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Iowa and anime
Jul. 31st, 2008 11:04 amThe road trip consisted of eight hours of driving on Monday, eight hours of driving on Wednesday, and eight hours of unpaid baby-sitting sandwiched in between. I can hear you all dying of envy.
No, it wasn't nearly as bad as it sounds. The kids were much less high-strung than I was at that age (the five- and seven-year-old accepted it with remarkable grace when their little sister waddled into their blanket fort and completed a mission of MASS DESTRUCTION). And they were funny. We saw a commercial for the movie Boat Trip. The five-year-old watched it and then, very solemnly, repeated the last line: "How could you think I'm gay?"
Also, the little girl looked exactly like Hina Ichigo, from Rozen Maiden.
Rozen Maiden is an anime about talking dolls with magic powers who occasionally fly through gateways into dreams, which means it's kind of like crack for me. I didn't play with dolls much as a kid (I was a teddy bear girl) but for some reason I adore stories about living breathing talking magic dolls. And they fight duels! And they have beautiful clothes! And they have anime hair, which is like a character in itself.
I've been watching anime recently in an effort to become a well-rounded person (yes, anime is an integral part of well-roundedness. Really.), so I am looking for series that are good and don't have five thousand episodes, if anyone knows anything about anime. I'm watching Rozen Maiden and I'm planning to watch Chrono Crusade, which involves a nun fighting demons in the 1920s in Chicago (I think), using the power of an interestingly inaccurate remix of Christianity and her demon buddy.
No, it wasn't nearly as bad as it sounds. The kids were much less high-strung than I was at that age (the five- and seven-year-old accepted it with remarkable grace when their little sister waddled into their blanket fort and completed a mission of MASS DESTRUCTION). And they were funny. We saw a commercial for the movie Boat Trip. The five-year-old watched it and then, very solemnly, repeated the last line: "How could you think I'm gay?"
Also, the little girl looked exactly like Hina Ichigo, from Rozen Maiden.
Rozen Maiden is an anime about talking dolls with magic powers who occasionally fly through gateways into dreams, which means it's kind of like crack for me. I didn't play with dolls much as a kid (I was a teddy bear girl) but for some reason I adore stories about living breathing talking magic dolls. And they fight duels! And they have beautiful clothes! And they have anime hair, which is like a character in itself.
I've been watching anime recently in an effort to become a well-rounded person (yes, anime is an integral part of well-roundedness. Really.), so I am looking for series that are good and don't have five thousand episodes, if anyone knows anything about anime. I'm watching Rozen Maiden and I'm planning to watch Chrono Crusade, which involves a nun fighting demons in the 1920s in Chicago (I think), using the power of an interestingly inaccurate remix of Christianity and her demon buddy.
