Gosick and Dantalian no Shoka (and me)

First allow me to say: Gosick is more freaking awesome!!! However, Dantalain no Shoka is also freaking good on its own.

Anyway, the point is just that DnS appears to be very much like G especially in terms of characters, I mean doesn't Dalian reminds you a lot of tsundere Victorique, that cute little girl who also happens to be a wise-ass not to mention an actual genius (and who also LOVES sweets a lot)? While Huey is like Kujo what with his huge patience with Dalian, and Camilla may not exactly be like Avril but then there are similarities...

Anyway, the general plot line is a lot similar. The two main characters, the hero and the heroine, almost always find themselves in certain cases that they are bound to fix and solve, only they do it in different ways: Victorique and Kujo are on detective modes while Dalian and Huey are like guardians of Phantom Books.

Also in both stories, the relationship between the two characters seems to develop awfully fast but I guess it must be due to the limited anime epi. time or something, but then to be honest, it doesn't really matter and the heck, I love it. Heh. :))

Anyhoo, Gosick's mysteries are a bit easy, especially the earlier ones (I must've seen too much of Detective Conan, I think, I mean since I'm saying that) though the drama part is just LOVE~ <3 ! I mean, I just cried during the battle scene of Cordelia and Victorique's father, what's-his-name. And cried again and again and again during the last few episodes, mainly episode 20-24. And dude, I cried and cried because of this line which is just too much for a stupid romantic-weirdo like me:

"No matter how the world changes, we'll never be separated again." - Victorique and Kujo

(How much of a crybaby will I get really? I mean it's been months(!!!) since I've watched it but the line and the memory of the story still manages to cause my eyes to get teary and all. -____-)

Dantalian no Shoka on the other hand, is just as lovely although it bothers me a lot that there are certain things not clearly explained. (Maybe there will be a second season. I hope.) Such as the white biblioprincess and the patch-eye one too and their Keykeepers. I especially hate the fact that they didn't elaborate much on the Libricide Officer (Hal right?) since he's kakkoii(!!!) not to mention HOT, totally.

(ne? ne? ne? :3)

Also, they didn't bother much to explain about the other Dalian, the pink-haired one, and it just pains me to think that it's with her that Huey is totally into, I mean sure they must be the same person or library or whatever but the thing is that part is ALL muddled, it's confusing. And also have I mentioned painful? Yes painful. Poor purple-haired Dalian. I like her better kasi, so there. :P

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On the other hand, the other thing I love about both these stories is that I could relate with the two heroines, being hikikomori myself, and also being a book lover too, who'd rather spend her time surrounded by her beloved books, locked up in my room than socializing with humans (I mean it's just too much hard work to talk and introduce yourself to everyone you know, and then they almost always end up not understanding you neither your world.). And if given the chance, I'd pounce eagerly on said chance to live in Victorique's library surrounded by all those beautiful and I bet waaay interesting books. Heaven. =^_^=

Also, this clip in DnS epi.5, just breaks me down and makes me cry (again *sigh*) because it's too sweet and impossible. Heh. But still sweet.

Sweet right?

But then impossible, since no sane person would really bother "saving" the hikikomori bookworm from her perpetual alone-ness, be it self-imposed or not. (Well, prolly there is, just not anyone I know, so yeah, I'll remain forever alone, not that I mind, much.)

And pink-haired Dalian is right by the way, with her saying that the books certainly makes her feel all those feelings you experience in actuality. It's true, I mean, it's just the same. You feel the same things and much more because your imagination fuels your mind and before you know it you've experienced just the same maybe even much more than those who experienced those things in actuality. The power of books and imagination. The very reason why I fell in love with books and why I'll prolly never fall out of love.

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Now going back to Gosick and Dantalian no Shoka, ALL I'm saying is that they're both great and have their own distinct qualities that definitely makes them stand out, and similarities which I guess are common especially since it's anime, so the stereotypes. But then Gosick is better because of the overall storyline which killed my poor little heart, while Dantalian no Shoka shows great promise of a good anime so a second season should be made already, like right NOW! ;3 And yeah, I prolly have to read the manga to quench my thirst...

A book-vampire. Heh. Or alien. Vampire alien? Whatever. :))