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The Barbelith Anime Primer

 
  

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Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
19:02 / 02.02.07
I've seen the movie and nothing else. It was a fun ride, despite having to piece it together bit by bit and still never having the full story. I recognize themes present in the movie, and some of the more broad metaphors I grasp, but that doesn't really tell what the hell is going on (I'm still not sure. I guess I'm going to have to watch the series at some point).
 
 
Essential Dazzler
16:34 / 10.02.07
So, I'm about to start watching NG:E. I bought the Platinum collection, and found a fan-sub of EoE.

I was planning on watching the 26 episodes through, then going back and watching the director's cuts of 20-24 and EoE. is that the best way to watch it? Are the original cuts of the last episodes worth bothering with at all?
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
16:54 / 10.02.07
Short answer: yes. If you have time I definitely recommend seeing the original broadcast versions of 21 through 26 either before or after the director's cut versions, since part of the Evangelion viewing experience is seeing the joins where budgetary and censorship concerns really began to bite.

If you're really planning to watch the series right through from a cold start, I might suggest allowing yourself some down time before viewing End of Eva. It gets heavy in there.
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
16:56 / 10.02.07
Sorry, 20-24, that should have read.
 
 
This Sunday
01:29 / 12.02.07
And I'm gonna be the only person to post and suggest watching the Eva movie(s) entirely separate from the TV series. Because TV ending is entirely superior and anything learned from 'End of Eva' is more or less unnecessary to the visceral/emotional/entertainment experience. It does have more guns and blood in it, however, which is by some judgments the sort of stuff that makes a superior version.

In other words: Watch the series. Watch movies later. Watch new movies after that - whenever they get released, which should start in Japan in a few months.

Oh, and I don't know that watching the original release before the director's cut is really worthwhile. Part was just budgetary/time, but the new stuff is more enhancement than revelatory or flipping a meaning around somewhere. The things you have to figure out on your own (like um, sploilery things discussed elsewhere on the interweb and other threads here) you still have to figure out, director's cut or broadcast/original release.
 
 
Seth
19:24 / 13.02.07
Regarding the endless discussions already had on this site about how Evangelion *should* be watched, you might choose to click here, here, here and here. My spoiler filled take on my preferred order for Eva-initiates can be found here, but ultimately you'll just have to watch all the content available and decide for yourself how it all pieces together.

Another few entries for the Primer, mainly old favourites that I reckon deserve inclusion…

The films of Studio Ghibli and it's most famous creator, Hayao Miyazaki. Strong points include astounding animation, boundless imagination, peerless storytelling, three-dimensional characterisation (particularly of the many strong female heroines), great soundtracks, the highest standards in voice acting, and complex ethics (seldom a bad guy in sight) that often centre on ecological themes. Weak points are few and far between, this studio has consistently released some of the greatest films I've seen. Many are award winning international box office successes, hugely acclaimed and massively influential. Make sure you only watch them subbed, as even the better dubbed versions of some of the films ruin major storytelling moments. Barbelith discussions to be found here, here and here. I'm constantly amazed that I speak to so many people who have been blown away by at least one Ghibli movie (usually two or three) and have not devoured the entire back catalogue. Movies to rewatch regularly for the rest of your life. They can pretty much all be purchased here, and just the Miyazaki films can be hired here.

Ninja Scroll. This film totally fucking rocks. About as deep as a puddle in the desert, just a great adventure story with some hella cool baddies and fight scenes. Buy it here, rent it here.

Akira. This movie was the entry point to anime for a whole generation. You regularly come across people who seem to be faintly reactionary about it, largely because for many it's one of their only reference points. I guess it's the "Will people just shut up about this movie" effect. It's a sci-fi epic in which the close friendships of a group of teenage bikers are torn apart when they unwittingly become caught up in an unholy mess of politics, terrorism, religious mania, unethical science, bone headed militarism and unstoppable evolutionary forces that are far beyond their ability to understand or control (based on an acclaimed manga series by the same creator, Katsuhiro Otomo, with merciless edits to get the running time down). It's still a staggering achievement of a film in pretty much every department, rightly regarded as a classic and has a massive global influence. Special mention must be made of Geinoh Yamashirogumi's score, some of the most brain-meltingly unique compositions for film I've encountered. Akira deserves its status as an anime core text. Barbelith discussion here. Buy it here, rent it here.

Otaku no Video. This is Studio Gainax' examination of the otaku phenomenon, like a Trekkies for anime obsessives. It's format combines interview footage of a variety of real life fanatics (although some seem a little staged) and an animated through story about a guy ditches a promising tennis career and then gets dumped by his girlfriend when he gets subverted by an old nerd mate of his, and subsequently sets out to become Otaking, the greatest otaku of them all. With informative liner notes and packed with references to other films and shows, it's by turns very funny and cringingly uncomfortable when you recognise yourself and your mates in many of the characters depicted (don't pretend that you don't). Notable for the appearance of Misty May – a character whose name many have taken to use as the unit by which Gainaxing is measured (see the first page of this thread) – as well as some lovely Gunbuster referencing at the end. Along with Mellow Maromi episode of Paranoia Agent it's a fascinating behind the scenes glimpse into anime and the culture that surrounds it. Can be purchased here.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
20:18 / 13.02.07
Passing thought after watching most of Bleach and all of Full Metal Alchemist: why, why, why can't the studios scrape together twenty bucks for more than THREE PIECES OF PRODUCTION MUSIC? Bleach is a particularly nasty transgressor: there is the "flashback music," the "suspense building up to fight" music, and the "fight music," and that's it. I have now heard the same looped 2-minute compositions at least 50 times each, and I'm only on episode 43.

It's gone beyond mildly annoying into knocking me right out of whatever suspension of disbelief I've built up. Especially that irritating as hell tiki tiki tiki tokka TIKI TIKI TIKITIKI thing they play when opponents are sizing each other up, which comprises about 93% of most episodes.

I know you have to save your shekels where you can in the animation industry, but production music is NOT EXPENSIVE. Hell, with that kind of fan community, I'm sure you could get tons of good compositions on the cheap. Or even on the free.
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
05:23 / 14.02.07
On long format series such as those Matt just mentioned, the recycling of limited musical themes tends to be one of the more annoying elements and can often contribute to a strong sense of repetitiveness in the show's other elements - even if, as in the case of Bleach and FMA, it's not strictly deserved. Eureka Seven, about which we have another thread, can occasionally suffer from the same problem but is just about redeemed by the quality of the music itself.

Concerning musical scores for anime shows, does anyone have any favourites? Because, and I'm sorry to mention this wonderful show for the nth time on this thread, I can't express enough my admiration for Kouhei Tanaka's scores for the first and second Gunbusters. Ranging from flighty pop to universe-eating classical sturm-und-drang that makes you wish Hollywood space operas had soundtracks this good, it's worth a listen all by itself and amplifies what's on screen immensely, which is all you need say for a film score. The only score in a similar vein which beats it is Masamichi Amano's work on the Giant Robo OVA series.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
07:12 / 14.02.07
'You Made Me Drink Blood ... You ... All Of You ...'

Is, as I understand it, the slightly suspect translation of the title of the latest best thing in the anime genre. It concerns, I gather, our old friend, the salaryman, who's absolutely right to be furious really - it can't be much fun, that, night after night, no room to move in the sleeping area, waking up in the cubicle, and then having to go to work. So who can blame him for going on a kind of ... actually really quite upsetting killing spree? Not this reviewer, certainly.

Although I did feel ambivalent towards the end; he'd already got the cash, so why feed the entire board of directors to the fighting dogs? And their wives as well? And their children?

Good flim, though.
 
 
This Sunday
12:49 / 14.02.07
'Revolutionary Girl Utena' and its film retelling have excellent soundtracks which are, unfortunately, kinda pricey. They feature stuff by Kenji Kawai as well as J.A. Seazar doing absolutely marvelous choral rock opera drama bloodythunder pieces for the duels.

I remain weirdly attached to the Evangelion OSTs, too. The 'S2 Works' boxset gets more play by me than it reasonably should, since it often features four to six cuts of the same song, right in a row. What can I say? Shiro Sagisu may have put addictive drugs in those sounds.

'Mahou Tsukai Tai' has a very nice and mellow soundtrack, excellent for lulling small children to sleep. And nice to listen to after you've got them to sleep.

Why is everything by Yoko Kanno ('Please Save My Earth', 'Macross Plus', 'Cowboy Bebop', and more) so damned good? Even when it's not particularly original or maybe even just not really good, I still love it. Except for one song from 'Cowboy Bebop' that features vocals of some Robin Hoody minstreling type on CD which are not present when it was used in the series and make it really annoying. It is, from memory, right after 'Green Bird'.

Oh, and 'Kyun! Kyun! My Boyfriend's a Pilot' and the opening song from the Emeraldas OVAs are both the speak-to-my-soul thing. Let's not explore that too deep...
 
 
Seth
06:27 / 18.02.07
I seem to operate differently to most people in that I don't tend to get annoyed at repetition, even at levels whereby other people feel something's been overplayed. So stuff like the lack of variety in the Bleach score actually works very well for me, I guess in the NLP stacked anchors sense: the pieces of music snowball in potency the more they're used and the more chains of reference are built up (this is something that Eureka Seven has in spades. PM me if you want a single CD selection from the E7 OST, it really is awesome). In fact my experience differs so greatly that I start to miss pieces if they haven't played in a few episodes. Right now I'm craving that really stupid one that goes, "If you want to see some action/got to be the centre of attraction."

I mean, dude… I even love the Azumanga Daioh soundtrack. That's far, far more repetitive and annoying than Bleach. If find myself whistling it all the time.

I heard that the new edition of Gunbuster will feature an alternate score in the first episode due to legal reasons. I'm betting it's the Chariots of Fire rip-off for the training montage. By the way, if anyone gets this new edition please let me know what the transfer and the subs are like, as I'll consider upgrading my copy if it's quality. Overall it's the score for GBII that has the edge for me, I'm in love with that recurring theme that has variations in episodes two, three and six.

I'm a big sucker for sappy closing themes, like the first and current Bleach closers or the first Eureka Seven ending. As for the best opening theme I've ever heard, that honour has to go to E7's fourth theme.

I think anime can be credited with the total death of any snobbery of pretence of cool in my music taste. Having decided that it's not acceptable to like something just because it's in a cartoon, I'm now having to reassess Dido (Serial Experiments Lain's opening sounds exactly like them), Evanesence (however it's spelled), Blink 182 and Linkin Park (because of the stylistic similarities to Bleach themes). This is either a really good thing or a really bad thing, and has led to the frightening experience of listening to Curtis Stigers' I Wonder Why and being completely floored by it on the level of pure noise, akin to the rush I felt when I first heard Merzbow or Yasunao Tone and asking myself, "Why would anyone want to sound like this?"
 
 
Seth
07:44 / 28.02.07
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise. The first Gainax movie, it's about the how the early days of an alternate Japan's space programme spark an international incident. Featuring fascinating and extremely detailed world building, peerless animation and another of those classic Gainax endings. Get hold of it here.
 
 
Seth
13:23 / 09.03.07
I've been intending to rewatch Akira for a while, particularly since pin hadn't seen it and I'd just written the above paragraph on it. It must have been nearly a decade since the last time I saw it, and it pretty much floored me again after such a long time. I remember it seeming much longer, but this time round it rattled away at breakneck pace. The screenwriting method of always enter a scene three quarters of the way through is taken to quite an extreme and is probably the most obvious source of many people's opinion that this is a "difficult" film. It's not particularly difficult, it's just ultra-compressed storytelling that encourages you to fill in a lot of the blanks yourself.

The thing that amazed me most is for the most part it just hasn't dated (we rewatched the two GitS movies yesterday and the use of CGI instantly dates the look, even with a movie as comparatively recent as Innocence). The animation is still leagues ahead of practically everything else around, there are some beautifully composed shots that couldn't be possible in any other medium (Tetsuo being shot by the Colonel, flying towards the camera from the impact but with him filmed as static in midair as the camera does a reverse crash zoom, scenery seeming to recede at speed). And there's just so many animated elements on screen, every shot has something going on. Much of the design work still looks current, particularly that bike.
 
 
This Sunday
18:02 / 09.03.07
The animation in 'Akira' is truly goddammed beautifully smooth. The action bits are great. It's just... y'know every time there's a girl onscreen, I kinda wish we were watching their story instead? The 'Story of Kaori' or 'Underground Rebellion Forces of Neo-Tokyo Attack!' has got to be about eight times superior to watching a guy on a bike - hell, the bike's story would be more entertaining - shoot a giant gun twice as big as he is at his flying highschool buddy gone bad.

But, the animation itself is gorgeously paced. Just wish the mise en scene or story were more to my liking. Because I'd like to love 'Akira' as many do. I really would.

The mise en scene is actually very similar to how Otomo presents panels in the original comic, though, so it's not like there isn't a pure vision there.

I kinda wonder how the hand-drawn on-a-cel animation works for the youngest generations amongst us, now, who've grown up or at least grown used to (what appears to me as incredibly fakey - despite being just as real as hand-drawn) CGI or no-cel animation. In some weird way, hand-drawn stuff doesn't ever feel aged to me. I know it gets progressively more color-range, smoother, or what have you, depending on the year or the circumstances, but last years totally digital or computer-done 3D efforts, even a lot of digital cel-shaded stuff, seems so old in that imagist 'there's nothing so old-fashioned as last years airplane models' sense.

Which means I'm getting old (fashioned), I suppose.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
20:35 / 09.03.07
Well, FLCL's all digital. It's how it's implemented that's important - I know it's still hand-drawn, in a very real sense, but there are bits and pieces of that series that are completey computer-animated and don't stick out like a sore thumb in the same way as some of the CGI elements in GitS: Innocence do.
 
 
This Sunday
00:30 / 10.03.07
It can be done smoothly, or usefully. There's a world of difference between, say, the dance sequence in the Utena film 'Adolescence Apocalypse' and oh, the ships in 'Lensman'.

Actually, 'Adolescence Apocalypse' and the entirely-CG parts of 'FLCL' I would put actual money on as lasting as good-looking animation, versus flashy or fancy technology. Possibly because it just serves the story. 'Macross Plus' too, for that matter.

I notice it's intense detail, versus intense texture or good mise en scene, in backgrounds that bothers me, these days, more than anything else CGI in animation. Every rivet and pebble is unnecessary to show, but glass should look like glass, wood like wood, and if they're onscreen together, the arrangement should look good.

'Ghost in the Shell' had too much of that hyper-detail and that detail's haziness, as technology develops, is going to make it more and more obvious. Using the technology not to break past the rest of the material, but to serve, to make it cohesive, and it sticks out much less. But, if nothing pushes the boundaries, tech doesn't move forward, does it? Maybe we need the crappy far-reach?
 
 
This Sunday
19:41 / 14.03.07
Some years back, Hideaki ('Neon Genesis Evangelion', 'Love & Pop') Anno and Kunihiko ('Sailor Moon', 'Revolutionary Girl Utena') Ikuhara sort of interviewed each other, chatting for our benefit kinda thing. Anyhow, from memory, part of it dealt with the need for repetition in animation, especially on a budget. Frames need to be re-used, or scenes, music, and what have you. Anno says that this is one of the reasons he (at the time) got out of animation, and asks Ikuhara if it bothered him. Ikuhara would have been - again, from memory - deep in the final bits of 'Utena' at the time, and he basically states that, no, it wasn't really a problem.

Anybody know where this (an English translation, preferably) could be located online? Eva didn't have a great deal of noticeable repetition, so if there's a ton, I'm kinda surprised. Whereas, the Utena TV series deliberately put the repetition to the fore and made it ritualistic, or strengthened the mythic/fairytale nature of certain aspects. Both handled it far superior - even in clip shows - to well a whole lotta other series.
 
 
Essential Dazzler
15:17 / 18.03.07
English phrases turning up anime, mostly in the music, but occasionaly used as dialogue ("I can fly" and "Higher than the Sun" in Eureka Seven for example). Is it a phenomonen peculiar to anime, or does it crop up in other areas of Japanese culture?

Also, I'm increasingly drawn to Sailor Moon, especially after loving the hell out of the first 13 eps of Utena. Everything I've read about the series sounds up my alley, but 200 episodes is a bit much to sit through if it isn't very good. Any thoughts?
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
19:53 / 18.03.07
Re the English interjections, it seems to crop up mostly in anime as opposed to live-action material, but also a good deal in J-pop and J-rock, simply for the all-encompassing reason that Japanese artists, like most of us, like to sound cool and tend to view Anglo-American culture as innately cooler than their own. This is just my impression of the situation based on several years of consuming second-hand Japanese popular culture in a haphazard and piecemeal fashion, so I'm quite prepared to be overruled here. I enjoy the phenomenon a great deal for its sense of joy and sheer randomness (current favourite example: the exuberant battlecry "OF COOURRSE!!!" in Gunbuster 2).
 
 
Seth
23:37 / 18.03.07
I'm not so sure about it not finding expression in live action movies. There's the recurring Anything Goes! in Zebraman, cries of Rock'n'Roll! in Wild Zero, usage of Battle Royale in, erm, anything connected to Battle Royale, Don Frye's entire character in Godzilla: Final Wars... I think a lot of anime has a tendency to crib from anywhere, so it tends to be more noticeable.
 
 
Essential Dazzler
23:53 / 18.03.07
Zebraman, God I need to see that film,I had no idea the english translation was available.
 
 
This Sunday
16:12 / 20.03.07
Skip much of the first two seasons of 'Sailor Moon' for the later Ikuhara goodness, if that's more your angle. Until the Outer Senshi are there and everything's good and googly-eyed sexed up and sparkly the show's just... Junichi Sato going off to do 'Mahou Tsukai Tai' and leaving Sailor Moon to Ikuhara worked best for us all, I think. Others - a lot of them - disagree, but they're wrong.

Oh, and watch the rest of 'Utena' for the love of Cthulu! I love those first thirteen eps, cry nearly every episode of the next storyline, and feel like actually going door-to-door in a simple suit selling people on the whole thirty-nine eps.

Anyhow, it's shorter and better and more available than 'Sailor Moon' with a more cohesive point, flashier clothes, nicer architecture, and more cowbell. And open shirts flapping in the breeze.
 
 
Essential Dazzler
16:18 / 20.03.07
I would love nothing more than to watch the rest of Utena, but I'm waiting on the return of a defective disc, that crapped out after number 13.

Also, thanks for the sailor Moon thoughts, unfortunately my geek lizard-brain won't let me skip anything, but after reading around I'm more than sold on the whole idea.
 
 
Seth
09:20 / 21.03.07
My mate Iggy swears by Sailor Moon.

Returning to CG in animation, I think studios are still learning how best to use it. I feel as though there's a little bit of ego or showmanship in there too, a desire to show themselves as cutting edge that will inevitably date. I think it's telling that Disney is returning to hand-drawn animation in addition to their CG releases.

It generally has the same problem as live action movies with CG, as your eyes are constantly scanning the frame to pick out what's been added in post from what is a filmed element. Grading can reduce the glaring differences, as well as camera work (LotR was excellent for these in places), and if the story is good and emotionally involving it won't seem jarring. Something like GitS is quite cold and intellectual, with a certain aloof quality… perhaps asking oneself what is CG and what is hand drawn actually adds to the themes of the movie in some way, but it still dates fast. Why isn't the Major set up for Bluetooth?

But there's also a similar problem with hand drawn animation in which elements of the background that will move/get blown up/require character interaction sit there conspicuously as hand drawn until their part of the shot requires that they do their thing. That can be just as distracting. To be honest, any section in animation where a previously painted backdrop needs to be animated has a similar problem. Check out the ending of Laputa, in which the castle is destroyed. The difference in style, tone and technique between castle-as-painted backdrop and castle-in-pieces-falling-to-see is jarring, no matter how beautifully animated it is. Miyazaki has overcome this recently with tasteful CG (see Howl's castle for one example), in fact Ghibli's use of CG has generally been sparing and well realised.

I have most of Utena now thanks to Pacific State. Looking forward to it.
 
 
This Sunday
18:19 / 22.03.07
'GitS 2' actually has Shirow covering the no-shortwave communications thing. Essentially, it's care and paranoia... a single contact line is just that slight bit safer... and, as I recall, someone theorizes that it's kind've a fetish for Motoko.

That's one of the things I liked about the second comic series, was that it's styled less like a traditional story and more like the results from researching a traditional narrative online to find all the background easter eggs and worldbuilding hypotheticals. Which is what narrative in the now/future feels like, all Sterling slipstream fantastika supertext.
 
 
This Sunday
18:22 / 22.03.07
Was it 'Blue Seed' that had the joke about: Which of these three drawers will be opened? (It's the one that isn't painted into the background but animated seperately.)

The only things I'm really impressed with the CGI/cel-shaded merger have been 'Mononoke Hime' (worm thingies), 'FLCL' and recent Gainax productions violation of flatness with 360 turns and dips, and the dance sequence in 'Adolescence Apocalypse' which is simply gorgeous animation that would cripple you to draw by hand.
 
 
Feverfew
19:26 / 26.03.07
Having finally finished Heat Guy J, I figure a short paragraph is best; for 90% of the show, not a great deal of plotting goes on - or at least, obvious plotting. It tends to devolve to a 'problem of the week' episode structure after a promising opening.

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This is not necessarily a bad thing. But HGJ tends to suffer the four-songs curse (including the oddest, most bombastic RAWK song intro) as well as a few of the other legacies mentioned above, too. It's worth a look if you're bored, but not worth it's own thread, in my humblest.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
05:33 / 27.03.07
Oh, and watch the rest of 'Utena' for the love of Cthulu! I love those first thirteen eps, cry nearly every episode of the next storyline, and feel like actually going door-to-door in a simple suit selling people on the whole thirty-nine eps.

I'm up to 25 or 26 and I'm enjoying it. Teenage homosexual urges, incest, people getting slapped constantly (what is the deal with that? Anthy gets hit in the face like every single episode the first season), neat architecture, crazy story...what's not to love. Finally understanding the movie, certainly.

The Black Rose Society arc was fun until it got sort of repetitive, a sort of "guess who gets sucked in next!", except that it doesn't really matter because the same thing happens every goddam time.
 
 
iamus
20:49 / 10.04.07
Currently I am powering through the final act of Eureka 7.

Then I shall be resuming Ergo Proxy through it's second half.

After that I shall be dedicating a night or two to Gunbuster/Gunbuster 2.

Then onwards, through the The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Azumanga Daioh (half-downloaded) is penciled in thereafter.



Barbelith, I don't know whether to hug you or punch you.
 
 
Essential Dazzler
22:19 / 10.04.07
I'm about to polish off Boogiepop Phantom (It's been a while since I promised, but I WILL start that thread tomorrow)

Then I have more series' than I can count on two hands to watch, I want nothing more than to hug Barbelith, and perhaps ask for some kind of monetary compensation.
 
 
Seth
05:58 / 11.04.07
Think how I feel. I now have Yakitate, Utena, Planetes, Noein, Neia_7, Excel Saga, Kino's Journey, Tokyo Godfathers and about three Ghibli movies to watch, and I'll be ordering Fullmetal Alchemist and maybe Samurai Seven within the week. I'm fucked as a functioning human being. I just got the Gunbuster special edition too.
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
17:28 / 14.04.07
iamus, honest recommendation? Watch Azumanga Daioh first. Because the random nature of things means there's always the possibility you could die tomorrow, and I wouldn't want to you go without having seen what's probably the funniest and most bittersweet anime TV series ever made.

Back me up, guys.
 
 
iamus
21:23 / 14.04.07
Shall do, dependant on how quickly it downloads.

I'd like to finish Proxy first. And Gunbuster can be tanned in a night or two....

Still teetering on the end of Eureka though, as several art commitments and a commision have sprung up which need urgent attendance.

While not strictly Anime, has anyone here seen the Cutie Honey Live Action movie directed by none other than Hideaki Anno? It's a big fluffy injection of lovely fun that I had to administer myself after Children of Men.

It creaks and moans a little under the budget to ideas ratio but it's very hard to dislike. Some very clever blending of Live Action and Animation techniques to pull off some of the bigger actiony bits.

Explodey things, flimsy disguises, evil henchmen that sing songs while fighting and the power of love and friendship saving the day from ultimate evil.

Yes. Yes.
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
21:33 / 14.04.07
Yes I have, and now my mind is filled with dangerous thoughts of forcing the other attendees at Seth's imminent Evangelion marathon to watch it after the main event, as a kind of mental cooldown after all the throttling of redheads is over and done with. "Look what else this guy's done!"

There's just no way.
 
 
iamus
21:34 / 14.04.07
Do it! Do it! Do it!
 
  

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