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[timepiececlock]

I want a Spirited Away icon that says "A dragon lives forever, but not so little girls."

Does anyone know of any SA screencap sites, or by chance has loaded any? I know several people on my friends list have seen that film. I just got a sudden desire for iconage.

Comments

how's this?

[octopedingenue]

Re: how's this?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

How pretty. ::glomps you::

:) You've seen that, right? Love that movie.

erm, what's a glomp?

[octopedingenue]

Of course I've seen it! I saw it in theaters and then again on DVD, and I'm going to buy it eventually (I already have Princess Mononoke). It's a GORGEOUS movie. :D

Re: erm, what's a glomp?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

You don't know what glomping is? ::gasp:: It is anime tradition!

A "glomp" is the experience of running at someone, arms open, and hugging them so hard and so affectionately that they turn purple or other unnatural colors. As someone else once put it, "glomping is the art of attack-hugging."

Fangirls dream of doing this to celebrities. Sometimes they do, but that usually ends embarrassingly.

Other important anime lingo:

-otaku : in Japan, a mildly derogatory term for someone who's obsessed. Kind of insulting. However, American/western anime fans have appropriated the word and for us it means "anime fan" or "obsessed anime fan" with more emphasis on how fervent/sincere a fan you are, and less on the insulting part of it. If you love anime, you're an otaku. I am. You probably are. :) In fact, I know you are.

-OAV or OVA : Original Anime Video .... meaning it goes straight to video, basically, not getting a movie or a tv run.

- :sweatdrop: -I've seen this used by other online non-anime fandoms, but it originates from the big or small sweatdrops an anime character gets when embarrassed or nervous or sheepish. It's more commonly used in online lingo outside of anime now.

- :facefault: or :facevault: - like a :sweatdrop: this has also been used by non-anime people occasionally, but it's the English phrase that Western anime fans or otaku coined for what you seen when an anime character is shocked, either with embarassment or frustration or overwhelming resignation, and their eyes are either drawn exaggeratingly low on their face with larger foreheads, or become exaggeratedly highly placed half-moon-eyes. Also, sometimes the character is so overcome by the situation that he or she falls face first to the ground, which is where the "vault" or "fault" (like a fault line) comes from. Often happens at the same time as a sweatdrop.

I recently learned the term :headdesk: which was created in the same style. That one greatly amuses me.

kawaii: cute, adorable
(pronounced like Hawai or Hawaii)

bishounen or bishonen: pretty boy [also bish, if you're a lazy typist]
(pronounced BEE-SHO-NEN)

sugoi: cool, awesome, neat

SD or Super-Deformed: what you see when anime characters are drawn with cartoonish small bodies and big heads... all plush dolls of anime characters are in SD style. Shippou's drawings of Kagome & InuYasha are usually superdeformed.