Memoirs of the Angst-Bitch

Your Awesome Quote of Day: "I knew it was going to be bad. Look, I broke my lucky cigarette!"

I think if you're going to bash emoticons, you should also bash the Net speak. It's only fair. I am freakin' tired of seeing this come up during the comments on f_w. >___< Stoopid hors!

Another thing I tire of, people saying other people watch Naruto because it's popular. Popularity spreads interest yes since it gets the word out there. For some easily-swayed, popularity may be enough to start an addiction. But sometimes, people actually like the show! I didn't get into Naruto until somewhere near the end of the chuunin arc, despite knowing how popular it was, and really only tried it on a whim because it was at Pandora's and I have a birthday coming up. Then there was Sasuke. End of story. I know I bash Inuyasha until I'm blue in the face, but I don't rant at it for being popular, I rant at it for being pointless (no ending) and for producing so many braindead fangirls that just want to talk about how Seshy is their woobie or jam as many IY-based Mary Sues into every fandom possible. I'm certain there are perfectly sane fans who enjoy the characters or such, but they are vastly outnumbered by the sheer idiocy of the fandom. It's a shame.

I was so happy to see one of my favorite YamiKai fics updated on ffnet only to learn it was just a head-trip chapter and that it hasn't been updated for three months since. I'm not the type to pester people to write or tell them what to write, and it was nice to have something, I just wish that if it was a headtrip chapter, it could have ended with some real-world lines so I have something to hold onto before the inevitable hiatus. Sour grapes. I want more Kaiba.

I completely forgot about uploading my doujinshi previews and since I'm not in the manga mood yet, I guess now's as good a time as any.

I'm thinking about scanning a few. Let me know if there's any you'd be interested in checking out.

EDIT: Revised the summaries since I couldn't remember anything and decided to look them over again.

( Gankutsou )

( Naruto )

( Yugioh )

Went manga-buying again today. Got Yugioh Duelist 13, Yami's first encounter with Osirus. Why they changed Osirus' name to Slifer in the manga is beyond me since they keep all the Japanese names. -_- The bondingtension between Yami and Kaiba in this volume is almost unrivaled.

Favorite Quotes:
-"You are one of the few people I recognize as a duelist. Where's your pride? I won't allow you to lose miserably while I watch."
-"Can't you see it, Yuugi? Our road of battle goes further than the eye can see. Don't tell me you're going to stop here."
-"If God stands in your way, mow him down! Have no regrets!"
-"No one can defeat Yuugi but me."
-"Mokuba, watch closely. This is the power of a true duelist."
-"The God cards choose only the proudest duelists as their owners."
-"If you weren't at my level, it would be pointless to defeat you."
-"Choosing friends over pride."
-"Then come at us as a tag team you pigs. Yuugi and I will pair up."

Right now trying to get GX 75; I hear Kaiba makes a cameo, along with Yuugi's grandfather. He's supposed to be slightly more there in 76. We'll see. But Azureus and Verizon hate each other. I should have opened IRC.

Also got the Gravitation novel. The amazing thing is that it doesn't suck ass. Well, I only read the Yuki/Shuichi parts, but they read very natural. You get to see Shuichi's thoughts so it becomes more than just "YUKI!" "Shut up." "*sobs*" "*grunts*" Their interaction had a sort of depth that existed only in brief pieces in the manga. I actually like Shuichi in this. Yuki's hot/cold manner seems right. Also, it does speak to the question about Yuki's fidelity, with Shuichi admitting that Yuki is his lover but also has some girlfriends on the side. I don't know, the idea of Yuki and Shuichi living together on a week-to-week basis is both sad and understable. Yuki has some real issues he needs to work out that could take a while. Also, hah to the image of Shuichi singing in a port-a-potty and the return of a certain sinister character.

However, one thing about the novel (so far) was BAD and that was Tokyopop's summary for it. And I quote:
"Energetic teenager Shuichi Shindo is the lead singer and songwriter for the smash-hit pop band, Bad Luck. During a break on his premeire tour, Shuichi comes home t see his boyfriend, Eiri Yuki, the famous romance novelist. He finds the apartment empty and the only thing waiting for him is a mysterious, alarming note. Has somethng horrible happened to his lover? Does it have any connection to that gorgeous lady who's been stalking the writer for the past few weeks?

NONE OF THIS HAPPENS IN THE NOVEL! The summary reads like bad fanfiction. Yes, Shuichi's being 19 makes him technically a teenager but after you hit 18, you've more or less hit some form of adulthood. This has to be the worst summary TokyoPop has ever written. Do they even read their stuff?

Other manga acquired include Love Mode 2 (still haven't read 1), Yami no Matsuei 10 (RIKO!) and Banana Fish 12.

I dislike when I try to tell people that I'm having trouble with an IRC channel/server and they reply to me like I'm retarded, telling me how to use IRC or simply repeating the channel words. Grr, what part of "Channel won't load" makes it seem that I'm not using IRC or idling in the channel or whatever.

Bought Duelist 5 and HikaGo 4 today. Duelist 5 is god! I could write my entire Yami/Kaiba analysis using it alone. The slash is far more rampant than in the anime, with Kaiba and Yami both going on about how the fight exhilerates them and with Kaiba explaining how he admires Yami's strategy and why he's the only one that could ever defeat Pegaus and how they are destined to fight each other. Not to mention that it's clear how psychotic Kaiba is in this volume, with his threatening to slam his briefcase closed on Croquet's neck, his gun play, and his honest belief that if he can't save Mokuba, his life means nothing. It's still partially a threat because he knows Yugi and Yami so well, but there's more of a sense of honesty in the manga. You see Kaiba actually standing down Yami's final attack with this totally acceptant expression, just before Yugi intervenes. The whole fight is more intense than the anime. It's the best volume yet, though I only read the First Series Yugioh once and not in such detail as I went through this one. I also found it touching that Mokuba is the one who put the card pendant on Kaiba while he was unconscious. Kaiba was sweeter toward Mokuba at this point in the anime, but in this you see how truly crushed Kaiba is at realizing that he failed his brother in many ways up until this moment. Manga!Kaiba seems more complex in this way than Anime!Kaiba, especially with attempts to recover the missing pieces of his heart. It sounds corny but it's done really well, with child!Kaiba giving hints and death glares.

( Some thoughts on KaiJou and what makes me dislike its fandom while still enjoying the pairing. )

EDIT: Cross-posting KaiJou essay to yugi_fans because I'm some sort of masochist or as quebelly tells me, I'm just no good at making friends.