Railgun go boom.

Two Episode Impression

So… Toaru Kagaku no Railgun is a spin-off of Toaru Majutsu no Index focusing on the less interesting members of the cast er… The scientific side of Academy City. As much as I loved Biribiri-chan in Index, an entire spin-off revolving around her and the super annoying Kuroko is suspect. Index itself was a snooze fest at times, which doesn’t bode well for the spin-off. I want to like it. There’s plenty of silliness, shoujo-ai elements and Large Hadron Collider Tsundere Rail Gun action, but the show’s been fairly blah in the first two episodes. Newcomers Saten and Uihara don’t help matters much as they don’t have much personality so far either.

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Seriously, when only two shows are on my Must Download Now!!11 list for current series I’m watching, and only one of them is from the current Fall season while the other’s a continuation from the previous season, there’s probably something seriously wrong here.

For the curious, the only show I’m watching so far from Fall 2009 is Darker than Black: Comet of Gemini.

I should look into Letter Bee and Armed Librarians, I guess. Maybe Railgun, but I read the manga and I know that currently it’s in silly daily life mode, which isn’t too important. Well, that’s the curse of having read the original source for me: It makes me too lazy to watch the anime with any form of dedication.

I guess there’s also Bakemonogatari’s online streaming episodes, but there’s all of three of those, so oy.

Well, there’s also previous season/year stuff I could look into, I suppose. Like that Tokyo Magnitude 9,001 or whatever.

(That was a joke. The number, that is.)

The show wasn’t great, but at least it did the sunset ending correctly. I’m looking at you, Phantom.

What should I say about Valkyria Chronicles? For starters, it was a disappointment. The word ‘disappointment’ is usually synonymous with bad, but I don’t mean it in that sense. It’s just that it didn’t live up to the excellent source material. The game was about high-octane action with no shortage of thrilling battles, with the Welkin-Alicia romance acting as a sub-plot. The anime was more focused on the Welkin-Alicia romance (with Faldio along for the ride), with the war acting more as a sub-plot. Definitely not as expected. The anime itself wasn’t bad, really, though it wasn’t great either. Game-to-anime adaptations tend to suck, and in that regard VC was actually above par compared to its brethren.

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Here’s something you might enjoy, I know I did.

On The Street | Animated

It’s a video from Bill Cunningham, fashion photographer for The New York Times. From what I gathered the man goes around Manhattan, taking pictures of well dressed people, and talks about style. Take a listen as he quite literally gushes over cosplay fashion. I thought it interesting to hear the style trend of cosplay as it would be seen through the NY fashion world.

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Bad end is bad. Questions?

Phantom was a great, polished show with plenty to like about it. The characters had “real” personalities, and their struggles were identifiable. The entire cast was excellently written and convincingly voiced. The animation was very well done, surprising because Bee-Train had been on a downward spiral since El Cazador back in 07. I would actually argue they had started sucking since .hack//Roots a year earlier, but I digress… The music was absolutely phenomenal, and ranks as one of the BEST OSTs in recent memory. All in all it was a great package from start to finish… Save for the outstandingly bad ending. Now before we get to the ending, I feel it’s necessary to touch on the characters and story a bit. Spoilers abound, but then again you shouldn’t be reading this anyway if you didn’t finish the show.

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I hereby decree October to be Senjougahara Awareness Month. Come on, you had to see this coming sooner or later. So here it is and Senjougahara just happens to get the second best month of the year. October was already pretty rockish, and now it got even better. This is the part where I put some flavor text about the GoTM, but I’ve already said plenty of things about Senjougahara lately. You’re probably tired of hearing the same rote things about her from everyone else and me, so I’ll abridge the lead-in as such.

Blah blah blah, Senjougahara Fascination, Tsundere-chan, Red Stapler of Death, Crazy Psycho Bitch, Lesbian Tendencies, Cocktease, Ultimate Fanservice, Ah Rabu You, etc etc. The gallery’s a little larger than usual, because well, this is Senjougahara and I have a fascination with her.

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This is my desktop. Point and laugh.

I’m horribly out of the loop when it comes to VN news, but I just found out about the Kanon English patch yesterday. Say what you will about my slowpokeness. It’s okay. So after squealing like a little girl at a Jonas Brothers concert for five minutes, I finally got around to installing a… dubious copy of Kanon that’s been sitting on my HD for ages, along with the requisite voice and English patches.

Upon finally playing the game I was utterly mesmerized and blew a good three hours in the first sitting without realizing it… And this is why I don’t play VNs despite loving them so much — They’re too damn addicting. Yes, they’re even more addicting than jelly beans. I swore off VNs for the better part of two years, but maybe it’s something I can’t escape from. A great VN draws you in and doesn’t let go for a second. It makes you laugh, cry, and most importantly identify with its characters on a more intimate level since VNs are an interactive experience as opposed to passively watching an anime. Perhaps non-VN players will get the wrong impression when I say “intimate”, but there isn’t a better way to describe the feeling. Dictating the story and choosing your path (and girl) makes the experience much more personal compared to an anime.

Anyway that’s enough ranting. If it seems like I’m around even less than usual, you can chalk that up to alternatively crying and fapping to this spectacular VN. I already decided I’m going down the Nayuki path, hence the Nayuki screenshot. Screw the Taiyaki Thief, Meat Bun Fanatic, Demon Hunter and Dying Girl. I’ve got Cousin Lovin’ Strawberry Jam!

Go bother Emmy Award winning co-author Meultima in the meantime. I heard he’s currently playing a VN of his own, some nonsense about Umineko Wafers and Doki Doki Strike Witches or something. I’m not privy to all the details, but that’s what I surmised from spying on him from the bushes outside. By the way, I love what you’ve done with the place dude.

PS: I do plan to buy a legit copy of Kanon. The epic (and discontinued) Key Memorial Box would be awesome, but settling for a standalone copy isn’t so bad.

Well, that was rather nice. The last episode of Time of Eve was a good long 27:45 in length, and it marked off the end to the tentative first ’season’ rather nicely. The main focus of the episode this time was, surprisingly, Masaki, and it ended up with him reconciling with an old bond that was thought lost. And we also have our look at the series’s real antagonist so far: Masaki’s own father, who happens to be part of the Anti-Android coincil. That, however, doesn’t play as huge a role in this episode as one might expect, but his influence can still be felt during this episode.

I’m a bit sad that this little gem has ended for now, but there has been rumours of a season 2 from words on the official website, so who knows what else this company might have in store? Either way, it’s been quite an interesting ride. See you later, Time of Eve, may we meet again!

Edit: I made a silly error from writing at 3 in the morning. :<

Sillyface Ararararagi is here to add flavor to this award ceremony.

The summer season is all but over, and a slew of summer shows (along with some spring holdovers) draw to an end to make way for the much anticipated fall lineup — And what a lineup it is because it has me jizzing in my pants with excitement!

…Er, scratch that last thought. Before fall gets here, we have to say farewell and salute the summer lineup. What does that mean exactly? It could only mean it’s time to hand out inconsequential awards to the best shows of summer. It’s like the Oscars, except the results actually matter.

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Drawing inspiration from some show about Umineko Wafers, co-author Meu suddenly turned violent, murdering me in bizarre fashion nearly two weeks ago, all the while mumbling something about a woman named “BEYATORICHE” over and over again. I was left in this unfortunate state until a kind White Mage recently happened upon my candy stuffed corpse and resurrected me with a Life 2 spell. The unfortunate side effect of being dead for so long is I’m more zombie than I used to be, but at least I’ve returned to the land of the living, even if I do have an insatiable hunger for the flesh of the living now. On the plus side I have candy stuffed inside me, so I’m like a frickin’ zombie pinata or something. Viva zombie pinata bitches!

You don’t believe my story? Fine. Let’s just say I was sick and have only recently started to feel better. It’s not as interesting, but I guess it’s more believable than dying and coming back as an anime blogger turned zombie pinata. So here I am, back again and very much out of the loop in regards to all things, because I haven’t been on the internet much if at all during that timespan. The state of affairs goes as such:

Anime Backlog – Fallen behind much more so than usual, so it’s time to binge again and slog through the shows recommended to me (currently Moyashimon with Baccano! next) in addition to what’s currently airing.

Twitter – Mostly dead. Good riddance too. Twitter is stupid so that’s one less thing to worry about.

Socializing – …Never did this to begin with. lolol.

Blogging – Wut? Oh right. “Blogging”. Got a couple posts that are waiting to be posted and stuff.

Killing Meu and Stuffing His Corpse with Taiyaki – Already done with extra Uuuuuuu~ for emphasis. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.