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Anime Relations: Boku dake ga Inai Machi

Backfilled a few titles since the last time I checked in 2012.

Highlights of the half-decade?

Boku dake ga inai machi
Re-life
Love Lab

A few others I've forgotten.

Up to now I had forsworn k-on out of pure loathing. Not merely for being criminally boring, pandering, or annoyingly drawn, but for ruining Haruhi S2, and anime as a whole.

When something is too successful it causes a black hole that destroys creativity and competition in a rush (and I do begrudgingly appreciate how irresistible such a force is) to imitate the property.

Now, many years later, I am either confident enough that my dear subgenre of storytelling has weathered the storm, or my own resistance shattered through the dullness of the offerings since, that I am embarking once again on watching K-ON.

I hope I can become a fan, that it is a gateway to all that I once hated, because maybe if in fandom I can convince myself I'd rather be uninspired than alone and bored, I can do it in other things.

I really want to play baseball.

I tried reading some Kyou Koi wo Hajimemasu (:Today I will fall in love!), as per my secret shoujo manga habit. It started off well enough, with plenty of scenes making me gasp like a prude... which I am, but uh... anyway. Recently whenever I try to read shoujo I start comparing the heroines to Tsukushi, and it never ends well for them.

Since I'm a guy (and straight, not that anyone cares), I don't know how feminist I should be about shoujo manga, but I'm always like "dude he just like... sexually assaulted you (forced kiss etc.), how is that even .... bah!" to the heroine whenever the guy is a bit too forward. I know those fantasies don't obey real life rules, but it still ends up bothering me. Apparently, if the girl secretly likes the guy that kind of stuff is okay. But how does he know! Aren't you afraid of prison!?

So I think of Tsukushi and what she would do. Kick his ass, that's what. Now there's a good shoujo heroine (yes, feminists even hate Tsukushi for being too "easy", but she's tough enough for me).

In other news I finally got Paradise Lost the higashi no eden movie. I skipped to the end to check for Saki's happily ever after. Nope, Akira runs off, GAHH. I watched them kiss, went "aww", then didn't bother to watch the movie. Man, shipping is scary shit.

'nother tangent. C, the anime... they dangle the cute Hanabi Ikuta in front of our guy, crush his hopes with her having a boyfriend, but then she's a side character!? He gets to flirt with his pokemon instead. I am sick of the trope of magical girl falls into guy's lap. What I really want to see is him (Kimimaro?) go and steal Ikuta from her boyfriend. Or at least try, and get his ass kicked. That'd be fun to watch. I don't want to watch another battle anime :<.

Recent:
Yukitatsu x Tsurumi. Like Yukiatsu because he's a creep (sensing a pattern here >_>), like Tsurumi because she knows he's a creep and still likes him <3.

Homura x Madoka. Homura is faithful, but depressed

Anime Relations: Kaichou wa Maid-sama!

I'm at episode 11. Usui... kind of my hero for doing the impossible. Being a stalker, and still managing to be hot.

And apparently he wears glasses <3

small house with an orange roof, finally a story about grown ups! it's a different kind of wish-fulfillment for the older man, and it's really cute >_>.

mmm, young divorcees.

the bible butts its way in later on, scarily enough, and the story runs off the tracks, but it's still good.

まじめな話をしたければ、すぐに日本語にかわる。元気でないほどアニメを学んだ
からかと言わないが、可能性が高い。俺に対して、これは皮肉な笑い事だ。

最初は寂しかった、とても。歯をくいしばる真似をしたんだから、残した気分は
妙な小ささだけだった。自分がどうでもいい感じ。アパシーでもない。毎日の問
題はそのままだったけど、だれも同感してくれなかった気がした。

これからどうすれば?

悩んでいる俺は歴史的に、拗ねるしかできない。

分かったよね。友達とよく話し合って、笑って今度の当惑を越える。>_>

来て欲しいなあ、信じられないよすぎる事情だよな、フィクションぽいなのよ。


re: portrait.

Sometimes, you're a genre-savvy chick magnet with a sexy voice. Other times, you're an otaku loser with absolutely no shame.

p.s.

貴様が読んでいるなら、なんも聞きたくネエよ。