I know I haven't posted in a long time. But I must come out from the shadows to share my mourning of cartoon network's toonami block. I should have seen this coming. One of my friends was planning to boycott the channel when adult swim moved the premier episodes of code geass and moribito to 4 a.m. only. But the death of toonami blind sided me completely.

Then Tom said "bang."

God thank Steve Blum (voice of Spike Speigal, and Tom) for giving us a dignified end.

I can't believe it's been 11 years; and I never expected it to end. I'm 22, so I was 11 when I started watching it, and I didn't even have the channel yet. I had to be a really, really good child so that I could make it to my friend's houses without fail every weekday afternoon. When I packed up my room before moving away to go to college, all of the vhs tapes I owned were filled with anime recorded from toonami, midnight run and early adult swim (aside from a couple from the action channel.)

Cartoon network was one of the leading pushers for anime in the US. It might have even been the key ingredient for anime to have gone mainstream here. So why are they cutting so much anime now. I feel so betrayed. It seems like the only places that could fill the void are channels like sci-fi and the earlier G4, and those series are more suited for adults. It's horrible for me to picture a world where kids don't have access to anime on network tv. They should not have to put up with seeing only the crap that 4kids shits out.

And what about series like Naruto. Sure it was in the filler, which is a pretty bad place to be, and I'm fairly confident that cartoon network will continue showing it without toonami - but what if it doesn't. Naruto is sooo hot right now. Hundreds of kids hearts will be broken or betrayed by a crappy ending to a great series. What? Is Shippuden too mature for them. It's sad that family programming can't contain any of the elements that families really aught to be able to talk about, like death, betrayal, depression, and having to work with people you don't get along with. I've seen small children reading the last Harry Potter book (very dark if you haven't read it) and let me tell you they looked perfectly sane and unlikely to do something violent or unethical should the chance arise.

What does this say for the anime industry. That's my dream house. I've known since I was 9 years old that I wanted to have a career in anime. And now everyone says that anime is on the decline and you need to find the new hot niche. How can anime be on the decline if it has been around for the last fifty years and you can see it in theaters in multiple countries around the world. Anime isn't going to decline from this except from in america. Sadly, anime producers stopped being affected by the increase in sales of series sold in the US, there would be less american influences on it. This means more unsexualized nudity and Japanese settings. But that would be horrible. I've always wanted to share the wonders of anime with english and other foreign language speakers. It's cruel to see the outlets declining. And what about our precious dubbers. Without them there is no future for anime in America. I love fansubs as much as the next person, but; seriously, if they start losing airtime we're gonna have to seriously increase our purchasing power to keep them in business. We should all pinch pennies and tip in to helping them out. Really, I'll start donating anime to hospitals and orphanages or something. We should all tell the workers of public libraries the value of having anime dvds, vhs, and manga for rental.

Everyone Please go to a hastings, a sun coast, a local anime store, anywhere that sells the stuff new for a decent price and buy something dubbed or translated into english. Buy something that you know you can find online, or have already read online over and over. Do it this week (or this month if your short on cash.) Just do something, buy something, encourage others to buy something. I'm sorry if I sound demanding but I WANT TO FIGHT!
I don't want anime in America to die out in a breath, in a distant 10 second apology like Toonami did.

I know I'm not the only one. There are lots of kids just like me who grew up watching toonami and who love anime as much as I do. We're all getting older, we're all reaching that age where we're moving up in our lives and we have the power to do something. All of us, together, our voices are a whirlwind shaping fandom, shaping the trends in our market, letting the media know what we want. Sure, anime may not be every American's favorite past time (and I'm not trying to exclude any foreigners who may be reading this - feel free to join in too!) but there is a huge fan following here. We are the cause, we are the demand for anime in our area and it will not end with us. I know that we all plan on showing our families, our children, anime - and they don't have to be in any way shape or form as obsessed with it as we are; but, nevertheless, they will have the opportunity.

The battle isn't over...it's just begun.

ok so here`s the email I sent home
hmm... I can`t figure out how to press the quotation button on a japanese keyboard so maybe the ljcut thing won`t work...sorry this might be really long...I`ll edit it when I get back to Texas



yay ctrl+c and ctrl+v work

the classes here are 1 hr 30 min long...I kid you not...1 hr and 30 min of solid japanese lecture. My brain turned to mush after the first 45 min(maybe earlier). Today I was in a big mall selling lots of clothes and accessories for women. I found the coolest brand name `black peace now` it was totally high class japanese gothic attire but everything was so expensive. Maybe 30 or 40 dollars just for a chocker necklace. Hopefully I`ll find some of it at the flee market. On the top floor, there was a huge book store, mostly novels. I was looking for the manga section when I found myself in yaoi land...surrounded in yaoi novels and audio cds. Then the first manga I stumbled upon...yaoi doushin for 6 and 8 dollars. I only saw three different ones though...lots of saiyuki and one LightXL. On a side note, I now own all of naruto...*wicked grin*.

I`m studying abroad in japan now. It`s exciting and I have so much to say but my days are busy and I`m not entirely over the jet lag yet (it`s been 3 days). So I`ll write more some other time. I`m typing this from a japanese computer so for the next month my posts might look funny(some of the buttons are rearanged and there are lots of buttons I don`t understand)
Right now my world is filled with nihongo, a room full of pig stuff, japanese toilets, ocha, obsurdly thick shonen jump thats sealed shut so you can`t read it unless you buy it but has no price tag at the only shop I saw it at, and miso soup with cantalope in it. oh, and icecream served with green sweet potatoes.

all of the options for lj are in japanese, I never realized how much I took them for granted.

no fanfiction today, just psychobable inspired by spiderman 3, don't worry, no references, no spoilers.

If you want you can think of your fav characters hugging and read this, or whatever.
This is just my random musing and a bit of psychobable

( dakishimete hold me )

Sorry, I won't be able to post much due to Finals. I know that this week I'm actually too busy with essays, exams, and work to spend 15 min writing. I'll try to post again as soon as I can. That might be this weekend, that might be mid may. If I have the time. I will do it. Until then...

Fandom: Deathnote
Pairing: RemuxMisa
Rating: G
Warnings: yuri(girl/girl ie gay themes) Worksafe

( what makes misa happy )

When will it end? Fanfic authors who post large chapters every week - I admire you.

Fandom: deathnote
pairing: RemuxMisa
Rating: G
Warnings: yuri(girl/girl ie gay themes) Worksafe

( it was misa's turn to stay silent )

Fandom: Deathnote
Pairing: RemuxMisa
Rating: I guess PG for gayness
Warnings: yuri(girl/girl ie gay themes), angst, worksafe

( it's useless if you don't love me )

And then they spoke.

Fandom: Deathnote
Pairing: Remuxmisa
Rating: G, er pg13 if you have a problem with the gay/cross species thing
warnings: yuri(girl/girl ie gay themes) Worksafe

( you do care about me don't you )