Sarazanmai

[clevermanka]

Guardian/adjacent:
Fanart: Chibi Luo/Luo. Art Deco Luo/Luo. Held and being held. Bubbles and forehead kisses.
I saw this gif of Zhu Yilong being pants-wettingly polite for the first time fairly early in my Guardian days and it was def one of the things that tipped me over into full-blown obsession with him.
I feel like they should have fixed Bai Yu's hair but Zhu Yilong's pic is inhumanly beautiful. (oh god he's so beautiful) (so so beautiful)
And for an assortment of beautiful men, may I direct you here.
And on DW: cyberbrain  has info on Zhao Yunlan's apartment layout.

LANGUAGE. (English is just The Worst language. It's dull and complicated and the spelling is ridiculous)

I watched Sarazanmai yesterday. All of it. And...


It was one of the most (the most?) beautifully animated, engaging, and deeply, deeply weird things I have ever watched in my life. I feel like anyone who sees it should go into it as unspoiled as possible*, so just... if you think you are capable of finding this sort of thing both entertaining and endearing, give it a shot. The judicious use of recreational drugs during its consumption might help or hinder, depending on the individual. Use your best judgement.

* Yes, I actually went in unspoiled for the ending and at one point I thought I was going to start flipping tables.

Thank you naye, for introducing me to what is now one of my all-time favorite things. For years I've sorted people into "would recommend watching the Jump Street movies" and "would not recommend watching the Jump Street movies." I now have a vastly smaller category of "would recommend watching Sarazanmai."

Probably next up on the watch list, Acorn is running And Then There Were None with Toby Stephens and Miranda Richardson.

Comments

[starandrea]

Oh, wow, that language thread was FANTASTIC :D

[clevermanka]

NGL I had a bit of a "Shaka, when the walls fell" moment.

[starandrea]

Yes! Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra! ♥

[riventhorn]

I'm on ep 4 of the show and enjoying it immensely. You might also like an anime called Tsuritama. Sarazanmai reminds me of it a lot.

[clevermanka]

Thank you for the rec! Is it viewable for free anywhere?

Yay Sarazanmai! IT'S INCREDIBLE.

[riventhorn]

I know Crunchyroll has it, and I believe you can do a free one month trial there or it might be available free but with ads since it's an older series. Funimation might have it too, but I'm not sure.

[clevermanka]

WEIRD. I thought I looked it up on Cruchyroll and didn't see it but nope, there it is. /o\

[wrote_and_writ]

Oh oh oh And Then There Were None is wonderful! My mom and I watched it during winter, whole house dark but the TV and one lamp and it was chilling and awesome.

And a million million sighs of pain and bliss for ZYL’s beauty.

[clevermanka]

I ❤ Miranda Richardson A LOT and I haven't seen Toby Stephens in anything but Black Sails but good LORD he was good in that. I'm happy to hear you like the production. It's definitely getting watched this week. Locked-room mysteries are my fave.

[wrote_and_writ]

The whole cast is excellent. And the production is well done. I had seen a production in a play and totally forgotten the way the plot spun out. So good!

[clevermanka]

I read the book so many times when I was young that my paperback copy was held together with rubber bands. I AM SO EXCITED.

[wrote_and_writ]

Yay!

[trobadora]

That LuoLuo art is amazing!

And on DW: cyberbrain has info on Zhao Yunlan's apartment layout.

Oh wow, thank you so much for that, that is going to come in so handy. :D

LANGUAGE.

What a fantastic thread!

[clevermanka]

Happy you found lots of good stuff!

[minoanmiss]

Your description of this anime sounds mind-bending.

[clevermanka]

Then I described it well. 😂

[marycrawford]

Zhu Yilong being pants-wettingly polite

I cracked UP at that excellent phrasing, and you're not wrong. Thank you so much for the links - they're a highlight of my day. And why is he SO GODDAMN GORGEOUS omfg, that pic with the bow tie kills me.

[clevermanka]

Thank you, thank you. It pleases me inordinately when I make people laugh.

(howwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww?)

[naye]

BUTT! FEELS! CONNECTIONS!!! ♥♥♥

[mckitterick]

That was AMAZING, thank you so much for the recommendation!

[naye]

I'm thrilled you liked it so much! It's not for everyone but I was absolutely enthralled with All The Things it does so much, and it brings me great joy to know there's now more Sarazanmai in the world.

[clevermanka]

(btw, I just got 600 words down \o/ and in the next paragraph someone's getting thrown to the bed and ravished so I thought I'd stop there and start fresh with the porn for tomorrow)

[naye]

I adore that screencap so much I am sorely tempted to make icons and/or gif the hell out of choice bits of Sarazanmai.

[clevermanka]

The words "I can't believe naye doesn't have an icon of one of these" were, indeed, uttered by me at one point.

[naye]

You know me SO WELL

[tinny]

Sarazanmai

I haven't watched it yet, but it seems to me that it might be in the category of "people who like Gintama", so I am going to try it.

(And we don't agree on much, so I am really looking forward to finding out whether we'll agree on this. :D)

(I have seen And Then There Were None. Yay Toby Stephens!)

[clevermanka]

Well we at least agree on Guardian, Agatha Christie, and (from the looks of it) Black Sails! 😁

[tinny]

True! <3

Black Sails was amazing. Season 2 blew me away.

I made around 300 icons for it in 2017 and 2018 - which basically is the way to judge my fandom obsessions: number of icons. :D

( This is the best post, in case you're interested: https://tinny.dreamwidth.org/490524.html )

[clevermanka]

Such a good show (I love Jack SO MUCH omg what a wonderful mess of a human).