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I had an exciting weekend with

realms_of_life, whereupon I did many things. Kind of. We originally were going to go see Narnia on Saturday, but we spent forever looking for a place to eat. We finally settled in at Friday's, which made the cardinal sin of serving appetizers at the same time as the entre. I was not pleased. So we decided to hold off on Narnia until today. In the meantime, there was BATMAN.

We watched Mask of the Phantasm, which I still love, and Under the Hood, which Gabi was gaga over. I will admit I prefer Jason Todd in small doses so this was a darn good movie, with lots of psychological value. Older Joker is still hard to get used to, even if he is his psychotic joking self. It was also surreal to watch a very VIOLENT Batman movie in cartoon form since all the other Batman animations usually aren't as vicious. I also loved Nightwing, but then again Dick is my favorite Batman character. Talia is my favorite female Batman character. But yeah, Under the Hood was a nick kick to the gut. We wisely followed this up with Michael Bourne's Swan Lake. What a pleasant note to end the night on.

As far as Narnia, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I slashed Edmund and Caspian to pieces. But the bit toward the end where Aslan stops being subtle and goes FULL SERMON was a bit hard to take seriously. I really hope our uncontrollable fit of laughter didn't too much disturb the family sitting next to us. I feel bad about that but really! I don't know if I want more Narnia since I know Edmund won't be in the others. And no, that's not a spoiler.

There was also Star Driver, which had the sister episode (that was nice if not completely unsatisfying in fanservice during the loooooooooong baseball scene) and an episode about Kanako's servants, which had an awesome scene with Sugata and Takuto. I won't spoil; I'll just say that Sugata completely read my mind.

Legend of the Legendary Heroes is going to make me cry and Sion and Ryner are SO in love with each other, that is all. I don't want this series to be over next week. They still have so much to resolve. Sigh. Also, this anime really doesn't know how to be subtle. At all.

I have to find some time this week to do my xmas cards.

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I was made very happy by Star Driver 11, and I suspect that the whole series is just a ridiculous guilty pleasure for me now, haha. I'm glad that Sugata is finally starting to do something with himself. I happily await him doing more of this!

Seriously, I loved the talk between Sugata and Head so I was totally expecting for him to do something stupid the whole episode. I spent half of the fight going "But two against one is so unfair!" so I was delighted when Sugata agreed with me. He was so slick about it too. I love the idea of joint piloting the Cybodies. Star Driver is also my guilty pleasure. I expect nothing out of it but fun slash, trio awesomeness and creativity in mech design. I'm good with that.

On an unrelated note, many bloggers are saying the Legend of the Legendary Heroes has more shonen ai overtones than Togainu no Chi, and I have to AGREE with them. orz

Hahaha yeah. I-I can't decide if I want him to have his own Cybody or just combo with Takuto always. And just when I was getting exasperated with Wako's "NO DON'T DO IT" every time he tried to help, haha.

I haven't heard much about Legend of the Legendary Heroes. Though...looking at the ANN page, it looks sort of familiar...:|a Are you enjoying it? I'll totes check it out if you think it's worthwhile. \o\

I like Wako, I do. But her refusal to every let Sugata help (while understandable) makes me want to smack her if just so I can get my slash work-together fix. And yes, it is a hard decision. :|a

Legend has amazing characters and a fairly complex storyline. It is a bit uneven in pacing, with random crank thrown in from time to time and an obsession with lolis. But it has some good tropes and relationship between Sion and Ryner is terribly tragic and almost an inverse Suzaku/Lelouch. Inverse in that the ditzy but sekrit angst Ryner is the one with the power, while hopeful but so completely doomed Sion is the king.