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I've been back from Mississauga for a few days but I didn't feel like writing anything. The tumor is out of me. There's a noticeable difference in the size of my abdomen. The thing was as large as a basketball. They'd scheduled 12 hours of OR time but they only needed half of that. The scar is healing really well, according to all the professionals who've looked at it. The staples were taken out the other day. It still hurts every day but now all that's left is to allow my body to heal itself.
Sometimes I think I'm incredibly unlucky to have this happen, and other times I want to cry with how lucky I am that it didn't kill me and that I have my parents, who love me more than I was capable of understanding before this happened.
Today I've been watching No.6 and reading the translation of the novel it's based on. I agree that it shouldn't be put in the BL/yaoi category. It's a sci-fi/alt-future/distopia story that happens to have two main characters with strong feelings for each other who are both male. Nezumi is fairly different in the novel than the anime; they push his soft side in the anime and his hard side in the novel. There's a lot more of the city as a character in the novel, too, whereas the anime focuses on the bee mystery. I'm really interested in seeing if Nezumi or Sefu die, since the foreshadowing during the Ophelia scene seems to indicate one or both of them aren't going to make it. I don't mind Sefu as a character, but her attitude is still wrapped in No.6's brainwashing. Comparing her to Nezumi, who lifts Shion and dances a waltz with him, it's like she has no chance at all. But maybe that will change! Even hearing Shion say "you're the one person I couldn't live without" to Nezumi doesn't necessarily mean that Nezumi won't be killed and Shion ends up making lots of babies with Sefu after they take down No.6.
Sometimes I think I'm incredibly unlucky to have this happen, and other times I want to cry with how lucky I am that it didn't kill me and that I have my parents, who love me more than I was capable of understanding before this happened.
Today I've been watching No.6 and reading the translation of the novel it's based on. I agree that it shouldn't be put in the BL/yaoi category. It's a sci-fi/alt-future/distopia story that happens to have two main characters with strong feelings for each other who are both male. Nezumi is fairly different in the novel than the anime; they push his soft side in the anime and his hard side in the novel. There's a lot more of the city as a character in the novel, too, whereas the anime focuses on the bee mystery. I'm really interested in seeing if Nezumi or Sefu die, since the foreshadowing during the Ophelia scene seems to indicate one or both of them aren't going to make it. I don't mind Sefu as a character, but her attitude is still wrapped in No.6's brainwashing. Comparing her to Nezumi, who lifts Shion and dances a waltz with him, it's like she has no chance at all. But maybe that will change! Even hearing Shion say "you're the one person I couldn't live without" to Nezumi doesn't necessarily mean that Nezumi won't be killed and Shion ends up making lots of babies with Sefu after they take down No.6.