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blodeueddLazy Sundays indeed -- any bets on how long it'll take me to drag G out of bed? I'm *hungry*!
Yesterday I spent half an hour rolling around on my mother's big blue exercise ball while watching Fushigi Yuugi Eikoden. She wasn't kidding, it's murder! Even for someone (relatively) in shape such as myself. Poor abs...
Re: FY. Is it just me, or does it seem like cheating to kill off characters and then bring them back, due to popular demand or no, as ghosts or as reincarnations? I know that reincarnation is part of Buddhism, but from what I learned, the whole point is that the soul is made up of several parts which separate at death, meaning that you cannot be reborn the same person. And now we tally up to 13 the number of FY OVA episodes that have the characters running around in search of someone's memories of a past life.
Anyway, the four episodes themselves are ok, better than the first OVA series (yeah, like that's hard!). I didn't like Mayo at all and I think the ending was really contrived. She was deliberately mean throughout (why the hell was what's-her-name friends with her?!) and then we got a little flash-back about her miserable home life which still didn't make me feel much sympathy for her and from what I can tell, the reason she did all that was that she fell in love with Taka (WHYYYYYYYYY?) after seeing him working in a restaurant and was insanely jealous of Miaka even though she *hardly knew her*. Come on, at least Yui was manipulated by Nakago. And I got the impression that it was a sort of snap, like she was probably quite nice before but she was PMSy that day. Oh yes, and we got the obligatory wedding of Baka-Miaka and Taka because we had to see it somewhere, right? That fantasy at the end of the series wasn't enough.
Another thing that bugged me was the whole Hotohori-Houki-Boushin thing. It had bugged me in the other OVAs too, but at least this time I can understand where it's coming from. In the original series, Hotohori died thinking of Miaka, not of his wife or his unborn son (did he even know Houki was pregnant at that time?) Then in the OVAs, he was all mush-mush with his son, which I can understand, and we got to see that Houki really loved him. Okay, I can live with that. Eikoden, however, is based on novels by another author and it seems that she cooked up this back-story for Houki involving her being a poor peasant girl chosen to wed the Emperor and they had a short but tragic love. Retcon beckons...
It wasn't all bad, though, I really liked the reincarnated kiddy versions of the seishi. Poor little Hotohori was pretty clueless. Go, Nuriko! And Mitsukake had the cutest hair! Tasuki also had a different haircut (liked it better before) and seemed quite a bit calmer but as usual, the annoying Girly and Taka got the most screen time. *sigh*
I went out with Anna and her sister for supper and I got Anna to try my seaweed salad which she actually enjoyed, much to her surprise. I told her it didn't taste fishy! She still won't see the light when it comes to sushi, though. Ah well, more for the rest of us! Later on we picked up G and went to a karaoke place which is in the middle of some sort of industrial park. I guess they thought, "Build it and they will come." When we arrived there was hardly anyone there and even when it started filling up, before we left, we managed to sing several songs. As often, with these things, I was pretty much the only non-Asian person there. We saw a girl there who we thought was a guy, at first, because her voice was really deep and we couldn't see her behind the tv. Then when she walked by our table, we could tell it was a girl... a big girl (not fat, just built on a large scale) but damn! her voice was deep! As G put it, "She's not very delicate."
Yesterday I spent half an hour rolling around on my mother's big blue exercise ball while watching Fushigi Yuugi Eikoden. She wasn't kidding, it's murder! Even for someone (relatively) in shape such as myself. Poor abs...
Re: FY. Is it just me, or does it seem like cheating to kill off characters and then bring them back, due to popular demand or no, as ghosts or as reincarnations? I know that reincarnation is part of Buddhism, but from what I learned, the whole point is that the soul is made up of several parts which separate at death, meaning that you cannot be reborn the same person. And now we tally up to 13 the number of FY OVA episodes that have the characters running around in search of someone's memories of a past life.
Anyway, the four episodes themselves are ok, better than the first OVA series (yeah, like that's hard!). I didn't like Mayo at all and I think the ending was really contrived. She was deliberately mean throughout (why the hell was what's-her-name friends with her?!) and then we got a little flash-back about her miserable home life which still didn't make me feel much sympathy for her and from what I can tell, the reason she did all that was that she fell in love with Taka (WHYYYYYYYYY?) after seeing him working in a restaurant and was insanely jealous of Miaka even though she *hardly knew her*. Come on, at least Yui was manipulated by Nakago. And I got the impression that it was a sort of snap, like she was probably quite nice before but she was PMSy that day. Oh yes, and we got the obligatory wedding of Baka-Miaka and Taka because we had to see it somewhere, right? That fantasy at the end of the series wasn't enough.
Another thing that bugged me was the whole Hotohori-Houki-Boushin thing. It had bugged me in the other OVAs too, but at least this time I can understand where it's coming from. In the original series, Hotohori died thinking of Miaka, not of his wife or his unborn son (did he even know Houki was pregnant at that time?) Then in the OVAs, he was all mush-mush with his son, which I can understand, and we got to see that Houki really loved him. Okay, I can live with that. Eikoden, however, is based on novels by another author and it seems that she cooked up this back-story for Houki involving her being a poor peasant girl chosen to wed the Emperor and they had a short but tragic love. Retcon beckons...
It wasn't all bad, though, I really liked the reincarnated kiddy versions of the seishi. Poor little Hotohori was pretty clueless. Go, Nuriko! And Mitsukake had the cutest hair! Tasuki also had a different haircut (liked it better before) and seemed quite a bit calmer but as usual, the annoying Girly and Taka got the most screen time. *sigh*
I went out with Anna and her sister for supper and I got Anna to try my seaweed salad which she actually enjoyed, much to her surprise. I told her it didn't taste fishy! She still won't see the light when it comes to sushi, though. Ah well, more for the rest of us! Later on we picked up G and went to a karaoke place which is in the middle of some sort of industrial park. I guess they thought, "Build it and they will come." When we arrived there was hardly anyone there and even when it started filling up, before we left, we managed to sing several songs. As often, with these things, I was pretty much the only non-Asian person there. We saw a girl there who we thought was a guy, at first, because her voice was really deep and we couldn't see her behind the tv. Then when she walked by our table, we could tell it was a girl... a big girl (not fat, just built on a large scale) but damn! her voice was deep! As G put it, "She's not very delicate."
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Date: 2003-03-23 11:40 am (UTC)