[This is a long rant/ramble about TeniPuriMyu2. If you don't like PoT or don't care, the real news and stuff is in the bottom half, so just scroll a little bit down.]
ARGH! WHAT IS THIS CRAP?!?! ;_;
Kimeru-kun.... WHY DID THEY CHANGE KIMERU TO RYOMA?!?! x.x Sure, it's a bigger vocal role and all... well, sort of... but damnit, it's not him! I can't really believe Kimeru in any other role besides Fuji; he doesn't walk, move, talk, or look like Echizen! He's too tall... his voice is too adult... what happened to the original Echizen? I LOVED who they picked for the first musical, he was amazing! Had the attitude, speech, young voice, shortness, and everything! He was so... Ryoma!
I keep reading on the TeniPuri fans' livejournals that something happened to the first Ryoma, I keep seeing comments like 'It's too bad what happened to him...' and that sort of thing.... I wish I had more (any, really) friends in the TeniPuri fan network, I know it's a huge HUGE HUUUUUUGE fanbase, but I just am not close friends with anyone in it. It makes me sad T_T; I want to know what happened to him! Damn my inability to fluently read/understand Japanese.
The new Fuji is... meh. I first saw pictures of him and thought that he was going to be the new Ryoma. I could have lived with him being Ryoma. Well, he'd have to look a lot less happy, but he's got a voice and face that's too young for Fuji, and he just DOESN'T COMPARE TO KIMERU. ;_; Really, he's an okay singer/dancer, but he doesn't really *fit*, you know? And Kimeru is totally Fuji. The constant little nods, the voice, the smile/smirk, the ACTING! Poor Kimeru, he just cannot act very well as Ryoma. He was okay as Fuji because Fuji is always the one standing, observing, and looking almost as cool as Tezuka-buchou. Oh yeah, Tezuka looks too old without the tracksuit/Regular Jersey. The TezuRyo duets almost made up for the bad Ryoma casting, those two sound divine together. Mmmm.....
And of course, Momo-chan, Inui-sempai, Oishi, Kiku, Kaidoh, and Taka-san are still amazingly funny and wonderfully played. Those six are superb actors and singers.
The Fudomine team was almost dissappointing. What, they couldn't afford to cast the whole team? They were only two people short! THEY MADE THE GOLDEN PAIR PLAY A FREAKING SCREEN! ;_; Kamio looked good, though. Damn good. Really damn good. Although his singing could use a lot of work. Shinji was PERFECT! And that duet between Tezu and Tachibana, that was great.
Actually, the group songs weren't half bad. The coreography for Fudomine and a few of the jazzy songs was pretty good, but for the most part they ran around too much. It's all well and good for there to be more difficult coreography, but this is a musical! They have to have breath left to sing, you know... ._.; The scene at Taka's sushi restaurant was gold, especially the MoMusu reference. TOO FUNNY! Overall, the music was good, maybe better, but the vocals this time bordered on bad. Half the time they were out of breath, out of tune (a few of the cast members just have no range or ear for vocals). Coreography was meh, and I wish there had been more of the group songs since those always sound gorgeous, but it was still highly amusing and very much worth watching. I hope the next one has more GP Love! It was all FuEiji, TezuRyo, and TezuOishi this time.... not that I'm complaining about *that*, mind you.... Hee.
...but damnit, I really liked the first Ryoma! ;_;
Wow, that was so completely jumbled, biased, and fangirlish. Whee.
Anyhow, I just finished my application to Academy of Art in SF tonight, paid the app fee and eevrything, and my transcript shall be mailed to them tomorrow morning by the school, so I think I'm in! I was kinda surprised...but it looks like I just have to pay the registration fees and I'm in. I guess that's a good thing that there's not really a yes/no letter or specific choosing-process... you know what I mean. It's just sign up, pay, and you're in. It's a bit disappointing, though. Kinda like, wow, that was easy, why the fuck have I *tried* so hard in school up till now if all I have to do is pay the fees and turn in the paperwork? Well, all things considered, I guess people could call it my backup at this point, even though I want to go to it (niiiiiice facilities, dorms, and location~).
Going to go to Otis this weekend, missing Friday to drive down to LA and whatnot. This ought to be interesting. I admit, though, I'm more than a little nervous. I know I've always been the one to succeed, or whatever, the one who does well in school and has a decent job and is on top of things and whatever, but when it comes to college stuff I get really nervous. It's like, a whole new world. It is a whole new world, at the sake of sounding cliche. I always start to doubt myself and wonder, do I really have what it takes to get into ____? Can I seriously be thinking that I can survive college the way I am now? Do I really have that kind of willpower to actually get my work done once I start college, and not slack off and waste the thousands of dollars it costs me to go? I mean... honestly, I don't know if I'm really ready for any of this yet. I feel like I might just be going to college because that's what you DO when you get out of HS. You go to college, get a degree, get a job, and then eventually retire. That's how it works, that's how it goes. ...but damn, it sounded a lot better and more convincing three years ago when I still cared about working hard in my classes. I feel like such a slacker. My parents give me this bullshit about it being because of the friends I hang out with (ZOMG, I DON'T RUN WITH THE PERFECT PREPPY GOOD LITTLE CHILDREN NOW!) but really, I think it's more of my realizing that life is rather pointless unless you have fun, and school does not fit into what my definition of 'fun' encompasses nowadays.
In any case, I guess one way to find out if you can swim is to get tossed in the lake, right?
I hope I know what I'm doing.
Off to watch more PoT, I've got ten more episodes to download and then I'll have 1-100! Wheeeeeee~ (note that the ten episodes I have left are 60-70, not 90-100 x_x )
Yay for procrastination and drowning your nervousness and problems with farfetched fantastical tales and anime.
