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Feb. 2nd, 2004 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
demeter918I suddenly have this urge to participate in a Gundam Wing RPG, where I play Dorothy. Why not Relena? Hm. I don't know. Maybe being Dorothy has more evil!bitch potential, and I can mastermind betrayals, breakups, and heartache.
Sudden influx of violence is nearly entirely due to my dear daddy (how terrible that soudns as I write it) and Grandmother, the Witch From Hell. She's wonderful to us, but with this 'poor me' complex that really irritates me, especially after I've had a fight with my dad. And this fight will go down in history as the one where I bitched back instead of meekly taking it.
And he's somewhat violent. When he gets REALLY angry, he can't control himself, even in public. -_- Men. They're all the same.
However, I was lucky enough to each ten or eleven episodes of HunterXHunter. Alright, normally, anime that's released due to the popularity of the manga first... well, it usually sucks. (See: Inuyasha and Samurai Deeper Kyo - and I'm nottalking about the animation quality). HunterXHunter really surprised me on a number of levels. First, the animation wasn't as blaringly bright as I thought it would be. One of my personal favourite parts about manga is the cool intensity provided by plot, characterization, and unique usage of black, white, and gray to get their points across. With a free-for-all colour palette at their disposal in anime, sometimes (most of the time) that's not necessary.
Second, you can show a lot more things in a manga screen then you can in an anime screen. There's the cost difference, so I know why certain objects that are cute, but irrelevant in the manga can't make it into colour. (Black and white of the new era!)
But HXH made me laugh because it actually shifted certain plot points around, changed scenes, added in extra stuff that wasn't in the manga... and it worked. I was laughing my arse off by the time the ship was rolling back and forth and I pretty much knew this was going to be a series that I'll love. Just like my Yu Yu Hakusho tapes that are currently gathering dust in the corner of my closet. What will I do with them? 0_0
The same artist did YYH and HXH, so I'm not surprised at the quality, though I think HXH is better on a number of levels than YYH. Oh, I loved YYH, but aside from Yuusuke, Hiei, Kurama, and to a extent, Kuwabura, the secondary characters received a cursory entrance and a cursory exit. They came, the saw, and they left. They came again, they saw, and they left. It was funny, with the number of characters, but a lot of them didn't have the depth HXH has. *pauses* But considering HXH was done after YYH, that's supposed to be rather obvious. -_-;; Yeah, I'll shut up now.
One funny thing (well, to me) was that Yoshihiro Togashi (the creator of the two esteemed series) married Naoko Takeushi (some of you may know her XD: the creator of SAILOR MOON!) in 1999. I actually had not figured that out until... I can't remember the volume, but one of the manga started talking about him dating this girl, and showing her as a bunny, which is Naoko's 'sign' of sorts. I finally realized who he was talking about by the time he actually got married in one of the side panels he likes doing. It was kind of cool to see two 'icons' of Japanese manga and anime fall in love and get married. Makes me so HAPPY!
They should do a collaborative piece other than the fanzine.
XD
Writing about it makes me happier. I'm going to go home late so as to avoid my dad's eye. Oh, the curse of the home-bound college student. Can't wait for the summer thing in Shanghai. I'll have two glorious months without him or my grandmother... well, until the marriage in late August.
So hungry. I think I'll go down and order some random dish.
Sudden influx of violence is nearly entirely due to my dear daddy (how terrible that soudns as I write it) and Grandmother, the Witch From Hell. She's wonderful to us, but with this 'poor me' complex that really irritates me, especially after I've had a fight with my dad. And this fight will go down in history as the one where I bitched back instead of meekly taking it.
And he's somewhat violent. When he gets REALLY angry, he can't control himself, even in public. -_- Men. They're all the same.
However, I was lucky enough to each ten or eleven episodes of HunterXHunter. Alright, normally, anime that's released due to the popularity of the manga first... well, it usually sucks. (See: Inuyasha and Samurai Deeper Kyo - and I'm nottalking about the animation quality). HunterXHunter really surprised me on a number of levels. First, the animation wasn't as blaringly bright as I thought it would be. One of my personal favourite parts about manga is the cool intensity provided by plot, characterization, and unique usage of black, white, and gray to get their points across. With a free-for-all colour palette at their disposal in anime, sometimes (most of the time) that's not necessary.
Second, you can show a lot more things in a manga screen then you can in an anime screen. There's the cost difference, so I know why certain objects that are cute, but irrelevant in the manga can't make it into colour. (Black and white of the new era!)
But HXH made me laugh because it actually shifted certain plot points around, changed scenes, added in extra stuff that wasn't in the manga... and it worked. I was laughing my arse off by the time the ship was rolling back and forth and I pretty much knew this was going to be a series that I'll love. Just like my Yu Yu Hakusho tapes that are currently gathering dust in the corner of my closet. What will I do with them? 0_0
The same artist did YYH and HXH, so I'm not surprised at the quality, though I think HXH is better on a number of levels than YYH. Oh, I loved YYH, but aside from Yuusuke, Hiei, Kurama, and to a extent, Kuwabura, the secondary characters received a cursory entrance and a cursory exit. They came, the saw, and they left. They came again, they saw, and they left. It was funny, with the number of characters, but a lot of them didn't have the depth HXH has. *pauses* But considering HXH was done after YYH, that's supposed to be rather obvious. -_-;; Yeah, I'll shut up now.
One funny thing (well, to me) was that Yoshihiro Togashi (the creator of the two esteemed series) married Naoko Takeushi (some of you may know her XD: the creator of SAILOR MOON!) in 1999. I actually had not figured that out until... I can't remember the volume, but one of the manga started talking about him dating this girl, and showing her as a bunny, which is Naoko's 'sign' of sorts. I finally realized who he was talking about by the time he actually got married in one of the side panels he likes doing. It was kind of cool to see two 'icons' of Japanese manga and anime fall in love and get married. Makes me so HAPPY!
They should do a collaborative piece other than the fanzine.
XD
Writing about it makes me happier. I'm going to go home late so as to avoid my dad's eye. Oh, the curse of the home-bound college student. Can't wait for the summer thing in Shanghai. I'll have two glorious months without him or my grandmother... well, until the marriage in late August.
So hungry. I think I'll go down and order some random dish.
