Don’t have enough ideas (A.K.A. am too lazy) to write full blog posts on some of my anime/manga viewings in the past month, so I thought I’d just consolidate some of my main thoughts into one big post below:
1. Why why why do all of my favorite shoujo mangaka have to stop at cliffhanger developments in their series and go on maternity leave?? Cases in point – Tomoko Ninomiya (Nodame Cantabile) stopping right before Nodame’s big debut, or Karuho Shiina (Kimi ni Todoke) leaving right before a pretty big misunderstanding between Sawako and Kazehaya can resolve itself. (Not going to ruin Kimi ni Todoke for those of you who haven’t caught up to the hiatus point, but this crisis is HUGE. Probably not too hard to guess what happened and the amount of agony such an event would cause the reader D:) I know Tomoko Ninomiya has since returned from her break, but still. Babies suck D:<
The opening part of this video where the choir simulated the sounds of an oncoming thunderstorm is without doubt one of the coolest things I’ve seen on the internets in recent memory The actual song part didn’t quite impress me as much, but… that opening is just flippin’ awesome, ’nuff said! >_<
Over my years of anime-viewing and manga-reading I’m sure that I have at some point come across series that made me rather teary-eyed. However, I can’t really remember any that managed to make me drop honest-to-goodness tears. I’m happy to say that I’ve finally met my match in a terrific manga series called Kimi ni Todoke. Granted I could blame some of those tears on raging hormones and a bit of general emo-ness at the time… I definitely don’t think this would be a tear-jerking series for the average reader. Tears aside, Kimi ni Todoke is really a wonderful read. If you enjoy reading bittersweet schoolyard/first love shoujo manga, you definitely have to check out Kimi ni Todoke!
My record for finishing anime is really poor, given my habit of dropping and putting series on hold. Seirei no Moribito was one of those on-hold series, but I fully intended to loop back to it because of the compelling plot set-up and an even more compelling female main – probably one of the strongest female anime characters I’ve ever seen, actually, for all the right reasons. Since I finally finished Aria the Natural recently and felt like watching something completely different, I started up Seirei no Moribito again and was really glad I did, because it turned out to be one of the most enjoyable anime viewing experiences I had in recent years.
Co-worker linked me this site called Very Funny Ads… it’s fun. I can see this being good for hours of procrastination/brain-numbing purposes.
The first ad that I watched was this penguin one… as cute and chuckle-inducing as I found it, I’m not sure if it really made me want to take a bus. Like, if the real-life equivalent to a killer whale slammed into a bus, I don’t see how traveling in a group will really make you SAFER. Wouldn’t everyone just collectively get hurt or killed?
On the other hand if the killer whale is supposed to call to mind predators or criminals picking off lonely travelers or some similar scenario then this ad would make me want to take the bus more. I guess the bottom line is that context is everything
I’m a bit of an Idol junkie, for the drama and Simon and what-not. Who knew it (actually) could be a place to discover good songs too! Kris Allen for his top seven performance performed such a delicious song that I had to research up the original. I ended up falling insanely in love with the original song. Which judging from all the YouTube comments, got majorly re-thrust into the public limelight because of Kris’ performance. Most YouTube comments are such trash, but they’re so much fun to read sometimes xD
And don’t get me wrong. I like Kris Allen – although I like Adam Lambert more xD – but I just find the original dude’s voice more soulful. Sorry Kris. Thanks for bringing such a great song to my attention though I’ll have to check out the movie where this song came from too – “Once.”
The hiatus between Nodame Cantabile Lesson 126 and Lesson 127 felt like an eternity, because the story cut off right before an incredible high point – Nodame’s debut concerto. Needless to say as a rabid Nodame fan, I was in seventh heaven when Tomoko Ninomiya was able to return and start serializing again.
The actual song part didn’t quite impress me as much, but… that opening is just flippin’ awesome, ’nuff said! >_<
