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[Rapidfire] Weeaboo Wardrobe: Too many iron-ons, too little sanity
Oct 1st
The life of the anime fan is a strange one.
While many times I’ve advocated being proud of one’s fandom and not hiding your otaku secret from the public like it’s a badge of shame (unless, of course, you are a cute Mamiko Noto-voiced girl in an average-ish romance show), the way in which one goes around doing brings a little more into question.
There is a difference between being proud and being pompous, for one, as sporting a shirt that shouts in large, gangster-shirt font, “NAGATO IS MAI WAIFU” might be a bit too much. Likewise is a shirt that pictures your favorite anime girl in your favorite state of undress; and as much as you think The Anime Is For Porn Hentai, I personally don’t like embracing such traits.
Therefore, like the suave agent I am, I prefer the slightly undercover, low-key apparel that quite often, is lacking in official merchandise. And like the cheap person I also am, I found iron-on T-shirts to be a nice way to create my own niche and style for anime-flavored clothing.
I’ve also found T-shirts tend to go well with short-sleeve dress shirts, for the impression you care at least a little about your appearance.
Now unfortunately the deep analytical discussion about otaku nature and whether we should be repressing ourselves or not, is for another time (although I feel I’ve probably covered it at least once already), so let’s move on to the objects of attention for today: Read the rest of this entry »
[Rapidfire] The Touhou Conspiracy, Part I: Analyze it slowly! Yukkuri
Jul 9th
Although TheBigN beat me to it, I’ve been dropping hints left and right that I’ve joined the mass that is Touhou Anonymous, least of which would be an amusing cry for help on my mini-blog, but I think it’s time to make this official: my name is CCY … well, my psuedonym is CCY … and I’m a Touhou addict.
Who knows what it is. The manic gameplay that shoots adrenaline through your veins as quickly as the characters shoots bullets, the immense music scene from its hard-rock remixes to the drug-like addictive flash songs and everywhere in between, or just the sheer size and limitless bounds of the fandom … perhaps I’ll never know a reason until I fall out of Touhou.
But until then, in my typical analytical style, I can’t take it lying down. I’m very bad at admitting I simply like things because I do, and so it’s time to dig up the roots of, at least, my Touhou fandom and shine some light on some of the intriguing, curious, or just plain weird ends of the Touhou universe.
There’s a method to every madness, and it’s time to find mine, in this mini-series of mini-posts. And target number one …
Memorializing Makoto: School Days, one year later
Jul 3rd
Apologies for a quick entry, but that just means I’ll have to leave the discussion open-ended instead of just babbling on forever. We’ll see if this incites more comment.
But, anyway, if I do manage to get this post finished in the next half-hour, it will have been roughly one year since the airing of the first episode of School Days, the infamous harem (some say anti-harem) show that was groundbreaking or shocking in so many ways. Truly it is one of the most unique shows the anime world will see – maybe not in concept, but in execution, you just have to wonder what kind of ideas were running through the producer’s heads, for better or worse.
I thought it would make an interesting topic to look back from much further down the proverbial river (hey, you make the boat jokes, not me) back at School Days, and see if it’s still everything it was cracked up to be. Read the rest of this entry »
[Rapidfire] Shuffle! returns, selling out, Howl’s Moving Castle and emotional connection
Jun 15th
The rumors of my blogging laziness have been greatly exaggerated.
In the midst of the working world and of real life another Rapidfire post rises from the ashes to inject a thousand-odd words of anime ranting and raving into the bloodstream of a starved anime fan.
Well, in all honesty I hope you’ve been reading elsewhere too, so you shouldn’t be starving, but in any case, I’m just starting to go off on random tangents, having already written all the content out of my head (yes, the pre-jump section comes last here) and now desperately typing random, fourth-wall referential content in an attempt to fill space.
In case you’re interested in what’s on board for today, there’s a news section announcing a new Shuffle!-like substance for the PC, a short metarant involving ads and websites, and a good long analytical-type thing about Howl’s Moving Castle – one of the popular Miyazaki films – and the power of emotional connection versus logical appeal.
Well … uh … how about that Nagato?
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[Rapidfire] Analytical Double Play: Halo characters and Kure-nai
Jun 4th
A quick discussion on two unrelated topics here, a concept I like to call ‘halo characters’ and a rant (albeit spoiler-free) on the status of Kure-nai through episode 9.
It’s pretty much as is, so let me use this pre-jump space as a mini-shoutbox, a mini-rant within a mini-rant post. It’s like those Russian dolls.
* Does anyone have plans for Anime Expo (AX), the weekend of the 4th of July? Some friends and I are considering making it happen (albeit very unlikely) and I’m just wondering if any of you can bribe me. Or provide rooms. Come to think of it, those two might be related.
* Those who said ItaKiss were better than Special A … yeah … you’re right. The latter has been on a horrible, horribly spiral recently with just Hikari bearing the weight of the show (Kei has since collapsed, for now).
I’m hoping this is just a result of S.A. spooling up for a bit of awesome later on, but ItaKiss is definitely pushing a lot harder with more plot and more intriguing characters. I don’t even hate Naoki any more, that’s how good it is.
* 300+ MB releases of Toshokan Sensou make me a sad panda. It’s one of my most-looked forward to shows of the season, yet it’s stalled out for me on episode 4 as I struggle to look for low-size subs. I use direct download, not torrenting … maybe that is my problem. Unless the crackdown in Japan busted a Toshokan Sensou capper, or something. It’s a tough gray-area issue to argue, so I’ll stay away from that.
And now, onto the main (minor) event…
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