Episode 3: Dub! I'm sorry. It has to be said.

Oh my god, he killed Kenny!

That bastard!


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Brandon has the dub voice of Jin from SC and Hotohori from FY. Oddly, it sounds too feminine for Brandon. More feminine than I expected.

Harry's voice I don't recognize, though it's not entirely unfamiliar. Kenny's voice sounded exactly like how I expected it would sound.


I promise, this is the last Gungrave post I make without spoiler-cuts. But really, it had to be said! Long live the SouthPark generation.


p.s. Brandon is hot! Yes, I am smitten. I don't know if I'll like his future incarnations, but Street!Punk!Brandon with the sleeveless vest and tight black pants and dog tags and shaggy Johnny Depp hair... looking about my age... yeah. I'm totally smitten.

Gungrave 4

And so it begins. The road to hell is paved... well, with old fashioned ambition, violence, and misguided loyalties, it turns out. Good intentions? Hardly.

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I like the ending theme.

Damn, I can see the Trigun style influence in the animation.

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According to animenewsnetwork.com, Fruits Basket volume 10 has now come in at number 70 on the top 100 bestselling book list... beating the previous graphic novel record of number 71 for volume 9.

I find it wonderful and strange that Fruits Basket is the top manga in American. Wonderful, because the series is wonderful, and strange... because I keep thinking of it as this unknown rare thing that not enough people understand and appreciate. When really, it's crazy popular according to the numbers.

Huh. Think of it... ALL those Shigure/Ayame/Hatori OT3 fans out there. All those female readers in love with Kyo. All those people who really wanna learn the answer to that so very important question:

"How did the Sohmas get to be so fucked up?"

Most of all I find it fascinating that the best-selling manga doesn't really have martial arts or wizardry magic or swashbuckling adventure. There are some supernatural elements below the surface, but they so rarely manifest in plot and events that it practically doesn't even count as being there after a while.

Damn I wish there were more anime episodes. I really do.

If only to have that whole Shigure/Rin conversation in big, animated color.

I've thought about it, and...

I know that I can't go to Fiction Alley boards until I read the new HP book.

I can't go to that corner of The Pit until I read the new HP book.

I can't read the HP posts on my friends list until I read the new HP book.

I can't read the new HP book for probably a month or more, given my horribly low income and the long list for the library.


So I guess it'll be a while before I find out if Harry and Luna have more weird little conversations althroughout book 6 like they did at the end of book 5. If they do, then I call ship for book 7.

Until then... it's hiding time. Hiding from the HP-infected internet.

Unfortunately, not reading it immediately means I won't be able to watch and appreciate the subsequent implosion of the fandom when we find out who gets some and who doesn't-- and who with.

Paranoia Agent... #7

Finally watched last week's episode of Paranoia Agent, "MHz". If I was confused then, I'm REALLY confused now. Not so much about the whole Lil' Slugger stuff... that doesn't make sense but it has been following a sort of pattern. I'm confused about the detective. What's up with all that equipment in his apartment? Is he broadcasting something that is feeding the paranoia in his listeners, making them more likely targets? What's the importance of the episode title, besides the radio thing?

EDIT: Okay, for all that the stupidity and inaneness of the Adult Swim boards bugs me, it is times like this I am grateful I check them during new shows because sometimes there are actual intelligent posts where someone actually helps explain things. For a show like PA, I need that help. I liked this explanation for the latest episode:

I just caught the rerun too and I've "cracked" the egg thing. The eggs are symbolic of both Maromi's eyes and it's duality. Eyes and eggs both have "whites" and Maromi's eyes are almost exactly the size and shape of the yolks in Maniwa's bowl during the transition where Sagi says: "L'il Slugger was here?" or something to that effect. The "other" Maniwa from the RPG world (I think CQ is the name I'll give him because he talks in the HAM voice) asks Maniwa to take him to the "ancient master." Maniwa and the old fart dine together and Manny asks if that's all they ordered. He is asking if these people are all of Slugger's victims or were there more. The waiter brings Maria. (the black swallowtail) Then the old man reveals Maromi's/Slugger's secrets in magic show format. He shows Maniwa that L'il Slugger is not a corporeal being by passing through a wall and he shows that Maromi/Slugger can be anywhere at once. What terrifies Maniwa is seeing that Maromi/Slugger can appear to everyone (all the "audience" of the real world) at once. The old man works equations and seems to understand logic which may make him the counterforce to Slugger's irrational fear and paranoia. Also, MHz (the ep title) is a measure of frequency. Frequency because of the HAM radio obviously, but also maybe a clue that the frequency of the assaults will begin to rise soon to reflect the scene of the audience becoming engulfed by the old man's image. MegaHertZ = Greater frequency.

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Stargate: Atlantis

Wow. That episode was... really good. I mean, normally Atlantis falls with SG1 under the category of "entertaining and sometimes good, sometimes bad, but mostly decent and forgettable television, that I watch because I find the characters generally likeable and I am a science fiction/fantasy fangirl and hey, it could be worse. It could be Charmed."

But this episode was, like, good. I'm genuinely excited about the new season.

Also I've got this sudden weird desire to go out and read Sheppard/Weir fic.

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Did I mention my last name is Weir? It is, I swear. That would be just the shallowest reason imaginable to like a 'ship. Don't think that I'm above it.

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I wrote Harry/Dobby slash almost-porn for riddering.

It's horrible and gross, but I had my reasons!

I never said I'm above writing icky porn if it will buy me books. I will do surprising things for the sake of new reading material.