Of various angsty swordsmen. Oh, and books and movies too.

Apologies for this LJ all of a sudden turning into an anime-heavy zone. I do have obsession phases that come and go and if anyone wanted to unfriend me, I won't be upset, I promise.

Continuing to read Passion by Jude Morgan. Any book that can make me root for a half-siblings in love with each other (Augusta Leigh and Byron) is quite something.

Also, apparently, by the end of the Fushigi Yuugi OVAs (which I am still of two minds re: watching), Miaka and Tamahome have a kid. Which is both adorable (and I guess the poor star-crossed lovers finally got to have sex, heeeee) and amusing, as when I was little I kept pestering my Mom about how she and Dad met etc etc and if Miaka tells her, the kid is going to be convinced her parents did a great deal of hard core drugs back in the day. In case you are wondering, I am still obsessed with Fushigi Yuugi. I am tempted to just start rewatching again. Must. Fight. Obsessiveness. But I have no intention of doing so.

Need to finish Meteor Garden. Aaaangst. Yes!

I have also started watching Rurouni Kenshin, and so much love. Right now I finished ep 8 or 9. It's getting a lot more arc-ed. I am loving it (and not just because, unlike the OVA, it doesn't make me want to slit my own throat out of misery), but let's hope I won't get FY-level obsessed because I can't handle that during the week.



For those who don't know, but are interested, Rurouni Kenshin is an anime set during the Meiji Restoration. It follows around the protagonist, Himura Kenshin, who was an assassin of opponents during the revolution for idealistic reasons but now is a wanderer who turned his sword into a reverse-blade one and has sworn not to kill. In his wandering, he comes across Kaoru, an owner of a dojo that teaches fighting purely as self defense and after he saves her from the bad guys, she wants him to stick around. Soon, there is an impromptu group of people living or hanging out at the dojo: Kaoru, Kenshin, Yahiko (a boy they rescued from small-time goons) and Sanosuke (a brash street-fighter, who has a really messed-up past). For all I know, there will be other people, but that's as far as I've gotten, so far. It's not too quiet though, because not only does Kenshin have to sometimes protect those he cares about or just general innocents, his past life continues to haunt him, both emotionally and in a more concrete shape of people who either want to settle scores or just to have the glory of defeating someone that known. Kenshin himself appears as an amiable, laid-back, even simple and child-like drifter, unless something threatens in which case...look out. The mask comes off. I have a few posts about this show already, if anyone is interested.

( Thoughts on eps 6-8 )

( Pictures of who I am talking about. Kenshin/Kaoru heavy because I like it )

Of various angsty swordsmen. Oh, and books and movies too.

Apologies for this LJ all of a sudden turning into an anime-heavy zone. I do have obsession phases that come and go and if anyone wanted to unfriend me, I won't be upset, I promise.

Continuing to read Passion by Jude Morgan. Any book that can make me root for a half-siblings in love with each other (Augusta Leigh and Byron) is quite something.

Also, apparently, by the end of the Fushigi Yuugi OVAs (which I am still of two minds re: watching), Miaka and Tamahome have a kid. Which is both adorable (and I guess the poor star-crossed lovers finally got to have sex, heeeee) and amusing, as when I was little I kept pestering my Mom about how she and Dad met etc etc and if Miaka tells her, the kid is going to be convinced her parents did a great deal of hard core drugs back in the day. In case you are wondering, I am still obsessed with Fushigi Yuugi. I am tempted to just start rewatching again. Must. Fight. Obsessiveness. But I have no intention of doing so.

Need to finish Meteor Garden. Aaaangst. Yes!

I have also started watching Rurouni Kenshin, and so much love. Right now I finished ep 8 or 9. It's getting a lot more arc-ed. I am loving it (and not just because, unlike the OVA, it doesn't make me want to slit my own throat out of misery), but let's hope I won't get FY-level obsessed because I can't handle that during the week.



For those who don't know, but are interested, Rurouni Kenshin is an anime set during the Meiji Restoration. It follows around the protagonist, Himura Kenshin, who was an assassin of opponents during the revolution for idealistic reasons but now is a wanderer who turned his sword into a reverse-blade one and has sworn not to kill. In his wandering, he comes across Kaoru, an owner of a dojo that teaches fighting purely as self defense and after he saves her from the bad guys, she wants him to stick around. Soon, there is an impromptu group of people living or hanging out at the dojo: Kaoru, Kenshin, Yahiko (a boy they rescued from small-time goons) and Sanosuke (a brash street-fighter, who has a really messed-up past). For all I know, there will be other people, but that's as far as I've gotten, so far. It's not too quiet though, because not only does Kenshin have to sometimes protect those he cares about or just general innocents, his past life continues to haunt him, both emotionally and in a more concrete shape of people who either want to settle scores or just to have the glory of defeating someone that known. Kenshin himself appears as an amiable, laid-back, even simple and child-like drifter, unless something threatens in which case...look out. The mask comes off. I have a few posts about this show already, if anyone is interested.

( Thoughts on eps 6-8 )

( Pictures of who I am talking about. Kenshin/Kaoru heavy because I like it )

Of various angsty swordsmen. Oh, and books and movies too.

Apologies for this LJ all of a sudden turning into an anime-heavy zone. I do have obsession phases that come and go and if anyone wanted to unfriend me, I won't be upset, I promise.

Continuing to read Passion by Jude Morgan. Any book that can make me root for a half-siblings in love with each other (Augusta Leigh and Byron) is quite something.

Also, apparently, by the end of the Fushigi Yuugi OVAs (which I am still of two minds re: watching), Miaka and Tamahome have a kid. Which is both adorable (and I guess the poor star-crossed lovers finally got to have sex, heeeee) and amusing, as when I was little I kept pestering my Mom about how she and Dad met etc etc and if Miaka tells her, the kid is going to be convinced her parents did a great deal of hard core drugs back in the day. In case you are wondering, I am still obsessed with Fushigi Yuugi. I am tempted to just start rewatching again. Must. Fight. Obsessiveness. But I have no intention of doing so.

Need to finish Meteor Garden. Aaaangst. Yes!

I have also started watching Rurouni Kenshin, and so much love. Right now I finished ep 8 or 9. It's getting a lot more arc-ed. I am loving it (and not just because, unlike the OVA, it doesn't make me want to slit my own throat out of misery), but let's hope I won't get FY-level obsessed because I can't handle that during the week.



For those who don't know, but are interested, Rurouni Kenshin is an anime set during the Meiji Restoration. It follows around the protagonist, Himura Kenshin, who was an assassin of opponents during the revolution for idealistic reasons but now is a wanderer who turned his sword into a reverse-blade one and has sworn not to kill. In his wandering, he comes across Kaoru, an owner of a dojo that teaches fighting purely as self defense and after he saves her from the bad guys, she wants him to stick around. Soon, there is an impromptu group of people living or hanging out at the dojo: Kaoru, Kenshin, Yahiko (a boy they rescued from small-time goons) and Sanosuke (a brash street-fighter, who has a really messed-up past). For all I know, there will be other people, but that's as far as I've gotten, so far. It's not too quiet though, because not only does Kenshin have to sometimes protect those he cares about or just general innocents, his past life continues to haunt him, both emotionally and in a more concrete shape of people who either want to settle scores or just to have the glory of defeating someone that known. Kenshin himself appears as an amiable, laid-back, even simple and child-like drifter, unless something threatens in which case...look out. The mask comes off. I have a few posts about this show already, if anyone is interested.

( Thoughts on eps 6-8 )

( Pictures of who I am talking about. Kenshin/Kaoru heavy because I like it )

And you thought my Fushigi Yuugi ramblings were done?

Yes, yes, I am still carping on Fushigi Yuugi. I can’t help it, my brain is still deliciously scrambled by it.

Tamahome and Miaka find out about the OVAs. "Dammit, we just want to live quietly and happily ever after. Find another couple to torment:"


I have decided I won’t watch the OVA. For one, they have decidedly mixed reviews from FY fans. For another, my experience with OVAs generally so far hasn’t been good. I haven’t cared for them.

Also, apparently they mess with some basic world-building rules of the FY world. And do things like having Tasuki develop a thing for Miaka which he never had in the show (the most he had at the end of the series was liking her as a person despite his general distaste for women, which I am totally fine with). I prefer to think of him happy living on his mountain with his bandit OTP Koji. And they also have Hotohori and Nuriko reincarnated in some odd fashion. And make Tamahome mopey (come on, the guy was a lot of things, but never mopey). So it doesn’t like something I’ll enjoy, character-wise.

Much more importantly (to me), the show ended and concluded everything. I was very happy with the ending, but even more than that, FY series had one story, one arc and it concluded: the drive of the story was for Miaka and Tamahome to find a way to coexist in the same world, for the good guys to save their world and for Miaka to summon Suzuku and reconcile with Yui and for Suzuku 7 to defeat Nakago. All of these have been accomplished by the end. So the thought of it just stringing it for no good reason out is ridiculous and seems redundant and unnecessary. And come on, I am sure they will have more Miaka/Tamahome angst and past a certain point you just want to say “enough.” I mean, I loved the angst in the show but the story is over, they got their HEA so just to keep restarting the cycle is…not needed.

BUT BUT BUT. Can someone please please reassure this pathetic fangirl that at the end of the last OVA (Eikoden) Miaka and Tamahome live happily ever after? That they don’t die or something. Please? I am deathly afraid :)

Also, here my Top Dozen moments from the show ( Moments behind the cut, no particular order )

And you thought my Fushigi Yuugi ramblings were done?

Yes, yes, I am still carping on Fushigi Yuugi. I can’t help it, my brain is still deliciously scrambled by it.

Tamahome and Miaka find out about the OVAs. "Dammit, we just want to live quietly and happily ever after. Find another couple to torment:"


I have decided I won’t watch the OVA. For one, they have decidedly mixed reviews from FY fans. For another, my experience with OVAs generally so far hasn’t been good. I haven’t cared for them.

Also, apparently they mess with some basic world-building rules of the FY world. And do things like having Tasuki develop a thing for Miaka which he never had in the show (the most he had at the end of the series was liking her as a person despite his general distaste for women, which I am totally fine with). I prefer to think of him happy living on his mountain with his bandit OTP Koji. And they also have Hotohori and Nuriko reincarnated in some odd fashion. And make Tamahome mopey (come on, the guy was a lot of things, but never mopey). So it doesn’t like something I’ll enjoy, character-wise.

Much more importantly (to me), the show ended and concluded everything. I was very happy with the ending, but even more than that, FY series had one story, one arc and it concluded: the drive of the story was for Miaka and Tamahome to find a way to coexist in the same world, for the good guys to save their world and for Miaka to summon Suzuku and reconcile with Yui and for Suzuku 7 to defeat Nakago. All of these have been accomplished by the end. So the thought of it just stringing it for no good reason out is ridiculous and seems redundant and unnecessary. And come on, I am sure they will have more Miaka/Tamahome angst and past a certain point you just want to say “enough.” I mean, I loved the angst in the show but the story is over, they got their HEA so just to keep restarting the cycle is…not needed.

BUT BUT BUT. Can someone please please reassure this pathetic fangirl that at the end of the last OVA (Eikoden) Miaka and Tamahome live happily ever after? That they don’t die or something. Please? I am deathly afraid :)

Also, here my Top Dozen moments from the show ( Moments behind the cut, no particular order )

And you thought my Fushigi Yuugi ramblings were done?

Yes, yes, I am still carping on Fushigi Yuugi. I can’t help it, my brain is still deliciously scrambled by it.

Tamahome and Miaka find out about the OVAs. "Dammit, we just want to live quietly and happily ever after. Find another couple to torment:"


I have decided I won’t watch the OVA. For one, they have decidedly mixed reviews from FY fans. For another, my experience with OVAs generally so far hasn’t been good. I haven’t cared for them.

Also, apparently they mess with some basic world-building rules of the FY world. And do things like having Tasuki develop a thing for Miaka which he never had in the show (the most he had at the end of the series was liking her as a person despite his general distaste for women, which I am totally fine with). I prefer to think of him happy living on his mountain with his bandit OTP Koji. And they also have Hotohori and Nuriko reincarnated in some odd fashion. And make Tamahome mopey (come on, the guy was a lot of things, but never mopey). So it doesn’t like something I’ll enjoy, character-wise.

Much more importantly (to me), the show ended and concluded everything. I was very happy with the ending, but even more than that, FY series had one story, one arc and it concluded: the drive of the story was for Miaka and Tamahome to find a way to coexist in the same world, for the good guys to save their world and for Miaka to summon Suzuku and reconcile with Yui and for Suzuku 7 to defeat Nakago. All of these have been accomplished by the end. So the thought of it just stringing it for no good reason out is ridiculous and seems redundant and unnecessary. And come on, I am sure they will have more Miaka/Tamahome angst and past a certain point you just want to say “enough.” I mean, I loved the angst in the show but the story is over, they got their HEA so just to keep restarting the cycle is…not needed.

BUT BUT BUT. Can someone please please reassure this pathetic fangirl that at the end of the last OVA (Eikoden) Miaka and Tamahome live happily ever after? That they don’t die or something. Please? I am deathly afraid :)

Also, here my Top Dozen moments from the show ( Moments behind the cut, no particular order )

Careful, those drugs are bad for you?

OK, the creators of Fushigi Yuugi OVAs were smoking crack, and not the good kind, if the summaries are any indication. Mmmm, Tamahome splits into two, with one being a reincarnation who had to give up his memories and is called Taka (making me think of a TexMex restaurant) and the other being his memories which somehow end up being recieved by another person, some kind of an evil demon named Yousui? And they fight? And then the memories and Taka merge into one person at the end? Kill me now. Good thing I am not watching this. What next, Miaka and Tamahome menaced by a giant, man-eating badger?

Not to mention that poor OVA Tamahome must have been hanging out with OVA Hitomi and gone all emo. Ugh. Though to be fair, I'd be emo depressive too, if my unkind parents named me Taka in this incarnation.

Though I do have to say, I forgive the crack-addicts a lot, after finding out that at the end of the third OVA, the OTP has a child and HEA, but most importantly, Hotohori somehow, improbably, comes back to life and is reunited with his son and his wife. And he will be happy with them and not lonely any more. It sounds utterly stupid and ridiculous, ergo not watching, but am glad to find out about it nontheless.

Careful, those drugs are bad for you?

OK, the creators of Fushigi Yuugi OVAs were smoking crack, and not the good kind, if the summaries are any indication. Mmmm, Tamahome splits into two, with one being a reincarnation who had to give up his memories and is called Taka (making me think of a TexMex restaurant) and the other being his memories which somehow end up being recieved by another person, some kind of an evil demon named Yousui? And they fight? And then the memories and Taka merge into one person at the end? Kill me now. Good thing I am not watching this. What next, Miaka and Tamahome menaced by a giant, man-eating badger?

Not to mention that poor OVA Tamahome must have been hanging out with OVA Hitomi and gone all emo. Ugh. Though to be fair, I'd be emo depressive too, if my unkind parents named me Taka in this incarnation.

Though I do have to say, I forgive the crack-addicts a lot, after finding out that at the end of the third OVA, the OTP has a child and HEA, but most importantly, Hotohori somehow, improbably, comes back to life and is reunited with his son and his wife. And he will be happy with them and not lonely any more. It sounds utterly stupid and ridiculous, ergo not watching, but am glad to find out about it nontheless.

Careful, those drugs are bad for you?

OK, the creators of Fushigi Yuugi OVAs were smoking crack, and not the good kind, if the summaries are any indication. Mmmm, Tamahome splits into two, with one being a reincarnation who had to give up his memories and is called Taka (making me think of a TexMex restaurant) and the other being his memories which somehow end up being recieved by another person, some kind of an evil demon named Yousui? And they fight? And then the memories and Taka merge into one person at the end? Kill me now. Good thing I am not watching this. What next, Miaka and Tamahome menaced by a giant, man-eating badger?

Not to mention that poor OVA Tamahome must have been hanging out with OVA Hitomi and gone all emo. Ugh. Though to be fair, I'd be emo depressive too, if my unkind parents named me Taka in this incarnation.

Though I do have to say, I forgive the crack-addicts a lot, after finding out that at the end of the third OVA, the OTP has a child and HEA, but most importantly, Hotohori somehow, improbably, comes back to life and is reunited with his son and his wife. And he will be happy with them and not lonely any more. It sounds utterly stupid and ridiculous, ergo not watching, but am glad to find out about it nontheless.