Oblivious to the World

So I’ve fallen quite behind on some shows primarily due to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as it’s taking up far too much of my free time that was spent watching anime.  Some are obvious choices for dropping and others I’ve just determined I don’t quite care enough about anymore.  Maybe someone can convince me otherwise.

Umineko no Naku Koro ni – After about 8 episodes I was pretty much forcing myself to watch the episode each week and now I’ve gotten up to 14 and with episode 22 that just came out I find myself with absolutely 0 desire to watch more.

Shin Koihime Musou – Was really only watching this cause I watched the full first season, but it really is just crap and since I’m already behind and not likely to catch up might as well drop it out right.

Tatakau Shisho – The Book of Bantorra – The show has had several episodes to try and entertain me, but there’s just something missing from the show.  Not exactly sure what it’s missing, but I just never care to watch this show.  I’ll either watch something else or go play CoD when see those video files.

Queen’s Blade 2 – Similar to Shin Koihime Musou.  I watched the first season so I decided to go for the 2nd as well, but I’m behind and the crap has to be the first stuff to go.

 And then some I’m a bit on the fence about.

Sacred Blacksmith – Some parts were interesting as I like all the demon blades and Aria is pretty awesome, but the leading lady……not so much.  So some things I like about it, but there’s more I like about other shows better.

Fairy Tail – Really has had 7 episodes to try and wow me and what not and it has failed.  I get bored with the same old jokes told over and over again (especially Gray’s random unclothing as I just sigh every time now).  The animation really isn’t that good and I just could care less about the characters involved.

Sasameki Koto – This one is a shame cause the first episode was really fantastic.  I loved the melancholy atmosphere of it, but the show seemed to go in a different direction after that first episode that isn’t nearly as good as that first episode.

Thank god I’ve grown past the days of just watching everything I start to the finish regardless of how full of shit it was.

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I didn’t want to post this in the actual thread because it would just be asking for a fight.  Luckily this is my own blog and I’ll say whatever I damn well please.

Kiss x Sis is 100% utter crap and pretty much unwatchable.  Really bottom of the barrel stuff there.

That is all.

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So I’ve been absolutely obsessed by this game ever since I got it.  Hands down my favorite 2D fighter and maybe the best fighting game I’ve ever played.  Period.  It is just incredible.  They’ve done so many unique things with all the characters in the game and made sure not a single character played like any of the others.  Really inventive ideas going on with some of the characters, like Rachel who has the ability to control wind to move her or other objects around the arena, or Tager who is one of the big, slow types but has the ability to magnetize his opponents and thus being able to draw them in for attacks and grabs.  Just absolutely great ways to really make the play original in a field where it feels like true originality has been long gone.  I’m still far from mastering this game and probably won’t be for a long time.  I still want to get a fighting stick at some point, but unfortunately a good one will probably cost me about $100, $80 maybe if I can get lucky and find a good deal somewhere.  For now I’ve been using Jin for the people not in the know ice-type powers and can freeze his opponents to create and extend combos.  Still having a rather tough time getting some of the combos done in actual battle, but practice makes perfect.

It was great when I got the game on a complete whim.  I went into Gamestop wanting a new PS3 and was just planning on buying a cheap, used game.  But when I walked into the store I saw the new BlazBlue boxes and was reminded that this game was coming out and how awesome it looked so I just decided right then and there that I was gonna buy it.  I was lucky I was able to as for BlazBlue the Limited Edition was released 1 month before the Standard Edition (which I don’t think has come out yet even today) and they had taken preorders for the LE, but they had a few extra copies so I was able to buy one right there.  Unfortunately I ran into a minor snag when my debit card kept coming up as Invalid PIN, Invalid Name, Invalid Address, etc.  Absolutely no clue why as I could withdraw money with no problem right after that happened and I’ve been using it since then without any problems, but whatever.  I was lucky my friend was with me as I did not have enough cash to buy it so he put the game on his card and we walked over the atm where I gave him the money for it.  Problem solved and crisis averted.

Anyway, LE was totally worth it.  It came with a bonus disc with tutorials and tips for all the game mechanics and videos for every character.  Not to mention it came with the 2 disc BlazBlue Soundtrack, which I just listened to for the first time today.  It really surprised me as the OST is quite excellent.  Full of a lot of different hard-rock tunes to go with the style of the game.

Anyway, if you have a PS3 or Xbox360 do yourself a favor and go play the game.  Or a PS3 specifically if you want to play with me.

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More than a year after my last post I finally decide to make a new post here and since the spring series are just beginning to air I figured I’d do some first impressions/reviews of the first episodes.

K-ON

This show begins introducing our main character, Yui, in all her moe/clumsy/shy glory.  For those of you who like that type of character, grats.  Not for me.  She’s starting her high school career and has absolutely no clue what club she would want to join.  From there we move to Ritsu and Mio who try to keep the Light Music Club alive as all the former members had graduated.  They quickly recruit a 3^rd member, Tsumugi and begin their search for a 4^th member before the end of the month or else the club will be suspended.  Then in comes Yui who joines the club even though she has no familiarity with any kind of instrument aside from castanets from when she was in elementary school.  Far from ideal, but they’ll take any 4^th member they can get at this point.

From the start it seems like this will just be a mediocre slice-of-life/music show, possibly rise a bit above mediocrity.  The first episode didn’t have much to make me laugh aside from a few brief moments until the end of the episode.  Hopefully they can bump up some of the humor in the coming episodes cause it’s either that or really focus on trying to make a real band, which I’m 99% sure they aren’t going to do so comedy it is.  As I said before, Yui is the more stereotypical clumsy/shy persona who could make the moe lovers go crazy, but my interest lies in the characters, mainly Mio and Ritsu.  Ritsu is the outgoing, semi-forceful, but spunky type and Mio is a smart, slightly more reserved person (didn’t feel like I got a good feeling for her character a whole lot this episode).  But Mio’s and Ritsu’s back and forth convo’s do provide some of the main entertainment this episode.  The last character, Tsumugi, isn’t really a favorite type of mine either appearing to be closer to the ojou-sama type guessing from how she never had fast food till just now and was gleeful when she got to ask for fries with her order.  Anyway I don’t really see this being any kind of breakthrough title of any sorts.  The OP is an alright song performed by the girls, but the ED is a very nice rock number with some excellent animation behind it, that being one of the reasons why Mio is a favorite as she just looks awesome in the ED.

Not expecting a whole lot out of this show, but I do expect it to give us a little more comedy throughout the show and it would be great if they end up becoming a band that performs songs similar to the ED.

Hayate no Gotoku!!

We are brought back to the world of Hayate and Nagi, though this time JC Staff gives us this pleasure instead of Synergy.  But let me just say right from the start, I really wish Synergy had done this 2^nd season.  They both look very similar, but there are just slight differences in the look between the 2 seasons that makes me like the look of the first season better.  But if it can at least create the same hilarious atmosphere and setting that the first season established than I’d be content, nay quite happy.  Unfortunately the 1^st episode didn’t do that all that well, but I have to give it a bit of leeway as it used a lot of this episode to introduce all the reoccuring characters for the viewers so hopefully the next episode can get more on track.  It was nice to see the show keep a bit of the breaking the 4^th wall aspect as Maria talked directly to the narrator at one point, but it didn’t have a single parody or reference.  The first season was partially known for the sprinklings of various pop-culture/otaku parodies, camios, and references, yet this episode had not a single one (at least that I noticed).  The episode was mainly focused around a school race in which Nagi bet Hayate’s job on her winning the race, a risky bet for our manga and video game obsessed NEET ojou-sama.  Hayate carries her through most of the race, but Nagi endures the end by herself only to have the race end in a very hilarious way involving our favorite Hayate no Gotoku teacher.  The OP is a mediocre J-Pop song and while the ED isn’t that much better it’s at least dedicated completely to Hinagiku, one of the shows most popular characters, so that’s sure to please some fans.

Phantom – Requiem for a Phantom

I feel this can be the series to redeem Bee Train in my eyes.  I’ve only seen parts of 2 of Bee Trains previous works, half of El Cazador and a quarter of Tsubasa Chronicles, both of which were very mediocre and had my doubt Bee Train’s animation abilities.  They may have changed that view drastically as Phantom’s first episode was absolutely beautiful with some great looking action.  Being that this is the first episode of a mystery/thriller series the first episode is completely filled with cryptic dialogue and mysterious circumstances.  The main character that we know only as Zwei was apparently a japanese tourist who was abducted and inflicted with amnesia because he is apparently some sort of assassin prodigy.  He is then teamed up with another assassin named Ein and the two of them carry out an assassination mission together.  The people behind this seem to be a group named Inferno who’s plans are known now to only be create some kind of new world order.  That’s pretty much everything we know at this point in time.  One I’ll definitely be keeping my eye on.

Queen’s Blade

If there was ever a show that just perfectly personified the concept of “so bad it’s good”, this just might be it.  The story centers around some sort of tournament called Queen’s Blade where female warriors will battle for the position of queen yada yada yada.  You won’t be watching this for the story as it’s a paper thin reason for busty and underdressed women (busty and underdressed being understatements in this case) to battle each other.  The main character is a woman named Leina who is the middle daughter of a noble family who has fled from her home.  As she’s traveling she comes across a demon woman named Melona, who’s hair forms hands to cover her breast and can then squeeze her breasts to shoot acid out of her nipples (you see why it can be so bad and so hilarious yet?).  The two of them battle with Melona having the overwhelming advantage.  Leina was only able to survive due to a busty bandit named Risty who saved her at the last second, but not before the battle had left Leina completely naked aside from her thong.  Risty brings Leina back to her home to gather the reward for returning Leina and is in turn put into the dungeon for being a wanted criminal.  While there Risty escapes and proceeds to rob the castle.  While trying to escape Leina protects Risty from being caught and in return Risty gives Leina one of her spoils, a very scanty set of armor.  It’s around here that Melona makes another appearance and fights Leina again.  Aside from the fact that all the characters have tits twice the size of my head and armor that covers only about 5% of their bodies, the character designs are actually very nice looking and clean.  This show is really trying to walk the line between hentai and ecchi with boobs galore, acid spitting nipples and even 2 visible instances of Leina wetting her pants in fright.  But some of the things that happen are just so amazingly absurd and retarded that they just can’t help but to be freaking hilarious.  For example, Leina’s method of finally beating Melona was to tackle her and cover Melona’s boobs so that the acid that Melona tried to shoot built up in her tits causing them to expand greatly and finally burst.  No clue who came up with this stuff, but………..wow……….just wow.  I really have to watch this to see what kind of crazy shit they try to pull off.  I mean if they can pull off acid shooting nipples and the exploding tits in the very first episode who knows what absolutely absurd shit will happen.

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So recently I attended my first anime convention seeing as Anime Boston takes place only a 10-15 minute walk from my college’s campus (lucky me).  I only went for the saturday as I didn’t really feel like going from work and the main events I wanted to see were happening on Saturday anyway.  But as much fun as it sounds to go to an anime convention this wasn’t the best way to be introduced to anime conventions.  One word: lines.  Now here’s my experience at Anime Boston. 

So I wake myself up at 9:30 that Saturday morning cause I wanted to leave around 10 and get there relatively early.  The main event I was going to see was the live concert by the pillows, one of my favorite bands, but I was gonna check out all the various panels they had as well.  The concert was set to take place at 3pm so getting there a little after 10 I had figured I would have plenty of time to register and check out some panels and the dealer’s room before hand.  As I’m walking to the Hynes Convention Center through Prudential I’m already getting into the feeling and mindset of the convention as I walk by cosplayers heading in the same direction.  I made my way towards the registration area and noticed quite a long line.  It didn’t look quite bad from where I was, but the hallway was deceptively long.  Then I get to the end of the hallway and find out that isn’t even half of the line.  The line spread out into a large warehouse like area and weaved back and forth a good 10 times.  So I get in the back of the line cause there wasn’t much else I could do thinking the worse it could be is a 2 hour wait, maybe 2:30.  I bust out my DS with Advanced Wars to take up some time only to find out that I had forgotten to charge my DS so it was already on red.  I was able to get 2 full campaign missions in before it died, but that was far from the amount of time it took to get out of the line.  The rest of the time all I could do was wait and look at the cosplayers waiting in line.  Wasn’t much else to do since I was alone.  Well after 2 hours of waiting I was still a good hour away from even getting out of the warehouse area I mentioned.  It ended up taking a full 5 hours to register.  All the time I was in behind this one group of people who, for the most part, weren’t bad and I actually had a nice chat with the dad when his kids and their friends ran to grab some food to bring back. The annoyance was one of his sons who was cosplaying as an akatsuki member.  He just got more and more annoying as time went by cause he would run up to any other akatsuki cosplayer, of which I realized is a very over-cosplayed set of characters.  I wanted to slap him multiple times, but refrained for obvious reasons.  Then after about 3 hours of waiting in line this little girl came out of nowhere and joined the group in front of me.  I don’t think she actually knew them, but just used her cuteness to sneak in line.  Have to give her props for that at least.  The problem with her was she would try to hug almost every single cosplayer that walked by.  It would be like a sneak attack pounce and it got extremely annoying being behind them for 2 hours.  But even the 5 hours I waited in the regular registration line was not as bad as Friday.  I heard that the pre-registration line was 5 hours long while the registration line was 8-10 hours long.  Needless to say many people were angry at their inefficiency.  When I got to the front to register they had 5 computers running for people to enter their info in and only 2 people to take money and hand out badges.  Not a speedy way to get things done.

But as I said before the best way to really kill time in line was to check out all the cosplayers and there were quite a fe that were pretty good and I realized how over-cosplayed some are, mainly Naruto, Bleach, and Death Note.  I guess that’s to be expected though.  At that point it became only the more obscure/less popular cosplays that caught my eye or the really good ones if they were popular.  Ex. I saw what I thought was the best Soi Fan cosplay.  She had her hair done perfectly with the sword hanging horizontally on her back.  It was just about perfect.  Then with her was probably the only Dragonaut cosplayer at the entire convention since he was cosplaying as Howling Star.  Some other good, rarer cosplays I saw were a group of 3 girls and a guy dressed as the characters from Air.  There was a Haruko and Naota pair.  Legato from Trigun.  I believe Nemu from Haibane Renmei, but I can’t exactly remember all the character names so it could have been another character.  I also found it surprising by the number of Vampire Knight cosplays I saw, namely Yuki.  I didn’t think I would see that many.  Kinda disappointed I didn’t see many Fate/Stay Night cosplays.  I saw 2 Archers, 1 Rin, and then only 1 Saber, and I didn’t even see the Saber at the convention.  I saw her sitting at a Starbucks outside the convention.  One of the best I saw though was a pair dressed as Aerith and Tifa of FFVII fame.  Not necessarily because of the quality of the cosplay, which was very good though, but because their bodies.  In simple terms, I wanted to plow them.  Especially the girl dressed as Tifa since she had an amazing body and Tifa’s clothes don’t really cover much thankfully.

Well that was more than the first half of my entire Anime Boston experience.  I hate lines.  By the time I got registered it was 3:30, but luckily the concert started 30 minutes late for whatever reason so I was able to make it just in time.  I then had to sit through the hour long performance of Luv & Response.  They were pretty bad as they were pretty much a japanese N’Sync with 2 guys replaced by hot asian chicks.  So it was just them dancing and singing most of the songs.  Not actual music played by them.  That type of thing just isn’t interesting to me and especially not the type of music.  After an hour of that it finally came time for the pillows.  To put it simply it was awesome.  I unfortunately had to sit up in the mezzanine and more on the side, but it was still fantastic and I loved it all.  They played songs from their newest full album, Wake Up! Wake Up! Wake Up!, and songs from FLCL as well as one new song.  When that ended I made sure to get in line quickly so I could buy myself a t-shirt and also their cd to help support a favorite band.  The best part of Anime Boston by leaps and bounds.

From there I thought I’d try just checking out some panels and the dealer’s room for the rest of the day before I leave.  First I went to the dealer’s room so I could browse and buy.  I had made sure to bring plenty of cash just for this.  Unfortunately by the time I got there it was a bit past 5:50, at which point I was informed they would be closing at 6.  Fuck.  I had no time at all and the only things I could manage to buy were volumes 14-16 of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle.  Didn’t get any good time to browse through and see what gems I could find.  Was very disappointed by all that.

When I came out of that there weren’t any panels going on until 7 that I really had any interest in going to see.  So I decided to just check out some of the video rooms.  They show different animes at all times during the convention pretty much.  First I check out the room where Samurai 7 was playing and watched the first episode of that.  From there I went to check out Last Exile.  I had heard it was good so I figured this was a good time to try it out.  I ended up watching the first 2 episodes of that which ended at about 7:20.  The ADV panel had been going on for 20 minutes at that point so I decided to check that out.  I missed all the beginning new info from ADV as I came in during the question/answer session, but it was still interesting to listen to.  Unfortunately this was cut short as I got a call from my friend whose birthday was today.  She called me wondering where I was since it was her birthday and we were having a small party at our place for her.  So after getting her call I just said fuck it to the rest of Anime Boston and headed on home. 

And that’s the whole thing.  Seems rather disappointing, doesn’t it?  Well that’s cause it was.  If it wasn’t for the pillows and the fact that it’s hard to know if I’d ever get another chance to see them live again the day would have been a lot more horrible most likely.  All thanks to the line.  All I have to say is next year I’m pre-registering, finding someone to go with me and picking up my badge on Thursday.  Inifintely easier.

Wow, that was a long post.

Edit:  Found a whole slide show of pictures and since I didn’t take any I’ll share these here.

http://media.myfoxboston.com/galleries/08/AnimeConvention/indexGallery.htm

There’s a really hot picture of some custom artwork of Hinata as well as a really hot Yuko cosplayer and Rikku cosplayer.  Unfortunately the Tifa cosplayer I was talking about isn’t shown.

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Well my new obsession continues with Tsubasa. After buying Vol.2-3 on Saturday I read both of them that night and bought Vol.4-5 Sunday….and then read both of them that night. Also bought xxxHolic Vol.2-5 Sat and Sun, but I haven’t gotten around to reading those yet, though I’ll probably read a volume or so after I finish this up. But this really sturred up all my interest in Clamp right now. I’ve started looking into some of their other works now. I was looking at some things for X (X/1999) and I may check that out soon, though it’s disappointing that the manga stopped in 2003 and hasn’t come back. Also looked at Chobits and am actually downloading a torrent for it right now (20% Yea!). And before that I downloaded the first season of Tsubasa Chronicle. Haven’t gotten around to watching any of that yet cause I’ve been distracted by other shows. Continuing on with my recent obsession with always having a batch torrent of some series I downloaded Scrapped Princess, GunxSword, and BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad on Saturday and Sunday. Only watched the first episode of Scrapped Princess and GunxSword, but I’ve been obsessed with BECK and the music from it. I watched 8 episodes straight last night until 2am. It’s a pretty awesome series.

There’s something about the characters that just seems so realistic and there’s ways you can relate to them and there’s characters you can respect. I have a lot of Respect for Saku for what he does concerning the social outcasting Koyuki was recieving when they first met. He was a transfer so he didn’t know about the situation really, but even when he found out he didn’t give 2 shits. He met with the assholes when they confronted him and was even the first to throw a punch. He doesn’t bow down to fuckhead bullies like them. He knows he can’t win, but he still fights anyway and takes the beating. Also love Maho and her relationship with Koyuki. The 2 of them just feel like they have such great chemistry with each other like when they were singing Follow Me on stage and then doing the duet of Moon on the Water while skinny dipping in the pool. But I’m right at a point where Koyuki did some dumb shit and made Maho cry cause he was hanging out with Izumi in the very pool that him and Maho had that special duet.

But then there’s the music in BECK, which was probably the first thing to catch my attention. Whether you like the series or not probably depends on whether you like the style of music. It’s a lot of punk/rock music. When I here the band BECK perform they actually kinda remind me of Rage Against the Machine a lot, at least that’s what always comes to mind. Especially when they play “by her (ENDLESS TRAVELING MAP). The show also has great OPs and EDs by the Beat Crusaders and meister, though I think i like DyeBreed’s version better. One song though that I was listening to over and over and over again was the song “Follow Me” by a fake band from BECK called Rocket Boys. They are suppose to be a band that started up after the Beatles so they have that kind of British rock style. I’ve listened to 3 versions of it so far, the one by the Rocket Boys, the cover by Beat Crusaders, and the duet by Maho and Koyuki from the show. All are good, but I don’t know if I like Rocket Boys or Beat Crusaders doing it. Either way give it a listen. And then go try BECK. I’m kinda curious as to how BECK works as a manga. It seems like it would lose out on a lot with out being able to actually hear the songs they perform and get inspiration from. Though I can only assume it’s good since it does well and I think is at 30 volumes in Japan. And now I leave you with “Follow Me” by the Rocket Boys, I guess. Not sure since they are a fake band.

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I walked on over to the Prudential Center today after I woke up, so after noon at some point, mainly to go to Barnes&Noble. I wanted to buy some more Tsubasa and xxxHolic since I finished reading the two volumes I bought earlier in the week. And since I was there I figured I’d check out the Gamestop at Prudential as well. I was looking at the DS games they had and saw the newest Ace Attorney game. I had never played any of the games in the series before, but I’ve heard pretty good things about it so I decided to look for one of the earlier games used so I could get it relatively cheap. The only one I saw was Trials and Tribulations, but I didn’t care much. Didn’t even know which one that was in the series. So I bought that and didn’t try it out till later. I was playing the first mission and actually found it to be rather entertaining and engaging. But then it got to a point where it asked me to save cause I was at a checkpoint. Obviously I choose yes, but then I’m met with a “Save Failed” message. Lovely. My game is corrupted. I can’t load the save that was on it previously or save a new game. Guess I’m making another trip over to the Prudential Center again tomorrow. At least the day wasn’t all bad cause I did walk away with Vol 2-3 of Tsubasa and Vol 2-3 of xxxHolic. I’m not gonna be surprised if I come back tomorrow with another volume or 2. It really has become my crack. The cashier also asked me if I was gonna go to the convention later in the month (Anime Boston, since it takes place in the Hynes Conv. Center which is attached to Prudential) after ringing up my several volumes of manga. To which I said yes and that I was really looking forward to a band that I really like since they are performing then. Only 3 weeks away.

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Going off from what I said in the last post, I was in a Clamp mood apparently and bought xxxHolic Vol.1 , which I loved the anime of, and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Vol.1, which I had never seen anything of before really.  First thing I have to say is I wish Barnes&Noble was open at 1am so I could walk there right now and buy Vol.2.  Luckily I get payed Thursday so I’ll probably buy a few more volumes.  Is this gonna be crack in paper/ink form for me?  Perhaps.  All three, Syaoran, Kurogane, and Fai, are great and entertaining characters from the very beginning.  Kurogane being the badass fighter who just wants to fight and get stronger, Fai some sort of magician wanting to get away from his world, and Syaoran just trying to save someone precious to him.  Of course at this point I don’t actually know what’s happened to Sakura and such, but I would be surprised if I did know that after only 5 chapters.  Fai and Kurogane seem to play off each other so well from the get go as a perfect comedy duo with Fai’s calm, playful, and cheerful demeanor and Kurogane’s more aggressive, yet easily agitated behavior.  Complete opposites.  Then we have Syaoran who is a character that’s impossible to like in every single way as he willfully and sincerely gives anything so that he save Sakura, the person most precious to him, even if that means she won’t ever remember him again.  Then there’s the art and characters, which I love.  I fell in love with the character designs of Clamp when I was watching xxxHolic and Code Geass.  God, why do I feel that this is gonna be a huge killer on my wallet, but lucky me I finally have money from my job, unlike a few months ago when I had maybe $20 to my name.  No doubt I’m gonna make a walk over to B&N tomorrow at some point, if not then definitely this weekend.  My roommates aren’t gonna be home for the most part anyway so I’ll have plenty of time to read (and work on my scans ).

Now I have to decide whether it will be worth it to watch part of the anime.  I mean I plan on downloading the first season, but after I finish at the least with the parts it covers.  But I’m kinda iffy on the second season judging from what I’ve heard.  It seems to be a lot of fillers and almost no story so would it even be worth it to watch it?  Leave a comment with what you think about that to help me decide cause I don’t know what I want to do.

Well that’s it for now.  See, I guess I’m gonna get really into this whole “blogging” thing about anime and manga and just whatever randomness pops into my head.

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I’ve had this blog set up for a few days, but I’ve just never gotten around to doing it. Didn’t use the previous version either much. I think I only ever made a single post on that before I just let it sit there. I’m usually just never sure what I should be writing about. I’m gonna try and make this an anime blog primarily (makes sense I figured), but I might post my random ramblings I have or tell fun stories of the happenings in my apartment, which there seem to be plenty. For the anime blog part of it I think I want to try focusing on reviews/recommendations of series I feel are under appreciated and aren’t being watched, ex: Sketchbook, Manabi Straight, Kaiji, Hatenkou Yugi. Hopefully I’ll find time to write about these and other shows, but those will probably come first as they were the first things I thought of.

Today though was pretty annoying cause for no goddamn reason one of the ear buds of my earphones stopped working. What made this worse was they weren’t even a month old yet. What made it even worse was they were a $30 pair of earphones. Fortunately though I was lucky enough to have kept the original packaging as well as the receipt cause I was able to go to Radioshack and exchange them hassle free for a brand new pair. Still annoying cause it was drizzling the whole time as I walked to Radioshack. Some more did come of it though. Since I was already out I figured I’d make a stop off at Barnes&Noble to maybe read a gaming magazine since I don’t get subscriptions anymore and they don’t bother you if you just sit there and read a whole magazine cover to cover. It’s pretty awesome. I used to do it once a month or so last year, but now I’m going off on a tangent, back to my point. As I usually do I ended up going to the manga section and browsing through what they had. It’s been few months since I had last done this so there were a couple new things, but whereas I usually leave empty handed, I made a change. I just decided to grab Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 1 and while I was in a Clamp mood I also grabbed xxxHolic Vol. 1. I’ve at least seen the xxxHolic anime before, but I’ve never read or seen anything of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle before (aside from a few episodes of season 2 that Dattebayo subbed while ago, but from I’ve heard of season 2 it’s pretty much all boring filler stuff and I don’t even remember what I saw aside from something about a race). Well I’ll just have to see if it was a good preemptive buy or not when I finally read it. I have a feeling I’m gonna like it though.

I don’t know why, but my new way to kill time at work has started being ANN reviews.  I’ll just go down to the Random Fun reviews which change every time you go to a different page or refresh and read the ones I’ve seen before or ones that look interesting or ones that I have thought about seeing.  Very fun way to pass time.  I’ve also noticed something about the ANN reviews.  I’ve only been able to find a single review of a DVD (since most of the reviews are based per volume of manga or anime, instead of a series as a whole) that has received A+ in all categories.  That would be the last DVD of RahXephon.  It lists it’s only negative as “you may like it too much” and I honestly have to agree.  It’s one of my favorite animes and deserves the A+, but it’s just interesting that this was the ONLY DVD or GN review that I’ve ever seen with a perfect score in all categories.  In other words go see it if you haven’t yet, subbed or dubbed since both are excellent.  I have it in dual audio so I can do either one whenever I want.

So I didn’t think I was actually gonna end up writing this much at all when I first started typing, but it seemed to have turned into this before I knew it. Maybe I’ll end up really getting into this whole “blog” thing. Who knows.

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