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[Jun. 16th, 2008|09:58 am] |
So, really, no one at all has scanned the Yukikaze manga? Because I decided I might as well order myself a copy for a birthday present, and then under the logic of if no one else has done it, I might as well grabbed another one for debinding purposes. I can't read the novels and I can't write fic, but god knows I can shell out cash and wear out the scanner as a way of contributing to a tiny fandom if it's needed. I mean, it may turn out to be awful but it should at least be awful and available. (I thought about asking ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) insaneneko if I could use her translations and scanlate the thing, but that seems a little...impolite? I really do not know the protocol here, and considering I don't have brilliant image cleaning/editing skills anyway....)
I blame this idea on my sudden craving for old fandoms with human/machine relationships--Yukikaze/Rei, Shion/KOS-MOS, Roger Smith/R. Dorothy, which in turn is probably the fault of Iron Man and jmtorres talking to me about Pepperbot. Summer of machines, I guess. (Speaking of robots, I finally had to toss my Metropolis keychain and was surprised at how much it bothered me. It was just a cheap thing but I've had it for eight or nine years--hopefully it wasn't the secret charm that held all sorts of misfortune at bay. I've still got a Dalek on there, but it just won't be the same without the Maschinenmensch staring at me whenever I pull out my keys.)
Reading: nothing at the moment, yet again. I picked up Jacqueline Carey for a reread, thinking I was in the mood for "fun and overblown", and then couldn't get more than one hundred pages into Kushiel's Dart without my eyes nearly rolling out of my head. Now I have a to-read pile that runs nearly the length of my bed and none of it looks appealing. This makes me antsy! I start to panic if I'm not in the middle of at least one book!
Non-spoilery natterings about anime:
KKM 89: Not that I object to the way things turned out, but gosh, they missed out on a prime opportunity for some "vessel with the pestle, chalice from the palace" hijinx! I will just have to imagine the universe in which that happened instead. KKM is apparently spending their animation budget on the filler episodes--88 and 89 seemed to be miles better than the plotty episodes that came before them. Normally I'd say that someone should point that they're doing it wrong, but since so far it's meant lots of well-drawn young!angry!Conrad and pretty!Anissina...
Nabari no Ou: dear series, please stop making me like all of your female characters. I know this is a shonen story and is really all about the angst of Miharu and Yoite, but I have liked or at least been intrigued by every single girl or woman so far and I'm worried that this will backfire horribly later. (I.e., all the female characters end up disappeared, dead, or evil.) I'm amused that so many people apparently picked this up as an action show and are now dropping it because there's too much talking. If you could sit though Death Note, guys, you ought to be able to handle this.
This is going to be me one day, I just know it. Doesn't help that I'm fairly near an overdue fault line. |
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