I swear, half of the time I wish I could stick a muzzle on Fred. What kind of a rejoinder is "I can whine if I want to"? A proper insult would have been something like "This isn't PA. You don't have to pay for my crappy art every month". Or instead of retort, perhaps my style of "yarisugi" riposte, "Hey! I only cater to the finest pedophiles. MegaTokyo: The latest in a long tradition of stalking Japanese little girls". But getting petty and defensive? Sheesh! ;)

Aaaaanyway. The question came up recently: Why do I like Tenchi Muyo! GXP?It's an odd question, but I guess that at my stage of "otaku growth" I'm expected to be bitter and anti-franchise. But dammit, I liked Tenchi Muyo 9 years ago, so why should I hate it now?

Okay. Okay. So admittedly, I didn't quite like the extra TV series and movies, but that's just a matter of the whole "alternate continuity" thing that I don't tend to like (UC Gundam is the only Gundam! Everything else is just trying to replace Char. Talk amongst yourselves). I liked the first OAV, the second OAV was a bit odd but I still liked that. And the third OAV will make me happy when it finally comes out.

"But Dom," say the others, "You didn't like Love Hina, why the hell do you like GXP?" And to you I have one word, or rather two half-words stuck together: Nabeshin. Watanabe Shinichi has rapidly become one of my favorite Japanese directors, behind the obvious choices Kurosawa and Fukasaku. Why? Because like me, he's fucking nuts, and he has an great sense of when to overdo things. So I can live with the harem formula that is so common in fanservice anime because the comedy is so damn funny sometimes. GTO-style wild takes make for a happy Dom.

And I end this rant with this: Funimation better get a better script writer for GXP than they got for Fruits basket--those subs are just painful to read and pick through! ...or maybe I'm just an anal asshole. Whatever.