Two posts and an update..

Two posts follow this one for today. I also updated my Top Ten Titles I'm Watching! list and my Current Desktop Image.

Thanks for dropping by...

Otaku-dom 101 post 13

I now can say that I am a sucker for anything Japanese! I have been following releases of a web comic 4koma called Habanero-tan who is a mascot for a rather spicy snack chippy ring thingy. The whole thing is super-cute and sometimes a bit risque. Here's the latest sequence of translated 4koma:

That powdered red pepper stuff that she accidentally dumped on her udon is shichimi. It consists of red pepper, roasted orange peel, yellow sesame seed, black sesame seed, Japanese pepper, seaweed, and ginger.

I just had to have some! Lucky for me, we have several asian markets around here and I happened upon it at one. So now I have shichimi on my Cup Noodles whenever I enjoy that wonderful soup. I always make sure the cap is on tight thought...

Original images can be found here (in Japanese) with translations available from the good folks at iitran translation Group.

Did I mention I also put Worcestershire sauce in my Cup Noodles?

Otaku-dom 101

I want to continue an old topic I had in my previous blog, “Otaku-dom 101”. So you can see what I’m talking about (and get the whole thing), I’m linking all the older ones below. You may have to resize your browser window to read them. The edges are black and the black text bleeds out in them. I’ll continue in the next post…

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That's it...

So now I come back and give you a Happy New Year's present!

Happy New Year!! :D

I apologize for not posting here more often. I should make it a New Year's resolution! :D

Well, Merry Christmas to you all.....

Not much to update; I'm just trying to catch up after fixing a computer crash!

I did update my Desktop and Cellphone Wallpapers at right...

More finished anime!

I completed watching more anime this week.

First of all we have Pani Poni Dash! which I have on DVD. It was a riot! Stark comedy set in a whirlwind style revolving around an 11 year old MIT graduate that comes to teach high school in Japan. Oh, and she's being watched by aliens.


My favorite character from the show was definately Himeko! She was just the type of person I probably would have been in high school if I was Japanese, a girl, and in an anime...


I rated it excellent on ANN.

Next I finished Nanatsuiro Drops which is about a guy who falls for a girl who happens to become a magical girl in order to help a talking sheep doll return home to doll land. Oh, but the guy is the doll; he turns into the doll when the sun sets, but he can't tell the girl that...


It's a wonderfully romantic Maho Shoujo title with a great deal of comedy and life lessons. Get your tissues ready though...

I rated it excellent on ANN.

Lastly, I finished Gakuen Utopia Minabi Straight! which is about an overzealous high school girl and how she changes the lives of several classmates (if not the whole school!). This show has a bit of it comedy, drama, life lessons, and rock and roll too at the end. My only detractor was the chara design; I mean these girls are supposed to be 16+ years old! It was enjoyable none the less.

I rated this excellent on ANN as well.


Yoroshiku, baby!

Update!

I updated my Wallpaper and Cell Phone images in the sidebar...at least I did something!!>_<

Finished!

Wow, has it been a month already? Where does the time go...well at an average of 24 mins each episode, to anime of course!

I've finished the following in the past month...

Code E - A girl moves to a new town and is discovered to have an effect on electronics by a genius recluse at school. He propsitions her to study her body and the antics begin. The girl who has been watching over the guy is involved and you have a nice sci-fi romantic comedy. I rated it excellent on ANN.

Doujin Work - After recently achieving adulthood our heroine dives head first into the word of doijin work; i.e. drawing erotic comics. This was a great comedy close dear to my heart; I love all anime related to otakuness!! I rated this excellent on ANN.

Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho - A new student comes to Umisho; on a raft all the way from Okinawa! SHe is seen to swim like a fish and is recruited for the swim team. It seems that the manager has met her somewhere before... I loved this show, for the comedy and fanservice, which I'm sure will be more evident in the DVD release. I rated this excellent on ANN.

Lucky Star - This show is pretty much a study of just what a bunch of high school girls are into and talk about and oh, it's hilarious! Especially when you throw in Konata and her otaku family! I rated thsi excellent on ANN. It's seems that now it has been licensed by Bandai Ent, so I'm anticipating the DVDs!

Lovely Complex - Imagine the tallest girl in school and the shortest boy in school slowly getting a groove for each other. Let the comedy ensue!! This anime has it all, comedy, romance, drama (well a little) and it's just plain funny! I rated this a masterpiece on ANN (yes, I really did!)

I also updated my top ten lists...see ya!

Shonen explosion!

I finished three shonen series this week and I have to let you know about them.

Claymore - What better premise can you have for cool chicks battling demons than having the chicks be half-demon tsudere hotties? Clair is a Claymore, which are for the most part half-human, half Yoma (demonlike monsters) women who's sole task in life is to eradicate the Yoma. Clair however became a Claymore for revenge against the "Awakened Being" (a former Claymore that went past her power limits to become basically a Super-Yoma!) who killed her only reason for living, Teresa of the Faint Smile, a Claymore gone rogue who befriended Clair. Clair isn't half and half; she took in part of Teresa instead of part of a Yoma.

There is much battle and character developement with each episode ending on a cliff, keeping you on edge until the next. I won't spoil it anymore, but the ending wraps of some of the story while leaving a great deal of room for another season!!

I rated this one excellent on ANN.

Murder Princess - A Princess escapes when the royal scientist initiates a coup. Whe she is chased by a monster in the forest, she's saved by a tsudere bounty hunter and somehow the two end up swapping bodies! It's now up to the bounty hunter to save the kingdom as the Murder Princess". There is a good amount of fighting in this anime and it's surprising how our princess can move so quickly in that dress! It's a six episode OVA and well worth the viewing. I rated it excellent on ANN as well.

Coyote Ragtime Show - It took me a while to get back to this show, but I wanted to finish it. It was well worth my time (and the price of waiting and purchasing the DVDs). Mister breaks out of jail with only ten days left on his sentence to pursue a treasure left behind by his dead partner in crime (who also left him a daughter to care for). Galactic political moves make finding the treasure all the more urgent as the planet where it's supposed to be is on a countdown to destruction.

This show has shonen written all over it from the awesome aierial battles to the cocky characters, including the detective duo after Mister's tail. My favorites have to be the 12 sisters, each named after a month of the year (my personal favorite being April!).

I rated this an excellent on ANN also.

Go on, get that anime; you know you want to! ;D

(Sorry no pics; I am a busy, busy man!!)