Damn, I'ze been promoted to a Legend. Never though that would happen.
Anyway, If you haven't seen, I've finally decided to post my Metroid fic. It would seem that for now I might as well see how it turned out. So please go have a read. I would like to see if it could get into the Fanwords page, though. I quite enjoyed writing it in the end. I wonder when the site will get back to the point that the Fanwords will be published again.
Moving on...
As I was watching Marimite season 2 I had this thought that put my fandom in a strange perspective. I've been trying to make my way through the fan translations of the novels that are finished, I eagerly await the live action movie, and I horde the anime. Now, I'd call that fandom, right?
So lets see how I'd view this if it were to, say, be adapted into an American live action movie or series. I know that the series is a special kind of melodrama, that in it's own way it knows this and has fun with it. But when I think about what it would be like as an American remake... I feel ill.
I'm not one of those Japanophiles who only think things from the land of the rising sun are worth their time. I can see the fault that lie in the media and know that I do enjoy some of them as a guilty pleasure (what's up Please Twins!). But I just can't see American media being able to replicate what I love about Marimite. It's like the Ring. I found myself laughing at some parts in the US remake. It's hard to put into words but I just can't see Hollywood being capable of the shoujo-ai melodrama of Marimite, or the shoujo genre as a whole.
Maybe it's just me, but, eh, what can I do but give them a chance and see what happens.
NNM
