actually, your room looks larger than I would have expected. Although I suppose the fact that you're living in a narrow rectangle probably makes it feel really small. at least mine is a square. :/
you could get like, a hot pink lock for your bike and then you'd be able to tell it apart from the others.
yeah, I wanna do some rearranging eventually because there is a shitton of unused space behind my bed where I could put the clothing rack. that'll at least work until I get a tv if I do.
a lock is kind of superfluous because most japanese bikes come with a thing on the front wheel that prevents it from moving when you take the key out :( no hot pink locks for me
it's actually not that bad! obviously it's harder than I'm used to but I get pretty good sleep on it. the pillow is the really uncomfortable thing actually
Halfway through rewatching it, I accepted that CCS is a romance show with brief bursts of magic. This made it function so much better in my head. So the climax of the show is Sakura and Syaoran, not anything to do with the magic. All the magic shenanigans are a subplot, in the grand scheme of things.
I unfortunately did not come to the same understanding with Eureka Seven in time to appreciate the ending. Whoops.
oh I know that intellectually but I still find it incredibly frustrating that they keep building up all the magic shit and do NOTHING with it, I know the point is the romance but I think they should have resolved both if they were gonna have both you know
like they spent SO MUCH TIME on this clow card bullshit only to reveal at the end that all of it is literally meaningless, in which case ccs really could have been twice as short
they could have (SHOULD have) given closure to both if they were gonna play with both, do you know what I mean?
and I went into eureka seven knowing that and the ending was still bullshit there is really no saving that ending
Man if I start talking about CCS I could probably end up talking about it forever so I shall try not to do that but. I remember watching the dub when it was on TV here back in the day, and I remember thinking that the last episode seemed to cut things off really abruptly and was like "oh well I know they cut a bunch out of the dub, it's probably because of that" but then watching it in Japanese NOPE IT REALLY IS THAT ABRUPT
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yeah def best to stay as far away from tsubasa as possible, that is possibly the trainwreckiest manga I have ever come across
hmmmmm I still found it pretty unsatisfying because it was, like you said, a really short turnaround and I feel like if their twoo wub was the real point of the series then they should have had her confess to yukito and get rejected a lot sooner, to give themselves more time to naturally build up her feelings for syaoran instead because yeah as it is it feels like AND THEN SHE LOVED SYAORAN TOO THE END
like to the point where I have a real hard time buying--or at least accepting--the argument that the magic plot is supposed to be background to the romance plot because that's not the way it was at all for like 2/3 of the series
Well, the point of CCS isn't supposed to be about the magicians' underworld and all that. I think it's more intended to be a coming-of-age, self-discovery type of thing. It'd be cool, but I think that if they'd taken the concepts of CCS and transferred them to another series and then added a deeper plot with the underworld and political schemes of powerful magical families, it'd be a good read. But I'd rather see that in the hands of another group; when CLAMP tries to write something complex, the story quality goes south in a hurry. Also I've never actually seen the (unedited) anime so I can only speak for the manga.
Also the Rika/Terada thing is skeevy to me. A seventeen-year-old and their thirty-year-old teacher is one thing but a twenty-something teacher and a ten-year-old (I don't care how mature she is) is just. Ew.
Also your cell phone is adorable and I'm depressed that mine doesn't have a place for a phone charm.
IDK I'm definitely of the philosophy that everything you put into a story needs to pan out or else it is just super unsatisfying and if the point of the magic plotline was really only to serve as a vehicle to facilitate sakura and syaoran's little kid romansu then they should have gone with something simpler, something more clearly intended to function only as a metaphor. and also spent a lot less time on it, because to be honest sakura and syaoran's romansu only happens so late in the series and so abruptly that if it's really supposed to be the point of the whole thing it feels like they only came up with that a while into the project
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I think that's one of the failings of the anime as opposed to the manga: by dragging out the series and adding in more about the magic, they took the focus off of Sakura's journey of self-discovery and made it more about the magical girl thing. I don't think the point of the series was ever exclusively Sakura/Syaoran. Plus, since they're basing it on the manga, it's obviously supposed to be something they planned to add in. Though the way they executed it might've been poorly done. Like I said, I've only ever actually seen the butchered American version of the anime, so I'm much more well-versed in the manga
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you could get like, a hot pink lock for your bike and then you'd be able to tell it apart from the others.
and your bed looks SUPER DUPER comfortable.
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a lock is kind of superfluous because most japanese bikes come with a thing on the front wheel that prevents it from moving when you take the key out :( no hot pink locks for me
it's actually not that bad! obviously it's harder than I'm used to but I get pretty good sleep on it. the pillow is the really uncomfortable thing actually
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I unfortunately did not come to the same understanding with Eureka Seven in time to appreciate the ending. Whoops.
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like they spent SO MUCH TIME on this clow card bullshit only to reveal at the end that all of it is literally meaningless, in which case ccs really could have been twice as short
they could have (SHOULD have) given closure to both if they were gonna play with both, do you know what I mean?
and I went into eureka seven knowing that and the ending was still bullshit there is really no saving that ending
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hmmmmm I still found it pretty unsatisfying because it was, like you said, a really short turnaround and I feel like if their twoo wub was the real point of the series then they should have had her confess to yukito and get rejected a lot sooner, to give themselves more time to naturally build up her feelings for syaoran instead because yeah as it is it feels like AND THEN SHE LOVED SYAORAN TOO THE END
like to the point where I have a real hard time buying--or at least accepting--the argument that the magic plot is supposed to be background to the romance plot because that's not the way it was at all for like 2/3 of the series
but yeah no clamp ruins everything it touches
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Your CCS review definitely didn't make me laugh on the bus and then get weird looks. Definitely not. :|b
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but no lmao I'm glad you liked it
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Also the Rika/Terada thing is skeevy to me. A seventeen-year-old and their thirty-year-old teacher is one thing but a twenty-something teacher and a ten-year-old (I don't care how mature she is) is just. Ew.
Also your cell phone is adorable and I'm depressed that mine doesn't have a place for a phone charm.
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