Tuesday, January 4, 2005

Lack of Time...
Ack, lack of time and internet plagues me both. In the next three days I have to quit my job and uproot to go back to school, and on top of that I've been placed in a foul dorm I have no desire of being in. Hopefully I'll be moving out of there come Monday, but from now until then my presence online will be spotty at best.

Tonight, my goal is to finish Gundam Wing. Let's see if that actually happens, neh?

A friend and I are working on the possibility of releasing a table-top RPG. I don't know what, precisely, I'm doing in the middle of this madness but I'm having fun so I don't mind. He keeps murmering about the possibility of getting a license to produce an anime-related table-top RPG, were that to happen I'd probably die of fandom-related glee.

Picked up a series that sort-of scares me called 801 Airbats ... It's very.... um ... well, the airplanes are shiny. I've watched a grand total of one whole episode, maybe I'll watch more eventually. Also picked up the 2nd Inuyasha movie, which is my favorite of the movies. *sighs happily* I am such a fangirl, and yet I haven't seen all that much of the show, nor read more than the manga that's been released over here. This is probably because I had been following the Inuyasha manga religiously from the first volume released by Viz in ... oh, probably 1998. Maybe even late '97. I'd have to go look at the book to check for sure. >.> So I'm greatly attached to the series, and even had a little fan-page up once ... I called it "In the Forests of the Night," and it didn't last more than a few months. But, at the time it was one of a literal handful of Inuyasha sites on the web. There were two whole pages from Google on Inuyasha, in those days. Now you pop Inuyasha's name into Google and get about two and a half million hits.

It's still something I can't quite wrap my head around. I came on to the anime scene really right before the boom hit... so I can remember "what it was like" before anime was as mainstream as it is today. When Tokyopop first started releasing its 100% manga line, I could grab each release as it came out since so few were being released. If we were lucky there was a half-shelf of manga back by the comic book graphic novels. Now? Good grief, there's an entire aisle of manga, with displays. Sometimes it still amazes me how far we've come in just five short years.

Someone recognized my watch, the other day at work. I wasn't expecting it, especially since FMA is still new to our shores. My Flamel's Cross necklace is still a bit harder to spot but I won't be surprised when someone stops and goes 'hey, wait a sec...'

Now, I'm going to go watch Gundam Wing, and enjoy it more than I did the first time I watched it. I still haven't found a truely valid reason to hate Relena, and I've started to give up on it. I actually like her character now, and I think a lot of my irrational hatred came from the dub voice actress and my own super-fangirlish tendancies to hate *any* strong female lead. I'm ashamed to believe I behaved so fanpoodlish-ly. I will probably always be appreciative of the Relena-hate sites because it's been a belief I've had for so damn long it's second nature.

If anything, the character who's beginning to piss me off the most is Zechs. I want to grab him by the shoulders and shake him and tell him to remove his head from up his ass and think for a damn moment. Of course, if I could do that there are other, more fun things I could think of doing to him. Really, it should be a crime to be that pretty.

So, off to watch more Gundam Wing. Really, I'm leaving this time.

A legend passed on yesterday that should never be forgotten.

RIP, Will Eisner.

Hats off to the man who revolutionized comics. He will be missed.
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