Attention Ougi/Villetta fans...

[soaker87.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if there's anyone left here who doesn't hate the pairing.

Anyway, I've decided to volunteer to write a ship_manifesto  for the pairing, because I still love it, and enjoy ranting on about my favorite ships. I was only able to find two Code Geass manifestos, both of which I believe cover only season one, which is rather disappointing. But getting to the point, I've already written most of the actual content (though the nitpicky editor in me plans to revise it quite a bit) but when it comes to the recs section, for such a rare pairing, I figured it'd be best to ask the community for anything they've found. I've already got a couple fics, some art, and even a lovely Japanese fanart site, but I'm hoping there's something out there I've missed. Maybe over on ff.net, because I'm too afraid to weed through all the badfic there.

Also, I'm failing completely at thinking of a title that doesn't suck. If anyone can suggest one, I'd love that.

Thanks for hearing my plea.

Comments

[levy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm always happy to share, and I'll be sure to send you links for other sites if I'll ever came across some of them =)
I really like Lelouch too but his overwhelming popularity somehow stops me from focusing on him art-wise, poor thing! And I prefer to draw ugly older men since the bishies, with their linear features, are actually quite a bore to draw. XD

Argh, our stupid language is kind of useless in the big big world, but now that I think about it.. have you tryed to scroll the flashfic community..? I really don't remember if there was something interesting about this pairing there, but the variability in characters was pleasently higher than in other contexts.

Indeed almost every canon or canon-hinted pairing in CG are quite cliché: Chiba, Cécile and Guilford are victim of a massive I'dNeverAdmitBUTId'SOshagMyBoss-complex, Suzaku and Euphie fall into the fairytale love category, Shirley and Rivalz suffered from the obnoxious hopeless teenage crush... but since it's an anime and not the most complex and innovative serial, we might fogive them all and love them for what they are

[soaker87.livejournal.com]

Thanks then. I'm actually considering learning Italian, but only to watch an anime I love that's recently been dubbed into Italian. Mostly because I'm curious to see if it's done better than the butchered English dub. Sad reason, I know.

While some are irritating, I have no problem with a lot of clichés. The reason they're done so many times is because they work, after all. I really enjoy romances, and I appreciate all the Code Geass pairings in their own way (well, the believable ones anyway. Things like Schneizel/Suzaku just make me stare blankly.) Xing-ke/Tianzi is probably the most unique ship in Code Geass, and that's easily interpretable as simply platonic.

[levy.livejournal.com]

Wich anime? I'm curious about it ^^
With some series, ou dubbing is not too bad, but nothing compares to the Japanese one.

Indeed Xing-ke Tianzi is weird. It might fall inside the fairytale love category but her being thirteen while he is twenty-four is.. kind of odd for a canon pairing.
They are lovely nonetheless :3

[soaker87.livejournal.com]

Spider Riders. It's rather unheard of in the US, despite the fact that some of it aired on TV. It's not even that there's much to edit out, because its a children's anime, but they messed with the scripts a lot, and my favorite character (Buguese) was turned from a sympathetic villain who made a lot of mistakes to a self-centered creep.

I really like them together too, despite the age-difference. It's cute.

[levy.livejournal.com]

Never heard about it, I'm sorry. I might ask if someone of my friend has watched it and give you their recs, if you want. Anyway, Italian is kind of difficult to learn just listening at it for an english speaker, unless you are very familiar with spanish. We have a quite annoying and complicate grammar ^^;

Me too^^
And, as a crack-shipper by default, I'm still surprised about the amount of canon couples I manage to fall in love with in this fandom.
I guess Karen -> Lelouch (and Nunnaly -> Suzaku, even if it has not been emphasize too much and that's good) are the only canon relationships I'd have gladly done without. I'm in love/OK with anything else XD

[soaker87.livejournal.com]

Meh, it's really only something I'd suggest to people who enjoy cute stuff, and who understand a decent amount of Japanese, as there's no subbed version. Definitely not targeted at a mainstream audience.

I actually speak some Spanish (as well as some Japanese) because I enjoy learning languages. I'm pretty decent at picking things up, as long as I practice.

I like both canon and crack, but even some of the crack pairings I like usually have logic behind them... except for those that just stemmed from jokes, that no one other than my brother would get.

[levy.livejournal.com]

Lol, not my thing I suppose, then XD But try hard with Italian if you are this good with languages! I'm costantly hoping that I'll passively learn japanese from anime overdoses, but it has never happened so far :/

sometimes, when I look back at the origin of some of the crack couples I crave for, the only answer I can give my self is 'dude, you drink too much' - but it regulary happens that I find nice reasons for such couples to work. I might write an essay on the reasons why it could work between Shirley and Asahina in a -what if? universe where they both survive the war, and I wonder if this is more insane than random coupling them 'just because' XDDDD

..and, coming back on topic, I'm gonna pass your request for good Ohgi/Villetta stuff on Animesuki Forum, and let you know if someone will come up with something new, kay? :3

[soaker87.livejournal.com]

I studied Japanese through books, because anime doesn't help a whole lot. It's good for practice, though.

And Asahina/Shirley? I'm definitely curious about that.

Thanks. I'd appreciate anything.