egad, it's dusty here

[nekokoban]

THEORETICALLY I still have this journal, don't I.

Hi everyone I'm working on those fic prompts people gave me like a week ago orz orz orz I AM LIKE THE MOST EASILY-DISTRACTED THING IN THE HISTORY OF FOREVER AND A DAY.

So I have a new schedule at work! I am now 8:30 - 5 (as opposed to 9 to 5:30), but it is ... surprisingly difficult to adjust to even just a half-hour, because I am a terrible nightowl and if it were up to me, I'd go to bed at two and wake up at ten every day. Okay, that's a lie. More like go to bed at two and wake up at nine-thirty and even then that'd be pushing it, one way or the other. On the other hand, getting home half an hour earlier is completely A-OK with me.

My June feels like it was incredibly jam-packed, even though in retrospect, I didn't ... do that much? I saw my aunt and uncle for dinner, I went up and harassed harukami and mackzazzle and the Laser-Eyed Super-Smart Cat Of Doom for a weekend, I ... did ... other things ... ? Watched Doctor Who and started Life on Mars and went to the Freemont Solstice Parade and there are things I am so forgetting. Somewhere.

And then 4th of July weekend, while everyone and their grandmother was at AX, zinjadu and I combined our magical planning powers and got theladyfeylene up for a long weekend. :D In our truest fashion, we had adventures in the sense of her plane got in early, we had the wrong phone number, her cell had died, and I proved myself to be the most oblivious person in the world. (No, really. APPARENTLY someone can be yelling my name and waving at me and I will still walk right past them until they are in my face going HI! >_>a On top of the hilarity of Haru and I missing each other for nearly half an hour at the ferry, when I was flopped on the bench behind her and she was pacing in front of the exit and NEITHER OF US THOUGHT TO ACTUALLY LOOK AROUND sob, I think this probably bodes poorly for me if I ever go somewhere to meet people.) We got mobbed by squealing ravers on the bus, discovered a fantastic new Japanese resturant in the ID, and there was a lot of just hanging out and watching Top Gear.

Somewhere in me I have an essay on the ending of Doctor Who season four and inherent tragedy and characters, but it's not going anywhere right now.

Instead, I will say that I really like Junjou Romantica/Egoist/Terrorist and I like sunny days when the weather is still cool, and HEY YOU SEATTLE FOLKS I know that Jessie is arranging things but you guys should totally come see WALL•E with me because I didn't get to when everyone else went and it looks so cute and I hate going to movies by myself, I'm so lame ;;. Okay? Okay. :|b

Comments

[yhibiki.livejournal.com]

YOU LIKE JUNJOU ROMANTICA/EGOIST/TERRORIST? HURRAY. Does that mean I can expect fic from you? And is this just the anime or the manga we're talking about? And and and.... I might like the series a little bit.

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[nekokoban]

I--

holy crap almost replied with an RP journal

--YES I DO. I VERY MUCH DO and maybe yes fic, I've been seriously considering it sob. And I like both, actually, though the anime was what got me started -- I needed something funny and fluffy and I thought, "Oh hey, I read like two chapters of this manga way long ago, I should see if I still like it."

SOB. ♥♥ My favorite is Egoist.

[yhibiki.livejournal.com]

I LOVE EGOIST. IT IS SO MUCH LOVE.

Can I point you to the JR Kink meme? :3 And the JR comm (junjou_fanatics) has all sorts of neeto stuff, like downloads and summaries and fics. XDD

and although Egoist is my favorite (because it breaks a lot of conventions), I have to admit that Usagi is so goddamned romantic sometimes it makes me melt. *_*

(edit for less sucky grammar)

[nekokoban]

EGOIST IS DEFINITELY MY FAVORITE, but I don't actually have a preference between Romantica and Terrorist. XD All of it is just a lot of fun and funny and OKAY I JUST LIKE IT ALL. \o/

I am totally for downloads -- I watched the anime off Veoh, and I've been buying this weird combination of the BLU translations and the Japanese volumes (which is to say, 1-6 in English and 7-10 in Japanese), but. I kind of want to backorder 1-6 in Japanese too, so I can see exactly what language was used BECAUSE I AM LAAAAAME LIKE THAT.

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[yhibiki.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the English can't exactly show Nowaki's keigo. :X It's so weird reading it in English and having Nowaki be so casual with Hiroki when in the Japanese he's kind of 尊敬するing.

Plus, I don't agree with their translations all of the time. :/ I thought it was a "wakattemasu" that they translated into "I know," and I could see how that could happen even though I didn't think it was appropriate in that context. But then I rechecked, and it turned out to be a "hai." T_T (this is in volume 4, the nickname chapter where Hiroki says, "I'm cold" and then Nowaki replies with either "I know" or "hai" depending on the language, and I feel this can lead to different interpretations.)

It gets really fun if you start reading the Junai novels and using those to interpret Usagi's character XD Which I'm pretty sure we're not supposed to be doing.


For me it's Egoist > Romantica > Terrorist, just because the 17 year age difference is kind of squick and because Miyagi pissed me off so much in Egoist >( Well, and Egoist is my favorite, so when I picked up volume 5 and saw there was some brand new couple that wasn't Egoist filling the pages, I got kind of miffed. I HAVE RECONCILED WITH THAT THOUGH. Now I just like it the least because of other, more valid reasons XDD

[nekokoban]

Nooo, I've been listening to the drama and -- Nowaki is amazingly polite for a guy who's so passionate. *g*

Hmmm, I can sort of see where you're coming from, but I actually like translating it as "I know." Because essentially Hiroki is telling Nowaki he wants to be held, and translating it directly as "yes" sounds ... a little awkward? I feel like translating it as "I know" sort of works -- because Nowaki's answering Hiroki's subtext, rather than his actual text, and oh man don't I sound laaaame. XD

--Do you know if I can find the Junai novels on that comm, because I've listened to at least Junai Romantica and had to keep PAUSING because it was just so ridiculously over-the-top clichetastic that I had to just giggle a lot. XD

I actually find Miyagi hilarious. :(b And the age gap probably would squick me, I think, if it had been the other way around -- given that Shinobu is the one driving the relationship, even if Miyagi tops, I'm a bit better with it? Also, I just liked the graveside scene a lot. ._.a

[yhibiki.livejournal.com]

I don't think I would have translated it as "yes," but I think if you put Hiroki's literal meaning into the sentence, it would be weird?
Hiro: "Hug me."
Nowa: "I know."

:X That's why I might have put it as "Got it" or something like that. (ALSO, I saw somebody going on about how this can be interpreted as Nowaki saying "I know that you are emotionally cold" or something like that. :X Which of course doesn't work given the Japanese samui and tsumetai are different, but... yeah.)

I think I saw links to the novels the other day. Somebody had posted them and I had to refrain from downloading because they are in the mail, dammit! COMING ANY DAY NOW. :X


Yeah, the graveside scene won me over, but I didn't have that for most of it XD Like, I had read volumes 1-3 through scanlations, then I went to Japan in 2005 and bought up to volume 5. I wanted more Egoist, but there was terrorist instead. I didn't get the graveside scene until I came to Japan in sept 2007 XDD And even then I didn't actually _read_ the terrorist until I did the write-ups for the JR comm. So for the longest time, I was bitter at Terrorist.

Shinobu's antics are what won me over for the series though. He's just so hilariously funny. XDD I hope Nakamura writes a big crossover at some point, because I'm pretty sure Shinobu and Hiroki would be pretty hilarious together.

[nekokoban]

Well, I sort of interpret Hiroki's phrase as -- "I want you to hug me" rather than "Hug me" which is just nitpicking at this point. *g* And I mean, even if Nowaki is responding to what Hiroki MEANS, he's also responding to what he SAYS, so literally -- "I'm cold I need/want a hug" and "I know" work for me? I DUNNO. XD

Still, how much do I love that there actually IS a spinoff novel series for "Akikawa Yayoi"? It's hilarious, and when you get the novels, you have to tell me about themmmmmm. :3

The graveyard scene really kind of clinched it -- I love Usagi's romantic moments (and his stupid ones, let's be honest), but Miyagi finally letting go and moving on was really touching to me. And it's not huge or dramatic or fireworks, it's just, "Sensei, I've fallen in love again." I wibbled. >:

... I suspect that the series can't end till at least Shinobu graduates and gets into M College, and has to deal with Oni Kamijou for a few classes. I might cry a little if it doesn't go there. *g*

[yhibiki.livejournal.com]

?? Shinobu is going to T-dai, as a lawyer. :O Happens in volume [something past 6 but before 10].

The latest chapter of Romantica has a kind of time-skip, so that it's the start of Misaki's 4th year. I wonder if Egoist and Terrorist will follow that time skip.

downloads for the novels!! *stares at the shiny download links* D: D: D: but I know I'm not gonna like reading it on screen as much as on paper.

[nekokoban]

... somehow I TOTALLY MISSED THAT. Sob. Did I mention about being oblivious, I think I did. XD

Timeskip, huh? Innnnteresting. Can I harass you for summaries, or are they posted anywhere already. :(

.. ... ... I'm at WORK, and yet-- and yet! I really want to. (I also didn't know there was already a Junai Egoist 3, but of course that's the one that's not scanned. XD) BUT THANK YOU FOR THE LINK, I SHALL ABUSE IT PROPERLY LATER♥

[hitode.livejournal.com]

Junjou series! ♥ ♥ ♥

[nekokoban]

I FREELY ADMIT IT, I have been hook-line-sinkered into it. Sob. ♥♥

[hitode.livejournal.com]

GOOD. IT'S WONDERFUL. I've been following the manga and drama CDs for a long time and was OVERJOYED when it got turned into an anime (which has now been licensed yay). I love it so much.

[nekokoban]

I found a site that had all of the dramas for download, and proceeded to help myself. :|b Sob, I know what DVDs I'll be buying as they come out. ._.a

[hitode.livejournal.com]

Oho, I don't suppose I could bug you for a link? And seriously. Sob, my money. I keep meaning to buy the manga in English, too.

[nekokoban]

\o/ I think you have to register for the forum to see the page, but: hit it up here.

I have half the series in English and half in Japanese at this point; I'm kind of considering buying the rest in Japanese, at least. 8( THE IMPULSIVENESS IS STRONG IN ME.

[hitode.livejournal.com]

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I have all of it in Japanese up to volume 8? 9? I don't even know how many are out right now and I always forget which is the last one I have whenever I go to Kinokunya, so I never end up getting more. ;o;

[nekokoban]

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They're out to at least v10! That's the last one I have, and I think it's still being serialized, so one can hope for v11 in the future. \o/

[hitode.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[adds that to the list along with Pandora Hearts >>]

[nekokoban]

....... ♥♥ :D

[shadoewhunter]

HONEY, WE NEED TO VISIT EACH OTHER, Y/N? :D

[nekokoban]

YYYYYY :D

But I think we're going to need signs, or else we might miss each other. XD

[shadoewhunter]

A giant Get Backers sign?

[nekokoban]

I'd know what to look for, at least! Maybe.

[shadoewhunter]

You're so cute, Ginji XD

If you come, we can go to Disneyland~!