Anime Vids: It's So Easy

[thefourthvine]

So. I have, like, three almost-finished fan fiction recs posts, and - yeah. I just am not getting there on any of them, in part because, well.

See, last night BB pointed out to me that my posting has pretty much not happened lately, and I said, woefully, "I don't have braaaaaaain." (I mean it. If I tried to commit, for example, an act of FF

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[thefourthvine]

Oh, I hear that. I am very impatiently waiting for the VividCon people to get back and start their damn uploading already. But I can in no way resist the lure of shiny anime vids in the meantime.

My solution to the space dilemma was to dedicate an external hard drive to vids, but I can see that might be extreme. It's just - I never saw a download link I didn't like, so I might as well succumb to the inevitable.

*succumbs*

[rivkat]

Thanks for the recs! I have to admit, I'd be interested in watching Ai no Kusabi. Is it possible to get it?

[elfiepike]

here is a torrent for it, if you're interested. ← random passerby.

[rivkat]

Thanks!

[thefourthvine]

Looks like it's already covered. If the torrent doesn't work out for you, I can link you to a direct download site. Let me know if you want it, okay?

[maygra]

I love Ai No Kusabi with an unholy passion. That is all.

[thefourthvine]

I am not surprised. It's basically your Perfect Fandom, except that the fan fiction is already right there on the screen, thus depriving you of the fun of writing it. (And me of the fun of reading it. *whines*)

So, was my summary up there basically correct? It's tough because many of the review sites either a) didn't care what the plot was b) didn't understand what the plot was or c) expected the reader to know the plot already.

I downloaded it, though, and BB has promised to watch it and tell me if I should. Although - this would work for me if it was a story, and I would totally read the Ai no Kusabi fusion in most of my fandoms (John = slave boy! Rodney = Blondie! Or whatever), but I'm betting it will be too visual for me in anime form.

[maygra]

It really is kind of my perfect fandom...well, actually, no. Becasue the end does NOT MAKE ME HAPPY. But, in themes and power struggles, then yes. Actually, When I first started watching anime, some of the more obscure hard to find titlte, I kind of realized tht what I was writing, rally kind of is the whole anime/manga aesthetic, even though I really hadn't seen much of it until the early 90's (other than what would occasinally come across on television, late night. I think YAMAMOTO was my first real anime love. And possibly the first thing I ever consicously wrote fanfiction for. There's actually a decent overview of the book rahter than the OAV somewhere ont he Aestheticism site

[thefourthvine]

YOU WATCH ANIME? Like, it's a thing that you have done? Why have you not mentioned this to me?

*wails, gnashes teeth, vows revenge*

Okay, so give. Like, I've never even heard of YAMAMOTO - should I be seeking downloads of this? What other things should I know about anime? Because I'm generally going for the more mainstream and modern stuff - witness my love for Hikaru no Go - but you clearly know more about actual yaoi. Tell all.

*waits impatiently for the telling to commence*

Also, will you spoil the ending of Ai no Kusabi for me? Now I'm worried.

And, yeah, now that I think about it - you are totally writing in the yaoi tradition, although you don't generally go to the seme/uke place, which is just as well. You work with the same thing, but you interpret it through power dynamics, which works a lot better. For me, I mean - obviously I cannot speak for All Fandom.

[elfiepike]

just letting you know that some of your links--the ones that link to within your journal and the one to the snowflake link--have extraneous "", or something similar. :D yay, anime vids!

[elfiepike]

oh, hello, this is what i actually wanted to say: ai no kusabi probably looks pretty eighties because the comic it's based on was made in the eighties. it's rare (though not unheard of, obviously) for anime to look that different from the manga.

okay, i'll stop commenting now, really. i love your recs! reading them makes me happy!

[thefourthvine]

Ah ha! The look was driving me insane, because on the one hand - clearly only the '80s could give birth to those collars and that hair. But on the other hand - not made in the '80s! My brain has had enough trials lately (well, I mean, obviously, since it has left me) without that kind of confusion.

I never thought of checking when the manga was written, even though I know full well that anime looks are generally based on the manga. (Yet more evidence that my brain is gone. And sorely missed. Come back to me, brain! The loaner isn't working out!)

So thank you. Again.

*awards you Most Helpful Commenter prize*

(Only, um. If I were you, I'd be a little bit afraid of what the prize might actually be, given the lack of brainsmanship going on in these parts. So if you wish to decline the honor, I would totally understand.)

[thefourthvine]

Thank you for letting me know, because otherwise I never would've noticed. (And it took me forever to figure it out, because I couldn't see what was breaking the links. And then I noticed that they had slightly different quotation marks in them than the ones that worked. Somehow, the quotation marks I type in Semagic do not equal actual quotes to LJ, but the ones I cut and paste from WordPad do, even though I also typed those. I think this is one of those things you're supposed to meditate on to achieve total clearness of mind. Or at least total absence of useful thought. It certainly worked for me.)

So, again, thank you, and I think they're all fixed now. I'm going off to the Semagic LJ to see if I can figure out why that happened.

[cupidsbow]

Just dropping in to thank you for the rec for Urban Ragnarok. I adored it! I've only recently come to songvids, so it is a brave new world for me. I'm slowly working my way through your recs, and this latest batch sounds wonderful.

Also, if you haven't seen the SGA vid "Dreams" by newkidfan, you must go and download it at once. It's gonna get the Blue Ribbon on rec_room in my next set.

[thefourthvine]

I've downloaded it but not yet seen it. (I have a complicated and mostly random system to determine which vids I actually watch in any given period of viewing new vids.) I'm looking forward to it, though; she's been doing some amazing work lately.

And, um - you probably already know this, but I have a vids tag that should get you all the posts in which I've rec'd a vid. I mention this because I recommended some of my favorite vids in all of ever in January of this year, and you totally should not miss them. (And I have yet to find a way to rec some of my other favorite vids, sadly. I have many megabytes of vids waiting for me to magically develop the ability to a) assemble them into a set and b) explain why they're so good. I need another mechanism like the one I used in January - something to allow me to rec without rhyme or reason, basically

[cupidsbow]

I do indeed know of the wonderful vid tag! It's very handy. While scanning your back-entries, I've also downloaded and enjoyed the James Bond vid by Lithiumdoll. That's it so far, as I'm a bit random when it comes to choosing what to download. I know I'm going to like what you rec, so it's a secret treasure trove--I don't want to use it up all at once

[thefourthvine]

Arg. I had a thoughtful (for me) response to this written up, and then my browser crashed. And Opera saves all my tabs, but even it, wonderful though it is, can't save the content of text entry boxes. Dadgumit