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Still working on the Black Dolls, and photographing them as I go along in hopes of making some sort of tutorial or, more likely, chronicle of Nixonian failure. For example, I laid the patterns out on the fabric exactly 90 degrees in the wrong direction, so that the stretchousness (technical term) is sideways rather than uppy-downy (stop me if my terminology gets too arcane here), and Fran and Manny are currently bald little soft-sculpture hammers with eyes. Easy enough to adjust on Fran by padding her hair. But Manny...I really wish he wore more hats. Then he could be Manny from That Episode Where He Wore the Hat.
Bernard looks like a very angry starfish, so he's coming along fine.
Meanwhile, the new issue of Newtype has a DVD with the first episodes of Peach Girl and Le Chevalier d'Eon. Peach Girl is a faithful (so far) adaptation of the manga, so if you like one you'll probably like the other. Le Chevalier d'Eon seems to start with the second or third episode, but both disc label and episode credits swear it's episode 1. But if you don't mind the choppy storytelling and aren't a historical purist (d'Eon was a real guy, but his genderfuckery was, as near as anyone can tell, due to personal preference rather than supernatural hi-jinks), the animation is gorgeous and the story compelling. If you dig that whole BeruBara/Utena scene, this may be your bag, man.
Bernard looks like a very angry starfish, so he's coming along fine.
Meanwhile, the new issue of Newtype has a DVD with the first episodes of Peach Girl and Le Chevalier d'Eon. Peach Girl is a faithful (so far) adaptation of the manga, so if you like one you'll probably like the other. Le Chevalier d'Eon seems to start with the second or third episode, but both disc label and episode credits swear it's episode 1. But if you don't mind the choppy storytelling and aren't a historical purist (d'Eon was a real guy, but his genderfuckery was, as near as anyone can tell, due to personal preference rather than supernatural hi-jinks), the animation is gorgeous and the story compelling. If you dig that whole BeruBara/Utena scene, this may be your bag, man.
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Le Chevalier d'Eon was fairly interesting. A bit talky, but I don't mind because it's interesting. And the animation is gorgeous. It reminds me of something, someone's animation style, but I just can't put a finger on it. Of course, I figured at the very least it would provide amusement in how the Japanese don't quite get Western History. (And what is with them and pre-Revolutionary France?) As I told the guy at the rental place when we were talking about it, there really as a Chevalier d'Eon and he liked to cross-dress for entirely diferent reasons. Hmm, maybe they can explain the real d'Eon's insistance that he was a woman by having Lia get "stuck" in his body permanently.