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I found the original name for that program with the props and skits! "全日本仮装大賞" More video clips can be found here. They only recently aired the 60th competition here in Taiwan.
I reread Full Moon wo Sagashite today, before and after this lame potluck dinner party my parents dragged me and my siblings to. (Oh GOD the germs germs germs --stop eating the abalone with your fingers, ladies! You, sir, keep your two year old with the runny nose away from the toothpicks! And the mysterious person who ate an olive and spat out the insides onto a wad of tissue and left it on the coffee table --you're disgusting.) Anyhow, Full Moon, like most of Tanemura-sensei's works, made me cry. Shishin Doushin or whatever her new work is...is nowhere near as interesting as Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, Time Stranger Kyoko, or Full Moon; Full Moon appears to be a high crest on sensei's highest peak. I think I'm a shoujo at heart, because I connect with her narratives a tad too strongly.
I also went and read some of ash_grey_sky's drabbles yesterday, and between that and Tanemura my insides are all scrambled and what's left of my brain is fuzzy and out of focus. Um. *totters off*
I pulled out my old art box --it's a small plastic blue thing I got my prep or lower year at Exeter. It's dusty on the inside, with bits of broken color pencils and paint scattered about. My goal was my Nikko manga pen --it's this lovely little black wooden thing that holds standard calligraphy/drawing nibs, though I prefer Japanese manufactured nibs specifically in the G-pen size/style; I hate the rusty colored cheap things available in most American art stores. I need to buy some India ink because my sister's Quink is too watery, but drawing with it felt so good. I hadn't realized how much I missed drawing with G nibs as opposed to the fine line markers I've been using the last four years. And the line quality is completely different, and the feel of the pen in my hand...
No wonder my drawings now pale in comparison with my output during high school. Mew.
I reread Full Moon wo Sagashite today, before and after this lame potluck dinner party my parents dragged me and my siblings to. (Oh GOD the germs germs germs --stop eating the abalone with your fingers, ladies! You, sir, keep your two year old with the runny nose away from the toothpicks! And the mysterious person who ate an olive and spat out the insides onto a wad of tissue and left it on the coffee table --you're disgusting.) Anyhow, Full Moon, like most of Tanemura-sensei's works, made me cry. Shishin Doushin or whatever her new work is...is nowhere near as interesting as Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, Time Stranger Kyoko, or Full Moon; Full Moon appears to be a high crest on sensei's highest peak. I think I'm a shoujo at heart, because I connect with her narratives a tad too strongly.
I also went and read some of ash_grey_sky's drabbles yesterday, and between that and Tanemura my insides are all scrambled and what's left of my brain is fuzzy and out of focus. Um. *totters off*
I pulled out my old art box --it's a small plastic blue thing I got my prep or lower year at Exeter. It's dusty on the inside, with bits of broken color pencils and paint scattered about. My goal was my Nikko manga pen --it's this lovely little black wooden thing that holds standard calligraphy/drawing nibs, though I prefer Japanese manufactured nibs specifically in the G-pen size/style; I hate the rusty colored cheap things available in most American art stores. I need to buy some India ink because my sister's Quink is too watery, but drawing with it felt so good. I hadn't realized how much I missed drawing with G nibs as opposed to the fine line markers I've been using the last four years. And the line quality is completely different, and the feel of the pen in my hand...
No wonder my drawings now pale in comparison with my output during high school. Mew.