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Ran into a wee bit of an awkward situation with my dear, sweet, innocent mother. You see it all started about a year ago when I decided to convert her into an anime freak and pushed her into watching a few series with me. And now, I'm in a pickle!
I tried Mushi-shi first, as she adores beautiful, surreal artwork. It went well for a couple of weeks, and at around the 15th episode or so, she suddenly refuses to watch any further as she found them too sad.
Next, we went to Bleach, I was concerned first but then she surprised me by becoming so obsessed with it that we had a few happy months bleaching about (with a bit of Mushi-shi thrown in) until we ran out of episodes. Crappity.
So then, we went to Nodame Cantabile, Kino no tabi, Rurouni Kenshin and then Detective academy Q. Then she discovered my secret stash of anime (a cardboard box beneath my bed) and got pretty excited at the thought of even more anime.
Carried away, in a moment of pure insanity, I hit upon Death Note as our next mother-daughter series as she loved Detective academy Q and wanted another 'brainy' series. All went well at first- she loved Raito and L so much, just went on and on about how smart and cool and awesome they were. I listened happily to her exuberant squeals about the plot, we feverishly discussed each and every episode to bits and all in all had a lot of fun.
Until we came to the handcuffs.
And the very, very sexy fist fight.
You see, I had forgotten that she was my mother, and as a consequence she had a full blast of "OMG SQUEEEEEE, THEY LOOK JUST SO BLOODY GOOD TOGETHER!!!!! beep beep beep" fangirl rant. My little brother who was hovering about gave me a LOOK. Surprisingly she grins and goes "Oh I know what you mean!" We smiled beatifically at each other for a moment and I open my mouth to elaborate but (luckily) she beats me to it- "They are so similar! They can be such close friends... or brothers!" I blink for a second and then close my mouth with the refrain of OMG I'M SUCH A BIG FAT IDIOT running through my head.
So I've decided- No more series where there are any traces of yaoi. That eliminates Full Metal alchemist, Peacemaker Kurogane, Tsubasa reservoir chronicles, Vampire knight, Kyou kara maou... Everything I have. Except Mushi-shi.
Uggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh....
I tried Mushi-shi first, as she adores beautiful, surreal artwork. It went well for a couple of weeks, and at around the 15th episode or so, she suddenly refuses to watch any further as she found them too sad.
Next, we went to Bleach, I was concerned first but then she surprised me by becoming so obsessed with it that we had a few happy months bleaching about (with a bit of Mushi-shi thrown in) until we ran out of episodes. Crappity.
So then, we went to Nodame Cantabile, Kino no tabi, Rurouni Kenshin and then Detective academy Q. Then she discovered my secret stash of anime (a cardboard box beneath my bed) and got pretty excited at the thought of even more anime.
Carried away, in a moment of pure insanity, I hit upon Death Note as our next mother-daughter series as she loved Detective academy Q and wanted another 'brainy' series. All went well at first- she loved Raito and L so much, just went on and on about how smart and cool and awesome they were. I listened happily to her exuberant squeals about the plot, we feverishly discussed each and every episode to bits and all in all had a lot of fun.
Until we came to the handcuffs.
And the very, very sexy fist fight.
You see, I had forgotten that she was my mother, and as a consequence she had a full blast of "OMG SQUEEEEEE, THEY LOOK JUST SO BLOODY GOOD TOGETHER!!!!! beep beep beep" fangirl rant. My little brother who was hovering about gave me a LOOK. Surprisingly she grins and goes "Oh I know what you mean!" We smiled beatifically at each other for a moment and I open my mouth to elaborate but (luckily) she beats me to it- "They are so similar! They can be such close friends... or brothers!" I blink for a second and then close my mouth with the refrain of OMG I'M SUCH A BIG FAT IDIOT running through my head.
So I've decided- No more series where there are any traces of yaoi. That eliminates Full Metal alchemist, Peacemaker Kurogane, Tsubasa reservoir chronicles, Vampire knight, Kyou kara maou... Everything I have. Except Mushi-shi.
Uggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh....