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Monday, August 06, 2007

Survivor... (Spoiler Alert: All about Harry Potter Book 7 a.k.a The Redemption of Severus Snape)

Song of the moment: SunSet Swish - Mosaic Kakera (Code Geass 2nd ED theme)

Konna hazu ja nai sou omotte nemuri
Mezamereba itsumo no kawaranai karamawari
Imi mo naku kurikaeshi

Mozaiku kakera hiroi atsumeteta "umaku ikiru tame no sube"
Ibitsu na sore ga utsukushiku mieta n da
Tsuyogari nagara tsumazuki nagara erabinuita michi no ue de
Hagare ochite wa umaranai kakera

(“It shouldn’t be like this,” I sleep while thinking so
And when I wake up, my usual, unchanging, and fruitless efforts
Meaninglessly repeat

The “method for living well” that I’d gathered up in mosaic fragments
It was distorted but seemed beautiful
While I bluff, while I stumble on the road that I’ve chosen to stick to until the end
The fragments peel off and fall, but they won’t be buried)
Mosaic Kakera by SunSet Swish

This post was a bit delayed but it has come. I've finally finished Book 7 last week while in camp. It has been an exciting, fun and at times tiring journey, but it's finally OVER! (Well, save for all the fanfiction out there...) So if any of you reading this haven't read Book 7 yet, I suggest redirecting yourself to another site like this for example...

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So in the end our hero lived. Is it really any surprise? To be honest, not really. In my opinion, I couldn't see Rowling actually killing of Harry just to end the series. You always get that, "There's always a silver lining" kind of feel when you're reading HP. Even as the hero's world start to fall apart, there's always a small 'lining' out there somewhere and perhaps it's like a recurring theme in the book. That Good will always triumph over Evil, that there will always be a happy ending somewhere out there.

Continuing on Book 7, I think the most obvious fanservice in the book (albeit perhaps appealing only to a smaller community (893 fics out of 311,013 as shown in FF.net on 6th Aug 07)) would probably be the Severus Snape/Lily Potter pairing. I can literally see all the fanfics starting to pop out once this 'best friends but perhaps more' kind of pairing was confirmed. Admittedly, while it did explain quite a few things in the plot like his motivation etc., I still believe this was a fanservice decision by Rowling as with the Tonks/Moony pairing in book 6.

Moving on to something other than HP, I recently watched Paprika with Sheng Yang at The Picturehouse. It was one of those really psychedelic films with lots of visuals and Tschno-ish music. Directed by Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers) and the lead seiyuu being THE Megumi Hayashibara (Rei from Evangelion, Lina Inverse from Slayers), it was an interesting and fun movie though you might not understand the full plot on your first viewing.
Planning to watch Brave Story next.

BTW, is your anime download being marked on the AVPAS list? If so, beware of the Odex letter! To find out more about our local anime 'licensors' (and I really use this word loosely...) and what their really doing, go check out their Wikipedia entry.

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