More fannishness...

[senoritafish]

(may have spoilers)

Anneelise's meme: not chicken, just slow. Anime that made me cry, without repeating yours - which would have been two (Ed and Faye leaving the Bebop, Wolfwood's final confession in Trigun).

1. Avatar: the Last Airbender, well, not an anime, but certainly influenced by them - Zuko's reunion with his uncle Iroh, who he thinks must hate him after his betrayal to his sister.



2. Wolf's Rain - Kiba and Cheza'a first meeting - they've been aware of each other for a long time, but this is the first time seeing each other in person. Just the music for that scene brings tears to my eyes.



3. Wolf's Rain - Tsume says farewell to Toboe - quite frankly the last three episodes of that series are total tearjerkers and I'll just leave it at that.



4. Fullmetal Alchemist - Maes Hughes death and funeral. Elysia, of course ("Mommy why are they putting dirt on Daddy? He can't do his work if they cover him up!"), but gigantic Armstrong nearly sobbing into his gloved hand almost as much. Well, we know he's a softie. Covered in both versions of the series, but the first took more time and did, I think, a better job of it.



5. Ghost in the Shell SAC - the Tachikoma's sacrifice for Bouta (the first time CN aired this it was on the same night as the FMA episode mentioned above - I was a wreck). And then they did it again in the next series - stupid Tachikomas; that's the last time I get attached to little wolf-spider robot/tanks.



6. And if I can comment on one of anneelise's selections - In Cowboy Bebop, it's not so much Faye and Ed leaving as the guys' reaction to it. Jet is so badly hurt he's taking it out on the hard-boiled eggs he prepared for all five of them (there's even a little bowl for Ein); biting into them so savagely it's a wonder he doesn't choke. Spike may or may not feel the same way, but he's much better at hiding his feelings; on the surface, he's so much "hey, more for me." Yet Spike is the one Ed presented with a pinwheel before leaving (an actual face-to-face good-bye, for her) and it's seen at the end, fastened to the front of the Bebop, spinning sadly in the sunset as "Call Me, Call Me" finishes. Again, very evocative music.

In other cartoony anime news:

• Similar to how he borrowed all my Harry Potter books and read them in a weekend a few years ago, my Western-WWII-and-John-Wayne loving dad - 84 and lifetime NRA member - has gotten sucked in by Avatar: The Last Airbender. He watches the reruns with the kids almost every night. He was seeing them all out of order, so he finally had me order the first season for him on DVD last month. This tickles me no end.




• Nicktoons airing of Dragonball Z Kai is making me all nostalgic, because I used to watch it in the middle of the night when nursing Gareth, when he was a newborn. And no, it's not really any better or worse than the first time, as maybe the distance is not so far, and I was already going on middle age when I first saw it - if not anything else, that series does hair blowing in the wind nicely. Interesting noting all the edits and changes done for this edition vs. the one I watched the first time. And now Gareth is my ambitious fifth grader, astronaut/artist/scientist/cop wannabe, about to enter middle school next year. Where has the time gone? *sniff*



• Speaking of "Kai," I was unfamiliar with the meaning, aside from one of the DBZ characters; I know a few Kais as well.  Turns out it means a lot of different things in a bunch of different languages.  I can see most of them used as name meanings here, but maybe a human named Kai might get a few funny looks in Cornwall...