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heavenly_pearl) wrote2006-04-10 10:37 pm
heavenly_pearl) wrote2006-04-10 10:37 pm
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Yay!
I finally got the Evangelion boxset I wanted! Granted, I can't watch it at the moment because I gave up anime for Lent this year, but at least there's only a few more days left. I can wait that long...
*glances over at the boxset with longing*
Anyway, I also got some new manga -- Vol. 13 of Fruits Basket and...
*drumroll*
...the final volume of Fushigi Yugi!
It's about time. It feels like I've been collecting it forever. I still say that Part 2, while somewhat interesting, was completely unnecessary, though.
In writing news, Helios-muse is annoying me. He refuses to work on Ch. 4, instead wanting to work on Ch. 21 for some reason. Grr.
*glances over at the boxset with longing*
Anyway, I also got some new manga -- Vol. 13 of Fruits Basket and...
*drumroll*
...the final volume of Fushigi Yugi!
It's about time. It feels like I've been collecting it forever. I still say that Part 2, while somewhat interesting, was completely unnecessary, though.
For those not familiar with the second part, it takes place soon after the end of the first part (duh) with Tamahome, now Taka, reborn in the real world and Miaka and Yui starting high school. Everything is going fine until Suzaku sends them on a mission to find seven balls containing Taka's memories of his life as Tamahome in order to give Suzaku power in order to seal the demon god Nakago was known to worship. To do this, they basically go around to places important to the Suzaku warriors looking for the balls. (Those who are dead show up as ghosts who can't move on because of the demon god.)
*begins rant* That part I rather liked, but as usual, only the four really popular members of the group (Tasuki, Hotohori, Chichiri, and Nuriko) got the spotlight, while Chiriko's and Mitsutake's balls mysteriously disappeared before they could find them, meaning that they got little to no storyline. (Chiriko got a very small flashback in the last volume, but I don't think Mitsutake got any references to his backstory in the second part.) Now, I find them pretty boring myself, but I thought it was really unfair for Watase-san to cop-out of telling their stories by having them go on their ball-finding missions on their own and having any action related to those missions take place off-screen. It felt a little like Alice 19th in which the first few volumes dealed with Alice and Kyo gradually learning the Lotis words, then having them suddenly learn all the rest of them right when the main battle started. It just drives me crazy when authors set up a gathering mission (whether it be words, balls, cards, etc.), then when they get bored of it, they put in some kind of crazy plot device that relieves the characters of their duties. That's lazy writing, IMO. I can understand it can be redundant sometimes, but at least in the CCS anime, while there were some captures that weren't shown, it was understood that Sakura captured them in between episodes. It's not like she just found a large stack of Clow Cards sitting around somewhere right before the Final Judgement. *ends rant*
Anyway, other than my annoyance with the "sudden disappearance" of the two balls, which seemed to me as only a way to get out of exploring Mitsutake's and Chiriko's pasts, the rest of the arc was pretty good. I liked that a decent part of it took place in the real world. I'm not really much of a fan of fantasy worlds myself, so that was great. Seeing more Miaka's brother, Keisuke, was also a nice little bonus, as well as seeing Yui and Miaka interacting as friends instead of the enemies they were during the first part. And the ending was touching, with Miaka, Taka, and their son looking at the stars. ^_^
I just have to wonder, what was the point?
*begins rant* That part I rather liked, but as usual, only the four really popular members of the group (Tasuki, Hotohori, Chichiri, and Nuriko) got the spotlight, while Chiriko's and Mitsutake's balls mysteriously disappeared before they could find them, meaning that they got little to no storyline. (Chiriko got a very small flashback in the last volume, but I don't think Mitsutake got any references to his backstory in the second part.) Now, I find them pretty boring myself, but I thought it was really unfair for Watase-san to cop-out of telling their stories by having them go on their ball-finding missions on their own and having any action related to those missions take place off-screen. It felt a little like Alice 19th in which the first few volumes dealed with Alice and Kyo gradually learning the Lotis words, then having them suddenly learn all the rest of them right when the main battle started. It just drives me crazy when authors set up a gathering mission (whether it be words, balls, cards, etc.), then when they get bored of it, they put in some kind of crazy plot device that relieves the characters of their duties. That's lazy writing, IMO. I can understand it can be redundant sometimes, but at least in the CCS anime, while there were some captures that weren't shown, it was understood that Sakura captured them in between episodes. It's not like she just found a large stack of Clow Cards sitting around somewhere right before the Final Judgement. *ends rant*
Anyway, other than my annoyance with the "sudden disappearance" of the two balls, which seemed to me as only a way to get out of exploring Mitsutake's and Chiriko's pasts, the rest of the arc was pretty good. I liked that a decent part of it took place in the real world. I'm not really much of a fan of fantasy worlds myself, so that was great. Seeing more Miaka's brother, Keisuke, was also a nice little bonus, as well as seeing Yui and Miaka interacting as friends instead of the enemies they were during the first part. And the ending was touching, with Miaka, Taka, and their son looking at the stars. ^_^
I just have to wonder, what was the point?
In writing news, Helios-muse is annoying me. He refuses to work on Ch. 4, instead wanting to work on Ch. 21 for some reason. Grr.