Anime VS Manga

There is some who watch and read both, others is more reading the mangá than watching the anime and vice-versa, myself I'm more into reading mangá than both of them, when it comes to adaptations.

Some don't read it because of having disabilities or difficulties in reading and others for being lazy, mostly laziness...simply not into reading...even if is small texts.

When a mangá is adapted into anime, usually there is many problems, such being faithful to the manga, having only what's important, it's a rare jewel when it is faithful, it's even more rare when in terms of storyline and character is better than the mangá (but in this case, it's more of matter of opinion), usually I prefer the manga thousand times more than it's animated adaptation, the only exception to me when I prefer the adapted anime than the mangá was Angelic Layer.

One of my favourite animes of all time, I re-watched so many times, 4 times, I believe.

Also there is animes are adapted into mangás, in these cases, I just watch the anime, since the original story comes from the anime anyway and sometimes the adapted mangá changes too much and back away too much from the original story.

I give you few mangás adapted into anime that were horrible animated adaptations: Fruits Basket (way too many plot points left out even from where it ended and changed some plot points, etc, it didn't go to the end, many of us wish a remake and this time faithful to the mangá), Black Cat (they changed the sequences and good amount of the plot, it could be such a good anime), etc.

I'm fine with few changes, as long as is faithful to the plot such as Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (you don't even have to bother in reading mangá, unless you want more few details), Death Note and some others with no fillers or fillers arcs that many times changes or mixes with the plot to the point of making very confusing instead unlike some animes I could mention *cough*Naruto*cough*Bleach*cough*One Piece*cough*Fairy Tail*cough*Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters*cough*etc*cough*

that's it for today :p

Rant: likeable and unlikeable characters to evaluate quality of a game/tv show/book/movie, isn't subjective?

I do always have an issue when people make a review about a game or tv show or film or book or comic book or graphic novel, they write or say for example:

"this A game has likeable characters so it's good" or "This B animated show has dislikeable characters therefore it's bad".

With these examples, that's where my problems resides, a quality of a story doesn't reside if the characters are likeable or not, because people have different opinions on what they consider likeable or not, it's quite like in Harry Potter books and movies, each person who read the books has a different vision of the characters, so of course the actors wouldn't be like exactly or very similar to the character as the readers had in their minds, so the right way to evaluate a character is by analysing and see how well-rounded they are, not if likeable or not.

The purpose of well-rounded characters, it's not with the intention to make the character likeable or glorified or to be a role model but to treat as a person first with flaws, virtues, strengths, weaknesses, vulnerabilities, the amount of resilience, convictions, ideals, not a black-white character but much deeper and complex, more to the character than what meets the surface.

Many people has the bad habit of judging a character or evaluate them basing on what's on the surface of their actions, don't even question why he/she did, when given reasons is:
"because he is a jerk" or "because she is annoying" (each person has a different ideas of what they consider annoying or jerk) and when they say why they think a character is annoying or jerk:
"because it did A,B,C,D,etc.",  but the actions/reactions/personality traits and why he/she did it, that's what a well-rounded character is. Remember Understanding is different from Liking, understanding a character doesn't mean you like the character.
It's noticeable likeable and dislikeable is a matter of a personal subjective opinion and not an evaluation.
If the characters are well-rounded or not, it's an evaluation.

there is many well-rounded characters I dislike, Umbridge, Voldemort, Amon, Lucius Malfoy, "Father" Homunculus, etc.
as much there is many well-rounded characters I like and love, Atemu/Atem"Yami No Yugi", Yugi Mutou, Harry Potter, Izayoi Aki, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Azula, Aqua, etc...(yeah, too many to list).

also there are few well-rounded characters which I feel indifferent or like and dislike, Snape (sorry fans, but he is in my like and dislike list, in another words, in the middle :p), Mazaki Anzu (same with Snape), most of the Homunculus, etc.

I hope I was clear :).

Rant: Strong Female Characters

Hello, yes, it's a rant about it, it's some complaints I have about it in some sections.

I do love mostly strong cisgenderly female characters, if there is androgynous, the better, the variety, the better.

my problems is that in some cartoons, animes, comics, movies, mangas, mostly anime and manga and video games, strong female characters tend to be stereotypically treated...most of the times it's always the sexy and attractive or beautiful woman with much less clothes, or loli and moe or tsundere  or "boyish" traits, not much variety or relatable, from what I know, there is some I know it has a good variety, Fullmetal Alchemist, Naruto, Fruits Basket, Otomen (specially male characters, which is great), Shugo Chara, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Tekken, Kenishi: The Mightiest Disciple, Code Geass, Black Lagoon. 

Shoujos is so rare to have decent female characters, they are very repetitive, in special the main characters, I was fortuned to find good main female characters, like Beauty Pop, Tonari No Kaibutsu-kun, Shugo Chara, Switch Girl, Watashi Ni xx Shinasai...

that's my only complaints regarding the subject, even though there is many with good female characters but compared to the rest, it makes the many few...I'll tell you what's the problem with the stereotypical ones, they first think as a "girl" then is a "person", when it should be the other way around, that's why books, animated series, series, films that has good females characters always go for think of the character as a person first and then you can worry about it's gender (whatever which is).

it's a wake up call, give more variety in characters (I'm including males) would be nice.

now series, films which has good and great female characters and a nice variety:

the ones mentioned above regarding manga and anime and games...;

• Harry Potter;
• Game of Thrones (I never watch or read it but I heard a good deal);
• Avatar The Last Airbender;
• Legend of Korra;
• The Mentalist;
• The Big Bang Theory;
• Brave;
• Mulan;
• Tangled;
• Princess Mononoke;
• Howl's Moving Castle;
• The Secret World of Arietty;
• My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic;
• etc.

there it goes, I think many of you understand what I mean, right?

I hope it comes great characters in future with more variety

Here is my list of my female characters...

Mangá&Anime:

• Olivier Mira Armstrong (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Kino (Kino No Tabi)
• Kiri Koshiba (Beauty Pop)
• Izayoi Aki (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's)
• Amu Hinamori (Shugo Chara)
• Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Machi Kuragi (Fruits Basket)
• Shizuku Mizutani (Tonari No Kaibutsu-kun)
• Kujaku Mai (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
• Saki Hanajima (Fruits Basket)

Video Games:

• Aqua (Kingdom Hearts)
• Lightning (Final Fantasy XIII)
• Leo Kliesen (Tekken)

Animated series:

• Korra (Legend of Korra)
• Azula (Avatar The Last Airbender)
• Toph Bei Fong (Avatar The Last Airbender)
• Asami Sato (Legend of Korra)
• Lin Bei Fong (Legend of Korra)
• Katara (Avatar The Last Airbender & Legend of Korra)
• Tylee (Avatar The Last Airbender)
• Zhalia Moon (Huntik)
• Sophie Casterwill (Huntik)
• Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
• Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
• Rainbow Dash (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
• Lor (The Weekenders)

Films, series, books, comics:

• Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
• Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
• Ginny Weasley (Harry Potter)
• Lily Evans Potter (Harry Potter)
• Narcissa Malfoy (Harry Potter)
• Professor McGonagall (Harry Potter)
• Princess Merida (Brave)
• Mulan (Mulan)
• Teresa Lisbon (The Mentalist)
• Alex (Modern Family)
• Claire (Modern Family)
• Leslie Winkle (The Big Bang Theory)
• Rapunzel (Tangled)
• Belle (Beauty and the Beast)
• Gretel (Hansel and Gretel Grimm's Fairy Tale)
• Vesper Grey (Plume)
• Anya (Phoenix Requiem)
• Arietty (The Secret World of Arietty)
• Vanellope Von Schweetz (Wreck-It Ralph)

If you have noticed, the smallest list is Anime & Mangá (imagined if was divided in 2? it would become much smaller) and the video games. As you see, it's very hard for me to like a female character, even if there is many good females characters, but it's still not enough, I'm very picky.

Rant - Analysis: Fascinating Characters

Characters always give different feelings, understandings and thoughts, whether we like them or not.
Some people can get confused about their feelings about some characters...
You can dislike a character but still respect and find the character fascinating at the same time, I know it because I have many characters I dislike and hate and still respect a lot and think they are interesting to watch, see and read.
there is even those we don't mind but we find interesting, just because you find fascinating a character doesn't mean you like them.
the usually kind of characters we find fascinating, they are very complex, makes you wonder, makes want to discover more and understand more about them, it's what make great characters, having weaknesses and strengths, their worst and best, their questions, their views, their background story,what makes them the way they are, etc.

I'll give you the list of character I really dislike and hate but has my respect and I have some fascination for them:
- Lord Voldemort/Tom Riddle
- Professor Umbridge
- Lord Ozai
etc, don't remember more now, lol...

now the ones, I just don't mind but also good and great characters:

- Severus Snape
- Misaki Anzu
-etc, don't remember more...

the ones I love:
- Princess Azula
- Prince Zuko
- Toph
- Hermione
- Ron Weasley
- Pharaoh Atem
- Yugi Mutou
etc...

Watching: Death Note (episodes 5-14)

Remember the last post about Death Note when I was at episode 4?
I'm at episode 14, I'm loving it so far, it is very thrilling, though there was very funny moments, even though the intention wasn't probably funny, I found really funny though xDD, I have humor when it comes to reactions, the process towards that reaction, or circumstances that are amusing and funny.

I'll point out the incredible moments here, I loved the episodes 6-7, I was laughing as much as Ryuk for the same reasons at the same time, so I should say I loved Naomi Misora, she is really a great female character, too bad she couldn't stay longer because it would give complications to the storyline, since she knew a huge clue, but her death didn't go in vain...it helped L to advance more in the investigation.

talking about L, he sure is very interesting, I love his odd behaviour and extremely intelligent, I loved Light reaction to L in person for the first time, it was funny and entertaining to watch xDD...

finally his reaction to L when he arrives home...

It was really funny this scene for me, because he holds on and on, after he locks the door of his room, sits and explodes, xDD, my weird humor.

then we meet this character named Misa Amane in episode 11 with glimpse and then we fully of her in episode 12, she is kinda smart and stupid at the same time, so is kinda weird, though I like her in it's own way.

I'm quite interested how this will play out for Light to know L name through Misa Amane.

Rant: Shipping

I know what you may be thinking, I'm gonna bash or defend shipping, it's both and none of it.
If you don't know what shipping is...it's being fan of pairings even if is non-canon(not official, impossible, technically, it's pretty much like inside a fandom there is more fandoms (shippings).

there is cool and fun stuff about shipping but also there is uncool, stressing, annoying and problematic.

Watching Anime: Death Note

I have started watching Death Note, this afternoon 4 episodes.
I'm very specific with the genre and it's time to watch.

it's instantly pretty good a neat, I'm very curious how it will unfold.
Tomorrow I will not be able to watch neither say much about it, I will have little time for myself, I will be able to watch for 3 hours and an half tomorrow, only in days I'm free from almost everything I will advance faster.
Don't be surprised if sometimes go slow, which will sometimes, I will have a kinda busy week this week.

since I just finished episode 4, I guess it starts now the real mind game between L and Light.
Light sure is very intelligent but so is L, but so their ideals, this is pretty much a battle of minds and philosophies.
But 4 episodes is not enough to say much about it, I just have to continue watching.

sorry if this was boring to read.