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idiosyncreant) wrote2012-02-18 12:36 pm
idiosyncreant) wrote2012-02-18 12:36 pm
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Maid Cafes, Brilliant Boys, and FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST OMG
It is a rare illness that can make me unable to accomplish at least something while sick.
This has been the case for almost 2 weeks, so the only redemption has been blogging about all the stuff I was watching, etc. Just thought I'd mention it, in case you were wondering what was wrong with me...I mean, with the posting so much.
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Kaichou wa Maid-sama!
This is an anime based on a manga I've read the first several volumes of. In a way, it's nothing out of the ordinary (which is why after a certain point I was done with it). In another way, it's the kind of premier fun that Ouran and Skip-Beat are. Not the same excellence of plotting that Skip-Beat has, not quite the same level of tongue-in-cheek trope twisting as Ouran, but the gleefully ridiculous storyline that only manga can get away with.
I think this anime seems to have been created by the same people who did the Skip-Beat anime. Something I...am kind of surprised to notice.
I like the anime a LOT. It has the kind of playful touch that makes the kind of drawing-related humor only more funny in animation. (Part of the reason I suspect the same hand as in Skip-Beat--way similar treatments of manga-to-anime visual gags.)
I think the charm of the story set-up lies in it's balance. Though later it falls into "too much boyfriend, not enough roller-derby" territory, toward the beginning, the main character has a job that she does well at, also a school government role that has her really active around the school, and this threads through the plots nicely.
Wallflower -- Yamato Nadeshiko no Shichi Henge*
Oddly, I didn't really get into this, though![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
timeripple high recommended it, and I both love the source manga and enjoyed the flawed live-action show.
I think it's actually that it went too far in trying to capture the manga's visual humor and didn't do it with as light of a touch. I plan to watch a couple more episodes (the opening of most mangas are a bit rough, and anime is not exempt from awkward adaptation jitters) but I was alternatively surprised to go try Kaichou and find that I enjoyed it so much more.
Maybe different expectations going in has something to do with it. (-_-;)
*This title phrase involves two Japanese terms: first, a woman embodying the Japanese ideal, and then the "Seven Changes" a dance in which a Kabuki actor changes clothes seven times. So, in a word "The Transformation to an Ideal Woman" which is completely colorless next to the original...
Just in case you were, you know, curious what all that word-stuff trailing around with it was when it had a perfectly descriptive English title.
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 27
Okay, I really want to sit down with the last 5 volumes or something, to really read the whole ending arc over. I can't really comment on it, just this last volume except to say
10! for the graceful dismount...
Seriously, I can only hope and pray that Arakawa has another fantastic idea she's been dying to work on to follow this, because the series ended just as it should have, just when it should have, but I am not going to be happy to live in a world where she's not coming out with more manga.
This has been the case for almost 2 weeks, so the only redemption has been blogging about all the stuff I was watching, etc. Just thought I'd mention it, in case you were wondering what was wrong with me...I mean, with the posting so much.
***
Kaichou wa Maid-sama!
This is an anime based on a manga I've read the first several volumes of. In a way, it's nothing out of the ordinary (which is why after a certain point I was done with it). In another way, it's the kind of premier fun that Ouran and Skip-Beat are. Not the same excellence of plotting that Skip-Beat has, not quite the same level of tongue-in-cheek trope twisting as Ouran, but the gleefully ridiculous storyline that only manga can get away with.
I think this anime seems to have been created by the same people who did the Skip-Beat anime. Something I...am kind of surprised to notice.
I like the anime a LOT. It has the kind of playful touch that makes the kind of drawing-related humor only more funny in animation. (Part of the reason I suspect the same hand as in Skip-Beat--way similar treatments of manga-to-anime visual gags.)
I think the charm of the story set-up lies in it's balance. Though later it falls into "too much boyfriend, not enough roller-derby" territory, toward the beginning, the main character has a job that she does well at, also a school government role that has her really active around the school, and this threads through the plots nicely.
Wallflower -- Yamato Nadeshiko no Shichi Henge*
Oddly, I didn't really get into this, though
timeripple high recommended it, and I both love the source manga and enjoyed the flawed live-action show.I think it's actually that it went too far in trying to capture the manga's visual humor and didn't do it with as light of a touch. I plan to watch a couple more episodes (the opening of most mangas are a bit rough, and anime is not exempt from awkward adaptation jitters) but I was alternatively surprised to go try Kaichou and find that I enjoyed it so much more.
Maybe different expectations going in has something to do with it. (-_-;)
*This title phrase involves two Japanese terms: first, a woman embodying the Japanese ideal, and then the "Seven Changes" a dance in which a Kabuki actor changes clothes seven times. So, in a word "The Transformation to an Ideal Woman" which is completely colorless next to the original...
Just in case you were, you know, curious what all that word-stuff trailing around with it was when it had a perfectly descriptive English title.
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 27
Okay, I really want to sit down with the last 5 volumes or something, to really read the whole ending arc over. I can't really comment on it, just this last volume except to say
10! for the graceful dismount...
Seriously, I can only hope and pray that Arakawa has another fantastic idea she's been dying to work on to follow this, because the series ended just as it should have, just when it should have, but I am not going to be happy to live in a world where she's not coming out with more manga.
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Plus, it was while watching it that I realized that a Maid-Sama/Oresama Teacher crossover would be the most beautiful thing ever. Can't you just see Mafuyu's starry-eyed expression the first time she wanders into Maid Latte? And Hayasaka's complete bafflement?
(Recently I checked up on some scans of the latest Maid-Sama chapters. It was really bizarre to see Usui and Misaka (a) officially together and (b) actually kinda sorta communicating. SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE?)
About FMA I have nothing to say except that I LOVE IT SO MUCH LOVE LOVE LOVE...
...and it has just the perfect resolution to the quandary of equivalent exchange, and GREED OH MY HEART, and just all of how this series handles redemption and payback and paying forward, and and and...
THAT FINAL MONTAGE.
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Fullmetal. Man, yes. I actually had steeled myself to lose someone major in the last volume, but I'm glad that Arakawa didn't feel the need to do that to make it more bittersweet. I mean, Hohenheim's passing is sad, but the kind of sweet sad that means my love can go on forever...
And the final chapters of settling back into life could be slow, but they're so important in this world that's been established as sitting on the brink of disaster at every turn for so long. Since Winry, for example, has been the focus of the Elric brothers' idea of normalcy and the life they want to get back to, it's really important to spend time back with her, without idealizing too much.
And meeting Al properly, and finding out he is just as much of a BAMF as his older bro XD
CHANGED MY MIND, I'M MARRING AL DESPITE HIS PONCY NAME
And I like the way that Ed still has the automail leg, it's kind of a way of acknowledging the past will be with them, but he gets to have two regular arms to hug his wifey and kids with. >} I wasn't ready to buy the whole melting-the-armor thing, either, but Arakawa talked me into it properly...