Anime meme - Days 5 & 6
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dancing_moonEhehe. 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)
I'm probably Ami Mizuno. Nerdy and had no friends as a kid. But I'm not brilliant - although I do have a little blue computer these days. (She is also not the reason I dye my hair blue. I will hurt you, if you suggest it.)
That's Ami. She bores me
When Miko, Rin and I sang the Hetalia-version of Santa Claus is coming to town, we also realized that we make a pretty good Axis trio of our own. Guess who got to be Germany? Mmyup
Yes - this IS me & Miko.
Who I wish I were...? Hm. Tricky.
Kamina?
Tho he's a bit thick sometimes...
Oho, I know!
Princess Kushana!
Yeeeaaahh, she's pretty damn awesome.
Day 6 - Most annoying anime character
Movie Arwen! ...ok, wait, not an anime character.
But the first criteria for her and most of my "omfg get off the screen NOW!!" characters are similar. Their voices scratch on my soul in their awfulness. Chibiusa (Voiced by Araki Kae, who also did Miaka) is definitely one of them. It's not only the voice, tho, because Nanae Katou sounds even worse. Yet I adore her role as Ahiru in Princess Tutu. And she's the main character, so she talk a lot...
Not annoying, despite a horrid voice. But then, she's a magical duck...
However, the most annoying character story-wise in an anime, ever, is for me probably Tetsunosuke Ichimura. He's dumb, impulsive, childish and doesn't listen. Okay, then he's supposed to grow, right? Nooo... Because the anime only covers the first part of the manga, with bits of later events thrown in, I had to listen to Tetsu whine and tantrum his way through almost all the episodes. His rate of character develovment puts me in mind of a certain fight on Namek.
DIAF. Ok, no. Just grow up faster!
Which is a shame, because in the few minutes where he isn't whiny and bratty, he can be nice and funny. And the manga is a lovely angst-filled Shinsengumi-melodrama, just my thing.
Not as annoying at all
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 guysis 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 -_-
Day 5 - Anime character you feel you are most like (or wish you were)
I'm probably Ami Mizuno. Nerdy and had no friends as a kid. But I'm not brilliant - although I do have a little blue computer these days. (She is also not the reason I dye my hair blue. I will hurt you, if you suggest it.)
That's Ami. She bores me
When Miko, Rin and I sang the Hetalia-version of Santa Claus is coming to town, we also realized that we make a pretty good Axis trio of our own. Guess who got to be Germany? Mmyup
Yes - this IS me & Miko.
Who I wish I were...? Hm. Tricky.
Kamina?
Tho he's a bit thick sometimes...
Oho, I know!
Princess Kushana!
Yeeeaaahh, she's pretty damn awesome.
Day 6 - Most annoying anime character
Movie Arwen! ...ok, wait, not an anime character.
But the first criteria for her and most of my "omfg get off the screen NOW!!" characters are similar. Their voices scratch on my soul in their awfulness. Chibiusa (Voiced by Araki Kae, who also did Miaka) is definitely one of them. It's not only the voice, tho, because Nanae Katou sounds even worse. Yet I adore her role as Ahiru in Princess Tutu. And she's the main character, so she talk a lot...
Not annoying, despite a horrid voice. But then, she's a magical duck...
However, the most annoying character story-wise in an anime, ever, is for me probably Tetsunosuke Ichimura. He's dumb, impulsive, childish and doesn't listen. Okay, then he's supposed to grow, right? Nooo... Because the anime only covers the first part of the manga, with bits of later events thrown in, I had to listen to Tetsu whine and tantrum his way through almost all the episodes. His rate of character develovment puts me in mind of a certain fight on Namek.
DIAF. Ok, no. Just grow up faster!
Which is a shame, because in the few minutes where he isn't whiny and bratty, he can be nice and funny. And the manga is a lovely angst-filled Shinsengumi-melodrama, just my thing.
Not as annoying at all
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
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 -_-
