Monthly Archive for November, 2008

Randomsphere 22: Armageddon

It is upon us… or more like it was… since 1998…

Toradora! 4: That Moment’s Expression

This is a change of pace. Now we get a sudden, opposite shift of behavior from Taiga on this ep. She drastically went from the punky bitch to something sort of a sweet little girl going ga-ga over a guy. And her variant seems to be that of the more scary side, too. Kitamura would be in big trouble if this story went off with the twist.

Seriously, what’s this?

Okay, so Taiga’s been stealing snapshots of Yusaku from all angles possible. But somehow, her shutter skills aren’t leveled up properly, she can’t get a good shot straight. Well, she ain’t Aya Shameimaru, for fuck’s sake, but I know an ordinary person who can do better: Takasu Ryuji. At least he can do better than taking shots at speeds of Mach 1, which we all know the tengu who can. And so Ryuji offers assistance, and possible masochistic slavery of taking photos, to Taiga, AGAIN.

T-t-take it! TAKE IT! TAKE IT!

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Randomsphere 21: COMMANDOQUEEN

The Yandere Kingslayer’s in the house. Where’s your Ivalice now?

Kansai Taikai The 4th Results Out

RUMBLE OVER!

The results of the recent Kansai Taikai the 4th just came out, thanks to the guys at Mizuumi. Here are the results:

Scarlet Weather Rhapsody

  • 1st: Komachi, TR(?)
  • 2nd: Yukari, Hagoromo
  • 3rd: Marisa, KamiG
  • 4th: Reimu, Sekibun

Replays

Immaterial and Missing Power

  • 1st: Remilia, tazu
  • 2nd: Marisa, KamiG
  • 3rd: Alice, TR
  • 4th: Marisa, Fujimiya

Replays

I don’t know about the replays though, you’ll have to browse them yourselves to see if the contents are right.

Japan + You = DOES NOT COMPUTE?

Owen has again made himself manifest with this post. Though I did take a hit or two, I wouldn’t mind. It’s how things stand anyway.

Your Japan is right here.

Now, I’m not going to talk about how I know stuff, or how I see things fit. I’m not one to talk for that since things and thoughts differ from person to person. But I think I stand for something of temperance, whereas a certain fanaticism of a certain field would be loved so much as to be alienated from what it used to be. Therefore, I think Owen has proved a certain point.

So basically, it’s about how people think they can learn Japanese by watching stuff. Or more like they learn to PERCEIVE. I’m not against all the osmosis-to-learn-moonspeak-by-”understanding”-stuff-with-moonspeak or something, but I think there should be a limitation of some degree on how you can exalt yourself from the rest of the otaku populace just because you can half-ass your way to understanding how an episode is laid out. Of course, that means I despise some people who would blatantly prance around and tell tales about it, only to get a major assfuck from someone who doesn’t even know a thing or two about moonspeak the next day.

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