Happy Thankgiving

To those of you viewing from America :) Ladies and gentlemen, my absence shalt be explained in four syllables: NaNoWriMo. National November Writing Month had been my challenge for the past twenty five days, and yesterday I finished the challenge five days early, resulting in a strange mixture of self-satisfaction and disappointment. I have to wait for the e-mailed pep talk from my favorite pep-talkers, Holly and Chris, concerning the After-Nano Rush: What Do I Do Now? Well, I already know half the answer to that question. Edit and revise, make new drafts and make better the old ones, until your story has reached a publishable level. Of course, for me it'll take a while to reach that point, and even longer since I have an official (Okay, not-so-official) editor on the job. She has to read through it on her own time and, though I love her feedback, it takes much longer that I myself working on it would. But it's always better to have an outside opinion. As Stephen King has stated: "Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written." So I will wait, and anxiously so.

Meanwhile, I have no idea what I want to do with myself, as the writing is finished and I am left with this itch to write and nothing to fulfill it, neither fill the time. So I will attempt to dive headfirst back into my studies, which have dropped in the past month thanks to NaNo, and, of course, jump right back into the watching of anime and reading of manga, and for good measure, I will write to you about it. Because I could not leave well enough alone.

That being said (In summary, I'm back!), let's get down and dirty with a sexy anime:

Death Note

This is basically the Harry Potter of the anime world: If you haven't seen it or read it, you've heard of it, without a doubt, unless you live in a hole in the ground in the middle of the tundra. In short, there's no freaking way you've never seen or heard of this anime/manga.

Death note is a fantastic story of a boy, ironically called Light, who comes across a notebook called Death Note. He quickly discovers that if any name is written in the notebook, that person will die within minutes. Light, drunk with the power, weaves a fantasty of the ultimate Utopian world, which he plans to create and rule over by basically killing off every bad person on the planet with the Death Note. Soon enough, though, the government notices jail inmates dropping left and right, and they conduct an investigation to find the killer, led by who must be the world's smartest kid- L- because he gets onto Light's track immediately.

Though I'm sure you didn't even need that summary. Then again, until about two weeks ago I would have needed it as well. Though I had the basic gist of the show, I still had no idea what anyone was talking about when they discussed Death Note. It's an intriguing concept, which was why after a year and a half in the anime world, I finally decided to get a taste. And I loved it. Besides Light being extremely hot, the entire idea of the show is mind-blowing, and Light's reaction to the newfound power was sort of refreshing; you don't find many main characters going crazy murdering people. I mean, I know he's still a good guy because he's just trying to make the world a better place, but he's murdering one-time shoplifters, for God's sake. Oh, and I forgot a little detail: A shinigami appears to Light, and follows him around everywhere, being creepy and hilarious as he gives Light information about the Death Note in useful pieces as the show progresses.

I have yet to pick up the manga, but I'm searching for the first volume at my local library. Meanwhile, if you haven't watched Death Note yet, you really should. It's a fantastic show- I know this and I haven't even gotten to the apparent love interest ;) The plot is insane, the characters very real and very likeable, and there are smatterings of humor if you need comedic relief amongst all the dark emo stuff going on. SO WATCH IT. SRSLY. DO EET.

P.S..... Zexion cosplay finally achieved. And yes, I know the picture is blurry, I photoshopped it to look like that. Shut up.