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dangermousieApologies 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.
It's hilarious how the characters are trying to eat the food Kaoru cooked (what is it with anime and women who are bad cooks? First Miaka, now Kaoru) and she keeps pestering as to how it tastes and then Sanosuke finally tells her it's awful (awwww, love Sanosuke and his screwed up back story. It's odd to call someone who wields an anti-cavalry weapon as a hand weapon adorable, but he is. I want to mother him). And Kaoru gets mad and Yahiko tells the little girls who are saying how the food is so salty and bitter that "This is a great experience. You learn how to endure great torture." ROFL
Basically, none of them have any money or any means of earning it, except for Kaoru who has no paying students. They are like this hippie commune. A hippie commune for violent people.
And I adore that Kenshin lets Kaoru boss him around. This whole dynamic of the 'best fighter in the room who wishes he wasn't' and the bossy woman who adores him and mothers him and orders him around reminds me of Vash/Meryl from Trigun. And then the bad guy of the latest ep wants Kenshin to become Battousai again and kidnaps Kaoru (who's come looking for Kenshin, to make sure he won't wander off again after becoming Hitokiri. She gives him her hair ribbon and tells him to return it after the fight) and makes Kenshin fight him to the death otherwise Kaoru dies in some kind of a choking hypnosis thing he has on her. And Kenshin does do it, even though it goes against everything he now believes and wants and Kaoru can't bear to see him do that so she manages to break the hold before he has to kill and it's....They are so an OTP. Especially since he thanks her for saving him from becoming a Hitokiri again because if he'd killed he'd be one forever and it's all nice until she sees that the ribbon she gave him has blood on it and then she is all "blood???? You couldn't take care of it?" and starts chasing after him. And they are both grinning and so are Sanosuke and Yahiko who are also running after them. And Kenshin thinks that with friends like this, he'll be a drifter who never kills again before he dies. Which is a pretty modest wish. So adorable. I want to pat them on the head and give them cookies. Except they'd bite my hand off.
And I love the interaction between Sanosuke and Kenshin. I love all their interactions, actually. They are just like this really cool unusual family. Also, glad to see that the weapons of the bad guys in RK are the same type of weapons that are in FY. They manage to remove the shirt of the good guys but keep the pants on. Mmmmm, shirtless Sanosuke :P
But seriously, love this.
I want a Kenshin/Kaoru icon. And a Sanosuke one, maybe.
The four main characters:
Kenshin, being all warrior-like:
And a bit calmer:
Kaoru:
Yahiko:
Sanosuke:
Do they call it beefcake, if it's animated?
Yeah, probably they do:
Kenshin looking all intense:
Kenshin and Kaoru, Fabio-like:
Kenshin and Sanosuke:
Awwww:
Uber-awww:
Uber-triple-aww-with-a-cherry-on-top:
Kenshin broody:
Kenshin and Kaoru. Luckily not proportional:
My, my, aren't we fine!
Love this picture:
I love the composition of this one:
Pretty blossoms! Or something.
Pretty reds:
Pretty people:
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.
It's hilarious how the characters are trying to eat the food Kaoru cooked (what is it with anime and women who are bad cooks? First Miaka, now Kaoru) and she keeps pestering as to how it tastes and then Sanosuke finally tells her it's awful (awwww, love Sanosuke and his screwed up back story. It's odd to call someone who wields an anti-cavalry weapon as a hand weapon adorable, but he is. I want to mother him). And Kaoru gets mad and Yahiko tells the little girls who are saying how the food is so salty and bitter that "This is a great experience. You learn how to endure great torture." ROFL
Basically, none of them have any money or any means of earning it, except for Kaoru who has no paying students. They are like this hippie commune. A hippie commune for violent people.
And I adore that Kenshin lets Kaoru boss him around. This whole dynamic of the 'best fighter in the room who wishes he wasn't' and the bossy woman who adores him and mothers him and orders him around reminds me of Vash/Meryl from Trigun. And then the bad guy of the latest ep wants Kenshin to become Battousai again and kidnaps Kaoru (who's come looking for Kenshin, to make sure he won't wander off again after becoming Hitokiri. She gives him her hair ribbon and tells him to return it after the fight) and makes Kenshin fight him to the death otherwise Kaoru dies in some kind of a choking hypnosis thing he has on her. And Kenshin does do it, even though it goes against everything he now believes and wants and Kaoru can't bear to see him do that so she manages to break the hold before he has to kill and it's....They are so an OTP. Especially since he thanks her for saving him from becoming a Hitokiri again because if he'd killed he'd be one forever and it's all nice until she sees that the ribbon she gave him has blood on it and then she is all "blood???? You couldn't take care of it?" and starts chasing after him. And they are both grinning and so are Sanosuke and Yahiko who are also running after them. And Kenshin thinks that with friends like this, he'll be a drifter who never kills again before he dies. Which is a pretty modest wish. So adorable. I want to pat them on the head and give them cookies. Except they'd bite my hand off.
And I love the interaction between Sanosuke and Kenshin. I love all their interactions, actually. They are just like this really cool unusual family. Also, glad to see that the weapons of the bad guys in RK are the same type of weapons that are in FY. They manage to remove the shirt of the good guys but keep the pants on. Mmmmm, shirtless Sanosuke :P
But seriously, love this.
I want a Kenshin/Kaoru icon. And a Sanosuke one, maybe.
The four main characters:
Kenshin, being all warrior-like:
And a bit calmer:
Kaoru:
Yahiko:
Sanosuke:
Do they call it beefcake, if it's animated?
Yeah, probably they do:
Kenshin looking all intense:
Kenshin and Kaoru, Fabio-like:
Kenshin and Sanosuke:
Awwww:
Uber-awww:
Uber-triple-aww-with-a-cherry-on-top:
Kenshin broody:
Kenshin and Kaoru. Luckily not proportional:
My, my, aren't we fine!
Love this picture:
I love the composition of this one:
Pretty blossoms! Or something.
Pretty reds:
Pretty people:
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Date: 2006-02-13 07:46 pm (UTC)And is gambling considered a job? Because Sanosuke does a lot of that. I honestly love Sanosuke more than most of the other characters. He has a total OTP with Megumi, a doctor with a shady past. The two of them bicker and get all in each others face, but they're perfect for each other. Sanosuke is just a big kid after all and needs someone to look after him. Just because he can singlehandedly use a cavalry sword doesn't mean he can take care of himself very well.
Kenshin is very Vash-like, only when he was the Battosai, it was his choice and he did do a lot of damage. There really is some attonement needed there. When he goes Battosai, he's scary. A lot of the beauty of the series comes from Kenshin trying to find that line between pacifism and letting bad things happen. It's also about the other characters trying to find their place in a changing world. There isn't much of a place for guys like Sanosuke any more and he knows it. Aoshi can only get by by being an assassin, something someone of his nobility isn't suited for. Saito becomes frighteningly adaptable, switching sides like socks so he can take care of himself which is part of the reason he and Sanosuke can't get within a yard of each other without trying to kill each other.
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Date: 2006-02-13 07:57 pm (UTC)The way Sanosuke does it? Not likely as it seems to only lose him money :P
He has a total OTP with Megumi, a doctor with a shady past
Oh, so she is a recurring character? I just watched an ep where she was introduced (and was making Kaoru UBER-jealous by fawning over Kenshin, heee).
When he goes Battosai, he's scary
There is one scene where he 'flipped the switch' and yes, it was really startling and kinda made me want to take a (figurative) step back.
Kenshin is very Vash-like, only when he was the Battosai, it was his choice and he did do a lot of damage.
Yes. He has some things to atone for and so does Vash, but in Vash's case, he couldn't help the destruction of July (e.g.) and Kenshin has to live with the knowledge that he did intend, willingly, to do the stuff he did.
Just because he can singlehandedly use a cavalry sword doesn't mean he can take care of himself very well.
Exactly :)
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Date: 2006-02-13 08:15 pm (UTC)Yeah, she is. You can tell Sano likes her simply because she can fluster him. It's hard to rattle Sano because he is so laid back, but Megumi manages nicely. And Sano is also the one who's able to talk her down from ledges, which is something coming from a slacker like him. There are a couple of episodes a little later in that are very Megumi/Sano centric.
Kenshin fits into the reoccuring theme of good guys who can't control themselves that anime tends to use. When Kenshin goes Battousai, he hurts people badly. When Vash flips out, he destroys towns. When Ginji in GetBackers goes ballistic he tells his friend Ban to leave the room because he knows once the switch is flipped, there's no controling him. Soujiro in Peacemaker warns Tatsu not to cross him because when he goes into battle mode he can't control himself and WILL kill Tatsu, there's no question. There's a lot of the control/restrain themes in anime, which I figure is a cultural thing.
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Date: 2006-02-13 09:33 pm (UTC)There are a couple of episodes a little later in that are very Megumi/Sano centric.
Yay!
Kenshin fits into the reoccuring theme of good guys who can't control themselves that anime tends to use...There's a lot of the control/restrain themes in anime, which I figure is a cultural thing.
That is interesting, now that you bring it up. I've actually always enjoyed stories about people who had to keep a tight control on themselves otherwise bad things will happen/they'd fall apart, whatever. Just because if it's not hard for you to control yourself, what's the merit?
Of course, I think in a way, something like Trigun is a much more interesting and effective and dark (to me) dealing with the dilemma of Superman. He always bored me in movies/comics, but thelana said that she always found it interesting how much he had to control himself just to exist in this world without havoc. I never saw it really dealt with in any interesting way in the Superman canon (the little I know of it) but all this dark potential of that type of story is really brought out in Trigun or RK.
Also, you keep dropping tidbits from the other anime which just feed my burgeoning obsession. Baaaad. :P
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Date: 2006-02-13 10:22 pm (UTC)I love anime heroes simply because a lot of the do fail, some of them fail consistantly. Some of them spend entire series trying to make up for their failures. They screw up, sometimes majorly. Some of the aren't nice or have huge character flaws. It isn't always a given that the hero is going to win and it isn't always a given that the hero is a whole lot better than the villain.
I've mentioned Ginji and Ban before. I love both characters. Ginji is sweet natured, harmless and extremely empathetic with people. Ban is mercenary, cocky and hard to get along with. Ginji also can't control is abilities when he gets angry, making Ban extremely protective of his friend. Ban's abilities are rather nasty, so he always considers himself too far gone to be much use to society, yet he's really extremely thoughtful and self sacrificing.
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Date: 2006-02-13 10:59 pm (UTC)Oooh yay! I actually also like that so far, RK is less angsty than Trigun ends up being, or FY or HYD or Escaflowne. Though for all I know it will get angstier (after all Trigun has started goofy too).
I've mentioned Ginji and Ban before.
Which anime is it?
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Date: 2006-02-14 03:06 am (UTC)Ginji and Ban are from GetBackers. I would have Ban's babies if I could. Ginji is a sweetheart too and more marriage material, but who said anything about marriage! ;p
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Date: 2006-02-14 03:43 am (UTC)Also, am watching RK and just met Aoshi and so. much. love.
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Date: 2006-02-13 07:56 pm (UTC)Kenshin and Kaoru, Fabio-like:
Bwaahahahaha *rofl* I almost choke reading that line!!
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Date: 2006-02-13 07:58 pm (UTC)Well, he does stand there with some bare chest exposed and she is kinda clinging to him :P
But yes, I am loving this.
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Date: 2006-02-13 08:41 pm (UTC)Akane:
I think the problem is also that in my comic books, at the end of the first volume, there's an appendix of sketches and short stories where the creator was working out the characters. (In one of these, Yahiko was conceived as Kaoru's brother...) Anyway, there was a short story included that had a Kaoru-prototype, and I liked that girl so much better. So I think I'm always bitter that Kaoru ended up as the definitive version of herself, and not that girl. (Though the "Kenshin" in that story was also a bit different... mostly the same, but rather, erm, pervier/hornier. But I kinda liked that. He kept telling the girl, "Oh, poor girl, you can cry in my arms!" and she'd be like, "I wasn't going to cry!" and slap him. :-P )
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Date: 2006-02-13 09:26 pm (UTC)See, I actually like the bossy woman who can't cook and teases (I prefer that to 'harasses') her OTP, because I am a lot closer to that archetype than I am to any other in the anime.
It would be different if Kenshin was really cowered by her or whatever, but I actually find that kind of bossiness adorable (she reminds me of Hermione Granger in Harry Potter).
He kept telling the girl, "Oh, poor girl, you can cry in my arms!" and she'd be like, "I wasn't going to cry!" and slap him.
Heeee. Makes me think of Vash from Trigun :P
Like, that ribbon bit? She annoyed me there, because I didn't see it as cute; I saw that as her being unnecessarily unforgiving and irritating. When I was reading it in the manga, I wanted to yell at her at that point.
I (obviously) haven't read the manga but in the anime since they both were laughing at the time, I thought it was just adorable.
But we generally like different fictional types anyway (witness our very different views on Allen or Miaka), so...
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Date: 2006-02-14 01:27 am (UTC)Also, Kaoru's based on Akane... you should see Akane when she had long hair--note that their bangs are the same, and when Akane first appeared, she looked like this:
http://bilder.rtl.de/archiv/pokito/archiv/ranma/20605.jpg
http://www.atiya.net/cels/AkaneLong.jpg
http://www.mbcarey.com/Pics/Ranma/Akane3.jpg
And the way she teases her OTP is a lot more mean-spirited. So I'm reacting off of that.
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Date: 2006-02-14 01:47 am (UTC)hmmmm. *Remembers to avoid the show*
P.S.
Date: 2006-02-13 09:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-14 01:29 am (UTC)And, *awesome* images and analysis! You're in for some great stuff with Kenshin!
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Date: 2006-02-14 01:31 am (UTC)