| 2:29am | How I Want the Otaku Elimination Game to End | | | | ’nuff said. but for some reason I can’t stop myself from saying more. As opposed to bloggers sucking up to each other (Anime Blog Awards), this time around we’ve got an otaku eliminator who jizzes and pisses at them blogs. Looking forward to the cumming of age of this one (I think... |
| 2:00am | My Animusic ‘Blues Chaser’ | | | | Thanks to my melancholic mood for the last couple of days, I came up with a list of my ‘10 Favorite Anime Music Blues Chasers’, also in response to adaywithoutme’s ‘Anime Music to Listen to When Depressed’. What better way to fight melancholy but drown yourself in music,... |
| 6:52am | Beyond the Blogging Crossroad II: The Woman on the Mirror | | | | I wasn’t supposed to write/publish this post until after a month because that’s the time when I’d really grow older, but what do you know, people change. So without further ado, let’s get ready to rambleeeee! (My Garden by ぱ) Bloggers have been accused of loving their blogs... |
| 5:22am | The Soothing Chamomiles of Kimi ni Todoke and Toshokan Sensou | | | | If there’s one way to describe Kimi ni Todoke (aside from ‘refreshing’), it would be soothing, like chamomile. In the language of flowers, chamomile stands for “energy and patience in adversity” because of its ability to restore harmony and balance into our lives1. That’s... |
| 9:14am | Remembering Love On Halloween: Daa! Daa! Daa! and Aka-chan to Boku | | | | Metatastic Long-Winding Intro I was in the mood for some Halloween anime/manga treat a few days ago (back when it still WAS Halloween), but somehow, I ended up rewatching the Halloween episode of two of my timeless favorites instead — Daa! Daa! Daa! (aka UFO Baby) and Aka-chan to Boku (Baby and... |
| 2:11am | On nensha, Mouryou no Hako, and the Ring cycle | | | | Last week as I was browsing Wikipedia, I came upon an article on nensha (念写). It is the ability to psychically imprint an image from one’s mind onto surfaces or the mind of others. In 1910, an assistant professor from Tokyo University named Fukurai Tomokichi conducted a well-known research... |
| 7:07am | A Tale of Geo-Cities | | | | A Eulogy for Geocities Earlier this week, GeoCities became officially unavailable, a few months since YaHoo! announced its closure. GeoCities began in the mid 1990’s providing free web hosting and later on, paid premium service. GeoCities was initially organized into “cities” or neighborhoods,... |
| 2:13am | On The Japanese Etymology of ‘Katol’ | | | | Fellow Filipinos, remember this?WPvideo 1.10 This sure is one timeless commercial, oh [in]famous Dragon Katol. The line “Dragon kung umuwsok leymowk seyguradong teypok!”1 never gets old. So katol. If only she had Dragon Katol, tsk.2 Katol is the Tagalog word for mosquito coil or mosquito... |
| 6:00am | Kimi ni Todoke: From Around The ‘Sphere to You | | | | The fangirls, fanboys, and otherwise, have said it. Kimi ni Todoke is the show of the season. Some curmudgeons remain curmudgeons, but oh well, such is life. What I’m about to show here are a portion of what bloggers have to say about Kimi ni Todoke (mostly first impressions), all for the sake... |
| 3:26am | Kimi ni Todoke Reached My Soul: Sawako-chan is so SawayaKYAA~ | | | | I doubt I can churn out any coherent posts for Kimi ni Todoke until I get this out so before anything else, let me just say Sawako-chan is so moeeeee~!! SawayaKYAA~ *ahem* Now where were we? refreshing drink in your refreshing anime. *ba dum psh* Sawako is one of the most refreshing shoujo protagonists... |
| 3:25am | NO YOU, Miracle Train | | | | So I watched Miracle Train and something about it has been bugging me ever since. The whole premise (or the lack thereof) of this show basically revolves around these train station bishies whose motto in life is: Bring back one lost girl into the light each day (or week, from our POV), so quick to assume... |
| 2:00am | The Introvert Shadow: Reflections on the Camp, and Onani Master Kurosawa | | | | I’d advise you to stay away from this post if you haven’t read Onani Master Kurosawa, since this is quite spoilerish, the images especially! You can turn off/disable the images if you like, but then you’ll be reading a BLOCK OF TEXT that way www Of Afterglows and Afterglooms The week-long... |
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