Bored at Work...
Oct. 1st, 2004 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccastareyesI am thinking of being White Mage for Halloween. I have a nifty idea for a costume piece that I might be able to use day-to-day -- basically getting a white hooded sweatshirt (preferably one that buttons or zips, as opposed to the pullover kind) and a bunch of white fleece material. I sew the sleeves on, make the bottom of the robe out of fleece, and attach the skirt of the robe to the underside-bottom of the sweatshirt via snaps. I think I could get away with a hooded sweatshirt with looser sleeves (well, looser sleeves with cuffs underneath -- warmer that way) and a white and red design (school colors -- yay!) on Fall days and I can attach the skirt for costuming. It also would be fun to make a Hogwarts robe like this. One of the things I like least about costuming, is that I can't wear what I make more than a few times a year.
Speaking of crafts, I think I've decided to take up crochet again, once I have free time (read: late December). I know several friends that have hinted that they want Harry Potter scarves, and I have a few ideas for anime-themed ones. I might have to make some for future cons. Cheap, unique items seem to sell well in the Artists' Alley, especially ones that can be commissioned.
I have finished my box o' manga and books. For the record, the box had the last two Vision of Escaflowne graphic novels, manga version of Slayers Return, the next volume of Slayers (City of Lost Souls, which covers the meeting of Amelia and the first visit to Sairaag), and the first Slayers novel.
The Vision of Escaflowne... well, it's interesting. Not much like the series (probably moreso than the movie, though). And the end was friggin weird. Overall, yeah, they are kind of similar, but the characters (especially the villains) are rather different. Good story though.
Dornkirk still creeps the hell out of me, even if in the manga he isn't Isaac Newton.
Slayers Return: Very much like the movie. Okay, I think Naga's golem is in love with Lina, and not the Weird Elven Orihalchon Golem-Turtle-Thingee. And we get a side story from the villains POV that explains why he is a villain -- and what a too-damn-blindly-loyal idiot his sidekick is.
Slayers: City of Lost Souls: There are some things I like about this. Like the fact that Sylphiel's apprehension on the Giga Slave was explained (she had a vision after Zel mentioned their battle with Rezo-Shabranigdo). And they explain the difference between Recovery and Resurrection. Or Copy Rezo's creation -- Rezo apparently created him to test blindness-cures on. But things like Sylphiel's relationship with her father and the character of Eris/Elishel are mentioned, but rarely shown on-screen, save in flashbacks. Overall, I think the pacing in the anime was better, though. The manga felt too rushed. Maybe I was spoiled by having 1.5 books devoted to the Rezo-Shabranigdo arc, as opposed to the 0.75 books devoted to the Copy Rezo-Sairaag arc.
Also two WTFs... at one point, during the battle, Lina tells Gourry to pass off the Sword of Light to Zel (it's in the rush to find something that hurts Copy Rezo). At that time, Amelia and Sylphiel fire off a Rah Tilt... excuse me, I didn't know Sylphiel knew any Shamanism (beyond Levitation and Flare Arrow). So, this means if the manga is like the anime, by the end of it, Sylphiel will know the most powerful spells of three schools of magic (Dragon Slave, Resurrection, and Rah Tilt). I know she's a talented mage, but...
Second WTF is the return of Dilgear, as opposed to Zangulus and Vrumugum. This made me giggle.
PS CPM? It seems everything I buy from you always degrades in quality near the end of the book. Bad translators.
Slayers Novel
This surprised me. First, the narration -- it's weird, since I am so used to third-person limited, to read a first-person book that, even with the translation, feels like the protagonist is talking to me. All of the characters had very distinct voices, which I liked. Lina seems much the same as her anime self. Gourry... it was hard to tell, but I think he was a bit smarter. More of his dense comments seemed to be jokes on Lina. Zel seemed more emotional, at least the way Lina described it. Part of that could be because I couldn't hear him speaking, so I relied much more on what he said -- and a lot of what he said involves a lot of sarcasm and such. On the other hand, Lina described him as sounding very much afraid when Rezo pursued her and Zel after she was separated from Gourry and kidnapped. But, there was much weirdness in that scene in just what Rezo and Zel said to one another. ^_^
The anime appears to have followed the book much more closely than the manga did. Weird.
P.S. Western books need more illustrations.
P.P.S Tokyopop? New speaker means new line. Get a friggin beta, already!
P.P.P.S They left Mazoku in! O happy day!
Speaking of crafts, I think I've decided to take up crochet again, once I have free time (read: late December). I know several friends that have hinted that they want Harry Potter scarves, and I have a few ideas for anime-themed ones. I might have to make some for future cons. Cheap, unique items seem to sell well in the Artists' Alley, especially ones that can be commissioned.
I have finished my box o' manga and books. For the record, the box had the last two Vision of Escaflowne graphic novels, manga version of Slayers Return, the next volume of Slayers (City of Lost Souls, which covers the meeting of Amelia and the first visit to Sairaag), and the first Slayers novel.
The Vision of Escaflowne... well, it's interesting. Not much like the series (probably moreso than the movie, though). And the end was friggin weird. Overall, yeah, they are kind of similar, but the characters (especially the villains) are rather different. Good story though.
Dornkirk still creeps the hell out of me, even if in the manga he isn't Isaac Newton.
Slayers Return: Very much like the movie. Okay, I think Naga's golem is in love with Lina, and not the Weird Elven Orihalchon Golem-Turtle-Thingee. And we get a side story from the villains POV that explains why he is a villain -- and what a too-damn-blindly-loyal idiot his sidekick is.
Slayers: City of Lost Souls: There are some things I like about this. Like the fact that Sylphiel's apprehension on the Giga Slave was explained (she had a vision after Zel mentioned their battle with Rezo-Shabranigdo). And they explain the difference between Recovery and Resurrection. Or Copy Rezo's creation -- Rezo apparently created him to test blindness-cures on. But things like Sylphiel's relationship with her father and the character of Eris/Elishel are mentioned, but rarely shown on-screen, save in flashbacks. Overall, I think the pacing in the anime was better, though. The manga felt too rushed. Maybe I was spoiled by having 1.5 books devoted to the Rezo-Shabranigdo arc, as opposed to the 0.75 books devoted to the Copy Rezo-Sairaag arc.
Also two WTFs... at one point, during the battle, Lina tells Gourry to pass off the Sword of Light to Zel (it's in the rush to find something that hurts Copy Rezo). At that time, Amelia and Sylphiel fire off a Rah Tilt... excuse me, I didn't know Sylphiel knew any Shamanism (beyond Levitation and Flare Arrow). So, this means if the manga is like the anime, by the end of it, Sylphiel will know the most powerful spells of three schools of magic (Dragon Slave, Resurrection, and Rah Tilt). I know she's a talented mage, but...
Second WTF is the return of Dilgear, as opposed to Zangulus and Vrumugum. This made me giggle.
PS CPM? It seems everything I buy from you always degrades in quality near the end of the book. Bad translators.
Slayers Novel
This surprised me. First, the narration -- it's weird, since I am so used to third-person limited, to read a first-person book that, even with the translation, feels like the protagonist is talking to me. All of the characters had very distinct voices, which I liked. Lina seems much the same as her anime self. Gourry... it was hard to tell, but I think he was a bit smarter. More of his dense comments seemed to be jokes on Lina. Zel seemed more emotional, at least the way Lina described it. Part of that could be because I couldn't hear him speaking, so I relied much more on what he said -- and a lot of what he said involves a lot of sarcasm and such. On the other hand, Lina described him as sounding very much afraid when Rezo pursued her and Zel after she was separated from Gourry and kidnapped. But, there was much weirdness in that scene in just what Rezo and Zel said to one another. ^_^
The anime appears to have followed the book much more closely than the manga did. Weird.
P.S. Western books need more illustrations.
P.P.S Tokyopop? New speaker means new line. Get a friggin beta, already!
P.P.P.S They left Mazoku in! O happy day!
