Kuroshitsuji in Aniway

[tacuma]

So, did any of you Dutchies read the article in Aniway about Kuroshitsuji? There is this most awesome Kuro poster in it, which is making my wall even more awesome than it already was (even thought I promised not to put up more posters)!

But back to the article, I think we found a guy that is PMS-ing!! Why else would he write about Kuro being such a bad series? Did he even bother to read it? I think he was really negative, even before reading it, and didn't want to see anything positive about it, just because so many yaoi fans love it. If he knew he wouldn't start liking it he shouldn't have agreed on writing the damn article.

He says Sebastian is boring because he is perfect! O_o Okay, please leave me a comment and tell me if you think Sebastian is boring and making the story boring! Doesn't his perfectness makes you wonder how he is going to solve the next difficult problem?

He says Kuroshitsuji is predictable. He probably never reached the part about Noa's arc or better, the zombie filled ship. They contain things I think were not predictable at all.

He says the first chaps are only written to get Sebastian en Ciel in one room. Okay, gotta agree that the beginning is especially lovey-dovey. But normal people call that an introduction (but a PMS-ing guy is not normal, so can't expect much of him, can we?). We gotta get to know the characters and the way they live right? And the lovey-dovey-ness is all fake, because there is so much blood and death in the later chapters!

He says the side characters are a bit cliche and don't have much of a background. Either read more of the manga or watch the anime already. There we get to know more about Bard, Finnian and Maylin and why they are so clumsy. And even if they were super flat characters, gotta love at least one of them, ne?

He is allowed to have his own opinion about Kuro, but he didn't start reading this with an open mind. He could only think about the big, bad yaoi and couldn't see the wonderful story that's behind the love between master and butler. Kinda sad. 

Comments

[tacuma811.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I find people who agree with me! Because really, is there anyting boring about Sebastian in the first place? All personalities in Kuro are interesting. They're a good combination, they don't get cliche and they all manage to catch your attention in a different way! He should try to write something like that!

[psiten]

I'm sure he'd find it harder than he could ever imagine. Of course, there are some funny things I've learned, running anime clubs off and on for the past six or seven years... a lot of yaoi-friendly shows get written off within the first episode by people who've never heard of them before and have never heard of yaoi just because they're not in tune with the style of characters and the sort of interpersonal dynamics that show up. It's like, they don't know what they're looking at because it doesn't instinctively make sense. But then, most of the time if I give them a running narration of what connections the show is establishing and make leading hints about how it's going to lead to something badass later all through the first episode or two, they're totally into it. Go figure. (It's even working to get them through Prince of Tennis -- with the side effect that Fuji is everyone's favorite character ^_^ ).

[tacuma811.livejournal.com]

I almost always try more than one episode. One episode says nothing about the entire series. I guess some people should read a little about it on Wikipedia before they start something. Then they will know if they will like the series or not. And you're doing a good job promoting certain anime XD Make them all love TezukaFuji XD

[psiten]

I'm on it. ^_^b They'll be more into TezukaFuji once we get past the Hyoutei arc and TeFu say goodbye on the roof, I'm sure. And there's totally a TeFu moment in the ending credits of the new OVA!! I'm translating it as fast as I can, I promise, but for now just look at how cute they are!

[tacuma811.livejournal.com]

I've seen the pic and I love it! Tezuka looks so vulnerable! I really wanna see the OVA. You're translating it? The OVA's? Wow, awesome!

[psiten]

I'm in the middle of constructing my post for the chibi featurette and the movie promo that came with the DVD. The actual episodes are taking longer because the songs can be a little hard to hear, Kansai is not my strongest dialect, and well... they're longer. But now the nasty issues with getting my footage to sync up are over (it's been a heck of a week making that work), I'm ready to make something awesome!!

You should totally watch the movie preview: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KHF3JZOX

Make sure to change the _avi to .avi -- I have to mess with the file name like that to keep MegaUpload from streaming it.

[tacuma811.livejournal.com]

I see, good luck then!! ^____^ You're awesome! Downloading it now, hope it will work (my computer keeps failing me when I try to watch vids XD;;)