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impersonaday 01: the first character you ever played
I remember creating my first character when I was about 5 years old. I drew a picture of her, wrote down her name, her hobbies, and her powers on a piece of paper with crayons. Granted, because I was five and wasn't aware of the Mary Sue Litmus Test yet, the character was by and large based on me, only with a slightly different name and hobbies. I can't remember her name, but I remember that she was a fan-'senshi' based on Rainbow Brite - she was a Color Kid based on the stars, so her 'color' was shinies and twinkly colors (SO MARY SUE, HER POWER WAS SPARKLES). I made two other Color Kids for my friends Tori and Kate based on them (Color Kids based on the Sun and the Moon.....and this predated my knowledge of Sailor Moon by 3 years too), and we played out a game or two with them on my friend's front lawn. To this day that was my only experience in LARPing XD XD
For RPing that actually involves the words and Internet, I was 14 when I created a character for a Final Fantasy RPG (my first RPGs were Final Fantasy and DBZ). Her name was Chaos, she was 17 I think and a short girl with black hair and black eyes (not out of the self-insert Mary Sue phase yet, I don't think I kicked that until Holy Gyro!), and was a Red Mage who I think accidentally blew up her hometown and got exiled. Though now I'd think that if you blew up your hometown, everyone there by default is exiled....Anyways, she was no work of art, but she was the first. I think she had a pet turtle too.
Recent Anime:
Holy crap there is a lot of girl power in the anime I've recently watched. 3.5 of them even have female lead characters!
Noein - In the process of watching this one on Netflix streaming, but I'm liking it so far. If I describe it as a 'Sci-Fi- Channel Anime', do you know what I'm getting at? Cause this thing could be marathoned right alongside Lain, though I'd give Noein a lot more credit for charm. The main two characters and the basic premise made me groan - Lead Girl, Haruka, is the Dragon Torque, the only person capable of safely transversing through all of the alternate dimensions in the universe, and she is protected by Lead Guy #1 Karasu and Lead Guy #1 Yuu....Karasu being the bad-ass timetraveling future version of Yuu, who is a whiny emo bucket of diarrhea (boy lead characters like this are what I hate so much, and why I could not get into Evangelion at all).
What charmed me is the fact that the Lead Girl Haruka is actually THE MAIN CHARACTER, no question about it, and is the most competent and active character as well. There is literately an episode where she is running around a dystopian future, breaking out of prison and being badass, while all of the other characters spend the episode just arguing and whimpering about her being gone. Kol can tell you, I was screaming at the TV "ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS ARE USELESS".
...Also, there is a 12 year old Deon clone in the anime. Like, baby sideburns and cranky attitude and everything, and the wardrobe is even 100% young Deon. It is so incredibly distracting.
The dub is mostly bad, but the outtakes are wonderful.
Witchblade - Now, the concept of the comic series has fascinated me from afar since I was a little girl - a ladycop in NYC comes across a magical artifact that makes her a superhero, but is the artifact a tool for good or evil? The art and the storytelling totally turned me off from the comics though, so I've just admired the concept. NOT ANY MORE.
Oh my god. So the last thing I expected going into this was to really, truly, 100% love not only the main character, but all of the cast. The main character, the Witchblade holder, is (a) likeable (b) relateable (c) HAS SOMETHING RESEMBLING A NORMAL WOMAN'S BODY TYPE (oh my god seeing her in Witchblade form is a bootilicious treat) (d) A SINGLE MOM. And most of the dramatic twists in the series revolves around her protecting her only daughter, which sounds simplistic but let me tell you, it was HELLA REFRESHING and HELLA INTENSE. Mostly refreshing. I loved actually being so invested in this character, and not only that, but really understanding where she was coming from at every single point in the story. The supporting cast is by and large charming, especially the people she comes to live with.
I can't even be coherent about my love for this series but I am dead certain that it is the best anime I've watched this year. Certainly the most human and moving, and satisfying all the way to the final minute.
Cyborg 009-1 - One of my loves is the Cyborg 009 series, which is about a group of humans from around the world who are kidnapped and forced into getting cybornetic replacements in their body, and how they work together as a team against evil. So I was a bit surprised to find this series one day while on YouTube. It's the same base premise, people transformed into Cyborgs for use in war, but this series focuses on only one agent, 9-1, instead of a team, and the air is more of a Cold War noir-spy sort of thing. Like Cyborg 009, the main theme of the show revolves around humanity, and how these cyborgs manage to show more of it than many of the humans they interact with. It is so incredible. It's a short watch, only 13 episodes, and rather self-contained and episodic.
ALSO THE MAIN CHARACTER HAS MACHINE GUN FIRE ACTION IN HER BOOBS. WUT. It's the only total left-field aspect of the show though, everything else is fairly smart and witty. Only complaint is that I do wish we got to see more of the other cyborg agents, but I'm not gonna get worked up about it.
Mushi-shi - HOMG. HOMG. My love for this show. Now generally I like my shows with a lot of violence, action, and drama. If I was told the nature of the episodes beforehand - slow-paced, slow-moving, almost entirely dialogue driven, etc, then I probably would not have even tried it in the first place. But there is some inexplicible charm to this damn series that makes it so compelling, and I had to blast through this series immediately or I'd die (or so it felt.) I suppose each episode felt more like a fairy tale than anything else, and it was executed so precisely that you could barely tell that it was slow moving. It was slow, but there was never anything unnecessary, which has to be the big difference.
Premise, btw, is about a Mushi master, Gin, who travels over 1910's (?) rural Japan, basically solving supernatural outbreaks of Mushi, which I guess could be called mystical bacteria. They are very small organisms, but often have amazing and bizarre interactions with the humans sharing their environment. In a weird way it is compelling in the same reason the Discovery Channel can be - because a lot of the mystery is understanding why the mushi in that particular episode adapted the way they have.
Saber Marionette J - This was actually my first anime series, other than the anime I watched on TV. It feels like an old friend to me. So one of my favorite tropes is 'it takes a machine to find humanity', and this series might have been the start of it. Set on a world inhabited only by men, it is about a trio of Saber Marionettes, female-looking androids who have 'artificial souls' that resemble a real humans, and how they come to understand what life and love is all about. On the surface it looks like typical harem anime, but the main male character, Otaru, is played as asexual, and while the marionettes can be pretty pervy around him, nobody is actually paired off with him. The Saber Marionettes (Lime, Cherry, and Bloodberry) actually develop this intense and deep sisterly bond that I worship to the dirt. Satoru Akahori (who also wrote Sorcerer Hunters, another favorite of mine) often returns to the idea of 'family' in his works, and it is no different here.
I also love Hanagata (the MALE love interest for the main character, though Otaru never returns this). Not just as comic relief, but as a character. Upon rewatching the series again and again, there becomes more and more about him that you can read into.
Castle In The Sky - Balls. Did not enjoy this one bit. Maybe I should have watched the sub as opposed to the dub, cause the entire time I was so bored that I kept on obsessing over how they chose James Van Der Beek for like, a 12 year old boy (SO. DISTRACTING.). Mark Hamill helped as the evil dickface, but like...........ughn. Boring movie. It had the charm of a Miyazaki, but that's not enough. I did not give a shit about anything that happened after they found the castle. I think if there was some trace of sentient life on the floating castle, and some reason for us to be invested in caring about it, that might have helped. I'd have rather watched an entire movie about the damn pirates.
I remember creating my first character when I was about 5 years old. I drew a picture of her, wrote down her name, her hobbies, and her powers on a piece of paper with crayons. Granted, because I was five and wasn't aware of the Mary Sue Litmus Test yet, the character was by and large based on me, only with a slightly different name and hobbies. I can't remember her name, but I remember that she was a fan-'senshi' based on Rainbow Brite - she was a Color Kid based on the stars, so her 'color' was shinies and twinkly colors (SO MARY SUE, HER POWER WAS SPARKLES). I made two other Color Kids for my friends Tori and Kate based on them (Color Kids based on the Sun and the Moon.....and this predated my knowledge of Sailor Moon by 3 years too), and we played out a game or two with them on my friend's front lawn. To this day that was my only experience in LARPing XD XD
For RPing that actually involves the words and Internet, I was 14 when I created a character for a Final Fantasy RPG (my first RPGs were Final Fantasy and DBZ). Her name was Chaos, she was 17 I think and a short girl with black hair and black eyes (not out of the self-insert Mary Sue phase yet, I don't think I kicked that until Holy Gyro!), and was a Red Mage who I think accidentally blew up her hometown and got exiled. Though now I'd think that if you blew up your hometown, everyone there by default is exiled....Anyways, she was no work of art, but she was the first. I think she had a pet turtle too.
Recent Anime:
Holy crap there is a lot of girl power in the anime I've recently watched. 3.5 of them even have female lead characters!
Noein - In the process of watching this one on Netflix streaming, but I'm liking it so far. If I describe it as a 'Sci-Fi- Channel Anime', do you know what I'm getting at? Cause this thing could be marathoned right alongside Lain, though I'd give Noein a lot more credit for charm. The main two characters and the basic premise made me groan - Lead Girl, Haruka, is the Dragon Torque, the only person capable of safely transversing through all of the alternate dimensions in the universe, and she is protected by Lead Guy #1 Karasu and Lead Guy #1 Yuu....Karasu being the bad-ass timetraveling future version of Yuu, who is a whiny emo bucket of diarrhea (boy lead characters like this are what I hate so much, and why I could not get into Evangelion at all).
What charmed me is the fact that the Lead Girl Haruka is actually THE MAIN CHARACTER, no question about it, and is the most competent and active character as well. There is literately an episode where she is running around a dystopian future, breaking out of prison and being badass, while all of the other characters spend the episode just arguing and whimpering about her being gone. Kol can tell you, I was screaming at the TV "ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS ARE USELESS".
...Also, there is a 12 year old Deon clone in the anime. Like, baby sideburns and cranky attitude and everything, and the wardrobe is even 100% young Deon. It is so incredibly distracting.
The dub is mostly bad, but the outtakes are wonderful.
Witchblade - Now, the concept of the comic series has fascinated me from afar since I was a little girl - a ladycop in NYC comes across a magical artifact that makes her a superhero, but is the artifact a tool for good or evil? The art and the storytelling totally turned me off from the comics though, so I've just admired the concept. NOT ANY MORE.
Oh my god. So the last thing I expected going into this was to really, truly, 100% love not only the main character, but all of the cast. The main character, the Witchblade holder, is (a) likeable (b) relateable (c) HAS SOMETHING RESEMBLING A NORMAL WOMAN'S BODY TYPE (oh my god seeing her in Witchblade form is a bootilicious treat) (d) A SINGLE MOM. And most of the dramatic twists in the series revolves around her protecting her only daughter, which sounds simplistic but let me tell you, it was HELLA REFRESHING and HELLA INTENSE. Mostly refreshing. I loved actually being so invested in this character, and not only that, but really understanding where she was coming from at every single point in the story. The supporting cast is by and large charming, especially the people she comes to live with.
I can't even be coherent about my love for this series but I am dead certain that it is the best anime I've watched this year. Certainly the most human and moving, and satisfying all the way to the final minute.
Cyborg 009-1 - One of my loves is the Cyborg 009 series, which is about a group of humans from around the world who are kidnapped and forced into getting cybornetic replacements in their body, and how they work together as a team against evil. So I was a bit surprised to find this series one day while on YouTube. It's the same base premise, people transformed into Cyborgs for use in war, but this series focuses on only one agent, 9-1, instead of a team, and the air is more of a Cold War noir-spy sort of thing. Like Cyborg 009, the main theme of the show revolves around humanity, and how these cyborgs manage to show more of it than many of the humans they interact with. It is so incredible. It's a short watch, only 13 episodes, and rather self-contained and episodic.
ALSO THE MAIN CHARACTER HAS MACHINE GUN FIRE ACTION IN HER BOOBS. WUT. It's the only total left-field aspect of the show though, everything else is fairly smart and witty. Only complaint is that I do wish we got to see more of the other cyborg agents, but I'm not gonna get worked up about it.
Mushi-shi - HOMG. HOMG. My love for this show. Now generally I like my shows with a lot of violence, action, and drama. If I was told the nature of the episodes beforehand - slow-paced, slow-moving, almost entirely dialogue driven, etc, then I probably would not have even tried it in the first place. But there is some inexplicible charm to this damn series that makes it so compelling, and I had to blast through this series immediately or I'd die (or so it felt.) I suppose each episode felt more like a fairy tale than anything else, and it was executed so precisely that you could barely tell that it was slow moving. It was slow, but there was never anything unnecessary, which has to be the big difference.
Premise, btw, is about a Mushi master, Gin, who travels over 1910's (?) rural Japan, basically solving supernatural outbreaks of Mushi, which I guess could be called mystical bacteria. They are very small organisms, but often have amazing and bizarre interactions with the humans sharing their environment. In a weird way it is compelling in the same reason the Discovery Channel can be - because a lot of the mystery is understanding why the mushi in that particular episode adapted the way they have.
Saber Marionette J - This was actually my first anime series, other than the anime I watched on TV. It feels like an old friend to me. So one of my favorite tropes is 'it takes a machine to find humanity', and this series might have been the start of it. Set on a world inhabited only by men, it is about a trio of Saber Marionettes, female-looking androids who have 'artificial souls' that resemble a real humans, and how they come to understand what life and love is all about. On the surface it looks like typical harem anime, but the main male character, Otaru, is played as asexual, and while the marionettes can be pretty pervy around him, nobody is actually paired off with him. The Saber Marionettes (Lime, Cherry, and Bloodberry) actually develop this intense and deep sisterly bond that I worship to the dirt. Satoru Akahori (who also wrote Sorcerer Hunters, another favorite of mine) often returns to the idea of 'family' in his works, and it is no different here.
I also love Hanagata (the MALE love interest for the main character, though Otaru never returns this). Not just as comic relief, but as a character. Upon rewatching the series again and again, there becomes more and more about him that you can read into.
Castle In The Sky - Balls. Did not enjoy this one bit. Maybe I should have watched the sub as opposed to the dub, cause the entire time I was so bored that I kept on obsessing over how they chose James Van Der Beek for like, a 12 year old boy (SO. DISTRACTING.). Mark Hamill helped as the evil dickface, but like...........ughn. Boring movie. It had the charm of a Miyazaki, but that's not enough. I did not give a shit about anything that happened after they found the castle. I think if there was some trace of sentient life on the floating castle, and some reason for us to be invested in caring about it, that might have helped. I'd have rather watched an entire movie about the damn pirates.
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Date: 2010-12-02 02:53 pm (UTC)(I should do this memething too, maybe... XD JUST TO GET POSTING AGAIN)
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Date: 2010-12-02 03:56 pm (UTC)