Oh I had no clue, fill me in maybe if its not too personal? O_o I felt like I'd lost track of you when I became immersed in my own real life things like my mom being in the hospital, finishing the Spring semester, and all kinds of other mess. I plan to get back to talking with you on MSN like you used to but the hitch is I just can't for the life of me sign into it anymore, I think they forced me to upgrade to Skype but when I try to log in it keeps telling me my password and or username is wrong @_@ I'm almost ready to give up on it.
So until I get it sorted out we could talk on here like we used to for a while until we come up with an alternative, whatever suits you. Maybe AIM?
I hear that, you take the good and the bad but sometimes you can't avoid someone raining on your parade story of my life. Nope, not weird at all I'm just a bit surprised since you watched that earlier in the year unless you liked it enough to want to re-watch it. I have favorites like that I've re-watched dozens of times and people call that strange but I don't care. It's cool, you have a life to live and I just hope you've been having more good things going on than bad. I'll keep my eye out for message and will do my best to help you in anyway that I can.
:) I'd been meaning to give that to you for a while when we were having our Halloween manga-thon. It helped me out quite a bit too since I eventually plan to read all of Ito's works, the ones that are available in english at least. No problemo, I'll keep an eye out for you later this evening if I'm still around.
Awesome, glad to hear it. I think the last time I talked to you was before Halloween, I know it's long over but how was Cross Country season? I still need to read the manga version of Mirai Nikki to see the differences between it and the anime. I haven't really been watching much anime or reading manga lately but instead I've been watching a lot of Korean films on netflix, mostly crime and horror films, and some aren't bad. That's my current obsession :p
Before I forget I wanted to recommend a short Junji Ito manga to you. Actually the story isn't his, he only did the artwork but I think it was pretty interesting and creepy for a short. http://junji-ito-index.tumblr.com/post/24808336886 I bookmarked that site a few months ago and hadn't been back since but apparently there are some more Junji Ito works available there too.
I felt the same way about it. That part of the story and the ramifications of it just made it a lot creepier and unsettling. Like at first it seemed very much like a dream and in that way fit perfectly into the idea that it was the dreams and dark fantasies of a delusional man. But those delusions were based/influenced by a terrible reality. He referred to the Atomic bomb as the "Emperor of Hell" whom he feared and worshiped and believed was his father. It was pretty dark and apocalyptic even, now that I think about its very reminiscent of the animation shorts in the "Salad Fingers" series. I watched those years ago and they were just as strange and atmospheric and both plots seemed to be about people who were deranged after surviving the end of the world (I thought that was implied or at least a possibility in Panaroma of Hell) That said I think I'm going to seek those out on youtube and re-watch them.
I honestly didn't like Panorama of Hell at first but when I started viewing it on a deeper level than just at face value I thought it was great. I read some of the authors other works recently but Panorama of Hell is his masterpiece and what he had the most personal stake in because of his own childhood. I hope you liked it well enough.
Are there any other horror manga you'd like to read from that list? I read most of the manga on there since I last spoke to you so I'll recommend the manga "Hideout". I read that months ago but I think it's pretty spot on as far as horror goes. Sonazki loved it too.
Hmm I was thinking about it a few nights ago. For starters it was pretty weird and atmospheric but I didn't really find it that scary, in fact it was actually kind of funny and trippy. There was one part that did creep me out quite a bit and made me think a lot more about the manga than I did before. Long story short the author was born in Manchuria, the part of China that is above the Korean Penninsula and before and during WW2 Japan pretty much created and ruled a puppet country there. Anyway at the end of the war after the Atomic bombings the Soviet army invaded and a lot of Japanese people died horribly attempting to flee back to the mainland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-occupied_Manchuria
So that part of the story wasn't made up it was autobiographical. I read some other works by the same author recently too.
Did you by chance read it yet? I figured you were busy and might not have had the time to spend reading or watching anything. Nice to hear from you though, how have you been? I've read a lot of manga since then and am currently trying to finish up a Junji Ito manga. I'll be sure to make recommendations. :) Oh good you did read it, I thought my comment was spoilerific if you hadn't.
Just like everyone else, I was also rather surprised to see the duration of the first episode. I already had some doubts when I saw that the characters in the anime poster(?) was in chibi form. After watching it..I can see how it was a disappointment, but I think it was not bad, considering that it was just 2 minutes xD
What you wrote in the post, that if someone just saw the anime version and from that decided to look up the manga, I guess I'm one of them lol. I didn't exactly pick up the manga after watching it, but when the anime was announced, I decided to go read it because the manga seemed interesting and I was quite amazed. I went on to read Bokura no Hikari Club too xD
I'm sure that it is, I'm surprised you find the time for any other hobbies in the mean time. Hopefully the pressure will ease up for you though, one can hope right?
Right, I think at the very least you could break someone's spine by doing that. But hey the violence was pretty over the top and not realistic. ooh irony time: Raizo had his face torn off which was ironic because of how much he obsessed over it) I think there were so many little things and that Prequel just expanded the story so much and made me like it all the more. I was really on Tamiya's side since he was the most normal of them and I could easily relate to him. He wanted the Hikari Club (Light Club) to be a light in the darkness of their dreary polluted city yet it became corrupted by Zera. I might think that's a bit of a stretch: I saw the Hikari Club as very Cult like, there were also the very obvious parallels with the Nazi's (Zera thought of himself as the next Hitler and even made them speak German and referred to having a Gestapo) and in that sense he bit by bit brain washed them into serving him either because of fear or that they were misled by his delusion. In psychology brainwashing and cult behavior is a pretty complicated subject for people to understand. I mean it's so difficult to imagine how someone could suspend their rationality and conscience and give in and be part of something horrible but its happened time and time again: murders, cults like Charles Manson's family, Jones Town, The Holocaust and Nazi's, etc, all the genocides before and since etc. I agree with you that Tamiya as the founder and one of the only sane ones left had an obligation to do the right thing, and when he finally did it was too late and the damage had already been done. I still don't think that entirely frees them of responsibility of course. One really powerful scene I thought was in the Prequel where Tamiya watched tv with his sister and she asked him why there was war, and he explained to her why and she said that killing was wrong. I'm sure he felt like a hypocrite telling her what he did when he was part of the madness. I remember that one! I liked it too, I'll have to leaf through them again soon.
Sounds good to me, I don't know what to expect from it really it has a weird art style and is almost funny in an odd way. I might read some tomorrow, the weekend is coming up so maybe you'll find the time to read too. Its only one or 2 volumes long.
I realized that, I don't get up usually until around 9 and it said it was from 3 hours ago at the time. Hopefully it's not bad drama, good drama or mediocre drama is better than bad drama. I'm sure its tough but hang in there! I've had 2 pretty tough runs/workouts the past two days. I'm killing myself trying to get in shape to run ASAP!
I'm sure we will do a fair amount of talking about it actually so I doubt I'll get bored. I've got quite a few things in my head about it myself as it is. I'd agree with that, basically the way I saw it there were only 2 maybe three of them that I think were actually homosexual and that was Jaibo (total yandere) and that guy, Raizo?, who always referred to himself as Rai-chan and how beautiful he was. I don't think Zera was gay, I think he was either deliberately or self-consciously fulfiling the prophecy of basically becoming that controversial Roman Emperor and the story mirrored that in a bunch of ways. Him becoming "Emperor" his convoluted plans, his growing paranoia, his homosexual fling with Jaibo, and being murdered at the end by his most loyal follower with a urinal (that scene just didn't make sense, I was like can you really disembowel someone with something like that?) and that Emperor had been killed by one of his own guards in a bathroom. I think the main difference was age, he died at 14 just like the fortune teller said. I read the anime is just comedic shorts but sure, I tend to be a completionist. I'll give you this in return: http://mangafox.me/manga/bokura_no_hikari_club/v01/c005/39.html
I do in fact, I had sent you a list of recommendations a while back towards the end of last month. If you somehow didn't receive it (weird?) here are 3 choices: Jisatsu Circle (I discovered last night it was by the same guy who wrote and drew Litchi Hikari Club which was surprising but the art style is different) Junji Ito works, doesn't matter to me which. His adaption of Frankenstein caught my eye, and I dabbled in reading these other 2 manga (not Ito's work) 1 called Left Hand of God Right Hand of the Devil and Panaroma of Hell. I probably screwed up the titles but they are on that site I gave you the link to the other day. I hope that helps! :)
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So until I get it sorted out we could talk on here like we used to for a while until we come up with an alternative, whatever suits you. Maybe AIM?
:) I'd been meaning to give that to you for a while when we were having our Halloween manga-thon. It helped me out quite a bit too since I eventually plan to read all of Ito's works, the ones that are available in english at least. No problemo, I'll keep an eye out for you later this evening if I'm still around.
Before I forget I wanted to recommend a short Junji Ito manga to you. Actually the story isn't his, he only did the artwork but I think it was pretty interesting and creepy for a short. http://junji-ito-index.tumblr.com/post/24808336886 I bookmarked that site a few months ago and hadn't been back since but apparently there are some more Junji Ito works available there too.
I honestly didn't like Panorama of Hell at first but when I started viewing it on a deeper level than just at face value I thought it was great. I read some of the authors other works recently but Panorama of Hell is his masterpiece and what he had the most personal stake in because of his own childhood. I hope you liked it well enough.
Are there any other horror manga you'd like to read from that list? I read most of the manga on there since I last spoke to you so I'll recommend the manga "Hideout". I read that months ago but I think it's pretty spot on as far as horror goes. Sonazki loved it too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-occupied_Manchuria
So that part of the story wasn't made up it was autobiographical. I read some other works by the same author recently too.
Did you by chance read it yet? I figured you were busy and might not have had the time to spend reading or watching anything. Nice to hear from you though, how have you been? I've read a lot of manga since then and am currently trying to finish up a Junji Ito manga. I'll be sure to make recommendations. :) Oh good you did read it, I thought my comment was spoilerific if you hadn't.
I was looking through the Litchi DE Hikari Club discussion thread and saw your post (http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=499445&show=40#msg17464155). Honestly, I really like the what you wrote there, especially the last sentence.
Just like everyone else, I was also rather surprised to see the duration of the first episode. I already had some doubts when I saw that the characters in the anime poster(?) was in chibi form. After watching it..I can see how it was a disappointment, but I think it was not bad, considering that it was just 2 minutes xD
What you wrote in the post, that if someone just saw the anime version and from that decided to look up the manga, I guess I'm one of them lol. I didn't exactly pick up the manga after watching it, but when the anime was announced, I decided to go read it because the manga seemed interesting and I was quite amazed. I went on to read Bokura no Hikari Club too xD
Right, I think at the very least you could break someone's spine by doing that. But hey the violence was pretty over the top and not realistic. ooh irony time: Raizo had his face torn off which was ironic because of how much he obsessed over it) I think there were so many little things and that Prequel just expanded the story so much and made me like it all the more. I was really on Tamiya's side since he was the most normal of them and I could easily relate to him. He wanted the Hikari Club (Light Club) to be a light in the darkness of their dreary polluted city yet it became corrupted by Zera. I might think that's a bit of a stretch: I saw the Hikari Club as very Cult like, there were also the very obvious parallels with the Nazi's (Zera thought of himself as the next Hitler and even made them speak German and referred to having a Gestapo) and in that sense he bit by bit brain washed them into serving him either because of fear or that they were misled by his delusion. In psychology brainwashing and cult behavior is a pretty complicated subject for people to understand. I mean it's so difficult to imagine how someone could suspend their rationality and conscience and give in and be part of something horrible but its happened time and time again: murders, cults like Charles Manson's family, Jones Town, The Holocaust and Nazi's, etc, all the genocides before and since etc. I agree with you that Tamiya as the founder and one of the only sane ones left had an obligation to do the right thing, and when he finally did it was too late and the damage had already been done. I still don't think that entirely frees them of responsibility of course. One really powerful scene I thought was in the Prequel where Tamiya watched tv with his sister and she asked him why there was war, and he explained to her why and she said that killing was wrong. I'm sure he felt like a hypocrite telling her what he did when he was part of the madness. I remember that one! I liked it too, I'll have to leaf through them again soon.
Sounds good to me, I don't know what to expect from it really it has a weird art style and is almost funny in an odd way. I might read some tomorrow, the weekend is coming up so maybe you'll find the time to read too. Its only one or 2 volumes long.
I'm sure we will do a fair amount of talking about it actually so I doubt I'll get bored. I've got quite a few things in my head about it myself as it is. I'd agree with that, basically the way I saw it there were only 2 maybe three of them that I think were actually homosexual and that was Jaibo (total yandere) and that guy, Raizo?, who always referred to himself as Rai-chan and how beautiful he was. I don't think Zera was gay, I think he was either deliberately or self-consciously fulfiling the prophecy of basically becoming that controversial Roman Emperor and the story mirrored that in a bunch of ways. Him becoming "Emperor" his convoluted plans, his growing paranoia, his homosexual fling with Jaibo, and being murdered at the end by his most loyal follower with a urinal (that scene just didn't make sense, I was like can you really disembowel someone with something like that?) and that Emperor had been killed by one of his own guards in a bathroom. I think the main difference was age, he died at 14 just like the fortune teller said. I read the anime is just comedic shorts but sure, I tend to be a completionist. I'll give you this in return: http://mangafox.me/manga/bokura_no_hikari_club/v01/c005/39.html
I do in fact, I had sent you a list of recommendations a while back towards the end of last month. If you somehow didn't receive it (weird?) here are 3 choices: Jisatsu Circle (I discovered last night it was by the same guy who wrote and drew Litchi Hikari Club which was surprising but the art style is different) Junji Ito works, doesn't matter to me which. His adaption of Frankenstein caught my eye, and I dabbled in reading these other 2 manga (not Ito's work) 1 called Left Hand of God Right Hand of the Devil and Panaroma of Hell. I probably screwed up the titles but they are on that site I gave you the link to the other day. I hope that helps! :)