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lucathiaHm, what to work on before my spring break is over... Rule 20 or the last part of 39 LSK first? Hopefully both before my spring break ends. |D;; (Maybe I'll even finally write up my reports for my conventions from last year, haha)
I'd like to update some of my fics too, OTL. Maybe it's time to take a dartboard out and see which one to work on first, pfft. I can't choose anymore. (New fics are always too shiny...) Endings are hard. Plot is hard. Writing is hard, hahaha. :'D Sometimes I really wish stories would just write themselves and then I can just read the end product... It seems I don't really write when I'm not stressed, pffft. Why, inspiration. Why do you only hit me when I'm busy? At least I was able to write the collab fic. |D;;
(Kiyutsuna is killing me with her drawings of the dress for A Slice of Wedding Cake. XDDD;)
Oh, I finished reading Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai (The World God Only Knows). ;___; Always sad to see a series end, but the ending made me glad. ♥ It probably didn't make a lot of people happy, and it felt rushed, but I thought it was the most developmentally fulfilling ending there could be.
On Kami Nomi as a whole, I really enjoyed it for Keima's personality and how he applied video game experience (namely, dating sim experience) in real life. The premise was really fun. Here you have a socially inept gamer who ends up having to save a bunch of people through using his gaming skills at dating girls, except now he has to make real girls fall for him to save them through the power of ~love~. He goes through all his "conquests" very analytically, calculating ways to raise flags between them. He seems unaffected (the girls lose memories of loving him after the loose souls are chased out of their hearts, so there are seemingly no consequences and he gets a clean slate each time), but later on, we learn that even Keima isn't completely unaffected. Oh, Keima. <33
I do so love his line, "I can see the ending!" I bet this was an ending he himself didn't expect at the beginning though. ♥
The episodic stories in the beginning were fun, pretty much a girl of the week kind of thing, and I really liked how different each girl was and I liked learning their stories. I especially liked a few girls that were actually omitted from the anime... Really too bad. T___T; The shougi story was really nice, and one of my favorites was the middle school swimmer who was overly conscious of her curly hair. I loved that one because we got to see Keima from an outsider's POV. The entire atmosphere felt quite different. A lot more mysterious and cute. Yui's story in the manga was probably my favorite. Because. Body-swap!! Keima getting addicted to otome games, goodness. He treats the body-swap in such an indifferent way, focusing on his goal of saving Yui, but he grows uncertain along the way and ends up having to be saved by Yui. <3333 Yui became my favorite after that. XD
Then later came the goddess arc, and things started to come together. That was pretty cool. :3 I always have a thing for developments that ask for finding clues and piecing them together. Keima having to deduce which girls had the goddesses was really fun to follow. (And I was super happy that Yui was one of them). It made a lot of sense that these girls were all close to him in proximity, and the last arc actually explained why that was so (even if that last arc was dragged out). Having Ayumi as the last one to be found really was a nice touch, pretty much bringing everything full circle, as she was the first girl involved when all this started. As for Chihiro... All the feels. ALL THE FEELS. She was always part of the "normal," so it made a lot of sense that even in this, she was normal and not part of it. But she still got dragged in, and perhaps she always represented the "real" side of things.
Elsie was a lot more prominent in the beginning, but she kind of disappeared during the goddess arc to pretend to be Kanon. I wish she were in the series more... I'm glad about her role throughout the story though, that she was like a little sister, and she grew to love the world along with Keima. I flipped through the oneshot version of Kami Nomi, and in that, Elsie was a whole lot different! She had a huge chest for one... And felt like she might have been designed to be a love interest. I'm glad that wasn't the route taken, because I really adored naive and exuberant Elsie and how she ended up being a part of the family. Familial bonds rock. If she had been a love interest too, it would have felt like many other series where that happens. Some alien girl comes to live with a normal boy and they end up falling in love...
The last part where Elsie says that she's the last boss was... like... what? WHAT? I like the twist. I do. And it does work. But the impact could have been greater, maybe with some more flashbacks to show what Elsie felt throughout the series. It was very hasty, perhaps trying not to overdo it... But I ended up not feeling the emotional impact much. What I did enjoy from the chapter was Elsie asking if Keima had fun with her, and he answered, "You were a huge inconvenience! I lived in an ideal world, but you involved me in a ridiculous and disorderly world like this... It's all your fault! However... There was no game worth playing more than this. I'm very satisfied." Goodness, this line. THIS LINE. I love it so much. It really shows Keima's growth. (I'm also suddenly hearing the OP songs for the series playing in my head, haha)
I'm sad that Elsie seems to have been forgotten by Haqua though. And the others. ;___; I suppose all the other girls, the human ones, now remember her as nothing more than Keima's sister. Elsie probably isn't as sad about it as the readers, OTL. Because she has finally found her place.
And then, of course, the ending that has everyone flailing whether in a good way or a bad way. Keima confessing to Chihiro. I am super happy that happened. I didn't want this to be a harem end or an inconclusive end. Keima was right. If he didn't do anything to cut off the developments, everyone would be stuck in limbo. The girls would still think they had a chance. But I also feel that he was saying that because that's the only way he knows how to put it. He interacts with the real world, especially with relationships, through his gaming knowledge. Chihiro had a big impact on him, and now he's finally willing to deal with this inconvenient world, this terrible game that goes against game logic more often than not. Chihiro often goes against all he knows, and she was the girl that gave him the most trouble. She represented the real, what was outside of his games. All the other girls, even Tenri, were part of a more fantastical world, a world that could be thought of as a game he has finally finished playing. I do feel bad for Tenri because she suffered the longest (I was partially rooting for her too), but I do also feel no ending is more appropriate and final than this one.
Kami Nomi was a really enjoyable read, and both Keima and Elsie grew a lot through the story. <3333
Recently, I started reading a manga called Shishunki Bitter Change where a boy and a girl end up swapping bodies when they were in elementary. It's pretty fascinating (though I'm wary of the ending because I browsed the web version this is based off of. Hopefully the ending will be less abrupt for this version). Yuuta and Yui have to pass off as each other. One is exuberant while the other is fairly withdrawn. One has a happy family while the other has a cold one. But the driving force of this manga isn't actually Yuuta and Yui getting used to being each other... Rather it's having to grow up as each other, and missing out on things they thought they'd have been doing, having to change their dreams of the future because of the uncertainty of whether or not things will stay this way, or if they will be able to change back... Most definitely a bitter change...
Oh, and this is all over the place now, but GYAKUTEN SAIBAN SET IN THE MEIJI ERA? Bring it ooooon.
I'd like to update some of my fics too, OTL. Maybe it's time to take a dartboard out and see which one to work on first, pfft. I can't choose anymore. (New fics are always too shiny...) Endings are hard. Plot is hard. Writing is hard, hahaha. :'D Sometimes I really wish stories would just write themselves and then I can just read the end product... It seems I don't really write when I'm not stressed, pffft. Why, inspiration. Why do you only hit me when I'm busy? At least I was able to write the collab fic. |D;;
(Kiyutsuna is killing me with her drawings of the dress for A Slice of Wedding Cake. XDDD;)
Oh, I finished reading Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai (The World God Only Knows). ;___; Always sad to see a series end, but the ending made me glad. ♥ It probably didn't make a lot of people happy, and it felt rushed, but I thought it was the most developmentally fulfilling ending there could be.
On Kami Nomi as a whole, I really enjoyed it for Keima's personality and how he applied video game experience (namely, dating sim experience) in real life. The premise was really fun. Here you have a socially inept gamer who ends up having to save a bunch of people through using his gaming skills at dating girls, except now he has to make real girls fall for him to save them through the power of ~love~. He goes through all his "conquests" very analytically, calculating ways to raise flags between them. He seems unaffected (the girls lose memories of loving him after the loose souls are chased out of their hearts, so there are seemingly no consequences and he gets a clean slate each time), but later on, we learn that even Keima isn't completely unaffected. Oh, Keima. <33
I do so love his line, "I can see the ending!" I bet this was an ending he himself didn't expect at the beginning though. ♥
The episodic stories in the beginning were fun, pretty much a girl of the week kind of thing, and I really liked how different each girl was and I liked learning their stories. I especially liked a few girls that were actually omitted from the anime... Really too bad. T___T; The shougi story was really nice, and one of my favorites was the middle school swimmer who was overly conscious of her curly hair. I loved that one because we got to see Keima from an outsider's POV. The entire atmosphere felt quite different. A lot more mysterious and cute. Yui's story in the manga was probably my favorite. Because. Body-swap!! Keima getting addicted to otome games, goodness. He treats the body-swap in such an indifferent way, focusing on his goal of saving Yui, but he grows uncertain along the way and ends up having to be saved by Yui. <3333 Yui became my favorite after that. XD
Then later came the goddess arc, and things started to come together. That was pretty cool. :3 I always have a thing for developments that ask for finding clues and piecing them together. Keima having to deduce which girls had the goddesses was really fun to follow. (And I was super happy that Yui was one of them). It made a lot of sense that these girls were all close to him in proximity, and the last arc actually explained why that was so (even if that last arc was dragged out). Having Ayumi as the last one to be found really was a nice touch, pretty much bringing everything full circle, as she was the first girl involved when all this started. As for Chihiro... All the feels. ALL THE FEELS. She was always part of the "normal," so it made a lot of sense that even in this, she was normal and not part of it. But she still got dragged in, and perhaps she always represented the "real" side of things.
Elsie was a lot more prominent in the beginning, but she kind of disappeared during the goddess arc to pretend to be Kanon. I wish she were in the series more... I'm glad about her role throughout the story though, that she was like a little sister, and she grew to love the world along with Keima. I flipped through the oneshot version of Kami Nomi, and in that, Elsie was a whole lot different! She had a huge chest for one... And felt like she might have been designed to be a love interest. I'm glad that wasn't the route taken, because I really adored naive and exuberant Elsie and how she ended up being a part of the family. Familial bonds rock. If she had been a love interest too, it would have felt like many other series where that happens. Some alien girl comes to live with a normal boy and they end up falling in love...
The last part where Elsie says that she's the last boss was... like... what? WHAT? I like the twist. I do. And it does work. But the impact could have been greater, maybe with some more flashbacks to show what Elsie felt throughout the series. It was very hasty, perhaps trying not to overdo it... But I ended up not feeling the emotional impact much. What I did enjoy from the chapter was Elsie asking if Keima had fun with her, and he answered, "You were a huge inconvenience! I lived in an ideal world, but you involved me in a ridiculous and disorderly world like this... It's all your fault! However... There was no game worth playing more than this. I'm very satisfied." Goodness, this line. THIS LINE. I love it so much. It really shows Keima's growth. (I'm also suddenly hearing the OP songs for the series playing in my head, haha)
I'm sad that Elsie seems to have been forgotten by Haqua though. And the others. ;___; I suppose all the other girls, the human ones, now remember her as nothing more than Keima's sister. Elsie probably isn't as sad about it as the readers, OTL. Because she has finally found her place.
And then, of course, the ending that has everyone flailing whether in a good way or a bad way. Keima confessing to Chihiro. I am super happy that happened. I didn't want this to be a harem end or an inconclusive end. Keima was right. If he didn't do anything to cut off the developments, everyone would be stuck in limbo. The girls would still think they had a chance. But I also feel that he was saying that because that's the only way he knows how to put it. He interacts with the real world, especially with relationships, through his gaming knowledge. Chihiro had a big impact on him, and now he's finally willing to deal with this inconvenient world, this terrible game that goes against game logic more often than not. Chihiro often goes against all he knows, and she was the girl that gave him the most trouble. She represented the real, what was outside of his games. All the other girls, even Tenri, were part of a more fantastical world, a world that could be thought of as a game he has finally finished playing. I do feel bad for Tenri because she suffered the longest (I was partially rooting for her too), but I do also feel no ending is more appropriate and final than this one.
Kami Nomi was a really enjoyable read, and both Keima and Elsie grew a lot through the story. <3333
Recently, I started reading a manga called Shishunki Bitter Change where a boy and a girl end up swapping bodies when they were in elementary. It's pretty fascinating (though I'm wary of the ending because I browsed the web version this is based off of. Hopefully the ending will be less abrupt for this version). Yuuta and Yui have to pass off as each other. One is exuberant while the other is fairly withdrawn. One has a happy family while the other has a cold one. But the driving force of this manga isn't actually Yuuta and Yui getting used to being each other... Rather it's having to grow up as each other, and missing out on things they thought they'd have been doing, having to change their dreams of the future because of the uncertainty of whether or not things will stay this way, or if they will be able to change back... Most definitely a bitter change...
Oh, and this is all over the place now, but GYAKUTEN SAIBAN SET IN THE MEIJI ERA? Bring it ooooon.
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Date: 2014-04-24 11:12 pm (UTC)now I'm staying because wow you're such a cool person tho
also fanfictionsI can't say anything about those two series you're talking about but SAMURAI LAWYERS YEEEE
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Date: 2014-04-24 11:30 pm (UTC)Samurai lawyers. He even carries a sword. XDD
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Date: 2014-04-25 01:02 am (UTC)Personally I'm rooting for the next chapter of bittersweet <3
And yes Rule 20 scans! *been obsessively admiring 19*
(And nuuu you can't be dying so soon Luca! You haven't even seen the bridesmaid yet! XD;;;;;)
I started reading kami Komi a long while ago. But left off pretty soon @.@ I'm so bad at following harem manga OTL. At one point I always end up table flipping and going 'staaaaahp, enough girls already! Enouuuuggh'. XD;;;;
I do adore Keima's personality though. That gaming ideal world of his is so epic xD
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Date: 2014-04-25 01:28 am (UTC)I've already scanned and cleaned Rule 20. Putting it up with commentary will take another few hours though. XD;;
Omg, I'm really going die from that. XDDDD I'm so glad we started writing this fic, hahaha. I get to see so many awesome pictures.
Kami Nomi is one of the few harems I actually enjoy. Because Keima is quite cool~. And most of the girls forgot him, so it didn't feel like a harem (well, not until the goddess arc). Come to think of it though, there isn't... a single other guy in the series? Oh, except for that one partner... Wow. XD; (One thing I'd really like to see from the series is Keima having to save a guy, hahahahah)
Drawings
Date: 2014-04-25 04:19 pm (UTC)Re: Drawings
Date: 2014-04-25 05:15 pm (UTC)So pretty~~~~.
Helloo
Date: 2016-08-27 10:05 pm (UTC)Re: Helloo
Date: 2016-08-27 10:30 pm (UTC)