Sparkly things.

[nenena]

1. The premiere of Yume wo Kanaeru Zou - both the made-for-TV movie and the premiere episode of the new serial drama - is next Thursday, October 2nd. Excitement! Furuta Arata is cast as Ganesha. I saw a promotional poster in Heiando that showed a screenshot of Arata in full elephanty-garb, prosthetic ears and trunk and everything. And - although I really hate to say this - he looked waaaaaaaay better than Ekta's Ganesha. (But that's not hard.) Disappointingly, however, all of the images and videos on the official show website show Arata without the ears and trunk. Apparently his normal "costume" in the series is just a glittery vest and a crown. The prosthetic ears and trunk will only be used in the premiere episode, according to the video interviews posted on the website. Anyway, the Yume wo Kanaeru Zou TV movie is going to be a direct adaptation of the novel, with an incredibly young, hot, and stylish Shun Oguri rather unconvincingly cast as the sallow, washed-up salaryman that unwittingly invokes Ganesha. The serial drama is going to a sequel to the novel, only starring a new female character in the role of the person who ends up invoking Ganesha. Neat.

2. Chris Coleman did something "forward-looking" and kind of awesome? What is this, International Sequential Art Gets Support from Slightly Off-Their-Rocker Politicians Week?

3. Speaking of comics, today's Looking for Group was both terrible and beautiful.

4. Did the Penny and Aggie RSS feed quit working for anyone else?

5. This month's Afternoon/Ah! My Goddess/Chara-Mel triple-punch has left me giddy and ridiculously blown away by awesome. I promise a massive glut of scans as soon as my scanner learns to play nice with the new laptop. In the meantime, however, I will say this: It's not every day that a normally dignified, critically-embraced mens' manga anthology magazine prints an issue covered in sparkly rainbow glitter. But then again, this is Japan, so maybe I shouldn't be surprised.

Comments

[neocloud9.livejournal.com]

Speaking of comics, today's Looking for Group was both terrible and beautiful.

Agreed. I'd figured that it was gonna be something like that... I wonder if this has anything to do with why Benny's on the run from Aelloon?

[aster-dw.livejournal.com]

You know, out of all of this, for some reason I am most excited about the fact you know about Looking for Group. (Yes, I am slow...)

As for Afternoon, rainbow glitter on cover = automatic win. Is there any particular cause for this?
In any case, I shall await the scans with unreasonable glee.

[ladykleo.livejournal.com]

*jumps in her chair, waiting for AMG scans*
You've made my day by writing about glittery Afternoon! I laughed aloud reading that.

[kurthy133.livejournal.com]

Haha~ A sparkly Afternoon?? I can't wait to see!

AND Happy AMG Anniversary to you!