anime: X: The Series-up through ep 16

[meganbmoore]

*giggles* The angst has arrived, , and it's arrived the way I expected it to.  It's not silly, but there's ssssooooooooo much of it and I saw it coming from the start.

We're up to 3 dramatic, slowmo deaths and we have 10 episodes left and I figure about 5-6 more deaths, at least.

Poor Fuma, Kamui almost literally killed him when he chose to be a Dragon of Heaven, because Fuma's Destiny to be the other Kamui meant that whatever path Kamui chose, he would be forced to take the other, and as Fuma would NEVER choose to be a Dragon of Earth(much less kill Kotori) everything that made him Fuma was killed to make room for Kamui's "twin star."  And, of course, if Kamui had chosen otherwise, the exact same thing would have happened, except that it would have been his soul that died, and he that killed Kotori.  I actually rather like that the lines between good and evil are so muddy...I mean, the one that seems to be the kindest and most honorable character is the bad guys' dreamseer, though Sorata is the nicest.

And man, this show LOVES its slashy subtext...I mean, normally, slashy subtext goes right over my head, but here?  They're all "Kotori is Kamui's one true love and the one he will sacrifice everyone and everything for"  And then it's long stares and comforting with Kamui and Fuma and even Kamui and Subaru.  Some of those stares have made me wonder if it was actually going to stray into the shonen ai territory in canon.

And....EEEEEE!!!!! SUBARU!!!  Not gonna say much cuz it would be revealing his entire storyline so far to say why I'm EEEEEEE!!!!-ing, but EEEEEEEEE!!!!!!  And, seriously, they're all piling the angst on Kamui, but I swear, his tops Kamui's.

Kamui and Kotori:

A manga image, that's Fuma in the background:



Just Kamui:





Sorata and Arashi:

Manga pic:


(she just bandaged him up and he's all "Huh?  I got her to be nice to me?")


another manga:


SUBARU!!!!

Comments

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

OK, You are evil. In addition to SDK, Otogi Zoshi, Blood + and Basara, this in on my 'must watch now' list.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Well, SDK and Otogi Zoshi are only 26 eps, X 27 and Basara 13,so really, none is much more of a time investment than your average jdorama.

And just wait until I start posting vids...

ps

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

You've mentioned it before, but what's Blood +? Never heard of it.

Re: ps

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Blood + is sort of like a dark version of Buffy. CN is showing it right now in active rotation.

Summary (off wiki)

Under the care of her adoptive family, Saya Otonashi has been living the life of an anemic and amnesiac, but otherwise ordinary schoolgirl. Saya’s happy life is shattered when she is attacked by a chiroptera, and learns that she is the only one who can defeat them. Armed with her sword, Saya embarks on a journey with her family, allies and faithful servant/OTP, Haji, to rid the world of Chiroptera and rediscover her identity. To say more would be to ruin a lot of plot twists.

Here is the OTP:



Tempted?

Re: ps

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

The animation reminds me of Witchhunter Robin.(love that one, all nice and dark and gothicy. And Amon is hot.)

50 eps?

*pencils it in somewhere*

On the one had, I tend to love the longer(but not endless) ones, on the other, they also have too much potential to get lost and go all Fubar. *points to Utena*

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[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I think Utena was FUBAR to start with :)

I just got a copy of it so will get to it sometime next month. Wil definitely post as to whtehr it's good or not. Witchhunter Robin, Wolf's Rain and x are in my next batch of 'must get anime' I basically used up my manga/anime budget for this and next month already :)

Re: ps

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Utena started out odd(even for me) but very interesting...then afterthe first arc, it went aaaalllllll weird and more and more incomprehensible. (The car...just...the car...)

I'm actually kind of surprised you haven't seen Robin yet...I guess because crumpeteer likes it.

That is a VERY good next batch. What besides Blood + and SDK was in this one?

*is selling some stuff on ebay and as such actually has a VERY nice slush fund for anime, manga and doramas ATM*

Re: ps

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I should sell stuff. I got tons of stuff I don't mind selling. Because what with buying tons of SDK and Red River manga (in addition to some random updating manga like Wallflower) and with drama buying (just got my hands on Hana Kimi with subs) and book buying I did, I don't think I should even look at books and dvds until June (which is when Basara binge will probably happen).

This batch of DVDs are SDK, Basara, Otogi Zoshi and Blood +

I have Gankutsou (sp) and Trinity Blood from an older batch that I haven't seen yet.

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[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I shouldnt look at books and DVDs until december or so, but I'll keep getting more and more.

backlog=less chance of boredom.

i've been curious about gankutsuo