Fruits Basket Isn't as Fruity as It Used to Be

What the frell is up with Akito being a girl? My vision of evil though feminine bastard with shonen-ai tendancies has been shattered. He is now a she. I just don't know how to react to this knowledge. I mean either way, he-she is still a bastard. But now I don't feel as creeped by his-her fawning over the Juunishi boys. And yet I'm still creeped… Such conflicting reactions.

And really, how many more gender surprises can we get in this series? Not that I'm complaining really. It's an awesome anime and an great manga series. I'm just very freaked about recent developments…

I just picked up some graphic novels on sale. The new Tsubasa is out! And it was incredibly cute as expected. I want more xxxHOLiC though…Picked up another manga called Aria. It doesn't have a whole lot in the way of interesting plot so far, but it's pretty and inspirational as far as exotic locales go. The main character really reminds me of Tohru though (which is fitting after my whole furuba thing up there).

I also watched the Here is Greenwood OVA yesterday, and it was a lot of fun—old school style. And Nuriko's voice actress played the character with a questionable gender…again. But I got all weepy because I didn't realize how much I missed Nuriko! Then I got all nostalgic about Fushigi Yuugi…and now I'm thinking about Twelve Kingdoms again. I WANT MORE!!! Spoilers ahead:There wasn't nearly enough of Keiki, King En or Enki. Not to mention the Tai folks . . . I really want to know what happened to poor King Tai and Taiki. Well, we know where Taiki is at least. But hot white-haired, red-eyed, dark-skinned Gyousou? Where or where is he? He better not be dead or someone's going to get a severe beating. Oh, and I forgot Rakushun. I missed him too. Need more . . .

So, basically, I'm suffering from a complex multi-directional obsession with a variety of anime and manga. And I'm not progressing on my fanfic. You can whack me over the head now. I don't know what my deal is, but I know that forcing myself to write only results in uninteresting, blah-ish drabble. It will flow when it flows.

So you found my blog… It must be “Hitsuzen”

What is Hitsuzen, you ask? It is "A naturally foreordained event. A state in which other outcomes are impossible. A result which can only be obtained by a single causality, and other causalities would necessarily create different results." Maybe I've just been reading too much xxxHOLiC by CLAMP. It's a very interesting manga…you should check it out if you haven't already. There I go giving out free advertisement again. But hey, if it's for the CLAMP ladies, I don't mind.

For those of you who know me and characters from my story (the big ass long one, not the fanfiction--wait, the fanfic is also now big ass and long), you might be wondering why Cymon is on this page given that he would probably hate blogs with a passion. Perhaps it is because I tend to externalize a lot of my sarcasm and cynicism through him. Or perhaps it is because, like Kynda, I simply like to annoy him and cause him pain by associating him with something he would hate. He's just so much fun to annoy…

So, there you go. My design teachers would be proud. I have a concept—sorta. And justification—kind of. Hell, that little explanation was almost as good as art history bs.

Now, how about a little explanation for this website's name? I know you're dying to find out just why I gave it such a redundant name, and why I chose to spell grey that way (at least you might be wondering that if you're American). I heard you when you first opened the page, after all. "What's all this brouhaha?" you asked. "What's it all about?" Well, I have a question too. Why did you say "about" in a Canadian accent? Or maybe that part was just in my mind…

Regardless, the answer to all of your questions is "yes."

At least "yes" is the answer if you ask a Vorlon. But since they can be rather cagey, elusive creatures, I will elaborate further. Back in drawing class, I worked very hard to achieve lots of what I liked to call "grey shadows" in my drawrings. Some sophistimicated people like to call them chiaroscuro, but that just sounds so stuffy. I'm not really sure when or why I coined the term "grey shadows" in the first place, but I do know that somewhere along the way Sam Gamgee got involved and made his position clear on the matter. He popped right out of the Lord of the Rings and into a parody a friend and I were writing, proclaiming his love of grey shadows. Considering our parodies also included many college basketball players along with a variety of Final Fantasy characters, Mr. Gamgee's appearance isn't so strange.

Finally, as if the answer were not already apparent, my spelling of grey was also due to the story of Sam Gamgee's origin and the spelling used in Tolkien's beloved books. If my website were a wizard, it would be more like Gandalf and less like Saruman. Although, I suppose I should specify that I'm referring to Gandalf the Grey here, not Gandalf the White. Not to even bring up the whole "Saruman of the many colours" thing.