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[telophase]

I am reconsidering my assessment of my toe as non-broken: much of the general swelling has gone down, leaving a nice big lump right at the impact point, and it's actually starting to hurt a bit when I bend it, and throb a little when I'm just sitting there not doing anything. Again, not that it changes anything other than allowing me to whine a lot online and at my mother.

No picture, because my digital camera inexplicably reboots Windows when I disconnect it, whether I disconnect it properly using the Add/Remove Hardware, or improperly by turning it off, and as I'm not wanting to take the time for it to reboot at the moment, I'm not using the camera. (The iPod doesn't do that, however.)





Yeah, ok, I'm really posting because I'm in the midst of writng a Tpop column (on Osamu Tezuka, this time) and am finding all sorts of ways to distract myself. But my toe still might be broken.

Comments

[octopedingenue]

I've read the first (published in English) volume of Astro Boy; it was cute but too kiddie to make me want to pick up another volume (and Astro Boy's not that emotionally riveting a protagonist). It did have some golden WTFery, like Astro Boy firing explosive rockets out of his butt. And the angsty subplot about the collie dog whose brain is surgically removed and installed into a walking/talking/thinking robot soldier body as part of an evil plot to take over the moon, and the new cyborg doesn't remember he was a dog but is haunted by his doggy past nonetheless, until Astro Boy helps him remember by showing him the tanned skin of the collie he used to be. After that the collie-cyborg has a tearful reunion with his old human master, defects from the robot army and helps Astro Boy save the moon, decides he wants to be a dog again because complex human thought and morality are too painful, and lives happily ever after in a new cyborg collie body with his old skin sewed on.

I am not making any of this up.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

That explains so much!

Cyborg collie, meet giant robot chicken.

[octopedingenue]

You so need to watch Avatar and meet the friendly neighborhood giant flying bison.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I have met the giant flying bison! I think I've seen the first four to six episodes, then one random one from later on. I left off when they had broken into the old airbender place with all the big statues and a great wind whooshed arrow-head-boy up into the air.

I could so go for a plushie flying bison (AKA Appa)

[octopedingenue]

Oh yeah! That's episode 3 of season 1. The series is on episode 14 / season 2 now (cumulative episode 34). Clearly I need to burn you discs!

In season 2, you will get to meet the giant librarian owl, who is the bestest librarian who is a giant owl ever. (Also Toph, of my icons, and other new members of the Awesome Avatar Ladies Club.)

The delightfully WTF creatures of Avatar. (OMG turtleduck ♥!)

Re: I could so go for a plushie flying bison (AKA Appa)

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

But does it have a bonnet, like the small floating research librarian chickens in Yami no Matsuei?

By the way, you were so right about To Love and Be Wise. I just wrote it up.

Re: I could so go for a plushie flying bison (AKA Appa)

[octopedingenue]

Well. No. But he is an all-knowing spirit being! Who can talk! And says things like, "If you're going to lie to an all-knowing spirit being, you should at least put some effort into it."


My love for To Love and Be Wise is proof that I loved shoujo manga long before I knew what shoujo manga was. Also I have a giant literary crush on Grant.

[octopedingenue]

Then again, whooshy and statues could be episode 1.07 too. Lots of statues in this series! Lots of whooshing!

.....have a femmeslash icon!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I think it was episode 7.

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

But imagine Astro Boy written and drawn by suspense/thriller master Naoki Urasawa! Wouldn't it be awesome? Based on the sample someone posted on scans_daily, if, say, VIZ ever licenses PLUTO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto_%28manga%29), I will probably fall down and froth at the mouth in joy.

[octopedingenue]

I have seen maybe 2.5 pages of PLUTO (did I mention I was like 20 volumes behind in scanlations of EVERYTHING?) and already I will fall down frothing WITH you.