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Well, the first episode of the second Fullmetal Alchemist series aired today! And... It's pretty entertaining so far, yeah. It felt kind of like they were speeding intros up and sticking in a lot of jokes too quickly, though, but I'm hoping that's just because this is the first episode. I'm wondering if I only liked it because I already know all the characters and about the universe, though? I have no idea if there's still anyone out there who hasn't seen the anime or read the manga, but if there is, I don't know if they would have understood as much of it. There's especially that part with spoiler killing spoiler-- I was very "YESSSS," but I don't think it would have had as much impact for people who had no idea who the first spoiler was. Still, I'm personally looking forward to more episodes.

There are some other things I'm not that thrilled with-- First, I love MikiShin, but I miss Ohkawa so much. He's just Mustang to me; I still listen to his image songs. Also, I've never really liked the Lior storyline, so I'm not that excited to sit through it again. Third, HAVOC WHERE?? And last, watching the Hughes stuff again is going to destroy me emotionally. Again. Sob. Oh yeah, and also I was under the impression that this anime was going to follow the manga closely, but now I'm hearing that it might not? But I want Ling animated...

In other news, I started watching Kings! Since I know absolutely nothing about the biblical David, I don't really care about how this show is reinventing that myth, unless it leads to Jack/David (or David/Jack, whatev), which I would highly approve of. Aaand now I guess it's obvious why I started watching. Anyway, it's actually a pretty interesting show. Ian McShane is really good in it, of course. David is as boring as anything except when he does hilariously idiotic things, but his actor is really good-looking so I guess it evens out. I like Jack the best (which I figured I would going in), and I'm finding Sebastian Stan pretty attractive, which is weird since I thought he was totally creepy in Gossip Girl. Anyway, I've seen two episodes at the moment and planning to check out more.

So I read the first six chapters of Sakura Gari on Friday. Way back when it was first announced that Yuu Watase was going to write BL, everyone seemed really surprised. I wasn't, since I had actually read the author's notes in Fushigi Yuugi where she had mentioned a couple of times how awesome Nakago/Tamahome would be. But what I didn't count on when I read this manga was that I had misinterpreted BL-- It wasn't shonen ai, but yaoi. And not only that, but it was incredibly creepy and disturbing. Basically, it's about this guy who comes to this town to study, and he ends up the servant of this rich guy, and then it turns out the rich guy secretly has a sister who's been locked in a warehouse for tons of years, and the rich guy's also a playboy doing another servant and his doctor and oh yeah his sister too, and eventually he sets his sights on the main character. And wow, was that a run-on. I think my thoughts while reading can sum up everything for me.

[19:56] SmileLikeOthers: Wow, I'm reading Yuu Watase's shonen ai manga, and it's......really creepy.
[20:16] SmileLikeOthers: Oookay, either the love interest and his sister just had sex in this manga, orrr the protagonist had a dream about them together. EITHER WAY, EWWW what am I reading.
[20:17] SmileLikeOthers: Now the protagonist and the love interest are having a conversation while naked!
[20:19] SmileLikeOthers: No, they were purifying themselves, so it wasn't actually...anything.
[20:20] SmileLikeOthers: n-now one of them is chewing on a pencil yuuu wataseeeee what is this
[20:55] SmileLikeOthers: Oh man every time I'm like, "okay this manga can't get worse/creepier," it totally does.
[20:57] SmileLikeOthers: OH MY GOD ;;;;;;;;; EVEN CREEPIER
[20:57] SmileLikeOthers: This is like all the worst plot twists ever pushed together, and I just cannot look away.
[20:59] SmileLikeOthers: Basically! Um!
[20:59] SmileLikeOthers: Love Interest raped Protagonist, Protagonist tried to run away, Love Interest bribed him into staying.
[20:59] SmileLikeOthers: They ate together later!
[20:59] SmileLikeOthers: The sister went, "I think my brother wants to see you put something in your mouth."
[20:59] SmileLikeOthers: So she leaned over to feed him food.
[21:00] SmileLikeOthers: BUT THERE WAS GLASS IN THE FOOD
[21:00] SmileLikeOthers: So Protagonist cut his mouth up.
[21:00] SmileLikeOthers: And the Love Interest leaned over and kissed him to get it out in front of everyone.
[21:00] SmileLikeOthers: aaand now Love Interest is forcing Protagonist to have sex with him again.
[21:01] SmileLikeOthers: Aaaand they're doing it on a piano, owwww. [it was on the keys, even]
[21:01] SmileLikeOthers: OH GOD THE SISTER IS SPYING ON THEM
[21:01] SmileLikeOthers: this is so creepy ;;
[21:02] SmileLikeOthers: oh God the brother told her to come watch
[21:03] SmileLikeOthers: now the sister is holding a sword against the brother's neck
[21:03] SmileLikeOthers: what the hellllll
[21:06] SmileLikeOthers: Wow, now Protagonist is initiating stuff for no reason.
[21:21] SmileLikeOthers: O-Oh man, Love Interest ;_____; just attempted hardcore suicide. But I don't care because he's a rapist fffff.
[21:25] SmileLikeOthers: The first chapter is kind of "well okay" and the second chapter is "well OKAY' and then the third chapter is "AHHHHHHHH WHAT THE HELLLLLL."
[21:38] SmileLikeOthers: Wowww, Love Interest dresses up like his dead mom to make his dying dad happy.

o/

I hate to say this, especially after all of that, but that manga...wasn't half-bad. The art is absolutely beautiful, and the atmosphere and pacing is perfect. It's probably the best thing Watase's ever done, to be honest. And I want to say "If only it weren't so creepy," but, you know, if it weren't? Then it wouldn't be as interesting.

Well, I'm off to watch the first episode of Pandora Hearts. I heard it's awful. Yaaaay. [Disclaimer: I am a fan of the manga.]
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