RETROBLOGGAN: Iriya No Sora Episode 2

I AM STILL GOING AT THIS HOLY SHIT ON A STICK

(At least I managed to cover 7 episodes of Gurren Lagann (The day before) and 2 Episodes of 08th MS Team before writing this. HAHA.)

RETROBLOGGING IS A MAN’S SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUL

AND NOW, THE GOODS.

Seriously, I don’t remember this show being so… … … WACKY. Or this insane. It’s still early (2 OF 6 IS NOT EARLY, IT’S CRAZY), and I guess Japan likes it’s non-traditional high-school hijinks (electronic warfare, high-speed bike chase and a FIGHT SCENE) rather than trying to get me depressed. Still, the show is rather pretty. (TOEI, PRETTY ANIMATION, MIND IS BLOWN)

…She joined the newspaper club because Naoyuki is there. I’m torn between thinking that this is the cutest thing ever or the most depressing thing ever.

Also, BONUS PIC!

This guy is nucking futs. Seriously.

Itou Noizi spotted buying Windows 7

Taken from here.

You know what? This is boring news.

Seriously.

Who cares about a graphic artist’s choice of OS?

And, as usual, no one will read here, even though I broke the news that Navel pretty much shut off it’s website to foreign IPs. I think.

Breaking News: Navel bans all foreign IPs from site

In what one might call the strangest twist of events (and a minor sense of irony), Navel (the softhouse responsible for one game only, Shuffle! LOL (NO TICK-TACK AND O RLY? YA RLY! DOES NOT COUNT AS ACTUAL GAMES)) has banned all foreign IPs from their site. Or something.

Will update when shit gets done.

Retrobloggan: Iriya No Sora, UFO no Natsu 1

I mentioned I was going to try doing episode summaries of old shows. I’ll be actively carrying out my threat. Yay me. Incidentally, this is one of my favorites.

Ironically, this episode turned out much differently from my first watching. I maintain that this show will give you epic depression, but from the first episode, you’d probably think I’m crazy. It was way too random save for the part where Iriya and Naoyuki took refuge into the airbase.

…And the episode kinda resumes the massive randomness after that. Thankfully, it gets a lot better/worse. Hopefully.

GO GO CURRY SINGAPORE

(Under the soon-to-be established MDA guidelines and most probably law, I am going to have to declare certain posts as advertorial, even though I’m not getting paid to do this. The curry is THAT GOOD. And I sure wish I was getting paid, because, you know, writing ads can be fun. If the product is good and all.)

Thanks to a timely tip and glowing recommendation from sdshamsel (better known as the owner and proprietor of OGIUE MANIAX, which claims to be 50% commentary and 50% Ogiue love, but it’s more like 60% philosophy talk, 20% fujoshi, and 20% Ogiue love, but that’s just me, I AM TOTALLY DOING LIBEL HERE), I kinda knew about the famous Japanese curry chain a bit before it set up shop.

A quick search gave me the location: ION Orchard.

…It just had to be at the newest shopping mall in town. I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN.

Ion Orchard is sure swanky, lemme tell you this. BUT ENOUGH ABOUT THAT.

To cut the story short, hamsel was right. The curry served at GO GO CURRY is not representative of Japanese Curry in general, but it sure is good.

…I might just come back for another round. And this time, I WILL HAVE PICS.

GO GO CURRY in Singapore is located at Ion Orchard Basement 4, Units 54-55. Just look for the store bright yellow on it. YOU CAN’T MISS IT. Or the gorilla logo.

Endless TITS.

And for the curious, yes, that is Nana Misuki and Tomokazu Seki voicing the characters.

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The Fail and Freefalling of Anime Blogging

Gee, how do I put this in a way that makes sense and get everyone to suck on my shiny metal dong. I mean, there are people¹ doing it, why shouldn’t I?

Call me an oldfag, but I do remember the past. When the biggest target there was, was (pun not exactly intended) Jason Miao², and the rest of them people didn’t jump in until this stuff EXPLODED. Man, that was fun, parodying Jason Miao, NERD RAGING at stupid things (for entertainment purposes), writing whatever the heck I felt, witty faux newsposts about people NERD RAGING over stupid things (with unintended victims actually finding their NERD RAGING hilarious sometimes³)…

Man, those were the days. Good times, good times.

Unfortunately, the good times are over. Where parody and silly good fun once reigned, bigotry, churlishness, and monkeys flinging poop at one another have come up in it’s place⁴. Also the massive sucking of dongs⁵ of people who exhibit said qualities.

I mean, it’s mildly amusing when trolls do it once, or maybe a few times, just to draw attention⁶ to something, but when it becomes a defining trait of a blog (or author, it may seem), and people AGREE with him blindly⁷ without checking on the intention of the author…

I mean, you just gotta take a few braincells and think. Really, really hard.

Is this what we really want in the end? A bunch of ego-satisfying writers with zero regard for promotion? People who can’t watch, review, and criticize animated Japtoons (so to speak) and only use said Japtoons to troll, fling poop and advance selfish agendas? (Okay, I’m guilty of advancing the Christian agenda at some point of time, but it’s not like people actually read the offending articles now, does it?)

It’s one thing to talk about banalities⁸, it’s a completely different matter to act like a colonial power and deem it your divine mission to ram your mode of thinking down people’s throats. Or forcing people to suck on your shiny metal dong, in this case. Even if you are right about many, many things.⁹

In short, anime blogging has become devoid of fun¹⁰, and has become a hive of scum and villainy. And Mos Eisely probably had cleaner floors¹¹.

notes

¹ At least one person, and it’s not Colony Drop (that’s at least 5 people, and no one likes them.). I’m talking about wildarmsheero and Owen S. And DarkMirage, if you so hail from sunny-ish Singapore.

² I blame the good doctor lolikitsune. God bless his trod stomach.

³ Specifically, Hinano and Kaioshin. The former actually laughed.

⁴ And have become “respected” members of the community. Respect being “you totally agree with my close-minded notions, therefore, you are BFF FOREVER” See: wildarmsheero and Owen S. Also, DarkMirage.

⁵ I swear on my mother’s beef bacon stew, This dong-sucking is going to be the death of us, if nothing gets done.

⁶ And Colony Drop does it with such embarrassing consistency and rate, it embarrasses SOME lower-class trolls.

⁷ On many, many occasions, latest one being here.

⁸ Like whether twintails or the hime-cut is better on your 2D female, for instance.

⁹ Sadly, wah is right about so many things, it actually disappoints me to know that he has NOT adopted the right attitude in doing so.

¹⁰ Or at least, something new and interesting, but not another troll. Fun is still an important thing, though.

¹¹ Also, Han Solo. Greedo never had a chance.

You know the crap has hit the fan when…

There’s a video of a rare parrot humping someone’s head¹ and THAT is more interesting than…

the retread, overwhipped, rotting, stinking dead horse coming your way² and…

when another animeblogging shitstorm³ is decidedly less interesting AFTER thinking about it for a little bit and realizing that any response would fail to entertain or inflame, since the issue is so PANTS ON HEAD RETARDED.

That, my friends, is how bad anime blogging has become. Where we’re reduced to flinging poop over stuff that doesn’t even matter anymore. AND IT’S NOT ENTERTAINING. I MEAN, IT’S NOT A KAKAPO HUMPING YOUR HEAD¹.

The situation has gotten so bad I’m actually considering episodic blogging OLD SHOWS⁴ Momotato-style. (And suddenly, I magically created a massive backlog!)

And for all of you playing the home version, yes, I do have a kakapo humping my head¹, and yes, your arguments are invalid. All of them. I have a kakapo humping my head. You only have hamsters. Math says you lose.

¹ Yes, there is a rare parrot called the kakapo. And yes he does hump a guy’s head.

² I am talking about ANOTHER fansub debate, this time involving botnets and cyber warfare. I didn’t even know we used botnets for this.

³ Yes, this one’s decidedly LESS interesting after asking the whole “Shinbo did THIS?” question. And I pulled out unintentional irony, even.

⁴ The leaders are currently Iriya no Sora and G Gundam. Next up is CANAAN, Bakemonotagari, Overman King Gainer, and GAOGAIGAR.