Random Post

Wow... it's been so long since I last posted. I think I'll start putting some commentary on a few the episodes that I've watched recently. I haven't really had time to get into any manga series in a while. I've been picking up Vasselord when I see a new volume at the local bookstore, but that's about it.

Vampire Knight Anime Thoughts

After watching the 6th episode of Vampire Knight, I was chatting with Kalinara on how this anime isn't as gay as some of the comments I've seen. I believe I'm fairly current with the manga series right now and I don't see anything yaoi-esque about it at least until around chapter 30 or so.

The guys are all hot delicious bishis... does that make the show automatically in the category of yaoi?

Let's see...
most yaoi completely ignore women to the point they're a non-entity. Vampire Knight - central character is a girl having sexual tension with two guys.

most yaoi have sex attempted in the first volume if not having sex in every chapter. Vampire Knight - Kaname the pureblood vampire and Zero the angsty newly awakened vampire hate each others guts and there appears to be no sex on the horizon for the two of them. The 'Night' class though full of bishi guys and girls, don't seem interested in having sex with each other. They're all too busy being wasps.

Yaoi also generally has clearly defined seme and uke characters. Though Kaname is clearly seme and Zero clearly uke. Kaname isn't interested in Zero, he's interested in Yuuki. Forming your classic love triangle. Kaname wants Yuuki but he's too intelligent to do anything to her now and waits for the best time to do something about his obsession. There's actually a decent explanation late in the manga but that would spoil the anime. Yuuki like Kaname but he's untouchable him being a lofty pureblood vampire and she a simple innocent human. Zero likes Yuuki and depends on her life to keep him alive and sane.

Does this sound like a chick flick? guess what? it's a show geared toward women. So it's not gay, just a chick flick. Feel better about yourself? I could pull out crimson spell again. Now that is gay.

Wizard World Chicago

The last blast of my summer! and I'll talk about it tonight.

Superman Returns and Heroes Convention

I decided to post again, and realized that I had a couple of drafts saved that I never published... silly me ^_^'.

Here are my thoughts from 7/1/06....

So, Kalinara and I are at Heroes Convention, since I'm no where near the fan of comics that she is, I competed in my first Magic tourney. We got into Charlotte yesterday morning and hit the floor. I surprised myself at how much


The Amateur Challenge was fun, I got to meet a lot of players even though I finished last. I won two matches on technicalities. The first was because my opponent didn't show up, and the other was because I was the odd person out. That part really sucked because it was the last in the last match before the elimination rounds. There was one person that had bad luck with me in games and for about 3 matches we were sitting next to each other commenting on our horrid luck and we were expecting to be paired against each other in the final open match... twas not the case.

But we ended up playing afterwards while we waited for her husband to finish his match. He was at the cusp and was hoping to go on to the eliminations. One of the judges even sat down and played with us. It was great.

Kiba Ep 10 Thoughts

After watching episode 10 of Kiba, I keep trashing at the bit for them to bring Noa and Zed together in the plot again. It's nice having the diverging plots, but there aren't enough people yet in the series to warrent it.

I hope Rebecca can get out of that image she has with her people. And the glasses wearing guy (I always forget his name and he's like the main villain of the series so far.) Looks awesome. He reminds me a little of Noa though, which will be interesting if anything is there.

I think I might hold on to this series, it's a kind of a mix between .Hack// and Yu-gi-oh with a bite.

7th Bleach Ending - Hanabi

Tomorrow, the single for the current Bleach ending will be released in Japan. Which means that sometime next week or so I'll be able to post a full lyrics ^_^. Until then, here's a video from youtube.

Hikaru no Go

Last night I was thinking about cute anime that were unexplicably engaging. And I thought of Hikaru no Go. The anime is about Go, how is it possible to have an action packed series about Go? It's not exactly Yu-Gi-Oh or any of its clones (not that I actually watch the show or get turned into a mindless zombie when I'm flipping through the channels when it happens to be on). There are no giant monsters looming over the gaming bored ready to smite the opponents' monsters at verbal command. So what is it that makes Hikaru no Go so fantastically action packed?

Great story telling. It's simple fantastically and all about learning that strength and ability are found within yourself and that those that inspire you to greatness are always with you even when their souls have departed. Ok, so I'm a sentimental sap. What can you do? ^_^