[Kiba] broke my anime dryspell, as I've found myself unable to watch much of anything as of late. So actually watching episodes 3-12 in one day is a really big accomplishment for me (sitting through one episode used to be a big accomplishment, I've just been really listless the past few months). Anyway, it's not a series that I would say is really good, but the pacing of the story is good enough so as not to bore me and actually made me want to watch more. So I was talking to Debi about this in IM, and apparently, while I was not aware of this the entire time I was watching, I had some unresolved issues with the spirits' 'wanglessness'.

mithas: Also, THEIR SUMMONS HAVE NO WANG.
sofar: uhm, r u referring to the subbers way of wording summons or the anime itself?
mithas: nuuuu. the way they're drawn. they be nekkid and have no wang.
sofar: ......................
mithas: *looks for a nice shot of wangless spirit*
sofar: uhmkay you do that XD
mithas: i hear doubt of their wanglessness! *eyes you*
sofar: its not so much doubt as I dunno what the hell ur talking about XD
sofar: so a picture would be most helpful
sofar: seeing as I dunno how their summons look like
sofar: the conversations we have XD
mithas: http://www.fickleminds.net/junk/ihavenowang.jpg
sofar: *cough*
sofar: uhm, seeing as their spirits, maybe they don't need one?
sofar: or maybe the summons are asexual?
mithas: they should have just drawn them with clooothes.
mithas: *is disturbed by the wanglessness*
sofar: XDDD
sofar: *is disturbed at how fixated you are on their wanglessness*

And I have proof!


Too sleepy to say anything constructive about this series, besides I'm not really pimping it. We'll see how it goes after a few more episodes. I just... you know, had to share the wanglessness.

( random caps )

Never had a use for LJ's scrapbook before, but with 10gbs of space I'm now using it for hosting screencaps and whatnot. Lessens the traffic on my server and should prevent hotlinking problems. Now I can disable hotlinks on my servers completely. <3 I stopped taking screencaps midway because BSplayer hung on me twice while I was capping Jigoku Shoujo. Will post about other series' on a later date.

Series: Mushishi
Eps: 1-8
Gallery: 26 screencaps
Probably my favorite from the autumn releases. The only title other than Ginban Kaleidoscope that I watch almost immediately after getting the new eps. Was initially disappointed after finding out that it was episodic as I liked Shinra and Lenzu from the first episode. ;_; It has not failed me yet however, and each episode leaves me with much love for it. It has a very calming effect to it, so I find I prefer watching it during a particularly trying day.

Series: Blood+
Eps: 1-10
Gallery: 13 screencaps
Watched episodes 8-10 a few nights back. I'm glad to see it's finally picking up. I found the pacing not quite to my liking from about eps. 3-7 (though Em liked it just fine, so it's probably just me), because despite there actually being something going on I found story and character progress completely lacking until it finally started to pick up by episode 7. I'm not as pleased with present-day Saya, but I don't dislike her either, just that I prefer her in the movie and during the flashbacks in Japan. In other words, I just prefer her kicking ass.

I am also wondering whether Haji was the chiropteran that she left alive in the end of the movie. It makes the most sense to me, but I'm unsure whether this was ever confirmed officially. If so, wasn't he the one in drag? *is amused* I will laugh, because he's being all uber-bishie cool right now. Uh-huh.

Series: Jigoku Shoujo
Eps: 1-6
Gallery: 38 screencaps
While I like this series, like the art and like Ai, it's not going anywhere fast. It's predictable and repetitive and starting to get boring. I continue to watch it just waiting for something else to happen. It's still a better watch than some of the new titles, but aside from the nice art and what would have been an interesting premise, it becomes stagnant after a few episodes. Here's to hoping something else happens later on. Behold my Ai icon, because I like her and she makes the series worth watching. :D

Series: Cluster Edge
Eps: 1-6
Gallery: 21 screencaps
*laugh* If you go in planning to take this series even semi-seriously, then you are better off watching something else. Unless you're prepared to be amused and grit your teeth through all the (numerous) shamelessly cheesy parts of the series, then you'll probably want to throw something huge and highly destructive at your monitor. It is best watched with friends, with humor and sarcasm to match. It has shoujo bubbles and men pining over would-be lovers, as well as men in capes who like to pose with big, shiny swords and frolicking in flower fields. What more can you ask for? ;P

1. Would anyone happen to know how to fix your styles so that when looking at your tags list it doesn't use this fugly style? It seems this should be automatic with S2 styles, but I edited my S2 style layers before the tags were put into place, maybe I just have to redo everything.

2. So after two months of not really watching anything, have decided to slowly catch up with old series' I'm behind in. Watched until episode 20 of Honey and Clover and upto 18 of Eyeshield 21 (though I skipped a few eps in ES21, I did catch up with the manga). I don't want to watch anymore HnC until the last 2 episodes are out and subbed. BTW, can anyone tell me whether the HachiKuro manga is finished at 8 volumes or whether it's still ongoing?

I might decide to finish watching FMA once and for all, since someone has been nagging me to finish watching it and I don't really have a lot of space left on my HD to be going on a download spree. I need to buy a dvd-writer so bad. >.> Extreme download spree once I get one! <3 (My priorities of things I should buy keep changing.)

3. I started re-playing FF7 a week or two ago, then I abandoned it to finish Shadow Hearts: Covenant and now that I was going to play FF7 again the disc hangs before the game even loads... Someone up there doesn't want me to watch AC. ;P That aside, I've started playing Wild Arms, since I never played it, and cugami's Wild Arms 1 & 2 games happen to be with me. Yey for pixelized art. Cecilia's sprite dances after every battle, I find it really cute so I end up watching it a lot. XD

Playing old games make me realize just how much the analog stick has spoiled me. I can never play for too long because I feel like I'm straining my hand when using the directional buttons. This almost makes me consider replaying Chrono Trigger on the SNES sim instead of playing the PS1 version on the console.

4. Has anyone seen the newest trailer for Xenosaga III? I wasn't really that excited about the game before, but omfgabel. ;_; Now I want it very badly.

5. There's a group actually subbing [Tonde Boorin] (Or Tonde Buurin? Heck, I know it as Super Boink! lol. :P). <3 I never saw the ending of this series, now I can! I hope they finish subbing it.

6. I never have the patience to sit down and actually write a long post about a particular topic, so what happens is that during the course of a week (or more), whenever something comes up that I actually want to talk about, I'll open my semagic client and write it down. If the post is too short, I won't post it and then I'll wait for the next time I have something else I want to say. Sometimes, I will delete the entire thing and not post at all, sometimes, like right now, I will decide to post it. Hence, this post actually took me a week and a half to write. XD

HAHAHA! Not cutting those caps mainly because I demand that everyone on the flist sees this. :P Otherwise nobody's gonna look behind the cut.

16gb torrent that was so slooow. Took me about a month to finish downloading. But worth it? You betcha! Memories! I still want to see the Tagalog dub again. This was like, the third anime series I ever saw as it started airing in local tv shortly after I got into anime. I am now convinced that Hotta Yumi and Obata Takeshi are Zenki fans. Goki was named Akira, and... *gestures at his character design* Lol. *amused*



DORKS 'R US
mithas: OMG SO CUUTTEE! *DIES* ZZEEEENKI!
cugami: DO NOT MAKE ME ENVIOUS!
cugami: *keels!*
cugami: but zenki <3
cugami: ahahaha cutest demon
mithas: XDDDD SO CUUTE.
cugami: slap!
mithas: *TAKES HIM HOME*
mithas: Lol. We should all have like.. a Zenki marathon or something.
cugami: we should!
cugami: i'm all for it XD do NOT WATCH NOW

I am now forbidden to watch Zenki until said marathon. WOE.

I've disabled my livejournal e-mail address because it was getting spam at least once or twice a day. So if anyone needs to contact me, my livejournal address is not the way to do it.

Anyhow, have watched a bit more of the new series' out. I've discovered I have more chances of sitting through episodes if I get something I can work on productively while watching (even if it's something as mundane as punching holes through paper so I can file them away properly), or if I have someone over to watch it with.

Hence, the only time I got around to watching Trinity Blood was when Debi came over. Snippets of our comments while watching the series behind the cut. I think it pretty much says what I thought of it.

( Screencaps and commentary. Why it's always good to be watching with someone with similar taste as you. )

And the other series' I've watched more of since my last post.
( MAR, Eureka Seven, Gokujou Seitokai, Honey and Clover, The Law of Ueki. )

E-mail for the yaoicest project was sent out Monday. If you didn't get it then tell me so I can forward it. If you haven't checked mail yet, please do so when you have time. Just waiting to hear from everyone (yes, even if you back out) before I set things up.

General impressions on the first batch of spring series' in a nutshell. I was supposed to include screencaps and mini-reviews, but then I couldn't be bothered while writing this post. If there's anything actually worth pimping (other than ES21, because I've been randomly pimping it for years), then I'll probably create a separate post for it.

Series I'll be watching - or will try to, but we all know how that goes
+ Eyeshield 21 - I found the Jump Festa release (Hiruma had a whole lot more explosives) much more exciting than the first episode, but alright overall. Read the manga. I am still undecided on Hiruma's seiyuu, I like the impish quality to it, but it comes out as too high-pitched for me at times. After having watched the second episode, I'm still undecided on Hiruma's seiyuu, but my love for the anime has been renewed. This would be one of those series' where I wouldn't care very much if they make changes from the manga, as long as they deliver with evil, sadistic Hiruma. <3 Seeing Cerberus made me cackle insanely at my monitor. ♥

Yea well, that's all. I have to pull my own teeth to get around to watching anime these days and everything else didn't seem very interesting.

Series I'll continue to watch until I get bored
(better known as series' I will continue downloading but take forever to watch before I drop them)

+ Tsubasa - One of the few CLAMP series' I actually like enough to watch. Granted I don't know enough about CLAMP's other works to actually know where some of the other characters come from. It's not something I feel strongly about, but I'll download and watch for as long as my interest lasts.

+ Speed Grapher - This is Gonzo wanting to screw our minds over again. I personally didn't find it very interesting after the initial impression of the art and the atmosphere set in. I will continue to watch it with the same morbid fascination in which I watched Madlax with. Although Madlax had points up for having a het pair I liked. (Which I initially thought was crack and then had me going OMFG when it turned out to be canon. o_O)

+ Erementar Gerad - I find Coud (main) annoying. I would not be watching this at all if I weren't even slightly curious about where the series is going. It's nice to see Ishida Akira being more diverse in his type of roles, but he still has the knack of playing characters I dislike. Music by Kajiura Yuki, but it didn't impress upon me as much.

+ The Law of Ueki - This kind of reminds me of Konjiki no Gash Bell! in terms of crack/seriousness factor except Gash Bell had more crack. Ueki hasn't given signs of being able to break your brain yet.

+ Sousei no Aquarion - I like Apollo. I wasn't expecting him to be the main character o.O, but he amused me. Lol. The entire time I was watching this series I had "Let's volt in!" echoing in my head. I was much disappointed to have them say "Metamorphosis!" "Unite!" instead of "Let's volt in!" when they merged. Boring. It also amuses me very much that they sound like they're in the throes of passion when they volt in! (I insist on calling it volting in. Childhood memories and all. Though I suspect only a limited number of ppl on the flist will get the 'let's volt in!' reference.)

+ Basilisk - Actually, I haven't watched this, I'd already watched four other episodes before this (watched two and skipped another two to be exact) and I'm putting off watching this until I actually feel like watching something again. Nonetheless, skimming through it has gotten my attention enough (it's not the blood, really it isn't). Actually, it's the guy fighting with strings/wires that caught my attention. Futaroh Yamada seems to be fond of those, and it's been one of my favorite weapons since Yurimaru from Ninja Scroll. *dork*

Series I won't be watching
+ Loveless - It's pretty and the concept is interesting (I like Yun Kouga), but I spent more time twitching than liking what I was watching. I will likely stick to the manga, when it's finished. I suspect I won't like the characters very much (actually, I already don't). I have avoided Yun Kouga's stuff like the plague ever since Gestalt took forever. I will download though, as I suspect I have friends who'd want a copy of it.

+ Emma - I actually liked the first episode for this, and if it had come out a few years ago when I was devoting more time to watching anime, then I would have continued to watch it, but I'm not, so I'm dropping the series. Though I wonder why I chose to drop this instead of say... boring awful Gerad. Maybe I should switch them.

Kimagure Robot - If I didn't find downloading anime so bothersome these days, I'd probably decide to watch this just for the wtf factor.

Pandalian - Panda's in a fantasy type setting? Pft! Nothing beats Panda Z! Unless if they make Panda V, complete with "Let's volt in!" (oh alright, I don't know how that goes in Japanese, I've only ever really seen Voltes V with the english dub) and a brand new theme song. >D

Onmyou Taisenki - Onmyoji meets Digimon.

Futakoi Alternative - It's more interesting than Futakoi that's for sure, but nothing worth watching. The mafia second-in-command reminds me of Ban.

Series I didn't watch at all - meaning I didn't even finish episode 1
Memories Off 3.5 Inori no Todoku Toki
Magical Canan
Izumo-Takeki Tsurugi no Senki


I have to make more ES21 icons. Two isn't enough.

[Latest ad] for the Eyeshield 21 anime has announced Miyu Irino as Kobayakawa Sena and Aya Hirano for Anezaki Mamori, both of which are different from their seiyuu in the ES21 Jump Festa movie. Which means no Paku Romi (Sena), and which probably means no Miki Shinichirou as Hiruma either. :( I'm mildly disappointed. I'm not a big Shinichirou fan, but I liked his Hiruma. Though I think it may have been more of my love for Hiruma than anything else.

I'd actually love to see lesser known seiyuu take part in the ES21 anime. I'm strange that way, and sometimes I tire of hearing some of my favorite seiyuu in all the shows I watch. I'm not as disappointed with Paku Romi no longer voicing Sena as I probably should be, because as much as I did like her Sena, she's got enough shows currently running that can fill my Paku-obsession for a while.

Other than that, have slowly started to catch up with my manga reading again (I've only been reading Naruto for the longest time - and BL titles all of last month.), and of course ES21 was first on my list. I was just laughing the entire night while I was reading it. I still adore Hiruma, and I'm reminded once again why I love this series a lot. Anything that can make me laugh that much is well deserving of the love. ♥

Tohjoh Asami made an [Eyeshield 21 doujinshi]. As if she needed to give more reasons for me to love her (and to spend my money).

That aside, I am taking a break and making a useless list for the year, anime series-wise. Since I've not really been talking much about the series' (the few of which) I've been watching/reading (new and old), so here's my list of Top 5s. Although since I couldn't think of five series' for each category...

Feel free to rec me anything not on the list. I've been really behind as far as anime/manga goes.

But before all that, does anyone have any idea what is up with Takashima Kazusa's Last Client series? Shi-ran had it scanlated upto chapter 6, but it's not done. And it doesn't look like a tankouban is out for it. I can't find anything on amazon.co.jp or yahoo. Want. ;_;

Top 5 series' I would rec to anyone in a heartbeat.
1. Juuni Kokki
2. Heatguy J
3. Last Exile
4. Fullmetal Alchemist
5. Monster

Top 5 series' I'm currently following.
1. Beck
2. Gakuen Alice
3. 20th Century Boys (I want more. ;_;)
4. Samurai 7
5. All the ongoing series' listed on the list below. :P

Top 5 series' I love for a number of different reasons.
1. Naruto
2. Hikaru no Go
3. One Piece
4. Bleach
5. Konjiki no Gash Bell

Top 5 4 series' whose crack I love.
1. Papuwa
2. Eyeshield 21
3. Yakitate!Japan
4. Gakuen Alice

Top 5 3 series' which won me over by the cuteness factor.
1. Rozen Maiden
2. Gakuen Alice
3. Aishiteruze Baby (the cuteness had me hooked for a while.. then Kippei just started annoying the hell out of me)

Top 5 3 series I watch for the slash/bishonen factor.
1. Meine Leibe
2. Tactics
3. Sokyou no Fafner

Top 5 3 disappointments. (it started out great, ended up blah)
1. Samurai Champloo
2. Kenran Butou Sai
3. Otogizoushi (though I reserve final judgement on this)

Top 5 series' which don't get enough attention.
1. Twin Spica
2. Tantei Gakuen Q
3. Gakuen Alice
4. Beck
5. (And just because I don't know why there are so few people who love this show) HEATGUY J

Apparently, the only thing short of a disaster that would force me to post nowadays is cute little boys in shorts and perverted teachers that like to molest them... or something remotely like it anyhow. ;D Took luminata's suggestion to watch Gakuen Alice (mentioned after a passing comment about how my attention tend to zero in on little boys rather quickly.) and now I demand that all the perverts people on my flist watch it too. bathala, you'll love this series. Little boys and crack.

Gakuen Alice in a nutshell is about a girl (Mikan) who follows her childhood friend to a school which cater to people with an Alice ability. 'Alice' pertaining to supernatural powers inherent in an individual, that of which differ from person to person. The series I assume, will focus on Mikan's life in the school and the people she meets. I've only skimmed through the first two episodes, so I can't really say much about it.

Also, any anime that has even a vague mention of a sea otter gets my vote. Love Mikan and her expressions. She makes me laugh. Succeeded on not going screencap happy on this one, so a bare minimum behind the cut. I love that Paku Romi is getting more roles as of late. <3

( Mikan is amusing. )

Rozen Maiden so cute. ♥ Little boy doll should go live with Jun too. >D

I keep meaning to make a post about this series, but I never find the time to, so this will do for now.

Cleared all the missions for Fatal Frame II, finally unlocked the gothic lolita costume. Now I can defeat hard mode with pretty costumes. <3