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Fic writing woes + anime/manga pimpage
The next Teamwork chapter is proving hard to write. It's all very hurried OH SHIT RUN and that's chaotic, and it's hard to write enough description so readers will know WTF is happening and understand why they all do the things they do (somewhat) and not slow it down so much that all the urgency and panic is lost. Sigh. I tried Write or Die but nothing it produced was very good, save from a couple of comparisons.
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*Natsume Yuujinchou = is a 13 episode long anime. It's very sweet, sad, cute, melancholy, and auuuugh so adorable. T^T Kinda bittersweet sometimes. (I cried like a bitch from all the d'awww! a couple of times, not scared to admit it.) Story is : normalish schoolboy is the descendent of a girl with strong psychic powers -- she saw ghosts and japanese folklore monsters. He inherited that. What he also inherited was a book full of demon names -- his grandma had the bad habit of challenging demons and if she won she would take their name, which would make them have to obey her. She never lost.
Natsume does not want those names, so he tries to give them back when he can. But some demons wouldn't mind eating him regardless. His ally is a creature that took over a maneki neko statue, so he looks kinda like a silly round and squishy cat. Most of the time. Prrrrt.
(... I admit I did get a kick out of the fact that Nyanko-sensei's real name is Madara, and that he is voiced by the guy who voices Kakashi. Hearing Kakashi's "you hurt my team, you die" voice coming from a giant pissed off wolf-ferret thing is only slightly less awesome than the utter silliness of Kakashi's voice coming from a squished cat is hilarious.)
There's a second season in production, but for now those 13 eps are all we've got. I marathoned them in a day and didn't regret it. Auuuugh. Socute. T^T
*Nurarihyon no Mago, a manga. It was first a one-shot, but then it was serialized.
Nura Rikuo, a kid that is part human and a quarter youkai (demon), lives in a house full of spirits along with his grandfather. Trying to escape his fate of acting like a demon, he does good deeds in order to avoid becoming one. Despite his grandfather's wish to succeed him as master of the Nurari youkai clan.
Also chock full of weird Japanese folklore monsters, and ADORABLE. I love all the characters (nnngh yukionna, socute.) It starts off a little unbalanced, I think the author was still trying to find his/her legs with it, but it's still adorable and eventually it hits its stride and bwee. So fun.
Rikuo starts off as an earnest goody-goody -- he's so focused on trying to do good deeds for everyone that he comes across as trying way too hard, and some of his classmates take advantage of it in a big way. He doesn't care, helping people makes him happy... though in the end he really isn't close to anyone, and doesn't really know how to. He has zero idea how to socialize and connect with his peers.
But he has a second personality! The classical super-hot noble and mysterious master of the night~ (prrt.) problem is, he can only use his inherited powers a fourth of the day (usually at night) since he's only a fourth demon. The cast is well-defined and often hilarious, and there are touching moments about friendship, faithfulness, solidarity and all those samurai/yakuza values. Because in the end that's what Rikuo is going to inherit, provided he decides to want it, and shows he's worthy. Prrrrt.
*Natsume Yuujinchou = is a 13 episode long anime. It's very sweet, sad, cute, melancholy, and auuuugh so adorable. T^T Kinda bittersweet sometimes. (I cried like a bitch from all the d'awww! a couple of times, not scared to admit it.) Story is : normalish schoolboy is the descendent of a girl with strong psychic powers -- she saw ghosts and japanese folklore monsters. He inherited that. What he also inherited was a book full of demon names -- his grandma had the bad habit of challenging demons and if she won she would take their name, which would make them have to obey her. She never lost.
Natsume does not want those names, so he tries to give them back when he can. But some demons wouldn't mind eating him regardless. His ally is a creature that took over a maneki neko statue, so he looks kinda like a silly round and squishy cat. Most of the time. Prrrrt.
(... I admit I did get a kick out of the fact that Nyanko-sensei's real name is Madara, and that he is voiced by the guy who voices Kakashi. Hearing Kakashi's "you hurt my team, you die" voice coming from a giant pissed off wolf-ferret thing is only slightly less awesome than the utter silliness of Kakashi's voice coming from a squished cat is hilarious.)
There's a second season in production, but for now those 13 eps are all we've got. I marathoned them in a day and didn't regret it. Auuuugh. Socute. T^T
*Nurarihyon no Mago, a manga. It was first a one-shot, but then it was serialized.
Nura Rikuo, a kid that is part human and a quarter youkai (demon), lives in a house full of spirits along with his grandfather. Trying to escape his fate of acting like a demon, he does good deeds in order to avoid becoming one. Despite his grandfather's wish to succeed him as master of the Nurari youkai clan.
Also chock full of weird Japanese folklore monsters, and ADORABLE. I love all the characters (nnngh yukionna, socute.) It starts off a little unbalanced, I think the author was still trying to find his/her legs with it, but it's still adorable and eventually it hits its stride and bwee. So fun.
Rikuo starts off as an earnest goody-goody -- he's so focused on trying to do good deeds for everyone that he comes across as trying way too hard, and some of his classmates take advantage of it in a big way. He doesn't care, helping people makes him happy... though in the end he really isn't close to anyone, and doesn't really know how to. He has zero idea how to socialize and connect with his peers.
But he has a second personality! The classical super-hot noble and mysterious master of the night~ (prrt.) problem is, he can only use his inherited powers a fourth of the day (usually at night) since he's only a fourth demon. The cast is well-defined and often hilarious, and there are touching moments about friendship, faithfulness, solidarity and all those samurai/yakuza values. Because in the end that's what Rikuo is going to inherit, provided he decides to want it, and shows he's worthy. Prrrrt.
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J'avais entendu parler du premier, et du coup tu m'as donné envie de regarder :) Je télécharge ça dès que possible !
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pornishlyinquiring minds still want to know if Nyanko-sensei is a boy, girl, or a boy-beast with a girl-form?Whichever way, she tops.no subject
(Anonymous) 2008-11-29 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)-- Guile
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