Work is CONSUMING my life. -_-

But I have found something to keep me occupied. Unfortunately, it's a sedentary activity. I've started reading a hell of a lot of fanfiction again, and found a few new fandoms, while at it.

All of which are anime/manga.

And recently, I've started on Prince of Tennis. My god, the monstrosity that is this fandom. It's all over the place! Manga, anime, live action movie, and even musicals. A SERIES of them. That's still ongoing.

I don't even remember how I got started on it.

No wait, I do remember.

I have a liking for Miyano Mamoru's voice; he has a nice voice and he's very versatile, in the sense that if he voices a character in anime, I can tell it's his voice, but at the same time, he doesn't sound exactly the same as any other of his characters I might have seen before.

He currently does Kid's voice in Soul Eater, and when I went looking around to see if there was anything else he'd done, I came across Vampire Knight. Which seriously must have the most screwed up characters ever, I tell you. Anyway. Watched the anime and finished the manga for that by now.

And then, I noticed Prince of Tennis on the page with all his other work.

And it's one of those animes/mangas which I've seen all over the place but I've never bothered to find out exactly what it is. I don't really like starting a new anime or manga; once I've started watching or reading it, it's okay, but I just don't like starting it. I'm weird that way.

So, little old me finally got curious enough to go poke around at it.

Started on the live action movie first, since I figured that would probably be easy enough to find on YouTube. Was ok, but the most hilarious things are the special effects for the characters' special techniques; they probably look cool in the anime or manga, but in a live action film they just look absurd, lol.

And then I got started on the musicals. And I'm not sure if Japanese musicals are different from English ones in general, but the Prince of Tennis ones are quite different. That difference is quite interesting, and I'm still fascinated by theatre effects. When watching musicals when I was younger, I was always amazed at how actors could find their mark when the stage was pitch dark, and that still remains while watching the Prince of Tennis ones.

Anyway. Have decided that the second generation cast for the musicals is my favourite, so here's something I found. At times like this, I wonder if I should consider moving to LiveJournal. Or maybe Wordpress. Hm.


The Second Generation Tenimyu Seigaku Cast is Forever Love