:: re-adjustable wings ::

i want to look at them forever

I've been almost diligently watching Mai-HiME (My-Hime? whatever), and after loving it off the start to hating it with a sort if mad, sneering passion, I am back to loving it again. All because TATE DIES. Yes! It may sound mean and unfeeling of me, but never was there a more useless character to get as much acknowledgement as he did. I was just sitting around waiting the past 5 episodes for someone to just whack Shiho's ugly vulture child so Mophead would go sparkly poof and we could get on with the damn plot. Seriously, he's in like, 7 episodes, and is repeatedly useless in all of them. He's there for bad fanboy-self-insert appeal. I have no qualms with saying I am quite happy that he is quite dead. Barring the whole History Reset (anime epilogue #3) ending anyways.

Also a plus, Nastuki (yay!) has finally got her mojo back, and crazy-bestfriend-lesbian-studentcouncilpresident-hime Shizuru is making me squeal with glee whenever she goes out and destroys things that may or may not have any relevance to Natsuki. We also finally get our first glimpse of the nefarious First District, which is run by dastardly old ladies in kimonos and sandles. They flee from the terror that is Crazy!Shizuru and her demon Octo-snake child. I laugh to think that anime has created for us yet another Crazy Lesbian Who Is In Love With Her Best Friend (tm). Sigh. It's always one of my favorite characters that goes out, molests people in their sleep, loses it, and then goes on insane destructive rampages. She'll probably die too. But that's probably more because she's the Tragic Lesbian Character (tm), and thats what they do.

Oh, and the theme of the series now appears to be: "Yourself first, fuck everybody else." That also makes me deliriously happy. I can't wait for the last 2 eps.

:: britt was abducted @ 8:29 PM, Saturday, March 19, 2005 ::

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i picture you in the sun

Rewatching the Chuunin Exam arc in Naruto is...trying. While I applaud the fact the Sakura actually got off her butt and did something, it remains that it was UTTERLY USELESS. Since I don't really feel like a long rant, I'll just say its really beginning to piss me off (or perhaps already has) that there is a lack of strong female characters. They're all coming off as pretty wimpy and, well, stupid. Even if I like them. In fact, the only one who seems to have any worth at all is Temari, who for some reason just doesn't appeal to me. Although in the last episode, her blatant disregard to shinobi-style combat by employing brute force to deal complete and utter destruction warmed my heart.

"The big surprise in this episode is that Shimako is a Buddhist, yet she goes to a Catholic school. The other big surprise is that Tsunade's giant slug in Naruto sounds exactly like Shimako."
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Which was great because that was first thing that popped into my mind when the slug started talking. And it's true! Who would've ever thought a slug could sound so polite?

On a completely different matter, watching the preview of the this weeks "Simple Life: Interns," or whatever its called (the one with Paris Hilton and her ugly friend), I find myself alternately repulsed and intrigued. While I am low enough to stoop to watching reality tv, there are certain boundaries which I dare not cross. And yet, I find myself involved in an internal struggle whether or not to actually watch the damn episode because, well...there's an attack duck. Ohhh, but I want one.

:: britt was abducted @ 9:28 PM, Wednesday, March 16, 2005 ::

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