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May 30, 2008 – 12:28 am
As I wait for the next episode of Macross Frontier and the next chapter of Windows of the Soul, I settled to reading Lestaki’s previous fic Astraea Lake. It’s a Strawberry Panic fic of massive proportions featuring our favourite evil lesbian duo would-be rapists, Kaname and Momomi.
Now, although I watched this series, and believe I did watch it to the end because I still bear the scars from frantically trying to claw my eyes out during that unintentionally traumatic Amane/Hikari hawt secks scene in the barn, I honestly don’t remember much except that Miyuki was awesome and deserved better, and Chikaru was awesome and probably some IQ 500 alien disguised as an innocent cute girl.
Oh, I also vaguely remember these two evil lesbian schoolgirls plotting to.. um.. plotting something, in between vaguely disturbing scenes of making out and bathing together - vaguely disturbing because the two most irredeemably despicable characters in the show were shown to have the most functional and normal relationship of the lot. That’s Strawberry Panic for you, I guess.
Now, Astraea Lake is just over 410,000 words of getting inside the head of Kaname and Momomi, our favourite evil lesbian duo of the conniving, plotting, dirty no-holds-barred variety. And while it is as dense and slow-moving as treacle, it is actually a highly addictive, fascinating read. One of the few fics in which OCs positioned nigh-perfectly - interesting enough that you would never skip any scenes in which they appear, but not so center-stage that you lose sight of the main plot. The story tells of Kaname and Momomi’s beginnings as friends in their second year and develops both their characters and relationships, plus shedding light on Amane (whom the author seems dislike as much as I do). It was a surprising delight, because in the TV series Kaname and Momomi just kinda struck me as rather creepy, and at the end of this fic I was sorry to part ways with their marvelously atypical lives.
So, if you have time to kill before the next episode of whatever it is you are watching, go and read this fic.
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October 28, 2006 – 12:58 am
Halfway through ep21..
Screw Yaya!!! Miyuki all the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God, Miyuki rocks. Absolutely.
Actually I thought she was freakin’ awesome back in the play ep, when she disected the Student Council politics shit in one swipe. God, this girl is incredible.
Yet, she’s the most tragic character. In love with Shizuma, so much so she is utterly self-sacrificial.
Brilliant, beautiful, tragic, flawed, doomed. Amazing.
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October 21, 2006 – 9:50 pm
Um…. so.
Who knew summer vacation could be so yuri-conducive? In ep 13, everything kinda hit the fan.
Didn’t much care for Amane and Hikari. Raised an eyebrow when Shizuma made her move on Nagisa (and two eyebrows when they hit first base, in the pool no less, and moved a jaw when Shizuma started working her way down Nagisa’s, um, chest). But damn, it was when Yaya-chan grabbed Hikari that I went, “Holy sh!t I can’t believe she finally did it!!”
Then in ep 14, I was completely floored when ye ol’ flashback showed that Yaya-chan not only sprinted for first, she made a dive a for second too. Unfortunately, she got royally booted off by Hikari.
Noooo!!!!
But, of course, totally to be expected. Man, Yaya-chan gets no justice. She even had a stare-down with Amane! Guts girl! You rule!! Too bad it’s awfully clear Hikari is meant to be with Amane. God, all that foreshadowing in the previous parts, hinting Hikari knew of Yaya’s feelings and wasn’t exactly comfortable… Geh. Life sucks.
I have to vote for Yaya-chan just because she’s in the school of tall, dark ‘n’ long, and spitfire. So sue me, my first anime chara obsession was Hino Rei. God, the hair…
Nagisa is soooooooooo clueless! I don’t get it!! Obviously she wasn’t terribly unhappy with Shizuma lessons in yurification, but then she’s like, “Tamao-chan, the ribbon will keep us together!” type thingy… Dude, are you just blind? And Tamao-chan, this girl is frickin’ scary coz any sane human being woulda gone postal by now. I think Tamao-chan needs to execute on Nagisa because otherwise she’d go down in history as most screwed over female yuri anime character (most screwed over yuri anime character because Souma, of course).
WTF. Kenjou and Momomi FTW!!
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