Thirty Days of Harry Potter: Day 2

Day 2: Your favorite movie.

Please see my previous blog, "Why I Hate Book to Film Transitions" for my thoughts on the Harry Potter movies. I hate them all. If you had to make me choose, I suppose the third because I liked the song at the beginning. I still hate it with a passion.

Thirty Days of Anime: Day 27

Someone helpfully pointed out that I hadn't finished my Thirty Days of Anime before starting on my Harry Potter meme. To that I say...who says I have to wait?

Day 27: Favorite Anime Opening Theme Song

I actually did a blog post about my top ten favorite anime theme songs. My favorite is Tokyo Majin's theme, both first and second season. Both are done by the JROCK band ACID, and the first one is called 0:00 AM and the second one is Prayer. Both are fabulous.

Thirty Days of Harry Potter: Day 1

I had such fun with the thirty days of anime, I thought I'd do another blog meme. As seen from my previous blog, I adore Harry Potter. So let's get started!

Day 1: Your favorite book

Argh. This is such a tough choice. Okay, I honestly think my favorite was Philosopher's Stone.

It starts everything off, after all. Quickly followed is Prisoner of Azkaban, Deathly Hallows, Half Blood Prince, Chamber of Secrets, Goblet of Fire, and Order of the Phoenix.

Thirty Days of Anime: Day 26

Day 26: Your Favorite Harem Anime

Well, I'll admit a deep love of Fruits Basket. But my favorite harem anime is the harem anime that makes fun of harem anime...

I love shojo anime that makes fun of itself, especially its specific sub-genre. This anime is toeing the line of being satire and it's wonderful.

Thirty Days of Anime: Day 25

Day 25: Best Anime Villain

I love complicated, screwed up villains. I think the best one of all time is...

Akito, from Fruits Basket. Both anime version and manga version, though I didn't like the whole 'let's reform Akito and let him/her live happily ever after with Shigeru, yay!' That was dumb. And not just cuz I love Shigeru and think he deserves way better than frigging Akito. Because this character flat out should not reform. He/She should die, disappear, or maybe turn into a statue.

Akito is a creepy-ass villain not because he/she can wave a gun or sword around, but because everything this character does is psychological. Akito was horribly emotionally abusive to Yuki even as children. Akito screwed over Kana and Hatori's relationship. He tortured Rin, also mentally and emotionally. Everything he does was psychological and terrible. I much prefer how the anime ended in regards to Akito. (Manga for everything else, because Kyo and Tohru forever!!! And the manga introduced Rin who is awesome.)

I really loathed how the manga just made everyone suddenly okay with Akito when she (I say she because in the manga at least, Akito was defined as a she. Not so with the anime.) basically said sorry for everything she'd done. I was totally with Rin, who flat out refused to forgive Akito and was incredulous that the rest of the zodiac could.

Bastard. Or bitch. Depending on your medium. :D

Thirty Days of Anime: Day 24

Day 24: Favorite anime hero or heroine

I feel like I've used Sango five million times--I should vary it up a little. Hmm....

I guess that's cheating a little.

I don't care. They made it an anime, so therefore I can use it! :D

Thirty Days of Anime: Day 22

Day 22: Favorite Boys love couple or Girls love, if you don't like boy love.

Hmmm...

Honestly, I don't really watch that much yaoi. Ok, I'll put a yuri couple that's never explicitly stated but totally hinted at.

Lucia and Sumire, from Venus Versus Virus. I like this anime because you can see the yuri undertones, if you want to interpret it that way, or you can just see a really beautiful and special friendship. Either or.

Thirty Days of Anime: Day 21

Day 21: Best yandere character

Ok, now that I've figured out who this is:

Honestly, this is the only example I can think of off the top of my head, Mimi from Lovely Complex. Boy is she irritating.

Thirty Days of Anime: Day 20

Day 20: Favorite Shojo Anime

It's a tie between...

Marmalade Boy and, you probably guessed it...

Lovely Complex.

Lovely Complex is probably easy to guess, since I've sung it's praises for a while now. But many will look at me perplexed and go, "MARMALADE BOY?!"

Because as ridiculousness in anime goes, it's right up there with Pretear.

The reason it's tied between a legit good shojo anime is mainly for nostalgic reasons. Marmalade Boy paved the way for my love of everything anime. Without MB, I wouldn't have discovered Inuyasha, Vampire Knight, Ouran High School Host Club, Tokyo Majin, or any of my favorites. And while it's painfully cheesy and some parts want to make me rip my hair out (Meiko choosing Nachan over Miwa, ARGH) it still manages to make me smile.

Thirty Days of Anime: Day 19

Day 19: Mandatory Swimsuit post

I like how Sango is all, 'what the hell did you just put me in?'

Thirty Days of Anime: Day 18

Day 18: Something Moe

I'm not real clear on what moe means (cutesy girl? something fluffy that makes you go awww?) so I gave it my best guess.

So I just got done reading this real douchebag's blog about how he couldn't stand nice anime characters and how polite people pissed him off. He bitched about Belldandy (above) from Ah! My Goddess and Tohru from Fruits Basket. So, in essence, he sounded like kind of a dick, and I'm assuming dicks only like anime about dicks and that's his real problem.

I like Belldandy--she's not my favorite, Urd is. But Belldandy is so sweet and kind and adorable, she makes me go awww everytime she does something.

Awww!

Thirty Days of Anime: Day 17

Day 17: Favorite Tsundere

I am totally not googling what that is because I am an awesome otaku and totally know the terminology for everything.

Please standby.

Ok, got it. I actually have two cuz I love both of them. First one is:

I love Zero Kiryuu, from Vampire Knight. Screw Yuki, the show should've been about him. Generally I'm not into the anime character that angsts all the time, but oh, Zero does it so well! Some of his best scenes involve him being all cranky and annoyed towards Yuki (who I admittedly don't like) but even so, you can totally tell how much he loves her.

Second favorite is...

Kyouichi, from Tokyo Majin. My all-time favorite character in this series, how he acts towards Aoi is very tsundere. He's actually a total jerk towards her. Calls her names, tells her to stay out of the way, etc. Later on he loosens up, but it's clear to see that his nastiness and insistence she stay out of the fights is because he genuinely cares about her.

Thirty Days of Anime: Day 16

Day 16: Post a kigurumi cosplay of your favorite anime character.

Post a what?

*goes off to google kigurumi*

Ohhhh.

That's weird.

All right, fine. Bear in mind I don't necessarily have a favorite anime character (too many to choose from!) but I'll find the first one that comes up.

Yeah, I am not a fan of kigurumi...

Thirty Days of Anime: Day 15

Day 15: Post a cute Neko Girl

...

Why?

...

FINE.

I'm not doing that again.

Thirty Days of Anime: Day 14

Day 14: Current or Most Recent Anime Wallpaper

It was this:

Totally still makes me giggle. :D

Thirty Days of Anime: Day 13

Day 13: Cosplay of your Waifu or Husbando

So, I think this is a girl but I don't really care cuz it's so well-done and the person looks so much like Sesshoumaru (with the elfin features, condescending stare....damn) that I put it anyway, cuz I was that blown away. No judging.

Hi honey. Waifu is home.

Thirty Days of Anime: Day 12

Day 12: An ecchi picture from your favorite series.

This should be easy seeing as my favorite series involves Miroku.

Ha, I was right. Fanart count? Cuz I found this in like two seconds. There you are, an ecchi picture of the anime Inuyasha involving Miroku and Sango. Tee hee.

Thirty Days of Anime: Day 11

Day 11: Favorite Mech Series

Honestly, I don't watch a lot of mecha anime, so I actually had to look this up to verify I knew what it was. Does this count?

Cuz I really like Full Metal Panic. Haven't watched it in ages, but it cracked me up. So I guess I'd put this as my favorite mecha, assuming this counts.

Thirty Days of Anime: Day 8

Day 8: Most Epic Scene Ever

This.

From Tokyo Majin. It's just so...

When he tells her she's done enough, and she runs into his arms, and he gives her the sheathe of his bokkan which is the most important thing in the world to him, and then he goes, "I'll be back..." and she says "I'll be waiting! I'll be waiting for you..." and you just want to go cry from the amazing beauty of it all...

Wheeze...okay, I'm done. This scene is epic because even though it's quiet, it's poignant and subtle. I wish I could show the clip but it ain't on Youtube, probably because everyone on Youtube is Tatsuma/Aoi rather than Kyouichi/Aoi like me. I even wrote a fanfiction detailing it from Kyouichi's perspective, which you can read here.

Sigh. I love this scene.

Thirty Days of Anime: Day 1

This should be interesting, because I have trouble updating weekly. We'll see how it goes!

Day 1: Very First Anime

This actually took some thinking. My first thought was Inuyasha, because I started borrowing the DVDs from a friend in the eighth grade. Then I realized that before that, I watched Yu Gi Oh! with my brothers. And before that, Digimon. And before that, Pokemon. And before that, Cardcaptors...

I eventually figured it out. It was Superbook.

I legit don't remember much about this anime. I remember the theme song involved a Bible falling on a computer and sending two kids back in time. I remember a couple of the plots of the episodes. Basically, it was two kids going back in time and living out Bible stories. It was a very neat anime. My brothers tell me that Flying House was the precursor to it, but I honestly don't remember Flying House. Just Superbook. I'd love this on DVD some day...