rachelmanija | Cool bits, cracktastic bits

Cool bits, cracktastic bits

telophase has created a Cool Bits story generator.

The narrative is about triumph beating the odds. Romance blossoms between a scholar and a woman with a gun, while difficulties they encounter include sex against a wall and nothing being as it seems.

oyceter said that someone should make a Cracktastic Bit generator. I here solicit suggestions of cracktastic bits. They can be from any genre or media, though I do think that manga and anime gives great cracktastic.

By "cracktastic," I mean giant talking soldier ducks, giant robot chickens, heads in jars, heads in jars because the villain cut them off and put them there and hopes to clone the body and revive it so he can kill the person again, random incest, exploding heads, cannibal zombie angels, giant floating eyeballs, diseases that make your head spontaneously fall off, attacking floating fetuses, boys dressed in girls' sailor suit uniforms, "I cross-dress because it's so relaxing!" transformations into pandas, adorable chibi side illustrations of eyeballs on a platter, characters wearing kimono in Victorian London, little boys with bags over their heads and an axe in their hand, librarian chickens in tennis shoes and bonnets, possessed cockatiels, conjoined twin villains, combat butlers, butlers named Rifael Rafael, prosthetic limbs that double as any kind of weapon but especially guns or rocket-launchers, tentacle rape, characters with missing eyes (it's a thing), "Whatever you brought home, make sure you share it with your brothers! Oh... it's a wife?"

You know. Stuff like that.

What are your favorite cracktastic bits?

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Wow. I have never picked it up, but you are convincing me to! I'm guessing you like the anime more?

Honestly, the reason I like the anime more is that it would cost so much money to catch up on the manga. :D My TiVo catches it and I have it on in the background while I do art or I watch it while I bike - it's perfect for that.

I think they're broadcasting the final season of the anime now. The manga is still ongoing in Japan, and I'll eventually have to figure out where they split and start getting the manga. But I bet

octopedingenue will be happy to help me there. :)

If you were going to start it, you really need to watch the first season more-or-less in order because they introduce all the major characters there - I accidentally got the DVDs out of order and missed the one where the lecherous monk Miroku and the demon-slayer Sango were introduced, so it was confusing until I figured out who they were and why they were traveling with Inu-Yasha and Kagome. After that, until near the end it goes into a repetitive formula of searching for the baddie of the week to regain the shard of the Shikon Jewel that said baddie has, all the while searching for, almost catching, and then losing the main villain Naraku. It's near the end that you start getting things that permanently affect the characters.

Adult Swim made it all the way through the final season of Inuyasha a while ago, so they're recycling through it now. The schedule's a little random--you can try to find an episode list somewhere and match it up to their schedule to see where they are.

I've been renting individual disks in order to watch it in Japanese, in order. Advantages to watching in Japanese: honorifics (which just add a lot to character interactions, and are very hard to translate); Jaken's voice actor is much less annoying; and you get to actually hear the opening songs, which Adult Swim doesn't play for some reason of their own.

I'd watch it in Japanese with the subs, because I'm usually a subsnob, but I'm desperately working on a comic right now, and I don't hate the dub, so it works perfectly to be on in the background while I'm working on the computer. ~~except that I ahve to stop and watch the TV when Sesshoumaru is on because I am a sad, sad fangirl~~

it's okay I do it too. also with Koga, although I hate his dub voice hate hate haaaaate

also if Sesshomaru is onscreen it usually means there might be actual PLOT DEVELOPMENT HAPPENING

The anime ends with episode(s) 166-167, which roughly corresponds with chapters 345-356/volumes 36-37. Some actual "wait wait WHAT OMG" plot development occurs in the manga after the anime ends, which kills me. At least the first 3 of the 4 movies are loosely in canon with the anime but not the manga. The manga is currently up to chapter 503/volume 51 in Japan, making Inuyasha Rumiko Takahashi's longest-running series (not incidentally, she is one of Japan's richest women). Someday my corpse will be found buried Scieszka-style beneath my collapsed shelves of Inuyasha manga. Bookmooch.com and Half.com have helped a lot.

Ear-Tweak is an excellent information resource for the series, including the lovely cracked-out soundclips collection.

Cool, thanks. :D I think I'll be treating Inuyasha like Rurouni Kenshin and starting to buy after the anime continuity ends, and work back on getting a full collection. :D

Bookmooch has a good cache of the early volumes, especially people dumping their older Viz editions--which is dumb, since they're bigger and prettier and all the manga's flipped anyway. (I keep meaning to check if Kikyou's kimono is originally folded "flipped," i.e. lie a corpse's.)

Also, one of the videogames is an RP in which you play a Mary Sue and you fight with the gang and are rescued by Sesshomaru and Inuyasha falls in love with you sort of. I WANT.

WANT

telophase says, it's a great show to watch for free on Adult Swim.

Another thing I like about it is that she's based the characters very loosely on the Journey to the West. And that cracks me the hell up.

I recently saw the one with the descendents of Cho Hakkai, Sha Gojyo, and Son Goku. XD

Sanzo and Sesshomaru would get on suprisingly well despite mutual sneering.

Everyone else would get their fluffy ears shot off. Miroku gets fanthwacked and THEN shot.

Sanzo and Sesshoumaru together in a crossover fic...? ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME, WOMAN?

[blissed-out smile]*

* Which inevitably brings to mind the scene I saw recently where Jaken is riding on Sesshoumaru's big fluffy thing** and is bitching like usual, and then all of a sudden pauses, says something like "Ooooh, soft!" and starts rubbing his face in the fluff with that blissed-out expression that my cat gets when she's sitting on her heating pad. I couldn't believe my eyes and had to rewind and rewatch that part. XD

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rachelmanija, I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING.

It would be a fic of total hotness and surprising asexuality all at once!**

*I LOVE THAT SCENE SO MUCH.

I have a Jaken-plushie (the same size as my Sesshy-plushie, bwah) who comes with that little flower he plucked petals from to forecast whether or not Sesshomaru still loved him anymore.

Oh Jaken, someday Sesshomaru-sama will take you to prom.

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rachelmanija, SESSHOMARU LIKE SANZO CHANNELS HIS SEX DRIVE INTO VIOLENCE AND HAIRCARE, RANDOM ONE-OFF MARY SUE LOVE INTEREST OR NO RANDOM ONE-OFF MARY SUE LOVE INTEREST.

Kagura would totally work it by drugging him or something, I don't know. Threaten not to blowdry his fluffy anymore unless he puts out.

IT WOULD BURN WITH FIERCELY SUPPRESSED PASSION AND UTTER DENIAL OF ANY EMOTION BUT SUPERIORITY ALL AT ONCE!!

Eeee, the flower! XDD

I think any love scene between Kagura and Sesshoumaru would be 90% them standing around sneering and pretending to be completely unaffected by the other.

Poor Jaken, if only he'd been born a six-year-old girl.

See? HOTNESS!

And then each would listen inon a third line while a ~~friend~~ low-grade enemy called the other and asked how they felt about the secret eavesdropper.

P.S. later in the manga will make you happy sad fangirl ;P

Kagome would totally do that for them, once she figured out waht was going on. THE FIC, IT WRITES ITSELF

I think I know what you're alluding to. :D

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octopedingenue - 2007-05-02 15:07 (UTC) - Expand

Also the Sesshy-plushy is so grumpy and has a TINY EMPTY SLEEVE HEEEEE.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! XDD

I need a good caption now!

BLISSU
FluffAir, the only way to travel!

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That one won pretty hard.

I have nice-quality bootlegs* of the first few seasons if you'd like me to loan them (I still owe you YKK) or make you a copy. I discovered Inuyasha through the dub on Adult Swim (my first anime, AWWW), so I love both sub and dub, but overall the Japanese version is better acted / less cheesy.

*I've spent so much money on licensed Inuyasha material from back when I was young and foolish and it was 3 episodes per $20 DVD, my pirate guilt has shrunk very small.

Ooooo. I may take you up on that; I strangely feel like I have no anime to watch, despite having Emma and Mushishi on my hard drive. But I don't want to mainline them!

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