Today is Funeral’s 22nd birthday, and for the past 5 days or so, he’s been cramming down Legend of the Galactic Heroes. 25 episodes in, he’s saying that he’s ‘more into it than he can remember being for anything’ and is already considering it among his top favorite anime of all time. When it came time for my mom, who designs cakes and cookies for all of our birthdays, to make him a birthday cookie, he didn’t even suggest any of his other obsessions throughout the year, such as Inglourious Basterds or Green Lantern, but went straight for Reinhard von Lohengramm. The rest, my friends, is legend.
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Durarara!! episode 2 was like the Boogiepop and Others adaption I’ve always wanted. It’s not so surprising that there would be Boogiepop influence on this story – Boogiepop is like the grandfather of all the Faustian story authors (such as Otsu Ichi, NISIOISIN, Tatsuhiko Takimoto, and Kinoko Nasu) and as Andrew Cunningham points out in the comments of the above post, Ryougo Narita is no exception to the crowd. But this isn’t just an example of influence – this episode completely felt like a chapter of Boogiepop, through and through, perhaps even more so than the actual Boogiepop Phantom anime. This is it! The top 10! We’re almost at the end of “100 Characters For 100 Otaku!!!” I think it’s pretty funny how the fairly even if not somewhat male-dominated list took a sudden shift in the top thirty to being most women, hehe. Let’s see if the trend continues as we dive into 10 down through 6! We’re three-fourths of the way through “100 Characters For 100 Otaku!” Originally, the series was only going to be five posts long, with each containing twenty entries! I quickly realized this was not possible when I started writing the first post in my notebook, and decided to shorten it to ten posts, but once I transferred it to the computer, I knew it would have to be twenty! Today’s quarry are numbers 30 down through 26, so let’s check ‘em out! Can you believe it’s been two whole weeks since “100 Characters For 100 Otaku” began? Neither can I! But it’s still a’runnin and heading on towards the finale! We’ve still got a good week more before that, though, so keep on stickin’ around! Today we have numbers 35 down through 31 to play with, so let’s get into it! Long ago, on his LiveJournal, Cunningham made some very insightful and interesting notes on the importance of a translator and the difference between translating and editing. It’s a must-read in my opinion, especially for light novel and video game fans – the last paragraph in particular being something that I cite often. I am reposting this both to spread the word on this as well as to have an easy citation source as opposed to an impossible-to-find livejournal entry. Yukiteru, the main character, is a middle school student who is fine with being a loner. He considers himself merely a spectator to the world and takes logs of everything he sees around him in a diary on his cell phone. He enjoys talking with his imaginary friend, Deus ex Machina (pictured above) who is essentially god, and visits him in his room alongside his loli servant Muru Muru. Deus randomly decides one day that he wants to create a fun gave in which he will collect 12 people who like to keep cell phone diaries and change those diaries into ‘future diaries’. Each of the future diary holders must seek out and kill the others by destroying their phones, thereby destroying them, and the last person standing will take Deus’ throne as god. |
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