Animes + soundtracks.
Since I've started watching Gravitation and Vampire Knight, I've been hunting the soundtracks too. For the former, Shuichi's songs are just plain awesome. RAGE BEAT (of course), and Spicy Marmalade are so totally stuck in my mind, I'll have a hard time not to "sing" them next week while at the Madonna concert. And, as I noticed, after listening to it, the instrumental tracks and remixes are great too. As for VK, the opening and ending are of course freakin' good - and the little melodies playing during the various scenes? Really add either a boost to the slightly gothic atmosphere, or a good chill for one reason or another to a particular character or event. And they manage to do this without the visual help as well, which is quite outstanding, I mean, not even most of the most popular and grand soundtracks are able to convey that. So, I'm totally fond of the soundtracks.
As far as the animes go... harumph.
Vampire Knight is pure love, every moment of it. A ~20mins episode has more intensity to it than the most expensive, full-length Hollywood blockbusters, I swear. The characters are really alive, and all their actions and thoughts are totally believable as well. Zero is an absolute number one there: got the looks and the personality set just right. Whatever he does or thinks, I can't find a flaw in the courses of actions he takes. Ever. Chairman Kaien? That one's funny. Could totally go for Soubi, minus his ~10yo fangirl self. xD Hanabusa...well, honestly? I can understand the Idol-chan thing, but beyond that...the 6yo boy makes me want to flee the world and hide, the proverbial ~young adult~ asshole jerk just makes me want to break his nose. Blah. Oh, and Kaname... *.* Beautiful, sober, sweet, caring, and the sadness always hiding in his eyes makes those rare-but-genuine smile-moments of his all the more precious. And not a hint of a that superior aura that should be there, based on the superior social status he does have thanks to his blood.
Gravitation. Er. Yeah. That one. Uhmmmmm...seriously, the crossdresser Shuichi is just mortal peril. And with each and every episode, I'm less and less able to figure him out. I mean, wth? Anime starts off, first episode, there's this sweet KID, me guessing about 16. Then comes an ACTUAL 16yo, and Shu is totally freaked out and calls him a kid. That's when Breathless goes investigating, and finds that Shu is, originally 18-19yo. Then comes another episode, and another...he bounces around in a dog-costume, waggling his tail too when patted on the head...he claims he's a "delicate guy" and then sleeps on the sofa in wrinkled sleeveless tee and boxers, his mouth open and he's all but drooling...he gets dead drunk and throws up...he SUPPOSEDLY gets raped...and SUPPOSEDLY sleeps with Yuki...and then he's also acting like a 6yo fanboy...What. The. Fuck. T_T Oh, and that's just the other thing: okay, no like plotless yaoi, but ffs, there IS a plot here, so what's with all the left out sex scenes??? And not just the sex scenes either, sometimes I feel like the story is totally broken cuz it seems like they turned two or three pages in the script at once, so we're left to figure out what happened between two scenes - and just how much time could have passed between them, too. In like, 5-6 episodes, a whole month...? Gah. So annoying!!! I don't even know why I keep watching...someone throw me a bone????
