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Ah, I very much enjoyed seeing the London arc animated (though there are some scenes I like better in the manga), though I suspect my enjoyment was in part because I have been to Europe recently (not England, however, but Russia). And feel like my timing was pretty much perfect, even though I didn't even consciously think about it when I watched. Although it's Wimbledon, not an Olympic event, that Conan and gang go to.

( Loose comments that will spoil but hopefully not too much... )

Well, I didn't take notes so I couldn't put in everything about this arc. Besides, I think it's best if DC fans watch/read the London arc themselves (manga chapters 743 to 752), if for some reason they still haven't gotten around to it. Personally, I think it's worth it just for a certain canon pairing.

( OVA 11 (side story to the London arc) summary, so expect some spoilers. )

Anyway, while I'm up-to-date with the manga, I am still a long way off in catching up with DC anime. I don't think I've watched even 100 episodes (and I usually only picked those cases I liked in the manga) in the four years I've seen the anime on and off (apparently I've started around some time after I watched those two live action specials since I liked them enough, though I'm kinda glad they replaced the two main leads in later specials and drama series) and DC has over 660 episodes last I checked...

Oh, and randomly enough, the ending theme for this set of episodes and the OVA, 'Tsukiyo no Itazura no Mahou' (Mischievous Magic on the Moonlit Night), makes me see a crack pairing (unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, not a pairing from the DC fandom) that I cannot unsee.

Well, after thinking it over, I've decided to post Gintama-related entries on kanaratama from now on. (Other Shounen JUMP series might also show up there from time to time, especially if Gintama has parodied them.)


And just so this entry has something, I'm tagging this on.

I'm wondering, which is the "real" version of a fictional character? Would it have to be the one written by the original creator only? Or would the various incarnations of this character in official adaptations/derivative works be considered "real", too?

( Example is of character A, anime/manga series B, and mangaka C variety. In the end, I guess I'm thinking too much about all this. )

I think the part under the cut is somewhat confusing (I don't know how to express it better at this moment), but hopefully not totally unreadable...

( Plot (or lack thereof) of Gintama )

Not really a review, but just some of my impressions of the volumes of manga I picked up this week. Assume spoilers on all these, though sometimes I'm scarce on the details.

Death Note V 12 (Final Volume): ( Predictable, but that's not my complaint. )
Gintama V 36
Honestly, this has to be my least favorite Gintama volume to date. But since this is Gintama, I powered through anyway. (I'll take a so-so volume of Gintama over many other series.) So take it as a warning that most of the comments are not positive.

( Boring wall of text not exactly summarizing what happen in this volume ) ( Manga match up with anime )
Natsume Yuujincho V 7
Well, after the two series above, I'm glad at least Natsume (the character) is being good old Natsume. But I have to admit I've read better volumes of this series. ( I don't hate the new character, but I think the series might be better off without him. ) ( Other neat stuff )
Bakuman V 1
In a nutshell, this is a manga about two teenagers writing manga to sell to Shueisha (JUMP, specifically) since they were aiming to get their manga animated. ( Come this way if that description makes the cut )

( Babbling. )

Oh wow, this site is so much fun. :)

Akinator

I found this while random site surfing. The person who recommended it also helpfully let me know that I can save the questions asked by clicking on "details", so I've been saving most of them. :)

Akinator can guess some live-action characters, and apparently real people, too. But I haven't really tried (well, two times on a toku character (you should know who, really, even though I've been neglecting his series), but I stumped Aki both times).

So since I thought maybe Aki liked anime/manga stuff better, I've been trying for six Gintama characters and three other anime/manga characters. I did perfectly for four characters (I know them well or what ^___^), not too perfectly for two characters (I need brushing up on some details of their characters), less than perfectly for one character (well, I'm not so surprised if it's this character), and kind of terrible for two characters (Aki confused me...or I confused Aki ^^;;).

( Details and screenshots of my results. :) Will spoil the questions asked for these characters so perhaps you might not want to look too closely at the questions. )

In any case, hope you have fun if you play with Akinator. ^___^

ETA: Now, fanficrants, don't make me think you're talking about me.

...I'm not sure why I'm posting this up since I might delete it when I come to my senses and I'm going to leave now and not look back. Anyway, this is an unpolished excerpt from a sort of(?) slash fic (because if you've ever read some of my fics before (or are good at picking up hints), you probably could tell where I'm going with one of the guys. Otherwise, I recommend you stop here) that I can't really write more at this time. And, just so I don't waste your time, it is not from a fandom I've written for before...

( More notes (irrelevant, most likely) and fic excerpt under cut )

( Real life stuff )

( More like note to self... )

(Tags are deceptive, by the way, because other than Otomen, they are mostly one-line references.)

...I probably have said something similar before, but I can only seem to find something to talk about when I notice a problem (or more) with a show/series. And that's only when I have an energy and can be bothered to do so, so perhaps some other problematic shows do get ignored by me. (Exception: If a show has no redeeming quality, I'm not going to waste time writing anything.) However, if the show is fabulous and seemingly does no wrong (well, strictly from my point of view), I smile and move on. (That's why I can never write any kind of pimp post.) And also, unless I know there are other people liking the same thing I do, I don't particularly want to be judged for admitting to liking this series or that series. I suppose I don't usually feel up to defending my taste. Case in point, 'genderbending, ecchi, harem' anime is not for everyone (actually, 'ecchi' and 'harem' are not even for me most of the time), but I'm watching Kämpfer, so...)

Back to the main topic of this post, I don't think Kämpfer is that well-known (though I don't think it's unknown either), but I would still cut detailed discussions, which may or may not be considered spoilers, just in case. (They are the type that make no sense to people not watching the series, and some people who do watch might not mind. Seriously though, how can anyone truly spoil an episode consisting of an almost neverending date taking up most of the episode? (Or 'nothing really happens' is considered a spoiler, then?))

And, if anyone is still interested, be forewarned that besides everything being Kämpfer-related from this point on (except the very last paragraph), my unnecessary Japanese quoting probably does not go over too well since I don't have the written script for the episode and just go by my limited understanding of the language. So I would say don't believe any of my quote and corresponding translation (if any) without verifying it.

( I'm too amused to see-er-hear a (politer?) version of 'oboe teoke' in this anime. And while 'toorisugari no [whatever subject]' seems rather popular at the moment, I'm disappointed that there is nothing passing through in this anime. )

( Stop ruining the mood already, Natsuru! )

( Ordering around an anime (or other fictional) character who makes no secret he/she is fearful of you, imho, is hardly going to make him/her interested... )

( Yeah, love is blind... )

( Other random comments on the episode )

( When a 'tsumaranai mono' is really a 'tsumaranai mono' :) )

Oh, well. I'll keep watching, I suppose. Real genderbending (though not one instance of it is in this episode other than OP and ED) anime (or live-action) are hard to come by so I don't get to be really choosy. But I'm not looking forward to taking almost two hours and a half to watch one 24 minute episode again, though.

(Not that anyone has asked or possibly will ask, but it took that long because I paused every few minutes in an (unsuccessful) attempt to forget the main chara's stupidity...)

I love the manga, though, and already bought all the volumes out. (Not volume 3, since I don't yet see it around where I live.) One thing I'm sad about is anime is pretty far ahead of manga already. Anime is based on Light Novel (seems like a popular practice lately to adapt anime from that source), which I might just try to read raw (since there is no translation). Or maybe not. I think out of all three, overall I prefer the manga the most.

( And kind of inspired from way up above: power imbalance in a relationship. )

Lately, I'm feeling kind of left out, again. This time, it's not so much of me wondering if I'm a fan (I've decided that I am, even though I'm mostly silent), but more of my different takes on things.

( Fanfics and fandom and my reactions to them. )

(Just to be clear, I'm not upset or anything. This is more of me wondering why.)

( My attempts at translating Japanese from manga )

EDIT: でも　キッツイなー

I mistyped. Now it is correct. Sorry.

I read this shoujo manga (ultimately a straight one, not yaoi, though there are hints on the latter aplenty) and have many, many thoughts on it (which I think I might get a dedicated manga blog to post them to once and for all). One of those thoughts is this manga has finally given me a reason to really like the name Jun as a male name, and the name Shizuka as a name in general, simply because the characters with these names are just so cool. (Yay, I never said I wasn't shallow (the icon), though most of the time I don't mean just surface appearances by 'cool'.)

( On Jun )

( On Shizuka )

Strangely, I don't think I'll ever end up naming my characters with these two names. Weird, since I usually use the names I like for my characters, but the associations (mental images I have) with the established characters who have the names are just too strong, particularly in Shizuka's case, because he's constantly referred to that way by the heroine.

Edit:

純 (JUN) means pure, and never used alone except as a name, so no 'kun' reading. And yes, that's a kanji character for 'thread' on the left side.