Heee.

[kageotogi]

Joan: I don't see why we should have to pay for things we can steal...

I'd tell you all the context of this statement, but I find it ever so much more amusing when it's all alone. In the corner. By its own little self. Yes.

I offered Joan (and Kyle) my self-translated version of Gravitation Volume 12 last night, and I think they were both ready to kill me. Kyle was more amused than Joan, however. ^.^ See, the thing is... I need to learn to actually look at the text and not the pictures. So... I make up my own stories. (Unfortunately, in the newer mangas, this isn't so hard. -_- It looks like the illustrations to bad fanfic. And since I am wise in the ways of bad fanfic *coff*, making up a story to go along is not hard. It saddens me when I find out my bad stories are correct, however.)

I do this to all manga, for those who are wondering, not just the untranslated Gravitation manga. I bought I.N.V.U. a few weeks ago and started to flip through... and forgot to read the word bubbles, instead making up my own story in my head. (The only mangas I recently have not done this for are Desire and Wallflower.) Soon I won't bother actually reading manga, in favor of my own stories. And, after that, I will probably stop reading books, as I will look at the cover art, read the back, and make the rest up on my own.

Why yes, I do need to be euthanized. -_-

ACK! Laundry!

edit:

I just had a slight mental breakdown over the name "Yuki". OMG. Okay. Okay. Joan has been giggling at me and what she calls my "Lewis Black Moment" for five minutes. She's heard all this already. But. Oh yes. But.

(Heehe, butt.)

Okay. I was apparently in the mood to be an usually masochistic masochist, so I picked a Gurabiteshiyon.net author at random and proceeded to read their five-chapter story. I should have stopped after the first paragraph, but do I learn? No. No I don't. And my biggest thing with the story was how Eiri was referring to himself as Yuki. Which, okay, I'll admit, is kind of a normal occurrence. I can live with that. I can even feasibly make up a reason or two why he would do that. But. When Mika, Hiro, Tohma, Tatsuha, and the rest of the cast (aside from Shuichi) start calling him Yuki (with no -san or any other sort of honorific attached), There Is A Problem.

People. His. Name. Is. Eiri. Yes, his penname is Yuki Eiri, but his name is Uesugi Eiri. His family calls him Eiri. The people who don't call him Eiri consist of Shuichi (who was a pink-headed blobble to begin with and thus has an excuse), Suguru (who switches back and forth from Eiri-san to Yuki-san), Hiro (who refers to him as Yuki-san but who also has an excuse -- Shuichi), and his fans (who all call him Yuki-sensei or Yuki-sama). There may be other people who I can't think of right now (K? Sakano? Can't remember), but my main point is this. His name? Is EIRI.

Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri Eiri!!!

And thus ends another rant of The Ren.

edit two:

T_T kaliflwr has made me very much want to steal the "You and Me Song" by the Wannadies for my very own. Dammit. Why don't my music-ripping programs work while I'm at school?

Comments

[sammy-h.livejournal.com]

I always refer to him as Eiri. :D

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

And oh, I love you for it.

[sammy-h.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who thinks "Aryan" in regards to the name? I realise Maki probably wasn't attempting a play with the word, but it is interesting to note.

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

o_O Uh. Hadn't thought of that.

[sammy-h.livejournal.com]

O.o

Interesting thought, isn't it though?

[bakayaro-onna.livejournal.com]

I refer to him as Eiri as well, and my Shu calls him that as well. Shu calls him both Eiri and Yuki in the manga.

[sammy-h.livejournal.com]

In Gravity he gets called Eiri when Shu's stern with him, or just plain infuriated. You know, like when a relative uses your full name to signal they're pissed off with you? :P

For me, when refering to the character to people in general it's always Eiri.

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

And that's why you rule. Oh yes.

[bakayaro-onna.livejournal.com]

Most of the recent gurabite postings belong at the Pit of Voles, not there.

If you want to find the GOODfic, check out imayb1's recommendations. She also slams the BADfic.

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

I know. I heart Aja for proving that there is still good in the world of Gravitation fanfiction. (And I'll gather the voles if you dig the pit.)

[imayb1.livejournal.com]

I heart you for writing good fic! :D

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

Um. I heart you for saying that?

[iwakura.livejournal.com]

I call him Yuki because of Shuichi. But yes, yes I know his name.

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

And for that I am proud.

[wolfnut.livejournal.com]

Calm down... take a deep breath... and find the chlorine tablets for the gene-pool.

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

Yeeeessss. The gene pool will suffer.

[tera-flare.livejournal.com]

His doctor doesn't call him Eiri either (she calls him Uesugi-san =3)

I'll get that song up this evening. It's wonderful on many different levels ^^

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

Does she? I'll have to look that one up.

[sammy-h.livejournal.com]

It's true. Both the manga and anime doctor refers to him as Uesugi-san. :) In daily use he also goes by his real name. We know this because his prescriptions are under Uesugi (we hear a pharmacist call to him to collect his meds in the anime).

[imayb1.livejournal.com]

True.

[sammy-h.livejournal.com]

Would I lie? :P

[imayb1.livejournal.com]

Just backing you up. ;D

[sammy-h.livejournal.com]

That's naughty. XD

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

Possibly. I haven't known you that long. ^_~

[sammy-h.livejournal.com]

I'm adorable; does it matter if I lie or tell the truth? *^_-*

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

Afraid so! I know all about adorable people. :P (You were obviously not in my journal loop when I was in the "I'm cute and I know this because people give me nickles" phase. ^_~)

[i-paint-the-sky.livejournal.com]

I usually use Yuki, since that's the name you hear most (thanks, Shuichi), though after RPing Tohma I started to use Eiri a fair amount.

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

Eirieirieirieiri!

[i-paint-the-sky.livejournal.com]

=P

Yuki is just as valid for ME. Now, for Gravi characters, it's not necessarily, as you pointed out in your post. But in any anime fandom, you need to take notice of what characters call each other.

[imayb1.livejournal.com]

Mizuki calls him Yuki, but that, too, is understandable since she is his editor and it is his pen-name.

I agree with you, of course. Not everyone should call him Yuki and *definately* not Tohma who takes glee in calling him Eiri and letting Eiri get miffed when he leaves off the -san honorific. ^_^

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

Doesn't she call him Yuki-san, though? Either way, it is understandable.

[sammy-h.livejournal.com]

I thought it was Yuki-sensei.

[imayb1.livejournal.com]

Yes, she does use the honorific -san, or she calls him sensei; never Yuki alone.

[jinsai.livejournal.com]

Eiri.

Yay for details. And theRen. And the begining of construction on the Pit of Voles.

Though we could just throw them into the bog of eternal stench. Considering, ya know, it's already there and all. Or is that where they came from?

...and the most amusing thing? I read this right after stumbling onto a horribly badfic where Tatsuha calls him Yuki.

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

Hiiiiiiiiss. His name. Is. EIRI.

*coff*

No, you see, bad fanfic writers emerge from the Bog of Eternal Stench at an early age and are raised as humans for a short amount of time, until they discover the fandom they are Destined To Ruin. The only way to kill the Stench--Writers is the Pit of Voles.

Really, you should know this by now. ^_~

[bakayaro-onna.livejournal.com]

I just wish they would stop stinking up gurabite...

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

I told you... vole pit.

[jinsai.livejournal.com]

*headdesk* You're right - I should be more knowledgible about such things. Alas, the Ish has lost a piece of her innocence.

You. Stop snickering. Of course I had innocence to lose. Once. A long time ago. Before I was born. The first time. Really I did. WHY WON'T YOU BELIEVE ME?!

[amethystduckie.livejournal.com]

Ne... My Shuichi almost always calls him Eiri anyhow <3

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

I know. ^___^

[ambrosewulf.livejournal.com]

Eiri EIRI EIRI EIRI EIRI EIRI EIRI EIRI EIRI EIRI!!

Okay, I'm done. *snickers*

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

^__^

[parhelion-spark.livejournal.com]

*is frightfully curious about these made-up-translationy-things*