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[timepiececlock]

Went to 2nd meeting of Anime Club. There were only four of us, and one left fairly soon. Me the only perosn not an officer, and thus not required to be there. I told them they needed to do some heavy advertising and planning.

I think I'm going to be running this club by next year, if I stay a member. Or at least co-running it. I might make that my ambition. They're doing so little right now... I'll help. And they're sorely lacking in personell, so it's not like they don't need people to fill administrative roles.

We had no working tv, so I chatted for the whole 2 hours with the two remaining guys, G and C. We talked a lot about anime, and partially about other shows like Farscape or Lord of the Rings or video games like Final Fantasy. Turns out-- Buffy fans. C more so... G had that look of "I am a fan, but I don't want to appear silly by gushing about it."

C was a little hesistant too; we were still in that phase of "I don't know you well, but I know you're a fan and you know I'm a fan, but am I really free to reveal how muuch of a fan I am without you running off?" But once I asked C about the finale, I got him talking. We agreed that it was very sad, that the little girl playing baseball was both cute and scary, and poor Spike, and Angel had his destiny handed to him all easy. That was mostly C, but I agreed with him about it. He watched the finale of Angel Westely the Series too. Neither C nor G knew about the casting spoiler though, and were surprised. We all 3 agreed that if Spike got the Shansu, it would not only be cool but also wonderfully ironic. We agreed that we'd have to shift our loyalties to Angel now that the Buffy show was sad and over.

Later in the conversation, when talking about LOTR which led to talking about what it might be like to live in Australia, C & G made a dingo joke, specifically laughing at the phrase "dingo ate my baby." That's when the real fannishness of it all got to me, and I felt like I'd really like these guys.

They were highly amused when I told them the anime show Ronin Warriors reminded me too much of Saturday Night Live's The Ambbiguously Gay Duo. That led to a discussion about yaoi [slash] in anime fandom, especially series like Gundam Wing, where 5 of the 6 main characters are male.

Comments

[mrthursday.livejournal.com]

From my (extremely limited) experince of the medium, I think Farscape would make a fantastic Anime! It would be nice to "finish" the story too...

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Hm... it has a lot of the story style that anime has... an very far-reaching, complicated story-arc stretching over multiple seasons, interrupted occaisionally by single-episode conflicts. And the characters would, in literary form, transfer well. I've got no idea how they'd do character design... Ben Browder's face wouldn't lend itself to anime very well, even though Chiana and Aeryn's would.

But hell, I'd totally take it. If I knew that the same writers were writing it... I wouldn't want to just hand the idea off to another set of production in another country. And a lot of anime has crappy dialogue; Farscape has always had great dialogue style. But yeah, I'd watch it. And it'd adapt well... better than, say, something like Star Trek.