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melloxchocolate and onoes_mischief. Woo, I love talking at great length about anime.
The one who seduced you and fucked you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it:
It depends if this is meant in an emotional way (i.e., "I love this series and then it killed off all of my favorite characters and made me an emotional mess") or a "I thought I loved this series but it betrayed me!" kind of way. So I suppose I'll write about both.
Emotional way: Wolf's Rain, I suppose. After having seen Cowboy Bebop (which has a lot of the same staff), my friends and I started betting at the beginning of the series' run in Japan about who would die at the end. Uh, no spoilers here, but those who have seen it know what I'm referring to. In all honesty, though, I LOVED the series and thought the ending was as perfect as it could be--but...yeah. ;_;
It betrayed me: Bokurano, I suppose. I mean, not horribly so, but I felt it had so much potential and I was really into it towards the beginning/middle and as I got closer to the ending I felt so unfulfilled by the direction the series took. The ending just made me go, "... Okay. And?"
Also, Arjuna. It had some moments of brilliance and it really got me in some parts and I wanted to love it so badly, but Mew help me, I screamed "WHAT THE FUCK?" at the screen at the end and then laughed. The whole series seemed to be a strange mingling of good (if way overly preachy) messages about the world told in an interesting and moving way, and being completely bizarre and ridiculous. In the end, the ridiculous took over.
The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets:
At the risk of sounding conformist, definitely Naruto. I loved it for so long, but lately the fandom has been putting me off a bit and I haven't been "seriously" into it for far too long. I certainly have my moments, though--I do love the series, I just...forget why I do some of the time. ._.; I read all the spoilers, I still love the characters, it's just not the same sort of love I used to have for it, I'm afraid.
The mysterious dark gothy one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized he really was fucking crazy:
Monster, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Perfect Blue, and Paranoia Agent all fit under there. I love insane series, though, so it's allllll good. I love all of the series above so very much. ♥ Ghost Hound is shaping up to fit in this category, too.
The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor, and whom you'd still really like to fuck again although you're relieved he doesn't actually live in town:
Gravitation. Gah, I'm so ashamed I still like this series, and I certainly recognize how terrible it is, but... I kind of miss the old days of being a fifteen-year-old Gravitation fangirl, hahaha. It seemed like such a COOL thing to be into a real shounen-ai series, crappy as it was. XD I was so naive.
The steady:
I have way, way, way too many of these. I guess I've got a serious case of polyamorism or something. The main three are Pokémon, Cowboy Bebop, and Wolf's Rain, but... I have so many. Mushishi, Gankutsuou, Dennou Coil, RahXephon, Honey & Clover, Last Exile, and a ton of other things. Don't make me list them all. ;_; There really are too many.
The alluring strangers whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with:
Mononoke and Gurren Lagann, I guess? I need to watch those two so badly because I keep hearing about them repeatedly, and I will watch both within the month probably. For the moment, though, I'll keep looking at them across the punch bowl.
The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good buddies 'cause the friendship is there but the chemistry ain't:
Uhhh, Loveless. I enjoy it, but at a distance, I suppose. I guess the whole shota thing kind of squicks meIRONIC WITH MY CREEPY HARAKEN OBSESSION, EH? and I have a difficult time discerning whether it's actually interesting and psychological or whether it's just pretending to be interesting and psychological to rope in more people. ;_; So, yeah. We're friends, but that's all. I'm a very casual fan of the series, one could say.
The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool guy except it's never really gone anywhere:
Bleach. I'll...get to it eventually, and I'll probably enjoy it, too, but... It's hard for me to get into another Long Shounen Series when instead I could be enjoying my Relatively Short Seinen Series that I tend to prefer. Someday it'll probably go somewhere, but for now... My seinen anime have the priority, sorry.
The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at him and thinking, "him? how the hell did he land all these cool babes?":
Elfen Lied. Definitely Elfen Lied. Just...I don't understand the appeal. I don't! I'm sorry. I watched it all, and it just didn't do anything for me. DNAngel. AUGH, I cannot for the life of me understand why any of my friends like DNAngel. We're usually the anime snobs who go around snubbing our noses at stuff like this, and yet a few of my good friends really like it. O_o; WHY?
Oh, and Hellsing. Sure, it's a little badass, but it seems so...IDK, unintelligent or something that I can't understand why so many serious fans are into it. Maybe I'd understand if I read the manga? But I've seen at least two episodes of Hellsing Ultimate.
The one your friend has fallen for like a ton of bricks and whom she keeps babbling to you about on the phone for hours, and you'd be happy for her except you just know it's going to end badly:
I...don't think I have a series like this? My friends tend to trust my advice when it comes to anime, so if I tell them to steer clear of a series, they usually do. Something might pop up eventually, but...ah, nothing at the moment.
The one you recently met at a party and would like to get to know better and who you think you might have a crush on:
Ghost Hound! ♥
I've been remembering more dreams than usual lately, too, that I want to write down before I forget them altogether. Nothing TOO out there, unfortunately.
Dream #1: My chicken coop was on a grassy hill near a hardware store, and for some reason there was a hole in the chicken wire that the chickens kept escaping through and going into the hardware store. I was running around like crazy trying to get of all the chickens back in the coop, but more kept escaping. Finally, I thought I had gathered all of them and could take a break, but I wanted to check and make sure so I decided to do a final lap around the inside of the hardware store. Right as I walked in the door, there were the ducks and a bunch of chickens hanging out in the middle of the floor.
I went in to try and gather them up, and the police came in (with flashlights, despite it being daylight), and they were quite angry about the chicken situation. They told me people would start taking the chickens and eating them if it didn't stop soon. Then I woke up.
Dream #2: Nicole and I went to Oni (our convention friend)'s house for Thanksgiving for some reason. There was a bunch of food laid out on a table near a window that overlooked a city, and Nicole and I were eating it and having a good time. There was something going on with his girlfriend (we were talking to her at one point, I think? I've never met her, so this was all dream craziness) that I can't remember, and Oni wasn't there for part of the time. Then he came back and told us he made this AMV and he wanted us to see it.
It started out playing on the TV in his house, but eventually for some reason it was projecting on one of the huge buildings in the city. It was a really amazing AMV, and extremely experimental--with a lot of special effects. Nicole and I were both seriously impressed.
At some point it had Pokémon footage in Japanese, but it looked more like Toshihiro Ono's manga adaptation than the actual anime. Kasumi was talking to Takeshi, Satoshi, Kenji, and some other people, and at one point she said something like (pointing at Kenji) "I don't care if you disappear," (pointing at Takeshi) "You mean nothing to me," and then she pointed at Satoshi and said something to the effect of "You mean the whole world to me," and Satoshi looked surprised and blushed. But I remember thinking it was weird, because when she said that last line it was just one short word in Japanese (and it was a word I had heard before that didn't mean that, though I couldn't remember the actual meaning), so I was wondering if the subtitles were correct or not.
At some point, Nicole and I couldn't see the AMV well enough, so we ran outside into this alleyway-like thing and were watching it from there. It was stunning there--with bright colors, loud sound... Just amazing. Then I woke up.
Dream #3: I was going to get on a Tahoe Queen-esque boat with my Grandma, but somehow we missed the boat. We weren't sure what to do, so we decided to just paddle out to it. We got in the water and swam out not too far, and all the sudden these orcas came swimming out of the deep green water. It looked like we were in a bay that was a cross between Emerald Bay and Alaska. Normally in my dreams, orcas are these very benevolent beings and not at all scary, but in this dream I understood how big, powerful, and dangerous they were. They were right up near us, close enough that I was literally touching them occasionally, and I kept thinking about how similar in size humans are to sea lions, so I was like "OH SHI--"
The orcas starting pushing my Grandma around, and because she's [obviously] elderly and therefore not all that strong, she sunk immediately towards the bottom of the ocean or wherever we were, and settled on the bottom, which was around fourteen feet down. The orcas started spiraling down towards her as if to eat her, and at first I was thinking about how I couldn't dive that far or face the orcas, but I gathered my courage and managed to bring her back up. I remember something about the boat, then the dream switched.
In part two of this dream, I was in...a sort of brightly-colored, very oriental-looking place that I guess was some sort of Japantown by the ocean. It was rural, though, and nothing like San Francisco's Japantown. After being involved in some sort of hide-and-seek or playful chase-type game, I went into this nursery (PLANT nursery, not baby nursery) and I was looking at the plants in the outdoor section of the nursery. Under one of the tables that had plants on it (and the soil was moist--I just want to say that for the sake of remembering details), there was randomly this box with a bunch of promotional stuff like posters, bookmarks, mini artbook-like pamphlets, etc. from reasonably new anime. It was either free or I assumed it was free to the extent that I planned on taking it for free. XD There was a bunch of Dennou Coil stuff, which was incredibly exciting to me, so I snatched it all up. I was with some...guys who were younger than me? Anyway, I was with someone else and I wanted to get all the stuff I wanted before they got interested. Then I found something from Darker than Black, and a few other series, so I grabbed a bunch of things.
I feel like I had some sort of powers in this dream. Like the ability to jump really high, move fast, something like that. I'm not sure what gives me this impression, however.
That's...all I remember. Haha, I was disappointed when I woke up because I want more Dennou Coil stuff.
Dream #4: I was at a convention with Zoe and a few other people on a college campus that looked just like something that would be in an anime. I think there were even schoolgirl outfits involved, somewhere? We had trouble finding the registration, and we got distracted by this store that was selling a bunch of weird/cool stuff. It seemed to be sort of dark, well laid-out, interestingly decorated in a sparse way. I can't describe it very well. I remember they had a lot of Pokémon stickers, and a bunch of their Pokémon stuff was Mew merchandise that I wanted. I knew I couldn't afford all of it, so I was trying to figure out what things I wanted the most. I also found this beautiful [non-dirty, you pervs] Pokémon doujinshi.
That's all I remember now.
I-I can't remember what else I was going to talk about. Oh well, I doubt it was interesting anyway. XD
melloxchocolate and onoes_mischief. The one who seduced you and fucked you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it:
It depends if this is meant in an emotional way (i.e., "I love this series and then it killed off all of my favorite characters and made me an emotional mess") or a "I thought I loved this series but it betrayed me!" kind of way. So I suppose I'll write about both.
Emotional way: Wolf's Rain, I suppose. After having seen Cowboy Bebop (which has a lot of the same staff), my friends and I started betting at the beginning of the series' run in Japan about who would die at the end. Uh, no spoilers here, but those who have seen it know what I'm referring to. In all honesty, though, I LOVED the series and thought the ending was as perfect as it could be--but...yeah. ;_;
It betrayed me: Bokurano, I suppose. I mean, not horribly so, but I felt it had so much potential and I was really into it towards the beginning/middle and as I got closer to the ending I felt so unfulfilled by the direction the series took. The ending just made me go, "... Okay. And?"
Also, Arjuna. It had some moments of brilliance and it really got me in some parts and I wanted to love it so badly, but Mew help me, I screamed "WHAT THE FUCK?" at the screen at the end and then laughed. The whole series seemed to be a strange mingling of good (if way overly preachy) messages about the world told in an interesting and moving way, and being completely bizarre and ridiculous. In the end, the ridiculous took over.
The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets:
At the risk of sounding conformist, definitely Naruto. I loved it for so long, but lately the fandom has been putting me off a bit and I haven't been "seriously" into it for far too long. I certainly have my moments, though--I do love the series, I just...forget why I do some of the time. ._.; I read all the spoilers, I still love the characters, it's just not the same sort of love I used to have for it, I'm afraid.
The mysterious dark gothy one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized he really was fucking crazy:
Monster, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Perfect Blue, and Paranoia Agent all fit under there. I love insane series, though, so it's allllll good. I love all of the series above so very much. ♥ Ghost Hound is shaping up to fit in this category, too.
The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor, and whom you'd still really like to fuck again although you're relieved he doesn't actually live in town:
Gravitation. Gah, I'm so ashamed I still like this series, and I certainly recognize how terrible it is, but... I kind of miss the old days of being a fifteen-year-old Gravitation fangirl, hahaha. It seemed like such a COOL thing to be into a real shounen-ai series, crappy as it was. XD I was so naive.
The steady:
I have way, way, way too many of these. I guess I've got a serious case of polyamorism or something. The main three are Pokémon, Cowboy Bebop, and Wolf's Rain, but... I have so many. Mushishi, Gankutsuou, Dennou Coil, RahXephon, Honey & Clover, Last Exile, and a ton of other things. Don't make me list them all. ;_; There really are too many.
The alluring strangers whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with:
Mononoke and Gurren Lagann, I guess? I need to watch those two so badly because I keep hearing about them repeatedly, and I will watch both within the month probably. For the moment, though, I'll keep looking at them across the punch bowl.
The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good buddies 'cause the friendship is there but the chemistry ain't:
Uhhh, Loveless. I enjoy it, but at a distance, I suppose. I guess the whole shota thing kind of squicks me
The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool guy except it's never really gone anywhere:
Bleach. I'll...get to it eventually, and I'll probably enjoy it, too, but... It's hard for me to get into another Long Shounen Series when instead I could be enjoying my Relatively Short Seinen Series that I tend to prefer. Someday it'll probably go somewhere, but for now... My seinen anime have the priority, sorry.
The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at him and thinking, "him? how the hell did he land all these cool babes?":
Elfen Lied. Definitely Elfen Lied. Just...I don't understand the appeal. I don't! I'm sorry. I watched it all, and it just didn't do anything for me. DNAngel. AUGH, I cannot for the life of me understand why any of my friends like DNAngel. We're usually the anime snobs who go around snubbing our noses at stuff like this, and yet a few of my good friends really like it. O_o; WHY?
Oh, and Hellsing. Sure, it's a little badass, but it seems so...IDK, unintelligent or something that I can't understand why so many serious fans are into it. Maybe I'd understand if I read the manga? But I've seen at least two episodes of Hellsing Ultimate.
The one your friend has fallen for like a ton of bricks and whom she keeps babbling to you about on the phone for hours, and you'd be happy for her except you just know it's going to end badly:
I...don't think I have a series like this? My friends tend to trust my advice when it comes to anime, so if I tell them to steer clear of a series, they usually do. Something might pop up eventually, but...ah, nothing at the moment.
The one you recently met at a party and would like to get to know better and who you think you might have a crush on:
Ghost Hound! ♥
I've been remembering more dreams than usual lately, too, that I want to write down before I forget them altogether. Nothing TOO out there, unfortunately.
Dream #1: My chicken coop was on a grassy hill near a hardware store, and for some reason there was a hole in the chicken wire that the chickens kept escaping through and going into the hardware store. I was running around like crazy trying to get of all the chickens back in the coop, but more kept escaping. Finally, I thought I had gathered all of them and could take a break, but I wanted to check and make sure so I decided to do a final lap around the inside of the hardware store. Right as I walked in the door, there were the ducks and a bunch of chickens hanging out in the middle of the floor.
I went in to try and gather them up, and the police came in (with flashlights, despite it being daylight), and they were quite angry about the chicken situation. They told me people would start taking the chickens and eating them if it didn't stop soon. Then I woke up.
Dream #2: Nicole and I went to Oni (our convention friend)'s house for Thanksgiving for some reason. There was a bunch of food laid out on a table near a window that overlooked a city, and Nicole and I were eating it and having a good time. There was something going on with his girlfriend (we were talking to her at one point, I think? I've never met her, so this was all dream craziness) that I can't remember, and Oni wasn't there for part of the time. Then he came back and told us he made this AMV and he wanted us to see it.
It started out playing on the TV in his house, but eventually for some reason it was projecting on one of the huge buildings in the city. It was a really amazing AMV, and extremely experimental--with a lot of special effects. Nicole and I were both seriously impressed.
At some point it had Pokémon footage in Japanese, but it looked more like Toshihiro Ono's manga adaptation than the actual anime. Kasumi was talking to Takeshi, Satoshi, Kenji, and some other people, and at one point she said something like (pointing at Kenji) "I don't care if you disappear," (pointing at Takeshi) "You mean nothing to me," and then she pointed at Satoshi and said something to the effect of "You mean the whole world to me," and Satoshi looked surprised and blushed. But I remember thinking it was weird, because when she said that last line it was just one short word in Japanese (and it was a word I had heard before that didn't mean that, though I couldn't remember the actual meaning), so I was wondering if the subtitles were correct or not.
At some point, Nicole and I couldn't see the AMV well enough, so we ran outside into this alleyway-like thing and were watching it from there. It was stunning there--with bright colors, loud sound... Just amazing. Then I woke up.
Dream #3: I was going to get on a Tahoe Queen-esque boat with my Grandma, but somehow we missed the boat. We weren't sure what to do, so we decided to just paddle out to it. We got in the water and swam out not too far, and all the sudden these orcas came swimming out of the deep green water. It looked like we were in a bay that was a cross between Emerald Bay and Alaska. Normally in my dreams, orcas are these very benevolent beings and not at all scary, but in this dream I understood how big, powerful, and dangerous they were. They were right up near us, close enough that I was literally touching them occasionally, and I kept thinking about how similar in size humans are to sea lions, so I was like "OH SHI--"
The orcas starting pushing my Grandma around, and because she's [obviously] elderly and therefore not all that strong, she sunk immediately towards the bottom of the ocean or wherever we were, and settled on the bottom, which was around fourteen feet down. The orcas started spiraling down towards her as if to eat her, and at first I was thinking about how I couldn't dive that far or face the orcas, but I gathered my courage and managed to bring her back up. I remember something about the boat, then the dream switched.
In part two of this dream, I was in...a sort of brightly-colored, very oriental-looking place that I guess was some sort of Japantown by the ocean. It was rural, though, and nothing like San Francisco's Japantown. After being involved in some sort of hide-and-seek or playful chase-type game, I went into this nursery (PLANT nursery, not baby nursery) and I was looking at the plants in the outdoor section of the nursery. Under one of the tables that had plants on it (and the soil was moist--I just want to say that for the sake of remembering details), there was randomly this box with a bunch of promotional stuff like posters, bookmarks, mini artbook-like pamphlets, etc. from reasonably new anime. It was either free or I assumed it was free to the extent that I planned on taking it for free. XD There was a bunch of Dennou Coil stuff, which was incredibly exciting to me, so I snatched it all up. I was with some...guys who were younger than me? Anyway, I was with someone else and I wanted to get all the stuff I wanted before they got interested. Then I found something from Darker than Black, and a few other series, so I grabbed a bunch of things.
I feel like I had some sort of powers in this dream. Like the ability to jump really high, move fast, something like that. I'm not sure what gives me this impression, however.
That's...all I remember. Haha, I was disappointed when I woke up because I want more Dennou Coil stuff.
Dream #4: I was at a convention with Zoe and a few other people on a college campus that looked just like something that would be in an anime. I think there were even schoolgirl outfits involved, somewhere? We had trouble finding the registration, and we got distracted by this store that was selling a bunch of weird/cool stuff. It seemed to be sort of dark, well laid-out, interestingly decorated in a sparse way. I can't describe it very well. I remember they had a lot of Pokémon stickers, and a bunch of their Pokémon stuff was Mew merchandise that I wanted. I knew I couldn't afford all of it, so I was trying to figure out what things I wanted the most. I also found this beautiful [non-dirty, you pervs] Pokémon doujinshi.
That's all I remember now.
I-I can't remember what else I was going to talk about. Oh well, I doubt it was interesting anyway. XD
