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cerusee ([personal profile] cerusee) wrote2006-02-22 11:38 pm
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Blood+ ep. 1-4

This is an excellent show. I'm not quite ready to throw in my lot with [livejournal.com profile] herongale and call it the best anime ever, but it's definitely top-notch.

So much love for Riku. So. Much. Love. If anything horrible happens to him during the course of this show, I will call heron all sorts of nasty names. speaking of trauma buttons, [livejournal.com profile] octopedingenue, why didn't you warn me about the dog in Her Majesty's Dog, oh god

I blame my weakness for innocent younger brother characters on Mai-HiME; I'm pretty sure I didn't have that before I got hit with the sweetness that is the Tokiha sibs. I don't even have an innocent younger brother. I have an innocent younger sister...and when I say innocent, I mean, innocent like she writes fanfiction in which Edward Elric is tentacle-raped by a carnivorous animated tree. That kind of innocent.

In conclusion, watch Mai-HiME. And Blood+.
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[identity profile] cerusee.livejournal.com 2006-02-23 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Some kind of sequel to Blood the Last Vampire, I believe. I think it's the same Saya. I have no clue what her backstory is beyond what they've revealed in the first 4 episodes, but it doesn't seem to matter--the story is coherant and the storytelling is strong, and I'm totally hooked.

I can upload. I have the technology.
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[personal profile] octopedingenue 2006-02-23 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
If I have never seen Blood the Last Vampire and have never particularly felt the burning desire to do so, will I understand/care about Blood+?

[identity profile] cerusee.livejournal.com 2006-02-23 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
I have never seen Blood the Last Vampire, nor felt the desire to do so, and picked up Blood+--having no idea what it was about--based on [livejournal.com profile] herongale's strong recommendation. I think I understand it so far, and I'm pretty into it, so I'd say there's a reasonable chance you'll like it.

You should totally watch Mai-HiME, too. It's the best genre-busting, gender-bending action/romance/mystery/slapstick/magical girl/humor show ever! With ninjas! I can upload that, too.

[identity profile] cerusee.livejournal.com 2006-02-23 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
Also, a dog gets eaten in Blood+. D: I wish I'd known to avert my eyes.
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[personal profile] octopedingenue 2006-02-23 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
why didn't you warn me about the dog in Her Majesty's Dog, oh god

I TOTALLY DID.

"some deliciously horrific demonic baddies (if one of the attacks in volume 1 ever spawns a copycat act of violence, I will personally fly to Tokyo to punch the mangaka in the face)"

[identity profile] cerusee.livejournal.com 2006-02-23 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
You didn't mention that it was a DOG!

There's no reason you would have known this, but: ever since I watched my dog run into the street and get hit by a car--about a year and a half ago, now, I think?--dogs being injured or killed has been pretty much a trauma button for me. It freaks me out in ways I wouldn't enjoy articulating. I have to explain that to people more often than I'd like, because you'd be amazed at how many books people recommend that involve housepets being horribly killed.
octopedingenue: (i'd be lying if I said it wasn't easy)

that icon may be one of MY trauma buttons, yo

[personal profile] octopedingenue 2006-02-23 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't fly to Tokyo to punch someone for Generic Manga Random Human Death! (Oh God it was the worst and most creative death ever. I admire that chapter even as I maybe never want to read it again ever.)

Ack, I'm so sorry! That's horrible! A quick flip through HMD #2 says there's no noticeable housepet violence--unless Hyoue getting bloodied in his demon dog form triggers you. (He'd be offended to be called a housepet.)

What'd you think of HMD #1 otherwise, or was it too squicky to keep reading!

Re: that icon may be one of MY trauma buttons, yo

[identity profile] cerusee.livejournal.com 2006-02-23 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
I love it overall, and I was even able to force myself through that chapter, albeit in tears for much of it. I will say this much: there's nothing random about it, and it has the painful impact that it does because the creator understands the depth of the emotional relationship that can exist between a dog and a human being. I'm relieved to know that there's not more of it in vol. 2, though.

And naw, probably not. I think he's generally too human-ish to hit the trauma spot. Whereas I will probably never watch or read Wolf's Rain, because I know how it ends, and why send myself into hysterical tears if I don't have to?

Oh, and that first chapter was CREEPY AS FUCK, I must say. I hadn't quite expected it to be so horrific, your warning aside. I was impressed. There's something about it--maybe just the combination of the various horror elements--that resonates nicely as a modern horror story. The cell phone, obviously, with the creepiness of the ambiguous, disembodied voice. I can't stop turning the twist over in my head.
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