naanima | 'Honey and Clover' and FMP and Bleach 195

RL Evil. Death by RL.

On the fandom side of things: HONEY and CLOVER! Where are the FANS for Honey and Clover?! I have so much LOVE for this series. My SHOUJO love has been once again IGNITED!

There NEED to be Shuuji/Harada/Rika THREESOME fics! Except -
- except omfg! The PAIN! *cries*

I mean, Shuuji all but confesses that he loved Harada, and the three of them were so experimenting. But, omfg, the pain that Shuuji and Rika must have felt when Harada died. Every time I think about it, the thought of Rika living with the guilt of surviving that crash hurts. And let's not even forget about Shuuji's comment about not being able to live with Rika because when they are together they talk/think about Harada. *cries* I'm in love with Harada, and he's only in the anime series for less than 3 minutes!

So, now I move into the minefield that is Mayama/Rika... there are not enough words that can express how much I want the two of them to be together. Rika deserves to be happy; Mayama is in love (obsessed with) her, and it just hurt so damn much. There's a list of reasons as to why they shouldn't be together, and Rika is still clear headed enough to realise that she's just hurting Mayama by having him near her. Except Mayama is that ~~obsessed~~ in love with her that he really doesn't care.

And OMFG! They had SEX!

Morita
... What can I say about the man except; I WORSHIP YOU! MORITA-SAMA! *SQUEE*

I love how I can never be sure of what exactly he's feeling, what he feels for Hagu, what he's thinking when he's speaking to Yamada, or when he looks on at Takemoto and Hagu (I CRY at those bits). There are moments there I just feel for him.

Takemoto
I like Takemoto, I just honestly don't have much to say about him, except I want him to be happy.

Yamada
I love Yamada; I love how she's not blind in her love for Mayama. She knows she needs to change, she need to give up, she need to let what she feels for Mayama. Except you never seem to have control of whom you end up loving. I feel for her, and wish she's GET TOGETHER with MORITA!! (I'm probably imagining things, but they just seem to click.)

Hagu
I ADORE HAGU. LOVE HAGU! *huggles Hagu* and I honestly feel bad for her at times. Seeing the world through her eyes... I'm not sure I want to. Oh, but when she started crying; telling Shuuji how when she went out with Morita it wasn't fun... *sniffles* HAGU! *huggles*

I just love this series. It is about unrealised love, realised love, broken hearts, second chances, moving on, not moving on; matters of the heart are never easy.

anarch_kitty, I WILL call on you once my EVIL assessments of DOOM are over and done with. Need more of this series.

Oh, and episode 5 of Full Metal Panic! Second Raid!: Melissa is really hot in that dress. I love Sagara, and I so see the plot device! (But LOVE!)

Despite what this might look like I have been doing work. I’m just not sleeping much.

ETA: Bleach 195; KUBO TITE vs FANS
Fans = (- Infinity) + 1
Kubo Tite = Infinity + 1

KUBTO TITE WINS AT LIFE (and breaks my brain; even the fan artists lose).

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I MISS YOU AND WE NEED TO GO OUT FOR LUNCH OR DINNER OR COFFEE REAL SOON FOR A REALLY GOOD FANGIRLING SESSION ♥ ♥ ♥

I MISS YOU TOO! AND I PROMISE WE'LL GET TOGETHER SOMETIME NEXT WEEK SO WE CAN FANGIRL AND META-WANK ABOUT FANDOM/FANFICTION/AND THE CULTURAL IMPOACT ON FANDOM! *SNUGGLES* &HEARTS;

I wait for you!!! I want to share H&C love!!!

And I have other stuff I want to pimp to you. Have just discovered Gakuen Alice and Kamichu. But October is the month of new anime and there may be more on its way. ;_;

It is, it is *gestures wildly*

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ this SERIES!

Rika breaks my heart *cries*

I HATE EVERYONE IN H&C. EXCEPT MAYAMA, THAT KID WHO LOOKS LIKE JAPANESE FANART OF THE HYOYEI KID OOTORI, AND THE POTTERY GIRL. THEY ALL SUCK. :(

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Haha, um, sorry. Now I read your post and respond to what you actually wrote. :D

See, I was totally on board with the Shuuji/Harada/Rika love, except that in the same episode where they introduce it, THEY BREAK THE OT3. HEART RIPPED OUT, man. They go ahead and put in "Those two were more than friends and lovers to me; it was like they shared my skin" or whatever it is they said. But then they have those other two move out and leave him alone when they get married! AND HE PRETENDS HE DOESN'T MIND. YEAH. RIGHT. :/ (This bothers me more than I can explain. Like, I don't mind infidelity or bloody angst or anything, but I have a massive, gut-level threesome-breaking squick. I couldn't look at the screen while that was going on.)

And also, in that same episode? Whatsisface's mum, the nurse? And his dad? I HATE THEM SO MUCH. No wonder he never goes home! WTF is wrong with a character who, as his dying wish, tells his very young child to take care of his fragile mother? Or a mother who leans on her CHILD until she gets a new boyfriend and tells him she doesn't need him to be strong anymore? Affecting him to the point where he realises, once he's no longer needed, that he's empty and was only living to prop his mother up for those years? They're totally weak and repulsive. I wanted to wrap him up and cut them off from him. :/ (His mum's boyfriend, though? So adorable~! I was in love with him, as a father figure. Or at least an uncle or stepfather. He's the only one who got it right.)

So I come away with feelings like my previous comment to you. Except I love this show and I love nearly everyone we see for more than a few seconds. :D

Morita is so awesome...! I sort of think that he is what Hagu will be in seven years' time; they're very much alike, in a lot of ways.

I totally ship Mayama/~~Morita~~Yamada, though, not Mayama/Rika. You know, in terms of totally doomed canon pairings. Do we need to have a shipping war? :D

[And, dude, do you need to have played the game to watch that final fantasy movie? (Assuming that's what they're playing at Curtin's anime club on Saturday.)]

I KNOW. I understand, and I was LIKE! "WTF?! They should haveust MOVED in together, where Shuuji could have been the eccentric uncle or something. And you know what really gets to me? The one flashback scene where the 3 of them are in bed; Harada looking on at the unconscious Shuuji, and I think it is Shuuji whose holding onto his hands, and at the same time; he's holding Rika to his chest. He had this expression that made me squee.

At the same time it makes sense as to why they needed to separate. No matter how cracked hnC is, it does take the emotional aspects of the characters very seriously.

... Oh, who the fuck am I kidding, I want OT3, and SCREW everything else! (can't be coherent, have had only 7 hours of sleep in the past 2 days.)

ME TOO! MASSIVE OT3-breaking. Hurt, pain, much screaming.

No hate on my part. I'm not saying what she did was right, but you know, I don't think being a single mother in Japan is easy. So, no more comments on this, because dammit, it is ALL about the PAIRINGS and the HEARTBREAKS!

The show does make me feel like the way you feel. But at least it doesn't make it easy, because unfortunately relationships are never easy.

OMFG! YOu are so right, Hagu is SO going to be like Morita in 10 years time. When he looks on Hagu with that wistful look... I cry.

I'm all for mayama/morita. Sorry, can't see Mayama/Yamada work, until Mayama can get over Rika, and I just don't see him getting over it (Ok, let me re-phrase, I was all for Mayama/Yamada after Mayama got a job and stuff, but as soon as ep 15 hit... I just can't see Mayama's feeling for Yamada as anything more than those of feelings for a sibling, and I just don't see him giving up. And yes, M/R is soooo DOOMED. So, no pairing war. I'm gonna follow canon on this one (at least the anime).

[Probably a good idea. But I know a few who has seens it without playing the game. The shiny helps. (I wasn't at the committee meeting las tsat (study), but I assume so. I'll give you a confirmation by tonight.]

They absolutely should all have moved in together. Or, like. Continued to live together. Because I'm not even all that invested in the idea that they of course have to all have sex? (Although I'm sure they did. :D) It's more that living together allows them to keep their emotional connection, and doesn't cut one of them off from it. They were so totally in one emotional relationship before. That look when they were all sharing the bed, yes! <3 And it's obviously not like there are these two people who focus on the one guy; Shuu & Rika clearly care about one another too.

Separating makes no sense whatsoever! I just can't even fathom how that could be OK, ever. Wouldn't people understand? :D

Man. I want to own this show, when it comes out on DVD.

Mayama/Morita, then! There's a pairing that'd last and not cause untold pain for everyone! I have only watched the first five episodes (what they've shown at the UWAnime screenings), so! My opinions might change. ~~I was sort of gunning for Yamada/Hagu at first, anyway. Even though that silver-haired boy is adorable.~~ I do think that both R/M & M/Y are sort of doomed already, though. It's sad that he's not seeming to be ready to give it up! Because I can't really see Rika giving up her pain, either. So all three of them are sort of stuck in a happiness-sucking limbo, until Yamada (being the only sensible one, and also having Morita around to help) drags herself out of there.

Is there a manga of this?

[:)! Thanks, dude. I didn't realise you were on a committee for this thing.]

The series becomes ♥ It is just so awesome!

I concur with everything you said, but once again I'm going with the whole cultural aspect of it, and I sticking with it ;p

You need to see more of this series. MORE! By episode 15 I'm being pulled left and right, up and down, and it is so difficult to decide who should end up with who. Because it is not that easy anymore! *cries*

From what I've gathered they won't be showing AC this week, but this is by viewing the website, as I completely forgot about asking whether AC will be shown this week or not. RL is kicking my arse.

Pfft, culture. :D

I hope they show a lot of this series before the semester is over! I'll probably start downloading it when I get back to the US, too. It's one of my favourite shows that's going on at the moment. <3 But I don't know if I could write or read fic for it or anything; it doesn't seem like that sort of show, for me.

Ah. Thanks! I couldn't see anything at all about what they'd be showing, on the website.

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