Thanks to Kelly and
wordkink, I have now watched the entire first series of the infamous florist assassin anime, Weiss Kreuz. It is terrible. But also hypnotic. So bad it tips over into being awesome, and then tips back into plain bad, and then awesome, and then surprisingly actually good, and then back to terrible, like one of those bobble-headed drinking bird toys.
Four pretty boys, Ken, Aya, Omi, and Yohji, are florists by day, assassins by night! They all have code names that are cat breeds, and are commanded by a mysterious guy who appears on video on the TV in the flower shop basement, announces that someone is causing people to spontanously combust/kidnapping little boys/etc, and says, "Hunters of the night, deny these evil beasts their prey!" And then the pretty boys do some incredibly incompetent investigating, and assassinate the villains.
But it's the details that make this series special. Very special.
- The animation is the worst I have ever seen. In the first episode, the animators ran out of time, or possibly colors, and someone dies in a scribble fire.
- There is a surprise!tentacle monster, in a totally awesome episode that also involves a drawing of a cardboard doll-like Aya getting repeatedly whomped into a piano.
- This is about the fourth anime I've seen in which someone takes on the name of their dead twin because they feel so guilty.
- It was insufficient to do the normal organ-legging trope of someone waking up in a bathtub of ice with a kidney missing. Instead, they wake up in a giant underground swimming pool of ice.
- There is a sports drink that makes you melt.
- There is a victimized little boy named Shota.
- There is a traumatized girl named Death who kills people with a parasol. (Tot is great.)
- I totally see why people kept suggesting that I assess Weiss. But that could take a while. There's just so much trauma and mental illness, it would be quite a lot of work. Everyone's history and psychosocial stressors would be "See attached files."
- There is the opposing group, Schwarz, which is so ridiculously overpowered that they are clearly just keeping Weiss around for amusement value. They are Brad Crawford, who is precognitive; Schuldig, who is telepathic; Nagi, who is a telekinetic and possibly also God; and Farfarello, whose psychic power is being totally batshit and hating nuns. They have meetings in Nagi's bedroom, which is in outer space. This is never explained.
So! Any fic recs? I hear this is one of those series where the fic is way better than the canon.
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Four pretty boys, Ken, Aya, Omi, and Yohji, are florists by day, assassins by night! They all have code names that are cat breeds, and are commanded by a mysterious guy who appears on video on the TV in the flower shop basement, announces that someone is causing people to spontanously combust/kidnapping little boys/etc, and says, "Hunters of the night, deny these evil beasts their prey!" And then the pretty boys do some incredibly incompetent investigating, and assassinate the villains.
But it's the details that make this series special. Very special.
- The animation is the worst I have ever seen. In the first episode, the animators ran out of time, or possibly colors, and someone dies in a scribble fire.
- There is a surprise!tentacle monster, in a totally awesome episode that also involves a drawing of a cardboard doll-like Aya getting repeatedly whomped into a piano.
- This is about the fourth anime I've seen in which someone takes on the name of their dead twin because they feel so guilty.
- It was insufficient to do the normal organ-legging trope of someone waking up in a bathtub of ice with a kidney missing. Instead, they wake up in a giant underground swimming pool of ice.
- There is a sports drink that makes you melt.
- There is a victimized little boy named Shota.
- There is a traumatized girl named Death who kills people with a parasol. (Tot is great.)
- I totally see why people kept suggesting that I assess Weiss. But that could take a while. There's just so much trauma and mental illness, it would be quite a lot of work. Everyone's history and psychosocial stressors would be "See attached files."
- There is the opposing group, Schwarz, which is so ridiculously overpowered that they are clearly just keeping Weiss around for amusement value. They are Brad Crawford, who is precognitive; Schuldig, who is telepathic; Nagi, who is a telekinetic and possibly also God; and Farfarello, whose psychic power is being totally batshit and hating nuns. They have meetings in Nagi's bedroom, which is in outer space. This is never explained.
So! Any fic recs? I hear this is one of those series where the fic is way better than the canon.
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I also write Weiss fic which can be found either at my website or my AO3 profile.
I have a completely irrational fondness for this series and fandom.
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Colour of Deception by Esinde Nayrall (red_squared). I lied. I do remember this one. It remixes one of my fics.
And the Promises They Hold by daegaer
Care of a Kitten by Beren
Chance Encounter by Ravenbell
The Economy of the Heart by daegaer
Face of the Monster by vr2lbast
First Do No Harm by quietladybirman
Gluttony by casualotaku
A Good Teacher by vr2lbast
Jazz Memory by vr2lbast
Lust by casualotaku
New Man by daegaer
Patty Hearst Lived Here by lavenderonion
Private Project by trio
Pushing Up Daisies by chaosraven
Something Unexpected by vr2lbast
Strange Land by Eleanor K.
Stripped by Viridian 5
Tokyo Underground by vr2lbast
Urotsukiyohji by GuiltyRed
You'll Never Tan In This Town Again by lady_ganesh
Youth Today by trensaddiction
Schwarz vs. Unicorn by ahpookishere
On the Table by fireun
Transitions (The Truth like the Sun Remix) by daegaer. Another remix of one of my fics.
By the Beautiful Sea by Lady Ganesh
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I definitely agree with recs for Daegar - Mars Assassins for long fic, as well as other crossovers, but she's also one of the few authors who can do absolutely amazing drabbles. There's a Nagi letter to Omi one (as part of an "open in the event of my death" meme, sorry no link but out of town and no home computer) that made me cry.
Viridian5 (at AO3) has a lot of stuff. I love Girl, which has Aya start changing into a girl (unsurprisingly), and is hot, funny, and not afraid to fool around with the characters' expectations. I also like Reason, which has Aya's sister, and if you have a ridiculous amount of spare time, her big story is Glass Houses, 800K plus and ongoing.
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This prompts me to go to my boss and request that all daily standups be held in outer space.
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Also: TAKATORIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!
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The Takatori revelations were actually pretty well-done. And then they went on and on until they tipped over into hilarious.
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This is about the fourth anime I've seen in which someone takes on the name of their dead twin because they feel so guilty.
Clearly Wb Jnygba should write an anime series.
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If you want accurate canon analysis, see
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As I recall, the "Gluhen"/"Eternity" anime itself actually seemed to be pretty good, with decent animation and everything--at least for the first six episodes, which were all I got a chance to see. In any case, it certainly seemed more coherent and less ludicrously cracktastic than some of the older episodes from the original series that I'd seen at previous conventions. Although the characters' habit of saying things like "He's a Weiss" (pronounced "vice") was rather disconcerting.
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I have many favorite Weiss stories, but my main ship is Aya/Yohji. I love emungere's A/Y stories. I'll have to hunt around for my old recs. So many good options.
Do check out daeger's baby!Schwartz series. I absolutely adore the Evil Overlord.
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I also remember that I seemed to be the only person in the world who liked and mourned for Ouka.
Unfortunately, the only fanfic I can remember well enough to find is crackfic.
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If you saw the dub outtakes (and you really, really should) it's pretty obvious they had low to no preparation/coaching on the damn dub.
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But my absolute favorite Weiss (or, rather, Schwarz) fic is incomplete and has been deleted since 2002 or so. Even half done, it's a freaking novel. You can still read it on the Wayback Machine: The Color of Joy. (http://web.archive.org/web/20040612102427/http://www.sionnachdhubh.com/Fanfiction/color_of_joy/colorofjoy1.htm) Unfortunately, the author appears to be completely out of fandom (or has simply managed to elude my stalking for ten years...)
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Farfarello, whose psychic power is being totally batshit and hating nuns. They have meetings in Nagi's bedroom, which is in outer space.
XDDDDDDD!!! OMG, yours is one of the most accurate descriptions of an anime ever.
(Except, the girl's name is rather "dead", which makes it all even better)
I love the moon, the wind, the angst, the moon, the wind, the clichés, the moon, the wind...
For better or worse, I'm a Schwarz fangirl, so I can't be too varied in the recs.
I'd strongly suggest mami-san fanfiction, she's even made me like a Schuldig/Aya fic and that's quite the feat. My personal favourites are SNAFU and Paralyzer, though, because I ship Crawford/Schuldig like whoa.
http://www.angelfire.com/anime4/patternsofblood/mamifics.html
Emungere's Inertia Arc is part of a 30_lemons challenge, but she's an extraordinary author so she can make it a story of porn with plot, which is my favourite genre out there. It's Schuldig/Yohji.
http://archiveofourown.org/works/231546
I'm also quite in love with Eidolon's Tree "Trilogy", even if there's a couple of melodramatics moments not everybody is able to believe. Again Crawford/Schuldig:
http://contrary-perfection.net/
And with KD Sarge's "Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained" and sequels (Aya/Yohji, Crawford/Schuldig):
http://downtime-mayhem.livejournal.com/tag/wk
And I could flood you with names of interesting authors, but I suppose I better limit the recs in case you're more inclined to other ships or don't want to feel overwhelmed with an excess of information.
I remember indelicateink asking for recs, I could dig up the link of that post, she gathered tons of recs from people. Just let me know if you're interested.
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The only fic I will admit to having written for it at this point is the G&S parody and the Sunday in the Park with George filk.
It still does make me happy that Team Evil really *was* keeping the main characters around for entertainment value, and that the good guys never managed to turn the tables or even really figure out what the tables were. Not a trope one sees often.
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My ultimate favorite fanfic that resulted in me drawing plenty of Yohji/Schuldich fanart is the Harmonics Arc. The first one is called Something Me in You, I believe. You might have to use the Wayback Machine to find it...its a rather old fanfic, and I believe the authors site is gone.
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This sounds fabulously cracky, quite possibly the thing I need to see right now!
Thank you for the rec!
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Also,
helliongoddess suggests 7veils' WK fic. I know and will vouch for phae's writing from Saiyuki fandom.
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So many good stories already referenced here; WK is my comfort fic. I suggest anything by
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Also, the spin-off/prequel audiodramas have a transgender character who's more well-adjusted than the rest of the cast, as far as I remember.
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If you're in the market for fanart,