare me. Final Destination landed somewhere between those three. So it was okay, but from what I had heard of it, it wasn't as good as I hoped it would be (though, being a horror movie, I didn't expect much from it). Hombre, tonight I'm just rambling on and on -_-;
That's all. Maybe I'll post something on my LJ. Tomorrow I might go to BestBuy. What can I say? They have 10 percent off again . . . Peace out : P
Wednesday, February 4, 2004 05:37 p.m.
Wai, it's been a while since I've posted -_-;;
I finally got my cd drive to open *kicks compie BAKA BAKA!*, and thereby was able to finish Gravi. PIKA PIKA! . . . I didn't really like the ending, though. I need more resolution than that! *sighs* But mostly it was good. Ryuu-chan so cool! (And I get to call him that cause I'm Noriko, nyah!) As is K and Shuichi and Yuki and Hiro and Tohma and Mika and Ayaka and Suguru and everybody. Yep yep. And I must've looked really silly whenever any of the music played, because I kept swaying back and forth and stuff ^^; So it was good. Except the ending. Because it worked well on some levels, but . . . I want more ;_;
-_-;; Just look at me, I've become a sniveling shounen-ai fangirl . . . speaking of which (mostly unrelated), in case no one else has realized this, the HanaKimi scans are back up! *celebrates* But since I'm telling you, I have to stress to anyone who doesn't know yet, please, PLEASE FOLLOW THE RULES SHE PUT UP! *she being the webmistress of the site* She took the scans down before, and I'm sure she would do it again if any of the rules were broken. So be good ^^ I already have up to volume 9 -_-;; *I've been downloading them nearly non-stop since she put them up a little while back* Let me warn you, some, er, funky stuff happens. *shakes head* Like the whole onsen scene *grumbles*
That's about it. I probably have some quizzes lying around to put up, but I don't feel like it. And of course I have homework to do . . . *it never ever ends* So . . . Peace out : P
Wednesday, January 28, 2004 05:33 p.m.
Though I think birthdays are one of the sillier celebrations we have (yes, I've been thinking too long on this subject), I hardly have any protestations about celebrating my own. After all, I'm one year older, (hopefully) one year wiser, and quite ready to embark on something different. Oh, yeah, and now I can "legally" watch R-rated movies -_-;;
I feel like I should write something meaningful here, since it is the special day of my birthday (which was for the most part lovely, thank you for asking) and I've not been posting much more than quizzes lately, but I don't really have anything to say. Perhaps I have some resolutions I could make: Devote more time to writing, try to get off my lazy butt once in a while so my muscles don't atrophy, get my liscense, apply myself more fully in my studies . . . etc., etc. But I'll fail most of those >_<;
So . . . um . . . I'll probably post on LJ later about my activities and so on. Not very interesting, hm? I did go to Best Buy, and I did buy volume 2 of RahXephon (didn't have 12 Kingdoms, Infinite Ryvius is 30 dollars !! and I wanted to save for upcoming manga and the re-release of cheaper Escaflowne) and I did watch episode 6. But it was mostly mecha fighting, and I promised myself I would watch "Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door" to celebrate the fact that it's rated R and I can watch it (even though I've already seen it, but now I get to watch the dub and enjoy the quality of DVD when compared to crappy fansubs ^^) so I probably won't get to see anymore of it tonight. Traci, you might not get X back for a while, either. ;_; Gomen. Next week, maybe??
So . . . yes, that is all. I hope you all have a wonderful evening. I'm off to go watch bebop. Again. This time legally. Not that it ever mattered whether it was legal or not . . . ^^; Peace out : P
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