| 4:06pm | Nanoha As DVDs - AWESOME revisited | | | | It’s been almost 2 years since I last revisited Nanoha As. Mainly because I didn’t possess a copy of the series, thanks to some botched backups. That changed when I acquired the Taiwanese R3s (6 discs for $150) last Thursday. I’ve marathoned the series 3 times since. However, I’ve... | | |
| 7:18pm | DCIISS - Shocking siscon upset! | | | | Yume was the obvious DCII haremette of choice for this tanuki. Inheriting most of Nemu’s charm (think Dark Nemu, tsundere imouto and ‘nii-san’) and voiced by moe-incarnate Horie Yui, she gained my love even before there was word about a DCII anime conversion. (My Kotobukiya Yume figure... | | |
| 4:13pm | The lure of light-haired lolis - A lascivious lolicious list | | | | I know it’s blasphemous to exclude Nadesico’s Ruri (who is believed to be the mother of all light haired lolis) from this list but my overflowing love for Anzu compels me. (Yes, I fully enjoyed DCIISS ep 02.) Light haired lolis (LHLs) have a special place in my heart. If an anime character... | | |
| 4:48pm | Aria - Life undistilled | | | | Despite my undying love for moelicious Alice and utmost admiration for babelicious Alicia, I’ve always felt that it is Akari who infuses Aria with its unique aura. I love Aria not because of the fantabulous Kozue Amano artwork, nor because it has babes from the lolicious to the moelicious but... | | |
| 2:31pm | The road to finanical ruin - A 2008 quarterly damage report | | | | With rising commodity and oil prices, I find my disposable income slowly shrinking with inflationary forces. Even though I’ve been driving for years, I never fail to feel the pinch every time I top up my vehicle since it’s the price of a 1/8 PVC figure. Even while enjoying the occasional... | | |
| 4:56pm | My DVD wantlist | | | | With myanimelist, my (now-defunct) ‘anime viewlist’ was virtually redundant. So I’ve replaced it with a ‘DVD list‘ tab instead to keep track on my DVD collection and wantlist. After some experience with collecting figures and artbooks, I realised the importance of having... | | |
| 1:40pm | Code Geass R2 01-02 - Judeo-Christian inspiration? | | | | This is a rewrite of the original since the entry got eaten while I was meddling with the title. Uguu! Code Geass R2 manages what most sequels fail to achieve convincingly - a credible restart. No character reset like Kugimiya Rei’s loli tsunderes roles but a circumstantial reboot with plenty good... | | |
| 3:19pm | The lolicious and babelicious - 10 SUNRISE bishoujos | | | | I am hardly the person to do justice to this list given my paltry consumption of SUNRISE series. But my love for C.C. Kaguya compels me. Anyhow, I think character love supercedes correctness or completeness in such biased lists anyway. Inspired by Zyl’s Code Geass R2 post where yet another pink... | | |
| 6:18pm | Kinokuniya artbook blitz | | | | While visiting Kinokuniya today to claim my prized Zero no Tsukaima perfection visual collection, I was pleasantly surprised to find their artbook section better stocked than ever. The new additions may not necessarily be Japan’s latest releases but are all surely solid artworks by very popular... | | |
| 4:15pm | My favourite class of tsundere - Tsundere ojousama | | | | The ojousama tsundere who inspired this post Like imoutos, tsunderes are not created equal. There are the forgettable tsundere-wannabes who exists to fill pandering character niches and there are the worthy ones who are the cornerstones of anime. There are 2 further sub-classes of these memorable tsunderes... | | |
| 2:46pm | My anime penchant for young love | | | | It’s been a reaally long while since I enjoyed a good live action romance. My last related indulgence was the Korean hit Coffee Prince which started out very promising, only to be betrayed by a meandering path to closure and the juvenile male lead. (He’s supposedly 29 but behaves like a... | | |
| 2:46pm | Bishoujo perfection in the real world | | | | One of my anime-related dreams is to raise a daughter beautiful both in body and soul like Kotori (DCSS), Karada (Asatte no houkou) or Kanami (Scryed). Mrs Stripey objects every time I bring it up. Not because it’s an impossible task (with her, I have 50% chance :P). but because such gentle-kindness... | | |
| 10:12pm | Upgrading to Wordpress 2.5 was Hontou ni Taihen desu | | | | This is Zyl here making a few notes on the transition upgrade from WP 2.3.3 to WP 2.5. Immediately, post-upgrade, Stripey was unable to gain access to his dashboard, the blog was showing the error message: ‘Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_register_sidebar_widget() in URL /wp- admin/... |
| 3:03pm | True Tears 13 (finale) - A masterpiece | | | | True tears has to be the anti-thesis of School days. Where the hearts of the SD cast were darkened and eventually overcome by evil, TT is a heartening tale of souls battling for love and finally triumphant against cruel circumstances (read - siscon). It’s a beautiful coming of age tale where... | | |
| 2:51pm | Defenders of justice!! Favourite swordwomen in anime | | | | Instead of a silver spoon in the mouth, I was born with a wooden sword in my baby-grip. Having seen too many swashbuckling pugilists battling for righteousness and damsels, I was enamoured with the idea of being a champion for justice. Zyl would know. I insisted on being a Lawful Good paladin during... | | |
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