'Tis the 5th!! 'Tis the 5th!! *WIDE grin* And because it's the fifth, must say happy birthday to my favorite monkey~!!! (No, that's NOT my cousin *growls*) Tanjoubi omedetou Goku~~~!!! *huggles Goku* I swear I love this monkey way more than is healthy for me... *giggles* But he's SO CUTE!!!!
Anyhoo, I've figured out that in relation to learning Jap, considering that I do all my learning of Jap from anime, I learn practically none of the basics, and yet I am able to call people names... *sweatdrops* And since watching Saiyuki, I've learned a helluva lot of weird names... *giggles* "Bakazaru", "Aho saru", "Yaki saru" (<-- *bursts out laughing*), "Ero kappa", "Aka gokiburi kappa" (<-- *snickers*), "Aho kappa", "Tarume-bouzu* (<-- *runs away from Sanzo's gun, laughing all the way*). Myah... ^_^ Saiyuki is hilarious!!
But off that topic, read spoilers for X23 and X24... which effectively ends the Xtv series... ^^;;; I won't judge it till I've seen it... (*scowls* though good luck considering that Pioneer has licensed Xtv already... *cringe* I shudder to think how they're gonna dub it...) but I gotta give credit when credit is due to the directors who are willing to kill off the main character at the end of a series... ^_^ Considering that the manga won't end like it, I'm interested to see what ending Ohkawa Nanase will come up with, considering that it's obviously not gonna be the movie ending where Fuuma dies, or the anime ending where Kamui dies...
Me opting for either both die or neither die~!! ^_^ Unless of course, she decides to do something completely weird... ^^;;; which I guess would work as well....
But despite this, I am still of the opinion that the series was too short!! Guess it was too much to expect that they would follow the manga closely but I still think that all the intro episodes could have been condensed so that not a complete episode was devoted to each character's side stories, which would then have made more room for the latter half of the series where all the action and the need for explanations were (eg. Subaru's eye). Of course, if they'd just have made it a longer-running series, I'd be perfectly happy with seeing the whole episodes of character side-stories... god knows "Onmyou" was DAMN cool~!!! *hearts* Sei-kun and Subaru~~~!!!
As it is, I think that a lot of things in the anime series really will only make complete sense if you watch it while having knowledge of the manga, Subaru's eye being the point in question (of which you'd need knowledge of TB too ^^;;) ... I wonder how well received it'd be for people who haven't read the manga/TB to watch Xtv... Not that you couldn't watch it on animation-quality and bgms alone... DAMN I love the bgms and the animatio-quality is undoubtedly one of the (if not THE) best I've seen of all the anime series I've watched... but perhaps it wouldn't be as rounded of a story as it could have been... *shrugs* Maa naa... I say, read the manga!! Coz nothing beats original CLAMP manga *L*
But speaking of Subaru (of course, when am I NOT speaking of Subaru or Sei-kun these days?? *L*), Sutsume-chan and I had an interesting conversation a few days ago... or maybe that was just me ranting ^^;;; but I was reiterating that if anyone was gonna survive the Promised Day, Subaru was (as proven by the anime). Coz the Sakurazukamori is meant to be killed by the one he/she loves most... at least that's what I gleaned from Setsuka's death anyway, and Sei-kun's death (*wails* Not fair~~~!!) certainly fit that pattern. But the one that Subaru loves most is Sei-kun, who is already dead... Kinda difficult to die if the person who has to kill you is already dead.... *sweatdrops* And it's becoming unlikely that Subaru will learn or allow himself to love anyone else again... Kamui being the prime example coz otherwise, why did he defect?
But then came the crux of the conversation... both Sutsume-chan and I being zealous SxS supporters, we would LOVE to see Subaru die by the end of X (yes, I know... morbid aren't we? ^^;;).... if only coz then he could go and rescue Sei-kun from Hokuto-chan's wrath in the afterlife.... *giggles* I can just imagine Hokuto-chan chewing Sei-kun out for being such an idiot as to invoke her last spell... ^_^ But yes, so anyway as it's more likely than not that Subaru is going to survive the Promise Day, obviously we're not gonna get our wish... (DAMN!! Where's Fuuma when you need him?!?!) I suddenly thought:
I wish the g-damned tree would exercise some bloody independence!! Go kill your own dinner if you're hungry!!!
*sweatdrops* don't ask... needless to say I was probably suffering sleep-deprivation at the time... But 'tis true!! I mean, the Sakurazuka's been fed for how many centuries now?? Why can't it have evolved to have some sort of moving mechanism that could kill for itself when it was hungry?!?!! ^^;;; Weird, I know.... but at least if the tree developed a sense of independence and then kill Subaru and we'd get Subaru and Sei-kun together in the afterlife!!
*pouts* Yes, this is the crazy mind-workings of a shameless SxS supporter.... don't mind me... Needless to say, it's pretty bad when even Sutsume-chan will look at me weird considering that out of the two of us, she's usually the one that comes up with the weirdo ideas... not me ^^;;;;
Anyhoo... better get going... need to nurse my aching muscles after going ice-skating for the first time in four years... ^^;;; at least I didn't fall~!!! But yeah... my legs are killing me... and my toes are freezing now considering that it's 2pm and I've been sitting here barefoot in chilly weather for four hours... I knew I shoulda put on a pair of socks but I just couldn't be stuffed... *sweatdrops* sometimes I really think I'm masochistic....
Ranting by Shikami Yamino @ 1:55 AM
