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Jun. 5th, 2008 03:20 pmLast Friends 09
I haven't been properly watching episodes of Last Friends--browsing through them, really--but, goddamn, (highlight for SPOILERS) Sousuke just took Takeru then Ruka to Beat-Down City... but I'm not surprised he went berserk after what Ruka said to him! No preview for next episode? Who will bite the dust at the end of this series? Predict now!
AfterEllen.com Hot 100 List
The votes are in and the results are... somewhat surprising. The results support my growing idea that AE.com is singlehandedly creating lesbian celebrities by giving exposure to the women (gay, bisexual, straight, gay-friendly) they spotlight, especially the vloggers. Visual media is the path to lust? More surprising to me is some of the movement in the list--how did Ellen Degeneres go from in the 80s? last year to the top 20 this year? Getting older = getting sexier? Or was it the 50th Birthday Party bash and her wedding announcement?
Also, the video countdown done by the vloggers and staff was pretty fun as they expound on the hotness of each woman. The Ghostella character is genius. So funny in that pathetic way. Michelle Paradise embodies "adorkable" and it's a shame that Marnie Alton isn't gay. =( Marnie making Michelle speak in a British accent was cute and funny.
Bertine Zetlitz
I've had Bertine Zetlitz's "Death in Her Bedroom" playing constantly the last few days. The lyrics are somewhat disturbing but... it's a nice sounding song. I accidentally found it when I clicked the wrong link for a Silent Hill 3 YT video--I was looking for the next part in a walkthrough but got a music video instead.
Twelve Kingdoms: 1st Novel
TokyoPop is translating the Twelve Kingdoms (Juuni Kokki) novels and I got a copy of the first one for my birthday! (Big thanks to the culprit--you know who you are!) I loved it, but the more I think about it, I think I liked it because I had seen the anime first. There are big differences between anime!Yoko and novel!Yoko--and I like novel!Yoko more, but I like novel!Yoko more when I contrast her with anime!Yoko. It's the little things in the novel that the anime couldn't do because of pacing issues that prepare Yoko, I think, to be a good ruler. It's the way the novel paints her solitary and desperate roamings through Kou and her methods for survival--and an almost descent into insanity and her flirting more with animality than in the anime--that make her emerging compassion, strength, and self-understanding more attractive. I can totally imagine this Yoko to be very in touch with her people, to be susceptible to slipping out of her palace and going among her people incognito, kind of like how En-ou does, but with a more peasant twist. I can see her doing manual labor easily since she has done it in the novel after a long journey of perhaps ethically unsound and not smart methods of other methods of survival. I definitely <3 Yoko and didn't really miss Asano or Sugimoto or the other small narrative changes between the novel and anime (with the anime generally adding things), including some confrontations. The only thing I found really startling was the way they adapted Rakushun's speech patterns--I'd forgotten he used things like "oira" and stuff in Japanese. I am definitely looking forward to seeing the translation of the Suzu, Shoukei, Yoko shenanigans in Kei--aka, the formation of Yoko's harem as her court coalesces.
I haven't been properly watching episodes of Last Friends--browsing through them, really--but, goddamn, (highlight for SPOILERS) Sousuke just took Takeru then Ruka to Beat-Down City... but I'm not surprised he went berserk after what Ruka said to him! No preview for next episode? Who will bite the dust at the end of this series? Predict now!
AfterEllen.com Hot 100 List
The votes are in and the results are... somewhat surprising. The results support my growing idea that AE.com is singlehandedly creating lesbian celebrities by giving exposure to the women (gay, bisexual, straight, gay-friendly) they spotlight, especially the vloggers. Visual media is the path to lust? More surprising to me is some of the movement in the list--how did Ellen Degeneres go from in the 80s? last year to the top 20 this year? Getting older = getting sexier? Or was it the 50th Birthday Party bash and her wedding announcement?
Also, the video countdown done by the vloggers and staff was pretty fun as they expound on the hotness of each woman. The Ghostella character is genius. So funny in that pathetic way. Michelle Paradise embodies "adorkable" and it's a shame that Marnie Alton isn't gay. =( Marnie making Michelle speak in a British accent was cute and funny.
Bertine Zetlitz
I've had Bertine Zetlitz's "Death in Her Bedroom" playing constantly the last few days. The lyrics are somewhat disturbing but... it's a nice sounding song. I accidentally found it when I clicked the wrong link for a Silent Hill 3 YT video--I was looking for the next part in a walkthrough but got a music video instead.
Twelve Kingdoms: 1st Novel
TokyoPop is translating the Twelve Kingdoms (Juuni Kokki) novels and I got a copy of the first one for my birthday! (Big thanks to the culprit--you know who you are!) I loved it, but the more I think about it, I think I liked it because I had seen the anime first. There are big differences between anime!Yoko and novel!Yoko--and I like novel!Yoko more, but I like novel!Yoko more when I contrast her with anime!Yoko. It's the little things in the novel that the anime couldn't do because of pacing issues that prepare Yoko, I think, to be a good ruler. It's the way the novel paints her solitary and desperate roamings through Kou and her methods for survival--and an almost descent into insanity and her flirting more with animality than in the anime--that make her emerging compassion, strength, and self-understanding more attractive. I can totally imagine this Yoko to be very in touch with her people, to be susceptible to slipping out of her palace and going among her people incognito, kind of like how En-ou does, but with a more peasant twist. I can see her doing manual labor easily since she has done it in the novel after a long journey of perhaps ethically unsound and not smart methods of other methods of survival. I definitely <3 Yoko and didn't really miss Asano or Sugimoto or the other small narrative changes between the novel and anime (with the anime generally adding things), including some confrontations. The only thing I found really startling was the way they adapted Rakushun's speech patterns--I'd forgotten he used things like "oira" and stuff in Japanese. I am definitely looking forward to seeing the translation of the Suzu, Shoukei, Yoko shenanigans in Kei--aka, the formation of Yoko's harem as her court coalesces.
