Memes; some ramblings on Hellsing's casts, Ergo Proxy's dub, and anime/manga; and a few polls
So, I figure I might as well do the memes everyone in f-list land is doing.
Stolen from Everyone and his mother
Name any character I know and I'll tell you three reasons why s/he sucks.
and So, brennadouglasmw, your LiveJournal reveals...
You are... 3% unique (blame, for example, your interest in seras's boobs) and 18% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy water). When it comes to friends you are normal. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are wary of trusting strangers. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.
Your overall weirdness is: 18
(The average level of weirdness is: 27.
You are weirder than 37% of other LJers.)
Find out what your weirdness level is!
lol, Seras's boobs are so much LOVE though! How could you *not* be interested in Seras's boobs?! And I want to know what person doesn't enjoy water. >_>
I think my weirdness rated higher than it actually should be since I took "yaoi" off my interests during Strikethrough 07. I wonder if I put them back on maybe it'll lower the score?
Anyway, some backstory: I finally broke down and decided to buy the limited edition Hellsing Ultimate 01 DVD since I'd already squee'ed over and preordered 02 (shipped yesterday!!!), but all of the online sites I went to said "Discontinued". BLARGH. Luckily enough, I had been at Suncoast and I saw they'd had a copy, so I ran back there the very next morning and attacked it. (They also have this buy-one-get-one-free on all Geneon titles, so I got the second volume of Ergo Proxy for free. :3 It doesn't have that awesome card thing though. D:)
So I watched the extra disc of the Hellsing Ultimate with the interview. Crispin Freeman... Cute, but maybe gay? Y/N? Y... While watching the interview, it was really interesting to hear about the different things that went into casting for the English dub in terms of character interpretation and accent accuracy. And thinking on it, that's one of the things that makes it hard for me to say which cast I like better. They're both excellent, just different. Alucard, for example: Nakata does an amazing job of making Alucard sound very dangerous and sensual and insane. An amazing job of making him sound insane. It's the way he makes Alucard laugh. >_> Freeman does an amazing job of making Alucard sexual and classy and playful. Different, but both are good. I do favor Nakata though. He could probably make me orgasm on command. That is how HOT his voice is. Even when he does Diethard I get a little uncomfortable. >_> The only thing I absolutely hate about the English cast is Seras. Her accent is ridiculous. D< KT Gray is cute, but I still want to strangle her. She does a good job of making Seras's vampiric side very dark and she throws in a lot of sexual tension with the violence, and I would absolute love her Seras if it weren't for that fucking accent. It makes me want to turn around and bitchslap somebody. To forget my irritation, I will state here that I want to have sex with Victoria Harwood's voice. I mean, it's HOT when she does Integra and ordered people around, but after hearing her do Doc in Texhnolyze... Nngh... Anyway Ralph Lister was excellent as Walter in the anime. He definitely outshone Kiyokawa in the series, but since the character has changed significantly in the OVA... I was definitely a little disappointed in Lister's Walter. Kiyokawa completely PWNED at being sinister, sadistic, and cultured all at the same time, and I'm really sad that Lister fell short since I think he has the potential to be absolutely amazing as OVA!Walter. I really wished he'd changed his reading from what it was in the anime. They were too similar. :( I wonder if he'll still be doing the voice once Dark Walter comes along...
Poll Hellsing
So, I've gotten my hands on volumes 2 through 4 of Ergo Proxy so far. The special edition box of volume 1 is in the mail and on it's way. :D Anyway, I was watching the episode where Iggy is commanded by the Regent and his advisors to go back to Real. I had thusfar been pretty ambivalent about Willingham's Iggy. I didn't much care for him when he did Roy in FMA, but he really floored me in this episode. His interpretation and delivery of Iggy's duality was... He has changed my skepticism as to his abilities as a voice actor. I think he definitely outdid the Japanese Iggy by at least 120%. Also, Patrick Seitz as Raul = a combination I could have only made in my dreams. He's done Raul really well so far. This is another case of the "different, but good" scenario. Japanese Raul did certain things really well, and Seitz does certain things really well. I can't wait to hear how he does Raul in the last arc. I don't know if I'll be able to watch it again. *cries* I really really like the English dub for Kristeva. I love the way she's talking for this character. I am, however, pretty disappointed in the VAs for Vincent, Pino, and Real. O'Brien's too whiny (I'm worried about what'll happen when Ergo Proxy starts having serious speaking parts. Will they use another VA?), Hirschfield does a good job with the pace and pitch but her reading of a lot of Pino's lines doesn't fit with the character, and the English Real is just not very good. >_> Japanese cast completely wins with these three. Though, I might be biased in favor of Yajima. I love love love her voice. Also, MCQ FTW.
Poll Ergo Proxy
Anyway... I have recently discovered the anime/manga bug. After I bought the Read or Die manga, I've been completely binging on buying manga. I can't stop myself. And same thing with anime after I went and got the Hellsing OVA 01. I've bought six(?) DVDs in the last three days and I'm already planning on buying more. D: I'm also obsessively browsing for bags, figurines, models, and cool clothes from different anime too. Now I understand what people mean when they say that being addicted to anime and manga is worse than crack. It's completely legal and you can get it over the internet. Someone save me... *dies*
Also, in addition to being addicted to anime and manga, it seems I'm addicted to polls as well. D:
In other news: I FINALLY GOT A JOB. HUZZAH!!! Tomorrow's my third day; I really like it so far. It's really mundane work, but I think it's a lot of fun. And the atmosphere is awesome.
OH! I almost forgot. My mp3 player recently broke. It was just a generic 5 gig mp3 player, and it worked well enough but now it's dead. I'm definitely going to get a new one, but I'm not sure what kind. I've been contemplating whether or not I should just spend the extra money and get a nice I-Pod, but I'm not too sure. Lend me your opinion? Yes, I know I'm ridiculously indecisive and I rely too heavily on others to make my decisions for me. Will you still help and love me?
Poll I-Pod
Stolen from Everyone and his mother
Name any character I know and I'll tell you three reasons why s/he sucks.
and So, brennadouglasmw, your LiveJournal reveals...
You are... 3% unique (blame, for example, your interest in seras's boobs) and 18% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy water). When it comes to friends you are normal. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are wary of trusting strangers. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.
Your overall weirdness is: 18
(The average level of weirdness is: 27.
You are weirder than 37% of other LJers.)
Find out what your weirdness level is!
lol, Seras's boobs are so much LOVE though! How could you *not* be interested in Seras's boobs?! And I want to know what person doesn't enjoy water. >_>
I think my weirdness rated higher than it actually should be since I took "yaoi" off my interests during Strikethrough 07. I wonder if I put them back on maybe it'll lower the score?
Anyway, some backstory: I finally broke down and decided to buy the limited edition Hellsing Ultimate 01 DVD since I'd already squee'ed over and preordered 02 (shipped yesterday!!!), but all of the online sites I went to said "Discontinued". BLARGH. Luckily enough, I had been at Suncoast and I saw they'd had a copy, so I ran back there the very next morning and attacked it. (They also have this buy-one-get-one-free on all Geneon titles, so I got the second volume of Ergo Proxy for free. :3 It doesn't have that awesome card thing though. D:)
So I watched the extra disc of the Hellsing Ultimate with the interview. Crispin Freeman... Cute, but maybe gay? Y/N? Y... While watching the interview, it was really interesting to hear about the different things that went into casting for the English dub in terms of character interpretation and accent accuracy. And thinking on it, that's one of the things that makes it hard for me to say which cast I like better. They're both excellent, just different. Alucard, for example: Nakata does an amazing job of making Alucard sound very dangerous and sensual and insane. An amazing job of making him sound insane. It's the way he makes Alucard laugh. >_> Freeman does an amazing job of making Alucard sexual and classy and playful. Different, but both are good. I do favor Nakata though. He could probably make me orgasm on command. That is how HOT his voice is. Even when he does Diethard I get a little uncomfortable. >_> The only thing I absolutely hate about the English cast is Seras. Her accent is ridiculous. D< KT Gray is cute, but I still want to strangle her. She does a good job of making Seras's vampiric side very dark and she throws in a lot of sexual tension with the violence, and I would absolute love her Seras if it weren't for that fucking accent. It makes me want to turn around and bitchslap somebody. To forget my irritation, I will state here that I want to have sex with Victoria Harwood's voice. I mean, it's HOT when she does Integra and ordered people around, but after hearing her do Doc in Texhnolyze... Nngh... Anyway Ralph Lister was excellent as Walter in the anime. He definitely outshone Kiyokawa in the series, but since the character has changed significantly in the OVA... I was definitely a little disappointed in Lister's Walter. Kiyokawa completely PWNED at being sinister, sadistic, and cultured all at the same time, and I'm really sad that Lister fell short since I think he has the potential to be absolutely amazing as OVA!Walter. I really wished he'd changed his reading from what it was in the anime. They were too similar. :( I wonder if he'll still be doing the voice once Dark Walter comes along...
Poll Hellsing
So, I've gotten my hands on volumes 2 through 4 of Ergo Proxy so far. The special edition box of volume 1 is in the mail and on it's way. :D Anyway, I was watching the episode where Iggy is commanded by the Regent and his advisors to go back to Real. I had thusfar been pretty ambivalent about Willingham's Iggy. I didn't much care for him when he did Roy in FMA, but he really floored me in this episode. His interpretation and delivery of Iggy's duality was... He has changed my skepticism as to his abilities as a voice actor. I think he definitely outdid the Japanese Iggy by at least 120%. Also, Patrick Seitz as Raul = a combination I could have only made in my dreams. He's done Raul really well so far. This is another case of the "different, but good" scenario. Japanese Raul did certain things really well, and Seitz does certain things really well. I can't wait to hear how he does Raul in the last arc. I don't know if I'll be able to watch it again. *cries* I really really like the English dub for Kristeva. I love the way she's talking for this character. I am, however, pretty disappointed in the VAs for Vincent, Pino, and Real. O'Brien's too whiny (I'm worried about what'll happen when Ergo Proxy starts having serious speaking parts. Will they use another VA?), Hirschfield does a good job with the pace and pitch but her reading of a lot of Pino's lines doesn't fit with the character, and the English Real is just not very good. >_> Japanese cast completely wins with these three. Though, I might be biased in favor of Yajima. I love love love her voice. Also, MCQ FTW.
Poll Ergo Proxy
Anyway... I have recently discovered the anime/manga bug. After I bought the Read or Die manga, I've been completely binging on buying manga. I can't stop myself. And same thing with anime after I went and got the Hellsing OVA 01. I've bought six(?) DVDs in the last three days and I'm already planning on buying more. D: I'm also obsessively browsing for bags, figurines, models, and cool clothes from different anime too. Now I understand what people mean when they say that being addicted to anime and manga is worse than crack. It's completely legal and you can get it over the internet. Someone save me... *dies*
Also, in addition to being addicted to anime and manga, it seems I'm addicted to polls as well. D:
In other news: I FINALLY GOT A JOB. HUZZAH!!! Tomorrow's my third day; I really like it so far. It's really mundane work, but I think it's a lot of fun. And the atmosphere is awesome.
OH! I almost forgot. My mp3 player recently broke. It was just a generic 5 gig mp3 player, and it worked well enough but now it's dead. I'm definitely going to get a new one, but I'm not sure what kind. I've been contemplating whether or not I should just spend the extra money and get a nice I-Pod, but I'm not too sure. Lend me your opinion? Yes, I know I'm ridiculously indecisive and I rely too heavily on others to make my decisions for me. Will you still help and love me?
Poll I-Pod