Sometimes, late at night, when I should have long since gone to bed, I instead go on endless image-hunts. Trawling across image-boards for whatever strikes my fancy. Often they come in use for blog posts but more often then not I have no use for them whatsoever. Because these hunts are undertaken so late at night, my brain isn’t exactly functioning properly and the next morning I tend to forget I’ve gone on one of these late-night trawls. Much like a college student forgetting about a previous night’s party until he looks at his camera and finds pictures of himself in a lap-dancing club with some transvestites, the evidence of these hunts only comes apparent when I open my image folder the next day. I’ve just taken a bunch of pictures for the latest episodic post but when I go to inspect the screencaps, I’m also greeted with a picture of a whale wearing Alucard’s hat.
Occult Academy episode 4
First of all, props to those who of you who instantly saw through Uchida’s fabricated story about why he was picked as the time agent. I thought he had the appearance of a cool guy and was only ever shown up otherwise when Maya was in the picture. Turns out he was a massive loser all along, although at least he still had his fashionable Hawaiian shirt. I suppose this also goes some way to explain why he was so lackadaisical about his duty. It bugged me at how quickly he lost interest in his task of finding the Nostradamus Key. I wouldn’t class someone who is banging on the door shouting ‘let me out’ as someone who had a high job satisfaction rating. His initial enthusiasm for his task was most likely him convincing himself mid-flight that he was the saviour of humanity (he seems like the kind of guy who’d trick himself like that) but hearing his mums voice, amongst other things, drained his enthusiasm pretty early on.
Watch the abridged version of Black Rock Shooter
Black Rock Shooter can be described as Casshern Sins X K-ON. The two parts of the show don’t intermingle though. The other-worldly, Casshern Sins esque place doesn’t crossover with the s’life parts. You’ll have a long scene involving two girls doing what they always do in anime followed by a scene of a girl in a black string bikini fighting another girl with horns and chains. The relationship between these two worlds is pretty obvious from the off and there’s no dramatic plot twist at the end. Essentially you could watch just the other-worldly action scenes and still have a perfectly intact story and a far better anime. Let me explain.
No longer the newbie and the latest generation of anime fans
Hey Scamp, do you have a MAL account? I’m curious as to what these new “youtube generation” fans are into these days.
I had always seen myself as the latest generations of anime fans. Not an incorrect assumption either. I only started watching anime mid-2007. The Youtube Generation was symbolised by the ever-present and easy access of every and any anime thanks to the rampant presence of illegal streams, normally on Youtube (in fact, you could look at the progress of the Youtube generation through which streaming sites they used. Youtube to Veoh to Megavideo to what next?) You could also call it the MAL generation in how the focus changed from a small amount of anime being precious to focusing on consuming as much anime as possible. But, more importantly for the purpose of this post, it was the latest generation. This meant that everything that is, always was. A description of a show remained the same. Fan opinion of certain anime remained the same, because that’s what they were always like in my memory of fandom. However it appears the next generation has arrived.
No anime is dropped forever: Macross Frontier
There’s no point in running these ‘no anime is dropped forever’ posts if I don’t actually watch the anime featured. So here we go again, with Macross Frontier.
Hetalia World Series episode 16
Yeah I’m still blogging this show.
I said what my plans for with Hetalia back in this post but I’m sure many of those who read my Hetalia posts don’t read any other posts. Certainly not a boring status update anyway. What I’m doing from now on is following the Hetalia subs done by Rumbel Subs, who also happen to provide DDL for those of you who hate torrenting. I realise that means I’m about 2 episodes behind the regular releases but that’s preferable to raging over the other subs that are available. Now what could happen is that very few people read these posts because I’m a few weeks behind but I’m hopeful that that won’t happen. The only thing I do plan to change is include a brief description of what happened in the episode to remind those of you who are a few episodes ahead which episode this was. Hetalia episodes have a tendency to mesh together in your head anyway, what with the total lack of cohesion between them.
Right, enough of that, back to blogging!
Occult Academy episode 3
I’m a bit unsure on how to review this episode. Part of it was taken up with Maya trying desperately to advance the plot but with nobody else seemingly paying attention to it, most notably her sidekick Uchida spending the episode flirting with the cute waitress. There were some witty parts in there but it was mainly pretty dumb stuff. Guy likes boobs. Girl is moe. Guy likes it whenever girl touches guy. A lack of this shows poster girl, Maya, really didn’t help either. However there’s something going on with all this that makes actually being harsh on this episode difficult and it all depends on whether the stuff I’m reading into is true or not. Basically, is this show as smart as I think it is?
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