If you have ever problems with anime-viewing distracting your real life, think:

I must ask pardon for the lack of discretion I had with this post; although I didn’t imbibe any alcoholic drinks or partake of foods with high sugar content, I must have had excess dopamine (a neurotransmitter involved in motivation and pleasure) in my system at that time. I can offer no more reasonable explanation. (more…)

Having read a lot, I’m familiar with quite a few English words. One of them is quite unpopular in the Internet to the extent of being unused. The word as well as its denotation is elucidated by Clippy below.

It’s just fun to note that no one really used that word in the Internet except for an AnimeSuki forums poster. I didn’t even expect that word to be unfamiliar, but if it isn’t found in even the different online dictionaries it must be. (Or I’m just a guy who utilizes even archaic English. But it’s FUN!) If you don’t believe me, however, you can just

I kid, I kid.

Other notable things in the anime ‘blogosphere’ is that there’s a site with an unbelievable amount of comments. He has 1922 for one post, another 1600+ for another, and 99 for another. Check it out here.

Of course, most of those comments are spam. Seems like somebody didn’t install Akismet. :V

(Now that I look at it, this isn’t even funny. I fail. I’m sorry. I don’t mean offense to those sites I’ve referred to, however. *sighs*)

After all the past serious posts, now is the time to have some fun. Did you ever hear of Bartender? (This post will get all reference-y, so kindly bear with me.) You may have heard of it from Cory over at Renegade Anime Blog who praises its beauty and intelligence. Not to offend him, but I’m going to make FUN of that series.

moe burger over at the ANO Podcast Blog commented about the bartender being a GARtender. I initially LOL’d at the statement, but it seems this isn’t an isolated commentary: people all over the Internet share this opinion (4chan), but really, taking care of an OLD MAN with a COOL DRINK: isn’t that PERVERSE? The innuendos are in abundance with this show. It’s so suggestive, but in reality they’re just TOO HARD GHEY for each other. Here’s one opinion of the show:

WTF
BartenderLOL
I CAN’T GET OVER THIS. JUST– OMG. IT HAD EVERYTHING. STILL ANIMATION, LOL OPENING, ZEN DULL BARTENDER OF DOOM, RANDOM WOMAN I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT THE HELL SHE WAS THERE FOR, BAR!HATER PSYCHO, ICE BREAKING, RECIPES. OMG IT HAD RECIPES. THE ONLY THING I THOUGHT IT WAS LACKING… YES, SNAKES.
SO A KEEPER! Actually, I don’t think I could stand another episode of this Which is a shame, because it’s GENIUS. NOT
So there! Let’s see how many times I change my mind, and how many series I’ll drop because of that! (if fansubs keep coming out, that is)

Still, WE MUST NOT INSULT THE POWER OF THE GARTENDER. AND NOW IS THE TIME FOR A HIGHLY SUGGESTIVE IMAGE!

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…)

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…)