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Frustrated. I remember watching an OVA series as a kid (I don't think it was a kid-targeted OVA series, though) that featured as a side character this guy who was a boss of a mass of women who were all clones of each other or something. He would speak only in completely unintelligible rap, and his swirly blue hair had its own sound effect. He was trying to woo some other girl, who was in love with the main character.
And I can't remember what the OVA series itself was about, nor the title nor anyone's names! Since this was from the...early to mid-90s, I doubt anyone knows what I'm talking about. Argh! C'mon, swirly blue hair with its own frickin' sound effect. [ETA] Found it. Elf Princess Rane.
Watched up through episode 8 of Making the Band 3 Season 3 on Youtube. Apparently, the ninth episode is the season finale.
....to echo someone else's comment on Youtube: Since when does a season last nine episodes? *mindboggled*
I have a new anime I'm obsessed with, BTW. Or rather, fallen in love with even more than the first couple of episodes I saw. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is....well, it's like some sort of a Discordian take on Uber-Mary-Sue, to combine metajoke fields. The first episode wasn't really an episode, and the rest of the episodes cover what appears to be three plotlines that have a chronological order but are episodically mixed up. Makes it a tad more difficult to follow, granted, but it's awesome.
There is nothing normal about the series. Well, except the exaggerations of standard genre conventions. And Kyon, the main male character who's so completely normal as to be completely unusual in any anime. It's all rather brain breaky, but in a fun way. And there's animated dancing, I mean full out animated dancing to the music for the ED. Hell, the animation in general is fluid and smooth and high quality. The show seriously needs more love. MORE LOVE, I tell you!
And more HP fandom insanity: a pretty good account of the plagiarism involved with Cassie Claire of the (in)famous Draco Dormiens trilogy. I fail to understand why mediocre writers garner such widespread, rabid protection against accusations of otherwise unacceptable behavior.
To quote JF's Azazello in summation: Some years ago, these "inner circle" queen bees might have held certain authority, however their claim to be better than everyone else no long holds water. One of them is outed as a psycho troll, another uses her legal profession as a hammer to beat anyone who dares disagree with her and hers, and the third, the biggest name of all, stands revealed as a plagiarist deluxe.
And FandomWanking from a defender!
[ETA2] Added actual linkage of mentioned sites. *smacks forehead*
And I can't remember what the OVA series itself was about, nor the title nor anyone's names! Since this was from the...early to mid-90s, I doubt anyone knows what I'm talking about. Argh! C'mon, swirly blue hair with its own frickin' sound effect. [ETA] Found it. Elf Princess Rane.
Watched up through episode 8 of Making the Band 3 Season 3 on Youtube. Apparently, the ninth episode is the season finale.
....to echo someone else's comment on Youtube: Since when does a season last nine episodes? *mindboggled*
I have a new anime I'm obsessed with, BTW. Or rather, fallen in love with even more than the first couple of episodes I saw. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is....well, it's like some sort of a Discordian take on Uber-Mary-Sue, to combine metajoke fields. The first episode wasn't really an episode, and the rest of the episodes cover what appears to be three plotlines that have a chronological order but are episodically mixed up. Makes it a tad more difficult to follow, granted, but it's awesome.
There is nothing normal about the series. Well, except the exaggerations of standard genre conventions. And Kyon, the main male character who's so completely normal as to be completely unusual in any anime. It's all rather brain breaky, but in a fun way. And there's animated dancing, I mean full out animated dancing to the music for the ED. Hell, the animation in general is fluid and smooth and high quality. The show seriously needs more love. MORE LOVE, I tell you!
And more HP fandom insanity: a pretty good account of the plagiarism involved with Cassie Claire of the (in)famous Draco Dormiens trilogy. I fail to understand why mediocre writers garner such widespread, rabid protection against accusations of otherwise unacceptable behavior.
To quote JF's Azazello in summation: Some years ago, these "inner circle" queen bees might have held certain authority, however their claim to be better than everyone else no long holds water. One of them is outed as a psycho troll, another uses her legal profession as a hammer to beat anyone who dares disagree with her and hers, and the third, the biggest name of all, stands revealed as a plagiarist deluxe.
And FandomWanking from a defender!
[ETA2] Added actual linkage of mentioned sites. *smacks forehead*