Sunday, November 7, 2004

o_O I remembered!
Tonight, I remembered that Dan told me a few days ago that Full Metal Alchemist was going to make its US television debut on Adult Swim, and I went ahead and watched it, not because I wanted to see the anime really (since I've already seen quite a few of the episodes before it got licensed) but because I wanted to see if they were really going to play L'Arc~en~Ciel's "READY STEADY GO" as the opening.

Well, since it was the first episode, there really was no opening theme, so I wasn't expecting to hear it, but I was hoping they would play it. And they didn't...until the end of the episode, which I don't understand because they labeled "READY STEADY GO" as the opening song in the credits. Anyway...

The song barely played for like 20 seconds, and they editted it so that the song immediately jumped into the first verse. But you know, once I heard it playing, it put a smile on my face because that's the effect a L'Arc~en~Ciel song has on me. Because RSG is so damn catchy and addicting, I'm pretty sure L'Arc is going to get a few newbie fans from this show...I still think it's sucks a little bit that they're being introduced to a new audience through an anime because to these new fans, L'Arc will then be nothing more than that group who plays anime music. But then again, they're being introduced, period. Whatever. I'm really tired of that whole debate beacause I can see arguments for both sides. Anyway...

All I ask is that if there are new fans who get introduced to L'Arc~en~Ciel through Full Metal Alchemist, I hope that they actually look beyond RSG and the album it comes from (SMILE, fyi) to really delve into their other stuff...which, quite frankly, I think is much better. And I also hope I don't see new messages popping up everywhere that say, "OMG!!@ I totally LUV that opening for FMA!@# I'm SUCH a huge fan of Larc because FMA is sooo cool, and HYDE IS SOO LIKE OMG HOT!!@#" Lord knows we've got enough crazy Hyde fangirls who only ever mention his "hotness" every three seconds without mentioning anything about the music. Sigh.

Anyway, here are a couple of things that I thought about the actual show itself. The dub is pretty well-done, and this is coming from a person who HATES dubs w/a passion. Of course, I still prefer the original version, but I'm pretty glad that they've kept the translations pretty much close to what was being said in the original.

My only gripe is that the voice actor for Al is so emotionless. It sounds like a little kid is doing the voice, but that's to be expected since they gave Al a really kiddy voice in the original, but this English voice actor sounds like this is his first time doing voice acting. His vocal tone does connote his youth, but it sounds like he's just reading the lines, and it's a total distancing effect. I get pulled out of the story whenever he talks because he sucks at it.

For those of you who's only gotten to see the anime for the first time tonight, the story is pretty good, so you'll have a lot to look foward to.

In any case, yah, that's my two cents on FMA. As for RSG now being broadcast to the entire nation...I really hope that the possible new fans really do their research on L'Arc~en~Ciel. I don't want to waste my time sifting through forum fodder to get to good posts. I do that enough as it is, and I can only see this problem getting worse.

Oh well. I guess I'll keep watching this version of FMA since the dub isn't bad. But it might take me a while to tolerate Al's english voice actor T_T

And I wonder if they're going to keep RSG as the opening the whole time. Because they tossed out the first opening which was done by Porno Graffitti, and I think another opening was done by Asian Kung-Fu Generation, so I wonder if they'll ever show any of those later on or if RSG is going to be the main theme throughout the anime's run on Adult Swim. Blegh, who knows.

And Dan, sorry, but no manga I've read so far is better than Gravitation, IMHO. Bleach (manga) is alright, but it doesn't even surpass Naruto for me. I'm not even sure it's going to make my top 5 because I've gotten through the first volume and I'm into the seconf volume, and I'm not all that impressed. It's good for passing time, but I don't enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy reading Gravitation or Naruto...or Eerie Queerie, Get Backers, DN Angel, Blade of the Immortal, etc. Maybe Bleach will grow on me, but right now...it's just alright. I guess you could say that for me, it's on the same level as Tsubasa. It's a cool, interesting story, but it's one I don't really have to keep track of.

...It's been a while since I've mentioned anything about anime or manga. ^_^




Crush update:
Okay, ever since I've found out that he already has himself a girlfriend, it suddenly seems that now, when I try my hardest not to run into him or not to go to the library when he's supposed to be working, I always somehow manage to run into him every single day. It's almost like Fate loves to plant him wherever I am so that it can laugh at me and say, "Hey, Look! It's the guy you like and you can't have him, hahahahahahhahahaha!" It doesn't help that he's always so nice and smiles all the time. It sucks so bad. I don't want to see him. I don't want to be reminded that I can't be with him. I don't want to think about him at all anymore.

But I run to him when walking to class. When getting on some random bus. When going to the library and his supposed off days. It's so incredibly frustrating. When I wanted to find him on campus to talk to him, I never could run into him. Now that I don't want to see him at all so I could cure this broken heart of mine, he's everywhere I go. With that cute smile on his face. T_T;;;;;

STOP TORTURING ME, DAMN YOU! Let me nurse my broken heart and ego alone!!!

Okay, I'm done ^^;

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And about the change in the layout colors. I can't really tell what they really look like since the brightness on this moniter is almost blinding, no matter how many times I try to turn it down, so if it looks horrible, I apologize. I'm working on a Haruno Sakura layout, and it should be up soon...well...haha, it'll all depending on how much work I've got done for school -_-'
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