memory lane

[cimorene]

the other day i decided to tag some entries from the first year i had this journal. it was engrossing - i'm pretty sure i found some of the first entries i ever made about wax_jism, for instance, in the first month we were chatting together, and excerpts from some of my first chats with hollsk. i also found this photo, taken in summer 2000. it survived as most of the images i posted back then didn't because it was hosted on kitten_head's webspace and not mine:

i'm on the left, followed by my cousins amanda, kitten_head, and kyndra. we were 18 and 17 when this was taken.

i haven't spoken to kyndra in over a year or amanda or kitten_head in about a month; i haven't seen any of my extended family since 2003. i miss them all a lot. sometimes i wonder if i will ever see them again.

in other news, i've watched the first three episodes of hikaru no go. i am happy to report that the slashiness started around the thirteenth minute of play, which isn't bad considering it's about twelve year olds. less happy to report that the style in which hikaru is drawn is irritatingly unpleasant for me to look at, but i suppose one can't have everything.

Comments

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Well, this (http://www.nipponcomics.com/wallpaper/hikaru2.jpg) is from much later in the series, but in general there's just a lot more detail and attention to anatomy. The eyes are still way big, of course, but it just doesn't look as cartoonish to me as most other anime and manga.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

no, you're right - and god, that is gorgeous! it doesn't really look like that in the anime; it's much more cartoony, and baby hikaru (at least in eps 1-5) has almost perfectly round eyes:

http://pics.livejournal.com/cimorene111/pic/00abpzf6/

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Eek, yeah, he is. And he definitely doesn't look cute there. Kind of alienish...

He was definitely rounder and a bit more cartoony in the early volumes of the manga, both because of his younger age and because the artist's style improved over the course of the series, but nowhere near that bad.

The artists is also the same one who drew Death Note, though that's ended now, too. I hope whatever he starts next will be as good (he's not the author for either of these, just collaborating as the artist).