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My biggest problem with anime is when there are characters that are incredibly awesome and have potential to develop into AWESOME characters, but they take a backseat to horrible, cliche, boring characters as far as screen time goes. Thus the awesome characters don't get a chance to develop because the boring characters are getting all the screen time, and to top all that off, they often aren't spending that time developing either! They're just doing stupid s**t that no one cares about.

Example? Kyo Kara Maoh. My favorite anime ever. Gunter, Gwendal, Yozak, and MuraKen are some of the most awesome characters in anime. They're not horribly cliched characters whose personality you can find in any anime; they're unique. However, all four of them get royally screwed over as far as screen time and development; especially Gunter, as he doesn't even get a flashback. The others do (except maybe MuraKen, but I haven't finished KKM yet).

What is happening during the time Gunter and the other three COULD be developing? More than likely, it's something to do with Conrad. Conrad is SO boring. He's basically Chii from Chobits or Rei Ayanami from Evangelion. He's supposed to be "perfect" and all of his flaws are Cinderella flaws; they aren't anything to make him seem human, they're just endearing. Like he tells bad jokes. That is not a flaw. So most of KKM is WASTED on Yuuri, Wolfram, and Conrad scenes that are designed to make Conrad look like this super awesome guy that everyone would want to be friends with. Let me tell you something; one of my female friends is similar to Conrad in that she's good at everything. The only reason I can stand her is because she's got some flaws. If she didn't have her issues and personality quirks, it'd be SO awkward to be around her, because she's pretty and she's good at almost everything she does. It's her flaws that put me at ease around her. Conrad doesn't have that.

I also gripe about Yuuri. Sure, he's the main character, so it's to be expected that he gets the most screen time. However, if he's going to be the main character and get all of that screen time, shouldn't he be at least close to as interesting as the background characters and not your typical harem lead? Obviously this is wishful thinking, since that issue is not unique to KKM at all, but still. It's so painfully obvious in Kyo Kara Maoh because the characters that get screwed over are SO cool.

My LJ is full of the obsession, so here's a post for my Gaia journal!

(No, I didn't draw these)

For my purposes ^^. bold=completed series italics=one-shot

Alice 19th 1-7
All New Tenchi Muyo! 1
Angel Sanctuary 1-2
Azumanga Daioh 1-4
Bizenghast 1
Black Cat 1-3
Death Note 1
Desert Coral 1
Di Gi Charat 1-2
Eerie Queerie 1-4
FAKE 1-7
Fruits Basket 1-10
Fushigi Yugi 1-10
Godchild 1-3
Gravitation 1-12
Inuyasha 1-15
Kingdom Hearts 1-4
La Esperanca 1
Loveless 1-2
Marmalade Boy 1
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing 1-3
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Battlefield of Pacifists
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
No Need For Tenchi! 1
Ouran High School Host Club 1-4
Peach Girl 1, 1-4
Pita-Ten 1-5
RG Veda 1-2
Rurouni Kenshin 1-4
Shirahime-Syo
Sugar Sugar Rune 1-2
Swan 1
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tokyo Babylon 1-7
Tokyo Mew Mew 1-4
Tramps Like Us 1-9
Trigun 1-2
Vampire Princess Miyu 1-2 (discontinued)
W Juliet 1-4
X/1999 1-5
Zoids CC 1-4
Zoids: New Century

HAVE WATCHED:
~Azumanga Daioh Class Album *1-5* (have not watched all of it)
~Comic Party vol. 1 + box, vol. 2
~Cowboy Bebop vol. 1
~Earthian *1 disc OAV*
~Fullmetal Alchemist vol. 1+box, 2, 3, 4, 5, vol. 6+box
~Fushigi Yuugi box 1, Fushigi Yuugi OAV box *6 discs total*
~Gravitation vol. 1 + box
~GTO vol. 1-3
~Haibane Renmei vol. 1-4 *complete*
~Inuyasha: Affections Touching Across Time
~Lupin III: Secret of the Twilight Gemini
~Oh! My Goddess! vol. 1
~Sailor Moon Stars vol. 1
~Shaman King uncut vol. 1-2 *discontinued crying *
~Spirited Away
~Tenchi Muyo! vol. 1
~The Cat Returns
~Vampire Princess Miyu TV vol. 1-6
~Vampire Princess Miyu OAV vol. 1
~Yu Yu Hakusho: Poltergeist Report
~Yu Yu Hakusho vol. 1-4
TOTAL DVDs: 50

NOT YET WATCHED:
~Cowboy Bebop Remix vol. 2-3
~DNAngel vol. 1
~Full Metal Alchemist vol. 10+box
~Gundam Wing vol. 1
~Gun X Sword vol. 1
~Hello Kitty: Basket of Fun
~Howl's Moving Castle
~Inuyasha: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass
~Kyou Kara Maoh! vol. 1-5
~Ninja Nonsense vol. 1
~Witch Hunter Robin vol. 1
~Yu Yu Hakusho vol. 5-8
TOTAL DVDs:20

OVERALL TOTAL
70

...especially when he wants your best friend. I know you're not reading this, but Cody, I love you. I don't know how or why, but Gods I love you so much. This si so frusterating ><.

Vampire chara:



Just me:

I'm an art freebies whore, so anyone who cares can see all of the art and graphics I've collected right here!

1.This was made by DreamCatcher_Wolf_Tribal:

It's a cute anthro fox of my avatar ^^.

2.FeenixCat did this one:

It's me and Youko Kurama. I got it on my requesting art thread heart

3.Another me and Kurama, done by Kenichi Seiji:

Probably my favorite of all of these ^^

4.ThePlus did this:

I think the kitty looks awesome in it

5.NekoKanagi did this one:

I really love how huge my ears are in it ^^.

6.Kenichi Seiji gave me this one too ^^:

It's colorful! &3

7.This is a wishlist by TheAngelExperiment:

if anyone wants to donate, they may wink

8.Tommy-Chan did this:

It's a Gaia Pokemon badge &3

9.SpookThePanda drew me too!:

Again, very cute kitty

10.RT-07 did this:

I like the RJU Cape in this

11.Pi00pio drew me:

With a keyblade!

12.CookieCrum drew me as well:

I love fullbody art and I tend to just get headshots, so yay for this one!

13.Midnight Kitsune did this one:

Kitty is adorable! Looks real in this one

14.The_Hyperness drew me on paint!

I respect anything done on paint that doesn't look like crap.

15.Jess-chan even colored me!

Twas an art trade. I love this pic!

16.nekogurl did this one

I wuff my ears!

17.Dancing Tuna drew me as well:

I look hot!

18.Shagami drew me

I love this one ^^.

19.LilMetalSpoon made me look ultra cute!

Like I said, cute ^^.

20.H.D.'s drawing of me:

I like my mouth

21. RANA-CHAN DREW ME!! <3!

I love this pic, and I love Rana-chan

22. Magdelena Down drew this one:


23.This is a birthday present from Ryoko: