Instant Death

Nov 01, 2006 19:52

Jim was telling me about this thing where all these Snape fangirls started seeing Snape in their dreams or something, and started forming some sort of cult about it. Or something. I'm sure he tells it better than I do. The whole thing's on fandom_wank, which I don't read a whole lot because everyone talks like the Smurfs over there, and I have ( Read more... )

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mike_smith November 2 2006, 02:18:13 UTC
OK, I give up. What is Tenchi Muyo and where do I download it?

As far as I know, you don't download it. But I'm not well-versed in that sort of thing.

As to the other, TM! is an anime franchise started up in 1992. Originally a six-episode story arc straight to video, the popularity of the show has given rise to fourteen additional episodes, two television series, three feature films, a spinoff series, and a comic book. There's also some novels, but I don't know anything about them.

The continuity shifts a little from one medium to the next, but generally the plot revolves around an unassuming boy, Tenchi Masaki, who encounters various alien women who all wanna jump his bones to some extent. They end up living together, occasionally fighting crime, matchmaking, or just experiencing the nuances of Japanese culture for the first time.

The rating system I've been using since Half-Blood Prince features two screencaps from the series. Tenchi's alien grandmother Airi meets him for the first time, and expresses distaste for the apellation "grandma". When Tenchi suggests he simply call her by her first name, she finds the solution acceptible, and gives the thumbs up. When Ryoko, a major supporting character, mocks Airi's advanced age, Airi slaps her across the face for her flagrant disrespect. Thus, the Airi Masaki Scale of Harry Potter Quality.

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grapefruitzzz November 9 2006, 19:14:08 UTC
That's quite a franchise empire for a series I haven't heard of. I do like stories about aliens discovering Earth customs. Airi Masaki seems quite fierce, because that was some serious slappage.

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