The project which must be complete and polished by Monday: an interpretative dance

[rachelmanija]

I stare at it.

It stares back.

I stare at it.

It stares back.

I eat dinner and watch the first episode of Naruto, which is ever so much more poignant when you've already read thirty volumes of manga. Also-- yep, that was Urahara and Tsuzuki's voice actor, all right. Too bad he's not in the rest of the show, although I see why they wanted a good actor for that role.

I go back to staring at the project.

It goes back to staring back. Balefully.

I will now work on for another forty minutes without doing anything else, and will then knock off and continue reading The Black Stallion's Blood Bay Colt, which is excellent despite the total lack of aliens, vampires, or rabid vampire bats.

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

That's kind of like asking, is Dick Francis as good as Patricia McKillip?

[larryhammer]

Well, is he?

---L.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

In my opinion, yes. The same way that blankets are as good as potatoes.

[larryhammer]

So what about the first question, though?

---L.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched enough of either anime to say (one episode of each) but what I did watch made it pretty obvious that they were as different as DVD players and paintings. Regarding the first episode of each series, in my opinion, yes.

The Naruto manga is flawed (only two non-traditionally feminine characters of significance, neither of whom appear till comparatively late in the series; the first volume is not very good; though the fights are great and are part of the character development, they sometimes go on too long) but generally excellent, and keeps getting better and better as it goes along.