Fictional Characters I Want to Marry

Today's Twitter Trending Topic is #FictionalCharactersIWanttoMarry and also inspired by Klux Nee-chan's blogpost, so I'm gonna do my version of husbandos.

Oh yeah... please note that not all my fave male characters, and the ones i find incredible sexy and incredibly GAR are in my husbando candidate list. So you may wonder where they stand cos I have another category for them XD

[disclaimer: images do not belong to me but their respective owners/artists]

10. Sarutobi Sasuke (Sengoku Basara)

I'm pretty much drawn to characters who are vassal to a lord or royals, I get turned on by the protectiveness and loyalty. Initially I wanted to include waifus (female characters in the list) and you'd see most of them are the vassal/knight type characters. Plus being with Sasuke allows me to side Sanada too, and I'd rather side with the Crimson Warrior rather than the One-Eyed Dragon.

9. Kanji Tatsumi (Persona 4)

gay domestic BAMF husbando

8. Edgar Roni Figaro (Final Fantasy 6)

play the game, put in him in your party, enjoy his TOOLS skill. His job class is a technician, kinda weird to exist in a fantasy setting (but then FF6 is considered as steampunk), but i'm sure we'd have fun inventing the funny tools XD

7. Lestat de Lioncourt (Vampire Chronicles)

pre-Twilight vampire, a TRUE VAMPIRE and is as sexy as the vampires in Vassalord. He's a rock star too. Oh and he's not really a bad guy, he's just... unorthodox. Unorthodox is my thing~

6. Sirius Black (Harry Potter series) 

Harry has a sexy godfather. 

Actually the latter 5 is harder for me to think so it may not be in order. But the next five is confirmed to be the characters I want to marry.

5. Suoh Tamaki (Ouran High School Host Club)

Reading the manga, I realize that he's more than just a narcissistic prince-type character. Most shoujo mangas often portray the prince type as cool, ridiculously perfect and seemingly flawless (although personally I think their flaw is being picky about who they want to be nice to). Tamaki isn't forever stuck as that shallow bastard but he really grows up. I'm glad he didn't become the typical "fuck what everyone thinks of me" but he definitely tried his best to make his worst 'enemy' approve of him ^^ 

4. Kusama Nowaki (Junjou Romantica)

I'm into semes like him

3. Yatogami Kuroh (K-Project)

Just another vassal-type character like number 10, but he's the only guy who I can consider as a WAIFU rather than husbando. Even his character song is about cooking.

2. Kotetsu T. Kaburagi (Tiger & Bunny)

=//////= Blue Rose + Barnaby Brooks Jr = me

1. Kamina (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann)

I need an optimistic guy in my life, to keep me going. It was thanks to him that I reached a turning point in my life (from being pointlessly emo into someone who knows how to appreciate herself). I doubt there are any real life men who can beat this guy... I mean, my forever-sorrowful days have been taken away by him so you really can't just come into my life expecting me to worship you as a hero. F*ck 3DPD, you're just a bunch of oppurtunists t(^0^t

 Okay finish.
I feel sad that I can't include Midorima Shintarou, Vincent Valentine, Grell Sutcliffe and even my first anime crush Sanosuke Sagara... but I love them anyways (as favourite gundiks wwwww)

End note: OMG I AM A NECROPHILE.

Review: Jormungand (S1)

Author: Keitarou Takahashi

Studio: White Fox

Jormungand is like a reverse harem anime (adapted from a manga), but with lots of violence and guns and knives. You have an arms dealer as the main character, and it’s a half-albino girl. She reminds me of Raito Yagami (Death Note) and Lelouch Lamperouge (Code Geass) in a way, hence making her one of the best female characters in 2012 anime. No, not them… I think she’s more similar to Hiruma Yoichi from Eyeshield 21 as I feel the same demonic vibe from her. Her team consists of random mercenaries who specializes at different things, and are from different background. Unlike the shoujo or otoge harem at least these guys work together to protect her. Most significant character would be the child soldier and the dyke.

In fact the female characters are the only ones who seem very eccentric or maybe autistic while there isn’t much to say about the guys. I thought it was weird for a really cool anime to have a few dumb femme fatales.

oh yes please enjoy this song

Or the whole plot even – not sure if I was confused, not paying attention or forgot. What I understood is it’s all about Koko Hekmatyar using her silvertongue to do business. Plus I enjoyed the tactical battle scenes more than anything lol. Obviously it’s all about going for missions, protecting their leader and finding who they are. And then there are episodes which focuses on the individual characters as well. Not sure how all these are connected to the plot though.

It’s really sad that I can’t put much input in this review. I guess this anime isn’t something I could connect with (maybe due to the fact that I’m not a military faggot). It felt like a waste of time as it personally wasn't too memorable, which is why I am hesitating to watch season 2. But I do like certain parts of it, and I don’t regret meeting Koko.

doing it right: military girls aren't supposed to look moe

Anime vs K-pop

ecently I saw this ongoing immature feud between Anime fans and K-pop fan(s) in lol facebook. I dunno how it all started but from my POV it was fail, fail everywhere. Each of them defended their fandoms like it's some kind of jihad, and acting like jahiliyah to each other in attempt to troll.

The hatred is ironic

But from what I can see is the one side, although many in numbers, fail badly at the art of trolling. The other one, although she may seem completely delusional seems like she had successfully made everyone's attention turn to her. Congrats Datin Comel for being epic! Once in a while it's nice to see low class 'anime people' being bashed by someone other than those from our circle, and it was one hell of an entertainment.

Look, I'm no fan of K-pop, I just grew tired of saying bad things about things I didn't even try out. And I have a few friends who are into K-pop so it had taught me to be less of a hater (yeah right I still act like a hater now and then for a the heck of it). I think it takes time to get used to it. In general, pop is one of my least favourite music genre (though I may enjoy some) and I don't really like hearing repetitive words in songs. Lyrics of popular K-pop songs are too simple and straightfoward, and Korean language doesn't sound as beautiful as Japanese (to me), hence my disinterest towards K-pop. I don't like the idea of the idols having to train too hard for a few years and reconstruct their looks to appear as an ideal celebrity, although I salute them for working that hard. I don't like the fact that I can't see any difference between their looks though - perhaps I should squint harder (and sometimes they look like anime cosplays - come on, those are real life bishins and bijins!) However, one thing I gotta admit is their choreagraphy is waaaaayyyy more entertaining to watch than how J-pop's, and the Korean idols have better vocals than average Japanese ones. I'm serious.

Also one of the factors that makes me dislike K-pop is how the fans can be so obsessive overreact to worthless insults when you can just simply overlook it.

a surprise to those who are ignorant. 

The thing is K-pop knows how to market, consequently overshadowing J-pop worldwide, although J-pop has quietly reached the shores of those who are aware. Hey, they can sing in English (WonderGirls at least) and they can sing in Japanese too (TVXQ, Girls Generation, 2pm, etc) that they even invade anime OPs and EDs. Can the Japanese do that? English pun tak lepas.

It makes the whole anime vs k-pop thing very irrelevant.

So these low class anime people are attempting to hurt them K-pop fans, or maybe one particular fan with all the k-poop hatred and calling her delusional for thinking that she's above everyone and her boyfriend is one of the K-pop idols. Well these anime fans or no better; they're arguing as though their life depends on it. Perhaps if they win their 2D waifu would materialize and agree to marry them. I don't know. I lost it when they start involving heaven and hell into their childish debates. I'm still having a hard time figuring out why are they trying to hard to defend or explain to their enemy when they can just ignore Datin Comel's insults. She seems to be having more fun entertaining these anime macaques rather than actually experiencing butthirt. I dunno how it is on the K-pop fans side but somehow this further proves the fact that anime is for kids.

To be fair, both parties are dumbfucks. Your social life probably fail really hard if you keep locked up in your own world.

Here's something to entertain yourself with (OP performed by TVXQ/Touhou Shinki/DBSK)

Conclusion: before thinking that you know what is the root of all of your hatreds... to them low class anime people, you should try listening to one of the K-pop songs and low class K-poppers should watch one of the casual non-mainstream animes.

Otherwise just stop wasting your time displaying tl;dr of your hatred and replace it with whatever you enjoy most (unless you enjoy failtrolling then go on).

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

I watched this very late. And I even entered the hall 30 minutes late. Long story. Also this won't be so review-ish because I'm sort of out of analytical words to say :P. Just here to let out my after-effects of the film so if you want a proper review go look somewhere else. Don't trust this one (I only like to attack anime)

Also read the summary in wiki or something, too lazy to recap atm. What I'm excited about they're gonna deal with a DRAGON YYAHGSJAHGJHGSFHGHDFSHGFHDGSFHDG

The 3 hour long movie wasn't a waste. It was fun and it felt like we went through the adventure with them. Throughout the film I was often reminded by Gurren Lagann; on how Gandalf chose an experienceless hobbit into the party of drawves and believed in him. Also on how Gandalf sort of admits why he'd choose Bilbo Baggins was thanks to his own weakness.

Of course the necessity of a fantasy-themed story is good vs typically fated to be evil race. It is a nice change to see dwarves being primary main characters rather than secondary main characters. And lolwhut a few of them are surprisingly handsome especially Thorin and Kili. It's only one third of the book, but I see the character development done pretty well (perhaps just for this adaptation, not that I read the novel). Even Bilbo who I think is just a bystander (this also reminds me of Final Fantasy XII), though i thought it was a bit fast. Still, the whole movie does feel like an introduction episode.

they don't look the same!

The lulz parts are Radagast the Brown and rock giants boxing in the rain. That was one hell of an adventure huh. With the many people in one party I was expecting they die one by one but the dwarves are extremely tough (oh no maybe it would happen in the next 2 movies?!). I'm glad they're extending this to multiple films because often one book adaptations is not enough to be compressed in one film.

My favourite scene is the battle in the orc underground cave; it was damn complicated but really got me at the edge of my seat. And speaking of scenes I think most of them are filled with important ones - maaaaaaaaaaaybe the troll and Gollum cameo felt like a waste of time but it was still really entertaining. More like it gives a chance for Bilbo to display his character.

Eh and let's not forget about the epic choir songs during battles! You know I'm weak for folk-ish music too.

If my mom was watching this she'd wonder why a wizard isn't using his for every little thing. But I was thinking that Gandalf is saving his MP wisely.

While watching The Hobbit I keep thinking of the game Dragon Age, the world is almost similar but DA has its own twists and tweaks. The dwarves are given a chance to shine and show how noble they can be (apart from acting similarly like Meleis), so thanks to that I'm more open to select the dwarf race in my next playthrough.

Review: Kamen Rider OOO

This is the second Kamen Rider series I’ve ever completed, after Fourze - and it might probably be the last. Mind you I’ve never been a KR fan, nor have I become one after seeing OOO and Fourze. I did watch a few episodes of Kabuto, W and Wizard but I wasn't really impressed. This might be the only KR I like very much... and n-no it's like I love it because there are ikemens!

fanart does not belong to me

So I was first introduced to OOO when I visited a Reppu_kiri's house during Eid festives, and part of our gang was there. He imprisoned us in his otaku room and forced us to watch a few tokusatsu series. He showed us the movie where W, OOO and Fourze teams up and there are the first 7 riders as cameo. Taichou skipped the parts where I am not familiar with, so it was later I got struck by a cupid’s arrow seeing how stupidly angelic Eiji Hino looks when he invites Gentarou Kisaragi (Fourze) to team up.

To be honest I LOL’d at the funny song when he henshins. But what made me attracted to watch OOO is where he spawns clones in his Gatakiriba combo.

My first impression of OOO is… well…

First I was mesmerized by the opera version of the “Happy Birthday” song.

Secondly, halfnaked protagonist.

Thirdly, the main girl isn’t annoying.

This is the best introduction episode I've ever seen in my whole life.

Then I kept watching mainly because I was attracted to the OST and then… there’s Ankh (the red bird guy who likes icecandy). Plus there are the eccentric characters like Kougami (aka cakeboss), Chiyoko (restaurant owner of a cultural restaurant) and Dr. Maki (the doll-freak). Not to forget the bromantic Kamen Rider Birth team; Date Akira and Gotou Shinjurou. However, the main villains called GREED, in spite of being 800 years old are literally like kindergarden kids. But they can be pretty cute, especially Ankh who's very much fascinated by human technology.

zomg coolest human invention evarrrrr

In spite of the typically childish monsters, and lame SFX, the story proved to have a deeeeeeeeeeeep message wrapped around it. Some parts were kinda predictable, but that didn’t matter cos the way it’s presented is rather intriguing. It teaches you how your selfish desires could bring harm to those around you… and OOO takes it too literally and exaggerated it. On the other hand, Eiji and Hina (the not irritating girl with some kind of brother complex) believes that it’s okay to have desires, but it depends on how you make use of it or something like that. So they don't spread the message that we should all become moralfaggots.

They should get married, you know, but I’d think that it’ll make OOO too cheesy if there’s too much romantic stuff. I mean, it’s a children’s show to begin with, ne?

Personally, it’s the crapload of bromance is what made me hooked. It’s what W failed to do (Phillip looks too girly to me o__o|ll and the female assistant is an eyesore ). Other than that, there’s the COMBO THEME SONGS which excites me whenever Eiji does the combo henshin thingy.

I love the songs so much I listen to them everyday~

Review: Hyouka

One look at Hyouka, you’d think it’s just another slice of life genre about high school kids. Little did I know it’s a mystery-themed adaptation of a 2001 novel of the same name. Even the title of the series has a mystery behind it.

Original Author: Honobu Yonezawa

Studio: Kyoto Animation

Well, but guess what, it’s not your average mystery. Hyouka is about the members of the culture club solving unimportant mysteries, instead of the usual murder cases like you see in CSI. And you’ll be surprised to see how mature the characters are in spite of their age, cos you don’t see teens not acting like children fighting over a toy everyday.

How it all began, is when the main guy Oreki Hotarou meets Chitanda Eru (typical boy meets girl scene yay!) in his club room, and they start figuring how Chitanda was locked inside. So Chitanda got all fascinated by Oreki’s deduction skills, so she keeps forcing him to solve petty mysteries. Since she gets totally turned on by curious happenings, the cases needed to be solved in order for her to reach orgasm. So she went on ahead to ask Oreki’s help to solve her uncle’s mystery related to the school and the club like a selfish little bitch.

The mystery of her uncle was a success, but the detective play didn’t stop there, to Oreki’s displeasure. Cos Chitanda would unknowingly force him to SOLVE anything she finds curious by putting her face really close to his, activate her sparkly eyes and would look like it’s the end of the world if he refuses. Good thing Oreki is a nice guy so that little bitch would always get what she fukken wanted. Of course, she gets away with it because she's cute and innocent.

The art and animation is goddamn excellent that's for sure. They sure overdid the sparkling eyes

I appreciate that Hyouka maintains the fact that it's all about solving (not-so-important-and-unnecessary) mysteries in the rest of the episodes. I’m sure it got us all KININARIMASU. But the best case among the rest is the case of the Hyouka Anthology. Nothing can beat that. The next best case is the one about filming a detective story (because there's Irisu-senpai!)

I do acknowledge that without Chitanda, the story wouldn’t advance. Without her Oreki wouldn’t show his detective skills to the world and make the story awesomely unique. But there’s a lot of listening version of tl;dr, you know, like Death Note. Since you gotta explain the logic behind what happened. Sometimes it feels like the girls in the team is for mere decoration, as not only Oreki but Fukube is a very very GREAT character. I’m more than impressed by him (at how he envies Oreki but isn’t angry about it, his opinion on ‘obsession’) although he's just self-proclaimed biological 'database'. Mayaka on the other hand is an adorable character, but it feels like she's just a mascot girl who exists to fill in the blank. Minus the tsundere trait, I notice that are actually a lot of real life girls who has Mayaka’s dilemma.

Chitanda and Oreki appears to be canon, but due to fetish reasons I ship Oreki with Irisu. But seriously, if Oreki does go out with Chitanda later I can only hope that by the time he enters college, he’d dump her and get a new girlfriend who respects his energy conserving habits.

which is why I feel like punching the air in triumph when I see her disappointed face

Even so it’s one of the best animes of 2012 – not exactly my favourite but it’s better than most. I recommend this, but you gotta endure the long dialogs.

Review: Sakamichi no Apollon

Author: Kodama Yuki

Studio: MAPPA

Also known as “Kids on a Slope”, this is about a transfer student (again with the transfer student!) who belongs to a rich family that complains about climbing the slope to get to school. He thought his life would suck at a new place until he has an instant crush on the first girl who is nice to him for no apparent reason. When frustrated, he likes to escape to the rooftop (again with the rooftop!) but when the first time he wanted to go there at his new school the door was blocked by a badass looking guy sleeping under a white sheet. Upon waking him up, the badass grabs the transfer student’s hand and calls him an angel.

Then I became confused, is this anime supposed to be straight or gay…?

Later it is revealed that the sexual orientation of this anime doesn’t even matter, because the best part is you’re introduced to the wonders of Jazz music, and Jazz rendition of well-known songs (at least I know Someday My Prince Would Come and also Favourite Things). I’m never really into jazz but I do enjoy the jazzy songs found in video game OSTs and such. So I pretty much can appreciate Jazz music more thanks to this one. That said, Apollon has one of the best OSTs in 2012 anime, composed by Yoko Kanno. On related note, I love the OP; "Sakamichi no Melody" by YUKI.

Since the setting is like, 50 years ago in Japan, and the fact that the demographic is josei, you don’t see any of those typical shits you see in high school anime nowadays. Firstly, NO SHORT SKIRTS. Then you have a record shop. Then you have a couple who actually eloped (I think the development is rather stupid but I guess that’s how the youths of the old days was like?). A confession that didn’t cocktease you until you reach the last episode. Stuff about student activism somewhere. And also a different music genre that emerges to cockblock the two boys’ relationship. And this jazz medley:

Kaoru (the pianist) and Sentarou (the drummer) is the typical combination of 'opposites attract'; the former is the clever, rich guy, and rather weak... the latter is the trouble-making dumb guy who can easily beat up a bunch of third years. What the have in common is both are strong-willed, and both are familiar with music... just that initially their views on music were really different. They may be opposite, but that's the ideal formula for BROMANCE - no doubt about it! Now don't get the wrong idea as these guys do have the girls that they fancy nah they're probably  bisexual. Character development is great, not just individually and between those two but also with other characters as well. One of the things about the ending would give a you a bit of shock, when it's really not supposed to be that shocking.

The story stays true to the manga at least, except a few scenes/chapters have been cut to compress it into 12 episodes. But at least you get to hear the songs come to life.

If you like something different from typical shoujo shit, or typical music-themed anime go ahead and try this one. If you're a girl who enjoys "bromance" then this is for you too :3