Also Watanuki got a moment of pure badass, and there is really no way I can object to that.
First off, dodificus, I got your card! :DDD It is very lovely and fuzzy, and I wish you the best for your Thanksgiving. I shall find excellent use for the nail polish (and the one called Bon Bon amuses me, because bon bons are a chocolate candy over here and not really associated with the color pink in any way).
--and then I finished every last season, movie, and OVA of xxxHolic that I could find, because that is what happens when I have pretty much nothing else to do. My verdicts: the movie is not really very good, alas! It does have some nice creepy visuals, and the astonishing inclusion of male characters besides Watanuki and Doumeki (seriously, those are few and far between), but the plot did not make the most sense and Watanuki didn't get to do anything useful and there was none of the friendship-development between him and Doumeki that the first season had established. Also the name is completely random. If you're going to call something A Midsummer Night's Dream, it should probably have something to do with either Shakespeare, fairies, midsummer, or dreams, and the movie was not really about any of those things. Woe.
Holic Kei, on the other hand: love of my life. It took the best elements of the late first season--actual use of drama, less flailing, more character development, putting Watanuki through both excessive physical and mental trauma--and extended it for thirteen episodes of Genuine Story Arc, instead of a bunch of connected one-offs with the occasional two-parter. I mean, there was still flailing, but there was also Grudging Friendship and Himawari Actually Getting A Subplot and Holy Shit There Is No Way That Amount Of Blood Can Be Good, and those are the things that make me happy. Also, it makes me think Watanuki really needs to meet Tenma, because people who use niceness as their superpower should have like a con or something. (Admittedly Watanuki also has actual superpowers, but he doesn't like them very much.)
Holic Shunmuki: I get the feeling I should probably have seen Cardcaptor Sakura before watching this, but, uh, I only saw a few episodes back when I was like eight so I don't remember them very well. (Except the theme song, I remember that! EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED NOW.) One of my college friends is determined to get me to watch that, so maybe I will rewatch Shunmuki afterwards and everything will make sense. Until then, I must remind myself that it is probably impossible to read/watch any given Clamp series and fully know what is going on. (Also: the eye-color thing confuses me. Sometimes it is green, sometimes it is not! PICK ONE AND STICK TO IT. THAT WAS AN AWESOME PLOTLINE, YOU SHOULD KEEP IT A CONSISTENT ONE TOO.)
Oh! And then, while Megavideo was being bitchy, I did some random fanart. Not very elaborate, but, eh, sometimes you just really want to draw facial expressions.
If I ever drew the characters as more than a headshot, would I attempt the spaghetti proportions? That is a question best left for later, I think.
--and then I finished every last season, movie, and OVA of xxxHolic that I could find, because that is what happens when I have pretty much nothing else to do. My verdicts: the movie is not really very good, alas! It does have some nice creepy visuals, and the astonishing inclusion of male characters besides Watanuki and Doumeki (seriously, those are few and far between), but the plot did not make the most sense and Watanuki didn't get to do anything useful and there was none of the friendship-development between him and Doumeki that the first season had established. Also the name is completely random. If you're going to call something A Midsummer Night's Dream, it should probably have something to do with either Shakespeare, fairies, midsummer, or dreams, and the movie was not really about any of those things. Woe.
Holic Kei, on the other hand: love of my life. It took the best elements of the late first season--actual use of drama, less flailing, more character development, putting Watanuki through both excessive physical and mental trauma--and extended it for thirteen episodes of Genuine Story Arc, instead of a bunch of connected one-offs with the occasional two-parter. I mean, there was still flailing, but there was also Grudging Friendship and Himawari Actually Getting A Subplot and Holy Shit There Is No Way That Amount Of Blood Can Be Good, and those are the things that make me happy. Also, it makes me think Watanuki really needs to meet Tenma, because people who use niceness as their superpower should have like a con or something. (Admittedly Watanuki also has actual superpowers, but he doesn't like them very much.)
Holic Shunmuki: I get the feeling I should probably have seen Cardcaptor Sakura before watching this, but, uh, I only saw a few episodes back when I was like eight so I don't remember them very well. (Except the theme song, I remember that! EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED NOW.) One of my college friends is determined to get me to watch that, so maybe I will rewatch Shunmuki afterwards and everything will make sense. Until then, I must remind myself that it is probably impossible to read/watch any given Clamp series and fully know what is going on. (Also: the eye-color thing confuses me. Sometimes it is green, sometimes it is not! PICK ONE AND STICK TO IT. THAT WAS AN AWESOME PLOTLINE, YOU SHOULD KEEP IT A CONSISTENT ONE TOO.)
Oh! And then, while Megavideo was being bitchy, I did some random fanart. Not very elaborate, but, eh, sometimes you just really want to draw facial expressions.
If I ever drew the characters as more than a headshot, would I attempt the spaghetti proportions? That is a question best left for later, I think.