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Jul. 21st, 2004 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psipsyHm, I had meant to put something in recently, but oh well.
Ai-chan's slight overheating problem was attributed to a leak in the radiator. Fortunately the task was very un-complicated, put the part in myself, and that was that.
Read a study on caffeine that says it has a negative impact on short-term memory.
A couple nights ago, I dreamt that I was a pimp!
Love Love?: Ok, for something that I only saw a couple episodes of, I have a lot to say, starting with this: WTF. First there was Cosprayers, which had nice designs but a concept that made me roll my eyes (you know something is wrong when something makes ME roll my eyes) then along came the behind-the-scenes-of-Cosprayers show Smash Hit! which made it worthwhile, and now this. Set more in the same world as Smash Hit!, it focuses on a high-schooler who somehow gets picked to be the cameraman for Cosprayers and at school has to be classmates with the five main actresses. The fansub group has low expectations for this, signified by the disclaimer of "Do not watch if you are sane" and the parodized ending theme song. Since I don't consider myself a sane man, I went ahead and watched two episodes worth.
This anime did a wonderful job of insulting and shaming me in many ways, especially with the one scene where one of the obviously underaged girls stuffs the main character (and herself) into a locker and says something along the lines of "Don't try anything funny, I know what men really want." Ok, how about a plate of buffalo wings NOW, wench? God damn it. Granted, this isn't the worst anime that I've ever held my eyes open for and sat through, a position so far still held by a hentai POS called "Advancer Tina", which I saw at a convention about 70,000 years ago and made me curl into a ball and whimper like a kicked puppy afterwards. But still, having seen only three episodes out of eight (not including 4 OVA), I have a hunch that "Love Love?" may be vying for that title. Or maybe it'll pull a Maburaho and completely redeem itself before halfway through, but I seriously doubt it'll happen here. It's morbid curiosity that's pulling me through this one.
Girls Bravo: Yet another pseudo-male character with some strange allergy to girls, like some psychosomatic cooties. Then again, considering the girls in this particular anime don't have much going for them, I'd want to be allergic to them too. On the other hand, the kid doesn't do a damn thing for himself. I'm just wondering when his nuts are finally gonna drop. Hell, he can borrow mine if need be. I got about 5 minutes into this and got fed up with it. Maybe I'll try again later.
2nd attempt: About a week later, after watching a bunch of episodes of Samurai Champloo which got me in a good mood, I decided to give this another go. I hadn't bothered to delete it from my hard drive just yet for some mysterious reason. So into the playlist it went! And the results?
I wish I could cry, but I think too many of my brain cells evaporated to accomodate that function. This is Mad Cow Disease in animated form.
Getting to the heart of the matter, our understandably gynophobic hero falls into the bathtub and is transported to a magical world. Miharu, (who has relatively large breasts) the first girl who sees him, is instantly smitten with him, and he doesn't come down with a crazy rash at her touch. (Did anyone NOT see that coming? Anyone? Don't worry, if you didn't, I'm only going to ridicule you for the rest of your life over that. Nothing serious.) As he finds out, less than a tenth of the population is male, so there's a real run on guys, moreso than Furbies or Playstation 2's when they first came out. In fact, wars sometimes even break out over anyone with a Y chromosome. (Dammit, it's the man's job to start wars!) So they're running around trying to get to a hiding place, because everyone wants a piece of the action, including Miharu's sister, Maharu (who has even bigger breasts). Now, what puzzles me, is that even though he's suddenly in a world full of women that wish to care for him and cater to his every need, he still takes a ton of physical abuse (albeit accidentally). And then, AND THEN, HE WANTS TO GO BACK to where everyone is making a conscious effort to treat him like shit. GRAAAHHHH!!! On second thought, I won't lend him my nutsack, no matter how much he needs one. The scenes where Miharu takes off her clothes would've numbed the pain enough to justify watching this, but it's cleverly covered up by water mist from her bathtub, which must be boiling, because that's a helluva lot of water vapor. This show needs... This show needs Onizuka, Croconion, and any Gundam robot to show up. They'll straighten up the entire cast of this mess. And when they're done, they can go onto Love Love? next. I don't think I'll watch the next one, unless I'm feeling rather masochistic, or being punished for something.
DearS: I can tell this is turning out to be a fantastic new season of anime, with such luminaires as Love Love?, Girls Bravo, and now this. Anyway, the plot/storyline/whatever the hell they're trying to call it. I think I've seen something like this before. Didn't CLAMP come up with a similar idea awhile ago and call it Chobits? Except here instead of robots, they're using aliens. Really hot aliens that crash-landed on earth, and since they can't call home or fix their ship, they're calling this planet their new home. And the crowds go wild for them! So the main character, Takeya, suddenly finds one, and she's about as overt as possible in making it clear that she wants to live with him. However, this guy must have recently watched a marathon session of "V", so he's more than a little suspicious about the aliens, especially the one that wants to live with him. The whole "too good to be true" bit, y'know? This makes him one of the most sane anime characters ever. Meanwhile, there's the teacher at school who must have trouble getting laid for some reason. She hits on her students without any success, strips in class (the students are completely jaded by this, as evidenced by their requests for her to put her clothes on, despite being a hottie herself) and for English class, she makes them translate lurid romance stories. Formula: Chobits + Alien Nation (remember that show?) + fanservice = DearS. This certainly isn't the brightest light bulb that one could install into your viewing fixture, but it does have Under17 doing the opening theme song, and it does have much more to offer than the two shows I mentioned previously.
Eiken #2: Yes, this got licensed. It is both a sad and joyous event. Sad, for the only group subbing it quit because of the license. Joyous, for it will come out in DVD here in the US before long. The good outweighs the bad, so it's cool. Meanwhile, someone had posted both 1 and 2 in raw form in a single torrent, so that became a priority download. After all, this IS the epitome of fanservice here. And I wasn't worried about it being in raw form. Who in hell needs a translation for something like this? Now, where were we? Ah yes. Episode 2 continues with the Ultra Game, right after the infamous Yogurt Slide(tm). (BEST ANIME SCENE EVER.) Kirika continues to use Densuke's head as a resting place for her boobs while doing suggestive acts with bananas, Komoe continues to run in place doing strange things, Yuriko continues to do everything short of ripping Densuke's clothes off and screwing him, Chiharu continues to mope, and Densuke just continues to live with it all. This episode, has Densuke wearing a girl's school swimsuit, which is complicated by Yuriko trying to give him an erection. Eiken being what it is, the second episode has a few things the first episode didn't have. Such as maids, eels, and phallic 12" chocolate popsicles. Yep, this is one I'll be buying when it gets over here.
Samurai Champloo: Or, as I like to call it sometimes, "Rurouni Bebop". Well, it IS from the same director as Bebop. Put them together, set the timeframe to a couple decades before Kenshin, throw in a hip-hop soundtrack and swordfights each episode, and voila! A most palatable viewing experience. As a bonus, it has Ayako Kawasumi as the main girl, who semi-convinces two swordsmen to join her in a quest to search for a samurai that smells like sunflowers.
So over the weekend, I stopped at Sheetz to get a sub. It comes with tomatos. I ate the whole thing, no problem. A couple days later I got word that Sheetz was getting tomatos tainted with salmonella, and they were all over the state. Lovely. For as many people eat their food, and for as many stores that they have, odds were on my side that I wasn't going to get sick.
Read a study on caffeine that says it has a negative impact on short-term memory.
Peh. Went a few days without downloading, since there wasn't much coming out, and all of a sudden everything comes out today. One of them, was the Aishiteruze Baby soundtrack. Everytime I see or hear a reference to that show, I can't help but hear this song running through my head. Thank you, Brak.
Ok. Done.
Ai-chan's slight overheating problem was attributed to a leak in the radiator. Fortunately the task was very un-complicated, put the part in myself, and that was that.
Read a study on caffeine that says it has a negative impact on short-term memory.
A couple nights ago, I dreamt that I was a pimp!
Love Love?: Ok, for something that I only saw a couple episodes of, I have a lot to say, starting with this: WTF. First there was Cosprayers, which had nice designs but a concept that made me roll my eyes (you know something is wrong when something makes ME roll my eyes) then along came the behind-the-scenes-of-Cosprayers show Smash Hit! which made it worthwhile, and now this. Set more in the same world as Smash Hit!, it focuses on a high-schooler who somehow gets picked to be the cameraman for Cosprayers and at school has to be classmates with the five main actresses. The fansub group has low expectations for this, signified by the disclaimer of "Do not watch if you are sane" and the parodized ending theme song. Since I don't consider myself a sane man, I went ahead and watched two episodes worth.
This anime did a wonderful job of insulting and shaming me in many ways, especially with the one scene where one of the obviously underaged girls stuffs the main character (and herself) into a locker and says something along the lines of "Don't try anything funny, I know what men really want." Ok, how about a plate of buffalo wings NOW, wench? God damn it. Granted, this isn't the worst anime that I've ever held my eyes open for and sat through, a position so far still held by a hentai POS called "Advancer Tina", which I saw at a convention about 70,000 years ago and made me curl into a ball and whimper like a kicked puppy afterwards. But still, having seen only three episodes out of eight (not including 4 OVA), I have a hunch that "Love Love?" may be vying for that title. Or maybe it'll pull a Maburaho and completely redeem itself before halfway through, but I seriously doubt it'll happen here. It's morbid curiosity that's pulling me through this one.
Girls Bravo: Yet another pseudo-male character with some strange allergy to girls, like some psychosomatic cooties. Then again, considering the girls in this particular anime don't have much going for them, I'd want to be allergic to them too. On the other hand, the kid doesn't do a damn thing for himself. I'm just wondering when his nuts are finally gonna drop. Hell, he can borrow mine if need be. I got about 5 minutes into this and got fed up with it. Maybe I'll try again later.
2nd attempt: About a week later, after watching a bunch of episodes of Samurai Champloo which got me in a good mood, I decided to give this another go. I hadn't bothered to delete it from my hard drive just yet for some mysterious reason. So into the playlist it went! And the results?
I wish I could cry, but I think too many of my brain cells evaporated to accomodate that function. This is Mad Cow Disease in animated form.
Getting to the heart of the matter, our understandably gynophobic hero falls into the bathtub and is transported to a magical world. Miharu, (who has relatively large breasts) the first girl who sees him, is instantly smitten with him, and he doesn't come down with a crazy rash at her touch. (Did anyone NOT see that coming? Anyone? Don't worry, if you didn't, I'm only going to ridicule you for the rest of your life over that. Nothing serious.) As he finds out, less than a tenth of the population is male, so there's a real run on guys, moreso than Furbies or Playstation 2's when they first came out. In fact, wars sometimes even break out over anyone with a Y chromosome. (Dammit, it's the man's job to start wars!) So they're running around trying to get to a hiding place, because everyone wants a piece of the action, including Miharu's sister, Maharu (who has even bigger breasts). Now, what puzzles me, is that even though he's suddenly in a world full of women that wish to care for him and cater to his every need, he still takes a ton of physical abuse (albeit accidentally). And then, AND THEN, HE WANTS TO GO BACK to where everyone is making a conscious effort to treat him like shit. GRAAAHHHH!!! On second thought, I won't lend him my nutsack, no matter how much he needs one. The scenes where Miharu takes off her clothes would've numbed the pain enough to justify watching this, but it's cleverly covered up by water mist from her bathtub, which must be boiling, because that's a helluva lot of water vapor. This show needs... This show needs Onizuka, Croconion, and any Gundam robot to show up. They'll straighten up the entire cast of this mess. And when they're done, they can go onto Love Love? next. I don't think I'll watch the next one, unless I'm feeling rather masochistic, or being punished for something.
DearS: I can tell this is turning out to be a fantastic new season of anime, with such luminaires as Love Love?, Girls Bravo, and now this. Anyway, the plot/storyline/whatever the hell they're trying to call it. I think I've seen something like this before. Didn't CLAMP come up with a similar idea awhile ago and call it Chobits? Except here instead of robots, they're using aliens. Really hot aliens that crash-landed on earth, and since they can't call home or fix their ship, they're calling this planet their new home. And the crowds go wild for them! So the main character, Takeya, suddenly finds one, and she's about as overt as possible in making it clear that she wants to live with him. However, this guy must have recently watched a marathon session of "V", so he's more than a little suspicious about the aliens, especially the one that wants to live with him. The whole "too good to be true" bit, y'know? This makes him one of the most sane anime characters ever. Meanwhile, there's the teacher at school who must have trouble getting laid for some reason. She hits on her students without any success, strips in class (the students are completely jaded by this, as evidenced by their requests for her to put her clothes on, despite being a hottie herself) and for English class, she makes them translate lurid romance stories. Formula: Chobits + Alien Nation (remember that show?) + fanservice = DearS. This certainly isn't the brightest light bulb that one could install into your viewing fixture, but it does have Under17 doing the opening theme song, and it does have much more to offer than the two shows I mentioned previously.
Eiken #2: Yes, this got licensed. It is both a sad and joyous event. Sad, for the only group subbing it quit because of the license. Joyous, for it will come out in DVD here in the US before long. The good outweighs the bad, so it's cool. Meanwhile, someone had posted both 1 and 2 in raw form in a single torrent, so that became a priority download. After all, this IS the epitome of fanservice here. And I wasn't worried about it being in raw form. Who in hell needs a translation for something like this? Now, where were we? Ah yes. Episode 2 continues with the Ultra Game, right after the infamous Yogurt Slide(tm). (BEST ANIME SCENE EVER.) Kirika continues to use Densuke's head as a resting place for her boobs while doing suggestive acts with bananas, Komoe continues to run in place doing strange things, Yuriko continues to do everything short of ripping Densuke's clothes off and screwing him, Chiharu continues to mope, and Densuke just continues to live with it all. This episode, has Densuke wearing a girl's school swimsuit, which is complicated by Yuriko trying to give him an erection. Eiken being what it is, the second episode has a few things the first episode didn't have. Such as maids, eels, and phallic 12" chocolate popsicles. Yep, this is one I'll be buying when it gets over here.
Samurai Champloo: Or, as I like to call it sometimes, "Rurouni Bebop". Well, it IS from the same director as Bebop. Put them together, set the timeframe to a couple decades before Kenshin, throw in a hip-hop soundtrack and swordfights each episode, and voila! A most palatable viewing experience. As a bonus, it has Ayako Kawasumi as the main girl, who semi-convinces two swordsmen to join her in a quest to search for a samurai that smells like sunflowers.
So over the weekend, I stopped at Sheetz to get a sub. It comes with tomatos. I ate the whole thing, no problem. A couple days later I got word that Sheetz was getting tomatos tainted with salmonella, and they were all over the state. Lovely. For as many people eat their food, and for as many stores that they have, odds were on my side that I wasn't going to get sick.
Read a study on caffeine that says it has a negative impact on short-term memory.
Peh. Went a few days without downloading, since there wasn't much coming out, and all of a sudden everything comes out today. One of them, was the Aishiteruze Baby soundtrack. Everytime I see or hear a reference to that show, I can't help but hear this song running through my head. Thank you, Brak.
Ok. Done.
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Date: 2004-07-22 02:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-22 06:15 pm (UTC)Found the opening theme, now I need to find the ending theme.
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Date: 2004-07-22 08:18 pm (UTC)btw, do you per chance have MILK? ^_^