Anime Dreams
Last night was Jeaux Day and we engaged in one of the things that has become a regular occurrence on Tuesday nights: We watched several episodes of Eyeshield 21, the Japanese animation series. And watching that many episodes before bed triggered me to have an Eyeshield-related dream.
Weirdly it didn't directly involve any of the characters, but the general premise of the dream was that the character Hiruma had been putting up posters in the school we both went to and they all carried a message that was in some way anti-ME. I guess we were rivals over something and he wanted to smear me. I wasn't upset by it in the dream or anything--apparently we were engaged in a little competition of some kind and he was trying to show everyone how much I sucked by making these really creative posters.
That is something Hiruma would do.
Hehe, I think this guy needs to go on my list of fictional characters to bang or something.
I have no idea why. He's an absolute asshole.
So let me tell you a little about Eyeshield 21. It's a sports anime.
You might think it's weird that I love a sports anime, but some of you probably noticed (if you pay attention) that one of my weaknesses is any inspirational sports movie. Apparently the phenomenon extends to anime because I love this show.
It's about football. This is a picture of the main character, Sena:
He doesn't really look like a sports hero in the picture on the left, but he's a ridiculously fast running back who will tear your ass up.
He's a kid who learned to run really fast because he was always bullied and had to be saved by a girl. Heh. Now he's in high school and he got dragged into using his running talents for the football team.
And when I say he got dragged, I don't exactly mean literally, but I think there might have been some dragging at some point (along with some threatening, some physical violence, some lying, some cajoling, and some general abuse).
That's because, well, that's how Hiruma does things. :)
Yep. He's evil. Or something very close to it.
It is his fault that the team for his school, Deimon High, is called the "Deimon Devil Bats," and it is his fault that everyone plays as well as they do . . . because he never lets up and he's not interested in anything but winning.
Anyway, this guy is scary. But for some reason he's my favorite character. He has this sort of awesome battle cry (he's always yelling "YA-HA!") and no matter what his mood is he looks like a badass.
See? Whether he's self-satisfied or unimpressed, he is both really charismatic and really frightening.
Anyway, Hiruma is the quarterback with questionable morals, and he's all about trying to get Sena on the team. Well, not that there's much of a team to begin with. Before Sena joins, it's just Hiruma and Kurita. Kurita is their lineman. He's effing huge.
Hiruma refers to him as "the damn porker."
They have a hard time getting and keeping members. Probably a lot of it is because nobody wants to associate with someone as frigging scary as Hiruma. And in the beginning, the main reason that Sena does not want to join the team is that the girl who's protected him since grade school, Mamori, thinks it's dangerous and says he'll be bullied and smacked around. She's probably one of the only people out there who's insane enough to stand up to Hiruma on this issue.
So, one of the basic plot points is that Sena ends up joining the team secretly, pretending that he's the secretary (or "damn secretary," as Hiruma would say) and then when he actually plays in the game he puts on a helmet with a green eyeshield so no one can tell who he is, including Mamori. So she doesn't know that he's their team's secret weapon . . . and as for her, she joins the team as the manager (or . . . you guessed it, "damn manager"). Fun.
And as for getting other players, Hiruma has his ways. Here are just a few of the hilarious violent things I've seen him do to get his way:
In that last picture, he's got a sort of devil's handbook thing that he looks in and somehow extracts embarrassing secrets about people and bribes them with the secret information. It's never really explained how he does it. But he's definitely got the "demon" thing going on considering his dog (which also attacks people on command) is named Cerberus.
Oh yeah, and if he kicks you in the back and cusses at you, usually it means he's pleased with you.
And yet I still think he's awesome. I don't understand myself. Jeaux thinks it's hilarious when I laugh my ass off whenever Hiruma smiles. He has these really frightening pointy teeth.
It's kind of a theme in the show to have the different football teams sport some aspects of their mascots. There's a "Sphinx" team that has an Egyptian theme, and a "Wild Gunmen" team that has a cowboy quarterback, and a whole team of weird loverboys known as the "Cupids." Sooooo I guess that's why the quarterback of the Devil Bats has to be so demonic. I'm sure that's why they gave him scary teeth and pointy ears. (As we all know, pointy ears indicate you are from faeryland or from Hell. Duh.) ::eyeroll::
They have some clips of the show on YouTube. A few people seem to have thrown together favorite Hiruma clips, so I guess I'm not the only one. If you want to see what he acts like and sounds like and all that fun stuff, then go check him out and see why I think he kicks ass--and why he made enough of an impression on me to make me have a dream in which he was running around being obnoxious. :)
And with that, me and my dumb sports anime-loving ass are going back to the kitchen to make biscuits for the holiday tomorrow. :)
Weirdly it didn't directly involve any of the characters, but the general premise of the dream was that the character Hiruma had been putting up posters in the school we both went to and they all carried a message that was in some way anti-ME. I guess we were rivals over something and he wanted to smear me. I wasn't upset by it in the dream or anything--apparently we were engaged in a little competition of some kind and he was trying to show everyone how much I sucked by making these really creative posters.
That is something Hiruma would do.
Hehe, I think this guy needs to go on my list of fictional characters to bang or something.
I have no idea why. He's an absolute asshole.
So let me tell you a little about Eyeshield 21. It's a sports anime.
You might think it's weird that I love a sports anime, but some of you probably noticed (if you pay attention) that one of my weaknesses is any inspirational sports movie. Apparently the phenomenon extends to anime because I love this show.
It's about football. This is a picture of the main character, Sena:
He doesn't really look like a sports hero in the picture on the left, but he's a ridiculously fast running back who will tear your ass up.
He's a kid who learned to run really fast because he was always bullied and had to be saved by a girl. Heh. Now he's in high school and he got dragged into using his running talents for the football team.
And when I say he got dragged, I don't exactly mean literally, but I think there might have been some dragging at some point (along with some threatening, some physical violence, some lying, some cajoling, and some general abuse).
That's because, well, that's how Hiruma does things. :)
Yep. He's evil. Or something very close to it.
It is his fault that the team for his school, Deimon High, is called the "Deimon Devil Bats," and it is his fault that everyone plays as well as they do . . . because he never lets up and he's not interested in anything but winning.
Anyway, this guy is scary. But for some reason he's my favorite character. He has this sort of awesome battle cry (he's always yelling "YA-HA!") and no matter what his mood is he looks like a badass.
See? Whether he's self-satisfied or unimpressed, he is both really charismatic and really frightening.
Anyway, Hiruma is the quarterback with questionable morals, and he's all about trying to get Sena on the team. Well, not that there's much of a team to begin with. Before Sena joins, it's just Hiruma and Kurita. Kurita is their lineman. He's effing huge.
Hiruma refers to him as "the damn porker."
They have a hard time getting and keeping members. Probably a lot of it is because nobody wants to associate with someone as frigging scary as Hiruma. And in the beginning, the main reason that Sena does not want to join the team is that the girl who's protected him since grade school, Mamori, thinks it's dangerous and says he'll be bullied and smacked around. She's probably one of the only people out there who's insane enough to stand up to Hiruma on this issue.
So, one of the basic plot points is that Sena ends up joining the team secretly, pretending that he's the secretary (or "damn secretary," as Hiruma would say) and then when he actually plays in the game he puts on a helmet with a green eyeshield so no one can tell who he is, including Mamori. So she doesn't know that he's their team's secret weapon . . . and as for her, she joins the team as the manager (or . . . you guessed it, "damn manager"). Fun.
And as for getting other players, Hiruma has his ways. Here are just a few of the hilarious violent things I've seen him do to get his way:
In that last picture, he's got a sort of devil's handbook thing that he looks in and somehow extracts embarrassing secrets about people and bribes them with the secret information. It's never really explained how he does it. But he's definitely got the "demon" thing going on considering his dog (which also attacks people on command) is named Cerberus.
Oh yeah, and if he kicks you in the back and cusses at you, usually it means he's pleased with you.
And yet I still think he's awesome. I don't understand myself. Jeaux thinks it's hilarious when I laugh my ass off whenever Hiruma smiles. He has these really frightening pointy teeth.
It's kind of a theme in the show to have the different football teams sport some aspects of their mascots. There's a "Sphinx" team that has an Egyptian theme, and a "Wild Gunmen" team that has a cowboy quarterback, and a whole team of weird loverboys known as the "Cupids." Sooooo I guess that's why the quarterback of the Devil Bats has to be so demonic. I'm sure that's why they gave him scary teeth and pointy ears. (As we all know, pointy ears indicate you are from faeryland or from Hell. Duh.) ::eyeroll::
They have some clips of the show on YouTube. A few people seem to have thrown together favorite Hiruma clips, so I guess I'm not the only one. If you want to see what he acts like and sounds like and all that fun stuff, then go check him out and see why I think he kicks ass--and why he made enough of an impression on me to make me have a dream in which he was running around being obnoxious. :)
And with that, me and my dumb sports anime-loving ass are going back to the kitchen to make biscuits for the holiday tomorrow. :)