Looong post
I'm not gonna LJcut this post, since hardly anyone ever reads my journal anyways, heh.
Manga / Anime part:
I've been reading a lot of manga.
I fell in love with "The Embalmer" by Mitsukazu Mihara, because it was very touching without getting sappy. It talks about the life and death of different people , but it's actually more centered on the feelings (and sometimes the lives) of those that are left behind.
The main character is a late 20s or early 30 yrs old embalmer, who wishes to give his clients the opportunity to say one last goodbye to their deceased. The thing is, embalming is a very unpopular and misunderstood profession in Japan. It's frowned upon, so the guy encounters a lot of prejudice throughout the series. (They usually cremate their dead, so many asians have little knowledge of embalming).
The manga is episodic in format. There are 4vols. released in english and it's 5 vols. long in japanese.
Very enjoyable.
I also keep reading Loveless, which i worship in an almost disturbing fashion. I wonder what that series has that makes me so terribly obsessed with it. And my love for it shows no signs of weakening at all. In fact, it's the other way around.
The way both Ritsuka and Soubi have been slowly growing emotionally is delightful to see, even if they suffer so much in the process and make plenty of mistakes. I can't believe i've grown to care so much for the well-being of 2 blotches of ink.
It's truly baffling.
I'm still following Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles (SOOOO DAMN GOOD!!!) xxxHolic (Please! Get ON with it, CLAMP... I can't take it anymore), Inuyasha (Finally reaching its last chapters, oh don't you dare die Miroku ;___;) Naruto (GO Sasuke!!! i'm rooting for you winning your current fight with Itachi without falling completely to the dark side, and i mean keeping your sanity AND your eyes XD), and some other series that i won't mention due to a sudden bout of extreme lazyness.
I'm watching D.Gray Man. (the anime) Komui Lee is LOOOVE (although i often really want to smack him! hes such a prick sometimes) and the adorable Allen kills me with sweetness. He awakens and amplifies my mothering instincts in a way only Ritsuka and -to some degree- Soubi from Loveless surpass. I kinda hate General Cross Maria for now. I wonder if my opinion of him will change as i watch the rest of it.
I'm impatiently waiting for the release of the first half of the Blood+ anime on DVD. I really liked it. Drama, action, fluff, vampires, a cool heroine, with an even cooler servant (i can't have enough of Hagi), and very interesting secondary characters and antagonists... This series has it all to make me a sickeningly happy otaku.
I'm also gonna buy SpeedGrapher. Sometimes it was quite disturbing, but the dynamics of our society that the story depicts are often worse in real life. Utimately, it's very very good. I really felt for the baddie in this one. :( He was so damn tragic!
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Non manga/ anime part:
Hnnnn....
I had such a busy weekend, i'm tired as hell.
A lot of people would find what i did really fun, but for me it was just exhausting. I had a mini movie marathon on friday, a very elegant dinner party on saturday, another party (a birthday) this sunday morning and a Oscar party (where i ended up in last place due to only having seen Ratatouille and a disgusting lack of intuition >.< ) this afternoon. It was ok though, since the last oscar party i went to, i won and got the Lord of the Rings trilogy special edition, heh.
For me, this weekend was a bit too much. I think i handled it pretty well, but from time to time i just wanted to run screaming to my house and never come out again.
It's even hard for me to talk to people in the net. I find it quite intimidating, so face to face contact is... *shudder* DX
*sigh* I wish i was normal, but i'm working to be more sociable. I still hate many things about socializing but i'm slowly (SLOOOOOOWLY) getting better.
For some reason, most people i interact with never notice i'm so afraid though. They say i'm quite cheerful and overall normal, and easy to get along with. I find that pretty weird. Hell, I even shake and sweat with nervousness so i don't understand why they don't notice. Anyhow, I sure am insanely glad of the fact that i'm able to successfully hide how scared i am of them. It wouldn't pay to look as weak as i usually feel.
Of course my close friends notice it sometimes, after all, they know me pretty well and i have no qualms about complaining about that with them 'till their ears fell off, so they simply cannot fail to notice Nyahahaha! >:D
Manga / Anime part:
I've been reading a lot of manga.
I fell in love with "The Embalmer" by Mitsukazu Mihara, because it was very touching without getting sappy. It talks about the life and death of different people , but it's actually more centered on the feelings (and sometimes the lives) of those that are left behind.
The main character is a late 20s or early 30 yrs old embalmer, who wishes to give his clients the opportunity to say one last goodbye to their deceased. The thing is, embalming is a very unpopular and misunderstood profession in Japan. It's frowned upon, so the guy encounters a lot of prejudice throughout the series. (They usually cremate their dead, so many asians have little knowledge of embalming).
The manga is episodic in format. There are 4vols. released in english and it's 5 vols. long in japanese.
Very enjoyable.
I also keep reading Loveless, which i worship in an almost disturbing fashion. I wonder what that series has that makes me so terribly obsessed with it. And my love for it shows no signs of weakening at all. In fact, it's the other way around.
The way both Ritsuka and Soubi have been slowly growing emotionally is delightful to see, even if they suffer so much in the process and make plenty of mistakes. I can't believe i've grown to care so much for the well-being of 2 blotches of ink.
It's truly baffling.
I'm still following Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles (SOOOO DAMN GOOD!!!) xxxHolic (Please! Get ON with it, CLAMP... I can't take it anymore), Inuyasha (Finally reaching its last chapters, oh don't you dare die Miroku ;___;) Naruto (GO Sasuke!!! i'm rooting for you winning your current fight with Itachi without falling completely to the dark side, and i mean keeping your sanity AND your eyes XD), and some other series that i won't mention due to a sudden bout of extreme lazyness.
I'm watching D.Gray Man. (the anime) Komui Lee is LOOOVE (although i often really want to smack him! hes such a prick sometimes) and the adorable Allen kills me with sweetness. He awakens and amplifies my mothering instincts in a way only Ritsuka and -to some degree- Soubi from Loveless surpass. I kinda hate General Cross Maria for now. I wonder if my opinion of him will change as i watch the rest of it.
I'm impatiently waiting for the release of the first half of the Blood+ anime on DVD. I really liked it. Drama, action, fluff, vampires, a cool heroine, with an even cooler servant (i can't have enough of Hagi), and very interesting secondary characters and antagonists... This series has it all to make me a sickeningly happy otaku.
I'm also gonna buy SpeedGrapher. Sometimes it was quite disturbing, but the dynamics of our society that the story depicts are often worse in real life. Utimately, it's very very good. I really felt for the baddie in this one. :( He was so damn tragic!
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Non manga/ anime part:
Hnnnn....
I had such a busy weekend, i'm tired as hell.
A lot of people would find what i did really fun, but for me it was just exhausting. I had a mini movie marathon on friday, a very elegant dinner party on saturday, another party (a birthday) this sunday morning and a Oscar party (where i ended up in last place due to only having seen Ratatouille and a disgusting lack of intuition >.< ) this afternoon. It was ok though, since the last oscar party i went to, i won and got the Lord of the Rings trilogy special edition, heh.
For me, this weekend was a bit too much. I think i handled it pretty well, but from time to time i just wanted to run screaming to my house and never come out again.
It's even hard for me to talk to people in the net. I find it quite intimidating, so face to face contact is... *shudder* DX
*sigh* I wish i was normal, but i'm working to be more sociable. I still hate many things about socializing but i'm slowly (SLOOOOOOWLY) getting better.
For some reason, most people i interact with never notice i'm so afraid though. They say i'm quite cheerful and overall normal, and easy to get along with. I find that pretty weird. Hell, I even shake and sweat with nervousness so i don't understand why they don't notice. Anyhow, I sure am insanely glad of the fact that i'm able to successfully hide how scared i am of them. It wouldn't pay to look as weak as i usually feel.
Of course my close friends notice it sometimes, after all, they know me pretty well and i have no qualms about complaining about that with them 'till their ears fell off, so they simply cannot fail to notice Nyahahaha! >:D