The "Little Black Book of Fandoms" Meme

[akk]

spotted on rheasilvias journal...

Sum up your former/current fandoms in a few sentences, as if they were human beings/very convincing sockpuppets on your flist. Ask your friends to guess which fandoms you're talking about!



May I introduce the following animes, books, and mangas:

1. There were countless references, endless rides, comical elements and serious issues. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes on the edge of pain. Your violet sparkles, golden light, and green eyes caught me.
[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, guessed correctly by elbales]

2. Nobody believed in you. There were four attempts before the fifth turned out working, and even that was a haphazard chaos, few people put faith in. Yet it worked out, in the past and the future and even in the darkness of a new middle ages.
[Babylon-5, not guessed]

3. Spaceships on the surface, a war against the gods on a planet not fully terraformed yet. You are a beautifully drawn movie, but still I always believed your story to be more complicated than could be told in your roughly two hours.
[Big Wars, not guessed]

4. When I discovered that you are based on novels written in the 1940s I was thrilled. But before I even read them, I played in my mind with your drop-formed ship.
[Captain Future by Edmond Hamilton, not guessed]

5. I just discovered you, after I fell in love with your arch enemy a few weeks ago. Your name means nothing, but you are anything but. In fact, you kind of remind me of the hero in 4. :)
[Cosmowarrior Zero by Leiji Matsumoto, not guessed]

6. You are feckless and powerful, strong and confused; a knight in shining armor, who scrapes his knee on the parapet of a crumbling wooden fortress with an owl to lead him through the shadows into the arms of one soon to be king.
[Fortress in the Eye of Time by C. J. Cherryh, guessed correctly by elbales]

7. You are tough, smart, and deadly - and despite you telling your own tale, I'm sticking around waiting eagerly for the next natural death.
[John Rain the assassin created by Barry Eisler, not guessed]

8. Kill the frogs! And then fall back to earth, Commander! 264 is waiting for your astrogator.
[Raumpatrouille, guessed correctly by rheasilvia]

9. You leave none of your characters truly unharmed, though your creators proclaimed never to do a resurrection, at least one of your (minor) characters came back from destruction.
[X, guessed correctly by solo____]

10. You carry the X and the pentagram. Sakura petals flutter like snow flakes through your blood tinted pictures. Your men are dead, guilt-ridden, powerful, mysterious and/or perverted.
[Yami no Matsuei or Descendants of Darkness, guessed correctly by jjblue1]

11. Your dead sidhe prince changed forever my perception of what elves (and sidhe) are supposed to be. I never wrote fanfic about you, but there are two pastel chalk pictures and an original shortstory of mine, clearly being inspired by you.
[The Dreaming Tree by C. J. Cherryh, guessed correctly by elbales]


And? Any idea who they are? :)

Comments

[rheasilvia.livejournal.com]

1 - err. "2001: Space Odyssey?" No, I know - not an anime. It's basically just the endless rides that make me think of that particular movie. ;-)
8 - well, the frogs sound like "Raumpatrouille Orion". *g*
10 - "TB/X 1999"

[akk]

1. No, not 2001. 2001 is a great scifi movie, but it didn't make it into my pref fandom list. :)

8 - Yes! and Hanns Kneifel is one of my favorite authors. :D

10 - No, not TB/X. Close, but no cookie! :)

[elbales]

So why isn't 10 Seishiro?

[akk]

because I wrote about _all_ the men in the fandom, not _one_ of them. I agree that Seishiro would be the embodiment of these characteristics - if one goes with him dying on Rainbow Bridge (an assumption I challenged in "36°" to some extend *g*) - but aside from him (and probably Subaru and the Kamui) there are quite some *ahem, please excuse the obscenity* "comparatively normal" guys in X.

Besides, did you really believe I'd made it that obvious!? ;)

[akk]

remaining fandoms resolved

[elbales]

1. GR, of course. :)

6. Is that Tristan from CJ Cherryh's Fortress from the Eye of Time?

11. Arafel from Cherryh's The Dreaming Tree...?

[akk]

1. - right. :D

6. - yes, exactly, though I'd put the whole Fortress series up there. :)

11. - yes, it's the The Dreaming Tree, but the figure that fascinated me most is Arafel's cousin Liosliath, though he features only as a possessive ghost in the battle and in Arafel's memories.

[akk]

remaining fandoms resolved

[http://users.livejournal.com/solo____/]

Hm, could 9 be X? (Though I have no idea of CLAMP ever said something like this.)

[akk]

9. - yes, it is X. Clamp said so in an interview, which was used in an argument about whether or not "36°" is strict an AU or not. (The answer depends on whether you consider the evidence of his death on RBB sufficient or not - a matter of opinion (and anal retentiveness *eg*.)) The resurrected character is - of course - Inuki. *woof* :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/solo____/]

Yes, it was Inuki I had in mind... *g*

[akk]

I resolved the remaining fandoms in the original post

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

Can 10 be 'Yami No Matsuei'?

[akk]

10 - YnM (Descendants of Darkness - I ♥ the anime!) yes. :)

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

^________^
The anime is cool but I've to admit I favour the manga... maybe because I read it first! ^_-

[akk]

Ditto, here. But I'm a visual person. :)

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

^_^
And the anime has truly some great suggestive scenes... and a lovely music background!

[akk]

Well, I knew the manga in detail by the time I finally obtained the anime, so the stories themselves weren't that much of a surprise. I was thrilled mostly by the drawing style and the coloring with its stark dark colors - like black and red - set against pastel flows.

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

The anime chara is cool and fit well to the series (the manga drawing style went under so many changes... *sighs*).
I also liked how some colouring just... stood out... characters' eyes seems to shine and there's a lovely match of brightness and darkness... and in some others there's just a colour that stood out and catch your attention with its brightness and some scenes are rather poetic, almost dreamy while some others are... creepy...
Muraki's scenes expecially.
When he liked Hisoka's fingers he gave me the chills... and in the anime they managed to add many little details that made him even more of a pervert than he is... (if that's possible)...
However I've to say I disliked most of the changes between the manga plot and the anime plot... but I guess one can't get everything... :P

[akk]

Sorry about the late reply.
I'm on a workshop in a different part of the country and was kind of... busy.
I expected the plot to be changed in the anime, so it didn't bother me much, actually, though I missed the diversity of Tsuzuki's shikigami. DoD did a decent adaptation of a rather complex plot universe, imho. Of course, there are better - but on the other hand, there are a lot of manga adaptations of animes, which are horrible, so... ;)

in case you are interested: I resolved the remaining fandoms in the original posting

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

It's okay... as you can see i'm not the faster of the repliers either... :P
Work...
I so wish Matsushita Sensei would consider continuing the series...
If she did maybe they would consider continuing the anime... or maybe make a movie...
I would so love to see an anime version of Touda...
The anime adaptation wasn't bad... YnM had been, after all, a lucky series... in a fashion X was less lucky... (wt least for what regards Subaru and Seishiro... so many scenes cut!)

Damn, I hadn't guessed Captain Future... but it's really ages fromt eh last time I saw it...

[akk]

I don't know. There are a few continuation snippets from Matsushito traded on the lj ynm group, but her drawing style changed drastically. I'm not sure I like the new one.

about X - yes, such a shame! They cut all the good stuff.

*grin* It's been a while that Curtis was on screen, but at least there's the DVD set. ;)

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

The Oriya/Ukyo ones?
*sighs* I saw them but I can't say I'm fond of them...
The only thing that pleases me is that Ukyo is exactly as I pictured her to be! (apart from the haircut...)

I guess they wanted to cut yaoi references as much as possible... (in a fashion even Fuma/Kamui moments are less... there's angel Kotori around... and dark Fuma is purely an evil Fuma) and to give Kamui more space... (*sighs* the other chara doesn't even figure up in the opening or in the ending... I don't see a reason for this since showing them would hardly considered as a spoiler considering all the time X had been running around... if you ask me I favour the videogame's opening...)

[akk]

Yes, I can't wrap my mind around Oriya/Ukyo at all. Somehow, they don't really connect with the YnM plot for me. I don't know why.

I'd have loved to see Touda in the anime, and Sohryu. Ever since reading the line about "a dragon's strength lying in his hair" I picture Sohryu having "a bad hair day"...

Actually, I'm kind of annoyed by the X anime (and movie). There are two many alternate versions of similar events. When I came to X I first caught the movie on TV (*shrug*), then read Tokyo Babylon (*dream*), came upon the X animation series (*smile & dream about the drawing style*) and finally read the X books (*bigger smile*). With the result that I sometimes have problems to sort the variations properly - a real hazard for writing fic.
There are some perceptions - like Nokoru's age in relation to the rest of the universe - that I just never sorted back properly. He is drawn younger in both the books and the anime, but I still see him as the headmaster shown in the movie. It's a nuisance!

btw. thank you for recommending my fic! :)
would you tell me about the canonical inconsistencies you spotted? I admit, it's unlikely that I will change the story at this late state of events any more - the risk of garbling things up is too big for my tastes - but I'd like to know where I goofed up, so that I might not repeat the mistake in future fics (and I'm curious).

btw. do you mind if I friend you?

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the late reply... work is eating away my private life...

Ukyo should be a charmer since she managed to get both Oriya and Muraki to love her... only she doesn't look like one... but maybe it was their first crush when they were teen...

Oh well...

LOL SoRyu's bad hair day! Sound like fun!

My history with TB/X began with the X manga which I loved... and that was interrupted at vol. 10. Then I saw the movie. Then my liking for X started to cool down. When later I read TB X had already spoiled me the ending so, at first, I wasn't so intrigued because I knew it was going to end badly... even if I thought it would have been worse than what it actually was. Then it was printed a new edition of X that mercifully included the missing volumes...
I admit I was cold to that too at the beginning because well, I knew half of it already... and all that waiting had ruined my enthusiasm for it. Then we reached the volumes I hadn't read yet... and it began to intrigue me again... and I litterally worshipped vol 16...
In the end I saw the TB OAV and the X anime subbed version. After I bought the X OAV and the X anime italian version... (which is scary because the voice and the adaptations are horrible... not mentioning the fact that the guy who did the character profiles had no idea of who the characters were... when I read Subaru, Hokuto and Seishiro's ones I felt tempted to cry...)

Yes, the canon isn't really respected in the assorted versions. To help myself I take notes... for Yami I've made an 'encyclopaedia' and a timeline... for TB/X... I've an approssimative timeline... sadly CLAMP didn't really gave us dates...
and the one they gave don't really make much sense (why Fuma waits 3 months before attacking? especially considering Seishiro had already began breaking a Kekkai before Kamui awoke... and I won't go into the TB timeline...)
I wrote down the list of all the characters with some short description and the translitteration I chose to use (so many translitterations... I so hate this) and a list of all the places mentioned in TB/X plus description and location (which I still have to end but that's fairly complete...)

Don't worry about the canons. It's nothing big.
Some info are from really hard to find sources and some others are most things CLAMP implied but never stated clearly so you can work around it. Or things that were never stated in the manga but that you can assume were as you wrote.
And in some points you used fancanon without saying it was fancanon.
Mind you there's nothing wrong in using fancanon... on the contrary I'm all for it... however since many people I know assume fancanon is canon and write about it in their webs I tend to label it as canon imprecision in reviews...
I'm VERY annoying over this, I know... but I've been bugged a tad too much by people who reproached me for not respecting what they called 'canon' and that was only 'fancanon' instead (and a fancanon that didn't respect canon!) and so I've grown wary of it.