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sara_tanaquil) wrote2011-06-04 10:06 pm
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Day 24 - Favorite anime hero or heroine
Now see, this question is just impossible. Seriously, I'm supposed to be able to pick just one? So, rather than agonize over which hero/heroine of which favorite series we've already discussed to death deserves this honor, I will seize this opportunity to squee about my NEW favorite hero. As of, like, five days ago.
Day 24 - Favorite anime hero or heroine
I tried to read a chapter or two of the manga once a long time ago, and somehow didn't get into it. Who was it who said I should make sure to keep watching up through episode 40 or so if it didn't grab me right away? You guys, it took three episodes. Max. To get from "OK, the art is kind of weird, but the characters are cute, and this Zoro guy seems pretty cool" to "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE ARE ONLY 500 EPISODES, GIVE ME THE NEXT ONE I'M IN WITHDRAWAL RIGHT NOW."
I am currently at episode 39 (in the middle of the Arlong story arc). That number should probably have increased by another ten or so by tomorrow.
The Usopp establishing story was <3, and the Zoro backstory was !;_;, and the Sanji backstory was !!!!!T_T, and the Nami backstory is $*&%#T_T;_;T_T!!!!. Exactly which one of those was the one I was supposed to get addicted by? Because seriously, I can't tell, they were/are all freaking kickass.
Anyway, I love all the characters, and it's entirely possible I might end up with another favorite, but right now I just adore Luffy. I don't even want to slash him with anyone. He's adorable. So happy and bouncy one minute, and totally deadpan when everyone else is freaking out the next, and then there are those rare moments when someone messes with his nakama and he gets PISSED. His Japanese voice actor is made of perfect (they all are, really, but especially his).
This show even makes me love the shounen formula again. I don't think I've watched a true shounen fight show since Rurouni Kenshin. "Don't tell me... it's the XXXXX technique! NO ONE CAN SURVIVE THAT!" I had forgotten its totally absurd charm.
If you are the approximately one other person on my flist who hasn't discovered this series yet, it's streaming on Funimation/Hulu. For a limited time, all the episodes are available -- it's not really clear to me how many will be available once the celebration of episode #500 is over, but whatever. Run, don't walk, etc.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to watch another couple of episodes before bed. I'm sure I can fit in at least one after breakfast, and another over lunch hour.
[And I have no doubt at all that I have much yet to learn, but please, I am entirely One Piece spoiler free at the moment! So, NO SPOILERS past episode 40! Remember that span tags don't work in the comments.]
Day 24 - Favorite anime hero or heroine
I tried to read a chapter or two of the manga once a long time ago, and somehow didn't get into it. Who was it who said I should make sure to keep watching up through episode 40 or so if it didn't grab me right away? You guys, it took three episodes. Max. To get from "OK, the art is kind of weird, but the characters are cute, and this Zoro guy seems pretty cool" to "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE ARE ONLY 500 EPISODES, GIVE ME THE NEXT ONE I'M IN WITHDRAWAL RIGHT NOW."
I am currently at episode 39 (in the middle of the Arlong story arc). That number should probably have increased by another ten or so by tomorrow.
The Usopp establishing story was <3, and the Zoro backstory was !;_;, and the Sanji backstory was !!!!!T_T, and the Nami backstory is $*&%#T_T;_;T_T!!!!. Exactly which one of those was the one I was supposed to get addicted by? Because seriously, I can't tell, they were/are all freaking kickass.
Anyway, I love all the characters, and it's entirely possible I might end up with another favorite, but right now I just adore Luffy. I don't even want to slash him with anyone. He's adorable. So happy and bouncy one minute, and totally deadpan when everyone else is freaking out the next, and then there are those rare moments when someone messes with his nakama and he gets PISSED. His Japanese voice actor is made of perfect (they all are, really, but especially his).
This show even makes me love the shounen formula again. I don't think I've watched a true shounen fight show since Rurouni Kenshin. "Don't tell me... it's the XXXXX technique! NO ONE CAN SURVIVE THAT!" I had forgotten its totally absurd charm.
If you are the approximately one other person on my flist who hasn't discovered this series yet, it's streaming on Funimation/Hulu. For a limited time, all the episodes are available -- it's not really clear to me how many will be available once the celebration of episode #500 is over, but whatever. Run, don't walk, etc.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to watch another couple of episodes before bed. I'm sure I can fit in at least one after breakfast, and another over lunch hour.
[And I have no doubt at all that I have much yet to learn, but please, I am entirely One Piece spoiler free at the moment! So, NO SPOILERS past episode 40! Remember that span tags don't work in the comments.]
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Having now met T******, I have to agree 100%. Could she have amnesia, perhaps? The implication seems so obvious that I'm surprised that it hasn't been resolved (apparently, from what you say) in any of the 500+ episodes so far.
Also, on a random other-spoilery tangent, I wonder (but don't tell me!) if it's SUPPOSED to be screamingly obvious that Luffy is Gold Roger's reincarnation, or something along those lines? I don't know, maybe I've just been watching too much Kyou Kara Maoh and/or Fushigi Yuugi. But after the beginning of the Loguetown arc, it seems like they might as well hang a neon sign around Luffy's neck.
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On the other hand, there are bigger mysteries, like the other thing you've mentioned, where it's more like a giant puzzle, and we get pieces to it on a regular basis; small parts of the puzzle get solved, but new unsolved sections appear, and the overall picture just keeps on getting more and more interesting =)
Ah, when you get more caught up, maybe I'll have to dust off some of my old articles on some of my theories^^ (<3 this show so much)