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Let me know if you'd rather have a different crop or anything different on it.  This is the best I could come up with for all the text you wanted(I could probably get something different for the abbreviated text, though.)

 

for redbrunja

Let me know if you'd rather have a different crop or anything different on it.  This is the best I could come up with for all the text you wanted(I could probably get something different for the abbreviated text, though.)

 

Slayers eps 19-26

Random notes as I have little of substance to say that I didn't already say:

1.  Characters in this show continued to be amazingly sensible.  Especially Amelia.  Sharp metal things and magical projectiles headed her way?  Duck behind the guy with impenetrable, rock hard skin.  Get told to beat it before she ends up in the line of fire?  No complaints, no questioning, that girl is hoofing it.  Dangerous things flying around the room?  Crawl under them.  So she can hide behind the guy with impenetrable, rock hard skin.  Meanwhile, they still manage to make slapstick running away be the sensible thing to do.

2.  They also plan.  Intelligently.  And competently pull off plans and traps.  I was flabbergasted.  Regularly.

3.  For once, in an anime/manga that's supposed to be about a strong, intelligent female heroine...it actually is about her.  The guys aren't decoration or wusses, but for once, their story isn't made to be more important than the main character's, just because they're the guy.

4.  Female characters were modestly, sensibly clothed and didnot have ginormous breasts.  Except Eris.  The chest and outfit were the clue she was truly evil.

5.  The universe almost ended because a guy didn't want to be blind anymore.  That's, like, the antithesis of all anime and manga, where eye loss=good.  Especially Clamp.

6.  One day, someone will shoot blood out of their shoulder, have forehead blood spill down and cover half their face(converniently missing the eye and not blinding them) or get run through, and they will actually be affected by it, and maybe even die, and I'll call them wusses.

7.  Is having half your vision obscrued by your bangs just a really "in" thing for 90s anime?  Both Zelgadis and Gourry suffer from it...and Gourry's bangs regularly switch sides...

8.  Zel continues to be stoically, sarcastically emo, and to pretend that he's evil and not nice.  I continue to be amused by that.  *pats him on the head*

9.  Was there any point to Sylphiel's character?  At all?  I mean, she wasn't really annoying and made herself useful, as all girls in this series do, but there seemed to be no purpose to the character.  She didn't even really serve well as a third wheel in the Lina/Gourry romance, because those two are too oblivious to even notice everyone assumes they're sleeping together.  Maybe she was just there to have a token sweet, shy girl.

11.  When people stand around talking about how the OTP is too stupid to realize they're the OTP, it is A Sign.  That they need to have it explained so they can just go make babies get it out of their system already, that is.  Like in SDK.  Zelgadis, I nominate you for explaining duties.  Granted, you'll end up as much of a red, stuttering mess if you tried as Amelia and Sylphiel would, but I'd enjoy it more.

12.  Yes, I scoured youtube for clips of Tiiba, The Giant Demon Chicken who menaced Sylphiel and then proceeded to kick everyone's butts until a magical stone tablet fell out of the wall and bonked Lina on the head.

Also, cool MV, but embedding is disabled:  http://youtube.com/watch?v=H1BLW7xSetI

Slayers eps 19-26

Random notes as I have little of substance to say that I didn't already say:

1.  Characters in this show continued to be amazingly sensible.  Especially Amelia.  Sharp metal things and magical projectiles headed her way?  Duck behind the guy with impenetrable, rock hard skin.  Get told to beat it before she ends up in the line of fire?  No complaints, no questioning, that girl is hoofing it.  Dangerous things flying around the room?  Crawl under them.  So she can hide behind the guy with impenetrable, rock hard skin.  Meanwhile, they still manage to make slapstick running away be the sensible thing to do.

2.  They also plan.  Intelligently.  And competently pull off plans and traps.  I was flabbergasted.  Regularly.

3.  For once, in an anime/manga that's supposed to be about a strong, intelligent female heroine...it actually is about her.  The guys aren't decoration or wusses, but for once, their story isn't made to be more important than the main character's, just because they're the guy.

4.  Female characters were modestly, sensibly clothed and didnot have ginormous breasts.  Except Eris.  The chest and outfit were the clue she was truly evil.

5.  The universe almost ended because a guy didn't want to be blind anymore.  That's, like, the antithesis of all anime and manga, where eye loss=good.  Especially Clamp.

6.  One day, someone will shoot blood out of their shoulder, have forehead blood spill down and cover half their face(converniently missing the eye and not blinding them) or get run through, and they will actually be affected by it, and maybe even die, and I'll call them wusses.

7.  Is having half your vision obscrued by your bangs just a really "in" thing for 90s anime?  Both Zelgadis and Gourry suffer from it...and Gourry's bangs regularly switch sides...

8.  Zel continues to be stoically, sarcastically emo, and to pretend that he's evil and not nice.  I continue to be amused by that.  *pats him on the head*

9.  Was there any point to Sylphiel's character?  At all?  I mean, she wasn't really annoying and made herself useful, as all girls in this series do, but there seemed to be no purpose to the character.  She didn't even really serve well as a third wheel in the Lina/Gourry romance, because those two are too oblivious to even notice everyone assumes they're sleeping together.  Maybe she was just there to have a token sweet, shy girl.

11.  When people stand around talking about how the OTP is too stupid to realize they're the OTP, it is A Sign.  That they need to have it explained so they can just go make babies get it out of their system already, that is.  Like in SDK.  Zelgadis, I nominate you for explaining duties.  Granted, you'll end up as much of a red, stuttering mess if you tried as Amelia and Sylphiel would, but I'd enjoy it more.

12.  Yes, I scoured youtube for clips of Tiiba, The Giant Demon Chicken who menaced Sylphiel and then proceeded to kick everyone's butts until a magical stone tablet fell out of the wall and bonked Lina on the head.

Also, cool MV, but embedding is disabled:  http://youtube.com/watch?v=H1BLW7xSetI

linkblogging

oyceter has posted on what is possibly the most amazing cdrama ever here. 

Not the best, just the most amazing.  My chief thoughts after reading the post were "I wonder if that scene was better tha the one like it in Wolf's Rain," and "if they're destitute, how can she afford a huge funeral procession?"

At the other end of the drama spectrum, dangermousiehas posted a mostly unspoilery rec post for the kdrama Legend of the Four Gods here, as well as a pusher post(a little while back) on Capital Scandal here. The first half is mostly unspoilery, but once she says it's spoilery, I assume she spoils everything in the series(I haven't looked past that point.)  A few on the flist who recently started watching kdramas might want to check them out.  (They're also-and have been for months-at the top of my "dramas to get" list.)

kingcrankycat  has summarized the X-Men crossover Messiah Complex here, here and here.  Click to see:  

1) character butchery on a massive scale(only half as much as he related to me while he was actually reading it-from his accounting, the only in character thing-except maybe bits of cable and Xavier-was Gambit's extreme and not-always-logical monomania over Rogue and Mystique's equally extreme but more evil monomania over Rogue) and 

2) Why most bad manga art can do nothing to me(note:  there is also much, much good art in US comics...just not a lot here....pretty much just Eaton.)

Smart Bitches, Trashy Books has a few articles of interest for all fiction, regardless of medium or genre:

On Ideas, repetitiveness, and Copyright Infringement

Anonymous Musings: Fans Shouldn’t Criticize Writers? How come?

Embrace Your Bad Taste

linkblogging

oyceter has posted on what is possibly the most amazing cdrama ever here. 

Not the best, just the most amazing.  My chief thoughts after reading the post were "I wonder if that scene was better tha the one like it in Wolf's Rain," and "if they're destitute, how can she afford a huge funeral procession?"

At the other end of the drama spectrum, dangermousiehas posted a mostly unspoilery rec post for the kdrama Legend of the Four Gods here, as well as a pusher post(a little while back) on Capital Scandal here. The first half is mostly unspoilery, but once she says it's spoilery, I assume she spoils everything in the series(I haven't looked past that point.)  A few on the flist who recently started watching kdramas might want to check them out.  (They're also-and have been for months-at the top of my "dramas to get" list.)

kingcrankycat  has summarized the X-Men crossover Messiah Complex here, here and here.  Click to see:  

1) character butchery on a massive scale(only half as much as he related to me while he was actually reading it-from his accounting, the only in character thing-except maybe bits of cable and Xavier-was Gambit's extreme and not-always-logical monomania over Rogue and Mystique's equally extreme but more evil monomania over Rogue) and 

2) Why most bad manga art can do nothing to me(note:  there is also much, much good art in US comics...just not a lot here....pretty much just Eaton.)

Smart Bitches, Trashy Books has a few articles of interest for all fiction, regardless of medium or genre:

On Ideas, repetitiveness, and Copyright Infringement

Anonymous Musings: Fans Shouldn’t Criticize Writers? How come?

Embrace Your Bad Taste

Farewell, O Wretched Banana Peel of DOOM!

Marvel.com has perview pages of New Warriors #9 here, featuring Jubilee's Infinitely Superior new costume.  And other, unimportant stuff.  Medina's 2 issue break seems to have improved the art a lot, too.  That and the coloring.  Except now Jubilee almost looks as tall or taller than Jono.  Instead of being a foot shorter like she's supposed to be...

Meanwhile, one must ponder how on Earth they ever got her to wear that ugly banana peel, anyway.  I figure it was the abandoment/getting skewered stress: "Oh, you lost your powers and your surrogate family basically kicked you out.  Then you got kidnapped by a random enemy of your surrogate father's and got a pole through the gut.  Granted, no one really knows how you survived that or what happened to you after that, what with Wolverine surrendering to S.H.IE.L.D. to save you and then the writer forgetting you were there after.  Anyway, tell you what, we'll give you powers and a team, but in return, you have to wear a banana peel."

But now she is over the stress and has burned the ugly banana peel and gotten herself a decent costume and threatened to use the gauntlets on anyone who tried to confiscate them.

Plus, Jono is there now to beat up anyone who tries anything.

Now to ponder the mystery of why Jono now has butterfly wings made of solid sound...

(seriously, Jono, butterfly wings?)

 

Farewell, O Wretched Banana Peel of DOOM!

Marvel.com has perview pages of New Warriors #9 here, featuring Jubilee's Infinitely Superior new costume.  And other, unimportant stuff.  Medina's 2 issue break seems to have improved the art a lot, too.  That and the coloring.  Except now Jubilee almost looks as tall or taller than Jono.  Instead of being a foot shorter like she's supposed to be...

Meanwhile, one must ponder how on Earth they ever got her to wear that ugly banana peel, anyway.  I figure it was the abandoment/getting skewered stress: "Oh, you lost your powers and your surrogate family basically kicked you out.  Then you got kidnapped by a random enemy of your surrogate father's and got a pole through the gut.  Granted, no one really knows how you survived that or what happened to you after that, what with Wolverine surrendering to S.H.IE.L.D. to save you and then the writer forgetting you were there after.  Anyway, tell you what, we'll give you powers and a team, but in return, you have to wear a banana peel."

But now she is over the stress and has burned the ugly banana peel and gotten herself a decent costume and threatened to use the gauntlets on anyone who tried to confiscate them.

Plus, Jono is there now to beat up anyone who tries anything.

Now to ponder the mystery of why Jono now has butterfly wings made of solid sound...

(seriously, Jono, butterfly wings?)