Epic fail priorities
I like how I should be working on my radio/alternative performance pieces and scriptwriting pages, but instead of being generally productive I choose to rewatch most of KIBA on YouTube so I can refresh my canon knowledge enough to write an app for Noa at... some game I haven't even decided upon yet. I'm stuck between two choices. Ooh, I came across English dubs of the second half of the series, awesometimes. But after three dub eps. I realized I don't have the second half on DVD yet and I wanted to wait till I had it to watch the series dubbed, so I switched back to watching the old fansubs. Noa's always been my pet character, but mmm did I forget how hot he can be when he's being a power-hungry jerk. And now I kind of want to cosplay him as Dolga because lol I can pull off his hair, but that'd be a dumb idea because I can't take myself crossplaying seriously and practically nobody knows KIBA, so who'd know who I am?
I also forgot how much of a pimp Noa is without even trying. Sure, Robes is designed to be the in-canon fangirl favorite because he's rich and princely and voiced by Miki Shin'ichirou and random stock women characters flock over him every so often. But Noa's a magnet for most of the important female characters and he only ever hits on one of them, and then that's just a benign, "Oh, I didn't realize how much prettier you are without your glasses, Kira." Even his seiyuu Horie Kazuma seemed to notice and made this lovely succinct chart of who has a thing for whom on his blog.
ゼッド (Zed) ← ロイア (Roya) - Not important to the point.
ノア (Noa) ← サギリ (Sagiri) - Ick, shipping little girls is squicky.
ノア (Noa) ← ダイアナ？ (Diana) - Don't question mark that, Horie-san. Diana so had a creepy pedo thing for him. "I'll convince you to be a jerk and uphold Absolute Law as our savior BY PRESSING YOU AGAINST MY BOOBS."
ノア (Noa) ← キーラ (Kira) - Kira was so in denial. "I have no feelings for any man" my face.
ドルガー (Dolga) ← ミレッド (Mirred) - "O HAY MIRRED I'm only using you to get your Legendary Pokemon Key Spirit so I can take over the world, *insert nefarious laughter here*!"
ゼッド (Zed) ← ノア？ (Noa) - Rofl, that should not be question marked ever, Horie-san. Noa's probably been nursing his hero worshiping boycrush on his best friend since Zed saved him from getting beat up from those bullies when they were kids. Not to mention who was the one who could snap Noa out of letting Tusker possess him to screw up the world and offered the Pokemon Spirit god his body instead? ZED. So yeah basically I SHIP IT.
Dag, I love this show even though the faithful to the Japanese script English dialogue sounds occasionally corny and it's supposedly as generic shounen as shounen can be. Fine, I can admit to those faults, but I still uphold the opinion that Noa's "180 personality shift" is completely justified and in-character. Well, at least in-character. Acting like a stiff bastard upholding somewhat communist laws and manipulating everyone to catch Legendary Pokemon collect Key Spirits to gain the power to recreate the world? Generally not a coolio thing to do. Lol, love that kid, though. And based on what Sis told me about Gurren Lagan or however it's spelled I kind of crossover ship Neotopia!Noa with timeskip!Rossiu even though I guess that'd be kind of pedo because Rossiu is 21-ish and Noa's 15? "Mm baby, I love how you think laws and government are more important than everything in the world ESPECIALLY YOUR BEST FRIEND." Lolololololol I'd fic or art it if I didn't suck at both fandom activities. Yeah.
Edit: Wait what? Noa's seiyuu dubbed Nick Jonas in that lame Camp Rock movie? Nick is the young, supposedly cute Jonas brother, right? Rofl, I wonder if anyone over at seiyuu has the Japanese dub of that movie and will upload it sometime, ahahahahaha.
Edit, 03-29, 3:50 AM: Okay, just finished the series. The final battle stuff is still anticlimactic, but the epilogue ksjdflakjdsfldsf still makes me cry. Why did Zed and Noa have to be separated forever? Why did Noa have to get sickly again? Why did Mickey just now become relevant to the series again, and why did it have to eeeeend? Gah, this series gets at me so much it's pathetic.
I also forgot how much of a pimp Noa is without even trying. Sure, Robes is designed to be the in-canon fangirl favorite because he's rich and princely and voiced by Miki Shin'ichirou and random stock women characters flock over him every so often. But Noa's a magnet for most of the important female characters and he only ever hits on one of them, and then that's just a benign, "Oh, I didn't realize how much prettier you are without your glasses, Kira." Even his seiyuu Horie Kazuma seemed to notice and made this lovely succinct chart of who has a thing for whom on his blog.
ゼッド (Zed) ← ロイア (Roya) - Not important to the point.
ノア (Noa) ← サギリ (Sagiri) - Ick, shipping little girls is squicky.
ノア (Noa) ← ダイアナ？ (Diana) - Don't question mark that, Horie-san. Diana so had a creepy pedo thing for him. "I'll convince you to be a jerk and uphold Absolute Law as our savior BY PRESSING YOU AGAINST MY BOOBS."
ノア (Noa) ← キーラ (Kira) - Kira was so in denial. "I have no feelings for any man" my face.
ドルガー (Dolga) ← ミレッド (Mirred) - "O HAY MIRRED I'm only using you to get your Legendary Pokemon Key Spirit so I can take over the world, *insert nefarious laughter here*!"
ゼッド (Zed) ← ノア？ (Noa) - Rofl, that should not be question marked ever, Horie-san. Noa's probably been nursing his hero worshiping boycrush on his best friend since Zed saved him from getting beat up from those bullies when they were kids. Not to mention who was the one who could snap Noa out of letting Tusker possess him to screw up the world and offered the Pokemon Spirit god his body instead? ZED. So yeah basically I SHIP IT.
Dag, I love this show even though the faithful to the Japanese script English dialogue sounds occasionally corny and it's supposedly as generic shounen as shounen can be. Fine, I can admit to those faults, but I still uphold the opinion that Noa's "180 personality shift" is completely justified and in-character. Well, at least in-character. Acting like a stiff bastard upholding somewhat communist laws and manipulating everyone to catch Legendary Pokemon collect Key Spirits to gain the power to recreate the world? Generally not a coolio thing to do. Lol, love that kid, though. And based on what Sis told me about Gurren Lagan or however it's spelled I kind of crossover ship Neotopia!Noa with timeskip!Rossiu even though I guess that'd be kind of pedo because Rossiu is 21-ish and Noa's 15? "Mm baby, I love how you think laws and government are more important than everything in the world ESPECIALLY YOUR BEST FRIEND." Lolololololol I'd fic or art it if I didn't suck at both fandom activities. Yeah.
Edit: Wait what? Noa's seiyuu dubbed Nick Jonas in that lame Camp Rock movie? Nick is the young, supposedly cute Jonas brother, right? Rofl, I wonder if anyone over at seiyuu has the Japanese dub of that movie and will upload it sometime, ahahahahaha.
Edit, 03-29, 3:50 AM: Okay, just finished the series. The final battle stuff is still anticlimactic, but the epilogue ksjdflakjdsfldsf still makes me cry. Why did Zed and Noa have to be separated forever? Why did Noa have to get sickly again? Why did Mickey just now become relevant to the series again, and why did it have to eeeeend? Gah, this series gets at me so much it's pathetic.