ReadingLirael, As You Like It, The English Patient, Heart of Darkness, Suikoden III, Candidate for Goddess
Watching House, Rick Mercer's Monday Report, Gilmore Girls, Scrubs, Corner Gas, Aishiteruze Baby, Prince of Tennis, Hikaru no Go
Playing The Bard's Tale, Katamari Damacy, Curse of Monkey Island, Final Fantasy VI, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Pretty Barbie Dressup Party Final Fantasy X-2(group gaming)
Back-burner Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Star Ocean: The Second Story, Final Fantasy Tactics: Advance, Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast, Planescape: Torment, Final Fantasy VII
Obsessing Firefly, Erik and Ray, Impulse/Bart Allen, Ford Prefect, Monkey Island, Nostalgia.
Upcoming Things of Importance January 5 First day of classes January 14 Birthday party January 16 Jaryn and Matt Are Old Day
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Is by Meimi, that wonderful Goddess who brings joy and happiness to the hearts of Ingrids.
This time, Meimi brought joy by doing a layout of Isumi Shinichirou and Waya Yoshitaka, of Hikaru no Go. It is full of wub.
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1/28/2002 08:23:04 AM
Bah. Kate-chan, dear, if you knew the lengths that having school drives me to doing other things, you could be amazed. Or not. Fact remains, sitting down and typing stuff off the top of my head for fifteenminutes in a really boring, depressing day (until the very end) does not greatness make. But I'm glad you're happy, even if you're one of those odd people who's missing an essential piece of their brain, and therefore think I do something right. ^_^;
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It's minus forty out. I didn't ask if there was windchill or not. If Dad doesn't give me a ride, I swear I will cry. This also means no coming home for lunch for Ingrid. ~extra sadness~ Don't wanna stay at school!!!!!!
I shall have to take things to withstand the boredom - book, paper, Tokyo Babylon . . . And my mooching face. Because dammit, you have to eat somehow. So it's either whining incessantly at Frank, or threatening to stab people in the eye.
It's not as easy a decision as it looks, people!
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Oh, yes. The Segawa Keiichi obsession that no one quite understands.
Especially when I say something about Keiichi being my favourite character in X.
But let's look at this logically, almost every other character in said manga is drowning in their own angst, or they will be. Sorata's half-dead, Yuzuriha is less perky since her Inuki got speared, and Yuuto rarely makes an apperance. Almost every major character spends all their time dwelling on the past, and what they did wrong in it, and what would have happened if they'd done something differently, or the future ("I'm going to die!!") and it all gets very . . . repetitive.
Besides being horribly unhealthy behaviour. Pessimists do die younger, guys, and right now the Dragons of Earth seem much perkier than the Dragons of Heaven . . .
Keiichi is the only character who seems to have a healthy view of, well, everything. His parents have died, earthquakes are destroying his city, but he doesn't see any reason for that to make him utterly miserable. Of course he's sad about his parents dying, and he's sad about everyone dying, and he wishes he could do something to save them, but he knows he can't. So he doesn't dwell on it any more than he has to. He grieves a bit, and he's definitely shaken up by some things, but that doesn't keep him from actually living.
The hopelessly optimistic attitude is the main reason I like Keiichi. Sure, he's good looking, but most CLAMP characters are. He's smart (he's at CLAMP Campus, that should be a given) and friendly and all those other good things. But mostly, he just seems to represent hope. His life has been pretty much destroyed (loosing -one- parent can shatter a kid) but he gathers all the pieces up and keeps on living. If anything, it foreshadows the ending of X. The earth -and- the people, injured by the battle between the dragons, eventually heal and keep on going.
But that's just me and vague late night/early morning thoughts.
Some people have pointed out to me that Keiichi has a vaguely stalker like attitude towards Kamui, and, well, he doesn't. I just don't see it that way. What I do see is a very friendly teenager who has a new, lonely, impossibly sad looking boy in his class, and wants to be friends. Sure, he may be a bit overenthusiastic, but do you have any optimists in your life? They're like that, scary though it may seem, particularly amongsts all the faces filled with brooding angst. Keiichi reaches out to Kamui because he sees someone sad and alone, without any friends besides the other dragons. He does something I wish more sixteen year olds would do, and goes out of his way to get to know Kamui.
Keiichi's overwhelming friendliness even seems to get through to Kamui in a way the other dragons (besides Subaru) have never really were able to. If Kamui isn't able to create a kekkai, maybe he needs to find something to protect, or a reason to want to protect the earth. If CLAMP doesn't kill off Keiichi (nice ladies, wouldn't do that, nice ladies . . .) and the bond between the two is allowed to grow, maybe Kamui will have something he cares enough about to protect, even if it's just keeping a normal, ordinary friend from having his life ruined even more.
My favourite characters tend to be happy ones, anyways. All time favourite manga character? Sumeragi Subaru from Tokyo Babylon. Just that one. Not the poster boy of angst who chainsmokes and broods and rarely smiles. The happy, smiling, sweet, friendly teen. I like it when just seeing a character can make me smile. Subaru does that, and so does Keiichi.
So yes, I do like one of X's least popular characters, yes, he's my favourite character in the series, and yes, I hope he has a much larger role to play in the series than just smiling happily at Kamui. I'd like to see him animated too. Preferably with Yamaguchi Kappei's voice, since all my favourite male characters are voiced by Yamaguchi Kappei.
Also, if CLAMP ever does a colour picture of Kamui for ASUKA, I offer you my first born child in exchanage for a copy of that ASUKA.
