fessing up
Sep. 10th, 2005 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotesseConfession: Loti has a new fandom. It makes her feel dorky and squeeful, sort of the way Ron/Hermione used to make her feel when she was fourteen. She wants long continuation fics (and porn) instead of short little tone-poems (and porn).
And it's her first-ever anime.
Inuyasha has totally taken her over.
Damn it, this is why I avoided anime to begin with! I pick up new fandoms to gosh-darn easily! But the Boy just *had* to have me watch adult swim with him.
It's wierd how differently i'm being fannish about it. I'd sort of settled down into heavy meta, textual deconstruction, and every so often a piece of brief, poetic pron. It's been so long since I wanted simple character analysis or continuation fics. But that's what this is making me want. And I totally love it, because it makes me feel so young and naive and silly and I like those feelings much much more than being jaded.
Bought the first two movies last week. Watched first one with the Boy. It made me cry so. fecking. hard.
But I've also felt really shy about it, irrationally so. At first, I didn't think it fit in with who I thought I was. But now that I look at it, I can see why Takahashi subtitled it "A Feudal Fairytale," and if there's anything that I'm a sucker for it's fairy tales.
That, and Inuyasha is fucking hot. With the ears. Guh.
And it's her first-ever anime.
Inuyasha has totally taken her over.
Damn it, this is why I avoided anime to begin with! I pick up new fandoms to gosh-darn easily! But the Boy just *had* to have me watch adult swim with him.
It's wierd how differently i'm being fannish about it. I'd sort of settled down into heavy meta, textual deconstruction, and every so often a piece of brief, poetic pron. It's been so long since I wanted simple character analysis or continuation fics. But that's what this is making me want. And I totally love it, because it makes me feel so young and naive and silly and I like those feelings much much more than being jaded.
Bought the first two movies last week. Watched first one with the Boy. It made me cry so. fecking. hard.
But I've also felt really shy about it, irrationally so. At first, I didn't think it fit in with who I thought I was. But now that I look at it, I can see why Takahashi subtitled it "A Feudal Fairytale," and if there's anything that I'm a sucker for it's fairy tales.
That, and Inuyasha is fucking hot. With the ears. Guh.
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Date: 2005-09-12 10:12 pm (UTC)However, Inu-Yasha is without a doubt the worst thing she has ever produced. Its characters are blatantly ripped off of Michiaki Watanabe's intensely moving The Violinist of Hameln, only less violent, less clever, and with a lot less drama and angst between the hero and the heroine.
If you appreciate Takahashi more than the story, I would suggest you read her Ranma 1/2 or One-Pound Gospel.
If, however, you like the idea of a strong-willed girl in love with a half-monster who can't face his true self, please consider Watanabe's The Violinist of Hameln. In fact, I capitally challenge you to read the first three volumes (all are available in English in downloadable form here (http://www.bloodknight.net/Downloads.html)) and tell me that it isn't superior to Inu-Yasha. Yes, it starts off as a rather bizarre comedy, but it becomes much more than that very quickly.
Try it.
I am well aware you may not like it---it is a musical fairytale story about princesses and demons and people who should've been good and aren't---and it is one of the most obscure comics that was ever printed. And, frankly, I don't like you at all. But I'm willing to share my favorite story of all time with you since you seem like you can appreciate one.
Try it.
~ERF