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Lol at you removing fairy tail from your list.

Hello!^.^
And we both like SailorMoon too, awesome! Its the best classic ever. I like to rewatch it and bawl like a baby see, we do have some awesome things in common;D I just dont like Kikyou... I kinda LOVE HER. so.so.much. ;p
omg, same bday, what an amazing coincidence, its so hard to find people with their bday in December, and in day 5 its just so rare! I havent seen many Kdramas either, just some, but if you want, I can recommend you some good ones~ Kpop is awesome, even though I listen more Jpop;D
My name is Oru, nice to meet you!

Ah, what's up. Yeah, people from Tennessee seem to be kind of rare on this site. And, yeah, I love me some Utena and Evangelion. I'm also a pretty big Haruhi fan.

I was quite reluctant to get into TTGL because of all the hype, but I did, and in the end, what I gained from it was much more than what 98% of its audience did. A lot of its fans see it as the ultimate expression of manliness and "epicness", but I spent more time focussing less on the fact that the mecha was... smashing all kinds of things, and rather, I was absorbed with watching both the blindness of the characters and the audience.

I think for me Holden rests somewhere between someone I hate because he is who is is, but someone I cannot hate, because... he is who he is and never tries to be anyone else. And who he is, is someone I can understand. Someone I can relate to. Someone much like myself. And we can't really hate ourselves, now can we? It's a strange feeling. Which is the best feeling you can have when you take something into consideration.

For instance, a friend of mine asked me why I rated Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann so highly when all it did was make me sob and leave me feeling nauseous and angry and frustrated and depressed. It's exactly because of that. It made me feel something. A lot of people took out of that series a good time or just a "GAR" time. But I think they miss the melancholy and sombreness. That poor conclusion of the series, personally, was a terrible way to end the anime since it implied no character growth and just a butchery of the entire story. But considering it artistically and thematically, it was extremely rich, because you can take all the flaws in the writing and analyse them to death and see that they had a deeper meaning.

I haven't had the chance to personally hear how overrated Catcher in the Rye is, though I was one of the few who didn't want to read it on the basis that Holden has been described as an (for no want of a better word) asshole. But upon reading it, my scepticism fell apart, because while he is a moaner and someone who makes terrible decisions and who (in so many ways) "looks for it"/"gets what's coming to him", he is so human that I find myself and other people in him.

That cocky bravado with which he tells the story is misinterpreted by so many as his blind arrogance; I personally see it as irony to the greatest degree. He's got no clue how much of a boy he is still is. He tells his story earnestly and in that honesty there is so much insecurity that he masks by never faltering with what he says-- that rapid-fire, quick-witted, meandering way he has at detailing everything, to me, was just a subconscious way of revealing to the reader just how little he knows about himself or the world around him, even though he thinks he's got everything figured out.

Now, I've never done any studies on this book, so that interpretation is mostly what I gathered. I had no reason to read it except that I wanted to-- if I'm wrong about anything, then that's my reasoning. I haven't dissected the novel. I only read it just the once. I re-read the scene at the merry-go-round about three times during that one sitting, though. It struck me so deeply.

I hope you do like Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. A lot of people don't know it even exists.

Heh, no, it's okay to be a huge nerd for Catcher in the Rye-- it is singly one of the most quotable books on the planet written in English. I just about nearly cry whenever I think of Holden's helplessness when he watches his sister and thinks about all the children playing near the cliff. And how he just wants to catch them. For some reason, it really makes my heart constrict reading that because I think it was that point where I finally said to myself, "I know what you mean..."

People keep asking me why I don't watch Ponyo. I'm saving it. It may very well be the last film that Miyazaki ever directed. I will save it for after he dies. It makes me very sad. I feel like anime on the whole will lost something it will never get back. Movies themselves will lost something. I can't think of a man more poignant than he is, except perhaps the mangaka of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. If you ever want to see the quietness of beauty of this world, read that manga. Best thing I ever read. Ever.