How do you blog ?

So I constantly neglect this blog. I always say I want to be consistent with it, make more posts, blah blah blah. One of the areas that gets in my way of blogging, aside from my World Of Warcraft and other online gaming addiction and sometimes school, is convenience.

Too many times have I been some place, like work for example, that there has been something I wanted to write about, but just do not have the means or opportunity to write then and there. I remember reading how Dannychoo would write things up on his iphone or laptop (can’t exactly remember which, but iphone seems like the more likely to me) and post them up later we he had a connection to do so, if he didn’t already. Something I could possibly do with my G1 phone, although wifi connections in my neck of the woods are few, and often encrypted, and my 3g is even more limited and actually non existent in my neighborhood (edge ftl).

So anyways, what are some of the things you as a fellow blogger do ?

Fairy Tail Disappointment

So I just thought I would voice my disappointment with the new Fairy Tail anime since I have yet to do so. I imagine there is a horde of others like myself that have already done so.

I was very excited for this one. Turns out I probably shouldn’t have. The animation is very bleh. The voice acting, AMAZING seiyu cast. Unfortunately, I think they were casted for the wrong rolls. (Kugimiya isn’t playing a tsundere!? Is that legal?) Maybe a part of the problem is that Fairy Tail feels so much like a One Piece clone that I feel some of the roles should be voiced to their one piece counter parts. (like Natsu-Luffy). I digress though.

Anyways, I still plan to hang with this for a bit to see if there is improvement. But I am not going to set myself up for further disappointment by getting my hopes up.

BOOBS!

Well I still mean to do more of an episode to episode basis of some shows, but with fall season, there is too much to check out and report on I suppose. Like I was really gonna follow through on what I say here anyways. lol. But I think most other amateur bloggers can relate. But anyways, 3 series for this post, because well, there is kind of a theme going on with these 3. I bet you can’t figure it out !!

So first on the list is Kampfer.

boobs

Not too bad a show so far (on episode 2). Well I dunno, it could be pretty mediocre actually, but there is a pretty good seiyu cast in this series. The show also goes so far as to basically brag about it in the script. Example –

/fanboy

Anyways, plot is boy wakes up as girl. Boy finds out he turns into a girl for some battle thing from a stuffed doll. Boy… err girl, battles other girls for some unknown reason. Boy has girl he likes. Liked girl is yuri for his secret female alter ego. Kinda basic, basically. But since Nana and Mamiko are in this one, I will add my stamp of approval.

Now we warm up with the theme a little bit with season 2 of Koihime !!!

boobs

There are better cleavage shots than this one. But Bachou is what I would consider a rarity. Anyways I wont bother with saying to much on this show. It’s just more koihime. Oh, but we now have the real Ryubi Gentoku here. She is pretty, umm… dense. Very moe, but still not at a competitive saimoe loevel.

And finally, the anime that is the best example for this theme we got going here. Season 2 of Queens Blade.

boobs

Episode 1 had a field day with the bare breastedness. Episodes 2 and 3 not as much. But they are there. anyways, I didn’t really pay much attention to anything in this show aside from boobs. I think there is some kind of fighting competition going on or something. I’m not sure. Too many distractions.

Nogizaka Haruka2, Bantora, Otoshimono

As usual I have the obligation to review the new anime season. I plan to try and do my reviews a bit differently than I have before. I find that my system of watching a number of series and than writing about a number of them into one post to be a bit, well, less interesting than say if I were to focus on 1 series/episode and have more of a discussion about it. However I am not going to do this in this post. Hopefully this will be the last of it’s kind !

Nogizaka Haruka s2 – <3 Haruka. but anyways, it's the same thing as the first season really. We have been introduced to a new maid though, Alice. She's the loli type. The loli type who is shy. The loli type who is shy and is very violent and packs a powerful punch !!!

Book of Bantorra – Semi promising series. I am not expecting it to be great or anything like that. But I think this will be one worth watching. It's a very unique series too. Unique in the fact that it's quite random. People turn into books when they die ! wtf is that about !? Whatever though, I can dig it. It's crazy enough to get me interested. If not for this though, I am sure I probably wouldn't see the show as promising.

Sora no Otoshimono – Same old unoriginal crap. It's shows like this one that make me wonder when I will stop liking anime. I will give it a few more eps, but I find the series to be rather unappealing. This show is about as exciting and creative as a really bad naruto hentai doujin ( or other popular series) without the sex. AHHHH ! Sasuke x Naruto x Neji x Gara !!!! *gag*

Oh and I apologize about the lack of visual aid. I watched these series at Crunchyroll and have yet to devise an idea as to how to take screencaps of shows. You should watch these shows here too, if you don’t already. Help support the anime industry !

On the crunchyroll note, things are going hyperspeed there !!! They are picking up so many simulcasts! They have already announced about a dozen NEW fall season simulcast, and still announcing more. This only adds to what they already have!.

Winging it

Just wing it

So this post isn’t about Gundam Wing. Although I did enjoy this one back in high school so many years ago. But here’s my story….

So last week I was a no show for my speech class ( I had my reasons!). Anyways, being a good student though, I sent an email to my teacher saying I would be absent about 2 hours before class at 6am. (Class is 8am-Noon on saturdays btw). Well some time passes, and I do not hear back from my teacher, but I find my syllabus the other day, so I knew what chapters I was expected to read this week, so I read them. However I find out we are supposed to have this storytelling assignment speech. So not knowing the details of this assignment, I am unable to do it.

Well I go into class this morning, have a word with my teacher. Turns out there is a problem with his receiving email, so he never got my email ! Anyways I let him know I don’t have this storytelling assignment, and don’t know the details as I wasn’t here the week before. Well he lets me know the speech is to read a published story to the class in a 6 minute time frame. He grants me the time in which others are doing theirs to find one for myself to do. The school library is closed. So I had a couple options, 1) the internet or 2) My Literature book which I was lucky to not have taken out of my backpack despite not having lit today. WIN!

So I picked out the least “offensive” story I could, which was James Joyce “Araby”. I fumbled pretty badly trying to read it as I stood in front of the class. I am one of those people that have problems with moving from line to line. A common problem I am sure.

Anyways I expected to get a 0 this morning, but since I was able to go in and “wing it”, I am quite sure I got a higher score than that. GO TEAM VENTURE !! (well not really a team effort here, but still felt appropriate to shout)

Geek Socialization

Well now the UCD is back in session, their anime club, which is open to the general non UCD public, is as well. It’s nice to get out and socialize with people with similar interest and geek out, OUT! During the club we just kick back for a couple hours in a class room and watch anime on the projector. Usually after the meeting, we meet up somewhere. For example after Wednesdays meetings, we have the habit of going to a local crepe shop and set up laptops and LAN while eating delicious food =D

Think I might have to take my less than awesome canon powershot a590 and take some pictures to post here sometime within the next few meetings. It would be nice if I could get a higher quality camera though. It would be nicer if I could even photograph things better too, lol.

So anyways, being that this was the first meeting of the school year, a few of us were extremely surprised to see the amount of new faces there. Someone was obviously doing a great job of spreading the word to the new freshmen on campus. I do have to admit though, it’s a little weird being around so many people about 10 years my “kouhai”. The majority of the weirdness though I think stems from the fact that 10 years ago, I wasn’t young enough to get so swept up into that pokemon craze as they were, if you catch my drift. Regardless of some taste in anime, it’s great to get out and socialize over otaku hobbies rather than talk about them over the internet. Not that I have anything against you people…. =p

So any of you do anything similar for a IRL geek out socializing ?

Work!

I think I read a webcomic about myself on xkcd

Although it’s not that I don’t really have anything to write about. It’s just that I haven’t bothered making much time. Because you see, on top of school, I now have a job !!! Yes, unemployed no longer after these past 13 months. Wooo. Who says 13 isn’t a lucky number. The job is not the greatest. I work for a former employer (a pizza joint) doing deliveries in Davis, which is less than a 10 minute drive away. It’s a pretty good place to deliver in too. Davis is a college town. College town means lots of cute college girls. UC Davis is the university I plan to attend once I finish knocking out my transfer admissions out.

So anyways schedule is getting a bit hectic, and I haven’t even started my full course loads yet. (I am so gonna be crying bloody murder when that happens this spring. Thankfully I am getting the English out of the way before then.)

So it’s mid september now. That means once again, a new anime season is upon us. Queens Blade starts back up again in the middle of next week. Yay for boobies animes. We also got some more Nogizaka Haruka as well as the index spin off. There is also MORE Inuyasha !! Can’t say I am actually excited for it, but I am some what floored by just now finding out about it.

As far as new anime content goes Tatakao Shisho looks nice, but I am a fan of the Fairy Tail manga.

Anyways I’d love to get into this some more, but I got a ton of homework to do.

Everyone else is doing it. So why can’t I ?

And that is blog about Black Rock Shooter anime.   Well actually I am NOT, but it is related.

This past weekend was the great event “Animelo” which is held in yearly in Japan.  Unfortunately I am not lucky enough to blog about being there.  However there is some footage on the internet of the Hatsune Miku “performance”.   It’s kind of weird for such a live, but they did it.  Anyways, getting back on track, the performance consisted of the popular Miku song “Black Rock Shooter”.  At the end of her performance we are treated to some sneak peaks of the recently announced anime for Black Rock Shooter. For your viewing pleasure, I will embed the youtube copy of the performance. Be warned the quality sucks as it was likely footage from someones camera. It’s also kind of loud.

What is the deal with Black Rock Shooter anyways ? I know about the Miku song. I have seen the character art and some very awesomely hot cosplay pictures. I hope I never see a bad one, but once the anime is released, I am sure I will see one of those *ahem* “bad” cosplays you see people doing “wrong”.

Back on the animelo subject, I can’t find anymore footage from the show. I really want to see the performances from Horie Yui, Nana Mizuki, and Kenji Ohtsuki with the Zetsubou Shojo Taichi. Guess I will have to wait until the DVD release (i hope there is a dvd like there was for last years) around spring time.

In non anime related news, Blizzcon was also this past weeked. There was some very good cosplay there. Especially from a blood elf rogue cosplaying beauty named Jojo. I was also impressed with a very good Kelthuzad cosplay. That costume was so crazy, the man had two people helping him to get around.

Aside from the cosplay, there was some very big news (of course!) regarding Diablo III, Starcraft 2, and you guessed it, World of Warcraft. The news of the next expansion was literally earth shattering. As in, if you have yet to hear, the World of Azeroth will experience a cataclysmic destruction (Hell, the name of the expansion is cataclysm!) which will rip apart lands, flood shores, and scorch earth. If you want to read more about this, MMO-Champion is the place to go. You could also just go to the world of warcraft website too. Here is a video promo for it.

For Diablo III and Starcraft 2 news were nowhere near as epic as the WoW stuff. However Diablo III announced another new class, The Monk. This guy sounds freaking awesome. Crazy combos, and some very brutal fatality styled combat. And in Starcraft 2 news, smoking battlestar galactica/Burno Notice hottie, Tricia Helfer was announced as the voice of the character, Kerrigan.

Well there is my weekend wrap up. Now I have to go and write a response or two about some Shakespeare poems. This should prove to be difficult for me, because I have met homeless crackheads in front of the 711 who made more sense in their “philosophical” ramblings and praises of king cobra. This should be my first stepping stone into linguistics I suppose.

Before I go, I live you with an epic performance from last years animelo.
Mad respect for Yoshiki. And Maka na Chikai is just so god damned epic for some reason.

it’s my birthday today!

It really is.  Not that I am happy about getting older, as I am not far from 30.  UGH.

However I love the spoiling that comes with birthdays.  (e.g. money and free meals)

This past weekend I had my party.  It wasn’t quite the bash I was hoping for, as there were a few flakes and nearly everyone could only stay but an hour or two.   However the food was great, and though my big LAN idea turned out to be just my cousin and I, we had a blast playing some battlefield heroes together.

I recommend checking the game out btw. It is FREE. It is also perhaps one of the funner fps games I have played.

I recommend playing Battlefield Heroes too.

Summer Anime First look pt 2.

Wish I had could be a little more creative with the post, but whatever.
Watched the other animes I said I was going to check out in pt 1.  Here is how they stand with me.

Elementhunters – BLEH I don’t think I even really finished the ep to be honest. I got about 15-20 minutes into it, but I just couldn’t bother hanging for the last few minutes of this anime. No plans to continue watching this.

Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou – Watchable, but I don’t see myself sitting in anticipation for the new eps weekly. This show is being simulcasted on crunchyroll btw. So if I did sit in anticipation, I would have a reliable source to get almost as soon as the show airs on Japanese television.

Sora no Manimani – It’s one of those fun high school filler type comedies. Homeboy moves back to town he used to live in during his early child hood. He has a childhood “friend”, who loves astronomy, is very “energetic” and quite “forceful”. She pushes our bookworm male protagonist into joining the astronomy club where hilarious hi jinks will obviously ensue.

Princess Lover! – The summer harem anime of choice. Easy going samurai boy is suddenly submerged into the rich elegant lifestyle of the rich and famous. This lifestyle change also puts our hero into the complicated situation of many love choices. If I were him though, I would stick with Sylvia.

Sylvia Van Hossen

Canaan – I have only watched the first ep of this one so far, but I plan to catch up sometime this weekend. But so far, this anime seems pretty good. Chicks with guns. Me likey.

Bakemonogatari- I don’t even know how to describe this one. A bit supernatural I suppose. I have yet to see ep 2+ though (just like canaan) but first impression is a good one. I will look forward to watching the next couple eps when I get some hard drive space this weekend. (wouldn’t it be awesome if hard drive space was “infinite”? )

Anyways I would have to say my top 3 choices so far would be Princess Lover ( I am officially declaring my sylvia fanboyism right here btw), Spice and Wolf and Canaan.