Errr recs. Fanfic, Manga, Anime.

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In the real world, one needs MONEY if one wishes to purchase something. (You have no idea how many times this has happened to me in the last week.)

Hey Death Note people who don't follow death_note: fanfiction by whale_meat. Misa introspective, post 59. Even if you dislike Misa, even if you think the comic should have ended by now, even if you think Ooba has smashed the comic's original dynamic into tiny L-shaped pieces, READ THIS FIC. It's thematic!

My love for Eternal Sabbath grows stronger by the day. By the HOUR. I used to like it for the mind games but now it is all about how much I identify with the heroine OMG. You'll see what I mean around chapter 42: ask yourself if you woldn't have reacted the exact same way. Err, provided you're a bit spacy and tend to over-analyze.

Meme from erunatale_arte:
1) Go somewhere with a lot of different anime.
2) Pick something you've never heard of.
3) Download the first episode and watch it.
4) Write a short review/summary/whatever on it. Was it what you expected? Would you reccomend it?

I did Goldfish Warning! As with any series whose title ends in an exclamation point, it attempts to break your brain with cute. Screencaps behind the cut so that I can show you just how well it succeeded.


Goldfish Warning! is about the students of an extremely poor rural middle school. Imadoki Middle School is so poor, in fact, that the anime opens with three students scavenging in the forest for lunch. They come across a very pretty, very unconscious girl and her goldfish, and carry them to the school nurse's office.


Wapiko and Gyoppi-chan, the goldfish.


Aoi and the nice-guy vice-president of the student council whose name I've forgotten. (You might think I'm artifically exaggerating the cuteness level by using caps from the opening. I'm not; the ENTIRE SHOW is drawn this way.)

The unconscious girl, Chii, had to leave her old (insanely preppy) private school when her father died and left her with nothing but a goldfish. Chitose is called "ojou-sama" and she uses very polite Japanese, laughs with her hand in front of her mouth, and faints at any and all signs of poverty. (One problem with this show: the Japanese word for "poor person" sounds VERY MUCH like "bimbo." Bimbo this, bimbo that, she is such a bimbo, etc etc. Distracting.)




Chii: "FATHER, YOU LIAR!"

Over the course of the first two episodes (fifteen minutes long, this is a series for people with short attention spans) and with the help of a convenient safe-deposit box, we learn that Chii is not really poor at all. Rather than go back to her old school and the OMG MEAN friends who dropped her when she was, she decides to use the money to rebuild Imadoki middle school, coincidentally sticking it to her former best friend, the president of the INSANELY PREPPY school's student council.


VP: "I guess they must be fated rivals or something?"

UPSIDE: This is a very funny show. I'm not sure how much of this is apparent from the summary, but it includes a fair number of anime clichés--the perpetually cheery heroine, the snobby rich girl, the mysterious guy in sunglasses, the sneaky toady, the short good-natured school principal with antennae. And it mocks them all, but in a wholy good-natured way. Lots of puns, lots of sight gags. Characters often speak their sound effects.

DOWNSIDE: There is no downside. Perhaps if you don't watch any anime you won't get the jokes. (I know this happened to me with what's-its-face, DiGi Charat. This is much funnier and much less random than that. I really really liked this show, which is I suppose is a measure of how much has changed since those days. )

I leave you with this thought:




Okay, and now I really do have to start studying for finals.