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Shana and Gil.
Because I like to take my sweet time before I jump on a bandwagon, I only just recently started reading/watching Shakugan no Shana. So far it looks as though it will follow the pattern established by Fate/Stay Night: A lovely and incredibly cool kick-ass heroine, a creative premise and a fascinating plot, and rampant sexism everywhere except where the main heroine is concerned. Other than Shana, the female characters who have appeared so far are a woman with giant boobs, a maid, a shy girl-next-door, and a potentially cool female classmate of the hero who gets killed off in the second episode. So yep, pretty much exactly like Fate/Stay Night, only with bonus minus points because of the maid, and the lack of mythological characters reincarnated as bishounen.
Death Note anime already premiered. The same guy who did Tamaki's voice in Ouran is doing Light's voice. I'm still kind of WTFing over that.
I picked up some more Fate/Stay Night and Fate/Hollow Atraxia official doujinshi anthologies at Heiando today. It's always a shot-in-the-dark buying these things, because there's no way to preview them in the store. The first couple that I bought, I am definitely dumping on ebay soon. But the ones that I got today are keepers, yay. My favorite story so far is a short about Gilgamesh hanging out at an Animate store and buying all of the Saber posters, wallscrolls, figures, plushies, and postcards that they have. Then he goes home and cuts a bunch of Saber pictures out of some anime magazines, and glues them into pictures of himself. AHAHAHAHA. Poor Gil. Honorable mentions among other doujinshi stories include all of the men transforming into magical girls, Ilya bringing Heracles to school for show and tell (that was priceless), Lancer being slashably slashy with everyone, Medea being slashably slashy with everyone, the apocalyptic volleyball tournament, Issei getting some serious "screentime" (yay Issei), and finally, Lancer pulls a Mara and gets a part-time job at a fast food joint, only to end up accidentally saving the universe through the power of hamburger (long story).
Lancer is awesome. So is Chibi!Gilgamesh. (In Hollow Atraxia Gil pulls a Peorth and ends up in the body of a ten-year-old boy, which does much to humble him and much more to bring teh funny into the story.) Medusa is just awesome because if anybody tries to steal her takoyaki she can turn them into stone. Useful power, that.
Death Note anime already premiered. The same guy who did Tamaki's voice in Ouran is doing Light's voice. I'm still kind of WTFing over that.
I picked up some more Fate/Stay Night and Fate/Hollow Atraxia official doujinshi anthologies at Heiando today. It's always a shot-in-the-dark buying these things, because there's no way to preview them in the store. The first couple that I bought, I am definitely dumping on ebay soon. But the ones that I got today are keepers, yay. My favorite story so far is a short about Gilgamesh hanging out at an Animate store and buying all of the Saber posters, wallscrolls, figures, plushies, and postcards that they have. Then he goes home and cuts a bunch of Saber pictures out of some anime magazines, and glues them into pictures of himself. AHAHAHAHA. Poor Gil. Honorable mentions among other doujinshi stories include all of the men transforming into magical girls, Ilya bringing Heracles to school for show and tell (that was priceless), Lancer being slashably slashy with everyone, Medea being slashably slashy with everyone, the apocalyptic volleyball tournament, Issei getting some serious "screentime" (yay Issei), and finally, Lancer pulls a Mara and gets a part-time job at a fast food joint, only to end up accidentally saving the universe through the power of hamburger (long story).
Lancer is awesome. So is Chibi!Gilgamesh. (In Hollow Atraxia Gil pulls a Peorth and ends up in the body of a ten-year-old boy, which does much to humble him and much more to bring teh funny into the story.) Medusa is just awesome because if anybody tries to steal her takoyaki she can turn them into stone. Useful power, that.