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mystickeeper" list.

( Graphic Novels to Read ) ( TV to Watch ) ( Anime to Watch ) ( Video Games to play )

Having trouble figuring out how to "cure" in Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy (I haven't played the first one....I thought I could play the first one in this game!).

Further described in this post, if anyone can help me out!

Crossposts: http://mystickeeper.livejournal.com/550368.html

( Spoilers for season one under the cut )

Crossposts: http://mystickeeper.livejournal.com/549908.html

Since the inception of the Wisconsin Protests, people have had fun with the drama, in addition to reporting actual news.

Most of this takes place on Twitter. There are countless fake accounts for Governor Walker, his SUV, etc.

When the Senate Democrats left the state to prevent the Senate from achieving a quorum (and therefore stalling the vote on Walker's budget repair bill, which all but erased the rights of state employees to collectively bargain, among other things), a Twitter account was created to detail their imagined antics in Illinois.
A response account was made from the Senate Republicans, left behind. Their Twitter tag line was something like, "We're just some guys trying to vote."
The tweets were hilarious, and sometimes disturbingly accurate when describing the personalities of various senators/legislative staff, causing rampant speculation about who was behind them.

In Wisconsin, officials must be elected for a year before recall efforts can begin.
So, we've collected over 1,000,000 signatures to recall the Governor.

Normally in a recall, under Wisconsin law, it is up to the opposing side (i.e., GOP) to look at recall signatures, and challenge any signatures they find suspicious, for example if someone signed twice, or if someone signed as "Mickey Mouse."

The GOP took the Government Accountability Board (non-partisan agency that oversees elections in our state) to court in Waukesha (a conveniently conservative community). A judge in Waukesha ruled that it should be up to the Government Accountability Board, not the GOP, to screen for any fraudulent signatures.

The GOP, probably fed up with accusations of their partisan nature, have set up a webcam of the temp employees they have hired to scan in & analyze the 1,000,000 recall signatures. The webcam's feed is online, and available for public viewing.
This is also because the scanning of signatures is taking place at an "undisclosed, secure" location (adding to everyone's general amusement).

I'm sure the GAB thought that only watchdogs from either party would watch it vigilantly.
Instead, the webcam has attracted tens of thousands of hits since its debut.

And here is where the RPF comes in.

RecallCam is narrating the webcam, giving backgrounds and identities to the silent temp workers on-screen, imagining relationships that happen between them, publishing fake poll results for changes in hairstyles in the temp workers.

RecallCamHaiku also narrates the webcam feed. While it delves less into the area of RPF, the account does its narration in haiku.

Whether it's called "fanfiction" outright or not by its authors, I think that RPF has been a fantastically amusing addition to political issues in Wisconsin for the last year.

Other coverage specific to the Twitter accounts:
LA Times
Madison AV Club
The New York Times's Lede blog

Current Mood: amused
Crossposts: http://mystickeeper.livejournal.com/549621.html

Sometimes, pain happens in your body but it manifests somewhere else.

Post-surgery, almost every time I eat, I get immediate stabbing pain in my left shoulder. This probably would have been creepier if one of my GERD symptoms from the last 18 months hadn't been stabbing chest pain (center of chest).

My mom kept mentioning that "referred pain" is a thing, but I didn't feel better about it until I googled it.

And, true facts, pain in a person's diaphragm can show up in someone's left shoulder, because the two areas share a nerve or something. (Science/medicine is not my area, even though it's kind of my profession.)

"Referred pain" seems like it could be a great metaphor when applied to other things in life, but I'm too tired to write anything grandiose about it just now.

Crossposts: http://mystickeeper.livejournal.com/549237.html

Vids = TV/movies/anime clips, set to music.

festivids = seasonal secret exchange where people request certain source materials, & people vid them. Think "Yuletide but with vids instead of fanfic."

Just Dance, Utena the Musical set to Lady Gaga's Just Dance.
(Utena the Musical is one of the most obscure sources ever, so if you're into it, check the main post for two other vids set to it. Of course, my rec is for the most heinous of the three.)

Express Yourself, Newsies set to Madonna's "Express Yourself."

Bloom in Adversity, a really beautiful Mulan vid.

Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, the song by James Brown, set to Maru the cat videos.

Outside the Box, Maru/boxes, set to U2's "I still haven't found what I'm looking for"

Hero by Imogen Heap, set to Kamikaze Girls

I Feel It All by Feist, set to Mad Men. The vid focuses on the character of Peggy. I like the song choice, too. It's deceptively up-beat for the lyrics, which I think captures the tone of Mad Men pretty well.

Sophia's Song - character study of Sophia from Last Exile, set to Poe's "Wild."

Crossposts: http://mystickeeper.livejournal.com/548913.html

( Cut for thoughts after 2.3, although the thoughts more pertain to the series as a whole. )

Crossposts: http://mystickeeper.livejournal.com/548281.html

The blog Manga Bookshelf regularly hosts what they call, "Manga Moveable Feasts," which are essentially blog carnivals for specific series.

This week, people who blog about manga have been writing about Sailor Moon. You can find link round-ups of the various posts here. I especially enjoyed Sailor Moon and Femininity.

In this roundtable post, while discussing the likeability of Usagi (Sailor Moon)'s character at the onset of the series, David says the following:

[Sailor V]’s excited that she can become glamorous and powerful and, to a lesser extent, help people. If Usagi had something compelling going on in her life, the added responsibilities might actually seem like a burden, but she seems put out because it’s cutting into her nap time. It reminds me of how right Joss Whedon got this dynamic so right with Buffy, whose destiny was really gruesome and dangerous, and Cordelia, who went from being very shallow to really enjoying making a difference. Usagi is a very “Math is hard!” type. I’m looking forward when manga Usagi catches up with anime Usagi, who was a lot more likable and credible.

There is this thesis I've had for a while, that all Joss Whedon TV shows* are based on anime series.
Dollhouse can be mapped pretty easily to Gunslinger Girl.
Firefly has a very similar premise to Cowboy Bebop.
(In both cases, I would argue that the anime is better.)

Although less obvious at first blush, I'd postulate that the premise & some characters of Buffy the Vampire Slayer map on to Sailor Moon.
(In this case, I would argue that Buffy takes Sailor Moon and makes it into an overall better show.)

Usagi Tsukino/Buffy Summers is a blonde school girl who has special powers. Usagi/Buffy's friends have special powers, too, but Usagi/Buffy's powers are The Most Special and instrumental in saving the world multiple times.

Usagi/Buffy have a love interests in a tall/dark/handsome man, Tuxedo Mask/Angel. This love interest is forbidden in both series (Angel is a vampire; Tuxedo Mask is after the Imperium Crystal - JUST LIKE THE ENEMY), and the man is marked as suspicious by Usagi/Buffy's narrative-dumping mentor with a British accent, Luna/Giles. [I should note that Luna's accent is only British in the English dub, but if Whedon did watch Sailor Moon in the mid-nineties, he probably watched the dub.]

Usagi/Buffy fight against a never-ending horde of demons. Their friends help them! I view Willow as a combination of Sailor Mercury (girl genius with an IQ of 300) and Sailor Mars (a spiritual & mature person, with a temper).
Xander is a little more narratively useful because he doesn't have any special powers. But he's much more fleshed out than Usagi's power-less friend Naru, who is mostly forgotten after the first arc of the manga.

The cross-series relationship that interests me the most is the fusion of Sailor Chibi Moon and Sailor Saturn into Buffy's younger sister, Dawn.
( Spoilers for Buffy season 5 and the 2nd/3rd story arcs of Sailor Moon, if you care. )

In the TV show, Buffy's receipt of her ultimate power through the vehicle of a scythe (never referenced in any previous season) seems kind of out of place, but it could be a nod to shoujo anime in general, or Sailor Moon specifically. Sailor Moon has a crescent wand when she first transforms. Overtime, as her power grows, the wand changes and develops into a staff.

Overall, I think that Buffy is a better-developed show. Sometimes the shows explore the same themes - what would happen if Buffy/Usagi lost their powers? What would happen if Angel/Tuxedo Mask's personality changed and they were evil? What happens to Usagi/Buffy when he leaves? but I think Buffy does a better job of examining power and responsibility. It also has a lot more dudes, so depending on your preference, YMMV.

It's my head-canon that Whedon came up with Buffy after watching the Sailor Moon anime, and possibly reading the manga. I can pretty clearly imagine him watching it, and tearing his hair out, thinking, "This premise has so much potential! I can make it so much better if I just do this here, and that there...." etc.

*Due to Angel's status as a spinoff of Buffy, I leave this out of the postulation.

ETA: As this is the type of post to generate discussion, I just want to point out that there are comments on both the DW and the LJ version of the post. DW people, the link to LJ is below.

LJ people, the DW link is here: http://laceblade.dreamwidth.org/545960.html

Daughter of ETA:
After spending some time on Google, I wanted to link to some things I found.

1) A discussion in the comments at Whedonesque. Comments also compare Ann & Alan to Drusilla & Spike. Someone calls Sailor Moon porn there, though, so I'm not really sure what that's about.

2) This blog post purports that one of the movie producers, Fran Rubel Kuzui, was a Sailor Moon fan. It's well-known that the Kazuis had no creative input on the TV series, though.

There's an interview here with Fran Rubel Kuzui, that talks about bringing some of Sailor Moon's traits to Buffy.
Kuzui wanted to bring Sailor Moon’s traits and martial arts skills to the character. "The writer, Joss Whedon, loved the idea, so we set out to rewrite the script." The movie was picked up by a studio within three weeks of the revised script’s completion.

Kuzui was married to a Japanese man, Kaz Kuzui, the third executive producer of Buffy.

3) There are at least 13 crossover fics..

Crossposts: http://mystickeeper.livejournal.com/545862.html

I don't know about other people, but I spend more time online during the holidays. This makes me turn into a posting machine, unfortunately.
If you're bored, here are things I'm thinking about lately.

--After a day and a half of infrequent use, my Kobo Touch has stopped responding to....touch! I explain my problem in this post over at

ebooks. If you have any advice or commiseration, please offer it there!

--Dreamwidth has had thousands of accounts made in the last few days, mainly due to people moving here from LiveJournal, due to the latest round of heinousness (turning on automatic payments without people's permission - check your settings!; getting rid of subject lines in comments). Whether you're new to Dreamwidth or you've been on the site for a while,

rydra_wong has made a welcome pack post describing where to get info about Dreamwidth, how to connect with people, and how to find communities that relate to your interests.

--

commodorified is starting a blog carnival called "Cooking For People Who Don't." The topic this round is called "Food Security." The post is here.
I'm a person who doesn't cook very well. I've learned how to make some food because I live alone and would like to cook. Usually things don't go great.
As a person with dietary restrictions, I really, really love this advice for the blog posts:
That said, Describe much; Prescribe little. Readers may be complete beginners in the kitchen, food store, or garden patch, but they are, and deserve to be respected as, experts on their own lives, resources, abilities, and circumstances. Avoid the phrases, and the mindset, "anyone can", or "everyone should".
That latter sentence is great general life advice, I think.

--

littlebutfierce made a post titled, "productivity for the low-of-spoons," aka those with low energy levels for whatever reason. The post is here. I know I struggle with this.

bitesizedcleaning is great for housekeeping tasks, but I'm starting to think about "getting things done" in life more generally, outside of work (I don't have an issue there). I'd like to write, like to actively correspond with friends, etc. I just don't, at the moment. Still chewing on some ideas that other people posted there.

--I'm also still cruising around at

eastasianfandomgiftbag, a low-key gift exchange for anime/manga/video game/etc. fandoms. It's great especially for small fandoms! I WILL PRODUCE...SOMETHING?!

Reccing Things

--A recent NPR's Planet Money podcast called "Europe Turns on the Bat Signal" compared the Fed and the European Central Bank to super heroes. The podcast purports that to understand how both entities act now, one needs to know their origin stories and mottos, and then they explain. IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE TO ME NOW! Here's a direct link to the podcast.

--Fruits Basket manga: This is more of a minor note. Usually, manga-ka use the margin space to write notes about things I don't care about: groceries, thanking their assistants, conversations with their editors. Occasionally, they can be hilarious (see: Hiromu Arakawa & Kaoru Mori), but usually not.
I <3 a lot of Natsuki Takaya's notes. She talks about playing video games like FF7 and FF8, but also video games in general. My favorite recently read one was about how instead of watching in horror when a character in your party dies, all she can think is, "I hope I get all the stuff I have equipped on you right now." BWAHAHA.
As for Fruits Basket itself: I've only seen the anime and have never previously read the manga. It's pretty great.

--Yozakura Quartet anime: Humans and demons live side-by-side in a city in Tokyo. Based on the description, I wasn't expecting to like this series as much as I do. It's about kids with special powers. Which sounds awesome, but navigating society with things that make you "special" in ways that are sometimes a curse is pretty difficult. It took me a few episodes to really dig it, but from then on, it was great. As a bonus, I like the character designs a lot, too.

Crossposts: http://mystickeeper.livejournal.com/545026.html

I would like to buy an adorable cover for my Kobo e-reader!

Help me pick one! (I really like ridiculous polls, if you can't tell.)

Poll #8885
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 17

View Respondents

WHICH ONE IS THE CUTEST?!

View Answers

Berries & hearts on black background
6 (35.3%)

Heinous animals with cloud keychain
8 (47.1%)

Heinous forest animals in bright colors
3 (17.6%)

Links go to each product's page on Etsy.
--Berries & hearts on black background
--Heinous animals with cloud keychain
--~~Heinous forest animals in bright colors~~ ETA: It's sold out, *sob*

Conclusion to my previous post: I'm watching the Yozakura Quartet anime, first! I've seen 6.5 episodes so far, and it's pretty great. I should have time to watch more things; I'll be off of work all week, since I'm at my parent's place for a wedding at the end of the week.

ETA: I went with the berries-on-black theme! Which was actually winning at the time of purchase! Also, it was cheaper!
I think the cloud keychain for the other one (the one that wasn't already sold out) was only a pre-Thanksgiving deal, too).
Thanks for voting!

Crossposts: http://mystickeeper.livejournal.com/544987.html

I received a Kobo Touch e-reader! It's pretty great.

My mission is to get really comfortable with it & upload lots of content on to it before I have surgery on January 18th. After my surgery, I won't be able to lift things that weigh more than 2 lbs, or bend over. Reading will be easier on this small/cute device, and possible wherever - a coffee shop, bedridden, the bus, etc.

Things I can do:
--Download fanfiction from the Archive of Our Own (easy b/c they have a button!), put it in Calibre, get it on my e-reader
--Buy books through Kobo's weird website/management system
--Make huge fanfics into .epub or .mobi files by using squee!Book....sort of (see below).

Things I'd like to do: (advice welcome)
--be able to add a cover image to fics I download from the AO3. I have....a lot of fanart saved to my hard drive, haha.
--Get rid of the ads that play when it's in sleep mode. Find out if I can hack it and put my own pictures on there instead.
--Play with squee!Book more. At the moment - I can't embed images inside a chapter. I've tried making an e-book for Lullabye for the New World Order twice now. The first time, I hadn't yet figured out how to insert an image into the title. The second time, it worked! But the text file of the fic itself was totally, utterly borked. Like, there was a single paragraph.....various chapter title pages, but no fic. V. disappointing, and I'm not sure what I did wrong.
--I'm semi-dreading using squee!Book for some of the really old FF7 fic I used to read and would like to reread to see how it holds up....some was posted on sites built using frames. Since the Word Processor on my computer crashes every time I copy/paste text into it, this could prove to be very frustrating.
--Check out library e-books on it (I'm told this is totes possible??).
--Buy a book through Room of One's Own's website for it.
--attempt to read manga on it, and see what happens

Crossposts: http://mystickeeper.livejournal.com/544755.html

This trip home, my library failed me by not having 1) season one of Super GALS!, or 2) Saiunkouku Monogatari.

SO. I branched out. Where should I start?!

Poll #8853
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

View Respondents

Which series should I watch first?!

View Answers

Yozakura Quartet (anime)
2 (28.6%)

Pandora Hearts (anime)
1 (14.3%)

Boys Over Flowers (k-drama)
3 (42.9%)

My Lovely Sam-Soon (k-drama)
1 (14.3%)

Wingaria!! (anime; "Working" when it aired in Japan)
0 (0.0%)

Hidamari Sketch (anime)
0 (0.0%)

ETA: Sorry, the US title for "Working" is actually spelled, "Wagnaria!!" Apparently the difference is due to copyright issues. Doesn't excuse my terrible spelling.

Crossposts: http://mystickeeper.livejournal.com/544452.html

So, 70 pages in.

Will Sherwood Smith's Inda eventually be about more than just hazing/bullying?

(Watch me become head-over-heels obsessed with it now, like I did with Game of Thrones.)

Felt sick all weekend, yesterday, and this morning. It's annoying.

Can we talk about how great Nicola Griffith is?? I liked Ammonite, and now I've read The Blue Place and it's like someone crawled inside my id and made THE BEST BOOK EVER?!

I would appreciate more input in the WisCon 36: Anime & Manga Programming Idea-Generation & Solidifaction Fest. I don't give a shit if you're coming to WisCon or not - help us have good panels/etc.!
If anyone's interested in being on a panel, let us know that, too. (I am not.)

eastasianfandomgiftbag - "This is a low-key wishlist-based exchange for East Asian fandoms of all types (anime, manga/manhua/manhwa, dramas, music, games, etc.). The way it works is pretty simple: Post a wishlist of your fandoms & some information about your preferences (characters, tropes, what types of fanworks you'd most enjoy, etc.).
All East Asian fandoms are welcome, but please consider this a special invitation for those of you in small fandoms. Spread the word & maybe more of us can find each other!"

A prompt-fest for The Aurors, which basically sounds like the coolest thing EVER.

inkingitout - a community to replace last year's failed

inkitout. A support group for people with word-count goals of over 75,000 for the year of 2012. Projects can include fanfiction, original fic, disserations, thesis, whatever.
I'm angsting about whether or not to sign up, :[ The other day I wrote a few hundred words of my heinous FF7 fic! Guys it's so messed up. idk if there's anyway that sucker can be salvaged at this point.

Crossposts: http://mystickeeper.livejournal.com/541973.html

(I write this post in full recognition that most of you don't give a shit.)

SO. There is a new English translation of the Roman Missal, and it'll start being used in Catholic churches across America this coming Sunday (I think).

The Roman Missal is the stuff that the priest and the laypeople say during mass. If you've ever been in a Catholic church and gotten creeped out that everyone was chanting the same words at the same time, this is where the words came from.

Pre-Vatican II, everything was done in Latin. When each group of bishops came up with their own translation, people rejoiced - they could understand the mass for themselves!

But now the United States Council of Catholic Bishops has decided that their translation at the time of Vatican II was too rushed, too "simple," not reverent enough. By not only translating the Latin to English, but also making it easier to understand, many worried that the text was too "down to Earth." So they've added words like "consubstantial," changed "cup" to "chalice," etc.

Here's a sample quote that shows us dwelling the fact that it's a person's own fault if they sin, as if Catholicism didn't emphasize this enough.

We go from I confess to almighty God,
and to you, my brothers and sisters,
that I have sinned
through my own fault
in my thoughts and in my words,
in what I have done,
and in what I have failed to do;

to
I confess to almighty God
and to you, my brothers and sisters,
that I have greatly sinned

in my thoughts and in my words,
in what I have done
and in what I have failed to do,
through my fault,
through my fault,
through my most grievous fault;

It seems pretty absurd to me that making things easier to understand and not as elevated somehow sullies the reverence of people's faith. One of the most attractive parts of Christianity to me is that one is not worshiping a God who has never cried, never suffered, never experienced extreme pain/anguish. It's the coolest thing (to me) that God became an actual person.
Works of Aaron Sorkin aside, elitism doesn't usually sit well with me, and I am not looking forward to this change. I think it is yet another example of the church hierarchy's inability to listen to and respect the laity. They are forever the paternalistic shepherds who truly believe that they, and they alone, know best.

There are multiple perspectives on this.
Propoganda!
A 10-part series published by the Catholic News Agency that is basically also propoganda.
I like this commentary quite a bit; it raises many pointed questions.

Current Music: Shake it Out - Florence + the Machine
Crossposts: http://mystickeeper.livejournal.com/540023.html

Some day I might write coherently about PanAm, but it is SO HEINOUS and I like it SO MUCH.

I mostly feel the same way about Glee, which I've now caught up with. (I LIKE EVERY CHARACTER THE MOST, but especially Santana and Kurt and BLAINE BUT MOST ESPECIALLY MIKE CHANG and his special power of emoting.)

Crossposts: http://mystickeeper.livejournal.com/538815.html

About a month ago, the first volume of the manga Princess Knight was released in the U.S. People like me have been excited about this for a while - it's an influential work that I've been waiting to read for a long time.

As I read more Tezuka works, I started growing more leery of reading this series, given that I was generally unimpressed with his other stuff.

This premise of this manga assumes that gender is a binary. At birth, each person is assigned a "girl heart" or a "boy heart." Written 1953-1956, I'm willing to give this some slack.
A cheeky angel gives one baby a boy heart, in addition to the baby's girl heart, and this baby becomes the protagonist.

Born into royalty, Sapphire is raised as a boy because the laws in her kingdom only allow men to inherit the throne. Her "true" identity is a girl, and it must be kept a secret from those who would steal the throne from her.
Her boy heart allows her to be better at fighting, but sometimes she wears dresses and wigs to feel more feminine.

To make things right with God, the angel Tink comes to Earth to take Sapphire's boy heart back, and "turn [her] into a proper girl." Tink states that he must make Sapphire "more feminine and lady-like."

Whenever Sapphire's strength fades, she refers to herself as a girl, or concedes that it must be her true gender. Her "boy heart" is necessary for her to retain her proficiency at swordfighting.

In addition to hiding her gender identity, Sapphire cannot be wholly honest about her feelings toward other characters. This leads to confliction and angst. This angst isn't as complex or responsible as it could or should be - again, it focuses on gender as a strict binary, and assumes everyone is heterosexual. But it's a more honest portrayal than I've found in any of Tezuka's other works. Sapphire is a BAMF, and I'll read about her doing anything.

I think that Vertical will release this series in full, in just two volumes. The second one is due to come out this winter. The plot moves along pretty briskly. I guess I'm used to reading current series, which try to drag storylines out.

The influences of Princess Knight on Rose of Versailles and Revolutionary Girl Utena are clear. As time goes on, the series that tackle issues of gender representation and strength become more complicated, and for this I am grateful. I'm still glad that Vertical published this classic title in English, so I can see how far storytelling has come, in its ability to portray and reflect on gender.

Crossposts: http://mystickeeper.livejournal.com/538605.html

Way back in June, when WisCon 35 was still fresh, we had a conversation called WisCon 36 Anime/Manga Programming Idea-Generation Fest. I'd like to pick up some of the ideas we had there, and solidify them into panel descriptions.
I think it's cool to write things collectively, but if you would like to write & submit your own panel ideas for WisCon 36, about anime & manga or any other topic, you can go here to do so now! Anyone can suggest panel ideas: People who run the convention, authors, attendees, or people who have never attended WisCon and never will.

Typically, the Programming Committee will wordsmith descriptions quite a bit, but I think that anime and manga panels are often left untouched because those on Programming don’t know the terms, etc. That's why I'm big on wordsmithing these!

Goals of this post:
--Further develop ideas we were talking about earlier in the year
--Suggest new ideas if you've been thinking about stuff lately, or if you see something here that makes you want to write something else.

General Question
For panel descriptions that include the names of manga-ka or other Japanese writers/artists/producers/creators, should we do [Family Name] [Given Name] or [Given Name] [Family Name]? I tend to go with the latter, but am very willing to listen to the input of others.

Specific Panel Ideas
Disclaimer: There are ideas in the original post that are not included here, in all cases because I didn't feel confident enough to re-tool them myself. Feel free to revive them in the comments of this post.

"I've read Ooku; which manga series should I read next?"
After Fumi Yoshinaga's Ooku won the Tiptree Award at WisCon 34, many WisCon attendees read manga for the first time. Veterans of anime and manga talk about their favorites, as well as series that share characteristics to Ooku.

Anime & Manga: What I read & watched in 2011
So, what manga have you read or reread this year? Which anime have you watched or re-watched? Any re-releases have you excited? Come listen to panelists chatter, and maybe get some ideas for what you'll read/watch next.
[Aside: Is this panel too similar to the one above it?]

Intended Audience in Anime/Manga
In Japan, manga series run in magazines marketed towards adult men, adult women, boys, and girls. Many series marketed toward adult men (sienen) feature attractive girls/women living their lives and having adventures. Does the fact that the series are marketed toward older men limit your personal enjoyment? Do you pay attention to the classifications of Japanese marketers?

Suggested series for discussion: K-On!, Gunslinger Girls, Victorian Romance Emma, Azumanga Daioh/Yosuba&!, Puella Shoujo Magi Madoka

Magical School Girls
In anime and manga, characters like Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura are symbols of "girl power." Watch clips of classic magical school girl anime, and listen to panelists deconstruct the girls' sources of power, the motives of their animal sidekicks, and their outfits.

(Suggestions for clips of source material: Hime-chan no Ribon, Cardcaptor Sakura, Sailor Moon, Uta~Kata, Princess Tutu, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Full Moon o Sagashite, Shugo Chara!, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Pretty Cure, Sugar Sugar Rune, Mai Hime, Magic Knight Rayearth, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, Cutey Honey, Pretear, etc. x1,000

SF and Fantasy in Classic Shôjo
Panelists will discuss classic titles, such as Princess Knight and Utena, and classic authors, such as Moto Hagio and Keiko Takemiya.

The Works of CLAMP
CLAMP is a four-women manga-producing team from Japan. Panelists will discuss their work, titles include Cardcaptor Sakura, X/1999, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, xxxHOLiC, and Gate 7.
[Aside: need more meat to this description?]

Deconstruction of Fairy Tales in Shoujo Anime/Manga
[Don't have much of a description yet]
Suggested series: Revolutionary Girl Utena, Princess Tutu, Notsume Yuujinchou

Anime Party
Like the vid party, but we'd show the first episodes of tons of anime shows all night! Alternatively, we could marathon a specific series.
I personally am uninterested in hosting a party (although would assist a host), and parties get set up in a different way than panels do (you have to contact the Parties Coordinator!). So if people are truly interested in this, you'd best organize yourselves in the comments, :O

Ideas not exclusive to anime/manga

Pirating
Copyright, scanlations, fansubbing, electronic versions of media. Half our community hates it, and half depends on it. Let's have an honest discussion about the role of piracy in fandom.

Commenting disclaimer: If you're reading this on LiveJournal, I would appreciate it if you could post your comments on the Dreamwidth post, so they're all in one spot. Of course, if you are unable to do so, comment at LJ.

GUYS.

There is some sweet merchandise on RightStuf. I hadn't seen this before! Link!

What are you getting?

I think I want the Moon stick keychain, but all the pin sets look great, too.

ETA: This post was intended for

sailormoon, sorry, ;_;

Crossposts: http://mystickeeper.livejournal.com/537834.html

To-Do

Can I get a white mage in here?

Downton Abbey: Season 1

Wisconsin Protests & RPF ("Real Person Fic")

Referred Pain

Festivids Recs

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In conclusion, I would read crossover fic.

Things that have been on my mind, or in my browser tabs

INFLUENCE ME AGAIN!

In which I try to do stuff with technology - historically, this doesn't go well for me

INFLUENCE ME

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Fathers Know Best

Feelings of Glee

Princess Knight, volume 1

WisCon 36: Anime & Manga Programming Idea-Generation & Solidifaction Fest

MERCHANDISE!

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