| 4:01am | on the concept of focalization in narrative |  | | | Gérard Genette’s theory of focalization in Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method seeks to dissolve the ambiguity with using terminology such as “point of view” when discussing narrative. Genette differentiates between mood and voice, as well as “who is the character whose point of view... | | |
| 12:45am | spring 2008 preview: eh, maybe | | | | What I’ll actually watch: Macross Frontier (4/3/08) Code Geass R2: Code Harder (4/6/08) Golgo 13 (4/11/08) The first two are pretty self-explanatory. Code Geass was the best anime of 2007 and all, and Macross Frontier is well, Macross. Macross Frontier got a ton of bonus points when I found... | | |
| 6:50pm | weeaboo dining: yakiniku juju | | | | Our original go-to restaurant for yakiniku has been Yakiniku West. It’s pretty cheap, has a lot of variety, and tastes really good. This weekend, we wanted to invite our Japanese international student friend to dinner, so I called up Yakiniku West for reservations, but they were booked until... |
| 6:06pm | our long nightmare is over: dragonaut has ended | | | | And with that, the best/worst bad anime in a few years is over. It definitely couldn’t keep up its early pace throughout the series, which from what I have been told may have been because the original writer quit, and therefore the only idea anyone could think of was to have about a dozen episodes... | | |
| 3:53pm | yaoi paddles finally make sense to me now | | | | OH EXPLOITABLE! I’ve mentioned a few times in con reports that I seriously never understood what the deal was with yaoi paddles. I mean, I know what they are, and I know that it is so KAWAIIIIIIIIIII DESU to go around spanking people with a paddle that says “UKE”, even though that... |
| 11:50pm | what i was forced to watch this week #17: piano | | | | I thought that Piano might be like Nodame Cantabile, just with a loli. Instead, it ended up being the dullest anime I have ever seen. It’s not incredibly awful. It’s just so slice-of-life-y that well, nothing actually happens. There’s not really anything resembling a plot, no... | | |
| 11:37pm | magical heart kokoro-chan was incredibly awesome | | | | I didn’t really know what to expect here. I probably should’ve expected some incredibly awesome retro anime parody, especially after the opening credits and the elaborate technobabble descriptions of everything and how Magical Heart Kokoro-chan’s transformation song totally sounds... |
| 2:54pm | postmodernism and anime references, or, YOUR DOING IT WRONG | | | | I was reading this post at Ogiue Maniax yesterday and naturally I thought “What SHOULD a reference-centric anime be?” It brought me back to my class on post-humanism, which was easily the hardest course that I took in grad school, where every concept wouldn’t seem to click in my head... |
| 12:22am | how do you name your gender swapped haruhi characters? | | | | Other than the fact that everyone calls female Kyon “Kyonko” and male Yuki “Yuuki” (the extra u makes a difference!), I haven’t really seen any 100% consensus on the names of the gender-swapped characters. For Haruhi, I have seen “Haruki”, “Haru”,... |
| 12:09am | what i was forced to watch this week #16: nanaka 6-17 | | | | For the first 10 or so episodes of Nanaka 6-17, I was thinking that my post on it would be another one like King of Bandit Jing. At first, the show is totally forgettable. The plot revolves around a 17 year old high school student who falls down the stairs and when she comes to, thinks that she is... | | |
| 11:43pm | kimi kiss wrapup | | | | Right when Kimi Kiss was starting, I made fun of it because it was a bishoujo game adaptation and I make fun of those. “‘Kimi Kiss: Pure Rouge’? ‘Which of these girls do you want to kiss this summer?’ More like ‘Kimi Fuck: Pure Spooge!’” Then I found... |
| 7:54pm | anime boston wrapup: DO NOT WANT | | | | BEHOLD Anime Boston was horrible. I had almost zero fun. Not only did I not have much fun, but it seemed like all of the fun had been sucked out of the building by the huge lines for everything. It was like the worst amusement park trip ever, where the amount of time spent in line compared to the... |
| 3:07pm | this is not hyperbole: anime boston had the worst organization EVAR | | | | Fortunately for us, we arrived at the con on Thursday afternoon. We dropped off our stuff at the hotel and then went to the convention center to pick up our pre-reg badges. We waited on a line that stretched along the entire convention center and then into a room where they had everyone coiled into... |
| 3:19am | 2 year, er i mean 25 months blogging! | | | | Technically, my first post was 2/21/06 and I even made a post on the 21st this year (I My Me Strawberry Eggs), but I just totally forgot until just now. And with that, I’m off to Anime Boston. Hopefully it will be like ACen and people will grind down staircases, and not like Otakon where they... |
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