Exclusive Insanity

tsaiko! I got your card! You didn't sign it, but I cleverly deduced that it was from you. Yes. Cleverly.

Anyway, thank you very much! It's pretty and I feel special now. And I'm reminded that I graduate! Yay!

It's been a good day.

Okay, it was a conversation with V that spawned this... We were talking about female characters we relate to or admire. I started thinking about which females in anime that I actually like, and why. So I decided to post something about it. I picked out five female characters (not necessarily the top five, just five I like for different reasons) and summarized why I like them.

( Luna (Uninhabited Planet Survive) )

( Bisuke (Hunter X Hunter) )

( Haruhi (Ouran High School Host Club) )

( Tohru (Fruits Basket) )

( Ruki (Digimon Tamers) )

( BONUS: The Azumanga Daioh Cast )

( My Seduction Style )

In other news, Tetris is totally working. Woot! It's impossible to win, but it works. I'll be making it so that you can rotate camera angles and look at it from all sides and also from the top, which *might* make it a *little* easier.

I tried enabling the lighting and materials last night, and now all the blocks are black. Haha... I probably screwed up on calculating surface normals or something. But no more work is getting done on that until I finish my philosophy paper.

Almost done...

I'm basically only making a second post today because I've decided I'm going to work on my Philosophy paper in my free time at work and now I want to procrastinate. Whee...

I finished some new (to me) titles by David Eddings a while back, but never bothered to say anything about them because it never occurred to me until now (when I'm looking for stuff to keep me from doing actual work - go figure).

( Random book stuff (minor spoilers) )

I've been doing some random doodles lately, and Cody has suggested that I get a DeviantArt account to host stuff. I figured I might as well, but my usual user names (Aphrael and Silver Thunder) aren't available.

Anyone have a suggestion for a name? I was thinking about going with my FFXI name, Athynn, but I dunno if it's a good one for this.

What he said, because I'm too lazy to come up with my own stuff. I'm not American, but I still pay at least some passing attention to American politics.

I know I have at least one or two American friends who are Republican voters, so watch out for the pro-Democrat in there if you are one of them. Just don't forget to vote on Tuesday. Every person counts.

I can't believe it's Halloween already... Yeesh. Seems like time's going by so fast now.

Ah well. I have a fairly busy day ahead of me - first work, then class, then lab, and then rushing home to get changed into the costume before we head out to the Fun Factor for a party similar to last year's. My camera has film, too, so hopefully I'll get pictures (and yes, I realize I haven't yet posted con pictures. I'll get to it one day...).

I'm dressing up as Kurapika again, mainly because I didn't have time to come up with a new costume - even a simple one. Cody's going as Ed again, too, even though his hair is short now. Yay for originality!

In any case, it'll be fun. I'm looking forward to it all.

My poetry is done, my essay (question set) is pushed back to next week Friday, my midterm isn't until Thursday, and I am free to procrastinate!

Has anyone who is reading this entry read D.Gray-Man? If so, what pairings do you like or dislike? Can you rec me any fanfics? Fanart? Scanlated doujinshi? The pairing doesn't matter; there doesn't even have to be a pairing. I'm up for anything at the moment; I have no preferences.

New series! So to speak.

Okay, so while I was at work, I decided to read some manga online (instead of doing my poetry homework - I know, I'm bad). I kind of debated for a while between Peacemaker Kurogane and D.Gray-man, which were both series I'd been meaning to check out, and finally settled on D.Gray-man.

Much love! I'm glad I downloaded the (newly released) first episode of the anime now.

Anyway, so. I read 18 chapters, and then stayed in lab until 8:30 to finish my assignment so that I could go home and watch the first episode and see what it was like. Because the manga series is pretty darn cool.

I watched the opening theme, watched the first thirty seconds or so, heard Allen's voice, and had to pause so I could go check Anime News Network.

Touya Akira from Hikaru no Go.

The comparison is amusing. I'm not sure that's exactly what I imagined for his voice. I checked out a few others, and found that Kanda's voice is also Yuri from Kyou Kara Maou, Linali (or Rinali, whichever) is also Himawari from xxxHolic, Scar/Treize/Dark/etc's voice is in there (just like in about 70% of all anime) as someone whose name I don't recognize, and the rest I think I may have yet to meet (or at least to remember their names).

Anyway, so far I'm liking the series. The manga is awesome. The animation looks pretty neat, and I figure I can probably get used to Touya Akira as Allen, so the anime is probably going to be pretty okay too. The first episode at least seemed fairly close to the manga, although it looks from the preview as if they're going to skip the second arc. The music for the opening and ending themes is also nothing special, but that's all right.