I am a lady from Mars

Favorite Mech Series

Gundam. Because it's really the only mech series (multiple) I've enjoyed/seen/bothered with.

An Ecchi Picture from your Favorite Series



I really can't take this meme seriously.

Most Epic Scene Ever

Either I watch some boring anime, or my epic scale is way off the charts because I couldn't think of a single scene that I considered truly "epic." So I cheated and went with an ending sequence instead. Gundam 00's second season was kind of completely ridiculous, but I admit the EDs made up for some of it with their hinting at what was going to happen next. If you compare the second to last and last EDs, they kind of go together and finish what the other started in terms of storytelling. Anyway, it's Yuna Ito's "Trust You" playing over some truly gorgeous animation in the final ED that I find "epic." It's also kind of sad, reminding you that things are coming to an end, though I think it was a decent way to put the show out of it's misery... Yes, I know there's a movie. No need to bring that up.

For some reason I couldn't find JUST a video of the "Trust You" ED, so here's all the ending scenes. "Trust You" is the last one.

Most Annoying Anime Character.



Look at this fucking douchebag with his fucking Justin Beiber hair! LOOK AT HIM. Don't you just want to punch his douchey face? I do. I cannot stand Light Yagami.

The thing about Light is that he's supposed to be a super genius. He's supposedly smart enough to evade the world's greatest detective (Not Batman, but L. Batman would take his Death Note, punch him in the face and make him pee his pants. L just kind of eats.), the police and pretty much the entire world, and, you know, get away with murder. The problem with this is that Light is just a douche. He's so smart, but not smart enough to realize using a Death Note is probably a ~bad idea~. That, and overreacting and getting emotionally involved are big problems when you're trying to be God. Old Testament God managed it, and he was an overemotional kid too. Jeez, Yagami, walk it off.

And I guess he's supposed to be a sociopath, but he just kind of comes off as a competitive dick. He's constantly trying to out smart L, fix the world and finish his vocabulary quiz before you do. Not to mention he's really just desperate for attention. If he stuck to killing criminals and shutting the fuck up about it, he would never have gotten caught. He didn't have to kill the guy impersonating L on television or the people involved in his investigation once they got too close. Getting involved with the investigation at all was a terrible idea. If he could have just kept him emotions in check, he would have been fine.

What's worse is that some fans really do think that he's so smart and try to emulate him. Really? You wanna end up dead for being Hitler with magical stationary? Fine. I guess he appeals to the angry 15 year old boy in many of us, but so do characters like Rorschach and the Punisher. And you're not really supposed to like them. At least Frank Castle and Walter Kovacs had legit reasons to be crazy. Light was just bored.

I could go on forever about why Death Note is a big pile of stupid parading around as genius, how Light is the most annoying fictional creation on this earth and how I want to punch the creators for this bullshit, as well as all the fuck random misogyny, but I'll spare you. Light Yagami is fucking ANNOYING. If wou ever meet someone like him, check his book bag and take away all this notebooks.

Thirty Days of Anime: Very First Anime



Yep. You guessed it.

I actually put a lot of thought into this. I didn't want to have to post Pokemon, since Pokemon was just about everyone in my age group's first anime, but when I thought about it, I realized it really was. I literally hadn't seen any other anime before Pokemon. I think their was a fairy tale cartoon they played on Nick Jr. when I was super little that was apparently anime, but I don't remember that in the least. Pokemon was my true first, and just like everyone else, I watched the show, had the cards and played the Gameboy games. I never really played the card game because none of my friends really took the time to learn it, and I only ever played the Blue, Red and Yellow games, and not even ON a Gameboy; my dad downloaded an emulator and the games for me to play on the computer. I'm pretty sure I never finished any of them, either.

I really was super into this show, though. I shipped Ash and Misty, I wrote fanfiction in my head, I had the books and stickers and all that crap, some of which I'm still trying to get rid of all these years later. (I actually ended up giving most of my Pokemon cards away to some kids at one of my old jobs because I couldn't figure out how to get rid of them otherwise.)

Close seconds are, of course, Digimon (I was SO deep in this fandom, oh my God), Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z, and only because they all played at the same time on Cartoon Network/Fox. But I'm still pretty sure Pokemon was the first anime I ever watched. And though I kind of despise it now (oh, the money it sucked), I have to be grateful that it was my gateway drug into non-collectible card game anime.

And I still have a few Japanese cards that I'm probably never going to give away. They were of really cute characters and I have yet to out grow adorable.

( the meme )