It's not spring break anymore!>_<
Hot dog, my brain still thinks it's on spring break. (...hot dog...??) Er, yeah...not much to say really, which means I'll probably write an enormous entry about absolutely nothing. Which will not exactly be the first time it's ever happened.
After being very whiny this past Wednesday to a good friend about art-related stuff, I'm actually doing a sketch a day (er, yes, I know it's only been two days, don't laugh at me). I'm crazy, but I figure I can lose a little sleep (what, 15 minutes?) to doodle some.^^; Otherwise I'll just keep putting it off because of...you know, school. Life. The two are synonymous in my case.^^; I do write everyday though (in class, where everyone else doodles^^;), so I'm kinda proud of that.
Now let's see how long I can keep up sketch-a-day.@_@ Wonder if any of them are postable material.... Not that anyone's waiting.^^;
Inu Yasha craze came back and bit me on the @ss several days ago when I chanced upon a fairly new IY site which had manga scans of the latest chapters and mentioned the 3rd IY movie. Now, I'm not at all fond of the IY anime (fillers in which the characters are OOC, 10x dumber than their original selves, and generally jump around a lot with very little point. I thought fillers were supposed to give us a glimpse of the characters, not make mockeries of them. But hey, that's me.), and the 1st movie was a disappointing hour of pointless mush. I mean seriously, the bad guy sucked, the romantic parts were completely and horribly OVERDONE, lacking in the personality and the humor that makes IY romance tolerable, even enjoyable, for me.
But wait, I'm not here to review the first movie.^^; I'm here to mention my IY craze, which was fanned to life by the preview of....well, the 3rd movie.^^;; I was avoiding IY anime after first movie and several disappointing portrayals of a few favorite scenes in the manga (they don't get the nuance, dammit, and the nuance makes the freakin' story!), but this 3rd movie.... Well, you get to see Inu Yasha and Sesshoumaru's dad. And like, Sesshoumaru's actually there. And he looks like he's actually there for a PURPOSE, which was NOT the case in the first movie, where he and Kikyou just kinda popped up because it was obligatory or something. ARGH, stop ranting about the first movie! (I'd like to mention the anime portrayal of Kikyou sucks @ss and does not help the Kikyou-bashing ONE BIT.)
*AHEM* So yeah, the 3rd movie also (hopefully? HOPEFULLY? Please please please??) does not look as mushy as the 1st and 2nd, because it appears to focus more on Sesshoumaru and Inu Yasha's relationship as brothers, and also on their relationship to their father. I think there's still an obligatory "I wanna take over the world!" bad guy in there, but hopefully things are a bit more personal this time, because personal is what makes it fun. Heh heh heh.^___^
I really really love Sesshoumaru.0_o; I love all the characters (I usually do), but he really fascinates me. I still remember hating his guts in the beginning, but then he lost his arm, Rin came along, and he really mellowed. Now he's actually...got depth! He's actually NOT just some flat stock villain, he's really complex! *glows with happiness* Plus he's one of those characters who will probably remain happily single (please, Takahashi-sensei, DON'T SUCCUMB!!), which makes me smile too.
...I just sounded really anti-romance up there.^^; Well, I'm not (really)...I just get sick and tired of people obsessing over romance and making it the only relationship possible whenever two individuals start interacting. It doesn't even freakin' matter HOW they're interacting (Character: "I @#$%ing hate you!!!" Response: Ooh, he's in love! Character: "Sensei, I'm really confused about this problem." Response: Ooh, he's in love! Character: "Hey man, let's go play some b-ball." Response: Ooh, he's in love! Character: "Oh, thanks." Response: Ooh, he's really in love!...and so on). Or wait, what am I saying? It doesn't even matter that they're interacting at all. But actually the former pisses me off more than the latter because in making every single blinkin' relationship a romance, these people ravage the original interaction between the two characters and destroy the potential in exploring, say, a friendship or a familial bond. I don't know what it is about romance that's so attractive, but just because someone never falls head over heels in love with some flawed-yet-oh-so-perfect-guy/gal doesn't mean he or she has "never lived."
But I'm not anti-romance! I really am NOT! SR is romantic (among other things) and I love SR so much it kinda hurts!^^; (Why? Why am I so random?)
Alright...must...stop....talking.@_@ Must...work...on....HISTORY PAPER! AAAAH! And there's a Japanese exam tomorrow! *runs away in panic*
posted by Yayoi @ 3/18/2004 07:06:00 PM
