Midnight anime ramblings...

Just finished watching Trigun... yipes... I love an ending where Everyone is saved, even the antagonist of the piece.

Also, one shot in the final Knives-Vash gunbattle reminded me weirdly of the famous "gun to each other's heads" shot in the climactic Neo-Smith battle in the first Matrix movie. That can't be just a coincidence, since the Wachowski Brothers are known to be anime fans.

What's up with that random black cat who scurries through scenes or pops up randomly? She's gotten the nickname "Random Cat" from me. She's not annoying, but she does tend to induce a "Buh? Where'd she come from?" reaction from me.

I'm loving Nicholas D. Wolfwood: he's like what you'd get if you crossed Spike Spiegel with a cleaner-mouthed and less cynical version of Jesse L. Custer in Garth Ennis's "Preacher" series. Gotta love that cross-shaped hand-cannon!

And Legato's voice is driving me nuts in a good way. Something about it is familiar, not the voice actor, but the delivery. I've heard that complacent insidiousness before, but I can't think where.

It also amuses me to no end that the manga version was first published in the same magazine (Young King Ours) which ran the Hellsing manga, especially since Vash looks like he swiped his duster and glasses from Alucard. Some mischievous fan has probably fanartted this in a way that Lampshades this Turned Up to Eleven.

And I also come bearing a fic rec, featuring the first Bleach/Yami no Matsuei crossover that really worked for me -- and which plays off the obvious but hard to resist tactic of bringing the Two Shinigami Named Kurosaki together (and ho boy, they really are more similar than they might seem, though Ichigo is pretty much a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and Hisoka has the potential to go Knight Templar in a He Who Hunts Monsters sort of way, though I'm planning a fic where something happens which causes him to reassess his plans...): I bring you Cooperative Ventures by "Branch".

Reposting my help_haiti offers

I'm burning to write more fics in the Lightning Round of the auction, and so far, I've gotten one bid in for the main auction. I have a feeling if this bidder wins the auction, it's going to be a "Daybreakers" prompt, and that's one fandom I'm itching to write in, though I need a little nudge to get my mind out of Yami no Matsuei-fic-writing mode. There's still time and plenty of chances to buy a piece of my time and talent and to help the survivors of the earthquake:

http://matrixrefugee.livejournal.com/517840.html

Movie Review: "Sherlock Holmes"

***** out of *****

( A new image of Holmes for a new era )