help a girl out?

[meganbmoore]

can anyone animate these Kekkaishi bases for me?

      

Out of curiosity, for anyone who reads/watches both, does Tokine make anyone else think a little bit of Sakura in Naruto, only  without the early crushing and shallowness, and without being sidelined so much?  (So far, at least...)  I'm not sure why I think that, but I keep thinking it.

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[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

What sort of animation are you looking for -- do you just want all of those in order, or are you looking for special effects on individual bases?

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Pretty much just like this one. I try to be a simple girl with simple icon needs, but you just can't get "the stupid ayakashi singled her out as a victim because he figured the girl was the weak one, and got his butt kicked all over the building for it" into a single base...

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Right, then, here you go -- how's this?

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

thank you.

[shediao.livejournal.com]

does Tokine make anyone else think a little bit of Sakura

Actually no, but maybe it's only because Tokine has more confidence in herself, occupation-wise, from the get-go.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Similar character type in terms of intellect and strategy, but actually treated well and be able to be confident.

[havocthecat]

Okay, so, I know I have a million comments to catch up on, including a few from you to answer, but I have to comment again. The thing is, Mr. Havoc loves Naruto (he reads the manga and watches the Cartoon Network airings of it), and I have a hard time, because the girls (mostly) suck. They have to be rescued and get injured and ignored and it's all about boys for them. (By and large.)

So is there something that's similar to Naruto, but with better girls? Because I would be all about that. I keep flirting with manga and then backing away because I can't find female characters that I truly enjoy. (Possibly I'm being overly picky on my female characters. But I like to think not.)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

My problem with the series was that I hated Naruto, and that the characters I liked always get sidelined or treated badly in the series. Unfortunately, most shounen is geared to an audience that only wants girls to be there for the guys, or view the girls as a necessary evil in getting the guys. Naruto has good female characters, they just get treated horribly.

Some of the shounen action series that I like (and that all do a little better on the female character front) are Bleach, Samurai Deeper Kyo, Claymore, Kekkaishi, and D.Gray-Man.

[havocthecat]

Naruto just annoys me, and I want to smack the emo out of Sasuke. Hard. (I know, I know. Life sucks when your whole family is brutally murdered by your big brother, AND YET, good God, stop taking it out on everyone else.)

Thank you for the recs! I've also heard I'd like FMH. (Is it Full Metal Alchemist or Fullmetal Alchemist? I've seen both spellings.)

Er. Though I'm afraid I don't know all that many of the terms. Would you mind defining "shounen" for me, please? *sheepish*

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Fullmetal Alchemist. Also very, very good.

shonen/shounen-boys' manga
shojo/shoujo-girls' manga

And yes. The annoyance of Naruto himself and the obsession with Sasuke by the entire cast are a large part of what made me lose interest. There was also the fact that exactly one character in the whole thing had actually displayed a good bit of character growth, and it was Sakura, who not only seemed to be hated primarily FOR that character growth, but was also generally not treateds well in the manga. (I do think, though, that a lot of mangaka are in a bit of a catch 22-they want important female characters, but most of the audience tends to be boys who just want guys fighting and girl to to talk about how cool they are, and girls who view the female characters as necessary evils to be tolerated in getting the boys. The compromise is to create good female characters but sideline them or make them weaker, which just ends up giving fans a better excuse to dismiss them.)