tempestuously | Nayami and her Saturday mornings

The Yugioh episodes today made me so happy for some reason. Though, the Varon vs. Otogi and Rebecca was the best. That surprised me since it was the Kaiba vs. Amelda that I was looking forward to. It was just so adorable to watch Varon trying to impress Mai. I don't care if the American VA makes Varon sound like an Aussie, he's really good at capturing Varon's smitten attitude around Mai. I went "awww" several times. "Aww, he's going to kill the kids just for her. That's ADORABLE." Yeah, I have issues. And his voice when she leaves after the fight, "Hey, Mai, where ya going?" I felt so bad for the poor thing. As for the first part of the fight I've been waiting for for weeks, Amelda's American VA likes to deliver his lines like a gay man. He's more flamboyant than the Japanese Amelda. Kaiba and Mokuba had some cute lines there too. Tom loved Mokuba's scream when the plane was about to hit the mountain. I melted into fangirl glee at Amelda's flirtatious "Hellooo. Did you forget about me?" But they made Kaiba too pissy when it came to being around the children. I know it's hard for American writers to believe but although Kaiba is an asshole to everyone, he really does enjoy being around and making children happy. Some side effect of having a crap childhood. The American version of this scene made him too vicious. At least he was still sweet around the Mokuba-clone.

Shaman King was cute but I was surprised that Choco doubted Yoh for even a moment. Of course Ren was totally confident in Yoh's goodness. *snugs Ren* But next ep Hao is going to tempt Ren to join the dark side. Oh noes! The love spats between Yoh and Lyserg are equally amusing but Lyserg is still a bitch for hanging with the X-Laws.

I have some freakish desire to do Yugioh slash fic recommendations because I read some weird stuff and I'm trying to figure out why that is. It would probably be a combination of rec and review but not outright bashing like I usually do, more like picking pluses and minuses of each fic. Whether they fall into traps and make Kaiba an angel, turn Mokuba into a bastard, or give the yami halves their own bodies. Stuff like that. Since I won't be going to Phantom again until later, I have some time.