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viridian5

Shake Your Booty

Jul 01, 2004 19:32

The birthday booty continues, since my brother and D gave me gift certificates and my dad is starting to get the amazon.com returns on the fictitous Wish List items he bought me. Thus, my recent haul:

Saiyuki volumes 1 and 2 by Kazuya Minekura
The Curse of the Witch Queen by Paula Volsky
The Luck of Relian Kru by Paula Volsky
Forge of Heaven by ( Read more... )

linkin park, music, the cure

Comments 8

chalcopyrite July 1 2004, 16:43:09 UTC

I liked Lord of Snow and Shadows; I hope you do too.

BTW, there's something odd in your coding, and it's making LJ cry . . .

viridian5 July 1 2004, 17:05:25 UTC

It was the title to "My

jfc013 July 1 2004, 18:11:40 UTC

So, where does one find this "My Dsmbr" (leaving out symbol just in case)? I love that version, too!

viridian5 July 1 2004, 18:14:08 UTC

It's on Linkin Park's remix album, Reanimation. It has more rap on it than Hybrid Theory does but I really love some of the remixes on it.

anonymous July 2 2004, 06:04:16 UTC

Have you read vol. 2 of Saiyuki yet? I can't decide if the drawing for the chapter 7 title page was deliberately drawn to give the impression it does. Sanzo is in front of a fence, while the rest of the guys are behind it. It's the placement of Sanzo's left hand that got my attention.

The first couple of vols. of X/1999 are all about introducing the huge cast of characters and establishing their relationships to each other (I read the first 2 vols. twice to get everyone straight). The plot doesn't kick in until a little later, and doesn't kick into high gear until about vol. 8. The really slashy stuff doesn't show up until vol. 6 or 7. The battles in vols. 12 & 13 are pretty impressive. When the plot summary says that casualties are starting to pile up, it's not kidding. All of this is my way of saying to give it a chance if the first couple of vols. seem slow.

The other Sandy

viridian5 July 2 2004, 16:30:30 UTC

My eyes immediately zeroed in on the placement of Sanzo's hand. (For those you who aren't me and Sandy who might be wondering what we're talking about, you can find the picture here.) Considering the Appendix story, I'm not sure if the author meant us to see his hand placement that way or not.

I'm trying to decide whether to follow the X/1999 manga, since I've seen the X anime already. Volume 1 was okay. I may browse the other volumes to see whether I want to own them or not.

anonymous July 3 2004, 08:43:28 UTC

The manga is way better than the anime. The manga has a lot more emotional depth, and the anime doesn't even come close to the level of slashiness the manga has. You can't even say you already know how it ends, because the end of the manga hasn't been written yet.

As near as I can tell, Kamui never stops being a pill in the anime. He does in the manga. After he realizes that pushing the people he cares about away isn't keeping them safe, he lets his real personality out. His real personality is so adorable that he starts accumulating a passel of Jewish mothers. Even people who hated him at the beginning come around.

The other Sandy

viridian5 July 3 2004, 16:11:26 UTC

From what I've heard, the Kami-sama stuff from volumes 8 and 9 of the manga will get used in episodes of Reload I haven't seen yet. I'm interested in seeing how that goes, though I know the anime will gloss over some of the more disturbing elements of that storyline.

I thought that Kamui was much better in the anime once he decided to be a Dragon of Heaven and let Subaru bring him back to reality. As for getting a passel of Jewish mothers, I'm sure it helps that he's physically adorable as well. *g*