The following is a transcript of a chat I had with a friend of mine, Scott. It’s been edited for content and length.
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Scott: yes Spiffy
Today was one of the three times a year I look at fanfic.net
Nic: Only two more to go, huh?
Scott: Yea
I spent a portion of my afternoon looking at HiME fanfiction
Most of it was pretty bad
Nic: You poor soul.
Scott: I read some depressing story of a Otome Au set on Earth about Erstin and Nina, and it ended with Erstin dying of aids somehow….
Nic: That’s so weird.
Scott: Yea
Nic: I guess not even advanced nanotech holds a cure.
Scott: Its modern day Earth
Nic: But she’s still an otome, right? Or no?
Scott: No
Nic: Odd….
Scott: There was actually a intresting one kinda of based around the fake movie trailer
Nic: It wouldn’t be hard to write something cool based on that.
Scott: Yea
Nic: All of the heavy lifting would be done for you.
Scott: Yea but they didn’t make Arika a Genki villian at the start
Nic: Looking up “Genki” I get both a Japanese era and “friendly” – which do you mean?
Scott: You know how Arika is always really over the top friendly
Nic: I suppose so.
But it could be a time-traveling fanfic.
So there.
Scott: Yea
Though litteraly most of the stories there were Shizuru-Natsuki love stories.
Nic: Eh, it could be worse.
Scott: Yea
At least it hasn’t descended into X/1999 style of agnstfests
Nic: Tate x Shizuru. Nagi x Mao. Takumi x Mashiro.
I think there are more possible couples than in X.
Scott: I saw on 4chan once, people demanding Miyu x Nao
Nic: Midori x Fumi… that’d make for a weird story.
Scott: Woa
That just shattered my mind
Nic: Please don’t tell me such an abomination actually exists.
It’d be like one of those extra ugly Chimeras from Fullmetal Alchemist.
Okay, probably not that bad by far, but still weird.
Scott: Actually….
Nic: Oh no.
Scott: There was a Nao x Shiho (Otome) fanfic I saw listed
Nic: Such unusual things.
Some of these fanfics.
Did I mention my new review of Howl’s Moving Castle?
Scott: No
Nic: http://fancruft.com/animeinfo/anime-73.html
There you go.
What do you think?
Scott: Huh
I wasn’t that intrested in seeing the movie, but now I am a bit
Holy crap, Cutey Honey
Nic: You didn’t see that before?
Scott: No
Wasn’t that at like Jc Flicks anime department?
Nic: Ages ago. Yes.
Scott: Man
Nic: What’s that?
Scott: I just had a flashback to that one day we got that really greasy pizza and watched Big Wars
Nic: If I had to rewatch of the two, I suppose I’d have to go with Cutey Honey.
Scott: Ah
Nic: But only if I HAD to rewatch one of them.
Scott: So I hear the new FF game will be releashed for the PS2 in November before Thanksgiving
Nic: That’s cool.
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Scott: There was a thread at HiME forums that had the majority of the cosplay, most of it was pretty good
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Scott: off topic: a better picture of the nina cosplayer to fully see her hair
http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mo37up.jpg
Nic: I like off topic hair.
Scott: hehe
Midori cosplay
http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2005101915331138zy.jpg
Nic: Oh good grief….
Scott: Natuski (Otome)
http://img89.imageshack.us/my.php?image=87b1f4fd7ho.jpg
Nic: I think Nina’s hair could have been made better with extra hair gel.
Scott: Another Arika and Nina and Erstin
http://img138.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1113016ml.jpg
Nic: You know, I realize that you’re not going to have big-budget hollywood style costumes for cosplay.
Scott: yea
Nic: But still, sometimes, I wonder if it would be possible to just throw some stuff together and no one would be the wiser.
Scott: what are you refering to?
Nic: I like the second Nina better.
Just a general observation.
Scott: ah
I am still debeating wither the Erstin player pulled it off or not
Nic: Magic coin flip says….
Yes.
Scott: I was just thinking
Nic: Yes?
Scott: Erstin really got screwed over in the series
Nic: No kidding.
Scott: Maybe the OVA will bring her back
Though I have a feeling if that if the OVA is going to be set after the series, its going to be Tomoe as the villian
They showed the resolution to pretty much everybody except Tomoe
Nic: So you say.
[Connection lost]
Nic: Yar.
I’m back.
Scott: Ah
Didn’t notice you were gone
Nic: Did I miss anything?
I guess not.
Scott: No
So what is up?
Nic: I’m reading the comics.
They’re quite below par.
Scott: comics?
What comics?
Nic: In the newspaper.
Scott: Oh
Yea I notice in that past 3 years comics have been going downhill pretty quick
I can’t tell if its really occuring or I becoming an old man who dislikes new things
Nic: There’s nothing new.
Peanuts and Mutts are the best in the comics.
Lockhorns are Ok too. Zitz as well.
Alot of the other ones seem tired.
Scott: Mister Boffo is the best of the sunday comics
Nic: [It's] Not in this paper, I guess that must be the other one.
Scott: Did I show this Miyu picture?
http://kei-garou.net/blog/archives/20060315miyu_wall.jpg
Nic: Wow.
Looks like should be a wall scroll.
Is it from a wallscroll?
Scott: No its fanart
Nic: Is awesome.
Scott: That is her Artemsis sword in 22
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