Ancient fandoms ahoy! Hello again, Weiss Kreuz.

So the other day I listened to the Weiss Kreuz Dramatic Image Album IV (part IV is the only one I own, amusingly. I bought it because it's part of the Schwarz story and it has Crawford and Schuldig's image songs). For those of you who aren't anime dorks, a dramatic image album (also called a drama CD) is like a radio play. I'd listened to this one when I bought it, of course, which was sometime probably in my first year of college, but I understand Japanese a lot better now (you know, after three years of classes instead of just what I'd picked up watching anime). Which isn't to say I always know exactly what's being said XD It's pretty easy to figure out what's going on, because the sound effects are rather self-explanatory and there's a lot of stock dialogue (as you would expect from Weiss Kreuz). You know, name-shouting and one-word imperatives and the like. But seriously, I would sit and listen to Okiayu Ryoutarou and Midorikawa Hikaru all day, no matter whether I have any idea what they're saying or not *fans self*

Ahem. Anyway. Here's the a rundown of what goes on, as far as I can tell. I was lucky enough to find a translation of the first half online today (here) and a summary of the second half (here), but I was pretty happy with what I understood on my own.

( This stuff is seriously hilarious, guys. )

Weiss Kreuz original music videos

Why, brain? Why must you fixate on such an ancient, awful anime when there are so many good ones out there that I haven't seen yet?

Oh well XD

I discovered that among the twelve billion things created for the Weiss Kreuz franchise, there were four Original Music Videos commissioned by the creators, each done by a different director and animation crew (I think). Two of them seem to be little more than stills with flashy Photoshop effects applied to them, but two of them are pretty cool. Incidentally (pfft, yeah right) those two involve Schwarz. For your viewing pleasure...

This one, "Tokyo Sling," has the best animation of the four. It features Aya looking very drugged and Schuldig caressing his forehead (presumably he's about to mess around in Aya's brain... that's the only explanation I can come up with). Plz to be watching for the blood wings, they're probably the awesomest thing we get visually from Weiss ever.

The animation in this one's kind of wonky, but at least they're moving. It's a series of fight scenes between Weiss and Schwarz, culminating in Crawford trying to gatotsu Aya. I'm not kidding. My fandoms, they are colliding! *imagines a Crawford and Saitou swordfight* *nosebleed*