This Week's Anime: Nijuu Mensou / YGO 5D's

[ickaimp]

... Am amused to notice that I'm now dividing the weekend retorts into two parts, RL and Fandom, after having been surprised lately about how many SCA stalkers I have, who have nothing to do with fandom and who are confused by it.
Ah, well. Serves the journal's dual purpose of keeping track of RL and Fandom friends well.

Nijuu Mensou no Musume / Daughter of Twenty Faces 1-3:
The main character, Chiko, could easily fall into the 'Annoying Mary-Sue Cliche' type of category. Luckily, she has avoided that. I've been highly impressed with what I've seen of the series (RANDOM SUBMARINE FTW!!!), the art is great and there's enough action and mental puzzles to keep me a happy squid. Thus far, I'd recommend this one, especially to the mystery crowd.
Makes me wish I could find translations of the original Twenty Faces stories by Edogawa Rampo, he sounds as much of a hoot as Arsene Lupin.

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's 1-4:
COULD THE MAIN CHARACTER HAVE ANY LESS PERSONALITY?! It's like Heero Yuy all over again, but without the maniacal laughter. Hoping that the appearance of a rival ('Jack Atlas' *snerk*) and a jail-bait facial tattoo might make things more interesting.
Despite being massively underwhelmed by this series, cannot wait to see more. *Facepalm* Which, strangely enough, seems to be the overall opinion of the series.

And we're watching D.Gray-man during anime nights. *Shrugs* I read the manga about two years ago, still remember the plot, not really all that impressed. Although Lavi is love, despite being named after a toilet.

Next Anime: Sean gave me Code Geass to watch. All I know is that it has bishies, one of whom might wear a bastard cloak. And possibly mecha. We'll see.

Manga wise, enjoyed this week's chapter of xxxHOLiC and catching up on Fairy Tail. Am moving out of reading Phoenix Wright fanfic and strangely drifting back into reading RockMan X, which is like our android comfort food fandom.

Comments

[saitaina]

Code Geass is a HOT show, not only with the main characters (Leouch/Zero, Suzaku, CC, Kallen, ect), but the plot is rather delicious. Season 2 has just started, so if he only gave you season one let me know and I can hook you up if you like it (reminds me, time to go get turn 5).

It's also recently started airing on Cartoon Network near Death Note (I can't remember if it's before or after, I think after), so you can have fun with the American verison (sadly, no Pizza Hut ads).

Edited to use a non spoiler CG icon

[kojikatsuya.livejournal.com]

From the Abridged Series:

Tristan: "In the future, card games will be played on motorcycles!"
Yugi: "Tristan, that is by far the dumbest thing you've ever said. Card games on motorcycles..... COME ON!"

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

Oh, btw, I was describing you to american_knight and he isn't recalling...you'll have to intro yourself to him again.

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Not entirely surprised, he sees a lot of Scadians at events.

-am surprised he friended this journal however. #^^#

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

I think it was my talk of your "assets" tee hee

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

*facepalm* I shouldn't be surprised. #^^# Although my garb certainly doesn't show them off.

(http://picasaweb.google.com/ickaimp/SCA/photo?authkey=9G7XxV2xLzU#5197004717570980130)

[sekitx2.livejournal.com]

Although Lavi is love, despite being named after a toilet.
Anou... it's technically ra bi which can be la vi thanks to the Japanese "alphabet" so he's generally associated with a rabbit. :)

[lil-1337.livejournal.com]

Hey, Heero has a lot of personality its just very monotone.

I downloaded Nijuu Mensou No Musume and have sent it to Anne so hopefully will get a chance to watch it some time this week.

Curious to see what you think of Code Geass. That's one of the ones on the spindle o'doom that I plan to watch as a filler.