Picture completely unrelated! (ShinKuro isn’t discussed at all!) But come one, what else is really new? I figure I could just go for it and be completely random this week, because nothing is connected this week. Not even much of it is on-topic with the entire rest of the blog.

The biggest section doesn’t touch on anime at all after all! Harry Potter releases always means I have to do a fandom switch. The one series has affected my childhood into my teenage years far more than anime could. I have no specific fond memories of running around Main Street at 10 PM one night and seeing kids and adults in anime cosplay. No, they were all wearing witch hats and cloaks. Much cooler. (<- Lie. Even I wasn’t that dorky, though it would have been fun to be~)

So yeah, another week without much to talk about. Oh well. Next week will be the same. All fandoms abandoned to act like a normal 18-year-old. Going to a concert~

Also…more lack of pictures makes Fuyu a sad girl. Where’s my Sora no Manimani images, guys? I could spam them 24/7!

Another thing…just in general, if the WE posts keep end up being late, I may just decide to have them post on Saturdays. That way I can even decide ahead of time often enough if I will blog the latest SC! episode and head off the fangirls. Hm…something to think about. I’ll decide by next week.

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Anime

It looks like more First Impressions are impossible after all. I dropped most of my summer watchlist so I could take it easy. Even things that I might enjoy would just be troublesome right now. So I’ve kept it restricted to Sora no Manimani and anything streaming online for the season. Because I don’t want to have to worry about downloading anything. For some reason when I download stuff, it bugs me when it just sits there and because of that I’ll usually end up letting it pile up until I either delete it or move it to my “To Watch” folder.

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Looking Ahead

Yay for something new, if only to get scans that aren’t incredibly old!

Wow. One thing I never would have seen coming…for some reason. A new InuYasha series to finish it all off. I suppose not incredibly surprising considering how popular it was. The usual super long shounen appeal. But I figured maybe on some OVAs…this was surprising. I should have seen it coming, but I’m not used to shounen series being handled…responsibly. Compared to other series, I realize how tame the filler amount for InuYasha was (and it took more than 50 episodes into it before fillers even started I believe). Now the new season will just be manga material…it’s a shounen miracle.

Well, I’m watching it. Been too long since I’ve heard the cast. Ah…I want some angry Satsuki Yukino~ Too bad Kagome didn’t get as angry as often in the parts they’ll be animating though. I’m really not that into InuYasha anymore, it was too long to keep the fangirling at the mazimum and I started when I was 12, now I’m 18. Lots of changes during that time. But of course, I still like it. It has a special place in my heart. It was definitely a gateway series for me. The one that brought me on the internet and watching fansubs I’d say. So despite any of its flaws, it would always be a favorite.

Plus, it’s got that usual “shounen written by a female manga-ka” benefit. Romance that’s more of the real “aww~” variety. Ah…light romance in shounen is really what I started on for shipping (well, obviously if it was InuYasha specifically).

Anyway, I’m not a fangirl anymore so I’m not excited, but I’ll be watching. Maybe skip a few fighting episode when I’m bored. But the last episode I’m totally watching for the ultimate in aww-ness. (Hint: The scene that they’re using for a promo image~ )

It should also be noted that this is airing in Fall. If a Key series really does come out in Fall, it’s going to be the best season ever for me. Kobato, Kimi ni Todoke, Nogizaka Haruka, and now InuYasha are all already guaranteed watches. Most I’ve ever had in one season.

Also…creepy that a rumor from a year ago that probably got started by some 15-year-old fangirl turned out to be right. September 2009…Fall 2009…eerie, isn’t it?

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AMV of the Week

After a fairly long absence it’s back. The sudden merging of two of my favorite things shocked me out of my AMV-coma.

SC M@D by xCrystalSagax
(Little Busters! Theme~)

HELL YEAH! Shugo Chara! video to the Little Busters! theme. Lots of win on top of more win.

It got me thinking…that it’s quite fitting. Amu would so be Rin in a full parody. Not just because she’s the lead, but they both have that same shy thing going. Just Rin acts like a shy kitty (aww) and Amu’s Cool & Spicy, but the result is pretty much the same. Both wonderful girls that can stand up for themselves but can’t make friends on their own. D’aww.

…I want an Amu and Rin crossover cosplay picture IMMEDIATELY! (psh, but even if I say that I can’t think that either one would look too great as the other…though I won’t know until I see~)

As for any other characters…I don’t know. Rin’s the only one you ever get to know that much about without playing the VN. But Yaya would probably be Komari…yeah~

But anyway, the video is really great. Fully deserving of the “MAD” title which should simply be the equivelant to Japanese AMVs, but seems to have become more synonymous with, “crazy awesome parody editing” and stuff. It’s not an exact copy, but I kind of like it better for that. Little Busters! has too many parodies already. It’s catching up to Nursery Rhyme for the most parodied game opening I’m sure.

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Not Anime

A new section for when I just need to discuss something that’s not anime. Plenty of other bloggers do it in full posts. I’m just making it one section in my Weekly Extra.

Of course, this week it would be the theater release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The first movie since Chamber of Secrets that hasn’t made me feel like they director is just doing as he likes rather than doing what the story requires. There were still a lot of changes, omissions, and additions (even a whole scene that, while I liked, seemed completely pointless), but this time it didn’t ruin the whole tone of the movie.

Best of all, Dumbledore acted like Dumbledore. People have been raging at Michael Gambon since he took the role, but it’s quite obvious to anyone watching the movie who has a clear head that all of the screw-ups are in the script. He didn’t come up with the idea to go running after Harry in Goblet of Fire (seriously, that was messed up). And when you ignore all of the other screw-ups in Prizoner of Azkaban, he did well with any of the lines that seemed to suit Dumbledore. But when he was finally given Dumbledore-like lines “I do love knitting patterns” I say he did them as properly as any mortal is capable. So I was happy for that because most of us should know what happens in the end. I didn’t want to be disappointed by not feeling the way I should because it’s not Dumbledore to me.

Then the movie also had all sorts of humor around the romance. Lots of little changes around there, but the romance isn’t the main plot. I was glad for the changes to make it new and make it fit in the 2.5 hours they had (or so my mom told me that was how long the movie was). Plus, things can’t be exactly the same. Things need to be stated straight out since we’re not in Harry’s head where we can know his thoughts or speculations.

All in all, as a Ginny fan I was relatively satisfied. *sigh~* Though I do admit to wishing that they’d kept more of her um…”spunkiness” in, but it can’t be helped. Unnecessary parts need to get pushed aside a little.

Now then! Let’s move onto the things most likely to make people rage so there’s some spoilers here. First there was the scene added in. Entirely unnecessary, but in the movies I do enjoy watching Bellatrix be a crazy bitch. Plus there wasn’t enough anger from Harry at the end of Order of the Pheonix so seeing him recklessly run after Bellatrix again was good. The scene was entertaining as I watched it, but once it was over, I confess to wondering what the point of it all was. Though I guess having Ginny run after Harry and the two of them fighting on their own a bit is obvious…but otherwise?

Then there’s also no mention of what the horcruxes are. Made me feel a bit odd at first, but then I figured it could work out easily in Deathly Hallows. Harry already knows he needs a locket, when he gets it, it’s Slytherin’s locket. Then when he goes to the vault, he’ll find out that it’s Hufflepuff’s cup and so he’ll catch onto the thing with founders, so when he gets to Hogwarts, he’ll look for something of Ravenclaws! Harry and Hermione should figure it out. The only problem is the snake…and also the fact that by not telling Harry this it seems like Dumbledore didn’t know (or guess~), and that’s just not right! Dumbledore knows (guesses) everything.

Then the fact that Harry didn’t find out about Snape being the one to hear the prophecy. I admit to being disappointed on that as well, but I accept it as necessary for a shorter time frame. Harry getting angry at Dumbledore wouldn’t be good when they don’t have time to fix that, it would come out awkward. Then they also wouldn’t have been able to do things the way they did on the tower. Which I thought was a very good change for a movie.

The book did it the best way, but in a movie it would have been so boring to see Harry just invisible underneath a cloak. But of course they knew Harry wouldn’t be able to not do anything, eventually it would get to him. So they had Snape come around, so Harry would think he could take care of things and then…well you know. It made it even more tragic and horrible and I couldn’t help but smile back in my writer’s mind. Though the movie actually had me crying. Something they’ve failed at with every character death so far.

Oh and then there’s how there was no battle, but I’d already found out about that before the movie and the reasons explained for it makes sense. There’s a battle (a better one) in Deathly Hallows. Plus the battle now would take away from the tragedy and ruin the mood a bit. Then the last complaint would probably be the lack of a funeral (which I also knew about ahead of time), which we can all miss, but it’s omission didn’t ruin the movie. Oh and I guess shippers could complain about how Harry and Ginny never really started dating so they couldn’t break up, but with the romance stuff, I always say, better that stuff out than the important scenes. (Oh and maybe the scene at the beginning, but all I can say is that I don’t see the harm in the train station scene and I even thought it was fun.)

Let’s see…what else? Oh I know what I was most disappointed at. No U-No-Poo. It would have just taken five seconds to flash the poster!!! But what can you do? I should be glad the joke shop was in at all.

That’s about it I guess. I enjoyed the movie. I suppose it would be my new favorite. Everything doesn’t come out exactly the way you imagine, but that’s just not possible. As an anime fans especially, we should be aware of the changes that are necessary in an adaptation. Now with a book (which has only words to describe and explain things) and adapting into only 2.5 hours (unlike an anime which is rarely shorter than 12 episodes at 20 minutes so at least 4 hours there) we should realize how much harder that is. I do, and so I am very satisfied with Half-Blood Prince. The first two were good if only because their light-hearted changes were fine considering the age group. The third one was way out there and just…was awful I have to say. The fourth one dragged in all the wrong place and rushed in all the wrong places, I found myself bored way too often. The fifth one was just rushed, longest book = shortest movie…seriously. This one did well. I may find things to poke at after I watch it again, but it was the first time since I started watching the movies in theaters (with 3) that I haven’t felt disappointed when I left.

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Blog-Related

I already mentioned that there won’t be anymore First Impressions…so there’s that. Sora no Manimani’s second episode will also be skipped. It’s getting doubled up with the third episode.

Now on Shugo Chara!, if the post isn’t up sometime on Sunday, it won’t appear until Tuesday. Concert on Monday~ But I will still be trying to get to the post. If it’s even just a short one.

I’m also going to try to be better at replying to comments. Sorry!

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Random Thoughts

Agh! Not again! And for real this time too… – Twilight Manhwa. While not anime or manga, still makes me shudder. Let’s pretend I did my usual “I know I shouldn’t be judgmental when I haven’t read the whole thing, but Twilight irks me” speech and let me just say that many fans I’ve met are insufferable. Including my own friend Rebecca. She starts talking about it and I just have to tune her out unless I want a fight.

I do not want the sort of hardcore fans that would look into everything Twilight coming anywhere near my anime fandom. I shudder to think of the possibility that within my first few conventions I’ll be seeing people cosplaying as sparkly vampires. Ignoring how they’d even do it since they all just seem to dress up in normal clothes. Which would make it not just cosplay that’s not anime (at an anime convention), but lazy cosplay too. Bleh. (Wow, I’m so well on my way to becoming a cosplay elitist, aren’t I?)

I did two preorders this week~ - And I’m not telling what they are~ Because I’m a bitch~ I’m probably going to end up going for one more too. We’ll see. ^_^

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Now on the short soap opera plot which has been “Will Fuyu be able to attend NYAF!?” we’ve reached something of a conclusion. I bought my ticket this week when my mom started feeling well and got in her planning mode. Chances are that my dad can’t come, but we’re all going on a trip to New York City in August for some reconnaissance! That way even if he can’t come, and my mom doesn’t have someone who can come with her, she can still manage.

Oh how I love my mom when she’s feeling well. She’s the stuff of mama legends! No one plans a vacation like her. She can even do it just a week in advance!

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