Ever had that intense and immense frustration in which you could never project or translate into writing what you felt? Ever felt that disappointment with the inherent limits of language (and I’m also pretty sure you don’t really mean sometimes what you write; you even have to use further symbolisms to drive home the point that you’re jocular or totally serious)? Did you think that it wasn’t even in agreement with what you really felt at the moment? (I think Retsgip is pretty familiar with this.) (more…)

School has begun to be a chore (but it always is, right?). As I’ve iterated before, my irregular updates may just become even more intermittent, but I will try my very best to keep on writing (and, hopefully, writing well) about the different facets of and issues concerning anime. (more…)

I’m highly grateful to Cory of Renegade Anime Blog for recognizing what I wrote to be something decent and cogent. It’s always good to be read by other people and for them to be content with what you write at the same time write what you want and what you desire. His most recent article deals with his problem regarding the fact that quite a few of the bloggers (perhaps even me included) are going ‘the easy way’ out by writing episode summaries and recaps. He has qualms on the stagnation and the lack of the imagination of a multitude of the anime bloggers. He calls for many of the bloggers to write more varied content and be more creative. I’ll try to address this as logically as possible as to why this is so (as I observe, similar to what he does, the proliferation of blogs whose main focus are episode summaries); if by any means I have written something that opposes your perspective, kindly comment and show forth yours. To make the article easier to read, I have divided (maybe) significant factors as, again, why this occurrence is prevalent. (more…)

(No pictures for the time being – I’m terribly sorry but I wrote this late in the evening, and I still have class early the following day.) (more…)

Class for the second semester begins tomorrow. That would subsequently mean that my intermittent posts will become even more intermittent as I’m expecting a difficult semester ahead of me. I’ve had fun in the last few days of my vacation; I’ve coalesced into blog posts different ideas and concepts whirling in my head; most of all, however, I’ve watched a fair share of anime – and this is simply the best goodbye to freedom that I’ve imagined. Before I disappear into oblivion, however, I’ve written entries in different places on different things. I didn’t think it was apt to cram my insights on highly disparate things like my previous post on my bid farewell to constant activity; I should think that the reader would want more organization than entropy on a written entry. My previous post was the antithesis of order: one section dealt with psychology and economics; one section dealt with self-flagellation and guilt; the final section dealt with an up and coming anime. That entry was the quintessence of chaos. I shall try to write this entry in a more logical and easy-to-digest manner (and also try to make it fun). ♪

On Otoboku – 2

I am not gay. I am not gay. I am not ga- ZOMG GOD SAVE MY SOUL I AM A HEATHEN BEING WHO WILL BE EXECRATED IN ETERNAL DAMNATION.

Traps are SERIOUS BUSINESS. See, I think I’m gay right now for Mizuho to the extent of imagining her him being done by some random guy in a hen- OH SHI- LOOK AT THE TIME. The second episode continued the hilarity of the first. So, was I weird when I got turned on with Shion and Mariya fondling her his breasts? I’m scared of myself now. I was also reminded that the OP and ED were just cute. ‘~I give you anything my love ♫’

~KAMI-CHAMA ONEGAI TASUKETE! ♪

On NHK – 18

It was lucky that I watched it before I did Otoboku, because Otoboku seemed to cushion jarring impact that the latest episode had towards me. I had time to laugh it off, else I’d have been stuck being in an ugly mood for the rest of the evening. This episode was totally pathetic that I cursed the world immediately afterwards because it was just so harsh to these people. There is hope, however, because the story has drastically deviated from the manga – a happy ending is quite possible, and that’s what I’m hoping for. I could discuss deeper the implications of this deviation, but I tackled it (although in a discursive manner) already here.

The answer I was looking for … and some addendum

I’m not even playing with you. Some professor made this graph, though I can’t be arsed to find out who he is.

I have a lot of things to talk about, so this post is probably going to be discursive and rambling, but I have a lot of things on my mind; if I don’t talk about them sooner they’d probably just be forgotten by me, and I don’t want that. First is that although I link to my own posts, I do it not because of conceit (despite what you may think), but as you may have noticed, my posts seem to form a chain among themselves – and this is totally unintentional. Who may have known that I’d discover two good mecha anime in a season – at almost the same time? Who may have known that the one who was most prone to what he writes about was he himself? I certainly didn’t – I just write what I feel at the time I write a post. I cannot look into the future. So if you’re wondering why I’m linking to my own posts, it’s just coincidental that they’re somehow related to each other. (more…)

It was simply on a whim that I downloaded Soukou no Strain. I was about to sleep, but since I don’t turn off my laptop I decided it would be better for me to download some new episodes, and decided to watch S-Strain simply because it had too little information on the Internet – at least for me. I didn’t expect the first episode to be anything as good as what I have just seen: I was in a stupor having slept for only four hours (it is imperative that one makes the most out of the last days of his vacation), but having viewed the first episode I’m very awake. It was akin to having a dog bite me in the ass (yes, and I’ve been bitten by a dog [rabid, no less] before) – it’s just that jarring. (more…)

I can’t believe that although I’m the one who wrote about this, I’m also the one who has fallen prey to it. After three days, I’ve only read fifty pages on the history of Southeast Asia (my region, by the way). I’m normally receptive and appreciative of history, but after watching the anime Shuffle! that normal proclivity of mine towards it suddenly dissipated; and although the different people who commented in that said post offered insightful opinions and suggestions with regards to that issue, I’m still stuck with a paralysis towards anime that I’m unable to do anything else except watch anime, participate in anime forums or download them. (It isn’t much of an issue right now, as it’s still vacation after all, but I can’t help thinking about it. Feel free to offer help, however, because I do quite need it.) (more…)

That personal blog of mine certainly helped to alleviate the growing disappointment within me. For those who have visited it, thank you very much. In the quest for writing more cognitive posts I have tried to undertake an entry that even I myself have a difficulty of congealing. I ask forgiveness for the solipsism I may have shown these past few days: such is the extent of my disappointment.

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My temperament and sanity has not been the best these past few days, and it is because problems and predicaments have stacked and piled up atop one another that it takes all my sanity (and a little more) to endure it without breaking down. And I’m not joking here – my problems right now, to me, are very serious and very grave to the extent that I started my own personal blog just to pour out all my angst and misgivings into a more apt place. What’s worse is that the entry I’ve tried so hard to write and tried so hard to intellectualize didn’t really generate discussion or may have been gone unread. (I’m not complaining, however; it just verily disappointed me because I spent five hours writing and polishing it – the reader as the reader has every right to skip any one of my posts, especially long and verbose ones, understandably.) I know the reasons, but the occurrence itself simply disappoints me. But again, as much as I want to rant about my sadness and my disappointments, they are for another time and place. I just wanted to make it known – in a hopefully short paragraph – how I feel right now because it would probably contribute to the detriment of the quality of my writing, and I’m sorry if you guys ever feel duped. (more…)