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Birthday
• 1990-06-13
Gender
• Female
Location
• MD, USA
Member Since
• 2003-08-03
Occupation
• DES's hikari
Real Name
• Tory (Dori, Tostito)

Personal

Achievements
• A lot, not that they matter. Anime Club President/Fuhrer till the end of this year.
Anime Fan Since
• (age 4) Tonari No Totoro
Favorite Anime
• Gravitation, Weiss Kreuz, Hagaren (FMA), Kino No Tabi, .hack, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Goals
• To go on an insane shopping spree in Tokyo sometime soon. Gosurori...
Hobbies
• Drooling. Over many things.
Talents
• I make a mean ramen, mm!

myOtaku.com: shiroikarasu

Friday, July 28, 2006

The D Stands for Awesome
(Did I already do a post once with that title? I don't know, but I love saying it randomly. Especially during V for Vendetta commercials.)
I was bored and looking through my anime DVDs for things with outtakes and discovered that Pet Shop of Horrors had a commentary track I had never listened to. So I popped it in, started it up, and it was immediately quite funny. I found it slightly irritating, however, when the actors would talk as though the series consisted only of those four episodes, which were, granted, the only ones made into anime. I would make little comments about things you discover in the manga and laugh because they didn't know them. Then, As I turned it off, I suddenly remembered--they recorded not only the dub but also the commentary at least five years ago. The manga wasn't even translated by that point. The anime was dubbed before the manga was ranslated--and in such a brief and USA-obscure series! This amazed me. It makes me glad though that the manga did come out here in America because I adore it and it was what spurred me to buy the anime. I recommend Pet Shop of Horrors for any manga reader, new or veteran, male or female, any walk of life. It's one of those few manga that is really universally intriguing. Even though I like to go on and on about how D and Leon make a great couple, there isn't any substantial evidence in the manga or anime that this was intended to be the case (although I'm sure the author played with the idea a bit). You have to remember, if I recommend an anime and also rave about yaoi in it, that doesn't mean it's supposed to be there. I like to come up with couple, improbable and canon, in anything I watch, because that's part of being a yaoi fangirl.
So yeah, aside from that one kissing scene (omg they kept it in for the dub! o_o I am shocked and pleased) and the odd relationship between Haku and Zabuza, Naruto is safe for homophobes. Oh, Haku, my favorite little pretty ninja. I will find cosplayers of you at Otakon. Maybe some more like the one at Katsucon, where Zabuza had Haku on a little pink leash. So cute!
Tangents are fun and help me to post more than one or two lines! Whee.
"I sat on my fruit tart." -Count D, sort of
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