a bullet list for my sweetheart

Even though it is only Thursday tomorrow, I already feel like it's Friday. Or that it needs to be. :/

A post it post of "Remind me to talk about...."

1. the most recent episode of Vampire Knight anime : specifically how I'm not sure they adapted the manga artwork style into a cohesive/consistent style for the anime and that it suffers for it. There's a flatness/generic shoujo quality that I don't associate with the manga.


2. how even though I'm not a Yuu Watase fan at all, and really, live action adaptations of manga are always a hit or miss situation - I somehow ended up watching the first episode of Zettai Kareshi and found myself strangely charmed by it. At the very least, I certainly wouldn't mind having Hayami Mokomichi as my fake robot boyfriend. I might need to do a mini screencap review for it.


3. Last Friends - and the concept of family, victimhood and contradictions - the easy generalizations and what I think the screenwriter is trying to say about modern social issues and how much I was reminded of The Fun Home and an episode of This American life about double lives and what it means to lie to people you supposedly love


4. Maiko haaan! - an odd, very broad Japanese comedy about an ramen salaryman who's obsessed with geisha and the long suffering girlfriend who loves him despite him being a total and utter troll to her, and yet there's redemption, musical numbers, and people get stabbed with exacto knives. Good times, clearly.



5. How I'm stuck half way through A Natural History of Love, yet I went and picked up Joe Hill's Heart Shaped Box purely on the basis that it is about a man who buys a ghost on an online auction site and his life goes to the proverbial handbasket. Also, I'll be playing on paperbackswap.com this weekend - unload some manga possibly, fill out my Terry Pratchett collection


6. I need to spend quality time with my new Shin Han Touch markers. Because art supplies are ruinously expensive sometimes, and it's ridiculous that I haven't drawn in ..I don't know how many months.


7. My list of favorite Asian actors - mostly jdrama oriented, as they're the majority of what I watched this past year. No JE actors are on this list, despite my adoration of one evil-sama, because I'm trying to think in terms of overall body of work. Maybe as a footnote or something.