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5 things is limiting
Mar. 30th, 2014 09:56 pm1. Accidentally stumbling across spoilers for a recent-ish episode of Wizard Barristers made me lose interest in it, and then deliberately spoiling myself for the end made me glad I did. Lotsa of wasted potential there. I also dropped Magical Warfare, as I apparently quit caring about anything else once the sibling plot I cared about was resolved and replaced by one I anti-cared about.
2. Related, except for Tonari no Seki-kun and Nisekoi, all the anime I was watching are finished (ok, The Pliot's Love Song finishes tomorrow, but close enough). Sadly, the Spring season doesn't look to have that many that interest me? There's Mushishi, of course, and I'll probably check out JoJo's Bizarre Adventures (I liked the bit of the manga i read ages ago, but was intimidated by the length, and this was before I could read scans on my kindle) but other than that, the only things to grab my eye are a couple of shorts and the one about the lesbian romance in an all-girls boarding school where all the girls are assassins. Maybe others will sound more interesting once they've started airing.
3. Also related, there seem to be fewer and fewer shoujo series lately? This saddens me. I know more shounen series are realizing that girls like this stuff too and shaking up the series some to accommodate for that, but it isn't exactly the same thing.
4. To move on from anime, I haven't watched Once Upon A Time since that one character died about 3/4 through season 2. I didn't consciously drop it and will likely catch up eventually, but I came across this Regina spoiler...
( I kinda blurted this out on twitter but I'll behave better here... )
5. Last week I stumbled across a book called Ever After High at the library which led too me watching the webseries which in turn led to my mainlining all the Monster High webisodes, specials and movies in about a week. Both series are based on toylines. Monster High came first and is about the sons and daughters of the Universal Studios monster characters attending high school together, while Ever After High is about the sons and daughters of fairy tale characters, though both series also borrow from similar stories not actually in the "canon" that spawned them. As both series are designed to make nine-year-old girls beg their parents to buy them dolls, they focus mostly on the female students. Monster High is extremely entertaining and is pretty straight forward "typical high school stuff and Drama, if all the students were vampires and mummies and gorgons and werewolves and ghosts and such" and can be a bit fashion obsessed. Ever After High, OTOH, is consciously critiquing and deconstructing its source canon (on a very basic level, because, like I said, meant for kids) and has the students being molded to repeat their parent's stories, something that the children of the villains, sidekicks and rogues really aren't very keen on. Of the two I prefer Ever After High even though there's a lot less of it, but they're both a fun way to pass time.
6. So, about 60% of my eagerness to get WisCon panel assignments is to find out what media I'll spend 6 or so weeks binging on. Please tell me I'm not alone in this.
2. Related, except for Tonari no Seki-kun and Nisekoi, all the anime I was watching are finished (ok, The Pliot's Love Song finishes tomorrow, but close enough). Sadly, the Spring season doesn't look to have that many that interest me? There's Mushishi, of course, and I'll probably check out JoJo's Bizarre Adventures (I liked the bit of the manga i read ages ago, but was intimidated by the length, and this was before I could read scans on my kindle) but other than that, the only things to grab my eye are a couple of shorts and the one about the lesbian romance in an all-girls boarding school where all the girls are assassins. Maybe others will sound more interesting once they've started airing.
3. Also related, there seem to be fewer and fewer shoujo series lately? This saddens me. I know more shounen series are realizing that girls like this stuff too and shaking up the series some to accommodate for that, but it isn't exactly the same thing.
4. To move on from anime, I haven't watched Once Upon A Time since that one character died about 3/4 through season 2. I didn't consciously drop it and will likely catch up eventually, but I came across this Regina spoiler...
( I kinda blurted this out on twitter but I'll behave better here... )
5. Last week I stumbled across a book called Ever After High at the library which led too me watching the webseries which in turn led to my mainlining all the Monster High webisodes, specials and movies in about a week. Both series are based on toylines. Monster High came first and is about the sons and daughters of the Universal Studios monster characters attending high school together, while Ever After High is about the sons and daughters of fairy tale characters, though both series also borrow from similar stories not actually in the "canon" that spawned them. As both series are designed to make nine-year-old girls beg their parents to buy them dolls, they focus mostly on the female students. Monster High is extremely entertaining and is pretty straight forward "typical high school stuff and Drama, if all the students were vampires and mummies and gorgons and werewolves and ghosts and such" and can be a bit fashion obsessed. Ever After High, OTOH, is consciously critiquing and deconstructing its source canon (on a very basic level, because, like I said, meant for kids) and has the students being molded to repeat their parent's stories, something that the children of the villains, sidekicks and rogues really aren't very keen on. Of the two I prefer Ever After High even though there's a lot less of it, but they're both a fun way to pass time.
6. So, about 60% of my eagerness to get WisCon panel assignments is to find out what media I'll spend 6 or so weeks binging on. Please tell me I'm not alone in this.