Me - I really want to go to Japan. Fancy coming too?
Elle - I heard they have black widows there, which scares me a little.
Me - They also have over 100 active volcanoes, regular earthquakes and a very high suicide rate.
Elle - Suicide? But I thought Japan was a happy place.
Me - Apparently the Japanese don't think so. I guess its all the volcanoes, earthquakes and deadly spiders.
Elle - Wow loving your hard sell here, Miss B. Japan is seeming more attractive by the minute.
<3 x
Sunday 30 May 2010
Wednesday 26 May 2010
NOT ABOUT CCS OR TSUBASA
... This post is lamenting the end of LOST.
I have been hooked on this show for 6 years. From September 2004 until Monday morning, I always knew that I had another episode to look forward to. This is no more.
I watched the very first episode eagerly after seeing the frankly amazing Channel 4 UK promo, where the characters were dancing amidst the wreckage of a plane on a beach. To begin with, I was just mildly intrigued. Then I saw Dominic Monaghan, with whom I had exercised a mild obsession with ever since Lord of the Rings, and I knew then that I wouldn't miss this show for the world.
The first two seasons were aired on terrestrial TV, and so I would watch each episode at least 4 times, taking full advantage of E4's First Look and +1. Then it went to Sky, and I discovered advert free Lost, which was even more amazing.
I dubbed myself a Lost Loser, and have stuck to that ever since. I enjoy Lost themed music more than current music. I read Lost reaction blogs. The numbers are etched into my head for all eternity. I even have two Lost related t-shirts, even if one now only says 'ost ser' as various letters have worn away. Even though it got very ridiculous towards the end, it has still remained my favourite TV show of all time, and I doubt that will change any time soon. I'm a firm believer that no matter how many times you see an episode of Lost, every single time you will find some new meaning, notice something you haven't noticed before. Also, retrospect will be an interesting point.
However, the finale was not as good as I had hoped. Yes it was sad, and yes, it tied up all the important loose ends nicely, but to me, it cant compare with the previous season finales. I felt sad, I hugged my pj's, I fangirled and reminisced over the characters who reappeared after having died a long time ago, but did I cry? Like properly tears-rolling-down-cheeks-and-sobbing-uncontrollably crying? No.
I wanted to mourn the end of my favourite TV show by being inconsolable for at least half an hour.
None the less, I look forward to buying the DVD box set and watching the whole series again and again. And again.
<3x
I have been hooked on this show for 6 years. From September 2004 until Monday morning, I always knew that I had another episode to look forward to. This is no more.
I watched the very first episode eagerly after seeing the frankly amazing Channel 4 UK promo, where the characters were dancing amidst the wreckage of a plane on a beach. To begin with, I was just mildly intrigued. Then I saw Dominic Monaghan, with whom I had exercised a mild obsession with ever since Lord of the Rings, and I knew then that I wouldn't miss this show for the world.
The first two seasons were aired on terrestrial TV, and so I would watch each episode at least 4 times, taking full advantage of E4's First Look and +1. Then it went to Sky, and I discovered advert free Lost, which was even more amazing.
I dubbed myself a Lost Loser, and have stuck to that ever since. I enjoy Lost themed music more than current music. I read Lost reaction blogs. The numbers are etched into my head for all eternity. I even have two Lost related t-shirts, even if one now only says 'ost ser' as various letters have worn away. Even though it got very ridiculous towards the end, it has still remained my favourite TV show of all time, and I doubt that will change any time soon. I'm a firm believer that no matter how many times you see an episode of Lost, every single time you will find some new meaning, notice something you haven't noticed before. Also, retrospect will be an interesting point.
However, the finale was not as good as I had hoped. Yes it was sad, and yes, it tied up all the important loose ends nicely, but to me, it cant compare with the previous season finales. I felt sad, I hugged my pj's, I fangirled and reminisced over the characters who reappeared after having died a long time ago, but did I cry? Like properly tears-rolling-down-cheeks-and-sobbing-uncontrollably crying? No.
I wanted to mourn the end of my favourite TV show by being inconsolable for at least half an hour.
None the less, I look forward to buying the DVD box set and watching the whole series again and again. And again.
<3x
Monday 17 May 2010
Statistics
I just wanted to share this.
I have watched 197 episodes and three movies of Cardcaptor Sakura and Tsubasa combined from the 18th March to 6th May. That is a total of 101 hours and 45 mins in exactly 50 days.
I have read 233 chapters of Tsubasa from 6th May to 17th May. I dont know how many hours it took me, but in 11 days, it was a lot.
<3 x
I have watched 197 episodes and three movies of Cardcaptor Sakura and Tsubasa combined from the 18th March to 6th May. That is a total of 101 hours and 45 mins in exactly 50 days.
I have read 233 chapters of Tsubasa from 6th May to 17th May. I dont know how many hours it took me, but in 11 days, it was a lot.
<3 x
The end of an era
So, I just came on here to feed my fish at the bottom of the page (Yes I know they aren't real, I have a lot of free time, okay?) and thought I would document the fact that I have finished Tsubasa.
According to this blog, I started Cardcaptors on the 18th March, watched all of that series and the movies dubbed, and then again subbed, and then moved on to Tsubasa, and then I read the manga. Right at the beginning of that journey, I had watched the first episode of Tsubasa, and had made myself watch all of Cardcaptor Sakura before watching it again. That's one day short of TWO WHOLE MONTHS in which the majority of my spare time has been devoted to emersing myself in the CLAMP (the authors) multiverse. Now I'm feeling a little bit lost. Its like Nanowrimo all over again; you spend a huge amount of time devoted to one thing, and then when its over, it leaves you feeling at a bit of a loose end.
Not that there isn't plenty of things I could, or rather should be doing. I have designs to do for the TV show, research to do into setting up my own business, hell, I could even actually finish my nano novel.
Or I might rewatch the Tsubasa anime, or start xxxholic or Chobits, or other some other anime/manga.
I'm not too good with that productivity thing.
Oh, and in case you were wondering what my final impression was of Tsubasa (lets face it, you aren't, but I'm going to tell you anyway) I loved it. Parts were so heart-breakingly sad to the point that I was in tears for entire chapters, namely Fai and Kurogane's back stories. Other parts were so funny that I was laughing out loud, such as Fai, Sakura and Syaoran getting drunk to the point that Fai and Sakura were pretending to be cats, and Syaoran was convinced a ladle and then his gloves were his sword. Yes, it got crazily confusing towards the end, but I think it explained it in the end perfectly well, you just had to be patient. But mostly, I enjoyed the mis-en-scene of it (yay for utilising my A level in media studies). The character design and costumes were amazing. If only I had that amount of creative talent.
I really wish they would restart the anime, because it seems such a shame that they have left the main part of the story untold in that media, and I find the fight sequences so much easier to understand in anime rather than manga form.
I also wish that I had a spare £150 + lying around so I could buy the books and the DVD's, but no such luck!
<3
PS- I have just read through this post, and YES, I FULLY APPRECIATE HOW MUCH OF A LOSER I SOUND. But hey, it makes me happy.
According to this blog, I started Cardcaptors on the 18th March, watched all of that series and the movies dubbed, and then again subbed, and then moved on to Tsubasa, and then I read the manga. Right at the beginning of that journey, I had watched the first episode of Tsubasa, and had made myself watch all of Cardcaptor Sakura before watching it again. That's one day short of TWO WHOLE MONTHS in which the majority of my spare time has been devoted to emersing myself in the CLAMP (the authors) multiverse. Now I'm feeling a little bit lost. Its like Nanowrimo all over again; you spend a huge amount of time devoted to one thing, and then when its over, it leaves you feeling at a bit of a loose end.
Not that there isn't plenty of things I could, or rather should be doing. I have designs to do for the TV show, research to do into setting up my own business, hell, I could even actually finish my nano novel.
Or I might rewatch the Tsubasa anime, or start xxxholic or Chobits, or other some other anime/manga.
I'm not too good with that productivity thing.
Oh, and in case you were wondering what my final impression was of Tsubasa (lets face it, you aren't, but I'm going to tell you anyway) I loved it. Parts were so heart-breakingly sad to the point that I was in tears for entire chapters, namely Fai and Kurogane's back stories. Other parts were so funny that I was laughing out loud, such as Fai, Sakura and Syaoran getting drunk to the point that Fai and Sakura were pretending to be cats, and Syaoran was convinced a ladle and then his gloves were his sword. Yes, it got crazily confusing towards the end, but I think it explained it in the end perfectly well, you just had to be patient. But mostly, I enjoyed the mis-en-scene of it (yay for utilising my A level in media studies). The character design and costumes were amazing. If only I had that amount of creative talent.
I really wish they would restart the anime, because it seems such a shame that they have left the main part of the story untold in that media, and I find the fight sequences so much easier to understand in anime rather than manga form.
I also wish that I had a spare £150 + lying around so I could buy the books and the DVD's, but no such luck!
<3
PS- I have just read through this post, and YES, I FULLY APPRECIATE HOW MUCH OF A LOSER I SOUND. But hey, it makes me happy.
Sunday 9 May 2010
I need to blog more often ... TL;DR
I have been meaning to post something on here for a while, but didn't really have anything new to say. Then I realised this is my blog; a place where I can write about what is going on in my life and what is important to me at this moment in time.
So that's what I'm going to do.
In my head, there are always two thing that are at the forefront of my mind and most important to me (not counting family, obviously*). The first is my obsession of the moment. The other is adventure playgrounds.
Let me explain the latter. When I was little, we used to pass this really cool looking playground on the way to my Gran's house, and every time we passed it, I would say 'Can we go there one day?'. The response was always 'Maybe, one day.' I don't remember ever going there. Therefore, I have always had an insatiable love for playgrounds.
Last week, when I was staying in Yeovil with my sister, we went for a walk at Nine Springs, and there, we came across the most awesome playground I have ever been in!
So, there was a pirate ship, a swing thing, a weighing thing, a swirly thing, and all sorts of other cool things.
Have some photos.
The weighing thing was really depressing at first, because it was weighted on one side, so whoever was on that side looked a lot heavier. Obviously, this side was the one I went on. Then we swapped, so my sister was on the heavy side, and it made us equal. At the time, I was appeased. I don't know why though; it still meant I was heavier!
I love how in the back of that picture, you can see my sister's boyfriend quite obviously really wanting a go on the seesaw horsey thing. He obviously thought someone should act grown up, what with my sister and I running around giggling like 5 year olds, and my dad sat in the train thing.
The swirly thing you sat in, and then the other person pulled it around so you went upside down and right over. If you closed your eyes, you could pretend you were in a washing machine.
So yeah, it was awesome. Split my jeans though.
In my last post, I said 'So now, I'm on to Tsubasa. I have read up a lot on how confusing this is going to turn out to be, and how the anime doesn't make any sense whatsoever...'. Having finished the anime, I just wanted to say how I got on.
It ended much quicker than i had thought, as I was expecting basically four series; Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle with two seasons, followed by Tokyo Revelations and then Shunraiki. So I got to the end of series 2, which was just starting to get really interesting, to find out that the Tokyo Revelations and Shunraiki weren't so much seasons, as 'specials' (OVA's). By this point, I kind of knew what was going to happen, due to my annoying habit of researching ahead of myself, so I didn't really understand how the story could get through all of what was to come in what turns out to be 5 episodes.
It didn't.
I didn't feel too lost, having not read the manga, but I think you need to appreciate that the two seasons are separate from the two OVA's, which were more like extras for fans of the manga. Tokyo Revelations went back to half way through season 2, and went along the manga's plot rather than its own little deviation, so you have to imagine half a season didn't happen. Shunraiki is even more confusing in that it jumps ahead, assuming that you have read the manga to know where the story has been. Its like a series that has been axed, and the OVA's are Easter eggs on the special edition DVD.
Really, I think it was an excellent marketing tool. You get hooked on the anime, and then when it stops, giving you tantalising hints of whats going to happen, you go out and buy the manga, just to keep the story from ending.
Too bad for Clamp you can read it all online. Which is what I'm doing right now!
Okay, I think I should stop writing now. Congratulations if you have made it to the end. Wasn't really worth it, was it?
<3 x
* My friends count as my family - some more so than my actual family.
So that's what I'm going to do.
In my head, there are always two thing that are at the forefront of my mind and most important to me (not counting family, obviously*). The first is my obsession of the moment. The other is adventure playgrounds.
Let me explain the latter. When I was little, we used to pass this really cool looking playground on the way to my Gran's house, and every time we passed it, I would say 'Can we go there one day?'. The response was always 'Maybe, one day.' I don't remember ever going there. Therefore, I have always had an insatiable love for playgrounds.
Last week, when I was staying in Yeovil with my sister, we went for a walk at Nine Springs, and there, we came across the most awesome playground I have ever been in!
So, there was a pirate ship, a swing thing, a weighing thing, a swirly thing, and all sorts of other cool things.
Have some photos.
The weighing thing was really depressing at first, because it was weighted on one side, so whoever was on that side looked a lot heavier. Obviously, this side was the one I went on. Then we swapped, so my sister was on the heavy side, and it made us equal. At the time, I was appeased. I don't know why though; it still meant I was heavier!I love how in the back of that picture, you can see my sister's boyfriend quite obviously really wanting a go on the seesaw horsey thing. He obviously thought someone should act grown up, what with my sister and I running around giggling like 5 year olds, and my dad sat in the train thing.
The swirly thing you sat in, and then the other person pulled it around so you went upside down and right over. If you closed your eyes, you could pretend you were in a washing machine.So yeah, it was awesome. Split my jeans though.
In my last post, I said 'So now, I'm on to Tsubasa. I have read up a lot on how confusing this is going to turn out to be, and how the anime doesn't make any sense whatsoever...'. Having finished the anime, I just wanted to say how I got on.
It ended much quicker than i had thought, as I was expecting basically four series; Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle with two seasons, followed by Tokyo Revelations and then Shunraiki. So I got to the end of series 2, which was just starting to get really interesting, to find out that the Tokyo Revelations and Shunraiki weren't so much seasons, as 'specials' (OVA's). By this point, I kind of knew what was going to happen, due to my annoying habit of researching ahead of myself, so I didn't really understand how the story could get through all of what was to come in what turns out to be 5 episodes.
It didn't.
I didn't feel too lost, having not read the manga, but I think you need to appreciate that the two seasons are separate from the two OVA's, which were more like extras for fans of the manga. Tokyo Revelations went back to half way through season 2, and went along the manga's plot rather than its own little deviation, so you have to imagine half a season didn't happen. Shunraiki is even more confusing in that it jumps ahead, assuming that you have read the manga to know where the story has been. Its like a series that has been axed, and the OVA's are Easter eggs on the special edition DVD.
Really, I think it was an excellent marketing tool. You get hooked on the anime, and then when it stops, giving you tantalising hints of whats going to happen, you go out and buy the manga, just to keep the story from ending.
Too bad for Clamp you can read it all online. Which is what I'm doing right now!
Okay, I think I should stop writing now. Congratulations if you have made it to the end. Wasn't really worth it, was it?
<3 x
* My friends count as my family - some more so than my actual family.
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