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.

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…)

It just feels so damn fucking good to have electricity once more after a whole week of being without it. And yes, I just had to curse because it was difficult flourishing without it. (I was late quite often, and yes, I’ve cut some classes – my alarm clock is my computer.) The reason, by the way, why we didn’t have had electricity for the past week was that our country was hit by quite a strong typhoon that decimated and destroyed quite a few properties, and these properties (aside from electric lines), included houses, buildings, and trees. Much as I would have liked to post about anime, I couldn’t do so, because I couldn’t even watch them in the first place. I can only give general comments from what I gleaned from visiting forums intermittently. (more…)

Persistence really does pay off. After an anal amount of patience despite being constantly and consistently disappointed by Haruhiists and Haruhism, I finally managed to finish The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya – and what can I say – it was pretty good. (more…)

Air Gear is supposedly a stupid anime. When I mean stupid, I mean it’s shounen-y, for teens and pre-teens, and doesn’t evoke thought at all. But stupid anime can move sometimes even more than blatant bathos of Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, for example. (more…)

After coming from a difficult exam, wondering what to do with my life, I walked around our dormitory’s supposed parking-space and watched the starless night sky in the heavens juxtapose and seemingly absorb a mountain of leaves hanging from a tree. The sky was a dark hue of violet and blue, and its soft contrast with the now-black leaves forming seemingly a mountain placated my quiet self that was in turmoil within. I guess that no matter how I told my parents that I wanted to shift, deep inside I was still the same: I was still turmoiled; my thoughts were constantly in upheaval, and I was just like Shuu (of Honey and Clover): I was drifting. Unlike Takemoto, however, I couldn’t even try searching for myself, so I just looked at the night sky and hoped that the inner peace that it gave me would last more than an evanescence or something fleeting. (more…)

I try to be an intuitive writer. I try to stand for my description to write incisive and intellectual disquisitions on anime. I can’t stop, however, being a guy (yes, despite all my loss of MANLINESS from watching Honey and Clover) first and then trying to be a scholar-cum-pedant next (although I often fail at it, because I’m too lazy in studying for the most part). That’s why after I watch Honey and Clover, I watch Air Gear some time after. No, there’s nothing deeply profound about Air Gear: all it has are sketches of what humanity is like (when put on crack). I do find something in Air Gear even I couldn’t find in Honey and Clover: a whole lot of hot girls. I’m going to be totally honest and say that for their age, they’re all totally jailbait for us older guys (except for Ume, of course, who I assume to be for lolicons, and guys who are interested in her should be shot to death). Simca is roughly the same age as Ikki, and Ringo is too. They all look more mature for their ages, and they address different quasi-fetishes of the male viewers. (It is a shounen after all.) As I see it, Ringo is the megane-type, Simca is the hotandsultrygirlthemainheroisinterestedin-type, Rika is the onee-type, and the Mikan and Agito are the badass-types. They all look totally hot, and their breasts aren’t in disproportion with their bodies (they’re endowed but that doesn’t look absurd). It’s been a while since I’ve watched a show for the hot girls, and I believe I’m interested in this one because of Oh Great’s art (he was the one who also created Tenjou Tenge). One thing I do hope for this show is for it to end after 24 to 26 episodes, because I can’t watch hot girls forever. I do love the existence of plot and I do want to satiate my desires in learning more about life by watching great anime, but I just can’t pass up a great chance to BECOME A MAN AGAIN (ZOMG), and Air Gear is the perfect answer to that problem.

(Watching hentai is a different thing altogether, though. Yes, I’m not some castrated guru-wannabe. I get hard-ons looking at girls having sex. That’s even better when it comes to yuri. mmm … )