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discombobulate) wrote2009-08-16 03:15 pm
discombobulate) wrote2009-08-16 03:15 pm
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P.S. I got a new Speed Grapher layout.
Okay so! Less than two weeks from now I'll be on my way to college and starting that brand-spankin' new chapter of my life. I'll be living on a third floor (hurray exercise?) and my roommate has a pretty good chance of being a geek, if not on a lower intensity than myself. I'll teach her the ways of geekery soon enough. ALSO ohmygod, if she can get a TV that will be so awesome because I'll be able to actually use my PS2~!
Once I start living in Boston, I'll be seeing a lot more of my brothers, so maybe I'll get a chance at a "real family feeling"without my parents to ruin it But man, scheduling my life over there is gonna be challenging, and I'm gonna have to learn some serious self-restraint if I want to get anything done, sigh. OH WELL, I'll deal with that later~
In other news on my personal life, my brother (the second-oldest one) is getting married in November. It's super sweet, he proposed in July and now he's all busy with planning the wedding and whatnot. Going to his wedding will be my first time going to California, so all in all, very awesome.
And in fandom-related news, I tried reading Amatsuki again and finally got it! God, I was so confused for a while there. See, I didn't get the whole 'Sensai' corporation connection and all that "Heaven's Net" talk. Now I'm working my way there, I think...
The main problem with understanding the series is that there are two timelines going on in the and their casts are almost completely different. The main plot is about Tokidoki, stuck in this weird old-Japan world, while the other is a couple years in the past and stars some people (don't really care too much about them) trying to figure out what the deal is with this powerful "Sensai Corporation" and setting the groundwork for how Toki's world came to be. The connecting factor is that the world Toki's stuck in is a virtual reality game created by the Sensai Corporation. How he landed there, where his body is, or what's going on in the world while he's there is a complete mystery.
I also think that Toki's mentor, Suou, got stuck in the game before him, since it's possible he landed in a coma after the supposed train accident (this is me reading the foreshadowing). Since Sensai is a medical company, I'm taking a wild guess and saying that the world was originally created to give body-trapped patients a place to live that would at the same time be pretty exciting. THAT'S HOW THE STORYLINES RELATE. It would have been nice for the author to mention this sooner, because the first time I saw the real-world people I was completely put-off and confused.
Now as for the world inside the game, all the "characters" have to follow a set of rules set by the "gods" (I guess Admins) who control Heaven's Net (which is like the big web of each character's destinies, lives, etc. Basically the game's plot.) Since they're video game characters, it makes sense. Toki plays into this a bit differently because he is a "unwritten/blank page," which means Heaven's Net cannot affect him. At first I thought the whole blank page status was because he came from the outside world. He's a "player character" not an NPC, so it made sense, but... factor in Toki's friend, Shinonome Kon, and we've got a problem. Kon arrived in the game a couple minutes before Toki did, yet for him, two years had passed in-game, meaning he had matured and knew his way around the so-calld virtual reality. He's introduced as the 'cool senior type' who helps Toki learn his way around at the beginning. So... why isn't he a blank page? They claim he used to be, but somehow he got written into the game's code. Heaven's Net has already rewritten him as a character and now only Toki remembers that Kon exists outside the game!
If Heaven's Net is able to rewrite anyone who isn't a blank page, and Kon used to be a blank page but isn't, then isn't it possible for all the game's characters to actually be player-controlled!? How did Kon stop being a blank page? And how did the rewrite cure Kon's arm!? (he had it disabled when the monster that sucked him in-game attacked) Why must this series be so pretty, and yet make so little sense!?
I think writing all that down made me understand it even less.
Once I start living in Boston, I'll be seeing a lot more of my brothers, so maybe I'll get a chance at a "real family feeling"
In other news on my personal life, my brother (the second-oldest one) is getting married in November. It's super sweet, he proposed in July and now he's all busy with planning the wedding and whatnot. Going to his wedding will be my first time going to California, so all in all, very awesome.
And in fandom-related news, I tried reading Amatsuki again and finally got it! God, I was so confused for a while there. See, I didn't get the whole 'Sensai' corporation connection and all that "Heaven's Net" talk. Now I'm working my way there, I think...
The main problem with understanding the series is that there are two timelines going on in the and their casts are almost completely different. The main plot is about Tokidoki, stuck in this weird old-Japan world, while the other is a couple years in the past and stars some people (don't really care too much about them) trying to figure out what the deal is with this powerful "Sensai Corporation" and setting the groundwork for how Toki's world came to be. The connecting factor is that the world Toki's stuck in is a virtual reality game created by the Sensai Corporation. How he landed there, where his body is, or what's going on in the world while he's there is a complete mystery.
I also think that Toki's mentor, Suou, got stuck in the game before him, since it's possible he landed in a coma after the supposed train accident (this is me reading the foreshadowing). Since Sensai is a medical company, I'm taking a wild guess and saying that the world was originally created to give body-trapped patients a place to live that would at the same time be pretty exciting. THAT'S HOW THE STORYLINES RELATE. It would have been nice for the author to mention this sooner, because the first time I saw the real-world people I was completely put-off and confused.
Now as for the world inside the game, all the "characters" have to follow a set of rules set by the "gods" (I guess Admins) who control Heaven's Net (which is like the big web of each character's destinies, lives, etc. Basically the game's plot.) Since they're video game characters, it makes sense. Toki plays into this a bit differently because he is a "unwritten/blank page," which means Heaven's Net cannot affect him. At first I thought the whole blank page status was because he came from the outside world. He's a "player character" not an NPC, so it made sense, but... factor in Toki's friend, Shinonome Kon, and we've got a problem. Kon arrived in the game a couple minutes before Toki did, yet for him, two years had passed in-game, meaning he had matured and knew his way around the so-calld virtual reality. He's introduced as the 'cool senior type' who helps Toki learn his way around at the beginning. So... why isn't he a blank page? They claim he used to be, but somehow he got written into the game's code. Heaven's Net has already rewritten him as a character and now only Toki remembers that Kon exists outside the game!
If Heaven's Net is able to rewrite anyone who isn't a blank page, and Kon used to be a blank page but isn't, then isn't it possible for all the game's characters to actually be player-controlled!? How did Kon stop being a blank page? And how did the rewrite cure Kon's arm!? (he had it disabled when the monster that sucked him in-game attacked) Why must this series be so pretty, and yet make so little sense!?
I think writing all that down made me understand it even less.
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I like your new layout! :D It's cool! You had another speedgrapher one a long time ago, right? This one is cute! x3
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Right? I think the last Speed Grapher layout I had was aaaaaages ago. Man, I really wanna buy the whole series! I saw the boxset online and I was like "wannnnnnnnnt~" Gosh, it may have been violent and disgusting, but it was also so pretty.