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Maxine ([personal profile] maxine_chan) wrote2008-03-03 05:27 pm
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lu lu la la luuuuu

Oh my god. What the hell is it with Japanese shows and their stupid need for FLASHBACK EPISODES? I mean, yeah, I understand that you usually only get one episode a week, so a series that SEEMS short is really running for at least half a year. BUT STILL. 27-episode series do NOT need an entire episode dedicated to reminding you about stuff you've ALREADY SEEN. Seriously, I think the only thing more annoying than a whole episode of flashbacks is that thing they do in Naruto when they decide to show you scenes over and over and OVER of something you saw like...two episodes ago. Or one episode. OR FIVE MINUTES AGO IN THE SAME EPISODE. LKASJHDLKJASD.

Backstory I'm okay with, because that's stuff you haven't experienced before. Flashbacks usually just piss me off. USUALLY.

...Anyhoo.

So I'm on episode 17 of TTGL. I randomly started enjoying it more around episode 11. I tend to forget how much I actually like mecha series, with all the explosions and battles and things being blown up all over the place. *__* The fight scenes in TTGL got pretty good all of a sudden, so I think once I stopped...ahaha, COMPARING it to other series and stopped looking for deeper underlying messages and just started watching it for my OWN reasons, the entertainment value went up. And the art style has grown on me, like I KNEW it would. I really don't know why it was bugging me in the first place. I think it just reminded me too much of FLCL and oh my GOD, I hate that show. But yeah, definitely liking it more now!

I'm almost out of One Piece movies to watch. LAAAAAAAAAME. I've only got the 8th one left. And the 9th, once it's subbed. A few of us watched movie 6 in chat over the weekend and HAHAHAHAHA. Oh my god. BEST MOVIE EVER, RIGHT GUYS????

Not.

Ignoring the HORRIBLE animation, the plot was waaaay too dark and too CREEPY for anything in the One Piece universe. Hell, even if it WASN'T One Piece, if it was just some random anime movie, I still don't think I would've liked it. But the fact that it WAS One Piece had me cringing like...the whole time. Because WHAT DID THEY DO TO MY SHOW??? Oh man. A lot of the characterizations seemed completely off, too. Little things, details that maybe should be easy to ignore, but ended up just being GLARINGLY wrong. So just pile all that on top of the animation - I swear, there'd be these GORGEOUS backgrounds and whatnot, and then the characters looked like they were added as an afterthought, like: "OH YEAH, FORGOT CHOPPER SHOULD BE IN THIS JUNGLE SCENE! *takes two seconds to paint him in*" - it was just nooot very good. In my opinion.

Luckily I watched movie 7 immediately after, and that made everything okay again. :D

...I think I need a new mood theme. HAH, oh yeah, and I totally redid most of my icons a couple days ago. I FINALLY HAVE MORE ONE PIECE ICONS THAN PRINCE OF TENNIS!


ETA: wtf. This show. "Seven years later" and everyone goes retarded.

[identity profile] nickelodeon.livejournal.com 2008-03-03 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)


Best thing about the movie. Right there.

[identity profile] maxine-chan.livejournal.com 2008-03-03 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
ALKSJHDLKAJSHDLKAJSD. PRETTY MUCH. Sadly.

I think I'm going to wear that outfit to Otakon.

[identity profile] nickelodeon.livejournal.com 2008-03-04 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
...that makes TWO OF US!!!!

[identity profile] maxine-chan.livejournal.com 2008-03-04 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
OMG. WE CAN BE TWINS!!!

I was thinking of going as Zoro-in-a-suit-he-would-never-wear on the second day. With bad hair.

[identity profile] nickelodeon.livejournal.com 2008-03-04 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
Oh really? :| That is a good costume choice! I SHALL BE BROWN BLOB ZORO!!! Or maybe Mayflower Passenger Sanji.

[identity profile] maxine-chan.livejournal.com 2008-03-04 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Definitely Mayflower Passenger Sanji. He was HOT.

[identity profile] nickelodeon.livejournal.com 2008-03-04 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
I liked the evil flower.
inthetatras: People planted in the ground like flowers sprouting in spring. (geta lifestyle y0)

[personal profile] inthetatras 2008-03-03 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha, someone else who hates FLCL. Eureka!

[identity profile] maxine-chan.livejournal.com 2008-03-03 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It was the worst six episodes to ever be made EVER.
inthetatras: People planted in the ground like flowers sprouting in spring. (men and their mistakes)

[personal profile] inthetatras 2008-03-03 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
So painful to watch. *wince*

[identity profile] maxine-chan.livejournal.com 2008-03-03 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my god, I know. I don't even know why I finished it.
inthetatras: People planted in the ground like flowers sprouting in spring. (fisting a cactus)

[personal profile] inthetatras 2008-03-03 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The only reason I did is because I am a masochistic completist. >_> *coughFushigiYuugicough*

[identity profile] maxine-chan.livejournal.com 2008-03-04 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
What. Fushigi Yuugi was obviously amazing. You mean you didn't appreciate how half the characters were killed off?? Or Miaka and Tamahome's endless CRYING OUT FOR EACH OTHER OVER AND OVER AND OVER??
inthetatras: People planted in the ground like flowers sprouting in spring. (*waggles eyebrow*)

[personal profile] inthetatras 2008-03-04 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
It was very painful to watch, and several elements of the plot irritated me. But I adore a good number of FY characters, Tasuki included.

[identity profile] maxine-chan.livejournal.com 2008-03-04 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Haha, to be honest I barely remember it, but I know by the end I was like WHEN IS THIS GOING TO BE OVER?! But I kept trucking along because MY two favorites didn't die. *__*

...Aside from Nuriko. D:
inthetatras: People planted in the ground like flowers sprouting in spring. (Koizumi likes breathing on Kyon's face)

[personal profile] inthetatras 2008-03-04 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
I believe we had the same ultimate favorites then. ^_^

[identity profile] maxine-chan.livejournal.com 2008-03-04 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
PROBABLY! This guy was definitely numero uno in my book.
Edited 2008-03-04 01:11 (UTC)

[identity profile] nickelodeon.livejournal.com 2008-03-04 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Chichiri and Lucci have the same voice.

[identity profile] maxine-chan.livejournal.com 2008-03-04 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
...Oh my god. Do they really? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Clearly Lucci should have gone around saying 'NO DA' after everything.

[identity profile] nickelodeon.livejournal.com 2008-03-04 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
They do! RU-HOOOOOO!!

[identity profile] xredribbon.livejournal.com 2008-03-04 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Movie 6 ;_____________;

Not fun times.

[identity profile] maxine-chan.livejournal.com 2008-03-04 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
Noooope, not at ALL. DDD:

[identity profile] daisy-chan.livejournal.com 2008-03-04 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
No, the worst was in Kare Kano when Gainax kept running out of money and they'd make whole episodes listing viewer statistics. WHHHYYYYY. Even the episodes that were entirely comprised of drawings on popsicle sticks were more entertaining than that!! >___<


I am ashamed at how many tenipuri icons I have. Must get more oofuri...