niji to the bug

I've just finished watching the first episode of Sket Dance in preparation for the Gintama x Sket Dance crossover episode next week.

( My impression based on episode 1 )

Anyway, I was wondering, for those on my flist who follow Sket Dance in anime or manga form, is the first episode sufficient to introduce me to the Sket Dance cast? Do I need to watch 4 more episodes by next week, or am I all set to go?



In other news, I dropped my glasses and broke them irreparably last Thursday morning, which led to discovering that having a twitlist comprised of 80% Gintama fans makes the world a much better place to be. So in spite of having held legless lenses up to my face in class, many failed attempts to glue the pieces together with sonicorca's hot glue gun, stumbling half-blind around campus, and getting bemused glances at work because these several layers of bright teal duct tape on my glasses match my camisole (thanks, I try!), I feel like a ninja assassin; I will think of these glasses as Gin-san, and I won't relinquish them for anything short of digivolving battle mecha magical shoujo frames!!



(which should be arriving sometime next week ahaha)

Oguna and I have matching nail polish ♥



Subject line is a quote from the second volume of Takeru, which arrived yesterday; I just read it this morning. I'm continually floored by the pacing of this series, although I can't give Kazuki Nakashima (Gurren Lagann) too much credit considering it is after all a 4-volume adaptation of a really tightly constructed play. But that doesn't make reading it any less delicious.

More fight sequences in this second installment, and if you know Karakarakemuri (the manga-ka) at all, that's a good thing. Honestly. Takeru is an action manga, and Karakarakemuri is god's gift to action manga. The fight sequences are orgasmic, like, hypothetically I would worry about anything less than a studio like Production I.G. throwing in Moribito amounts of funding, talent, time, and just overall distilled epic to animate Takeru.

I don't think I was very emphatic about this point the first couple of times I blogged this series but take it from me, buy the licensed releases of Takeru. Not only has TokyoPop translated an absolutely stellar script, the art inside is just so delectable (I know it's hard to tell from the minimalistic covers) that you'll want to be holding this baby in your hands. Scanlations just don't do Takeru justice.

Besides, there are only 4 volumes (and one unlicensed gaiden, but the scanlations for that are really decent).

( In other news )