Cerulean Sand Stuff

Ok, this may be a little spoilerish, but seeing as I'm the only person I know who is watching Secrets of Cerulean Sand, I'm not bothering with a cut (well, rosa_aquafire has expressed interest, but she is also a spoiler-whore =P). It deals with stuff around ep 10 anyway.

So, Cerulean is the latest anime I've been watching. I downloaded it for the mere fact that it had a cool name (I'm also getting Melody of Oblivion for the same reason). It's basic premise is that the main character, Jane Buxton (a very Japanese name, don't you think =P...she's English) is travelling the world, looking for her older brother George who disappeared while searching for "floating water" that would allow flying machines to be possible. Jane's older step-brother, William (the most interesting character in the series), also disappeared and the audience knows (though Jane does not), that William is somehow involved with George's disappearence and has the water in his possession and is now leading a group of bandits around in a floating ship.

I just adore the messed up family dynamic in this show. It's the one thing that kept me going as we embarked on the "Jane's Journey" episodes where she meets random people and helps them (she is slighlty Sue-ish at times, though she does have more depth than that).

Anyway, in the episodes I watched last night, I got an amazingly cute backstory for Jane. Throughout the series, she has been shown wanting to fly very much. She herself has made a few "flying machines", but they all didn't work so well. George, when he went off to find the water, promised to come back and fly with Jane. So flying = big deal.

Last night, I found out why. Jane's mother died right after she was born, and apparently when she was young Jane asked to see her mother a lot. So one day her father told Jane that her mother was in the sky. So Jane wants to go into the sky to be close to her. It's really quite sweet. Especially when in the next scene, baby Jane had climbed a tree. She was scared and screaming. George went to get help...then William showed up and climbed the tree (William always felt like an outsider in the family, especially after his mother also died, but he adores Jane). He got up to Jane and asked her why she had climbed the tree, even though she knew she wasn't supposed to. She replied that she wanted to get closer to her mother. William then remembered his mother and the two of them sat there, looking at the sky. It was SO cute. William is such an interesting character.

Which brings me back to another scene in the previous episode. Jane and co were in the desert and had lost all their provisions and were basically about to die from heat-stroke. Then you see the floating ship come overhead. It lowers down a chest full of food and water. Jane actually is semi-conscious, enough to see the ship and think that it's George that sent it and saved their lives, but really it was William. Even in this mess, he still cares enough to keep his baby step-sister alive (even though his henchmen did almost kill them)

Anyway, I'm still no 100% how wonderful Cerulean Sand will be. The family stuff is good, but the show has a tendency to just focus on the little picture of Jane's Journey, rather than the larger picture that is the family. I still have a lot of episodes to go and I am a bit worried about getting bored with them...but I'm sure I will get through it, because the family stuff is SO good that I need to see what happens in the end.

I also finally get to watch Gundam Wing again, as yubsie has decided she is sick of all the other anime people talking about it, since it's one of our main fandoms.







Vicki

Loverly Day

Today was such a very nice day, weather wise and life wise. Since it was warm and sunny, yubsie and I spent most of the afternoon outside in the quad, doing our homework. Very nice indeed. There were a lot of other people there too, studying or playing sports (and we only got hit ONCE all day!). I have a decent start for my essay. The intro and body of it are done in rough. I decided not to do the conclusion yet though, because the essay itself needs a lot of shaping before it's actually good enough to write a conclusion to. I actually have the end stuff basically all mapped out though, so it shouldn't be too hard. Perhaps I can get it typed up tomorrow night.

I also started reading The Winter's Tale...and I want to THWACK the main character SO hard. Though I am amused SO much that Shakespeare did actually use the word "thack". He he he. Of course, the play is also cursed with a main character named Hermione, who is accused of adultery. I hope the fangirls never hear of it (and that they never hear about Hermione, daughter of Helen of Troy).

So I've accomplish part of half my school goals for the weekend. I'm happy. I think I'm going to surf around online to see if I can't find a good internet source for my Linguistics paper. And if I get to Act 3 fast in Winter's Tale, I may even be able to do the Can Lit reading too.

I also really need to clean my room...again. Why can't I keep it neat? I didn't have that much trouble last year. Then again, last year I had a roomate who I teased about being messy which inspired me to at least be neater than she was (not that that was hard).

Oh and tomorrow Margaret and I are going costume shopping. I'm going to be on a look-out for the Mayura from Alice 19th costume I plan to make for Halloween and the Quatre costume I'm thinking about possibly for AnimeNorth. Margaret is looking for a Toboe for next Saturday's cosplay picnic.

Finally, at the anime club meeting last night I was officially made the Manager of the Artist's Alley, as well as the one for the AMV Contest. Go me. And I, unlike all the other people, did not sign up for a million of other committees. I am general staff (EVERYONE is general staff) and I am a video game staff. I thought I signed up for vendor staff too, but apparently not. That's fine by me, because I'm sure that spending all my time in the vender room is really not the smartest idea.






Vicki

THE TO-DO LIST OF DOOM

Ha ha, you thought you were finally free of it, but it's back. I have made myself a new to-do list, for the first term of my second year at University. P|-|34R 73|-| |_337 (or something like that)

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Ok, I've tried to cut things down a bit, since I know school will get in my way. It will be interested in seeing how this list turns out...hopefully the art and writing sections will be better than they were over the summer.





Vicki