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I'm doing okay-ish too. My shift.key hates me. PrObAbLy (I love that that was your response. I would say it made my day, but I saw these three really cute dogs this morning, so you made my night(???)).... I don't have anything to ask. O.o hashaara
lel (i made your night? awww) since you didn't ask anything, and because i have too much time on my hands, i'm going to ramble a little about life. recently, i've become kpop trash. shinee trash, in particular. they've been active since 2008, so i've been drowing in their discography and media stuff ;_; i had no idea that this is what i'd be getting into when i first heard view (which seems to have been the first deep house kpop song?? shinee's overall concept is being a contemporary group, which they delivered on with the retro stuff on their "odd" album. pls listen to odd eye. it's great. jonghyun wrote the lyrics. he's also a composer/lyricist in his own right (two solo albums, go him~). where was i? but yeah, shinee are really talented performers and dorky individuals. they're great. pls listen to their debut song, replay, bc that song (and pretty much the entire 'the shinee world' album, save track one bc of that unfortunate rap minho had to do [it's a fandom joke years later, shinee even parodied it on korea's snl last year]) still sounds hella good today. i may have a soft spot for late 2000's rnb though. anyway, i love shinee, and i'm sad bc their oldest member, onew (he has such a great smile omg his voice has such a nice tone to it and i really like his face when his hair's up and he has such a dorky sense of humour, like bad puns and stuff, i need to chill wow) is going to have to enlist in the army within the next few years or so and yeah ;_; i really like shinee. they're cool people. ah dhshdh i want to tell you about how cool jonghyun is as a person and how hard working taemin is (pls listen to his solo song, danger) but i feel like i'd talk too much. okay, ending this here. kpop is cool.
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NATS I'VE LIKED YOU SINCE YEAR 11
is this real? i'm confused.
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who would you like to meet irl? (like celebrities, fictional characters, etc. like, people you wouldn't usually meet/get the chance to meet)
tom hiddleston! all of shinee, my kpop sons! jk rowling! rei ryuugazaki, so i can call him a nerd! there's really too many people to name
if you had to live the rest of your life in another country, of your choice, where would you go? hashaara
i thought really hard about this, and then i accidentally forgot to reply to this for literal months ;_; i'd go to england or singapore, idk. just any country where english is commonly spoken???
Hello, how are you? hashaara
hi! sorry for the late reply! in general i'm a bit meh but right now i'm happy because i finished watching kingsman: the secret service! it's a really enjoyable movie which i highly recommend! it's like my fair lady + ye olde james bonde movers (i haven't seen many new ones so i can't compare) + a sense of humour that reminded me of community! i promise my exclamation marks aren't sarcastic and instead communicate my excited yet oddly level tone! thank you for asking!!
What does Haruka Nanase order at McDonald's? (idk if.I should say the answer here or wait for you to say something first. perhaps you have already seen this pos. so I shall wait.) hashaara
no idea. although rin would tear up upon seeing the cherry blossom fizz floats that mcdonald's japan were selling a while ago.
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Best compliment you have ever received ?
someone once said that i can do amazing things. it's something that sounded hard to believe at first, but now i kinda recognise it as a fact. it doesn't make me feel amazingly happy, but it does make me somewhat calm. like, it's a fact that i can become a person who does awesome stuff over time. it's a starting point for an optimistic attitude, i guess.
you get $1000 to "treat yo self" -hypothetically because I don't even have $5 i could give you- what will you be doing with it? hashaara
ahhh i would probably buy a fancy laptop and some of those "art of the animated film/show:_____" books. and then i'd buy tonnes of those sketchbooks with brown paper, and white/light blue pencils. idk what else i'd buy. fancy toys for momo? cat costumes, omg. i would buy momo a snuggie. he'd look so cute omg
how do you feel about live action of mulan (tbh idk if its actually happening but ive seen posts about it) also have you seen "Mulan: Rise of a Warrior"? I only got to watch the last half and it's in chinese but i loved it. its also more accurate to the legend hashaara
i've seen posts about it, but all i know is that disney might be producing it. i really hope they won't cast actors who aren't chinese, and i'm interested in whether it'll be a musical, or if they'll go dark and gritty and remove the musical sequences. i haven't seen mulan: rise of a warrior bc i somehow forgot it existed, but i will go do that, hopefully before school starts and responsibility crushes me again. it looks pretty cool, from the screenshots and stuff.
wow.i wish there were like 100 other "like" buttons to express how much i like that response.idk what else to say but thank you for putting so much effort into that reply(but i guess you probably already had thoughts i just gave you the chance to express it??) hashaara
thanks! i sort of had the ideas floating around, but they only became coherent when i wrote the response (which was quite fun, i totally went overboard omg.) it was a cool question to answer :)
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Thank you for the long answers
(No sarcasm I'm serious) BMBeyond
thanks! i was kind of worried that they'd be annoying to read bc a) qooh.me doesn't let me space stuff out, so my answers look a bit structureless and b) my long answers are usually fandom-specific, but thanks omg
OH OH OH OHHHHHH lunch time makes a lot of sense now (esp. cause my eavesdropping on your conversation was continuously interrupted) I think those headcanons are wonderful (: Also, on another note, think about how Rei feels about ballet and figure skating. hashaara
This is super interesting question! Sorry it took so long to reply- I typed out a hella long response to this, and then I accidentally deleted it and yeah. The tl;dr version: Rei likes ballet and figure skating, ballet slightly more because it’s art and doesn’t have to be judged- it’s more free. But he likes couples figure skating, for the teamwork element. The hella long version: my instinct was to say that Rei would appreciate those things for the aesthetics and the technical nature of those things, but then I was like- wait, what is beauty to Rei? Bc Rei’s idea of beauty does change quite a bit during season one. “I’ll show you a sight you’ve never seen before.” It’s a phrase discussed in relation to the Haru/Rin dynamic, but also sums up the cause of Rei’s development. Rei starts off as a rather cold dude who believes that following theory creates beauty. And that’s cool, but this obviously limits him- e.g. messing up his pole vaults by overthinking them. He needed to be *major theme time* more ~free~. And seeing Haru swimming, following his intuition and emotions alone, is that sight which Rei badly needed to see to grow as a person. (omg I hope I’m not simply retelling the story ,also harurei is the real otp pass it on) But yeah, that sight challenged Rei’s rigid idea of beauty- headcanon time- and being the god damn nerd that he is, I bet he researched art movements in an effort to find art that expressed the same things he saw in Haru’s swimming to better understand it. Alas~ abstract expressionism. There’s a shot of the interior of Rei’s bedroom (near the end of season one) where a green abstract painting is visible near Rei’s desk (idk but it’s in his room okay). Anyway, the core idea of the abstract expressionism movement was ~freedom~- artists were pushing the boundaries of what was considered art, and trying to capture the feeling of energy and movement in the simplest way possible. Personally, I could try to analyse an abstract painting and be like “the paint splatters create the impression of energy and movement” but like, it’s something that I understand intuitively- you have to feel it. That kind of art is a very personal experience, ridiculously open to interpretation. And Rei would like that. The green painting on his wall kind of looks like water as well- he’s chosen to put something that reminds him of fluidity, freedom and friendship on his wall. It’s actually quite sentimental. Ah yes I was going to say that Rei’s reached a point where for something to be *truly* beautiful, it’d have to resonate with him on an emotional and visual level, but not necessarily in a technically perfect way. (I think at the s1 finale he describes the sight of Rin, Haru, Makoto and Nagisa as “truly beautiful” too.) But yeah- to answer the question- Rei admires the hard work that goes into high level ballet and figure skating. For ballet, he’d have to connect to the story to see it as beautiful, but he otherwise likes the aesthetic. Figure skating (the sport, right?) – again, he’d like the aesthetic and the skill that goes into it, but the sport is really just skaters doing a required number of moves to score points, so he’d have to watch someone who could turn it into an effortless performance to see it as truly beautiful. Idk. Sorry this is so long. This is actually a small essay now (595 words omg).
Wanted to show you this thing : http://animeismylifestyle.tumblr.com/post/114478658731/arminizewithme-mmm-watcha-say-rei-chan hashaara
omfg, thanks for showing me that (also i have a feeling that nagisa would be the free! boy most likely to keep up with weird memes and stuff, second only to rin, who probably spent an unhealthy amount of time on japanese social media whilst he was an impressionable, homesick kid in australia) (makoto only knows about surface level facebook memes) (rei probably went on 2chan once and cried) (haru bypassed the fb meme phase, went straight to 2chan and ascended to ironic meme god status) (these headcanons are absolutely useless)
What is your nickname ?
tash, if that counts
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How do you feel about your first (well kinda second) week of year 12? hashaara
It was better than expected. I felt kind of low during the holidays and was expecting that to get worse when school started bc of extra responsibility. however, it turned out that having things to do (and mentally reclaiming my autonomy by telling myself that school is a tool I'll use for my own benefit) actually kinda made me feel a bit positive. and it's also really cool to be seeing my friends on a daily basis again. so it was a good week, and i really hope i'll be able to keep my momentum going. thank you for asking :)
I feel like that sounded weird. But.. Another question ; which class that you have this year do you think you'll enjoy the most? hashaara
uuuuhhh literature probably; mia's in my class, and the types of sacs we get are interesting compared to regular english e.g. adaptions and transformations- we study Benard Shaw's Pygmalion, and then the film adaption of it, My Fair Lady, and then we analyse how the meaning changes between the two. also, i generally find lit texts interesting bc they deal with gender/class/society stuff, or philosophical things, often in contrast to society's values at the time the text was written in/took place in. so yeah. but i think i'll also enjoy art, if i don't procrastinate on the theory stuff.
Who is your favourite character from lok? (please feel free to "ramble" I like it when you "ramble") hashaara
uuhhhh probably Korra herself. or Lin Beifong. i like most of the other characters, but with some i end up liking the idea of what they could be as opposed to where they are in canon- this is how i feel about Asami, actually. I like her, but i /only/ like her, u feel me? like, she's a smart rich pretty bi*exual engineer, but she got way less screentime/development than the other members of the 'krew.' it's entirely possible that i need to rewatch the show, but asami doesn't have a flaw e.g. mako not knowing how to talk about his feelings that well, bolin's naivety, korra initially not being so spiritual. like, what's asami's flaw? does she get frustrated when she can't explain engineering stuff to people? she's rich- is she ever accidentally ignorant about class stuff??? like i mean she's very nice to everyone and ****, going against her father was hard for her. the thing is though, whatever asami does is mostly always right, supported by the narrative. she doesn't seem to **** up as much as korra/mako/bolin. i want her to **** up, it'd make her a bit more real to me. sorry if that makes no sense, but asami falls a bit flat and i'm only half invested in figuring out why. sorry for that ramble- anyway, i really love korra, because she's incredibly cool and confident, and bc i can relate to her arc in book 4. and lin, holy ****, lin is probably me when i'm old, and i'm really loving the momboss and detectiveson headcanon the fandom's throwing around as well. that'd be the best spin off ever- lin and mako grumpily solving crimes together. i jsut ajfdsffsdgfsdfdghhhhhhhhhhhdsf
How does it feel to be the richest bird in the world?
it's empty and lonely. no one understands how sad i feel when i fly through my sick mansion, surrounded by champagne bottles i cannot open by myself. is this as good as it gets? plagued by the curse of not having hands? i had to fly to each key to type this, anon. it took so long. life is pain.
http://ssssnikt.tumblr.com/post/105897164691/natasha-and-her-cat-black-widow-1-13-2014
cir***stances are different. but. she has a cat. you have a cat. im not sure where I'm going with this. but I'm going somewhere. hashaara
!!!!!!!!!!!! (i also had a similar stand-offish reaction when my mother told me we were getting a cat)
Idk if this is a question already asked, but what kind of music do you like? hashaara
ah, i don't think anyone's asked me that before. my music taste is kinda scattered across a tonne of genres, but right now i'm really into downtempo stuff, anything that has a laid back feeling. artists like Bonobo and Uyama Hiroto. i also adore Sigur Ros, and it's my life mission to find artists who combine aggression and ethereal qualities as well as they do in songs such as Brennisteinn. i like a few korean artists- Yukari, who produces her own slightly 80's sounding chillwave stuff. EXO's r'n'b stuff is cool too. i used to really like Paramore and Panic! at the Disco, i haven't really listened to them in a long time. mmmmmsdfsdf, i also really like Lorde's music (Pure Heroine is an album i can actually enjoy in its entirety). this answer was longer than intended, sorry. ah, i wish i could just show you my itunes library.
Name anyone you dated in the past ?
[HYSTERICALLY LAUGHS] [COUGHS UP A LUNG] [DIES] [LAUGHS FROM THE GRAVE]
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have you done the mbti personality test? if so, what type are you?
INTJ. i've done the test on two different sites, and the preferences for everything except introversion are always weak (max: 25% for thinking.) i don't really see myself in the description for that type; the intp description feels more accurate. like- "people with the INTP personality type tend to share thoughts that are not fully developed, using others as a sounding board for ideas and theories in a debate against themselves rather than as actual conversation partner." omg. that's all i ever do. that's so me. god damn, i love personality tests.
oh!i've heard of secret garden! it sounds really good. haha.someone sent me a link to the scene where the girl is teaching the guy to put clothes on.and whoever the male actor is (is it hyun bin? you mentioned him before) deserves like idk, some sort of medal hashaara
oh **** i finished it yesterday and i'm still in awe, there's a scene in the final episode and hyun bin's acting blew my mind (bc i was so engrossed in the character's story that i forgot to analyse the show as a constructed thing with cliches and tropes). also, yoon seul became more than a rich angry sad husband-hunter and i'm so happy. god i loved nearly every character holy ****, even joo-won's assistant was golden. oh my god. i'm probably hyping the show up a bit but ohmggdfgf. i didn't know a body swap could be so sad holy ****. hoylsdfhjsdggtiujidglrsfdkjgrsdhfhttttff medals, medals for everyone.
oh! also to add to the 'how are you' i want to say rn this very moment im kinda miserable but scrolled through this: http://ask-tadashi-hamemeda.tumblr.com/ and idk if i feel better or worse also, have you seen big hero 6 yet? hashaara
i haven't seen big hero 6 yet, but from that blog, i've gathered that tadashi had a flaming good time
If money was no object, what would you do all day?
is this an AU where i'm rich enough to stop working? in that case, i'd probably go around, gently throwing money at people. and then i'd do a business course, so i can generate infinite cash and continue to throw money at people who need it. in my spare time, i'd draw, and try to teach myself how maths works. so basically what i'm already doing, minus the opportunity to throw money.
why is it (the kdrama) your favourite? hashaara
1) only kdrama i've ever watched 2) hyun bin when he's acting as ra-im-in-joo-won's-body is amazing 3) oska being a hot mess 4) ra-im constantly makes joo-won embarrass himself. it's great.
what's it (the kdrama) about? hashaara
secret garden is a wonderful, fun tale about a super rich CEO of a department store, Kim Joo-Won, and a stuntwoman, Gil Ra-Im. basically, there's a whole bunch of misunderstandings which lead to the two being in frequent contact with each other (joo-won has to stop the actress ra-im's stunt doubling for from leaking a bunch of private photos of her and joo-won's popstar cousin, oska. you can predict what mistake he'll make in this situation.) ra-im's then dragged into the ridiculous world of rich people bc joo-won's addicted to her coolness. the two have a wonderful love-hate dynamic that's full of quick banter and uncertainties. there's a body-swap at around ep.6 that forces them to learn more about each other. it's the stuff of rom-com dreams. joo-won's diva cousin, oska, is incredible. they're like rivals, but then they're really honest with each other, way more honest than they probably are with other members of their family. oska's really funny a self-absorbed kinda way. he has a tragic backstory- yoon seul, a rich girl's who's also occasionally funny in a rich girl kinda way. they split up in a really painful way, so they spend a lot of time hurting each other. anyway, there's a love quadrangle- ra-im's a fan of oska and they're actually pretty cute but in a platonic way but the writers probably wanted viewers to interpret it romantically for maximum drama. yoon seul wants to marry joo-won bc he's super rich and she says she's in love with him (but i think she's kinda deluding herself so she doesn't think about oska romantically.) and then the body swap kicks in, and everything becomes hilariously complicated. oh, also- ra-im's stunt director, whose name i can never remember, is horribly, horribly, in love with her. fun times, oh my. secret garden is a 20 episode show, and i've only watched half of the episodes, so i can't really give a proper overview of it. however, it's been good fun so far (and has multiple montages an episode, which is glorious.)
Who would you want with you if you were stranded on a deserted island?
mia, because we never fight- our time on the island would be bearable. wait, we'd both probably die since we're both indoor creatures. jessie would probably be a better choice- i think she has some survival skills from youth dev classes???? eh. idk.
It's okay to laugh (I'm not too sure what one could feel about it other than find it funny.) and rewriting your sentences are worth it I guess, because your statuses are great! but I'm sure they are just as great before you rewrite them (: hashaara
thanks :)
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...(a 260 character limit is very small) anyway, my question was; . as a child (well a smaller child? we're all a 'child' to someone, right?) what did you want to be when you 'grew up'? hashaara
uuuuuguhgughhhhhh- i think i wanted to be a jeweller, because i had a science book with an entire section on rocks and minerals, and they were super pretty. and then i wanted to be a neuroscientist, so i could research autism and help find a cure for it (my brother's autistic, so yeah.) using the word "wanted" feels a bit weird- i wasn't really the type of child who thought about the future often. so i guess they were just ideas that i toyed with for a while, and forgot about. even now, i don't have anything that i really really want to do. but the second one is one that i've revisited lately; instead of being a neuroscientist though, the idea of being a developmental psychologist and doing early intervention work with young autistic children is something i guess i'd like to be. but only if i can't get into an industrial design/animation course. eh. idk.
ah i do type the way i talk.i literally type what comes into my head and press enter without rereading what i typed. which is kinda very bad because i often send stuff to the wrong person then die of shame and take 30min to put myself back together anyway. hashaara
is it bad that i laughed at that last sentence? i guess i'm sort of envious of that, though. like, i get nervous when i post facebook statuses, and rewriting stuff all the time only prolongs that feeling, i guess.
YOU'RE IDEA SOUNDS AMAZINGLY WONDERFUL. tough old ladies, a kitten and adventure. woah. *that thumbs up emoji x 10* -can i just unnecessarily, but kinda necessarily add, i like the way you talk. like words you use and not what. idk. your style of talking(???) hashaara
thanks! i had a weird vision of the future, where i was an animator and directed a short film adaption of the kittenverse (i need a better name for that). it's annoying, because i know exactly what the soundtrack would sound like. sigur ros's album kveikur epitomises the feelings i want my paintings to emanate. the vocalist's voice is wonderfully clear, soars above grimy guitars; it's like you can feel the emptiness the sounds echo through. it's wonderfully atmospheric. on writing- i tend to overthink whilst writing. being concise is my goal, but my brain's like "these words don't feel right" (what does that even mean????). but thanks! i like the way you write as well- i don't know how to explain it, but i feel like your voice/tone comes through strongly. maybe i'm trying to say that you type the way you talk???? idk.
what subject are you looking forward to most this year? hashaara
[i rambled, i'm so sorry] either art or viscom, because you can pretty much do what you want at the 3/4 level, as long as you demonstrate that you're not making **** up as you create it. let me tell you about what i'm doing for art- basically, we have to create a folio with a minimum of three artworks, all related to a specific theme. idk what theme i'm really exploring, but i'm probably going to do a series of interconnected paintings on an old lady, a kitten, and their fantastic adventure around the world. i'm calling the project the 'kittenverse' for convenience. it's set in the future, in a world where technology is hella cool, but people are still terrible towards each other. the old lady character is a person who decides to abandon the mediocre metropolis, and spend her final years on earth living life on her own terms. together with a tiny, clumsy kitten (who rides on the old lady's giant backpack), the old lady discovers the meaning of freedom, and later dies, without many regrets. i mean, i don't even know if i'd actually end it like that. maybe it's not even relevant, and i'm overthinking this. but i guess i do want the paintings to have that weird 3am feeling. like- i imagined a painting of the old lady and the kitten standing beside a lake, in the middle of a forest at night. the kitten's reflection is visible. the old lady's isn't. odd stuff like that, i suppose. i just want to draw tough old ladies, uguuuuuuuuuuuuhguhg
What was your last dream about ?
uuuuugugguughghuugh i was at some sort of party/fancy event but it was less fancy than expected, so i ended up overdressing and feeling self conscious throughout the entire thing, which actually isn't that far off from my experience of reality. i apologise for that run-on sentence and my horribly uncomfortable self-aware humour. the holidays tend to exacerbate this kind of thing idk
If you had any, did you complete/achieve your new years resolutions from last year? hashaara
[HYSTERICAL, SELF-AWARE CACKLING] no absolutely not [CONTINUES LAUGHING] (my goals were to be a better student, and improve my drawing skills and i guess i kinda did achieve those goals, but i feel none of the accomplishment that i'd usually feel.)
What are you looking forward to most in 2015? hashaara
ah, i haven't really thought about this. probably all the new media that's coming out. and the experience of finishing high school, hopefully with a feeling of accomplishment. also- game of thrones. i'm so hyped.
The best song in 2014 for you ?
i spent most of 2014 listening to music released in previous years, but i really liked Neon Bunny's It's You, because it made me more interested in korean indie music.
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How are you feeling about the legend of Korra? (ramble as much as you want) hashaara
it managed to make me feel quite hopeful and sentimental (the soundtrack really gets to me), which kind of surprised me. i'm glad that i can escape the fandom though; i've been seeing a lot of finale discussion that's left me feeling drained. i'm still making up my mind on a few things, so my thoughts here aren't well developed, sorry. the finale was awesome; the fights were the coolest thing ever, meelo didn't fart when i expected him to (DEVELOPMENT), and best of all, korra came to a point where she was okay again. that, of all the things, was most important to me. i've had similar experiences to korra, so seeing korra move on from hers was inspiring. and to not just merely survive- to live, and to enjoy life. that's why i liked the korrasami ending, actually. although, i do wish it could've been executed better. bryke stated that korra and asami had romantic feelings for each other by the ending; it would've been nice to depict their growing feelings in small ways. just stuff like more reaction shots of the two when one of them does/says something. little demonstrations of them noticing each other more. it's highly possible that i've missed these things, though. even though i was a casual shipper, i didn't really see korrasami coming until the finale, so yeah. narrative aside, i'm happy to see bi*exual women of colour existing in children's media. on wu: i found his decision to end the monarchy a bit abrupt. kinda broke my suspension of disbelief with how convenient it was. i apologise for the lack of capitalisation, this must be a pain to read. on mako and bolin: kinda felt like they were left out a little bit, since we don't really know what lies ahead for the characters. korra's doing avatar stuff, asami's doing engineer stuff. is mako going to work his way up the republic city police ranks? will lin become a mentor figure to him? will momboss and detectiveson happen? i really hope so. but i'm really pleased with the probably-platonic-maybe-slightly-one-sided-but-strong makorra dynamic. mako's like the rei to korra's haru, with all the stuff about how inspiring korra is. how beautiful. friendship truly is magic. i'm too tired to write about bolin. [cool transition] an enjoyable conclusion to a fun, well animated series. eventually marred by the fandom's negativity. 7/10 for the giant mecha.
What is attractive about you?
legs. eyes. my hair, for the few seconds I can tame it. i never seem to like my overall appearance that much, but I don't hate it either. I have no idea what other people think of my appearance, since it's too much effort to concern myself with that.
Your biggest wish ?
i wish that i weren't the type of person that feels all weird and greasy after eating like one gram of fast food. why must gratification escape me? but on a serious note, i guess i wish i had the motivation to do things.
What do you miss about your childhood?
having no responsibilities. that's it, i guess.
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If you could only watch re-runs of one show for the rest of your life, what show would that be?
parks and recreation, because i haven't watched most of it and there's like 7 seasons of it, so i wouldn't get bored. but then, doctor who and star trek have like 40+ years worth of episodes. i can't think about doctor who without mentally shaking my arm and yelling "mOFFAT," so i guess i'd choose star trek.
What turns you off ?
1) not appreciating my fantastic puns for the brilliant works of meta-humour they are (i can hear mia sighing in the distance as i type this) 2) being a ****. 3) thinking you can make me talk more, or "open up." that's something for me to work on. you're going to have a **** time with your relationships if you think you can just fix someone's problems.
ah i've been meaning to watch that except i was kinda just in it for the animation. i had no idea what the story was about.probably wont get around to it anytime soon though. and i really dont know why im telling you this. you are an exceptional movie reviewer hashaara
thanks! also, if you end up watching and liking 5 Centimeters Per Second, you might like The Garden of Words. It's by the same director, so the animation is lovely, and it gave me a similar weird 3am feeling. It's about a 15 year guy and a 27 year old woman who end up talking to each other in a jaw-droppingly pretty Japanese garden whenever it rains (or rather, when they avoid their responsibilities.) There's poetry exchanged occasionally. It's a tiny bit sappy. I love it. Also, the soundtrack is lovely. When did I start capitalising my sentences? I didn't mean to write another review. I'm going to stop before I start rambling about the animation of the rain.
what was the last movie you watched and what did you think of it? hashaara
5 Centimetres Per Second, a romance/drama/coming-of-age anime movie. I watched it because i heard it was a 10/10 tearjerker. i didn't really feel much when i watched it, probably because i didn't relate to the romantic storyline. nevertheless, the animation was beautiful. like, rei-ryugazaki-in-free!-s01e012 beautiful. every shot was art and i tried making an edit of it but i couldn't bring myself to alter them ;_; the film's concerned with the transience of life, how change is the only constant in our lives and the opportunities we can miss along the way. it's reflected amazingly in the imagery; barren snowy landscapes, creepily lit cities, and an almost surreal looking cherry blossom tree working together to weave a tale full of beautiful tension. the use of light in 5CPS is beautiful. the director, makoto shinkai, appeals hard to my love of waning afternoon light and isolated spaces, and it kind of just adds to the sense of transience the film goes for. it's not a feeling i can explain well, but it's the kind of feeling that arises when you're awake at 3am and you can hear the sounds of cars in the distance, and you're hyper aware of everything. so uh, the animation is beautiful (the character designs are bleh but everything else more than makes up for it.) plot-wise, it's nice. sadly realistic too. [spoiler alert] to sum it up, life happens. the main characters, childhood friends, move away from each other. they write letters. one nerve wracking train ride later, they become something more than friends. they continue to write. they grow up. they change. they drift apart. oddly enough, i liked the ending. it didn't really matter if they got together not; it was whether they decided to change as their lives did, and whether they tried to be active participants in their own lives. that's makoto shinkai's message, i guess. overall, it's an 8/10. watch out for hardcore cherry blossom imagery and a downer ending, if the romance is what you're watching it for.
Where do you want to live when you older?
somewhere in the city, with a nice view of the afternoon sky.
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Top 5 or top 10 tv shows you've ever seen?
in no particular order: hannibal (s2's finale was a 9/10), community, game of thrones, avatar: the last airbender, and elementary.
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I havent started watching season 2 yet, buthe do you think they'd be another season of free!? Would you like there to be another season or do you think it ended well enough that it doesn't really matter? hashaara
[this is probably a bit incoherent, sorry] no, i don't think there'll be another season (but there's an OVA and a possible movie to look forward to!!!) kyoani gave each character (except sousuke lol) a clear ending, and the optimistic nature of the show ensures that we'd know how any new drama would play out (the power of friendship will continue to save everyone, and everyone will keep striving to see new sights). i'm not sure if i totally want a third season- at least, one that's set the year after s2. the characters have diverged too far for it to not feel cluttered/disconnected. ideally, i'd want an s3 that focuses on sousuke's quest to find a new dream which miraculously involves him chillin with haru in tokyo (i just want them to interact properly ;_;), with rin occasionally skyping in to yell at him ("when the **** did you two start hanging out why don't you ever tell me anything sousuke"). this will never be canon because the younger characters would become minor characters, but i can dream. so uh, to answer your question, the ending was alright, there are still things that could be explored, but a third season wouldn't be the best way to do it.
Best song you've heard this week ?
kicks- FKA twigs
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if you could be in an anime, which one would you like to be in? (like as your own character, not as an already-existing character) and what would your role be in the plot? hashaara
hard question. i'm not a particularly motivated person, so i wouldn't be that great at driving the plot in most shows. being in free!, or haikyuu!!, or anything with a cute friendship vibe would be nice though. maybe i'd be friends with gou and haru. and laugh at rin's crybaby ways with sousuke. idk.
!!! : https://31.media.tumblr.com/577a5df66f94effc153402a82c1f23b5/tumblr_ndhu3v7jKU1tnyne7o1_500.gif
hashaara
!!!!! sousuke and rin would be perfect as the protagonists of a buddy cop show! i'm imagining something like brooklyn 99, in that it would be super hilarious, and the supporting cast would come to form a weird, but lovely friendship with sousuke and rin. imagine it beginning like this: sousuke transfers from sano's police department to the tokyo metropolitan police department, where he meets rin, an old friend who transferred from sano four years ago. they get along well, falling back into their competitive dynamic easily. however, sousuke kind of accidentally pisses off rin's friend nanase (forensic scientist with a distaste for social interaction), which causes ryuugazaki (the coolest detective ever) and hazuki (energetic receptionist who sousuke suspects may have had a criminal past) to distrust him. the entire series revolves around the many misunderstandings and odd situations sousuke and rin get into, as sousuke's friendship with the station members grows. story arcs include: station captain kou and the team coming together to take down a drug ring, sousuke giving newbie cop makoto lessons on how to be a tough cop, ryuugazaki's love of sherlock holmes and his disappointment in not having a watson (he will admit that hazuki is a decent replacement), sousuke getting shot in the shoulder (with a water gun. by nanase.), and rin justifying stupid **** by yelling "fOR THE TEAM." i'm not sure of where all of this came from. i just really like cop shows.
Biggest regret?
not trying hard enough at everything
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what about in free! ? (your favourite character?) hashaara
i love all the free! characters, but haru. haru oh my god. i'm closest to him (or maybe sousuke/rei actually) in terms of personality and the drama he goes through (FUTUUUUURE), and i guess i'm kind of drawn to quiet/stoic characters, so that's why i like him so much. although, rei is equally amazing!! he goes from sinking like a stone to making it to regionals within a year!! he saves rin!! (we'll never get rin/rei/sousuke butterbros scenes ;() he's actually quite inspirational. a true bro. and his prideful laugh is the epitome of beauty!!! [does the rei laugh] [cool transition out of this reply]
who's your favourite character in the legend of korra? hashaara
korra, or asami. i can't decide between them. but korra's biceps have a special place in my heart, and i really adore her super confident nature and dorky expressions (bless studio mir). basically, she's the kind of main character i wish we saw more of on tv (WoC kicking as* and defying gender norms hell yeah)
from gifs i've seen, haru goes to australia with rin??? (i havent started eternal summer yet, but look at this thinggg: http://animeismylifestyle.tumblr.com/post/98266720481/dreamybean-i-feel-like-nagisa-would-say-goodbye hashaara
yes, they go to australia in episode 11. the entire thing is wonderful, kyoani actually hired voice actors with passable australian accents!!! and there's hilariously sad baby!rin flashbacks- foreign country + ****ty english = fun times for baby!rin. fans are kind of conflicted over the execution of haru's development in that episode though (i want to talk about it but i also don't want to spoil anything :|.) <---that looks super weird. uh, anyway, it's basically the director's rinharu fanfic (utsumi calls herself a fujoshi, so i guess that should've been expected) so there's that. i'm just sad that the free! boys are 2d and never actually set foot in australia. and that piece of fanart is too cute, that may have made my day.
If you could be fluent in any language which language would you choose? hashaara
japanese. (i'd like to be fluent in every language ever, but japanese is the one that stands out to me right now bc half the media i'm watching/reading is in japanese)
What’s a common misconception people have about you?
i don't know, maybe that i'm serious all the time? although my face is generally inexpressive, i can be a massive dork at times.
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it's weird that we kinda seem to get the same questions. (like the anime one. literally word for word.) how are you liking ao haru ride? has a character called narumi or touma showed up yet? | and idk what to ask, but GEKKAN SHOUJO NOZAKI-KUN. ah. hashaara
ao haru ride has been mostly good so far. watching it always makes me giggle like I'm twelve bc shoujo romance makes me think of free! (those damn cherry blossoms). yet at the same time it makes me sad because I will never become 2d and marry murao. (but idk the scene with kou getting all up in futaba's space trying to warn her about assaulters made me cringe. also, I'm trying really hard to like yuri but her voice actor. those saccharine sounds. oh boy.) I'm a few episodes behind on the anime, but the ao haru ride wiki says narumi and touma haven't appeared yet- I'm going to pretend I didn't just spoil the show for myself :| and yes, gekkan shoujo nozaki-kun!! the dating sim episode is incredible (TOMODA!). did you know that rin matsuoka's voice actor, mamoru miyano, voices suzuki? because that cracks me up. ah, I'm going to stop rambling now.
...anyway i havent read it yet but i scrolled down to the end, and it ends with haru asking rin "are you going to follow your father's dream?" and i thought i'd let you know because...idk. hashaara
!!! and then season 1 ends with rin saying that he's following his own dream (man, if we didn't get a second season that would've been a great ending). high speed is great, i loved reading haru's thoughts (he finds symbolism in everything) and the makoto/rin friendship gets a lot more attention than it does in the anime. and high speed 2!!! separation drama ("i wanted to go somewhere you couldn't follow"- makoto), kisumi stealing haru's girl, sousuke eventually not being antagonistic towards haru (i want them to be friends in the anime and like, expressionlessly glare at rin together, just to mess with him). season 2 of the anime is basically just high speed 2 set in high school, which is great.
you know how free! is based on the book high speed? well i have the pdf of that book and its actually about haru rin mako and nagisa when they were in elementary together. (so i guess the anime tells us what happens when they're older) i have too much words... hashaara
(responding on the next ask)
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what would you do if i said i was in love with you?
i really don't know.
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what anime have you watched or are you watching?
currently watching free! eternal summer (s2 is great, bless kyoani), ao haru ride and gekkan shoujo nozaki-kun. stopped watching shingeki no kyojin (couldn't stand the pacing). undecided on whether i'll continue watching haikyuu!!, k-on and kuroku no basuke. probably going to marathon kill la kill, neon genesis evangelion, puella magi madoka magica and hyouka. i think the only show i've watched all episodes of is ouran high school host club, though. (i have too many things i need to watch :|)
What do you do when you angry?
i'll glare at things and be a little more sarcastic than usual and just continue with my day until my anger passes.