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foxinthestarsBeen feeling under the weather the past few days, but I don't know if I'm actually sick or if I'm adjusting to the dry furnace air of winter. I'm not actually congested, but my nose and throat are kind of dry-feeling and itchy and gunked up; when it makes me cough, it's not that there's any kind of obstruction, just that there's a tickle. It's really annoying. I spent yesterday lounging around watching MST3Ks and have been hitting the diet soda kind of hard, but I don't know if it's helping...
Writing is inching along, not yet to the point I feel like posting more, though. (Right now something is on the very brink of hitting a fan in a big way.)
I did start to feel like watching something again, and I did finish that first episode of Hero Tales, but it continued to not click. I should eventually give it more of a chance, but I remain mystified that the manga would draw me in and the anime would push me away so well; my current theory is that it's basically schlock and only in the manga did Arakawa have enough creative control to salvage it. The realization that our standard-issue-hotheaded-hero-whom-I-have-no-particular-affection-for has Rakushun's voice served only to remind me that there are better ways to get a fantasy-China anime fix than this. Heck, I still have Saiunkoku Monogatari in the queue and have always heard good things about it.
For now, however, I put it off and started watching Kemono no Souja Erin (I had the Static-Subs fansubs stashed away and am watching those, but the whole thing is now free to watch online here). I'm only five episodes in, so I understand it hasn't gotten into the thick of it yet, but I'm really enjoying it so far. It reminds me a little of Princess Arete (fansubbed movie I enjoyed) in that both are fairy tale fantasies focused on precocious young girls, and both have a look and a storytelling style that suggests a young target audience, despite the fact that neither of them is so much with pulling punches. Not sure how well this would actually float with kids, but I like it.
Writing is inching along, not yet to the point I feel like posting more, though. (Right now something is on the very brink of hitting a fan in a big way.)
I did start to feel like watching something again, and I did finish that first episode of Hero Tales, but it continued to not click. I should eventually give it more of a chance, but I remain mystified that the manga would draw me in and the anime would push me away so well; my current theory is that it's basically schlock and only in the manga did Arakawa have enough creative control to salvage it. The realization that our standard-issue-hotheaded-hero-whom-I-have-no-particular-affection-for has Rakushun's voice served only to remind me that there are better ways to get a fantasy-China anime fix than this. Heck, I still have Saiunkoku Monogatari in the queue and have always heard good things about it.
For now, however, I put it off and started watching Kemono no Souja Erin (I had the Static-Subs fansubs stashed away and am watching those, but the whole thing is now free to watch online here). I'm only five episodes in, so I understand it hasn't gotten into the thick of it yet, but I'm really enjoying it so far. It reminds me a little of Princess Arete (fansubbed movie I enjoyed) in that both are fairy tale fantasies focused on precocious young girls, and both have a look and a storytelling style that suggests a young target audience, despite the fact that neither of them is so much with pulling punches. Not sure how well this would actually float with kids, but I like it.
