(apologies to kay_cricketed for swiping the post title.)

Whoa.

I just found the transcriptions for the Dramatic Precious CDs courtesy of Aya no Weiß Kreuz Corner, having managed to overlook them several times before. Damn, I'd wondered what was on those CDs. I'd heard interesting things about them. Turns out all those interesting things were quite, quite true.

OMGWTF it shouldn't be cool but it IS.

vermachtnis, you have just gotta read these things. I still love Kapitel best, but holy Hell.

To say that the Dramatic Precious CDs are a mind-fucking experience would be an understatement, but... but, but, but... I'm feeling pretty thrilled by them. I'd go so far as to say that I like them. Not only does what I've heard of the way the characters are behaving around about the point of the Gluhen storyline make a hell of a lot more sense in the context of the DP storyline (especially Ken's turn for the cynical and totally psychotic and the bastard-Omi-or-maybe-he's-Mamoru thing), but it's also confirmed something I had started to suspect about Ken.

I KNEW he was a lapsed Catholic.

And hooray for Farfarello parallels Kenken you scare me when you're crazy but you're JUST SO CUTE.

Oh, Ken. You may be a psycho lunatic with a guilt complex a mile wide and a bad case of self-loathing, but you're an utterly adorable psycho lunatic, so I forgive you everything. Yay for my surprisingly apt blood-spattered and not exactly regretful Psycho!Ken icon.

I cannot believe what happens to Manx and Birman (it really shouldn't be cool but it is)... Jesus, but Birman is hardcore. Hard. Core. It makes me glad to have nipped her alias for so many of my screen names. Holy shit, the headfuckage, it kills me. Reading thse transcripts has me really wishing I spoke Japanese. The Dramatic Precious CDs are totally fucked in the head crazy in a hell of a lot of ways, but somehow, somehow, put them in context and they work. Hell, I even know where the 'Erika' angle comes from now.

And half the cast are going insane or even more so or ending up spectacularly dead, and Kritiker's in freefall, and Omi's being stupid and I want to smack him and oh my God it's such such fun. Especially the Ken thing. Loved the bit with Ken and Reiko in the river, it shoud not have been cool but it was, it was and oh how I wanted to hug him or, even better, for Youji to do likewise. The great thing about drama CDs? I got fluffy mental pictures of the YoKen variety from that bleak ending. Which I should not have done and would not have been the intention. But I did, and oh the fangirl JOY of it all.

I dread to think what the story would have been like with Schwartz on top of all the other crazy things that are happening in that series. God knows how many more recurring cast members would have ended up dead or injured if that was the case...

Ken: I've not killed anyone outside missions, at least not yet.

You hold that thought, Kenken.

So. Much. Love.