Going on what you've said about I''s/Iori in the past, your maleish preferences and me being pretty sure you mentioned liking the weirdness of Midori Days, if you haven't already, you should check out Tuxedo Gin before it goes OOP completely.
When I was reading it, I noticed that the editor came across a little like you; her being an older woman not bothered by a penguin getting naked bath-time with the heroine. She also expressed a love for the series, as well as how well the penguins' expressions were expressed.
I thought you'd notice if I simply posted a thread on the forum and my job would be done in one go, but since no-one posted in it, I'm unsure if you read it - hence me now finally bothering to message you.
I don't know what it is but something about AUKN brings out my trolling tendencies. Too few fish; too many I dislike? Maybe I'm just naturally an arse? Idk - it's complicated. But I want to leave again already.
I take it you aren't too hot on melon breed, bull-buses, Someday's Dreamers, L/R, or any of the other high caliber titles in my collection, then? Too bad. I guess I'll have to figure out another way to get your address. Togari's probably too shounen for you/lacks boyxboy action, and you no doubt own Saiyuki already. 'Tis troublesome...
Kitoh's a normal enough guy when he's not writing about preteen girls forcing tubes up the 'special places' of other preteen girls, or showing preteen girls being forced to eat worms, I'm sure. Narutaru's great for trolling purposes because it starts out all Pokemon - some cute girl finding a starfish-thing - and then kids start dying/being raped.
If you haven't seen it, this is why worms are bad:
I like Kitoh's work purely because he goes where no-one without hatred for children would go. I need to get back into the Bokurano manga; me having on-holded it after being bored by/not following some philosophical chatter involving a fat kid after he tried to knife a teacher who lead a student of his to a gangbang/raped on video session. (It was toned down/altered in the anime.)
...I don't know why I keep typing to you when you're the only person to make me feel how I make them feel with your response speed. Maybe I'm just a nice guy? Idk. It could be love... or hate?
Just so you know, I wasn't trying to sell Casshern to you. I am going to be trying to sell some unwanted anime on eBay, sooner or later, but I thought I'd offer you one of the series on my to sell list to get evenish with you. It irritates me; being in debt to someone, and I figured I'd give the whole 'plz let me pay you back!' thing one last shot.
(This is, of course, all a lie - I just want your address so I can blackmail you into sending me more books I can't read, at a later date.)
With that said, no need to reply if you wish to be introverted. I'll pester you no more until you desire to be pestered.
Why drop Bokurano? Gonzo's CG is clunky but it's one of the more interesting titles out there, if nothing else. Dropping after three episodes is a tad harsh for someone 'easier' on anime than me; going on your past comments.
Also: do you happen to own Casshern Sins, or have any interest in it?
It's been awhile since I watched Moribito, and my memories have now faded (which is why MVM's two-part releases are good), but I do clearly remember a tear or two falling from my eyes as Chagum was forced to say goodbye to Balsa; his second mother. I bet, with your maternal instincts an' all, you cried a river... right?
Also, when I checked if you'd finished Moribito, I noticed you added more to your list. And that's good since the whole point of using MAL is to list shit.
I felt how you did about Moribito as I edged closer to the end of Kaiji. I ended up marathoning the last 13 episodes in one sitting... then realizing the anime is only the adaptation of the first of three or four Kaiji series. That sucked. It was a wonderfully thrilling series, full of excellent conversations/dialogue and mental battles, but being left without an anime conclusion is never a good thing...
Flowers & Bees was recommended to me by Fabio in the distant past, if I do recall. Since I found Hataraki Man to be a lot of fun - even if it was a tad predictable - would you say a manga with a title that combines girly shit and my worst fear is worth my time?
And, on a related note: I'm downloading the Hana Yori Dango anime. How does the manga compare to the anime, and is it true the male lead is violent with the heroine?
I don't REALLY want to go through the shoujo version of romance (Maison Ikkoku had a male 'edge' to it; in spite of Takahashi being a she) / suffer, but there's little else out there I can find that I have a desire to sit through...
In my case, it was always Suzuku's hypocrisy and goody-goody front that rubbed me up the wrong way. So, I never minded too much when Lelouch did his evil laughing routine, or mercilessly killed innocents, because of Britannia supporting slavery and Suzuku being a complete and utter, Euro-crushing penis. And Lelouch being a slightly more feeling version of Light - a favourite character of mine - helped him out a great deal.
Typing of things being agonized over, I HATED how in S2 - after CC gave a speech at the end of S1 about her being the only one who'd be beside him, following his auto-Geass drama - she simply handed him a friggin' contact lens. Seriously, it was as if the writers no longer cared because they knew the fans would eat up whatever shit they served - and they were right. (It's all your fault!)
Back when I first started Frontier, I gave the original Macross a chance... quickly running away because of the ugliness of the character designs. You mentioned "fan service nods", and I'm guessing the part where Atlo caught Ranka in the first episode was one of many.
Seeing how Frontier pretty much copied the original made me think of Gundam. If not for SEED being my first Gundam, I probably would've hated it for all but copying the original Gundam. (There's no originality in anime, etc etc.)
...Anyway, Atlo better go with the 2D girl with boobs or I'll 1/10 it. Seeing Taiga win over Ami in Toradora - against known penis logic - was enough to make me hate loli-kind with passion. The cutesy "Nyan-Nyan" dancing girl is not my cup of tea; nor would she be any guy who doesn't want to 'play' with children's cup of tea.
There's romance in Zero, and Roy Focker from Meet the Parents returns from the original/makes his Macross introduction/i so confuse in it - also having something on the side with a scientist lady. But you're right about there being a LOT of focus on 11/10, must be seen in HD CG aerial dog-fights. Zero is more of a visual experience than most; the greens of the jungle and blues of the ocean being stunning.
As you no doubt from your previous stalking antics, I cried the hardest (i.e., some tears actually fell from my eyes) after watching episode 60. That sl... err, Kyoko being seen with Mitaka on top of her in his apartment, Godai clicking escape, then lying to Kyoko about his feelings for her always hits me hard - in animated form, at least. The hurt in Kyoko's shimmery eyes as she turned around pained me.
The ending didn't make me cry at all, though. For one, the wedding ceremony was far too alien to me for me to get all mushy. For two, I was depressed by it just ending with a baby produced to bawl like the baby in the pictures. Even when Kyoko was doing her jealous rage thing, the post-Mitaka section of the story warmed my heart too much for me to get upset since it was obvious, from the point Mitaka was rejected, that the main two would SOON get it on... and, of course, they did.
Fabio helped me complete my 1st edition (with early cuts/flipped art) collection. I got 1-11 off eBay, for next to nothing, along with Blue Gender. Then, a few years later, Fabio randomly sent me his copies of 12-14. And I now fully appreciate his gesture after finishing the anime and reading the volumes he sent.
It's good you told your husband why you sent 14 books for free to some fella you met on the net. I don't want to have to push you away to stop my charisma pulling too many emotions from you - I'm no home wrecker. And unless you're more attractive than most internet females, it'd be too much hassle. So, please: restrain yourself.
About Fujoshi Rumi: you were nice to me, so if you don't receive your 4-6/7 (?) books, I'd be willing to lend mine to you. All I'd ask is for you to cover the postage costs and send them back translated.
You rate reclusive 20-somethings as valuable anime fans? I'm glad your logic allows for affection/devotion, but I don't quite get it...
Mousepad, you say?... I've been using some tatty Aspergers-related book for so long I've forgotten about their existence. I think I'll keep Horo neat and tidy in her plastic bag... for no real reason, though. (If you were going to get a random JP gift, a boobie-mousepad would've been appreciated.)
...I guess that's it; for now. The 'payment for goods' offer is still there, even if you don't care about money. Goodbye.
FYI, ignoring me won't make me go away. I have the persistence of a rapist.
Are you planning to go on another trip to Japan anytime soon? If so, me want UxU. I'm rather fond of these 'give-give-give', take-take-take' relationships, tbh.
Also, do you have something against me paying for what you sent me, or is the amount too little for you to care? Do you regularly give younger men gifts/does your husband know?
How did you manage to get everything to the UK - did you seriously ship most of it from Japan, before leaving? That reads like a hell of a lot of effort, if so. You're either very dedicated or your husband is more adept then most at the art of carrying bags.
Macross Frontier was a good title to pick-up, considering it seemingly has no chance of ever getting a R1 release thanks to Robotech fucking everything up. I hope you picked up Zero, too, since that's even more 'MUST OWN!11!1!' worthy. (I can't tell you how happy I was to win all five Japanese DVDs on eBay for next to nothing.)
I started Frontier, back when it was still airing. I recall liking it but not being too into the love triangle; the lead not being anything special and one-third of the triangle being an annoyingly excitable green-haired loli. Due to me not liking men or children, only Sheryl did it for me, and I seem to remember Atlo finding himself a bit too close for comfort with her, early on.
I'm pretty sure I on-holded it due to a combination of the story being too slow for weekly viewing and the space battles being too fast/hard to follow. But be sure to share your thoughts with mine self, if you so desire.
You mentioned Suppli before, and though I can't remember much about a title that clearly isn't aimed at reclusive young(er) men, I did finish Hataraki Man the other day. In a nutshell, it's a more comical, less serious version of Suppli - the story being about a woman who enters 'working man' mode when on the job; putting everything womanly aside. She struggles with the stresses of work, interacts with her co-workers, loses her boyfriend, etc etc - the usual OL stuff, with some very nice, HD/upscaled visuals. Worth your time, methinks.
...wait, why am I even bothering when you probably already own it?
I'm more of a Death Note guy than a TTGL guy. That said, I liked Code Geass for Lelouch's character rather than because of the multi-coloured robots on roller-skates and silliness. With me, R2 was always going to lead to my face being placed in my hands.
I guess, if I tried to be sweet and understanding, I could see why you'd enjoy R2 more for focusing on mecha craziness and discarding logical progression. But, truthfully, I can't help but find it irritating to see what's regarded as a train-wreck ranked higher than a first series that had SOME value, on brainy level. Seeing how much of S1 got repeated at the start of R2 was enough to make me dislike it, without low level mechas being able to hurt super mechas/Spinzaku defeating Europe on his own/surprise submarine aerial upgrades.
(Btw, if you're still feeling 'giving', buy and send me Beez's R2 releases. Thx!)
...That'll do, for now. If you continue to ignore me, don't worry - I will eventually question you about wtf happens in 4-6 of Fujoshi Rumi. I'll scan pages, you translate - it'll work out well enough.
You were right: parcels that travel by sea are slow. From the 11th of Aug to the 29th of Sep... at least it didn't get dropped in the ocean.
(I should really hold back when trying to make people feel less bad for not not fulfilling off-hand jokes/not 100% serious demand requests...)
Flicking through Fujoshi Rumi 4 made me sad. On one-hand it's great to own physical copies of volumes that look almost certain never to be translated into English. On the other hand, it'll only be possible to get so much from flicking through pretty picture books. I'll have no trouble working out what's going on when Matsui's breasts are getting groped, true, but the powers of my imagination are not strong, generally...
...wait, you like Fujoshi, and you've probably finished it... right? YOU CAN TYPE ME UP TEN PARAGRAPH DESCRIPTIONS FOR EACH BOOK! Perrrrrrrrfect.
On the plus side, as expected, Life should be slightly easier to deal with, if only because there isn't that much dialogue - as I mentioned before. Bad things happen to school girls, they cry, and there's an almost-but-not-quite main yuri pairing - my imagination can do a lot of with school girls + nastiness + yuri.
On a random note, I kind of want to punch myself for flicking through the chunky final volume; revealing to myself that there's no yuri, in the end, and that the two best friends go their separate ways. Not good - the low chance of lesbianism would have kept me reading until the very end...
The Horo card-thing and fastener were nice random extras, by the by. Once I manage to get Horo back in her plastic bag, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with the card-thing, but the fastener can be worn with pride outside - if only because it's too small to take note of.
...I guess Horo/furry 2D women are quite popular in Japan?
Anyway, many thanks for being good enough to help out a loser in need. Acts of charity such as this will help God forgive you for any and every sin, at the bitter end, I'm sure. I can only assume you have too much fun buying books at Mandarake to care about who you're buying for, or concerning yourself over paying more on taxes because of lazy idiots.
Since I don't believe in God, and too much niceness by a person who may or may not be known as Roy away from the internet makes me feel guilty, I'd be more than willing to cover your costs - that's the least I can do. Unless manga truly is given away in Japan - cheapo used/old stock store or not - I'm doubting the £8 valuation, so you'll have to tell me the real price, as well as the packaging/shipping cost. If you use PayPal, I'll send e-money, but the empty DVD case method is also still an option.
I'm not feeling terribly chatty, either. Too little sunlight/rain and the risk of seeing sunlight/rain in the near future will do that to any high level hermit master. I was in the mood for Maison Ikkoku chatter, after discovering once again how wonderful it is and how pretty much everything else compares badly to it, but it seems "Fabriluna" would rather type about crappy high school romance, where sod all of interest happens until the end, instead... so that's that.
You should hold off on re-reading/watching MI until everything else bores you and you're on the verge of throwing in your anime/manga towel. It's quite an accomplishment for a story to make me all teary-eyed, and the anime pulling that off so many times in quick succession makes me think negatively of Toradora for not once making me emotional. Plus, in a world where every story is centered around blushing high school brats, MI's premise makes it something special; something worth remembering.
How often can I come out of a story, after being terribly frustrated by the heroine, and STILL love her; still viewing her as a prize worth all the effort the lead put in to get her? Flawed by Takahashi dragging out the story she may be, but that weakness in her character - her imperfection - made her very human, as well as adorable. Her jealous rages were too cute for me not to love her.
If you haven't already, watch the anime before re-reading the manga. There are some areas - as you know already from stalking - where the anime bettered the manga, and it being slightly more focused on drama will have probably force you to get the tissues out.
...More later - feeling especially lazy. Again, thanks a lot for being good enough to send 14 books to a stranger; I never truly expected you to do so. I must admit to being impressed with my ability to get books sent without sending money first from internet people, though - only the other week Ms. Ai's Eden 10 & ASN 9 arrived from America.
Welcome back from Japan. (YOU BITCH! How dare you not send me Japanese comics I'd flick through, not understand, and put in a box; never to be touched again, etc etc.)
Cheers. My "celebration" always comes down to ignoring the date's existence, but thanks regardless for remembering. You have a far better memory than me, clearly.
I wondered where you'd gone... well, not really, since I occasionally look at AUKN to see if there's any new UK news, but I did wonder when/if you'd reply, one day.
Enjoy your trip/insert whatever anyone should say when someone is leaving this shithole of a country. If you can, find a way to stay over there to escape. That way, you can become a true... err, fujoshi. Or find a little boy to 'mother' and it not be too wrong.
PS: Be sure to translate the books before sending, if you find yourself able to send them to 121 with a bill.
Y'know, I'm starting to be as reluctant to use MAL as you once were prior to me nagging you about joining up; prior to me abandoning AUKN in order to escape Dangerous Dave. Whenever I log-on, I have a message that needs attending to, and my messages tend not to be of the short variety due to me rambling like an old fart (no offense intended, btw).
In any event, my computer is working now - all is well. My only issue, which you may or may not be able to assist me with, is fan-related. Y'see, my computer is a bit shit, really, and its CPU hits close to 100% with great ease. If not for CoreAVC, nearly all 720P content would be impossible to watch, and because of Flash-related rubbish most videos watched on the net max out my CPU.
This wouldn't be a HUGE problem, since I've long accepted that my computer is only good for Warcraft 3 (not maxed, even!)... but, lately, once it hits 100%, if it stays at 100% my system freezes; requiring a hard reset. This usually only happened when watching Flash videos on the net in the past (which made following the P4 Endurance Run over on Giant Bomb difficult), but lately it seems anything that maxes out my CPU brings the risk of freezing, which obviously isn't ideal.
So, it got me thinking: maybe my system is overheating due to CPU stress. And, sure enough, when stressed, my CPU is cooking at 70-80c - 52-55c when idle. I've got the dust out as best I can with my hoover, but what I really need is another fan, since the fan that blew wind into my comp needed to be took out around a year ago. And this brings me to my question: how easy is it for a novice to buy the right fan that can be plugged into my motherboard? I ask because I don't want my next mini-drama to involve my manga collection getting burned. /strokes his plastic-bagged books lovingly
(Sorry for spending three paragraphs building up to asking a question - I know not the meaning of the word 'concise'...)
Moving onto your actual message (lol?): I fully understand where you're coming from about desiring nothing more than keeping to yourself/not talking to weird people about anime. With my birthday coming up, in spite of my never-ending messages suggesting otherwise, I'd prefer just to go on the net, read my emails, update whatever and leave it at that. Thank God I'm not into Twitter/proper social linking websites!
I think DtB being anime only/having no source material became more and more apparent as time passed. Early on the vagueness and episodic stories didn't matter and, if anything, made it more appealing... but, as the series progressed, and very little was revealed, it started to become clear how little substance there was hiding behind the style. Bones + Kanno, and its excellent opening six episodes, made it hard for me to go lower than 8/10, but the Evangelion-esque dream shit at the end pushed me close to going with 7/10.
Like you, I don't care much about S2, either. I've seen some very negative reviews about it posted on here by intelligent-seeming lifeforms, and Kanno's music being replaced with some sort of tecnho rubbish make it less than tempting. I *might* go for it if PlayUSA sell the collection for £17.99, just to complete my DtB collection, but I don't care if it doesn't get listed. There's no more character development of note to add, no more story to cover, and it was probably only made to cash-in on its successful prequel. Honestly, what's the point of even bothering when Nov. 11 won't be present? Without Iceman, DtB just ain't cool anymore.
NANA/Suppli are definitely aimed more at those with vaginas, and Gantz is 100% aimed at those who try to enter them, but it MIGHT be worth giving Gantz a chance, purely for shits and giggles, since you like/don't mind fan service. I mean, in the second or third chapter, a big-breasted, naked girl teleports into the Gantz room, and straight away some guy attempts to rape her. It's THAT kind of story; created from a male mind, where a dog called 'Butter Dog' has a fetish for areas that smell fishy. Even if you dislike it, there are far, far... FAR less entertaining ways to waste time/money out there.
Man, I don't know what the hell I'm doing with what I buy anymore. I once cared about displaying everything neatly, but now I just stack things or put them in boxes. If I'm able this xmas, I'll probably have another mini-clearout on eBay, but even then I'll have nowhere to put anything. I envy you; owning your own house and actually having rooms dedicated to your collections of things you no doubt want to hide from guests/children that visit and want to destroy your precious comic books.
I may get a weird screen-glance for asking this, but doesn't the 'Boy' in 'Boy's Love' suggest that the males who violate each other should be... well, boys? I thought a 15-16-year-old, often topless Sasuke would be perfect for the deranged girls who play with themselves over fictional hairless characters...
Your thoughts on BL ("woman with a penis") do, I must confess, disturb me somewhat, but it does amuse me that you mentioned the LxLight pairing for the simple reason that most put Death Note's popularity down to yaoi fangirls, rather than people appreciating its story. I have to admit that it has always surprised me how many people have watched/read a title that uses words rather than fists to excite, and it would explain a lot if 75% of its fanbase happen to be yaoi fangirls.
*searches Google for mpreg...*
...WTF!? What did I say previously that lead you to bringing up a pregnant male fetish? LEAVE MY INNOCENT MIND ALONE!!!!
Over a month until you can finish R2, you say/said? Oh, jolly good - I'm not too late, in that case!
I'm a CG R2 hater. I posted my rant in a thread I created about anime moaning on AUKN ages ago, but it's WAAAAY down the pages now. Too lazy to look. But I'm - oddly, from my perdspective - one of the few S1 lovers/S2 haters.
There's so much to bitch about in the opening eight episodes alone that, in the end, I bitched myself out - stealth dropping it. Suzaku taking Lelouch halfway around the world to see Charlie, after previously being out for blood; Kallen abandoning her leader during the key moment of her people's rebellion; memory loss being used as a plot device to extend the story, and the first three episodes repeating the first three of S1; Lelouch getting from the Chinese Embassy to his school in a matter of seconds; Suzaku defeating Europe on his own; tactics being removed from battles since only super mechas can harm super mechas; the surprise submarine... seriously, I could go on all night. Even with my AWFUL memory, my hatred for what Sunrise did to my beloved Code Geass allows me to rant about R2's opening eight episodes, endlessly.
In short: there's no way I'll comprehend you liking S1 more than S2. There's a much better chance of you getting me to understand why seeing hairless pretty boys violate each other does it for you, now that you've converted me into a Fujoshi Rumi fanboy. (Any further awesome manga recs, by the by?)
...Looks like your message wasn't as long as I thought. I'm almost disappointed.
Question: What do you think of my Fujoshi review? You went into ignore mode after I asked... until I had a near-computer-death experience. Would it help get a response faster if I were to inform you that my computer may not last the week? :|
PS: If you take 5-6 weeks/enter eternal ignore mode, have fun in Japan. And, seriously, since I dick around too much for most human beings to tell, no worries if you can't find time to send me books - I'll live; depressed, crying, and clutching Princess, but I'll live. Enjoying your trip is a priority one! (/guess the anime reference game)
Erm, this makes me feel slightly silly for rushing out to use someone's PC to say farewell, but I managed to get a XP disc, a few hours after messaging you. I thought my cousin had given away his pirate XP disc with the computer he sold... but he'd kept it, and my uncle got for me. After some further installation related drama, I was able to get my computer working again. Yay?
I feel bad now 'cause both you and someone else, excluding Fabio (/useless), sent me back messages trying to help me. Next time, I'll be sure to leave it a week before moving to the 'wave goodbye, with tears in eyes' stage. ;___;
Just so you know, for future PC woe reference: my PC is a seven/eight-year-old piece of junk Time Computers sold to my mother for £1,000 shortly before they died. It's a miracle it still works, but it does, and - with CoreAVC - it even plays 720P files... just about!
And, yes, having a XP disc would help me out a lot, considering most of my issues are related to XP files. GIMMIE!!!!
Out of curiosity, how would I have installed Ubuntu on my restarting system? (Serious question, from a PC idiot/idiot in general.)
Thanks for answering my question, long after I forgot about it. Next time I want an answer ASAP, I'll be sure to mention being on life support.
No surprise about you already having read Suppli - I assumed as much, since you'd even read Confidential Confessions long before I'd started rambling about it on AUKN.
The new 400 page, double volume releases aren't so bad, really. It's kind of hard to read two volumes of such a slow moving womanly drama in one go, mind...
I'll look forward to receiving a late present from you, allowing me to sorta-kinda finish a 9/10 of mine. (No pressure, btw. None whatsoever. It's your imagination.)
I'll try to get around to this promised response you're due tomorrow, depending on how many hours Ai's essay requires first. Dealing with two married woman at once isn't easy, tbh...
I was going to send you a response today... but last night I managed to remove a key XP file with Avira, which resulted in my computer restarting over and over. Without a XP disc, my computer is as good as useless...
/depressed
Sorry for not being able to get back to you after you took 5-6 weeks with your response, cheers for recommending two wonderful manga to me, and I hope you enjoy your trip to Japan.
Considering I knew not of its existence, in spite of me reading both Genshiken and High School Girls, it's a sure bet that it sold so pathetically that there's zero chance of it ever being finished. Not helping matters was the fact that some kind soul took the time to scan EVERY page from all three volumes and upload them onto the net.
Since you understand the serious business that is Japanese, I have two questions that weren't answered at the back of the books:
1: Why does Fujoshi call Matsui Matsun?
1: Why does Abe add '-chi' to the end of Chiba's name?
i so confuse
The reason I fav'd and reviewed it after only three volumes is because v3 resolved Chiba and Matsui's relationship. I didn't quite get 'ard, like, when they kissed passionately, but it did make me want them to get it on. Now that they're FINALLY together, if I ever read further, I no doubt have some first time humour to look forward to, and maybe/hopefully an erotic sex scene or two.
One of my main problems with the series early on was that I saw no real reason for Abe to chase so hard after Rumi. She acted like a totally self-absorbed bitch; only caring about her own interests and making no effort for Abe. The way Abe kept running back to her, no matter what, irked me. I prefer the equality on display in the ChibaxMatsui relationship much, MUCH more.
And, ja, a person pointing out that there's no real comparison between it and Onegai should make you more interested. Only idiots rate shit like Onegai 10/10, and it's aimed 100% at ronrey males.... UNLIKE ME, OF COURSE! I LIKE SOLITUDE!!!!
PS: Thanks for taking the time to comment on my review, btw. You've made me feel like it was all worthwhile taking the time to express myself, after your rec inspired me to do so. Much love for that.
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When I was reading it, I noticed that the editor came across a little like you; her being an older woman not bothered by a penguin getting naked bath-time with the heroine. She also expressed a love for the series, as well as how well the penguins' expressions were expressed.
I thought you'd notice if I simply posted a thread on the forum and my job would be done in one go, but since no-one posted in it, I'm unsure if you read it - hence me now finally bothering to message you.
Later.
I take it you aren't too hot on melon breed, bull-buses, Someday's Dreamers, L/R, or any of the other high caliber titles in my collection, then? Too bad. I guess I'll have to figure out another way to get your address. Togari's probably too shounen for you/lacks boyxboy action, and you no doubt own Saiyuki already. 'Tis troublesome...
Kitoh's a normal enough guy when he's not writing about preteen girls forcing tubes up the 'special places' of other preteen girls, or showing preteen girls being forced to eat worms, I'm sure. Narutaru's great for trolling purposes because it starts out all Pokemon - some cute girl finding a starfish-thing - and then kids start dying/being raped.
If you haven't seen it, this is why worms are bad:
I like Kitoh's work purely because he goes where no-one without hatred for children would go. I need to get back into the Bokurano manga; me having on-holded it after being bored by/not following some philosophical chatter involving a fat kid after he tried to knife a teacher who lead a student of his to a gangbang/raped on video session. (It was toned down/altered in the anime.)
...I don't know why I keep typing to you when you're the only person to make me feel how I make them feel with your response speed. Maybe I'm just a nice guy? Idk. It could be love... or hate?
(This is, of course, all a lie - I just want your address so I can blackmail you into sending me more books I can't read, at a later date.)
With that said, no need to reply if you wish to be introverted. I'll pester you no more until you desire to be pestered.
Goodbye.
Also: do you happen to own Casshern Sins, or have any interest in it?
Also, when I checked if you'd finished Moribito, I noticed you added more to your list. And that's good since the whole point of using MAL is to list shit.
I felt how you did about Moribito as I edged closer to the end of Kaiji. I ended up marathoning the last 13 episodes in one sitting... then realizing the anime is only the adaptation of the first of three or four Kaiji series. That sucked. It was a wonderfully thrilling series, full of excellent conversations/dialogue and mental battles, but being left without an anime conclusion is never a good thing...
Flowers & Bees was recommended to me by Fabio in the distant past, if I do recall. Since I found Hataraki Man to be a lot of fun - even if it was a tad predictable - would you say a manga with a title that combines girly shit and my worst fear is worth my time?
And, on a related note: I'm downloading the Hana Yori Dango anime. How does the manga compare to the anime, and is it true the male lead is violent with the heroine?
I don't REALLY want to go through the shoujo version of romance (Maison Ikkoku had a male 'edge' to it; in spite of Takahashi being a she) / suffer, but there's little else out there I can find that I have a desire to sit through...
In my case, it was always Suzuku's hypocrisy and goody-goody front that rubbed me up the wrong way. So, I never minded too much when Lelouch did his evil laughing routine, or mercilessly killed innocents, because of Britannia supporting slavery and Suzuku being a complete and utter, Euro-crushing penis. And Lelouch being a slightly more feeling version of Light - a favourite character of mine - helped him out a great deal.
Typing of things being agonized over, I HATED how in S2 - after CC gave a speech at the end of S1 about her being the only one who'd be beside him, following his auto-Geass drama - she simply handed him a friggin' contact lens. Seriously, it was as if the writers no longer cared because they knew the fans would eat up whatever shit they served - and they were right. (It's all your fault!)
Back when I first started Frontier, I gave the original Macross a chance... quickly running away because of the ugliness of the character designs. You mentioned "fan service nods", and I'm guessing the part where Atlo caught Ranka in the first episode was one of many.
Seeing how Frontier pretty much copied the original made me think of Gundam. If not for SEED being my first Gundam, I probably would've hated it for all but copying the original Gundam. (There's no originality in anime, etc etc.)
...Anyway, Atlo better go with the 2D girl with boobs or I'll 1/10 it. Seeing Taiga win over Ami in Toradora - against known penis logic - was enough to make me hate loli-kind with passion. The cutesy "Nyan-Nyan" dancing girl is not my cup of tea; nor would she be any guy who doesn't want to 'play' with children's cup of tea.
There's romance in Zero, and Roy Focker from Meet the Parents returns from the original/makes his Macross introduction/i so confuse in it - also having something on the side with a scientist lady. But you're right about there being a LOT of focus on 11/10, must be seen in HD CG aerial dog-fights. Zero is more of a visual experience than most; the greens of the jungle and blues of the ocean being stunning.
As you no doubt from your previous stalking antics, I cried the hardest (i.e., some tears actually fell from my eyes) after watching episode 60. That sl... err, Kyoko being seen with Mitaka on top of her in his apartment, Godai clicking escape, then lying to Kyoko about his feelings for her always hits me hard - in animated form, at least. The hurt in Kyoko's shimmery eyes as she turned around pained me.
The ending didn't make me cry at all, though. For one, the wedding ceremony was far too alien to me for me to get all mushy. For two, I was depressed by it just ending with a baby produced to bawl like the baby in the pictures. Even when Kyoko was doing her jealous rage thing, the post-Mitaka section of the story warmed my heart too much for me to get upset since it was obvious, from the point Mitaka was rejected, that the main two would SOON get it on... and, of course, they did.
Fabio helped me complete my 1st edition (with early cuts/flipped art) collection. I got 1-11 off eBay, for next to nothing, along with Blue Gender. Then, a few years later, Fabio randomly sent me his copies of 12-14. And I now fully appreciate his gesture after finishing the anime and reading the volumes he sent.
It's good you told your husband why you sent 14 books for free to some fella you met on the net. I don't want to have to push you away to stop my charisma pulling too many emotions from you - I'm no home wrecker. And unless you're more attractive than most internet females, it'd be too much hassle. So, please: restrain yourself.
About Fujoshi Rumi: you were nice to me, so if you don't receive your 4-6/7 (?) books, I'd be willing to lend mine to you. All I'd ask is for you to cover the postage costs and send them back translated.
You rate reclusive 20-somethings as valuable anime fans? I'm glad your logic allows for affection/devotion, but I don't quite get it...
Mousepad, you say?... I've been using some tatty Aspergers-related book for so long I've forgotten about their existence. I think I'll keep Horo neat and tidy in her plastic bag... for no real reason, though. (If you were going to get a random JP gift, a boobie-mousepad would've been appreciated.)
...I guess that's it; for now. The 'payment for goods' offer is still there, even if you don't care about money. Goodbye.
Are you planning to go on another trip to Japan anytime soon? If so, me want UxU. I'm rather fond of these 'give-give-give', take-take-take' relationships, tbh.
Also, do you have something against me paying for what you sent me, or is the amount too little for you to care? Do you regularly give younger men gifts/does your husband know?
How did you manage to get everything to the UK - did you seriously ship most of it from Japan, before leaving? That reads like a hell of a lot of effort, if so. You're either very dedicated or your husband is more adept then most at the art of carrying bags.
Macross Frontier was a good title to pick-up, considering it seemingly has no chance of ever getting a R1 release thanks to Robotech fucking everything up. I hope you picked up Zero, too, since that's even more 'MUST OWN!11!1!' worthy. (I can't tell you how happy I was to win all five Japanese DVDs on eBay for next to nothing.)
I started Frontier, back when it was still airing. I recall liking it but not being too into the love triangle; the lead not being anything special and one-third of the triangle being an annoyingly excitable green-haired loli. Due to me not liking men or children, only Sheryl did it for me, and I seem to remember Atlo finding himself a bit too close for comfort with her, early on.
I'm pretty sure I on-holded it due to a combination of the story being too slow for weekly viewing and the space battles being too fast/hard to follow. But be sure to share your thoughts with mine self, if you so desire.
You mentioned Suppli before, and though I can't remember much about a title that clearly isn't aimed at reclusive young(er) men, I did finish Hataraki Man the other day. In a nutshell, it's a more comical, less serious version of Suppli - the story being about a woman who enters 'working man' mode when on the job; putting everything womanly aside. She struggles with the stresses of work, interacts with her co-workers, loses her boyfriend, etc etc - the usual OL stuff, with some very nice, HD/upscaled visuals. Worth your time, methinks.
...wait, why am I even bothering when you probably already own it?
I'm more of a Death Note guy than a TTGL guy. That said, I liked Code Geass for Lelouch's character rather than because of the multi-coloured robots on roller-skates and silliness. With me, R2 was always going to lead to my face being placed in my hands.
I guess, if I tried to be sweet and understanding, I could see why you'd enjoy R2 more for focusing on mecha craziness and discarding logical progression. But, truthfully, I can't help but find it irritating to see what's regarded as a train-wreck ranked higher than a first series that had SOME value, on brainy level. Seeing how much of S1 got repeated at the start of R2 was enough to make me dislike it, without low level mechas being able to hurt super mechas/Spinzaku defeating Europe on his own/surprise submarine aerial upgrades.
(Btw, if you're still feeling 'giving', buy and send me Beez's R2 releases. Thx!)
...That'll do, for now. If you continue to ignore me, don't worry - I will eventually question you about wtf happens in 4-6 of Fujoshi Rumi. I'll scan pages, you translate - it'll work out well enough.
(I should really hold back when trying to make people feel less bad for not not fulfilling off-hand jokes/not 100% serious demand requests...)
Flicking through Fujoshi Rumi 4 made me sad. On one-hand it's great to own physical copies of volumes that look almost certain never to be translated into English. On the other hand, it'll only be possible to get so much from flicking through pretty picture books. I'll have no trouble working out what's going on when Matsui's breasts are getting groped, true, but the powers of my imagination are not strong, generally...
...wait, you like Fujoshi, and you've probably finished it... right? YOU CAN TYPE ME UP TEN PARAGRAPH DESCRIPTIONS FOR EACH BOOK! Perrrrrrrrfect.
On the plus side, as expected, Life should be slightly easier to deal with, if only because there isn't that much dialogue - as I mentioned before. Bad things happen to school girls, they cry, and there's an almost-but-not-quite main yuri pairing - my imagination can do a lot of with school girls + nastiness + yuri.
On a random note, I kind of want to punch myself for flicking through the chunky final volume; revealing to myself that there's no yuri, in the end, and that the two best friends go their separate ways. Not good - the low chance of lesbianism would have kept me reading until the very end...
The Horo card-thing and fastener were nice random extras, by the by. Once I manage to get Horo back in her plastic bag, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with the card-thing, but the fastener can be worn with pride outside - if only because it's too small to take note of.
...I guess Horo/furry 2D women are quite popular in Japan?
Anyway, many thanks for being good enough to help out a loser in need. Acts of charity such as this will help God forgive you for any and every sin, at the bitter end, I'm sure. I can only assume you have too much fun buying books at Mandarake to care about who you're buying for, or concerning yourself over paying more on taxes because of lazy idiots.
Since I don't believe in God, and too much niceness by a person who may or may not be known as Roy away from the internet makes me feel guilty, I'd be more than willing to cover your costs - that's the least I can do. Unless manga truly is given away in Japan - cheapo used/old stock store or not - I'm doubting the £8 valuation, so you'll have to tell me the real price, as well as the packaging/shipping cost. If you use PayPal, I'll send e-money, but the empty DVD case method is also still an option.
I'm not feeling terribly chatty, either. Too little sunlight/rain and the risk of seeing sunlight/rain in the near future will do that to any high level hermit master. I was in the mood for Maison Ikkoku chatter, after discovering once again how wonderful it is and how pretty much everything else compares badly to it, but it seems "Fabriluna" would rather type about crappy high school romance, where sod all of interest happens until the end, instead... so that's that.
You should hold off on re-reading/watching MI until everything else bores you and you're on the verge of throwing in your anime/manga towel. It's quite an accomplishment for a story to make me all teary-eyed, and the anime pulling that off so many times in quick succession makes me think negatively of Toradora for not once making me emotional. Plus, in a world where every story is centered around blushing high school brats, MI's premise makes it something special; something worth remembering.
How often can I come out of a story, after being terribly frustrated by the heroine, and STILL love her; still viewing her as a prize worth all the effort the lead put in to get her? Flawed by Takahashi dragging out the story she may be, but that weakness in her character - her imperfection - made her very human, as well as adorable. Her jealous rages were too cute for me not to love her.
If you haven't already, watch the anime before re-reading the manga. There are some areas - as you know already from stalking - where the anime bettered the manga, and it being slightly more focused on drama will have probably force you to get the tissues out.
...More later - feeling especially lazy. Again, thanks a lot for being good enough to send 14 books to a stranger; I never truly expected you to do so. I must admit to being impressed with my ability to get books sent without sending money first from internet people, though - only the other week Ms. Ai's Eden 10 & ASN 9 arrived from America.
How was your trip/what did you get?
I wondered where you'd gone... well, not really, since I occasionally look at AUKN to see if there's any new UK news, but I did wonder when/if you'd reply, one day.
Enjoy your trip/insert whatever anyone should say when someone is leaving this shithole of a country. If you can, find a way to stay over there to escape. That way, you can become a true... err, fujoshi. Or find a little boy to 'mother' and it not be too wrong.
PS: Be sure to translate the books before sending, if you find yourself able to send them to 121 with a bill.
In any event, my computer is working now - all is well. My only issue, which you may or may not be able to assist me with, is fan-related. Y'see, my computer is a bit shit, really, and its CPU hits close to 100% with great ease. If not for CoreAVC, nearly all 720P content would be impossible to watch, and because of Flash-related rubbish most videos watched on the net max out my CPU.
This wouldn't be a HUGE problem, since I've long accepted that my computer is only good for Warcraft 3 (not maxed, even!)... but, lately, once it hits 100%, if it stays at 100% my system freezes; requiring a hard reset. This usually only happened when watching Flash videos on the net in the past (which made following the P4 Endurance Run over on Giant Bomb difficult), but lately it seems anything that maxes out my CPU brings the risk of freezing, which obviously isn't ideal.
So, it got me thinking: maybe my system is overheating due to CPU stress. And, sure enough, when stressed, my CPU is cooking at 70-80c - 52-55c when idle. I've got the dust out as best I can with my hoover, but what I really need is another fan, since the fan that blew wind into my comp needed to be took out around a year ago. And this brings me to my question: how easy is it for a novice to buy the right fan that can be plugged into my motherboard? I ask because I don't want my next mini-drama to involve my manga collection getting burned. /strokes his plastic-bagged books lovingly
(Sorry for spending three paragraphs building up to asking a question - I know not the meaning of the word 'concise'...)
Moving onto your actual message (lol?): I fully understand where you're coming from about desiring nothing more than keeping to yourself/not talking to weird people about anime. With my birthday coming up, in spite of my never-ending messages suggesting otherwise, I'd prefer just to go on the net, read my emails, update whatever and leave it at that. Thank God I'm not into Twitter/proper social linking websites!
I think DtB being anime only/having no source material became more and more apparent as time passed. Early on the vagueness and episodic stories didn't matter and, if anything, made it more appealing... but, as the series progressed, and very little was revealed, it started to become clear how little substance there was hiding behind the style. Bones + Kanno, and its excellent opening six episodes, made it hard for me to go lower than 8/10, but the Evangelion-esque dream shit at the end pushed me close to going with 7/10.
Like you, I don't care much about S2, either. I've seen some very negative reviews about it posted on here by intelligent-seeming lifeforms, and Kanno's music being replaced with some sort of tecnho rubbish make it less than tempting. I *might* go for it if PlayUSA sell the collection for £17.99, just to complete my DtB collection, but I don't care if it doesn't get listed. There's no more character development of note to add, no more story to cover, and it was probably only made to cash-in on its successful prequel. Honestly, what's the point of even bothering when Nov. 11 won't be present? Without Iceman, DtB just ain't cool anymore.
NANA/Suppli are definitely aimed more at those with vaginas, and Gantz is 100% aimed at those who try to enter them, but it MIGHT be worth giving Gantz a chance, purely for shits and giggles, since you like/don't mind fan service. I mean, in the second or third chapter, a big-breasted, naked girl teleports into the Gantz room, and straight away some guy attempts to rape her. It's THAT kind of story; created from a male mind, where a dog called 'Butter Dog' has a fetish for areas that smell fishy. Even if you dislike it, there are far, far... FAR less entertaining ways to waste time/money out there.
Man, I don't know what the hell I'm doing with what I buy anymore. I once cared about displaying everything neatly, but now I just stack things or put them in boxes. If I'm able this xmas, I'll probably have another mini-clearout on eBay, but even then I'll have nowhere to put anything. I envy you; owning your own house and actually having rooms dedicated to your collections of things you no doubt want to hide from guests/children that visit and want to destroy your precious comic books.
I may get a weird screen-glance for asking this, but doesn't the 'Boy' in 'Boy's Love' suggest that the males who violate each other should be... well, boys? I thought a 15-16-year-old, often topless Sasuke would be perfect for the deranged girls who play with themselves over fictional hairless characters...
Your thoughts on BL ("woman with a penis") do, I must confess, disturb me somewhat, but it does amuse me that you mentioned the LxLight pairing for the simple reason that most put Death Note's popularity down to yaoi fangirls, rather than people appreciating its story. I have to admit that it has always surprised me how many people have watched/read a title that uses words rather than fists to excite, and it would explain a lot if 75% of its fanbase happen to be yaoi fangirls.
*searches Google for mpreg...*
...WTF!? What did I say previously that lead you to bringing up a pregnant male fetish? LEAVE MY INNOCENT MIND ALONE!!!!
Over a month until you can finish R2, you say/said? Oh, jolly good - I'm not too late, in that case!
I'm a CG R2 hater. I posted my rant in a thread I created about anime moaning on AUKN ages ago, but it's WAAAAY down the pages now. Too lazy to look. But I'm - oddly, from my perdspective - one of the few S1 lovers/S2 haters.
There's so much to bitch about in the opening eight episodes alone that, in the end, I bitched myself out - stealth dropping it. Suzaku taking Lelouch halfway around the world to see Charlie, after previously being out for blood; Kallen abandoning her leader during the key moment of her people's rebellion; memory loss being used as a plot device to extend the story, and the first three episodes repeating the first three of S1; Lelouch getting from the Chinese Embassy to his school in a matter of seconds; Suzaku defeating Europe on his own; tactics being removed from battles since only super mechas can harm super mechas; the surprise submarine... seriously, I could go on all night. Even with my AWFUL memory, my hatred for what Sunrise did to my beloved Code Geass allows me to rant about R2's opening eight episodes, endlessly.
In short: there's no way I'll comprehend you liking S1 more than S2. There's a much better chance of you getting me to understand why seeing hairless pretty boys violate each other does it for you, now that you've converted me into a Fujoshi Rumi fanboy. (Any further awesome manga recs, by the by?)
...Looks like your message wasn't as long as I thought. I'm almost disappointed.
Question: What do you think of my Fujoshi review? You went into ignore mode after I asked... until I had a near-computer-death experience. Would it help get a response faster if I were to inform you that my computer may not last the week? :|
PS: If you take 5-6 weeks/enter eternal ignore mode, have fun in Japan. And, seriously, since I dick around too much for most human beings to tell, no worries if you can't find time to send me books - I'll live; depressed, crying, and clutching Princess, but I'll live. Enjoying your trip is a priority one! (/guess the anime reference game)
I feel bad now 'cause both you and someone else, excluding Fabio (/useless), sent me back messages trying to help me. Next time, I'll be sure to leave it a week before moving to the 'wave goodbye, with tears in eyes' stage. ;___;
Just so you know, for future PC woe reference: my PC is a seven/eight-year-old piece of junk Time Computers sold to my mother for £1,000 shortly before they died. It's a miracle it still works, but it does, and - with CoreAVC - it even plays 720P files... just about!
And, yes, having a XP disc would help me out a lot, considering most of my issues are related to XP files. GIMMIE!!!!
Out of curiosity, how would I have installed Ubuntu on my restarting system? (Serious question, from a PC idiot/idiot in general.)
Thanks for answering my question, long after I forgot about it. Next time I want an answer ASAP, I'll be sure to mention being on life support.
No surprise about you already having read Suppli - I assumed as much, since you'd even read Confidential Confessions long before I'd started rambling about it on AUKN.
The new 400 page, double volume releases aren't so bad, really. It's kind of hard to read two volumes of such a slow moving womanly drama in one go, mind...
I'll look forward to receiving a late present from you, allowing me to sorta-kinda finish a 9/10 of mine. (No pressure, btw. None whatsoever. It's your imagination.)
I'll try to get around to this promised response you're due tomorrow, depending on how many hours Ai's essay requires first. Dealing with two married woman at once isn't easy, tbh...
/depressed
Sorry for not being able to get back to you after you took 5-6 weeks with your response, cheers for recommending two wonderful manga to me, and I hope you enjoy your trip to Japan.
Later, Roy!
Goodbye.
Since you understand the serious business that is Japanese, I have two questions that weren't answered at the back of the books:
1: Why does Fujoshi call Matsui Matsun?
1: Why does Abe add '-chi' to the end of Chiba's name?
i so confuse
The reason I fav'd and reviewed it after only three volumes is because v3 resolved Chiba and Matsui's relationship. I didn't quite get 'ard, like, when they kissed passionately, but it did make me want them to get it on. Now that they're FINALLY together, if I ever read further, I no doubt have some first time humour to look forward to, and maybe/hopefully an erotic sex scene or two.
One of my main problems with the series early on was that I saw no real reason for Abe to chase so hard after Rumi. She acted like a totally self-absorbed bitch; only caring about her own interests and making no effort for Abe. The way Abe kept running back to her, no matter what, irked me. I prefer the equality on display in the ChibaxMatsui relationship much, MUCH more.
v4 and v5 are easy to download on the tubes, by the by: http://www.general-search.net/fileinfo/gs609083ch82i0
Here's a post that highlights the subtitle differences between the Korean and Japanese versions, in case you care: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=121845&show=20#msg8627428
And, ja, a person pointing out that there's no real comparison between it and Onegai should make you more interested. Only idiots rate shit like Onegai 10/10, and it's aimed 100% at ronrey males.... UNLIKE ME, OF COURSE! I LIKE SOLITUDE!!!!
PS: Thanks for taking the time to comment on my review, btw. You've made me feel like it was all worthwhile taking the time to express myself, after your rec inspired me to do so. Much love for that.