call me painfully slow, but it took this ny times article to link tron legacy‘s joseph kosinski with the dude behind the works on josephkosinski.com. oh right…maybe joseph kosinski is the same joseph kosinski of josephkosinski.com! so he’s the one who did the halo promos? the little gears in my head are clicking into place. not that i had much doubt in the potential awesomeness of tron legacy, but this bolsters my confidence in the movie just a little more. one week to go…
pure win. “if your vagina is anything like my hand…there will be no problem.” and thank you to whoever put natalie portman in the golden thong. thank you thank you thank you…
damn, i already flushed out the ‘these suck massive’ animes from my servers, so i don’t actually have a good recollection of what i watched last season. maybe i’ll peruse my last post to get an idea what i left off at…
bonus video! it’s the OP track by chatmonchy for kuragehime…a quirky anime i’ve taken a shine to…
first, the season i left off with…
angel beats | definitely turned out alot better than i originally gave it credit for. poignant ending…and heh, my original comparison to haibane renmei was more on point than i thought.
arakawa under the bridge | …i didn’t stick with it…
b gata h kei | speaking of retardation…yea, this was retarded. if one were to solely base their assumption of japanese culture thru the plethora of anime, they’d probably just assume japanese guys lacked ballsacks. disposable anime…
durarara!! | …finished up last season, and i was sad =(
heroman | it was so dumb i stopped after the fifth or so episode. sorry stan lee, stick with western comics…
k-on s2 | there was still no discernible plot, but they graduated! and they’re definitely the undisputed kings of moe…
mayoi neko overrun! | was actually fun to watch, in a disposable kind of way. at this point i can’t remember a single episode…but *shrug* i didn’t hate it…
working | was also disposable, but entertaining. and the lead protagonist wasn’t a pussy. bonus points to him! ending was bleh tho.
SUMMER SEASON
amagami ss | same protagonist, different girls in alternate worlds/circumstances…over and over and over again. it’s like groundhogs day except with vapid teenagers. i watched the first arc, realized how stupid everybody was, and wandered off…
asobi ni iku yo | really fucking retarded. alien catgirls too stupid to be of any entertainment value, excessive tits and ass, and a general disdain for rational plots. it was so embarrassing to watch i stopped after the third episode…
high school of the dead | even with the excessive tits and ass (a plethora…a cornucopia even), this was actually a pretty damn good series. my eyes were glued to every episode. zombie armageddon, japanese high school style…
ichiban ushiro no dai maō | the series started off interestingly enough with a cool premise and agreeable characters (like a reverse anime harry potter), but the story just fell apart by the end. like seriously…nothing made sense. why the fuck is that kid wearing a power rangers outfit? wait what, why’s the main dude flying around on a dragon? what the fuck is everybody doing? dear plot, fuck you…
kaicho maid-sama | it was decent enough, til i realized every single episode had the same damn plot. hey whats that over there? *wanders away…*
mitsudomoe | like a mean-spirited azumanga…sort of. it took me a while to get used to its distinct style (big and round…still not a fan), but afterwards it was pretty funny…tho the gags got old by the end (set up scenario, misheard and/or misunderstood conversations, cue humor).
occult academy | i started watching this because it was a-1 studios, but then was let down by its quality (maybe a-1’s b-team, b-1?) tho the series did eventually get interesting, even if it took a while.
okami-san | i never did get the whole allusion to red riding hood et al…but it was ok.
seitokai yakuindo | would you believe this was actually pretty funny? everybody you’d expect to be wholesome is actually a perverted deviant, and they have a habit of saying out loud things you would normally keep in your head. that itself makes it worthwhile. and even with all the smut (vocally anyway), the anime was surprisingly pretty restrained (no gratuitous tits or panties, even as they showed pixelated dildos vibrating around a table in its intro). it spoke to my perverse sense of humor…what can i say?
shukufuku no campanella | yawn…wandered off. cutesy fantasy with no coherent plot…boooooring.
FALL SEASON ongoing…woot.
bakuman | from the creator of death note? whatever. while the premise was pretty educating (two kids want to break into the manga industry)…and does a fairly good job depicting whats required, the lead kid is a retard. seriously, melodramatic and very likely the target of massive wedgies. and while the series wants to shine a light on the manga industry, i’m pretty sure it’ll just end up turning off countless people interested in the industry. seriously…they make it sound like self-flagellation. ps: i’ve already stopped watching…
fortune arterial | vampires again? fuck you. i must’ve downloaded this accidentally…it’s ok, i’ve remedied this already by deleting all the files.
hyakka ryōran samurai girls | did i mention there are tits in anime? hey look, more tits! and they’re samurais and ninjas too…word. not bad so far in all honesty, and it’s got a very cool paint brush style. the animation’s a bit stiff at times however…
kuragehime | the aforementioned quirky anime, about a nerdy girl who lives with other nerdy girls and becomes friends with a fashionista girl, who’s actually a cross-dressing dude. yea…what the shit? but still fun to watch, and a cool change of pace from testicle-challenged guys and girls who can’t keep their clothes on…
ore no imōto ga konna ni kawaii wake ga nai | nobody actually calls it this. i think people just refer to it as “oreimo”, but i prefer “tim”. pretty good so far…the animations top tier, and the story’s well written too (popular girl hides otaku hobby from everybody, uses brother as scapegoat)…etc etc.
otome yokai zakuro | this probably isn’t even a bad anime…but it didn’t keep me entertained. next…
panty & stocking | ultra-gross and perverted anime, but it’s ok because it’s in the same cutesy animation style as powerpuff girls lulz! if i wanted to watch this style, i would flick over to cartoon network. but i don’t, so i don’t. and the hyper gross plots (shit, farts, boogers, etc) got annoying.
shinryaku! ika musume | moe-fied squid girl. stupid premise, but still more funny than it should be.
sora no otoshimono: forte | second season! yea i didn’t expect this either…did the first series do that well? whatever…it’s still got the same perverse humor, and in a total shock, there’s actually plot progression. ps: tits.
soredemo machi wa mawatteiru | another anime i’d classify as ‘quirky’…and about as un-typically anime as i’ve seen. weird girl and her friend work in a rundown maid cafe with an 80 year old head maid/owner and almost no customers. hilarity ensues (for reals!) the OP and ED both rock too…
star driver: kagayaki no takuto | i stopped watching after he activated his galactic pretty boy powers. what. the. fuck.
to aru majustu no index | season 2 is on…woot! tho i’m not going to lie…the first few episodes have a really weird pace. i’m hoping it gets better…
the world god only knows | at first i thought it was a stupid premise…but i gotta say i’m getting to like it. i think it helps that the voice actor for the main dude was the same guy who did jin in kannagi. in other news, his school uniform looks like austin powers’ crushed velvet suit. that has to count for something…
yozakura quartet | yea it’s just an ova, but have i mentioned how much i liked it? the story and characters are definitely cool too, and i’d imagine the original series would’ve been made so much better if the ova’s studio (tatsunoko) had handled it instead of nomad.
…in other news, americans are fickle, stupid, and amnesiatic. grats america, fuck you very much…
in lieu of my usual seasonal anime post, i think i’ll just post about this specific anime for now. maybe i’ll get to a full-on anime post down the road. it’s been a few seasons already since the last one, no? feh…whatever.
a new anime cropped up this season, yozakura quartet. or so i thought. apparently this is the second iteration of the series…the first debuting in 2008. i don’t really remember how much anime’ing i did back in 2008, so i’m not surprised i missed it. i did the research however after watching the first episode of the new season…the series creator was the illustrator for another favorite of mine, durarara!!. the similarities can definitely be seen in the character designs. the reason i did the info digging was because, holy shit, it is seriously one of the best looking animes i’ve seen in a long while. i of course immediately went looking for the original release, and have so far been severely let down by the animation quality. no criticism of the series itself, but the old series and this new one couldn’t have possibly been animated by the same studio.
*interlude*
erm, so on closer inspection, the new series is an OVA and is actually animated by a different studio, tatsunoko. this could possibly explain its higher quality (as an OVA)…or tatsunoko really is worlds better than the old studio, nomad. yea i don’t know or care…it’s still f’ing gorgeous to watch.
it was a good weekend.
in other news, i also went out with friends, did stuff, get stiffed by girls after the first date (grrr), and drank champagne that went for $1000 a bottle. that was high-larious…
ps | oh fuck yes. i understand that in the whole perspective of things…in life and such, that an accomplishment such as this in an online game may not seem relevant. but fuck you, this is seriously bloody cool.
man, writing that “funny” dating post is more of a hassle than i imagined. too much editing, censoring, redacting, etc to make for any kind of fun reading. blah…i’ll leave it in my drafts and revisit it later.
in the meantime, fuck they need to make a halo movie. gogo thom-293.
PREFACE
after initially stating that i was going to write about my funny dating shenanigans, i mulled over the idea a bit. you never know who reads these, so as a result you never know if someone’s going to be offended or whatnot. and i really hate offending people. jk…that’s not true. i hate unintentionally offending people. but then i thought…shit, i can’t be limited by what i write. this is MY journal after all (linked to facebook and all…maybe that was a bad idea. yea, i think i’ll de-list it from my fb), but i write with the assumption that the only person reading is me. so…yea, there ya go. besides…i need to document my ineptitude for future posterity.
if there’s one constant in my adult life, it’s been that i have a knack for sucking at pursuing girls. one of two things usually happens: i either scare the girl away (totally understandable), or they become a super awesome platonic friend. i suppose this is a stark improvement from even before that, when it seemed i only attracted jailbait…but let’s not go there. i took it upon myself to try again recently, due to a few mitigating circumstances which i’ll get to.
***edited***
ah fuck it…i couldn’t bring myself to write about people in an unflattering light. so i tossed that portion of the story. moving on…guess i can go straight to the “mitigating circumstances!” which has also been a constant in my adult life…my nagging parents. after a certain age, parents like to ramp up their nagging about girlfriends, settling down, etc…moreso i feel like from asian parents. i was hoping my two nieces were enough of a distraction for them, but i suppose i underestimated their multi-tasking abilities. because out of nowhere one day i get an email from my dad that went something like “so we were at an alumni event and i gave your number to a girl there. she’ll be contacting you soon…” my initial reaction was akin to “fuck shit ass cock what the fuck??” something like that. it’s not the first time they’ve done something like this, but i was hoping it was over with. i was in a fair state of pissed-off-ness that i decided then and there to sign up for match. yerp…this will evolve into a match story. more on that later. the girl calls the next day, but i was out getting trashed (partially due to the aforementioned situation)…so decided not to answer. she calls again a few more times (i’m still out) but eventually resorts to an email. so i read it, and it goes “yea stop trying to avoid me. i’m actually married with a kid…just wanted to introduce you to friends” etc etc. this puts me at ease, so i return her call the next day and set up a lunch. besides, i figured my wrath should be directed at my parents and not at the girl who was nice enough to respond to my parents’ odd tendencies.
at this time too i’m making my way thru the odd world of online dating. which in all honesty isn’t all that odd. i’ve had a number of friends already married and whatnot as a result of online dating…so i figured it was due time i gave it a roll. the reassuring thing (and concurrently the bad thing) about online dating is that it’s alot like normal dating…you can still get stood up (oh man that sucked bad), girls still don’t return your calls (or messages in this regard), and dates can still be a minefield. which i suppose is reassuring in its own way.
***interlude***
so i came upon this unfinished draft, and can’t for the life of me remember where i was going with this. but i published it anyway. yea. god i love this journal.
i read somewhere that people do really perceive time faster as they get older, since each year successively becomes a smaller and smaller fraction of your overall lifetime. i mean, when read aloud it sounds completely plausible…and even obvious. so every year will fly right by faster and faster…super.
BERFDAY MONTH
this past birthday of mine, i decided to take it easy…unlike the prior ones, which were actually celebrated successively at en. this year was a quiet one with a smaller group at alta, then at robataya…which also welcomed back gina and renee to nyc (albeit briefly). this was followed up by a number of other mini dinners with various friends that found us eating at hide-chan, minca (hmm…lotsa ramen), and the fanciest one of them…11 madison park, courtesy of min who was visiting from toronto. damn that was the fanciest lunch i’d ever had…there were two servers per dish they brought out. one was a dedicated “sauce scooper/dabber”…what the deuce.
REMAINDERS
other remainders of the past few weeks include (and in no particular order or even relevance to each other) angela’s goodbye lasagna dinner…shes off to india, the arrival of my big fucking plasma (holy shit does it look massive in my tiny ny apartment), various dating shenanigans which still require their own journal entry (it’ll make for a funny first september post), ivor’s rooftop bbq to celebrate his new apartment in brookyln (oh shit i should put up photos of that when i get a chance), an LES art crawl with hosan, and the almighty scott pilgrim…which despite its awesomeness, has already fallen off the top 10 at the box office after a few weeks. to the general movie-watching populace of america…fuck you. fuck you up your fucking ass.