Wednesday, 4 April 2012 at 10:07 PM

I have discovered the greatness that is Avatar: The Last Airbender. My life will never be the same. IF I LOOK BACK I AM LOST. #noregrets #yolo #irohisthebest #allmyfeels #allmyzukofeels #sokkastophittingongirls

Tuesday, 6 March 2012 at 6:41 PM

In real life, that’s also the way it seems sometimes … or at least for some of my friends. I know I worked my butt off in high school, but I was also (and still am) a massively annoying overachiever … but anyways. Yesterday I powered through all 52 (+ “bonus epilogue” chapter except not) chapters of Koukou Debut aka High School Debut for some ungodly reason.

And I actually quite enjoyed it! Which is I guess how I made it through all 52 chapters in one sitting. Man, I forgot how long chapters are in shoujo manga compared to shounen series like Reborn! and D.Gray-man. (I’ve stopped reading KHR because it is just too dumb, but D.Gray-man is still in the running because Allen is a sweetie and Kanda is forever sexy.) In the beginning I was screaming about how ridiculous everything was, and how Asami totally broke the rules of the girl world even when she said she didn’t by coming onto Fumi, and then blah blah that passed. The concept of the series was pretty interesting in the start, and I was hoping there’d be more “coaching” but it segued pretty quickly into the start of their relationship, in chapter 10. I was seriously wondering how the series was gonna sustain itself, because the main couple got together so early! It stopped being about her high school debut super fast.

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Saturday, 7 January 2012 at 3:36 PM

And here it comes, the Red Cliff post. How do I love this film? Let me count the ways … I feel like it was the first movie since Lord of the Rings that tried to emulate that truly epic feel of the LOTR trilogy and actually succeeded. The film is gorgeous, breathtaking, and all the battle scenes are epically staged. All the actors were stellar. LOTR ranged from gritty to ethereal to just plain fucking awesome to heart-wrenching to ew-oh-God-I-hate-the-Frodo-parts-of-this-film-can-we-go-back-to-Aragorn-who-is-actually-interesting. Red Cliff ranged from gritty to elegant (there’s no magic elves here, except maybe Zhuge Liang’s weather trolling) to just plain fucking awesome to heart-wrenching (tang yuan anyone?) to ew-oh-God-I-hate-seeing-Cao-Cao-wet-himself-over-Xiao-Qiao-show-me-moar-Zhou-Yu-and-Zhuge-Liang-bromance.

So over winter “break” – technically I’m not in school anymore so I don’t really have a break, but if I was on an academic calendar like the majority of my friends – I must have watched the first part at least four times and the second part two times. The second part includes the actual battle of Red Cliff as well as the trololololarity of Zhuge Liang’s 草船借箭 (cao chuan jie jian), AKA where he “borrows” 100,000 arrows from Cao’s armies. The first part also has quite a bit of fighting in it, including an awesome “turtle shell” battle formation, but has a greater emphasis on the dynamic between Shu and Wu, and really firmly establishes Liu Bei and Zhou Yu as the moral compasses of the film.

God I love this movie so much.

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