| 2:54pm | White Album Summed Up in a Picture | | | | Nowadays when some of my friends gather and chat, they’re afraid of people who are born in the 90s. I wonder why, besides that it makes us aware of how old we’re becoming. But I think there’s something to be said of being born in a particular era. The latter half of the 20th century,... |
| 7:51pm | A Truly Burning Gattai Sequence | | | | Author has it backwards. It’s Ani-BURN not Karma-nouto. I mean, seriously, one is actually cool (in a STRAIGHT FROM JAPAN sort of way), where as the other is the biggest bunch of self-referential act of hypocrisy ever. And can be easily confused as some Death Note slash. DS wins a cookie for... | | |
| 12:07am | CLANNAD After Story 22 | | | | The climatic finale of the present story arc is invariably putting a period behind those tear-stained letters some may have penned over the past weeks. It’s a tough job from the perspective of a planner, someone who will ultimately look back at the CLANNAD series and try to see what more could... | | |
| 5:05am | KRAZY Starts Off This Weekend, Douchbaggery Ensues | | | | This is required reading primer. And thanks to Hinano & JP I got to go to the little reception and talk they had tonight. And why I’d be throwing words like douchbags and said baggeries around. I just returned from the opening night for KRAZY, which is a similarly-themed art exhibition happening... |
| 3:23am | My Heart Flutters with Rumors of War, and of Cryptic Call for Bloggers | | | | If we think of the internet as a place, like a room in your house or a hang-out spot you visit regularly or a class you have to go to every same-day-of-the-week, then the feeling I’m trying to describe is like seeing your puppy-love girlfriend/boyfriend when you are first going out with him/her,... |
| 2:04am | Using Takarazuka Revue to Focus on Genre Tropes | | | | Takarazuka Revue. Tropes. Get it? Actually this is just answering a call from Gia, who wonders if people would play blog ping pong with her (ideally on AnimeVice, natch): Find some Takarazuka elements in shoujo manga or anime series– OTHER than the following: Utena, Princess Knight, Rose of Versailles.... | | |
| 6:40pm | Haru and Nakiami Going at It | | | | I think I’ve had enough time spent stewing on the idea of a Xam’d post that it’s time to get down to it. The first draft of this post had a motif that combined the lyrics of “Vacancy” with “LISTEN TO MY SONG!” It is likely a good thing that I’ve dropped... | | |
| 2:08am | While Growing Up | | | | Do little kids dream of being or doing something when they grow up? Do we put that aside and ride that rail road to better education, career, and income? Japan is a place where people ride the rail. And I’m not just joking, I’m both joking and being serious! They even have train pushers... | | |
| 7:28am | Celebrating Makoto Shinkai with New Video Transfer? | | | | I’m sure you’ve seen enough headlines about this, and the critical acclaims Shinkai gets with his works. But I’m just pacing through CrunchyRoll’s Byousoku 5 Centimeters feed now, and funnily enough the speech-like pacing of Oukashou made streaming that 480p video casually easy.... |
| 4:53am | Good Meta - Blog Tagging Circle Jerk | | | | He started it. We follow. Unlike the other posts, I really don’t have anything in terms of screen shots to offer you. People don’t read the DailyKos because it’s pretty, amirite? Heck, one of my recommendations is just a feed. Not even a website. And some of them are not even that... |
| 1:29am | Aging, Rambling Old Man | | | | Being a silly American, I bought the US release of Persona 3 FES when it came out last April. I even pre-ordered it, counting on the buzz of friends and foes alike. It did turn out to be a great little PS2 gem, even for someone who generally avoids RPGs on the console like myself. I chalk it up to that... | | |
| 5:50pm | A Different Kind of MAKO-Cake | | | | Nothing to do with the three Ms. Minami here. Move along. I’m not exactly overwhelmed or impressed by the offering of anime in the past 6 months. With exception to Xam’d and maybe a couple others (that I’m not watching, so I can’t say for sure), there’s just not a lot... |
| 3:08pm | Selvaria Bles; Himeka; Wouldn’t It Be Nice… | | | | First thing first: so her boobs are almost as big as they are in the anime design sketches. It never seemed as unsightly in the game, probably because of the 3D nature of the rendering and how the visuals of the game take hold of your perspective with an iron grip. The character designs remind me of... | | |
| 2:21am | Zaregoto and A Certain Japanese Novel | | | | So, there’s NisiOisiN’s Zaregoto, which is a off-beat murder mystery book. We like mystery light novels, yes? This book came out in its English-language translation in the US back in August 2008, and you can read a bunch of reviews if you care about the content of the book in a more substantive,... | | |
| 3:28am | Music Sheets | | | | So one thing over the years that kind of came in and out of focus for me is sheet music. It’s a little something that back in the days I really wanted; when I had the time to doodle with playing music, anyways. It was a little hard to find them. Now I don’t have the time, and naturally they... | | |
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