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[which_chick]

Bright spot for the day: Tezuka-buchou is FINALLY back from Germany. YAY! He's been doing rehab on his shoulder in Germany since... forever. Er. Okay, since episode 75. We are now on episode 140. Tezuka has been gone for sixty-four episodes. I have waited patiently for his return. And now he's back. YAY. YAY YAY YAY.

Atobe's still very, very hot for him. (No surprise there. Tezuka is quite the hottie. If I were Atobe, I'd be hot for Tezuka too... assuming he's not doing his coach, Sakaki-sensei, who is equipped with significant hotness because he sounds exactly like Akio from Utena (as well he should -- same voice actor does both characters) plus there's that whole coach dynamic going on, a not-to-be-overlooked smut opportunity, particularly if one likes gratuitous budsum.)

Also, and this is after an hour and a half of Tezuka-squee, the Merkin we saw for approximately fifteen seconds at the end of the episode was delightfully cute. Indeed.

And they're making a movie in 2005.

For those in the studio audience who may not be up to speed, here... I'm watching Prince of Tennis (テニスの王子様), an anime about, er, junior high tennis players.

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[en-ki.livejournal.com]

Every time I get the urge to be proud of my level of weirdness, I see something from Japan and am forced to hang my head in shame.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

In all fairness, I feel bound to point out that, no matter what I claim about who is hot for whom on Prince of Tennis, the actual show is not a seething hotbed of homosexual lust. It's a completely lust-free cartoon about junior high tennis players. There is a lot of tennis involved. It may not be the most realistic tennis in the world (I like to think of the non-Newtonian tennis as a visual allegory for actual real-world tennis skills too subtle for us non-experts to catch.) but there is one hell of a lot of it.

When I say things like Atobe is hot for Tezuka this is purely a figment of my imagination, no matter how many frilly lavender shirts Atobe wears, how many fruity drinks his butler brings him, or how many international calls (from Germany to Japan) Atobe gets from Tezuka. According to the anime, Atobe has a completely normal, entirely heterosexual athletic rivalry with Tezuka, who values him as a worthy opponent and nothing more. Similarly, Atobe is not doing his coach no matter how much I'm projecting based on the coach having the voice-of-Akio-the-uberslut. (Akio is, to be perfectly blunt, at least as much of a slut as I accuse him of being. Revolutionary Girl Utena is one anime where the subtext is infinitely more satisfying than the show. If Akio were the tennis coach, he'd definitely be doing Atobe and the rest of Hyoutei.)