lucky star

So I'm 3.5 eps. into Lucky Star and it's pretty good. Apparently a lot of people think it's the funniest anime ever, but so far I have to disagree. I can't believe just how much like Konata I am. Here's a brief rundown of some of the reasons why:

(1) Procrastination: (a) not studying until the very last minute; (b) cleaning when it's time to study; (c) taking a "break" from studying to watch anime/read manga/play games that lasts all day; (d) staying up late while taking a break and planning to get up early to finish, but sleeping late anyway.

This is me right now!

(2) General otaku characteristics: (a) (i) manga, (ii) anime, and (iii) games; (b) collecting related merchandise (like TCGs, but not playing them)

(3) Being late to or skipping class b/c of (2)(a)

(4) Being the most otaku-ish person I know


(5) Anime/Manga convention attendance (although I've only been to Anime Expo)

So, since I can relate at least to Konata so well, I like the anime so far.

minami-ke +

Well, I had forgotten just how shitting writing could be until I finished a paper that was due today. School blows. Finals are now only ~2.5wks away and I have yet to begin studying. fuck it, i'm too lazy to care.


Minami-ke is pretty funny, 5 eps. in, so I'll keep watching it. hmmm.... what else is there to say? damn. ah well, fuck it. just watch it, このヤロウー！！！　（＾.＾） (how you like the face? pretty nice, eh?)

Welcome to the NHK

Ahh, to be a hikikomori. True, I'm fairly reclusive myself, but damn... And I'd be lying if I said I wasn't looking forward to shunning my classmates and holing myself up in my boarding house room for that month I'll spend in Tokyo this summer. (I really hope I too have a talking refrigerator!)

But seriously, if you haven't seen the anime or read the manga, go to the onemanga or whatever link over on the right side of this page and DO IT MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!!!

Now that you've read the manga, it's now time to DOWNLOAD THE ANIME MOTHERFUCKER!@!@@@!!!!!!

Alrighty then, now that you've finished, do I even need to write this? What the hell right? It's only 9pm and I still have like a ton of hw to do b/f tomorrow, so it's a great time to be doing this!

To start w/, the story's about a college dropout who's w/drawn from society and lives off of money sent to him by his parents. He has various adventures, including attempting to create and ero[tic] (or hentai) game, suffering abuse from an 18yr old high school dropout, and trying, unsuccessfully, to hook up w/ his high school senpai who pops pillz like dey waz candy ya hurd. (sorry, my ghetto slipped out.) anyway, it's probably the GODDAMN FUNNIEST MOTHERFUCKING anime/manga EVERRRR!!!!!! I mean, imagine power thirst, but funny . There ya go, biznitch.

So, anyway there might be some spoilers, so don't read any more if you don't want to. The ending in the anime was a hell of a lot better. This is my primary complaint. It seems like the mangaka just didn't have time to bring the series to a proper conclusion. I mean, in the anime, Satou was on the verge of starvation and was forced to finally get out of his apt. and get a job after Yamazaki left. The anime ended w/ Yamazaki back in Hokaido running the family farm and married and Satou working lame jobs and tutoring Misaki, who was back in high school. In the manga, on the other hand, it just ends w/ Satou saying how he and Misaki lived in the apartment for 2 weeks after Yamazaki left, how he tried to like Misaki, and how relationships just fall apart in time. Maybe I'm just a romantic (I am) who just prefers happy endings (I do). So the way the manga ended just sucked for me (like a $10 hooker...（・＿・） ... just kidding).

Anyway, the manga was better b/c it went a little farther w/ the humor. For example:

BUSTED!!!!

I'm still laughing at this part. I mean, it's totally fucking hilarious. I won't ruin the rest of this scene (cause I know of the 0 people that read this, 0 have read the manga).

Conclusion

So, anyway, the overall story is great b/c a lot of people (losers like me) can relate to Satou and adhere to much of the philosophy caricatured in NHK. That's what it all comes down to - a decent point of view that is portrayed in a most hilarious and entertaining fashion. That's why you should watch or read NHK ni Youkoso (aka NHK ni Yokoso, or Welcome to the NHK).

hmm...

No posts for months, eh? Ah well, wtf - it's not like anyone's reading this anyway. So to catch nobody up on what I've been doing since watching Tenjou Tenge, here's a list:

• watched a shitload of anime
• Black Lagoon (pretty damn good)
• Boys Be (lame, but tolerable)
• Code Geass (this anime is the 5H122L3)
• ef - a tale of memories (~5 eps. so far, and ok)
  
• Ergo Proxy (very damn good)
• Gedo Senki (good, but not as good as it should be coming from Ghibli)
• Great Teacher Onizuka (aka GTO - pretty funny, but annoying at the same time)
• Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora : looking up at the half-moon (i really liked this)
  
• Hana Yori Dango (aka Boys Over Flowers - i thought it was good for a while, but the animation blows and the story gets incredibly annoying so i haven't finished the series - at about ep. 34
  
• Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto: Someday's Dreamers (this was ok)
• Murder Princess (pretty good, especially considering that it doesn't seem to be very popular)
• RahXephon (this was quite good; the storyline was much deeper than i expected, but it's unnecessarily convoluted at times)
• Yume de Aetara (the series totally blows, but the OVA is much better)
• Zombie Loan (what was that, Jonathan Davis? Oh, "FUCK ALL THAT BULLSHIT!!")
  
• read some manga
• keeping up w/ Berserk, but Miura's incredibly slow - not that i'm really complaining
• also keeping up w/ Naruto, but only b/c i get bored in class on Mondays
• Welcome to the NHK! (i'm going to have to post separately about this - it's the first time i've ever thought that the anime was better than the manga)
  
• worked on a paper for school (but only a little - it's due Friday, so it's crunch time)
  
• avoided doing my homework
• decided to spend a month studying law in Tokyo this summer
• had 14 interviews w/ law firms and got 1 offer for a summer job
• i was starting to feel like Godai (Maison Ikkoku) there for a while - it took like 6 wks after the interview to get an offer

So you can see I've been pretty busy.

But wait, I know you're dying to ask "wtf's changed so that you've suddenly decided to grace the internet w/ more of your pointless babbling?" Well, it's b/c I have that damn paper due in 5 days and finals start in 3 wks. Instead of doing what I should be doing, I'm avoiding it. Procrastination is what I'm best at, after all. (i wonder if those losers interviewing me could tell...)

I haven't been keeping up w/ Bleach (anime) since the fillers. It was just too disappointing.

I also finished Tales of the Abyss - that game is FUKC1N6BA|)@$$ (maybe not, but it's pretty damn good).

So, i'll prolly post moar sooner rather than later yo.

Tenjou Tenge blows

I just finished Tenjou Tenge, and man does it suck. Several reasons for this:

1. Nagi's name may as well be Super Saiyan Goku (spiky blond hair + transformation + dragon nature)
   
2. There is no real ending (I mean how the hell can the series end b/f the fight they talked about for the last 4 eps. not even happen? I realize the manga is ongoing, but I don't give a shit about reading it after seeing the lame-ass anime.)
3. Aya looks like a deformed frog
4. It doesn't even show the conclusion of the fight b/t Aya and Maya (and this is a fight that takes place and apparently ends in ep. 24/26)
5. it doesn't adequately explain anything (example: the sword apparently was a way for Shin to control his power, but at the same time it causes him to slaughter everyone around)

The list isn't exhaustive by any means, but I was seriously disappointed. I suppose that means I expected something. I guess I did after seeing Nagi vomit through his nose after Masataka kicked his ass like a little bitch, so I at least expected the fighting to be tolerable. It was for the first 2 eps., but then it got completely lame.

There were a few funny parts, but no need to watch the series - the pics here show them.

btw, Seagate finally got me a replacement drive - 750GB for the 500GB I returned. Not bad.

wtf is up w/ KFC?

So I thought it was just random when I found a Col. Sanders reference in the Ranma manga (w/ the Col. Sanders effect), but now I just found another reference in Negima. What the hell's going on. It seems that the mangakas all seem to think Col. Sanders is somehow connected to the supernatural (note the rumbling as Col. Sanders towers above the characters in the foreground). Anyone have any idea wtf is going on w/ this? I had KFC in Tokyo once, and it was fucking disgusting.


That said, it was not as bad as the baby sparrow on a stick I got outside Fushimi Inari in Kyoto. wtf? I know yakitori means 'grilled bird,' but come on.

Lack of updates + Fable

Well, there would be more updates, but my 500GB drive w/ most of my anime died, so I'm waiting for a replacement.

I have, however, been playing Fable: The Lost Chapters and it is quite good. I made my character something like Ishida in Bleach. 3 reasons for the comparison: (1) there's an equivalent of the "shunpo" (flash step) that allows you to traverse a distance to end up behind the targeted opponent; (2) you can enchant your arrows, kinda like w/ "reiatsu" (spirit energy); and (3) just that you can be an archer, I guess (ok, so the last reason's pretty lame).

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