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The Anime Report: Watching X
Aug. 22nd, 2004 03:24 pmI'm at the office. I got early this morning and cleaned half the house and then it became a matter of either clean more or go to the office.
I think we can all understand the depth of my loathing for doing the dishes. I mean - I WOULD RATHER WORK!!
And work I have - I put out at least 2 hours of work in the last hour which means I am not being procrastinary at all right now by updating LJ. Nope. This is a break. This is not self-defeating avoidance that will keep me at the office longer whereupon I will return to a home that contains a sink full of dirty dishes. Nope none of that here.
Er, let's talk about Anime - specifically X. I am bolding the title as I figure that is what you should do with the title - just the impression I get from the show. It is X rather than X or even X or "X" - at least, I think.
"Sisabet," you ask, "How did you get your hands on anime? Don't the big eyes and pointy noses freak you out?"
Well I am glad you asked that, imaginary person. Yes, they do freak me out. Seriously - someone is gonna lose an eye to one of those noses. LOOK AT THEM! They are all pointy and sharp and dangerous. This is why much of anime is panning across still images - the characters cannot move too fast or someone could get hurt. Now, I have said my peace. We can move on.
The reason I am now posting about Anime of all things is because of the coordinated pimping efforts at Vividcon. These guys were freaking prepareed and out in force. They like spread out so there was no where to go. There was pimping to the left of me. Pimping to the right. IT WAS JUST LIKE RESEVOIR DOGS except I kept all my appendages. "Well," you that-does-not-exist, "How good were they?"
Again, I am really thrilled with the questions you, fake reader, are asking. You are really allowing me to continue my narrative in the fashion that suits me most. Kudos to you! Well - and to answer your question - when I packed up the car and left town Thursday, I had no intention of going to the anime vid show, as I think I had a conflict with a panel and the show. Saturday morning came and all I could think was "Must watch Anime vid show."
Now, I don't want to be pointing fingers or starting gossip, but dudes - I am highly suggestible. And in my drunken, blood-sugar-impaired, possibly hallucinatory state -- I was quite susceptible to, oh I don't know, a post-hypnotic suggestion.
Not that I am saying the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
boniblithe would ever in a million years even consider doing something like that to pimp a fandom. I don't even know why I mentioned Boni. I don't. I don't suspect her at all. Possibly geekturnedvamp, but I don't know that I even had a chance to talk to her until after Saturday. But even so it couldn't have been Boni. Especially not Boni acting in an unholy alliance with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
untrue_accounts. I mean that is just preposterous and I will condemn anyone publically who would dare to suggest such a thing.
I mean - yeah - all I remember is being downstairs in the Con Suite and then I blinked and I was upstairs and holding X and Boni and Mely may have been standing over me looking very pleased with themselves (and was my shirt on backwards?) - but they could have been coming from a very successful panel. I mean there are a ton of reasons that I don't remember Friday and none of those necessarily have to involve brain-washing.
But I have watched a lot of Anime this weekend. Which has thrilled the boy. I have also commented on it extensively. Which has led the boy to tears. Poor kid. I swear I will get this eventually.
So X as I understand it:
The Earth is pretty much fucked. See - these people see the future in dreams and they say the Earth is pretty much fucked - but maybe not. Although all the dream-seers seem fairly depressed and messed up, so I think the maybe not is just them grasping at straws.
So there are these sets of seven people - the dragons of Earth (and here is where I got confused, because apparently the earth dudes are evil and for destroying the Earth and I was all - but dudes! You are the DRAGONS OF EARTH - HOME TEAM, yo?? The boy says it does not work that way) and the dragons of heaven.
Now this means there are at least 14 people that you have to keep up with. Not only that - but these 14 people have family members and other people with them. So there is no fewer than twenty thousand characters in this story. The Boy, frustrated my inability to remember whos and whats last night bemoaned to the heavens, "Why could there not have been sets of three, like every other story?? Why seven??"
I'd feel bad for him but I was too busy declaring Suburu as my favorite character. This of course means we never saw him again.
Me: Suburu!!! I LOVE him. Once day he will meet Chevrolet and have a big adventure until Ford and that bitch Mazda come between them!
The Boy: ::groan:: He is Subaru. Not like the car.
Me: Shut up! You ruin everything. No - now we love Suburu - he is our favorite character and we are rooting for his side.
The Boy: But he could be evil.
Me: I don't care, I LOVE him. If he is evil, then evil should win
The Boy: Why did your friends give this to you again?
Me: Shhhh... that whore Karen is looking shifty. She better stay away from my man Suburu or I will cut her!
Imagine my shock to find out later that Karen might actually be a whore! That or a magician's assistant. I'm still not off the first disc. Don't spoil me. Ohh I hate her. She wants my Suburu. I know she does.
So anyway - one of the big themes of this show apparently is sacrifice and the dude that decides the fate of the world, Kamui, has already had his mother sacrifice herself to save him. Or something.
Kamui is a really fucked up dude. Seriously - he wears all black and glowers (oh, like ANGEL - such a cute little broody-brooder, yes he is. Yes he is!) and he listens to a ton of Cure and, curiously, a lot of Morrissey, but no Smiths. He is an enigma. Or he wants to be. Bless him, he reminds me of Stan on South Park when he went all Goth. Poor Kamui. He has a dead mother. He is just like Lex Luthor. And Stan. Oh, and Angel (cause of the brooding and he does have this little tiny baby-glower! So cute).
Anyhoo - he is the childhood friend of this doomed chick whose name I could not be bothered to learn. She is all gonna be a sacrifice for her brother or Kamui or possibly me if she does not just shut the fuck up with her noble ass self. God. She is soooooo boring. I mean - her dream, her one goal in life, is to study dying fabrics.
Me: What?
The Boy: She wants to learn to dye things indigo. It will take her years to learn the process.
Me: She is so boring.
The Boy: She really is. She isn't even learning how to dye multiple colors - she is just learning how to make things purple.
Me: Lex Luthor is so mocking her.
The Boy: She wants to make things purple and it will take twenty years to learn it.
Me: I am sorry, but I look forward to her death.
The Boy: I doubt she shuts up, even then.
Me: Don't spoil me!!
So this boring chick has an older brother who plays basketball and is a serious hottie. He also has two names because it was important to the creators that I be as confused as possible figuring this guy out. He is Fuma. He is also a good guy. I am fairly certain the boy is the anti-christ because they are doing all sorts of misdirection to make you think that Kamui is the evil one - but dude - I saw episode 0. The secret is out!
Speaking of secrets - Fuma has a serious hard-on for Kamui. I mean, I really don't get why, but he loves that depressed little boy with the fire of a thousand really pure suns. It is kinda sweet in a really strange way.
Anyhoo - so Fuma's dad has this secret - well a buncha secrets, actually (YOUR MOM GAVE BIRTH TO A SWORD AND IT KILLED HER!!) but the big one he tells as he is dying
Dead Daddy: Fuma, listen to me :gasp: Kamui is your ::choke::
Me: What?? WHAT!! Kamui is your what?? Lover? Brother? Secret Santa??
Dead Daddy: ::wheeze:: Kamui is your ::choke:: twin star ::dies::
The Boy: Oh no ::head in hands::
Me: ::loudly singing and pointing a Kamui:: Don't YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE A SHOOTING STAR! Don't you know! C'mon Kamui, don't you know!
The Boy: I knew that was coming.
Me: Hey wait until the boys' next cuddle scene. I am so singing "Waiting for a star to fall. And carry your heart into my arms, That’s where you belong, in my arms baby, yeah!"
The Boy: are you gonna vid that?
Me: ::plots::
We also watched the first 5 eps of Neon Genesis Evangelion and dammit! My girl with the attitude and the big German voice was not on it at all! I feel like I am a Spike fan who went out and bought Buffy Season one. And man - this show needs my girl. So far it is made up of a buncha whiny ass punks. And Rei. She is really fucked up. I kinda like her. But I want my bad-ass girl who wants to kill things.
This is like that time I watched Highlander Season one and thought that Ritchie died Season One and so at the end of every episode I was disappointed cause he was still alive. Sigh.
I think we can all understand the depth of my loathing for doing the dishes. I mean - I WOULD RATHER WORK!!
And work I have - I put out at least 2 hours of work in the last hour which means I am not being procrastinary at all right now by updating LJ. Nope. This is a break. This is not self-defeating avoidance that will keep me at the office longer whereupon I will return to a home that contains a sink full of dirty dishes. Nope none of that here.
Er, let's talk about Anime - specifically X. I am bolding the title as I figure that is what you should do with the title - just the impression I get from the show. It is X rather than X or even X or "X" - at least, I think.
"Sisabet," you ask, "How did you get your hands on anime? Don't the big eyes and pointy noses freak you out?"
Well I am glad you asked that, imaginary person. Yes, they do freak me out. Seriously - someone is gonna lose an eye to one of those noses. LOOK AT THEM! They are all pointy and sharp and dangerous. This is why much of anime is panning across still images - the characters cannot move too fast or someone could get hurt. Now, I have said my peace. We can move on.
The reason I am now posting about Anime of all things is because of the coordinated pimping efforts at Vividcon. These guys were freaking prepareed and out in force. They like spread out so there was no where to go. There was pimping to the left of me. Pimping to the right. IT WAS JUST LIKE RESEVOIR DOGS except I kept all my appendages. "Well," you that-does-not-exist, "How good were they?"
Again, I am really thrilled with the questions you, fake reader, are asking. You are really allowing me to continue my narrative in the fashion that suits me most. Kudos to you! Well - and to answer your question - when I packed up the car and left town Thursday, I had no intention of going to the anime vid show, as I think I had a conflict with a panel and the show. Saturday morning came and all I could think was "Must watch Anime vid show."
Now, I don't want to be pointing fingers or starting gossip, but dudes - I am highly suggestible. And in my drunken, blood-sugar-impaired, possibly hallucinatory state -- I was quite susceptible to, oh I don't know, a post-hypnotic suggestion.
Not that I am saying the
boniblithe would ever in a million years even consider doing something like that to pimp a fandom. I don't even know why I mentioned Boni. I don't. I don't suspect her at all. Possibly geekturnedvamp, but I don't know that I even had a chance to talk to her until after Saturday. But even so it couldn't have been Boni. Especially not Boni acting in an unholy alliance with untrue_accounts. I mean that is just preposterous and I will condemn anyone publically who would dare to suggest such a thing. I mean - yeah - all I remember is being downstairs in the Con Suite and then I blinked and I was upstairs and holding X and Boni and Mely may have been standing over me looking very pleased with themselves (and was my shirt on backwards?) - but they could have been coming from a very successful panel. I mean there are a ton of reasons that I don't remember Friday and none of those necessarily have to involve brain-washing.
But I have watched a lot of Anime this weekend. Which has thrilled the boy. I have also commented on it extensively. Which has led the boy to tears. Poor kid. I swear I will get this eventually.
So X as I understand it:
The Earth is pretty much fucked. See - these people see the future in dreams and they say the Earth is pretty much fucked - but maybe not. Although all the dream-seers seem fairly depressed and messed up, so I think the maybe not is just them grasping at straws.
So there are these sets of seven people - the dragons of Earth (and here is where I got confused, because apparently the earth dudes are evil and for destroying the Earth and I was all - but dudes! You are the DRAGONS OF EARTH - HOME TEAM, yo?? The boy says it does not work that way) and the dragons of heaven.
Now this means there are at least 14 people that you have to keep up with. Not only that - but these 14 people have family members and other people with them. So there is no fewer than twenty thousand characters in this story. The Boy, frustrated my inability to remember whos and whats last night bemoaned to the heavens, "Why could there not have been sets of three, like every other story?? Why seven??"
I'd feel bad for him but I was too busy declaring Suburu as my favorite character. This of course means we never saw him again.
Me: Suburu!!! I LOVE him. Once day he will meet Chevrolet and have a big adventure until Ford and that bitch Mazda come between them!
The Boy: ::groan:: He is Subaru. Not like the car.
Me: Shut up! You ruin everything. No - now we love Suburu - he is our favorite character and we are rooting for his side.
The Boy: But he could be evil.
Me: I don't care, I LOVE him. If he is evil, then evil should win
The Boy: Why did your friends give this to you again?
Me: Shhhh... that whore Karen is looking shifty. She better stay away from my man Suburu or I will cut her!
Imagine my shock to find out later that Karen might actually be a whore! That or a magician's assistant. I'm still not off the first disc. Don't spoil me. Ohh I hate her. She wants my Suburu. I know she does.
So anyway - one of the big themes of this show apparently is sacrifice and the dude that decides the fate of the world, Kamui, has already had his mother sacrifice herself to save him. Or something.
Kamui is a really fucked up dude. Seriously - he wears all black and glowers (oh, like ANGEL - such a cute little broody-brooder, yes he is. Yes he is!) and he listens to a ton of Cure and, curiously, a lot of Morrissey, but no Smiths. He is an enigma. Or he wants to be. Bless him, he reminds me of Stan on South Park when he went all Goth. Poor Kamui. He has a dead mother. He is just like Lex Luthor. And Stan. Oh, and Angel (cause of the brooding and he does have this little tiny baby-glower! So cute).
Anyhoo - he is the childhood friend of this doomed chick whose name I could not be bothered to learn. She is all gonna be a sacrifice for her brother or Kamui or possibly me if she does not just shut the fuck up with her noble ass self. God. She is soooooo boring. I mean - her dream, her one goal in life, is to study dying fabrics.
Me: What?
The Boy: She wants to learn to dye things indigo. It will take her years to learn the process.
Me: She is so boring.
The Boy: She really is. She isn't even learning how to dye multiple colors - she is just learning how to make things purple.
Me: Lex Luthor is so mocking her.
The Boy: She wants to make things purple and it will take twenty years to learn it.
Me: I am sorry, but I look forward to her death.
The Boy: I doubt she shuts up, even then.
Me: Don't spoil me!!
So this boring chick has an older brother who plays basketball and is a serious hottie. He also has two names because it was important to the creators that I be as confused as possible figuring this guy out. He is Fuma. He is also a good guy. I am fairly certain the boy is the anti-christ because they are doing all sorts of misdirection to make you think that Kamui is the evil one - but dude - I saw episode 0. The secret is out!
Speaking of secrets - Fuma has a serious hard-on for Kamui. I mean, I really don't get why, but he loves that depressed little boy with the fire of a thousand really pure suns. It is kinda sweet in a really strange way.
Anyhoo - so Fuma's dad has this secret - well a buncha secrets, actually (YOUR MOM GAVE BIRTH TO A SWORD AND IT KILLED HER!!) but the big one he tells as he is dying
Dead Daddy: Fuma, listen to me :gasp: Kamui is your ::choke::
Me: What?? WHAT!! Kamui is your what?? Lover? Brother? Secret Santa??
Dead Daddy: ::wheeze:: Kamui is your ::choke:: twin star ::dies::
The Boy: Oh no ::head in hands::
Me: ::loudly singing and pointing a Kamui:: Don't YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE A SHOOTING STAR! Don't you know! C'mon Kamui, don't you know!
The Boy: I knew that was coming.
Me: Hey wait until the boys' next cuddle scene. I am so singing "Waiting for a star to fall. And carry your heart into my arms, That’s where you belong, in my arms baby, yeah!"
The Boy: are you gonna vid that?
Me: ::plots::
We also watched the first 5 eps of Neon Genesis Evangelion and dammit! My girl with the attitude and the big German voice was not on it at all! I feel like I am a Spike fan who went out and bought Buffy Season one. And man - this show needs my girl. So far it is made up of a buncha whiny ass punks. And Rei. She is really fucked up. I kinda like her. But I want my bad-ass girl who wants to kill things.
This is like that time I watched Highlander Season one and thought that Ritchie died Season One and so at the end of every episode I was disappointed cause he was still alive. Sigh.
