Yuri Anime Rant: Kannazuki no Miko

FanGirl here!

If you are a Yuri Fan then I have no doubt you've heard of Kannazuki no Miko. (If you haven't...go watch it first and don't come back till you do.)

So, because I know you've watched the series, there's no point in me telling you all about it. I've watched it like...maybe 15 times...already and the first two times I watched it, I was like... yeah! But then the third and so on made me wonder...why in the world am I compelled to watch Kannazuki no Miko?

I'm going to brace myself for FanBoy's wrath here..

I know I'm going to hit angry Yuri Fan nerves when I say...the series isn't even that good. It was horrible! Really! The drawing, the plot, and WTF mecha? Seriously...why mecha? What the hell? (note: I have nothing against mecha, but that theme was soooooo way off, it hardly fit into the whole story. Not a Gundam fan either, but again, nothing against mecha.) The animation and drawing sometimes looked like it was just a really bad porn. The story should have been good, but the execution was so poor, it came out more like a very bad fanfiction of an otherwise awesome story.


And the characters? Oh gawd...
Kannazuki no Miko is supposed to be about two priestesses trying to save the world from the Orochi. Or at least I thought it was. It turned out more like a story about how one supposed-to-be-Orochi fought and defeated almost all of the other Orochis by screaming at them...Oh yeah and there were two girls... one was an obsessed, closeted (and apparently sociopathic) lesbian, and the other one cried a lot and was mostly confused throughout the series. (Although I have to give credit to the voice actors. They were awesome! ^^,)

So why did I watch it 15 times despite its...shortcomings?

I actually didn't know until the 15th time.

Music.

If there was one awesome thing about Kannazuki no Miko, it would have to the be its Soundtrack. The entire thing was beautiful and masterfully made, it draws you to watch the series again and again. Listening to the characters' theme music gave you an eerily exact personification of the characters themselves. I actually listen to the Soundtrack when I'm writing their fanfictions. (Advertise)

I don't know about you, but music affects me personally, and it is what drives me to keep watching this series. And its maybe because the series is so flawed that fans keep wanting to write a good story for the characters. (And keep bashing Kaishaku for never getting it right.) The characters were vague, but left room for people to love them...and make good stories out of them. As I said, Kannazuki no Miko really should have been an awesome story, had it been done right.

Oh of course, there's this reason why you should watch it!

And this is your reward for being patient! XD

Seriously though..listen to it...

Bring on the Yuri Fan hate...

Resident Evil Games Do Not Make Sense.

FanGirl here.

Before I start, I would just like to point out that I enjoy playing RE games as much as, if not more than, every other RE player. Whenever I play them, I make sure that I do not take them seriously and that I know for a fact that they are just a figment of a group of people’s weird imagination. (Of course, I’m talking about the game plot and story line, and not about the zombies. Zombies exist! :D) But since I have to live in a boring reality, I can’t help but think that RE games really push the boundaries of not making sense…while trying to. (Or it may be the other way around, I’m not sure anymore.)

Should've just sold umbrellas.

Every Resident Evil game plot can be summarized as

1. Find yourself in a zombie infested place (for many and various reasons including but not limited to: finding a lost team of highly trained individuals, relative, a president’s daughter and a way out)
2. Kill zombies…and other…things.
3. Run around and play fetch while killing zombies.
4. Solve puzzles to open doors that lead you into facilities that would require you to solve other puzzles to open their doors that lead you into facilities that would require you to solve other puzzles to open their doors that lead you—‘m just going around in circles. (which is exactly what you do!!)
5. Save the day…or the world. But not really.

He just destroys it again for you. For fun.

In the RE game world, every office and/or evil headquarters is plagued with people who just can’t live with normal keys. You have to find emblems and corks and screws and unicorns and gems of different colors. You have to move different statues just to open up gates or doors. And then, somewhere in the middle of the game, while there are endless zombie hordes chasing after you, you have to play a slider puzzle which will then cause magical suit of armors to come to life and try to kill you.

Seriously…couldn’t we just breakdown doors in case of emergency? Or maybe use axes and stuff? I’m pretty sure no one would object to using explosive objects to breakdown gates, because, you know, everyone else is undead and only cares for your innards conversion to their newfound cult.

I’m ranting about this because I can because I just realized, RE hasn’t taught me anything about zombie survival.

What does figuring out how really complicated dashboards work have anything to do with fighting to stay alive?

And, really, if the people living in RE game world were so smart, they made opening stuff hard, how was it that the zombie apocalypse came to again? Oh, that’s right… Someone tried and failed to steal the damned virus causing it to leak into the sewage system and…well we know the rest. If they were so smart, and with all the damned confusing puzzles just to get into a singularly unimportant door, why couldn’t they have poured all their energies into making sure the stuff doesn’t get stolen in the first place?

But then again…we have Alber Wesker and his take-over-the-world-using-zombies plot.

But even that doesn’t make sense! Who would want to be the Lord of the Mindless Horde? Sure, it’s fun for the first few months…but when everyone else is part of the Mindless Horde…then what?

Mindless Horde

"Edgy" Mindless Horde

I actually don't mind being chased by this Horde

So…it really doesn’t make any sense.

With that said, leave me alone while I figure out this stupid slider puzzle.

---FanGirl

Welcome to FanBoy vs FanGirl!

All right! Welcome one and all readers! FanBoy here! After FanGirl's so-so first post(Hehehe >D) let me start off with a true intro! My friend came to me with this awesome idea for a blog where she and I will post our own personal reviews on yuri anime and manga, and video games. Of course as she said on the right hand side we will be posting whatever we damn well please! :) We may rant about tropes and common practices in anime, manga and games. We may also praise certain practices in anime, manga and games. But most of the time we will be going head-to-head throughout our posts over our differing opinions on games, anime and manga. ^-^ We hope you will enjoy the site and please feel free to comment or send us an email! We look forward to hearing from you all! Now...without further delay here is our first review for the site! A review of one of my favorite yuri anime! Enjoy! :D

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What's with the Glitters?

I was sifting through a few snapshots I had and I noticed something weird...

What's with the glitters?

Here are a few examples but I bet there are more...so if you have anymore sample pictures please e-mail it to us and we'll laugh at it too!


Well...I was too lazy to find more...so this is all all for now. :)

---FanGirl.

She's so awesome, her dandruff turns to glitters!

Total sign that he's gay: His sweat is made of glitters.

Apparently, this is awesome too. *shrugs* (Maybe it's a sweaty necklace? Necklace with dandruff?)

Allergic to glitters. Used leaves instead.

Too awesome! She just needed one leaf!