You Are Not a Flower in Hell

I'm kind of disappointed that I missed toku_holidays this year. Not only do I enjoy getting other writers to write stuff like 80s sentai crossovers with yellow ranger femslash, but I also kinda enjoyed writing stuff that other people might like seeing just as much. So, in lue of that, this year I'm gonna open up requests. So...

Post your fic wish list here! The list can be long or short, with general or more specific requests. Wish and maybe be surprised. Nothing is expected in return for fulfilled requests, and don't expect me to actually fulfill any, though I'll try. ^^

OK to request: All pairings and also genfic.
Don't bother: I don't do lemons, and rarely anything above a "teen" rating.
Fandoms: Maskman, all sentai Turboranger through Go-Onger excluding Dairanger, all Power Rangers seasons, Tomica Hero Rescue Force, W.I.T.C.H., Winx Club, Code Lyoko, Jimmy Neutron, Higurashi, Umineko, Sailormoon, Urusei Yatsura, Digimon, Pokemon, Gakuen Alice. (Note: This was just a quick list, if there's something you know I'm familar with that's not on it, go ahead and ask.)

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On my mp3 player, the song OK! (3rd Japanese pokemon op) came up followed by the Kamen Rider Ryuki op, and I just realized that they were both sung my the same person. That would be Matsumoto Rica, who is also the voice of Satoshi (Ash). Heh, I love her so much. <3 By the way she also played Sasami and Tenchi's karaoke obsessed mom in the Pretty Sammy OVAs. One of them ended with a song sung by her about gay love breaking her heart. It was pretty funny.

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Team Rocket disguised as Team Rocket = BEST DISGUISES EVER. For real.

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fuck people

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Despite all of the ZOMG Mikan kissing Natsume/Ruka moments in this volume, in the end my OTP shines brightest:



Mikan&Hotaru married! And Hotaru was the one to write it in, at that! Though at the start of the series seemed all Mikan->Hotaru one-sidedness, yeah, there's been several moments like this showing that for sure that's not the case. <3 Like earlier in this volume when Hotaru tried to poison Ruka for the kissing buisness. I know the fandom will use Hotaru's attempted murder as evidence of the Hotaru/Ruka (not that they even like it, just that it leaves room for their beloved Natsume/Mikan) BUT BE REALISTIC. Ruka was touching her Mikan. XD

Also funny how anything involving the Mikan/Natsume/Ruka love triangle turns into Natsume/Ruka. Like the scene with Mikan holding hands with the boys, and the first sentence of this entry....

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So, more Higurashi anime after all? XD

The PSP game Ookamikakushi, which was released exactly a month ago, was created and directed by Ryukushi07 of 07-Expansion, known for the Higurashi and Umineko games. Of course it might not ever get an English translation, but there will an anime adaptation, as soon as January 2010!

Looking at the short summary, it seems very similar to Higurashi. New boy in a suspicious small town with weird traditions. And the same as Higurashi, it even takes place in 1983. I don't know much more than that, but I'll just wait and see. *adds to "plan to watch" list*

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CrunchyRoll picked up Koihime†Musou as its latest license. What's the community's reaction? Is it complaining about actual the quality of the show? Well, some posts do politely mention they gave the show a try and it wasn't their thing. Others, though:

"STOP UPLOADING YURI!!!! either upload some yaoi or at the least a shonen-ai to appease the opposite sex and be FAIR...or....STOP UPLOADING IT!!!!!!! im so sick of all these disgusting yuri anime being uploaded >_<"

"I am so damn tried of CR just put up Yuri. What about Yaoi? It's totally not fair this site is turn to the spike tv of anime site. After while they gonna be posting Hard Core Hentai. Why don't you just hang sign saying boy only.:fury:"

Okay, wow. >.> And that's just on the first page of comments. I wanted to find out if they'd also be posting simucasts for the upcoming season, but I just can't go any farther. So only guys watch yuri? And it's disgusting? And it will lead to hardcore hentai being posted? So much fail. But as for the actual show in question...

Koihime is not really a yuri anime. It's eechi, with so much fanservice you'd hardly believe it. There are some yuri bits, but I didn't even remember them when considering if I wanted to watch the second season or not. From what I remember, there's about two separate occasions of new characters crushing on our main character, and then she's like "But I'm not like that, really!" Don't watch it for the yuri, watch it for the neverending moe and fanservice. It's not "disgusting yuri", but at times it might be disgusting something. >.> There's nothing really disgusting about current yuri titles on the site, either. (Well, Haruka in is pretty sleazy in Kanamemo, but she doesn't get away with too much, and it's kind of funny, so...)

As for why isn't there more yaoi, zomg? First of all, understand that CrunchyRoll's main appeal is quick access to current series through simucasts. Taking a quick look at this season's anime, and last summer's anime... I don't think that there's any series that can really be considered "yaoi" or "shounen ai" if you prefer. The lack of your boy's love is not on crunchyroll's end, but because there aren't really any current shounen-ai series to pick up. As for cr only picking up stuff aimed at guys, um, what about Hanasakeru Seishonen? It's shoujo, with lots of bishounen fanservice. It might not be that great, but neither is Koihime. :p

Ug, fandom. You never change. And please don't blame things on fangirls. If crunchyroll had a string of shounen-ai and other "girly shows" I bet the fanboys would be just an obnoxious, if not more so.

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I knew it was going to have a silly plot and be mostly fanservice like episode 1 of Rei, but I wasn't expecting such a fun and cracky episode.

They even played Mahjong. Apparently Rena figured out how to play by reading Mahjong-themed manga. I can't figure out anything by watching Saki, but that's just me.

"Akasaka's hand is really pretty. That means he'll get a lot of points!" - Hanyuu

Yeah, I understand it about as well as Hanyuu. XD

( Unexpected yuri crack pairing time! XD )

Now there's no more Higurashi anime, though. :( Oh well, at least I have the original games/sound novels to look forward to reading, as the translations for those will trickle through in time...

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A short list of Fall 2009 season anime I'll be following.

Definite:

Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu: Purezza
The opposite of Densha Otoko -- the pretty girl is the otaku. I saw the first season. Nothing I'd say is spectacular but it was pretty cute. Good enough that I'd want to see the continuation, anyway.

Sasameki Koto (Whispered Words)
Um, I don't don't much about it, but it's yuri? Continuing the current yuri trend in anime.

To Aru Kagaku Kagaku no Choudenjibou (A Certain Scientific Railgun)
Oh, heck yes. :D This is not the sequel, but the spinoff to To Aru Majutsu no Index, what I would consider to be the best anime of this year and last year, despite being somewhat of a harem anime. This spinoff focuses on one of the major characters and gets rid of the harem anime themes. REALLY looking forward to this one.

Maybe:

Kobato
It's based on a CLAMP manga, and I like CLAMP, but the synopsis doesn't really do it for me. I'll give it a few episodes, though.

Inu-Yasha Final Act
I need to finish the first series, first. So, if I happen to finish it this season.... But I doubt I will.

Shin Koihime†Musou
Um, I watched the first season and... It was pretty terrible. But I liked the two main characters. You know, forget it, I'm not watching this one. >.> I watched the OVA and it even more terrible than the TV series... It was a freaking high school AU! Ik ik ik. I may change my mind if I'm bored though, so this is still a maybe.

Continuing from last season:
Umineko no Naku Koro Ni / Element Hunters / Needless

Continuing from last season, but currently on hold for me:
Fresh Precure / Kemono no Souja Erin

Anime I've been following that are ending soon:
Aoihana / Kanamemo / Saki / Princess Lover / Yokuwakaru Gendai Mahou

This is my last idle day... Maybe I'll use the opportunity to try and catch up with some of these.

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Title: Finite Destiny (index at chapter 1)
Chapter 2/8: Games
Fandom: Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (When They Cry)
Focus: Rika/Rei!Satoko
Theme: #21: Square (otp_100)
Summary: Mion's new club has its first meeting, and Satoko notices that Rika continues to act strangely.
Word Count: 2,124
Notes: Rather than rewrite all of Rei, I have a slight time skip over known events.

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( I kind of love Rescue Force... )

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Title: Finite Destiny
Chapter 1/8: Seed
Fandom: Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (When They Cry)
Focus: Rika/Rei!Satoko
Theme: #38: Seed (otp_100)
Summary: Rika's implications of love are rejected and discarded by Satoko, helping plant the seeds for something else entirely.
Word Count: 3,961 (whole fic) 1,567 (chapter)
Notes: The beginning of my AU of Higurashi Rei. This uses events of Higurashi Rei, but branches away from canon at the end. It does not go along with background we have about the series before Rei, and will end up going against canon. That's why it's an AU.

Chapter Index: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

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Title: Possible Peril
Fandom: Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (When They Cry)
Focus: Rei!Rika/Rei!Satoko
Theme: #57: Ex-Friends (otp_100)
Summary: Satoko doesn't know who she can really count on.
Word Count: 834
Notes: Takes place pre-series for Higurashi Rei, in the "perfect" world. So yep, this isn't the usual Rika and Satoko.

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It seems like yuri is a current anime trend. The following is a very short list of current anime I've been watching with some yuri themes. I have a review for each, but manage to avoid major spoilers, as I'm mostly just talking about the yuri content thereof.

( Kanamemo -- Canon yuri in your face, no drama or subtext required. )

( Aoihana, yuri romance drama. )

( Saki, Mahjong-playing lesbians. )

( Yokuwakaru Gendaimahou, yeah, it's just subtext. )

( Needless... Where did that ending theme fit in, again? )

So there's the yuri post. Coming up next will be a post on Element Hunters and why I actually like it.

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( Slight spoilers for the anime up to episode 9... )

( Major spoilers for the sound novels up to arc 4. )

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Title: In the Alternate Mirror
Fandom: Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (When They Cry)
Focus: Rika/Satoko
Theme: #32: Feelings (otp_100)
Summary: While grieving the loss of the familiar Satoko, Rika gets a lecture meant for the unfamiliar Rika.
Word Count: 698
Notes: Takes place during Rei's story arc, in the "perfect" world.

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First of all, I finished Jetman, and....

( Spoilers for the very, very end of Jetman. )

( Who in Jetman is asexual? Plus a tangent. )

As for Flashman, Supornova is being really speedy with the new episodes. ^_^ We're already to 3.

( Possible spoilers for episode 3. )

And lastly, I've also started watching Dekaranger again. I forget what episode I left off on, so I just started watching from the start. I decided to watch my DVD version. HUGE mistake, and I only realized why after finishing the first disk.

I didn't know about TV-Nihon when Dekaranger was on, so I had started buying the HK version, same as I had with Abaranger the year before. I never got into Deka the same I did for Aba or any previous series though, and there might be a reason. The subs are worse than nothing at all. Allow me to share.

( Spoilers for up to Dekaranger 4, if you can even figure out what's going on from this translation. )

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I've been watching Jetman. The way things are going, I'll probably finish it this weekend, too. A few thoughts.

I'd heard a long time ago, can't provide the source, that Jetman was a romance themed sentai because they were running out of ideas. (Yep, and now nearly two decades later...) I thought, come on, it's not like sentai never had romance in it before, take Maskman's own romance plot. How can it really be described as the "romance sentai"?

Then I watched it. Okay, nm. Jetman really is best described as the "romance sentai." It involves romance in everything, there's even a love triangle that becomes a major part of the story. It's essentially the Marmalade Boy of sentai. Shoujo manga fans will be pleased! (Hi, sakura!)

Which is not to say it's not GOOD romance, or not a good series. It's great, and I'm really enjoying it. So far I think it exceeds in nearly everything it tries to do. The romance doesn't really take away any from the action portions, either. Nor does it take anything away from the girls. It's also one of the few pre-2000 sentai that have been subbed in entirety, so there's really no reason NOT to watch it. So I recommend it if you hadn't seen it already.

And a random note. One of the things I noticed when I had the series on VHS (episodes 1-10 only) is that you don't really want to be alone in Jetman. The monsters of the week attacked people alone in a room and safe at home more than anywhere else. That trend has lessened in later episodes though, heh.

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Crossposting has never been easier. Using the dw crosspost tool, I found out that editing the entry from dw will also edit it at all places it's been crossposted to. Since the annoyance of editing on multiple sites was the main reason I stopped crossposting before, I've decided to do it again now, both at my nomadskye lj and nomadskye ij. I just reposted my last five entries on both sites, sorry for anyone whose FL was spammed, I didn't realize it wouldn't backdate. D:

I'm still disabling comments so that people have to come to DW if they want to comment, since I'm still using it for my main blog, and would kind of like all discussion in the same place. By the way, open id isn't difficult.

( Open ID for dummies... )

So yeah, that's how you do it. If for whatever reason you want a local dreamwidth account, I have many extra invite codes and would be very willing to share, so just PM me or otherwise contact me and ask. ^^

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I know I already posted this on twitter. When signing into rangerboard to find RPM DL links, I found out that the first episode of Flashman has been fansubbed. Rangerboard link, fansubber blog link, and DW rss feed, supornova_feed.

I decided to watch it, just because, I actually have time this week. :p And wow. I think I'm already in love. Before watching this, Flashman was one of the few sentai I hadn't seen, even in part. (And now the only one is Denjiman... I know my watch list shows more than that at 0/whatever, but that's because it's either been so long or the episodes were random, so when I start watching it I might as well take it from the top.)

So yeah. Flashman. Not much I can say from just one episode. Other than yay, five warriors who grew up and trained in space to come back to Earth and fight evil furries! :D And of said evil furries....


The lead villainess is played by Hagiwara Sayoko, aka Tachibana Rei/DynaPink. *FANGIRLS*

I just have a really good feeling about this series. I like the main five so far as well, even though there's not much to say just from the intro episode, other than Sara is really cute, but at the same time not really vulnerable!cute, if you get what I'm saying. Lou seems like the tough girl of the series, but not really a cold and distant tough girl. So possibly, they're Sakura and Natsuki/Mako and Kotoha two decades before and at least two times better than either duo.... Yeah, I probably shouldn't have, but I went there! :D Also, the boys seem pretty likable.

( I love Lou/PinkFlash's pretty boot weapons. )

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