I'll come up with an actual relevant post soon, I promise. (In fact, I have one about halfway done; I've written out the entire text, but the actual pictures to go with it are escaping me.) This process would be magnificently sped up if I ever manage to find out a good way to disable the region code locking on my DVD-R(WPQ-Whatever) drive in a safe and technically legal manner. If the Man wants me to own my media legally, I'd be happy to oblige, if I can actually own my media legally.
In any case, I figured I should give any readers still around some fair warning that come the month of November, I will be very busy, and not likely to be able to post anything of actual substance and value and honour for pretty much the entire month. Rest assured that if I haven't worn my fingers to bloody stumps by that time, I will endeavour to resume my usual sesquipedalian locquaciousness.
Needless to say, my intense obsession with anime would dictate that any and all stories I would ever write turn out to be at least heavily influenced by anime. I've gotten to the point where I'm fairly confident in projecting an anime feel to a story, even if none of the names are Japanese, Charlie Dog or no. I'm not sure if this is financially sound, even if I'm well aware that only a miniscule fraction of a percentage of writers ever make any sort of profit from their work; also, I keep hearing that Singaporeans need to "write with a Singaporean identity", which I don't think covers SF&F and instead has to do with how We're Being Oppressed or something.
I'm trying to wean myself off cynicism. This is not an easy task.
In other news, rather more on-topic to this blog, the English dub of Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya's "God Knows" has been teasered. (Link courtesy of the SOS Brigade LJ Community, which, I find myself having to add, is one of the unofficial fan communities, rather than the more official ASOS stuff.) There's only about ten seconds' worth of song, so I'm not sure how it's going to be in the longer version, but my initial impression is that it's not so bad. There's a bit too much of an echo effect (yes, it's more concert-authentic, but still too blurry), and I'm not sure the lyrics match up that well to the words, but it's not rip-off-my-ears horrible, and it's actually kind of listenable.
Of course, I'm well aware of how the Sub Vs Dub thing is going to go, so let's just consider the obvious arguments over and done with and move on from there, please.
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I just started reading your blog recently, prompted by an impromptu Googling of the terms "cardcaptor sakura" and "analysis", and thus far I'm really enjoying it. I'll miss the posts in November, but I understand the need for A Break From The Keyboard, and I'll look forward to the resumption of posting in December.
As a side note: while I started reading purely for the Cardcaptor Sakura posts (and hope to see more of them?), your posts about The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya have me interested. I only recently started watching CCS (having become addicted in record time), and I'm wondering how much overlap I'll find between the two series. Or, to put it a little less convolutedly: I really like CCS; is TMoHS anywhere similar?
Thanks. ^_^
I really should get back to my CCS episode reviews one of these days. Heck, maybe I'll get to it right after this comment.
I'll still try to do Two Posts A Week, but most likely they'll just have a picture and maybe one line of allegedly "witty" commentary, unlike the multi-paragraph monstrosities I tend to inflict.
MoHS is, I would say, almost nothing like CCS. CCS is a rather sweet story about a magical girl, where everything is bright and cheery and happy. MoHS is a decidedly more sarcastic look at all sorts of anime (and more general story) tropes and habits, revolving around a girl with reality-altering powers.
I enjoy both series in completely different ways: CCS is fun because it's unpretentious and simple in a good way (ie don't have to worry about the worries of Real Life), while MoHS is fun because it's all complicated and deadpan.
In short: no, MoHS is nothing like CCS.
…and yet, based on your description and on what I've been able to turn up on teh internets, I find myself strangely intrigued by the concept, and the series. Heh.
And yay for the return of the CCS episode reviews! I've only made it partway through the first series, so your reviews have been oddly contemporary with my CCS experience. I realize I'm several years late to the party…