Anime meme - Days 5 & 6

Ehehe. I have vacation this week, which has so far been spent doing... nothing much. Whatever happened to the days? 'neways, meme time!

( Day 5 - Anime character you feel you are most like (or wish you were) )

( Day 6 - Most annoying anime character )

This is also not quite meme-related, but I would like to point out that hating/loving certain voice actors (or even haircolors) isn't quite such an arbitrary point as hating/loving regular actors. Seiyuu (japanese voice actors) tend to be type-cast a lot more, just as anime tends to follow a dramatic color scheme, or the seme/uke lenght pattern or other things. They're animated characters, after all, so why not draw them in a way that is a short-hand for how they behave? Of course, if you invert it, you can easily play with the audience's expectations.

Thus, when a cute girl opens her mouth and has a high-pitched, slightly whiny voice, it sets my teeth on edge and I know I probably won't like her. The same way when one of the guys is voiced by Koyasu Takehito has a smooth, darker voice and a slightly creepy laugh? I know he's most likely to be a cool villain, an anti-hero or at least on the side of good, but still somewhat of a bastard and I'll probably like him...

And then of course we get characters like Gokudera, who has gray hair. Wtf? He's a hothead who fights with dynamite, how can he have gray hair -_-

Semiautomagic: Moar Dresden Files

Okay, ehm, so I finished with my Dresden Files read-through. All of them: 12 books + 4 short stories + the RPG-books (although I didn't so much read those, as jump to the interesting characters). I still haven't gotten my hands on the (out of print) short-novel about Thomas, so if it's included in the collection that Butcher will release later this year, I will probably buy it.

I also have this big file with snippets about Marcone, magic and how stuff works in the Dresden-verse. One day, I'll try and fic some of it.

But it's darn hard to write something that takes places after Changes, because it really does change everything in the universe... and then it just ends! On a big, evil cliffhanger, so we don't know where anything stands or how Harry will go on! ( Minor spoiler for Changes: )

It's also interesting to see Harry's journey, it really contains more ups and downs than many of these long, urban fantasy series. He gets scarily close to the darkness sometimes, and then he starts traveling upwards, and then, BLAM - Changes. And we're only about halfway aaarghhh...

Anyway, the RPG book with the characters - Our World - is pretty good for ficish purposes. Lots of stats and condensed information in one place. And the little comments in the margin, written by Harry, Bob and the Alphas were really fun

Anime month meme - Day 7

Aha, caught up, did I. Good, very good

Day 7 - Favorite anime couple
Errr. Right, except then it's a day when I don't really know.

Does Germany/Italy count? He proposes in the Buon San Valentino-chapter of the manga, but I don't think the anime came that far...

Otherwise, I tend to fall for the Seriously Twisted Couples. I mean, dude, when I think of anime romance, the old tragic classics come to my mind: Zetsuai, Ai no Kusabi, Tokyo Babylon...

Which actually reminds me of this amazing vid for Tokyo Babylon, so I guess I might as well call Seishirou/Subaru my favorite canon couple.

Overall, CLAMP has a lot of couples I like. That must be because they enjoy torturing them so much, ehehe~

Entire meme here