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Anime Relations: Love Live! School Idol Project

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Hello guys! Welcome back to my blog. I had a wonderful day today and i'm gonna break it down~

So today I started school and tbh it actually had what I wanted in my dream school: Great Courses, Large Campus, Nice Students and Staff, and overall Fun. I'm really not going into much detail, but you get the idea. Anyways, I decided to make this a quick blog because I have to do stuff afterwards so hopefully you all enjoy yourselves and have a good night! Thanks for the support~

"Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize." -1 Corinthians 9:25-27

Anime Relations: Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai.

[08/14/2016 21:48:30]

I decided to return really quickly to blogging on here. I really want to track the new journey during Junior Year. Hopefully you will be along with me for the ride~

Anyways, I'm starting school tomorrow at my new High School: Guajome Park Academy. First time i'm going into a Charter School. I really have high hopes for this second restart. I'm really not going to go into deep detail about why I decided to transfer here, but let's just say I like bigger schools. Anyways, I am really excited for tomorrow. I have high hopes and I know summer came to an end, but now I really have to focus making new friends, getting good grades, and achieving my dreams. Hopefully one day I can look back to this post and say I suceeded! :) Please wish me luck~

Verse of the Day: "For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline." -2 Timothy 1:7

Anime Relations: Love Live! School Idol Project

Hello everyone, this is a complicated theory. If you don't want to read fairly long text please do not bother reading and probably just give a like or comment or share with the group! Thank you~

Ok, so this theory has gotten into huge consideration by me and I done some long research I have finally found answers:

So I recently was watching Love Live! English Dub Season 1 (inb4 one or two comments says "wtf why did you watch the dub LOL") and at the end of Season 1 I stumbled upon an ever deeper hole…the ending.

So the ending (if you already forgot the ending to the series) has Kotori making her final decision and figuring out that she wants to stay with u's. HOWEVER, it makes a speculation to what would've happened if we changed episode 11 to where Kotori never got that letter?

It's hard to vision this, but just follow me. If Kotori didn't get that letter, these events would follow: School Festival and getting into Love Live. In retrospect, they WOULD be able to qualify for love live to be honest if all of this trainwreck wouldn't happen because after No Brand Girls (even if Kotori never got that invitation, Maki was still thinking of writing that song), they would've skyrocketed to the point where they could be neck in neck with A-RISE. Fasten your seat belts, we are about to go deeper to where we could even talk about the FANDOM.

Yes, THE FANDOM–like this group. This episode was released on March 17, 2013 BUT the foreshadowing of the trainwreck letter appeared at the end of episode 9 where they never speak about it until 2 weeks later with episode 11. Still, why is that significant? Well, if she never got that letter we assume we just end the episode of here smiling or something like that (to which I just imagine that's what the ending should've been like), we honestly would've gotten more episode and even an "arc" on Love Live! Competition instead of watching the feels train to come by. This also plays in effect later.

Also, let's look at what the Fandom could've been differently. Love Live! School Idol Festival JP was released April 16, 2013 on iOS and June 6, 2014 on Android with an English release May 11, 2014 (around where I joined the Fandom), with that this plays of importance. One, because of the anime reaching it's pinnacle in Season 2 Episode 1 where many love livers today have basically joined, we wouldn't have that if it didn't come toward this episode: Episodes 11-13, even adding 9 in the bubble.

With that, we wouldn't also have an OVA (released November 27, 2013) IF the series were to continue without the trainwreck feels, we wouldn't have many love livers join yet due to not much interest in the Western until many people joined after S2E1 (what I am assuming), AND we wouldn't even have this group. This group was made probably I assume in mid/late 2014 with currently 33k members and all of them should be able to tell me the last 3 episodes of Season 1. Hell, if "Love Live! School Idol Project" ended Season 1 with u's upsetting a surging A-RISE idol group, then it wouldn't develop into a multimedia scene…unless it was originally planned before I even started talking. Not only that, they actually would've won two love lives if they upset A-RISE, yes…TWO! I mean though, if they were to make a second season adding Third Years graduating, which you cannot change due to it being a fact that they have to graduate that year. (Which honestly dosen't make sense having a Love Live competition every 2 times per year but that's another theory for later)

Still, the dawning question is "Why did they want to give us feels and not just have them winning possibly two love lives?" Well the answer is simple: the iDOLM@STER effect. Now I know this is the wrong time to be taking about iM@S, the presumably rivals toward each fandom even though iM@S had an anime same time as Love Live! but here's this:

[WARNING, NEXT THING CONTAINS SPOILERS FROM THE IDOLMASTER ANIME SERIES SO IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED SKIP TOWARDS THE END IF THE DOTS]
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Ok, so at the end of Episode 20 in the iDOLM@STER era where Chihaya has an occurring flashback of someone dying (not saying who it was), she has been rumored that she cannot sing…really paralleling toward real idols today with drama, however she sings and leads up to a great ending for a respective franchise.
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The iM@S effect takes a dramatic element and brings us a developing scene: Love Live shows us that by giving us scene by scene of buildup to this dramatic melody and really shows of an important while giving comparison to real idols like AKB48 currently.

Still, this episode really shows why it is important to have an ending like this and why many people criticize love live for being "copout" or "melodramatic".
So what did you think of my theory? I know, very long. Please however, let me know what you think of my wandering theory! And, answer this question: Would you change the ending of Season 1? Comment below please and I will have more theories soon, thank you for reading if you got this far~

Anime Relations: Kuroko no Basket

So basically I went to the Lakers vs Warriors game last night in San Diego and overall here are my thoughts on the 3-quarter game.

As a local San Diego fan, it was great to be at the game last night. People say that the game sucked and wanted a refund (in which i'll get to later), but overall for me it was fun. I got to go to the Lower Level and also the atmosphere was overall great even though the game was cancelled.

To start off with pre-game, since I had lower seats, I got to go to the lower floor, a little bit closer to the actual court. I was basically setting my territory behind the Lakers bench to get a glimpse of shootaround and probably get some autographs. Luckily, I got some. I got Mark Madsen's Autograph (you know, the guy who did this after they won the championship):



And also got Bill Macdonald's Autograph, the TWCSN Commentator:



It was hell of fun and also Andre Igoudala (Iggy) waved at me back after showing my "The City" Hoodie! Hell it was so much fun pre-game.

Anyways, the actual game. There was some delay during the game which they figured out the issue of players slipping. But yeah, let's go to the Highlights.

Chef Curry and the Warriors went early in the first with Stephen making 3/5 in the 1st quarter, but the Lakers were able to come back and fight to tie it up 31-31 in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, it was really same pace quarter till Nick Young aka SwaggyP gained momentum to prove the skeptics at VVCC that he wasn't a terrible player. So basically he was subbed in the game and started to get hot making 3 straight jumpers in the final 2 minutes of the second quarter, which got the momentum going.

In the third quarter, I got to see Metta World Peace aka Ron Artest aka Panda's Friend aka The People's Elbow. He did very good actually and really great to see him back in action with #37. Needs to work on offense though. The highlight of the game was Larry Nance Jr. posterizing Festus Ezeli to bring them huge excitement from the Lakers and even the Warriors. The game concluded later when Leonardo Barbosa slipped and basically looked like he injured himself. After people started cleaning up the floor, they said it wasn't viable and Byron Scott and Luke Walton (taking over for Steve Kerr) announced to end the game due to an unplayable floor. After that, every fan was jeering with them chanting "REFUND! REFUND! REFUND!"

Overall, here is the final outcome:



Classy move by the Lakers.

Overall though, it was a fun game rocking out in my James Worthy throwback jersey and also seeing some stars out there. Sad to see Kobe not there and prolly the last time if not THE last time. This also might be the last game for the NBA in Valley View Casino Center, really hope they move to Viejas Arena though where San Diego State plays. Other than that, been good and really hope there will be another next year!

My overall thoughts though:



And also here's "The Best Ticket" with my 2 autographs, man I have a great story to tell about this in the future lol: