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Anime Relations: Fushigi Yuugi, Kuragehime

So within the span of 3 days I've double timed and watched like 16 episodes of Fushigi Yuugi and basically completing that and Jellyfish Princess ALL BY GETTING ABSOLUTELY NO HOMEWORK FINISHED EITHER :DDDDD

OMFG I JUST...Fushigi Yuugi....omfggggggggg... I'll be honest, I thought that I got a little bit annoyed with the last 5 or so episodes because I just wanted them to GET ON WITH IT GOD DAMN IT and it felt like it just dragged on and on and it was like GOD JUST f!@#$NG KILL NAKAGO ALREADY DOG GAMMIT! (I'm not sure if you can cuss in your blog yet...not willing to take the risk either...)
Anyway, I read on the wiki page that people gave it mixed reviews and MAL people gave it a 7. I can kind of see where that comes from because it was obvious when the animation was lazy but I still think the story was good enough for a 52 episode series.
But yeah. I kind of can't buy why it was Tamahome x Miaka...like I just some how missed where they had substance in their relationship...AND WHAT THE DUCK YUI??? HOW WERE YOU ABLE TO LOVE TAMAHOME?! YOU WEREN'T! IT WAS ALL JEALOUSY SPEAKING. Jesus Christmas sake. You know, I can only put up with these high school girls for so long.
But the universe of it all was really interesting and I am pretty excited to read Genbu Kaiden and whenever that angel Yu Watase decides to publish the Byakko Kaiden arc because OMFG TATARA X SUZUNO FOREVER JESUS CHRIST UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I'm getting a lump in my throat just thinking about it.

Princess Jellyfish was just too flipping good. All of those socially inept b!tch3$ in one place is just pure PERFECTION. I'm going to gladly rewatch it whenever I feel the need to procrastinate on things that LOL probably shouldn't be procrastinated on!


OH but back to Fushigi Yuugi for a second, IF I WAS EVER SUCKED INTO THE UNIVERSE OF THE FOUR GODS I'D SOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO try to get at Hotohori. HOW THE HELL CAN YOU NOT LOVE THAT BEAUTIFUL SLICE OF SENSITIVE MAN KING? For anyone interested in MBTI, I think Hotohori could have been an INFJ...not quit sure if the show allowed him to fully express his Ni (well Ni for an ancient Chinese king in a fictional world) besides just clarifying that he isn't a sensor...whatever.

I smell bad, my room smells bad, I need to poop and shower, and read four full acts of Richard II because I suck at keeping up. Tomorrow my friend is pulling me through two work out classes. Goodbye a$$ *kisses* it was nice knowing you...lol here I come new series for my procrastinating needs *u*

Anime Relations: Fushigi Yuugi

SO, in an attempt to get my sh*t together I ended up watching like 16 episodes of Fushigi Yuugi (7 MORE AND THEN ONTO THE MANGAAAAA AGHH) and not doing anything that would put me further to getting a job or finishing any of the the butt loads of homework I have weighing me down. BUT I MEAN, HOW CAN I WHEN YOU HAVE TO READ ACT I - III OF RICHARD THE SECOND AND IT'S JUST SOOOOOOOOOOO DIFFICULT TO IMMERSE YOURSELF INTO???
Anyways, I thought I'd blow off responsibility and talk about anime. Woop woop.

So I said this on instagram but Nuriko should be a fucking gay icon. He is a transvestite that just so happens to have the abnormal ability for super human strength making him the strongest person physically! The symbolism behind that is perfect. Even if Nuriko's reasoning behind the choices he made personally weren't due to any pure trans/gay motives (because he did it to commemorate his dead sister) it still was a statement speaking loud and clear. I don't know how to truly analyze things in a post structuralist way, but I'm sure that method of criticism has something to do with that.
Anyways, Nuriko...WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DIE UGHHHHHHHHHHH his f@ggy a$$ was probably one of the best parts of the show D; But even if Yu Watase didn't intend on the coincidence, I personally think it was too clever and perfect not to be intended. I mean, if you want to look at it in the grand scheme of LGBT characters in literature and media, Nuriko should be a key figure on the list because it shows that femininity expressed by males (homosexuality and trans* peoples alike) doesn't mean that they can't be the strongest person on the planet.
I've always liked how anime and manga has some how catered to societal transgressions like homosexuality and incest and what have you EXPLICITLY, making them a normal motif or theme in most titles, where as the west is still dealing with abolishing that as a taboo in media. Japan seems to have had it right 20 years before us, and that's sad.
I haven't gotten up in arms about LGBT subjects in a while but YOU GO NURIKO, RIP AND I LOVE YOU!

What else is there? The plan to get my boyfriend to watch things with me is probably off....hmmm...I should be doing homework now. I have a loooooooong day ahead of me. Suzaku save my soul.
I feel like I am forgetting something that I wanted to write about...oh well.

Anime Relations: Shin Shirayuki-hime Densetsu Prétear, Fushigi Yuugi

So, I really don't know what to write about or how to even use my blog appropriately. I wish MyAnimeList gave us the opportunity to somehow acknowledge the music or other aspects of shows. But yeah sooooo I'm just gonna write about my time rewatching the Pretear anime from start to finish and other stuff because I want to procrastinate on writing a paper as much as possible!! :D

SO
Oh my GOSH. Pretear was something I got out of a very old Newtype magazine years ago and I loved it so ASDFGHJKL; much. Not so much that I would have somehow finished it back then, but enough to LOL finish it now in the midst of my skipping school for a week when I should be catching up. Hell yeeeeah. Anyways, I would rewatch the first episode over and over and I grew to like it a lot. So much so that when I was in like 4th grade I used the English lyrics of the opening theme "White Destiny" for some poetry project and played it off like I wrote the thing HO HO Yoko Ishida eat your heart out. I don't think anyone noticed but...I still plagiarized...but whatever it was for eduMAcational purposes.
Anyways, I'll just reiterate what I wrote on the forum: SO BASICALLY Pretear was definitely good enough for a good solid run through in one night. I think that the parallels to Snow White and Cinderella should have been SO BLEEPING OBVIOUS TO ME but for some reason I forgot about it. I mean, it would be so funny if Hayate was modeled after Grumpy...lol I think Go would have a Disney-fied dwarf of his own probably named "Horny". But the anime in itself was pretty substantial and funny throughout. I thought it was an interesting split that Takako and Natsue Awayuki weren't the same character or the idea of the Evil Queen/hag wasn't a unified entity in the show, it was two separate beings. If I compare, both Natsue and Takako had similar character designs and both had issues with the love department. Natsue went from man to man, and ended up with someone who is probably the opposite to her in every way. Takako was hurt by a lack of communication between Sesame, Hayate, and herself. As cold as Natsue was, she could love, and as optimistic as Takako was, she equally learned how to hate. I really don't know where I am going with this analysis. OH Mayune as a round character was just absolutely ridiculous. She needed Tanaka more than Tanaka needed her, but she came around I guess. Kei was just gay as S%#t. (oh that off to the side pony tail and he probably got his costume off the runway...) Anyways, I hate repeating jokes but...I really liked how every time Himeno would let the guys enter her, she'd get a new dress. Luckiest girl ever.
But yeah, now I have to read it.

I'm kind of conflicted because now I don't know what I want to watch next. I really like Fushigi Yuugi because it's like the anime version of The Never Ending Story or Jim Henson's Labyrinth. It has that 80's feel (even though it was made in the 90s...) and I don't know. It's just something nice to have on when it's dark out...and for some reason it makes me hungry.
I started reading Inu-Yasha and I like it a lot so far. It's about damn time though.
I am a troubled boy...so many options...so little time to make a decision...

So I want to try and get my boyfriend watch anime with me. I don't think I can watch Sailor Moon anymore without thinking about how I was learning how to be a housewife when I was at his apartment, trying to hide from his mom, and sneaking as much food as possible from the kitchen at 12 pm because I was too scared to walk out during any other time. LOL DOHHH now I'm nostalgic and S&%t. LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO SAILOR MOON!
It's going to be a battle. ARMOR ON!

Okay, I'll stop wasting time now. Successfully completed my first blog. w00t.


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OMFG THAT'S WHAT I SHOULD DO WITH MY BLOG! I'll force my boytoy to watch different animes with me and I'll write about the reactions and all of the funny bulls&%t that ensues with this "experiment"...heeeheeee I'm going to get so many bruises for this heeeeheeeheee ;D