Exclusive Insanity

So, I'm watching the new Hunter X Hunter anime, which is a redo of the original anime with spiffy new animation and colors and stuff. It also follows the manga more closely. Which means episodes 1-8 from the old series are now 1-4 in the new series. Lots of filler was cut. The new voice actors for the four main characters sound somewhat like the old voice actors, but you can tell the differences.

I stopped following the manga ages ago, because (in my opinion) it started to meander and just got annoying to read. I wonder if the new anime will animate some of the stuff the old one didn't cover. I'm not too keen on the chimera ants arc, which I thought was a huge waste of time. It went on forever, and it felt like the mangaka was just stalling because he couldn't think of how to properly continue any of his original storylines. Even now that it's over, from what I've heard they're just starting another new story that has nothing to do with anything, and introducing a whole lot of new characters.

Meh. Bring back Leorio and Kurapika, and then maybe I'll bother to give it another try.

Ganked from chrysan

Comment to this entry with any fandom. If I'm knowledgeable enough in the fandom to have ships, I'll tell you one non-canon ship I like, one canon ship I like, and one ship I really don't like (either canon OR fanon). Then post this in your own journal to offer up the same responses.

Ganked from sailormac: Summarize 10 of your fandoms in one sentence, then see who on your friend's list can guess each fandom.

I decided to screen comments for this one, so only I can see people's replies (and no one can cheat by looking at guesses made by someone else). I'll provide the answers next week some time. I think they'll be fairly easy, though.

( The Summaries )

Grabbed from lostnyanko

Comment with a pairing from a fandom I know and I will give you my opinion of it.

( Some Fandoms I Know )

Well, I finished watching the last Hunter X Hunter OVA yesterday... It makes me sad that it's over, even though I still have the manga and the musicals to go through. It's just not quite the same.

Anyway, though, here are my thoughts on the OVAs.

( Under here )

In other news, I started working on the Hunter X Hunter 20 Themes, which were posted on one of the LJ communities by someone who'd already done them. So far I've done 8, in a series of drabbles, double drabbles, and one drabble and a half. I'm hoping to get a full-sized fic out of at least one of the themes, but we'll have to see, I guess.

And now, I work. Evil work...