April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers

Sweet, fluffy, intimate Ken/Sora or hot, sparky, acrobatic Sora/Layla? Arrrrgh. This is one quandary that cannot be solved with a threesome. (And why am I such a sucker for ojousans? Why?)

First, Rozen Maiden taught me to ship a teenage boy and his doll, and then Princess Tutu has taught me to ship a teenage boy and his duck.

Now, excuse me while I go hide under my covers and cry like a baby.

Things that make Ceru go, oro?! "bzuh" in the bad way:

--Ouran episode 9. the keyboard goes avshjkbbsdvhjkbdsfhjb! what?

--Randomly running across a torrent for a doujinshi titled, "Haruhi gets raped a lot," over at TT. I don't even want to know which show that's for.

--I don't have a third thing.


In other news, if I never in a trillion years have to sit through another discussion about "canon sues," it will still be too soon.

I've been watching this on the recommendation of, well everybody, and it's slowly grown on me--on a superficial level, it's purely entertaining, and I enjoy the deceptively scattered, stylish storytelling. I haven't feel emotionally hooked into the story, though, and while I like the character designs, and think they fit the style of the show, I didn't find either Mugen or Jin especially attractive.

But when Jin took off his glasses just now in episode 7 or 8--

Hhhh--*cough*--hhhhhhhhhh--HOT. REALLY. VERY HOT. Um. Wow.

All of a sudden, this show seems sexy to me.

~edit~

And Fuu is my girlfriend. Dude, I love her. She's brutal. Smashing together the heads of two people who just woke up in the street with hangovers is the most ruthless thing that can be done to a human being, not excepting kicking them in the groin.

This show is too funny to watch when you have the flu. Every time I guffaw, it turns into an extended coughing spasm, and every third line makes me want to guffaw.

In an ideal world, I might be able to convince people to watch this by comparing it to Futakoi Alternative. In reality, few people have actually seen Futakoi Alternative (which is a damn shame, and comment if you'd like my help in rectifying that), and it would be fairly useless to describe how, like Futakoi Alternative, it smoothly mixes the bizarre with the mundane. I might do better to compare it to CLAMP crack--possessing of a unique, ironic weirdness too entertaining to begrudge.

Anyway, the title character is a high-school student obsessed with time-travelers, espers, aliens and paranormals, who's energetic and charismatic enough to drag a crowd of reluctant followers into her obsession. Beyond that, I have no idea what the story is, because the first episode is devoted to a parody of crappy, low-budget, science fiction flicks (and it is unspeakably hilarious, especially the narration), and introduces the real characters only in passing; episode two is mostly backstory.

Those who are interested, rest assured I'll be pimping this one--via multiple upload services, if that's what it takes.

Guh. I have a new OTP. And a new crush. And some new icons. Oh Hagi, Hagi, Hagi. You're more than just a pretty face! You're a pretty face with a cello and unswerving devotion, and your stoicism makes it that much cuter when you trip and fall into the creek and have to walk around shirtless in the middle of a Russian winter because your clothes are all wet. ♥

N.B. This new crush does not lessen my adoration of David's craggy, sekrit agent hotness or Riku's endearing...ness. I kinda love everybody in this show. And I think I ship Mao/journalist guy. I have never laughed so hard as when she made him her bitch.

This is an excellent show. I'm not quite ready to throw in my lot with 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, 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+.

Hahaha. Shizuru got pwned.

...okay, Mai Otome. You win. I give up on guessing what happens next.

The next episode preview is making me very, very impatient.

octopedingue requested something better than "omg it's soooooo good u shoulod watch it!" for commentary on some shows I was pimping, and I am a world-class pimp, so I obliged. However, that entry is friends-locked, and if I want people to lavish me with attention, it helps if they can see me. So, for your viewing pleasure, here are brief, non-spoilery reviews of AIR, St. Luminous Mission High School, and Futakoi Alternative:

( AIR )

( St. Luminous Mission High School )

( Futakoi Alternative )