telophase | Jun. 27th, 2006

Jun. 27th, 2006

I got bored with my dungeon, so I switched and am doing a dungeon crawl through

rachelmanija's dungeon. If you get the Wand of B. Writes, it's totally awesome. I applied to a mortal smackdown to both Emma Bull and Ellen Kushner with it, and stole all their gold. XD

Best moments so far:

"You find yourself in a grimy alcove. Crude images of korean barbecue are daubed on the walls. You quaff the potion marked ' SWALLOW'. You suffer a momentary vision of men with glasses."

"You are walking through a rough-walled passage. A wooden sign warns of genji is a skank. "

( How did I do? )

From Neil Gaiman's blog, about his recent visit to ALA (the American Library Association convention):

Also attended (as an audience member) a panel for librarians on Graphic Novels, which left me with the distinct feeling that, if I had been a librarian and had known nothing about what was out there in graphic novels and gone to that panel for information, I would have come away with the impression that most graphic novels are manga. Which seemed to do a disservice to the huge range of graphic novels out there -- the panellists were very well-informed and articulate, but only Jackie Estrada in her initial talk about what was out there seemed to be talking about anything that wasn't manga. And when a Japanese librarian got up and asked pointedly whether there were any other kinds of more respectable graphic novels than the boy-love manga the panel had been talking about, they told her about the educational manga that were now available in the US, as if there weren't any other educational or non-fiction graphic novels out there. Good intentions but, sitting in the audience, it felt a bit blinkered. I felt the same way I would have done if all they'd talked about was superhero comics. Good but I'd hoped for much more.

You can see why sometimes I just want to smack my fellow librarians upside the head. It pays to become familiar with all of a genre, if you're trying to, say, catalog or booktalk it. Right now it's the one-eyed leading the blind and the librarians who don't know a thing about it who came to the panel hoping for guidance are going away with a seriously blinkered view of manga, much less the entire range of available graphic novels.

A sort of behind-the-scenes type video from the Death Note movie. May possibly be from DNII, which they're filming now.

P. H. in OH, your copy of Project BLue Rose came back marked undeliverable. ~~And since I failed to specify in ordering info that people put their online names in the notes, I have no idea who you are or if you're on my friendslist, because nobody did so. :D~~

Ah-ha-ha. Just checked my BPAL Paypal folder -

wordsofastory, I need a good address! :D (telophase14 (at) gmail (dot) com)

The Kou-ikkous is standing and watching, not participating. After it's over, Doku says: Looks like we took care of it.

Hazel: San - zo - ~~hon~~ han
Sanzo, Captain Obvious: You've come to?

Hazel, referring to himself: Shoot him, Sanzo ~~hon~~ han.

Hazel, having some sort of emotional breakdown: He's so strange. So strange. So ... strange.

Hazel: Whatever I've done, they are useless.

OK. This next bit is all going under a cut, because this is the VERY LAST EPISODE and I'm going to talk about the ending, illustrated with screenshots, and if you care about the anime being spoiled for you, you just might want to go on by to the next entry in your friendslist.

If you read the manga: no worries. They've left manga continuity so far behind that it's on the other side of the International Date Line.

( How my nice, deep, sensitive Saiyuki gets turned into a stupid, shallow, shounen show )

Yup. That was it. Because I have a bad case of trainwreck syndrome, I sort of hope they make another series, because I'm not sure how low they could possibly go after this in the animation, the writing, or the translation.

I did manage to miss several episodes because the DVD burn on disc 2 was wonky,and if I get other copies I may report on them, but as for now ... ~~Elvis~~ Sanzo has left the building.

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