Heading out.

[merimask]

Okay.  I've finished packing and I'm as ready as I'll ever be for Pennsic.  *sigh*  I've been doing this event for about 18 years now and it just keeps getting bigger and more hectic and harder to do...but I can't pass it up 'cause it's where I make about a third of my yearly income.  It's a week of camping hell though, I can tell you that.  Also, the goofball factor keeps going up higher and higher...or maybe my tolerance of all the Goofy is just wearing thin.  Who knows?  I just can't wait to see what everyone thinks of the Cherry Blossom Dragon.  :-)

Something to read if you want a laugh:  Anatomy of a correspondence about S-Cry-Ed.  rumdiculous and I can't seem to turn our tvs off when it comes on, and we can't figure out why!
 

rumdiculous  :  
I think I just watched the final episode. And unfortunately everyone did not die. :( Very disapointed about that. But this time I did pay attention to the dialog since they were saying some very interesting stuff. I have a theory. The two main idiots, the green haired guy whose name starts with an R....Ryuho? Whatever. Anyway, him and that other guy, the brunette jackass...Kasumi? Or is it Kasuko? (I swear two people called him two different names.) Well, these two main protagonists-I have a theory about them. They're secretly kinky lovers.

 

How did I come to this conclusion? By listening to the random crap they yelled at each other. And their fighting. Throughout all of the episodes I've seen-all three of them-they're been fighting each other and bitching like preteen girls. I think it's sexual tension. Oh yeah. Just look at the dialog that went down during the final fight:

 

I was hoping you'd bring that out. VIGOROUS RIGHT FIST!!!

 

You're brute force isn't enough. Try some finesse!

 

(from woman watching fight) I can't believe it, is this really how they want to live their lives?

 

(from random old man) Damn, I wish I was up there with them!

 

(and from Kasumi/brunette jackass's older brother) Kasuko, seems like you found a way. Don't stop there, keep on pushing til you're in...

 

And this show ended with a clenched fist thrust into the air...hm...

 

So in conclusion: This show sucks. lol

 

But at the end of the end, after the credits that green haired guy showed up later with longer hair and for a split second he looked really hot. That makes me want to cry a little.

 

......

 

Clearly I have too much time on my hands. XD

 

And what is with that stupid theme song, "I believe in Drastic my soul." What does that even mean??

 

merimask  :  
ROFL!!!

 

*snort*

 

Okay...I'm going to confess this to you, just so you know that I know just how bad this show really is.  Charlotte and I have seen the whole thing.  THE WHOLE THING.  It was like watching a train wreck, we just couldn't look away.

 

She made up a hilarious dance for the opening song (sort of like a frenetic ass-shaking mamba for one...an awful lot like what Shakira does), and "Drastic my soul!" was a catch phrase we'd use whenever things got stupid in the world.  An example:

CNN's Wolf Blitzer:  "It appears that Vice President Dick Cheney has shot a friend while hunting in Texas.  No word on the man's condition.  Cheney has not been charged with any wrongdoing."

Charlotte:  0_0"  "Holy wow!  'Drastic my soul'!!"

 

I'm going to say that we watched S-Cry-Ed because it made us laugh..a LOT.  Especially the dude with magic balls.  Really the latent homo-erotica references are everywhere and I'm not just talkin' about guys who have great hair and like to bake.  But I am sure that's not the only reason.  Basically, we really DID have to find out what happened with Kazuma (I'm pretty sure that's how it's spelled...the little girl Kanami called him "Kazakun" all the time because she was annoyingly cute...adding "kun" to a guy's name is an affectionate diminutive, like changing "john" to "johnny-boy").  And the whole thing with Ryuho and his two chicks...we just had to see which way he went.  Apparently he chose...Kazuma!  Go figger!  Queer eye for the alter-guy. 

 

So now I have learned the important lesson that even BAD anime can be compelling.

 

That's not gonna stop me from picking on it, though.  ;-)

 

Now you know my guilty secret! 

rumdiculous :
  Oh it IS entertaining! That's why I kept watching the episodes even though it hurt. (like salt in an open wound) My friend and I would watch the show and rip it apart like a episode of MST3K. Which is fun! That's why we watch truly horrible stuff like this and Flame of Recca (that's another winner...)

 

I was almost getting interested in the story because Ryuho was blatently into Kazuma...I was just amused by this. He had two girls after him, one even threw herself at him and he's like, "No I like the guy who can beat the crap out of me. That's hot." XD

 

I gotta say Kazuma was getting on my nerves. The random crap he would yell was driving me crazy. And his older brother was just weird. Was he hitting on that little girl just to make Kazuma jealous? O.o

 

And what the hell was the actual story about? Some war? Who were they fighting when they weren't going through an elaborate and extremely violent foreplay?? 

merimask  :
   THAT is the question of the year!  As far as I can tell, the basic outline is this:  Japan is cut off from the Mainland forever.  Umm...weren't they already?  I thought it was an ISLAND.    The point I guess is Japan is fucked up...some kinda "alterpower"...a latent energy force that's been snoozing in the land and suddenly woke up?  Or an alien invasion thing?  I dunno, I missed that part.  So, the Mainland (China?  But it also seems sort of like the USA in a way...it's all made-up-crap anyway but you get the point) harnesses the power of the people "infected" with this "alter force" ('cause they all get funky psionic abilities and SOME of them even have...magic Balls of Power!  Woo).  They turn 'em into WMDs and put them to work for the govt.  That's what HOLY is.

 

But the mainland doesn't get them all, because the people (the "outers") still in blasted-out Japan keep turning up with alter powers.  Those are the native alters.  They're like...X-men.  Sort of freaky outcasts.  HOLY keeps snatching them whenever really powerful ones turn up...or else they destroy them.  And, the ultimate goal of the Mainland is to find the elusive "source" of the alter power and use it...fer EVIL!  Muahahaaa!   Typical rule-the-world crap.

 

That's why Kazuma is such a problem...he's too powerful to catch!   He's a Rebel With A Claw!   *snort*

 

So good little Ryuho who is a military kiss-up and a goodie goodie goes after Kazuma and it gets personal because (I SUSPECT!)...Kazuma has a cute ass?  ?? 

 

Ryuho is a HOLY pain in the ass, if you ask me.  Freaking boy scout.  Plus Ryuho has issues because it seems when his alter powers woke up he blew up his dog or something.  Or his mom.  Or both of em.  It's all very ambiguous.  Right before all his personal shit hit the fan he met Miss Mimori and they sorta had a puppy-love thing going.  Then he got funky with his bad alter self and she stayed on the mainland while he was whisked away by HOLY and, well...it was enough, apparently, to turn a straight boy off of the opposite sex forever.  Not that Ryuho will ever admit it.  Stuff it down deep, boy.  SLAM that closet door. 

 

Stuff happens.  Stupid stuff.  Ryuho and Kazuma fight like a coupla divas in Vegas.  Shit blows up.  Ryuho loses his memory for awhile.  Kazuma gets his alter power boosted by the "source" and does a Barry Bonds steriod beef-up that erases HIS memory for a while.  They end up in basically the same situation.  See?  It's IRONIC that they fight because they're SO similar?  Get it?  Irony?  Heh heh...  *pout*   It all makes sense if you just don't think about it too much.   

 

Then Ryuho figgers out HOLY's secret plan to rule the world and he gets mad because...I dunno...he starts to empathize with the native alters?  So now Kazuma and Ryuho are both sorta on the same side (they're BOTH playin' for the other team...get it??) and HOLY gets worried.  Because they know they're screwed.  Because Kazuma and Ryuho BOTH got their alter powers from the "source" and they are utter bad asses.  Utter bad asses with really gay-looking alters.

 

Anyway, shit gets blowed up.  People die.  Kazuma gets pissed.  Ryuho gets righteous.  HOLY pulls out the big guns; some fairy with a bad attitude and a god complex.  Ryuho and Kazuma kick his ass and blow up HOLY headquarters but good.  That's when military forces from the Mainland move in to blow 'em all to bits, and of course our freaky fancy-boy heroes conquer all because love and alter power and really gay costumes prevail!  Woohoo! 

 

It all hurts.  All of it.  Every last freaking minute of it.  But, you just can't look away!

 

*sigh*  I HATE that I know so much about this anime.  ;-)

 

I believe in drastic my soul!

And there you have it.  It's the anime equivalent of hurricane coverage on CNN.  It's not exactly entertaining...it sort of hurts to watch all the carnage...but you just can't turn away.  Rumi and I have the most intellectual conversations!  :-)  Seriously, this is good stuff.

*sigh*  I'll miss you all.  Talk amongst yourselves.  I'll even give you a topic:  What's the all time WORST anime you've ever seen but had to watch anyway?  Even better if you ended up watching the whole thing.  Explain your fascination with the badness.

*smooch*  See ya in a week or so.

Comments

[a-hollow-year.livejournal.com]

This is how yaoi fangirlism is born.

Anyway, everyone's going to go batshit over the cherry blossom dragon, for reals. You can do eeeeeet!

Worst anime I watched... I dunno, I usually turn them off halfway through and proceed to relegate them to the back of my mind... Oh, I know! Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch. Holy fuck, was that ever bad. It was about some mermaid princess who went up on dry land to do... something... and bad sea people were after her, and she ended up running into other mermaids (there were like seven in all)... and she could turn alternately into a mermaid or a pop idol. Then she would sing at her enemies and defeat them. She kind of sucked at singing, too. God, that was awful. Sailor Moon but with mermaids. I mean, in Princess Tutu the heroine dances with her enemies, but it's kind of part of the overlying theme that art > violence. This was just 'hmmm, what power would a magical girl mermaid have??'

I watched over ten episodes. Might have been closer to twenty. I wasn't so much fascinated with the badness as terribly depressed, and the stupid childishness of it sort of cheered me up in a comfort-food way. I'll never have those hours back.

[merimask.livejournal.com]

That sounds simply awful...but I understand the guilty-pleasure aspect of it. Charlotte was VERY into Pokemon at one time and we would always watch it together. After a while I actually began to care about what happened to the characters. It was all very silly but compelling at the same time. :-)

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

Battle B'Daman is so pathetic it isn't even worth describing. I've seen a couple of episodes. It's just Beyblade and Yugioh rammed together and then knocked down 5 years in maturity. And the characters all look like they were munchkin-ized.

I put YTV on for the background noise. That's how I see these crappy things.

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Yeek! Sounds horrible, since Yu-Gi-Oh is about as terrible and goofy as anime gets IMO (and something even more juvenile than that would probably make me want to scoop my eyes out with a spoon).

I'm having sympathy pains.

[firegazer.livejournal.com]

Fushigi Yuugi. Better known as the "MIAKA!" "TAMAHOME!" "MIAKA!" "TAMAHOME!" anime. I watched the whole thing, in spite of the cringe-worthy love polygon things and the terrible dialogue. I feel your pain.

Re: I'm having sympathy pains.

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Woo. I've heard about FY and it's badness is legendary. And you watched the whole thing? You brave! :-)

[rumdiculous.livejournal.com]

Now that I think about it, Flame of Recca is actually worse than S-cry-ed. The acting is about the same (hell it's probably the same people) but the story is very stupid. And it's just an ugly anime too. The animation is terrible. At least in S-cry-ed it's...okay the show is still terrible. XD But I swear it's better than Flame of Recca.

Good luck at Pennsic! Try not to strangle the dandies with their headbands. XD

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Flame Of Recca, huh? *writes that one down in the "must avoid" list* Seems I've heard of that one before...it's funny how people either really love or really hate the bad ones. Why is that??

Re: Pennsic... "Huzzah! Another pound for the king!!" Shoot me now. ;-)