Shiku shiku shiku

First of all let me express my annoyance with the new layout. Particularly the Category selection. It now defaults to a ‘most used’ thing instead of just displaying all of them. Or maybe I could just stop giving each show it’s own category. :p But if I stop that I’d probably switch to a genre style category thing and I’d have to reassign them to all the previous posts and I am way too lazy to do that.

Anyway; I watched the end to Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge in the presence of my soon to be departed room mate. Which is fine enough in it’s own right since He also sat down to watch Kazemakase Tsukikage Ran and a little bit of Tsukuyomi -Moon Phase- and the episode of Rocket Girls I watched after I finished this series off. May be twice my age but the guy can get into anime, so it kind of sucks he’s moving out in the next week or two. … Anyway; again… I’m easy to sidetrack. The ending was good, funny, and heck I’d say even a bit surprising. Certainly not what I was expecting anyway. Although Sunako gets an almost confession out of Kyouhei… I say almost because he only says something to the effect of ‘I don’t think you’re ugly, haven’t you noticed yet?’. Which is so not the same but it’s probably as close as he’s ever going to get. I rated the show 7 out of 10 on my MAL list… yes I know my My Anime List, get over it. The series wasn’t exceptional or anything but it was still good and better than decent, in my opinion anyway. Show was hilarious and if it wasn’t for the freaking bishounen being shirtless/nekkid every ten minutes I’d have enjoyed it more. But hey, I could tolerate them for the awesomeness that is Sunako. Especially in her burial kimono with the sword in the school fair episode. :Q

Not the strangest thing I’ve ever watched.

Well I’ve heard the name for Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge translated as Perfect Girl Evolution: The Seven Evolutions of Yamato Nadeshiko… Then there’s the ‘official’ english name, The Wallflower. Now when I first heard the name I was exceedingly annoyed since it has practically nothing to do with the show. It still doesn’t, but I understand the idea behind it.

wall·flow·er

–noun

1.	a person who, because of shyness, unpopularity, or lack of a partner, remains at the side at a party or dance.

2.	any person, organization, etc., that remains on or has been forced to the sidelines of any activity: The firm was a wallflower in this year’s bidding for government contracts.

3.	a European plant, Cheiranthus cheiri, of the mustard family, that, when growing wild on walls, cliffs, etc., has sweet-scented, usually yellow or orange flowers, but when cultivated has flowers varying in color from pale yellow to brown-red or purple.

4.	any of several related plants of the genera Cheiranthus and Erysimum.

Obviously we don’t really care about the last three options but okay. Now Sunako in a sense fits the term because she never does anything since she’s convinced she’s hideous. See, it’s possibly to reach the conclusion of ‘wallflower’ despite it being 98% wrong. COurse the reasont hey called it that is because they couldn’t translate the title because it “didn’t have an english equivalent” … A lot of things sound stupid when translated literally from moonspeak into english. Subtitlers take a lot of liberties to make things coherent.

Anyway, like I was saying; This isn’t the strangest thing I’ve ever watched. Though I have to admit I think it’s probably further up the unmanly charts than Ouran was. But I watch freaking magical girl shows, so like I really care. ;p The premise for the show is you have four guys living together in some mansion. Each of them a pretty boy of one flavour or another. Ranmaru’s you’re womanizer, Kyohei your violent type, Takenaga (I’m aware he’s the only one I’ve sued the surname for) is the serious type and then you have Toyonama the… androgynous one. I mean amidst a troop of people with girly faces and pouty lips he still looks girly. As a result it’s probably why he always seems to wind up in womens clothing, and I mean that ina  totally different way than if it were applied to say, Ranmaru.

So you take this mixture, and then you throw in one Nakahara Sunako. She’s convinced she’s hideous, does nothing to “take care of herself” and is one heck of a horror movie junkie. Not to mention her room decor consists of a couple anatomy statues, a skeleton, some skulls, an awesome T.V. Oh, they have names… The one with legs is Hiroshi, The skeleton is Josephine, the Skull is John and I forget the name of the statue with no arms or legs. The landlady of the house where these guys have been staying is owned by her aunt. The reason for Sunako being there? If those four pretty boys can turn her into a lady they get to live rent free. They accept the deal without knowing anything about Sunako, at all, she’s gloomy enough to give off a depressing aura that convinces people she’s a ghost… Although around town she seems to be known as ’scary girl’ Anyway;

The art in this is… well it’s okay. They do that whole stick figures or that other thing where they draw these little bodies… no I don’t mean Chibi, although Sunako does get turned that way when she’s being normal, for her anyway. Sometimes they’ll paste a characters head onto their little… easy to draw dude and well that’s actually funny. the show is pretty hilarious if you look past the pretty boys. I’m aware not everyone of my gender is as tolerant as I am but Sunako makes it worth it. I mean sure she gets called ugly all the time but she’s exceedingly hawt, and I do mean that, and I mean to a degree that makes you assume the guy who called her ugly back in the day must have been freaking blind. Then again she gets called that still by a lot of people… which makes no sense but whatever. Sure she’s got an abrasive attitude sometimes, poor people skills, a twisted sense of humour, an aversion to bright lights… sounds almost like I’m describing myself. :s I suppose she’s given up on being liked and can no longer comprehend all the preening “normal girls” do just so someone will call them pretty. what’s sad about that is given the choice between:

Noi: Sunako:

Well… I’d pick Sunako before Noi, every bloody time. But then as mentioned numerous times, I have strange taste. I know those pictures are horrible I just ran off and pulled them off of MAL. I’ve not quite finished the series yet, only on episode 18 of 25 at the moment so, I’ll probably be back again with my thoughts on the show. But I might just get through the next few episodes of The Third before I do that. I have no idea.