I think people assume I hate Shaman King because of things I’ve rambled about. 

But, actually, no, I don’t hate it. I have a LOT of issues with the writing and the writer mostly, but I like the series. I got to love it for a good period of my life, it’s meant a lot, and it’s helped me be very happy and meet wonderful people.

I still can’t talk about it yet cause of external reasons but that’s a story for other day

The series has a lot of good points. Just like the previous post, Yoh being the main character and breaking the mold of the stereotypical shounen hero changes the entire tone of the series, and the things that go along are just because of that. If a character has a change of heart, it isn’t because Yoh beat him in a physical battle — it’s because he reached and touched their heart, somehow, mostly by being who he is. The characters, because of that, grow in a unique way.

…I don’t like the ending, no one will convice me otherwise, sorry. Yet, having the bad guy win, as a premise, isn’t the newest thing (others have accomplished more and in a better way, just sayin’), but it is a shock.

Shaman King has a lot of issues. And most of the time, I can’t put them past it. But it’s a good series, it has a good heart, it has good and charming characters, and my life would definitely not be the same without it. 

guess what time for another rambling — Chile being the star! 

most of my followers know already that I recently started an Editing post-graduate so we’re discussing books and shit, and yesterday, while completely off-topic back then, someone asked why Chile doesn’t read more Sci-Fi and similars (refer to fantasy and everything non-reality based). What followed was an hour-long useless discussion that took them nowhere. Since the classes are barely beginning, I didn’t want to intrude and be catalogued as the mean one, so I held my silence. But I do have something to say about it.

See Doctor Who. It’s english, but it’s broadcasted all over the world — even here, yes. It’s freaking popular in the US, too. But no one cares about it, no one watches sci-fi. We have sci-fi and fantasy writers, and there are books. But no one reads them. Instead, the most consumed genre is reality. Also in movies and TV.

It’s not because there are little to no resources, that’s bullshit, there’s internet now. 

It’s because Chilean people don’t know who they are. There is no national identity, not nearly as clear as, let’s say, Argentina has. So, since they don’t know, they keep trying to find an identity. And to find one, you have to ask for examples. 

To enjoy art, one of the requirements is to be able to feel identified with the character or the world. Chile consumes realism because we see no other source from where we can identify ourselves. Since there is no base, we can’t translate that into a Chilean who gets stuck in Narnia — that can’t happen, we can’t know that guy is Chilean, because we don’t know what Chilean even means, besides, you know, being born here. 

And that’s going to keep happening! IT’S NOT THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND. SO WHY DID WE WASTE AN HOUR OF PRECIOUS CLASS TIME SAYING THAT uh yeah there aren’t many books of that here. BULLSHIT.

I thought River Song would be a great character. Imagine my letdown :c

She was introduced as an independent, confident, very smart, kinky, and absolutely lovely and tragic woman. Very impressive, too. I mean, she got the Doctor to actually tell her his name!! That’s a whole fucking lot, you’d think. She came from the future, had met “many” incarnations of the Doctor, she knew a lot about him, and she was clearly, CLEARLY, devastated over him not recognizing her. You could tell a hell of a lot had happened between the two of them in her past, because of how heartbroken she was over realizing this would be the last time she’d see him. She was clearly in love with the guy and trusted him blindly with her life. 

And with every episode revealing her true past, she became less and less of that promise. She became less independent, as her life turned out to be literally “all about the Doctor”. She did not become a smart strong woman with hardship, she was just manipulated into becoming a psychopath(?) whose life surrounded the man. And she fell in love with him. Her brainwashing? Gone too, conveniently.

Her kinks turned out to be unfounded, having uh never happened so far.  So it’s all just… weird flirting. Also what is that bullshit of her being bisexual but never actually showing it not even a bit? It’s a basic thing of writing that if a character has a trait in their bio, said trait has to be displayed somehow in the story the character’s in. Cap’ Jack was very clear! But, nope, since she’s so madly in love with the Doctor, there’s no room for any other feeling. Any other at all.

And do not get me started on how the Doctor suddenly falls for her and wants to marry her. We’ve seen how he is with his feelings, especially love. From the first time they meet, he knows he’ll eventually trust and love this woman so much he’ll give her his screwdriver, his love, his hand. But knowing you’ll eventually love someone doesn’t equal immediately loving someone. After The Library, the Doctor’s apprehensive over seeing her again, because he just saw her die. But other than her flirting, how does their relationship grow? That’s really a question. Love isn’t just attraction or admiration. Save helping his ass a few times, caling him sweetie, and being somewhat of a mystery, what happens between them to develop love? All of his insecurities disappear and he suddenly trusts this woman just because she’s half-Time Lord…? It’s sorta all about lineage, then?

She’s smart, yes. But she only studied to be closer to him. She’s confident, yes. Because the Doctor knew parts of her future so she knows they would become close. Why worry to build it up if it was meant to happen anyway. Tragic? Well, she still dies in the Library, for her beloved Doctor, as soon as she was actually starting to do things on her own as a Professor.

I just… I hoped for so much more after her couple of chapters with Ten. She seemed like a woman who would not only help the Doctor, but solve shit all on her own! Like she had actually saved planets and stuff before meeting him. Like she had her own agenda and she still found this time traveler in some sort of adventure and she had grown on him so much he could trust her with not only the biggest secret he keeps, but with his poor broken-a-million-times heart.

[EDIT:] Haha please don’t even get me started on not having any kind of feelings towards finding her parents and then losing them because holy shit. 

idk man I expected more. And with this linked to how sexist Moffat is (because WOW I mean I wanna really slap his face now), it’s one more disappointment I have on my list.

okay so let me get this straight

• yoh and anna were stupid enough to take a newborn baby into war
• and then get themselves killed kudos on that
• and then got him to be immortal with a bunch of onis fully knowing how dangerous those things are

………………………..

I

s r s l y 

you know what would’ve been fun? a character in shaman king that actually didn’t believe nor feel ghosts, because that would make him a perfect suit for having furyoku annulment, and whOA NO ATTACKS WOULD DO ANYTHING TO HIM SO HOW DO YOU MAKE HIM BELIEVE

I reckon the day someone will ask me to ramble about Doctor Who and wow 

it’s gonna be long.

revolutionator:

1. The first character I first fell in love with
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t
4. The character I love that everyone else hates
5. The character I used to love but don’t any longer
6. The character I would totally smooch
7. The character I’d want to be like
8. The character I’d slap
9. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I despise

I’m gonna go with Yui because I think there are things to talk about with and about her.

She’s a very uncommon (especially main) character in fictional works, but at the same time very common in real life: someone aloof, to the point of having ADD, not particularly good with anything, unsure about what to do with her life, and, uh, not really caring about it. The common canon to the fictional universe is to have a main character who excels at something, to focus on it, or to start the story with it as an awesome discovery. Instead, we have Yui’s story beginning with her winging her way into the Light Music Club not even knowing how to play the guitar, and even up until the end of the series, she ends up not being very good with it. But she really likes it.

There are tons of people like that in the world, people who can only see being “good” as a goal because they really can’t see themselves doing anything else. Normal people. And even though that particularity, the audience can identify with her with much ease, both because of the difficulties she has to go through and because of how she chooses to deal with them; despite being aloof and not good for anything, she tries really hard. She puts her heart into whatever she’s doing, even when things end up wrongly.

The relationship she has with her sister was actually very touching because I have the same one but the other way around; I’m the big sis and I’m the one taking care of the other two. And their parents were really gone the entire series. It was refreshing to see that not even her family life was the common canon. 

The whole club isn’t about being pros at music, and I really liked that: it was about making friends and being happy with whatever, even a simple tea cup and amateur jamming. Yui never turns out to be this OMFG TALENTED BEING FROM GOD KNOWS WHERE YOU HAD IT HIDDEN ALL ALONG, she instead works really hard to learn to play the guitar, and she doesn’t end up like a musical goddess either. Everyone else is the same; they don’t wanna focus on being the very best, they just wanna hang out together. They don’t wanna spend their lives playing music forever, they just wanna hang out. And that’s adorable sdjkfhsdjsfdjsdjfn

That’s all great anon but now I have more questions and I can’t ask you. I wish you would step out of the shadows cause I just feel like I read another answer I can’t understand. How is support supposed to work if you can only (and are only supposed to anyway) rely on yourself? We’re supposed to complete ourselves, yeah, I get that part, and I think it’s true, but then there’s no need for a partner at all. 

I remember in Doctor Who (bear with me) that the Doc said that the universe was huge and stuff but you could get through it if you only had a hand to hold. I have my friends who can hold my hand. Why do I need a partner who will only be… just around by default?

I don’t have anything against Eleven or Amy or Rory, and god I love River, but 

the show did take a turn and a huge bet with the change of pretty much everything in the show. Some fans love it even more now. But some other fans might not like it, or might not like the idea of having to get used to it. 

I’m one of those fans who prefer the series before the change to Eleven. I’m really trying to hook but I feel the essence of the show changed too and I’m sorta looking for something that isn’t there anymore. 

So yeah. It’s just about taste. Don’t blame anyone for liking it or not. We all got out kicks from the show at some point, better to focus on that!

…………….anon

anon plz

eh creo que sí, basándome en los posts que reblogueo. creo que hay muchas cosas injustas en el mundo y una de ellas es cómo se trata a la gente que no es hombre blanco abc1. tanto mujeres como gente de color u otras etnicidades como gente con diversidad sexual* son lamentablemente tratadas como el pico de muchas maneras y considero que no debería ser así. 

a mí personalmente me da asco cómo me tratan en mi país por ser mujer. me da rabia tener que salir con miedo a que me puedan atacar por ir a comprar un huevo, o no poder tener cualquier trabajo por miedo a discriminación y, valga la redundancia, que me puedan atacar, o que me bajen el sueldo en comparación a un trabajador hombre que hace lo mismo que yo, o que supongan que para todo lo que existo es para servir, converitrme en ama de casa, y tener hijos, o que me vean como una puta por usar ropa reveladora o como una marimacho por usar pantalones.

peor sería si viviera en EEUU donde peor me tratarían por ser latina. 

y peor si se me viera que soy pansexual porque ahí me revientan a piedrazos.

así que sí, yo creo que luchar por derechos igualitarios es válido. 

excuse me what dónde dije eso? 

no, no me considero femenina. creo que ser femenina o ser caballero son concepciones de mierda y que no es necesario usar faldita ni tener las piernas cruzadas para ser mujer, ni ser un bruto cochino o abrirle la puerta a la gente cuando pasa para ser hombre. 

yo le abro a la gente la puerta hasta en la salida del metro porque creo que es mejor que darle con ella en la cara porque yo soy educada. yo detesto usar falda porque me revienta que me queden mirando como si fuera un pedazo de carne y porque me molesta en los muslos. no por sentarme con las piernas abiertas o cruzadas cambia lo que tengo entre ellas O cambia quien soy.

Beatrice is a (allow me this term) strongly written female character — and one of the greatest at that. I’ve once already talked about why I love her; I think that might explain it better.

I’ll never forget Beatrice. 

The hypothesis “only good people see ghosts” is a cornerstone in the foundation of the philosophy of Shaman King. It’s the argument that every character portrayed in the series is, ultimately, good. They may be a slaughtering mother fucker, but they still have good in their heart abu. It’s what Takei uses to say that Hao is worth saving, and that he can be saved.

It basically is that everyone has a heart. Which is true. Every person has both good and bad inside them, and it’s up to them to see which one they choose to do in every step of their lives. And being able to see spirits could eventually mean a certain purity of the soul, a clean sight, or an open mind. 

I don’t think it’s crap. I do think it’s used too often as an excuse from the very characters, especially Yoh, to just forgive people out of the mere chance of them choosing the “right” side of things.

Taken from the Shaman King wiki:

Anna the Itako I (初代代目イタコのアンナ,Shodaime Itako no Anna) is a fictional character in the manga series of Shaman King. She is a 1st generation Itako. She was raised and trained by Asakura Kino in Osorezan to become an Itako. She would eventually move to Los Angeles were she started a successful business.

When Yoh and his friends travelled to America for the Shaman Fight, Anna I began investigating and sent all the information she obtained to the Asakura Family. This would eventually help her junior Kyōyama Anna find the Patch Village.

Some time after the Shaman Fights ended, she took in the daughter of Silva, Anna III, and trained her to be an Itako.

Now, I’m sure you’ve seen around the internet pictures of a character who resembles Anna, with the red bandana, long boots and a travelling bag on a stick. I’m not exactly sure, but I’ve been told she comes from another one of Takei’s works, before Shaman King, and that Takei loved her design so much he repeated it on Anna Kyouyama. I’ve found a few fanarts of her… here, from this pixiv artist. I guess Sati knew her too? Idk.