June 2012
37 posts
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Hey, the year is almost halfway over… and the good half is yet to come!
“Cut open my sternum and pull my little ribs around you.”
—Purity Ring - “Fineshrine”
Hey, People already posting spoilers from Persona 4 The Golden...
…just wanted to let you know you’re the worst. Like, really the worst. Thanks.
Word.
You know what's stupid?
I love anime. I love watching it, talking about it, writing about it and thinking about it, but I don’t think I like most tropes that make anime anime, nor do I like the typical writing style and the quality of most of the fansubs. To be honest, I think anime in general is pretty… stupid. I’d never stand up for my rights as an “anime fan”, or try to get people excited for it if they don’t already know that I am a huge nerd.
Maybe I just waste too much time watching currently airing anime, disregarding genre classics like Mobile Suit Gundam, Trigun and even bloody Cowboy Bebop. Half of the shows I watch I watch either ironically, because I have nothing to do or because I want something to talk about. In the end, I consider almost everything I watch mediocre at least. The anime I would recommend to anyone, as a valid, universal source of entertainment with redeeming value, can be counted on two hands.
Yet, still I end up watching a lot, often selecting complete rubbish without being very critical. It’s not as if I have anything better to do. I still consider myself an anime fan, but I have no bloody clue why.
2 iphones walk into a bar and the bartender goes hey why the short battery life and they dont answer because theyre dead
Looks like Sasameki Koto’s manga is complete… only the scanlations are not. It really is the most unfortunate manga of all time, in any meaning of the word.
So it seems in Katawa Shoujo a couple of the girls come up with ways to sex you that effectively deprive you of your senses in a similar way to them
Imagine if Hanako had done that
she just sets half of you on fire
At least that would have made the Hanako route remotely interesting. Not that the routes that do pull this are interesting or anything.
Could you recommend me some anime with good action something like samurai champloo?
Baccano! or Black Lagoon, off the top of my head.
SHIT I CAN'T MAKE UP: Convo between my 7year-old students today
- (Names have been altered slightly, just in case.)
- Josie: I have a new crusshhhhh
- Matt: Me too! On a boy!
- Pearl: You're a boy with a crush on a boy?
- Matt: Yeah he's really cute.
- Pearl: Oh.
- (pause for a bit)
- Matt: Boys can like boys. I just an't marry him because boys can't marry boys.
- Me: Yeah they can. You can marry whoever you want.
- Matt: Really?
- Josie: YEAH my tia has a wife so now I have a titi and a auntie.
- Matt: Okay. Then maybe I'll marry him.
- Dave: (from across the room) No you can't you're seven.
- (Age was apparently the only foreseeable problem anyone of my elementary schoolers could see with gay marriage. I almost cried out of happiness. Later, when I was asked if boys could kiss anyone they wanted, I replied "only if they want to kiss you back." And Josie responded "Yeah! Your body your life.")
- My students are the shit.
An Ode To Anime Translators
When you were here before
Couldn’t look you in the ai
You talk like an Asian
Your words make me cry
I appreciate your passion
You’re all beautiful guys
But your translation is terrible
It’s so fucking terrible
But I’m a creep
I’m a weirdo
Why the hell am I complaining here?
I don’t belong here
I don’t care if it’s the culture
We’re not in Tokyo
I want a perfect syntax
Anything less’s a no-go
I want you to notice that you can’t fuck around
With your own fucking language
But you feel so fucking special
And I’m a creep
I’m just a weirdo
Who the hell am I talking to here?
I don’t belong here
Please run it past an expert
Please run it past
Please run run run run
Run
Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You’re so very tokubetsu
(TL Note: tokubetsu means special)
Guess I’m a creep
I’m a weirdo
Why the hell am I complaining here?
Guess I don’t belong here
No one will hear me
Desu~
Yozakura Quartet needs more love
It is one of the most heart-fuzzing, badbutt, cleverwitty, funtastic, creatilarious, thigh-highlicious, electrotongueing, cat-ear-twitching, indie rocking, scarf-coccooning, friendpiling, awkwardly (b)romantic, hello nursing, puzzle-plotting, fashion clothing, perky bouncing, perspective-switching, high school majoring, neologism-inducing manga of the entire epoch. Of the entire epoch!
This IS a game of “Who the fuck are you”!
- Name: Joris
- Age: 19
- Height: 6’ 2.9”
- Weight: way too much
- Relationship status: Single
- Birthday: April 16
- Favorite color: Blue
- Favorite bands: Radiohead, Bloc Party, Muse, Sigur Ròs, Arctic Monkeys, yeah… this could take a while.
- Last song listened: ”Fire’s Highway” by Japandroids
- Favorite movie: Inception, Hannah, The Social Network, God knows what else…
- Last movie watched: Dark Shadows
- Favorite book: “Kamermuziek” (“Chamber Music”), and its sequel “Het Konijn In De Maan” (“The Moon Rabbit”) by Paul Mennes
- Last book read: ”1q84, part 2” by Haruki Muramaki
- # of siblings: Younger brother, 14
- # of pets: Zilch
- Best school subject: Any language, especially English
- Mac or PC?: Mac
- Cell phone type: Sony Ericsson
- Current shirt color: Green
- Gamer? Yes. RPGs!
- Day or night? Day
- Summer or winter? Summer
- Most-visited website? Google Reader, Twitter and Pitchfork
- Celebrity crush: Claire Boucher, Akiko Matsuura
- Biggest turn on: uhm… Define “turn-on”?
Drinking games for currently airing anime
Saki: Achiga-hen
Take a shot every time when…
- … someone uses a word you don’t know (take two sips when the word is explained via a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it TL note)
- … a character we haven’t seen yet in Achiga shows up
- … Shizu makes a catface
- … Kuro loses
- … Ryuuka gives Toki a lap pillow
- … someone randomly generates electricity
- … a shot implies that a character isn’t wearing any underwear
Jormungand
Take a shot every time when…
- … someone is scared of Koko
- … someone wants to have their revenge on Kaspar
- … Jonah tries to run away from studying
- … someone mentions a country that doesn’t exist
- … someone says something vaguely philosophical or religious about arms dealers
- … Koko hugs someone
- … you don’t know what the hell is going on
Hyouka
Take a sip every time when…
- … Chitanda is curious (take two sips if her eyes sparkle as well and three sips if Mayaka is curious too)
- … Houtarou is unimpressed
- … Houtarou gets words thrown at him
- … they reference another KyoAni show
- … someone who is voiced by someone who became famous thanks to another KyoAni show is introduced (take two sips if the show in question is K-ON!)
- … a slice-of-life trope is averted or downplayed
Kids On The Slope
Take a sip every time when…
- … Kaoru takes off his glasses
- … Kaoru and Sentaro run off
- … someone butchers a musician’s or band’s name in horrible Engrish
- … a huge misunderstanding happens
Tsuritama
Take a sip every time when…
- … there is QUALITY in the background
- … someone dances
- … Yuki makes a disturbing face
- … Ayumi gets angry
- … Tapioca quacks
Fate/Zero
Take a sip every time when…
- … someone dies
- … Kiritsugu does something dickish for no good reason
- … Gilgamesh calls someone “mongrel”
- … Saber and Lancer have a discussion about chivalry
- … Waver whines
- … something is lazily explained rather than shown
Lupin III: A Woman Named Fujiko Mine
Take a sip every time when…
- … you see Fujiko’s breasts
Fun for the entire family!
Fitzpleasure
Alt-J
And you said folk and dubstep didn’t go well together.
