OK, today is an awesome day, and I will say the why.
First, it’s Friday, the heavenly herald of the week’s ending and more sleep than is technically healthy.
Second, Saiyuki. I don’t remember the last time every other moment of a series brought such a giant happy bubble into my heart. It’s actually not the best thing to read at work for that very reason, because half the time when a call comes through I’m just starting to laugh really hard at something (or squee myself to death because Sanzo and Hakkai are talking like a married couple with rowdy children again). I’m also amazed that, for all the times I’ve reread the series, I never skip any parts of it. Usually in a series there’ll be parts I’ll get tired of and don’t reread as often as the others… this one I just keep reading all the way through (as far as has been released here) over and over and over again. The way I’ve gotten totally drawn in to all sides of the conflict (I was going to say “the good guys and the bad guys,” but I realized that… doesn’t really work), the near-lethal hotness of almost every single character, the highly-reminiscent-of-Takeuchi-Naoko random-posing-in-different-outfits shots… holy shit, this is an awesome manga.
Third, a variety of little donuts.
Fourth, Shaman King. I am planning a series of vignettey items about Jun and Pailong. Especially now that they’ve reappeared.
Fifth, everything. I love everything. Destroy!
Sixth, I sold, like, ten phones today. Now, normally I get all types of calls. Sometimes there will be bizarre days when I seem to get lots and lots of one type or another… like… all activations; or all Month2Month people on level 25 who’ve used 15 night and weekend minutes and really sure as hell should not be on the Month2Month offer; or all stupid people who don’t know which is the pound key… oh, wait, that’s all of them. Anyway, today seemed to be all the people in the world who had lost their phones and needed new ones… even, in some cases, people out of warranty who actually accepted the fact that cell phones don’t last for more than a couple of years. At least ours don’t.
And speaking of Shaman King, now I will go watch.
*does a happy dance* (which you will probably never see again XP) Reload vol. 3 just came out!! XD
Yeth, I bought it last Saturday!!!! ^____^ That was why I reread the series, actually. I’ll probably do that every time a new volume comes out. Damn, I love it so much!
ohhhhhhhh, good idea. it’s been a while since i’ve reread the whole thing. no i must find them all. oh crap. i wish i was more organized. places they could be: under the bed, next to the bed, on the couch under a pile of junk, on the floor in the living room, in the car, and on the bookshelf. likelihood they’re on the bookshelf: ZERO! >_< hell, i think the last time i read Reload vol 1 was when i was working and i kept getting interrupted by *gasp* work and my annoying coworkers. XD
yes yes! love it! love it! i do believe it is my second favorite manga ever. second only to… take a wild guess… ^__^
(anyway, i'll stop yammering now.)
I do believe it’s risen to third place wis me. But I will freely admit that I think it’s the most well-done and artistic manga I’ve ever read, though I do love Kenshin and Shaman King better. You know what I really want to see, though? Hakkai without his power limiter! Have you seen the anime? Do you know if there’s more of that at some point? He only took it off the once so far, and we didn’t actually get to see the scene, only the very beginning and tail-end of it!!!
the overall art in it is wonderful. every time i reread it i always see something i missed before.
i want to see it too. i’ve see Saiyuki and i just saw the first four eps of Reload a few days ago. you see even less of Hakkai minus his limiters in the initial eps. than you do in the manga. i’m hoping for more in Reload. but so far i’m disappointed in Reload. they changed the english voice actors (i know, i know… XP) but it just doesn’t feel the same.
but one my flist some one pointed this out. i believe it’s from Reload or Reload Gunlock. i just about fainted when i saw it. i will now wait even more impatiently then i was before. hotdamn!
YES YES YES YES YES THAT’S WHAT I WANT. HOLY SHIT. Thank you so so much for that link; I can die happily now. *emails those pictures to self*
No, it’s not so much that I want to see the anime. I was just wondering if there was more of Hakkai without his limiter than we see in the single limiterless (limitless?) scene in the manga (when he kills the giant creature in soul-sucking-gourd-land and Minekura specifically didn’t let us see him). I’ve been burned too many times by anime that were painfully inferior to the manga they were based on that for Saiyuki (which, as I’ve already mentioned, I consider to be the most artistic manga I’ve ever read) I’m going to wait until I’ve read the entire manga before I even touch the anime to avoid being hurt again.
I KNOW!! my heart just about jumped out of my chest when i saw that!! i so wasn’t expecting that when i clicked on the link. just… beautiful!!
it’s not that the anime is bad, it’s just not the manga. i’ll try not to give anything away, but at some point it splits totally from the manga storyline. the story that’s told is good, although it took me some time to let go and not bitch about it, but once i did, it really was good. the art is… ok compared to the manga, in my opinion. not as good as it could have been, but not horrible. overall, i still prefer the manga, but i’ve found that that isn’t unusual.
I totally printed him out. He’s going on my wall. Holy shit the hotness. Just this picture alone may have been the last thing needed to bump him up to my favorite of the four. Gah.
Yeah, that tends to be the story wis anime based on manga. There are so few of them that really follow the manga faithfully… and even when they do, the quality almost always deteriorates. Which is really sad, because considering that in an anime you’ve got motion and sound to add to the story and characters the mangaka created, you’ve got the potential to create an even more effective piece of art as you’re reaching out to more senses. Yaa.
*chuckle* my husband refuses to let me put up anything anime/magna related in our apartment. (but my Samurai Champloo figures are on top of the tv right now) mostly because the only place i could would be right over the head of the bed and he doesn’t want to go to sleep with that above him. ^__^ but i warned him, when we move and have an extra room it shall be the fangirl room. too bad he’ll want to put his toys action figures and stuff in there too. XD
there is always so much potential for greatness, but rarely, if ever, does it actually happen. which is sad. the only thing i’ve come across that i actually like the anime better than the manga was Cowboy Beebop. although i think the manga was actually written after, but don’t quote me on that.
I actually don’t have anything on my walls right now, as I’m in my parents’ guest room. But when I have my own place again it shall again be Rurouni Kenshin paradise! And some other stuff. You may have seen the pictures of my previous apartments in this lj :D
To my understanding, the Bebop Shooting Star manga (that got cancelled before its story finished) was written before the anime, the other manga (just called Cowboy Bebop) was written after. I also could be wrong, though. And, yeah, they’re fairly lame. Another couple of anime I like better than their manga counterparts are Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon and Shoujo Kakumei Utena.
yes, i remember something like that. i believe i was envious.
you could be right. i own them both, a gift from the man several years ago, but i haven’t read them in ages. but lame is a very good word for them. i have a soft spot for the anime, twas the first anime i watched (excluding Pokeman, which i watched in high school. *waves loser flag*) and enjoyed.
I always thought Pokemon was cute and fun! Definitely kidsy, but enjoyable.