It’s been long since I’ve blogged anything animu and manga, but since my adviser allowed me to submit my thesis revision not immediately, I can spare a few minutes ranting. Yey!:)
So here’s my animu and manga life so far: I’m only following three anime shows this season, and I’m not watching anything old either. God knows how much guilt and paranoia will be on my shoulders if I dare watch an hour of anime more than I should. I’m watching:
Well… Gintama’s Gintama. I just can’t drop this show even though I know they love trolling their viewers. Has anyone seen the Mimawarigumi Arc? I couldn’t care less about the doe-eyed rapper, but OKITA’S SO BADASS. However, I really don’t like him fighting other girls when he’s already got Kagura. Tsk! I haven’t seen that pairing in action for agesssss. I hope this arc is continued with an arc where the three fight. The assassin’s not so bad, but still, OkitaxKagura OTP forevars~
Mirai Nikki’s exciting, yes, but the plot’s gone so awry at times that I keep forgetting that this happened and that happened. I sinfully admit that I like it best when Yuno’s on psycho mode. Somehow, there are unexplainable plot holes that keeps leaving me hanging. Akise’s absence is equally exasperating.
Now, the Daily Lives if High School Boys (Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou) is like Gintama. Aside from casting the same seiyuus (some), their humor are identical. It’s either a hit or miss in the humor, and usually, I fall for it. I don’t even know why. My favorite part is the Literary Girl series. It gets to me every single fucking time. Plus Hidenori’s there, my peborit!♥
I’m not that disciplined when it comes to manga though. Every time I have the chance to go online, I go to MangaFox and check their update list, so technically I never miss new chapters of the manga I follow. Current favorites are Oresama Teacher and The World God Only Knows. You have no idea how my face lights up whenever I see these titles on the update list. Especially Oresama Teacher.
Anyway, I’ve stopped lessened picking up random manga I see along the way. Here’s what I am reading tonight though:
ITOU JUNJI KYOUFU MANGA COLLECTION
Ermingard the pleasure. The horror!♥ I don’t even know why I still continue reading this stuff in the middle of the night. It was painful to stop reading, but the idea that this image might somehow get into my dreams made me stop last night:
When I saw this, I was like what the effing fucking fuck is that? Then I did this silent but desperate motion of wanting to puke but can’t. How does Itou Junji think of such things?!
Umm. I’m to busy reading the next chapters to edit this post and to think of a proper ending. Sorry guys. Goodnight!:”> Here’s an equally scary picture.
I like that belt.
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CONFESSION TIME!:)
Ever since I have indulged myself in anime and manga, I’ve had this wish that the Japanese custom of giving honmei chocolates on Valentines day is also done in my home country. It’s different because the chocolates are given by the girls, not the guys, and are more or less homemade (those who aren’t gifted in cooking will surrender and buy chocolates from stores, according to my expertise in anime and manga hoho >:D But, also according to my fabulousmax expertise in manga and anime, the girls at least try to make homemade ones before surrendering =P). The guys will have the chance to reciprocate the gifts a month later, on March 14, also known as the White Day. This concept of giving the girls freedom to confess… I love it! I’ve always wanted that freedom. However, the society I live in has decided that males have the right to woo whom they like and the girls are only left with the choice to accept the confession or not. If the girls, perchance, make obvious attempts in flirting with guys, then they are labelled as sluts. I’m not innocent in the labeling part though, I am part of society, and maybe I’m just bitter because they have the guts and the confidence to do so.
I also want the experience of making homemade chocolates for someone I like albeit my obvious lack of cooking skills, but I always wonder what it feels to make something for someone you love, guessing wildly if he’ll even taste it or chuck it away or donate it to the needy masses. The thrill emanating with worry will surely be priceless. You know what? I also approve of how confessions are made in Japan. Both genders can do it and there’s no need to be flashy—sincere emotions are all that is needed. The gender equality part is important. (I am such a hypocrite sometimes. I try to change.)
The song is A Thousand Years by Christina Perri, and honestly has no connection to my confession. I just love the song.♥ But I do feel as if I’ve already waited a thousand years.
Never have I read a manga that has pulled my heartstrings this much. Fruits Basket is a series that I was introduced to in its anime form when I was way younger. It was shown on a local TV channel, but I never got to follow it properly. All I remember is that there was this single episode that I seem to have watched more than any of the others: Kyo’s transformation episode. I never got to watch the episode before it, so I did not have a clue on why and how Kyo transformed, but I felt a strange sense of peace when the morning finally came, when the rays of sunshine hit the scene before me.
A few years later, I decided to purchase a DVD and finally got to watch the entire series. “Entire” anime series, you say, since the ending episode was, even though still peaceful in my perception, was a painful cliffhanger. There were so many questions still left unanswered, and I had this stinky feeling that the manga is hiding things from me, that it didn’t show me its full potential, that the cheerful and comedic value of the show isn’t all that it was supposed to show me. A few days ago, I was in a manga eating rampage and a post here in Tumblr reminded me that I wanted to read the manga. So I did. I spent four nights (neglecting duties >:D) and the early mornings that accompanied them just reading the series. It was time well spent, in my irresponsible selfish point of view.
It was a painful read. It was definitely different from the anime. Though the comedy is there, what you will remember from reading will always be the pain, and a few small moments of relief. You see young people before you get hurt all the time, getting hurt by their past, their present and their future. You meet the worst kinds of adults, and you somehow think that the claimed twisted personality of the young ones which are abandoned by the adults were caused by them themselves. You see excessive, albeit true, love gone terribly wrong. You see envy. You see loneliness. You see desperate attempts that these envious and lonely people do, hurting themselves and others in the process. You see the most unfortunate events unfolding to these characters that you have grown to love in the series. And you just sit there, stunned, not really knowing if to cry or to curse the mangaka since these things don’t happen in real life, right? But then again you somehow rephrase the question to “this things aren’t supposed to happen in real life, right?” since there are chances that they do in this twisted world of ours. That being cursed or not does not exempt anyone from having these emotional breakdowns. This song from the anime is actually very well-suited.
I’m going to stop all these general talk and comment about the specific things (Read: Beware ze spoilers). I am a strict KyoxTohru shipper. Their funny scenes were a break from all the tiresome storylines. It was already plainly forecast at the start of the manga that they will end up together, since Tohru stated that she loves the cat in the Juunishi tale. It cannot be said that Kyo is the one that needed Tohru the most among him, Yuki and Momiji, because if we are going to attack on that level, it’s as if we are saying that the mangaka is supposed to base love on pity. Plus, Tohru Honda is simply not that kind of person. At the start I saw her as this annoyingly optimistic person, but she is exactly what the other characters need. What I least expected is for her to actually seek out how to break the curse. I mistakenly viewed her as a person who always knew the right thing to say but will never do anything. But she did, and this deed made me truly fall in love with her character (in a non-yuri way of course)—that she truthfully deserves the praise and affections that all the other characters give her.
