ANIME!
Seriously, who is watching Ao no Exorcist? Because it's amazing. I love all of the characters, especially Rin and Shiemi. Honestly, the show is funny, touching, exciting, action packed and so much more. I really cannot say enough good things about this anime. I think it's the best anime I've watched IN YEARS.
I also just heard that they are remaking Hunter-x-Hunter! I find this exciting because that is one of my absolute favorite animes of all time. I think I heard it starts in October? Not sure if that means that is when it will air or when production starts.
Oh, and most importantly, I'm totally sick and started re-watching Prince of Tennis. It was completely unintentional, Mark and I were just trying to put something on TV that we didn't have to pay attention to and we realized that Prince of Tennis was on Hulu (we stream through our TV) and ... then it was just kind of downhill from there! I think I'm on episode 130-ish already? It's pathetic. I own one of the imported PS2 games and my husband and I have been playing it nonstop the last few weeks. Has anyone ever played this game? I don't know any Japanese, so it's a good thing playing tennis seems to universally the same. Anyways, I forgot how absolutely in love I was with this show. I'm currently REALLY close to the episode where Atobe and Sanada play doubles so I'm drooling in anticipation. And the second time around, I realized ... I still can't do Tezuka/Fuji. Just doesn't work for me!
So since I started re-watching Prince of Tennis, you should know that means I had to go and try to find new fic. And boy was I successful. I found this excellent Shishido/Ohtori author: everlind. She is amazing. And ... I use that word too lightly most of the time, because right now when I really want a word that separates this author from people who are great, but not this level of great, I have nothing but the word awesome which I overuse. But I really do think she writes some of the absolute best fanfic I've ever read. I love everything she's written, so honestly you could just go through her entire journal and be made of happiness (which is what I did, not once, but TWICE). That being said, I love her "Ever After" series especially and "High Tides." You guys must absolutely go check her out. And her work has some beautiful amazing artwork sprinkled throughout and it's simply lovely.
I'm trying to remember all of the other things I want to say related to anime. I've been watching so much of it lately. I'm about halfway through Durarara!!, which I'm loving, but not enough apparently, to finish watching before I finish re-watching Prince of Tennis. I also watched through the Pain arc of Naruto and I have more to say on that then I could ever even hope to say without writing an entire novel. I really can't get over how perfectly wonderful Naruto is. I felt like the Pain arc was everything that Naruto had been building up to for the last however many years. And even though it took so long for us to get to that point, it made everything that much more perfect because it was executed so perfectly and after so long, your emotional attachment to each character is just soul deep. I die a little bit inside just thinking about all of it. I'm also about halfway through D. Gray-man, which I'm really enjoying so far. I think the dubbed version is really well done too! I also watched all of the dubbed School Rumble. Now there's a freaking excellent show! It was funny and cute and ... more funny. I just laughed and laughed and laughed. I was super disappointed in the ending though. So I'm just pretending it didn't happen.
Okay, I'll stop now. Just go watch Ao no Exorcist on Hulu if you haven't yet. And then tell me what Prince of Tennis fic I should be reading right now and then give me prompts for Sanada/Atobe fic.
I also just heard that they are remaking Hunter-x-Hunter! I find this exciting because that is one of my absolute favorite animes of all time. I think I heard it starts in October? Not sure if that means that is when it will air or when production starts.
Oh, and most importantly, I'm totally sick and started re-watching Prince of Tennis. It was completely unintentional, Mark and I were just trying to put something on TV that we didn't have to pay attention to and we realized that Prince of Tennis was on Hulu (we stream through our TV) and ... then it was just kind of downhill from there! I think I'm on episode 130-ish already? It's pathetic. I own one of the imported PS2 games and my husband and I have been playing it nonstop the last few weeks. Has anyone ever played this game? I don't know any Japanese, so it's a good thing playing tennis seems to universally the same. Anyways, I forgot how absolutely in love I was with this show. I'm currently REALLY close to the episode where Atobe and Sanada play doubles so I'm drooling in anticipation. And the second time around, I realized ... I still can't do Tezuka/Fuji. Just doesn't work for me!
So since I started re-watching Prince of Tennis, you should know that means I had to go and try to find new fic. And boy was I successful. I found this excellent Shishido/Ohtori author: everlind. She is amazing. And ... I use that word too lightly most of the time, because right now when I really want a word that separates this author from people who are great, but not this level of great, I have nothing but the word awesome which I overuse. But I really do think she writes some of the absolute best fanfic I've ever read. I love everything she's written, so honestly you could just go through her entire journal and be made of happiness (which is what I did, not once, but TWICE). That being said, I love her "Ever After" series especially and "High Tides." You guys must absolutely go check her out. And her work has some beautiful amazing artwork sprinkled throughout and it's simply lovely.
I'm trying to remember all of the other things I want to say related to anime. I've been watching so much of it lately. I'm about halfway through Durarara!!, which I'm loving, but not enough apparently, to finish watching before I finish re-watching Prince of Tennis. I also watched through the Pain arc of Naruto and I have more to say on that then I could ever even hope to say without writing an entire novel. I really can't get over how perfectly wonderful Naruto is. I felt like the Pain arc was everything that Naruto had been building up to for the last however many years. And even though it took so long for us to get to that point, it made everything that much more perfect because it was executed so perfectly and after so long, your emotional attachment to each character is just soul deep. I die a little bit inside just thinking about all of it. I'm also about halfway through D. Gray-man, which I'm really enjoying so far. I think the dubbed version is really well done too! I also watched all of the dubbed School Rumble. Now there's a freaking excellent show! It was funny and cute and ... more funny. I just laughed and laughed and laughed. I was super disappointed in the ending though. So I'm just pretending it didn't happen.
Okay, I'll stop now. Just go watch Ao no Exorcist on Hulu if you haven't yet. And then tell me what Prince of Tennis fic I should be reading right now and then give me prompts for Sanada/Atobe fic.