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[timepiececlock]

I'm watching this Trigun AMV to the movie trailer audio of "Brokeback Mountain" (amv.org), and hearing Jake G.'s voice come out of Wolfwood's mouth is just cracking me up beyond words.

Speaking of anime...


[Poll #690000]


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[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

The anime is definitely worse the manga. Notably, although Yuya is more useless x 10,000, the anime script was pretty obviously written by Kyo/Yuya fans, so she becomes the useless damsel in distress the dangerous but secretly misunderstood! bad boy is always having to rescue. Grrr.

That said, I actually like the anime more than the manga. It's so terrible it's lovable. The historicism is so bad it's good. This is probably the worst anime I own, but I do own it.

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Also, I second mswyrr's rec of Crest of the Stars TO THE NTH DEGREE. The only drawback is that the end of Crest of the Stars is not the end of the series, because it's sequeled by Banner of the Stars and Something Else of the Stars. But the main two characters are incredibly cute together, and their space-military society is well-realized.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Your double-rec is noted!

[octopedingenue]

I am secretly a Kyo/Yuya fan, but Yuya being useless makes me want to hit people--my heart sank oh-so-low in my chest reading the SDK entry on Wikipedia that cheerfully informed me, "Such-and-such fight is the last time Yuya is a useful fighter in the series!" It does not help that I am attached to almost none of the supporting characters in the series, except maaaaybe Sasuke. Even Benitora, who should by rights be my favorite in the series just because of the kind of character he is, regularly makes me want to snap at him, "Stop squinting and don't leave your mouth hanging open like that OR BUGS WILL FLY IN IT!!"

But I really like Kyo and Yuya, so I facepalm when they are dumb. I like Kyoshiro most of the time, but when he does his Noble Pure Warrior For Peace schtick I want to smack him for some reason.

The SDK manga is just bad enough to irritate me without it being over-the-top awful enough to be delicious crack I can wallow in. It's got enough shonen tropes and character charms that ping me right to make me want to keep reading, but so much of the art and story development is handled awkwardly that it pulls me out of the story and makes me grumpy.