Code Geass R2 12 – My middle name is complain

So in this episode the Code Geass R2 OP changed to this one.

Maison Ikkoku – It’s over ;_;

If there is one show out of the 224 TV series, movies, OVAs and specials where I watched and felt like I really grew up with the characters it is Maison Ikkoku. Maison is the longest show I’ve watched yet in my 13 years of being an anime fan. At 96 episodes, Maison Ikkoku tells the story of a young man, Godai, as he lives at the Ikkoku-kan where he is a ronin trying to get into college. There he meets the manager, Kyoko, who is a widow. Godai instantly falls in love, and the story kicks off from there.

Finally after 88 episodes it happened – YAY THEY KISSED

Finally! I’ve been waiting for this to happen after 3 long months of on and off watching of Maison Ikkoku. Way to go Godai!

BSS FIX YOUR GOD DAMN TRACKER – Fix your tracker

I just want to watch the end of Kurenai by the time I’m done with Maison Ikkoku. IS THIS TOO MUCH TO ASK?! It hasn’t been working for weeks now every time I check. What’s the deal?

Don’t even suggest IRC. I don’t know how to work that voodoo.

Fortune Arterial Impressions – Shiro-chan ftw

I’ve always been an Augustsoft fan ever since two years ago when I tried out Yoake Mae yori Ruri Iro na (Yoakena for the rest of this entry) and Princess Holiday. I enjoyed each but I liked Yoakena more. Well, when I say enjoyed I’m mainly talking about the H material… Although, Augustsoft games do mark the period of time when I first started my Japanese lessons so it’s kinda sentimental for me in some way.

Need help – What recharges anime fan batteries?

As of late anime and everything hobby wise that I love just hasn’t been exciting me. As if my Code Geass R2 entry hasn’t been an indication already. I’ve actually been kinda down for some reason or another, and my mouth actual hurts from frowning. (I wonder if Alice from Aria feels this way often?) Just what is going on here? Anime and games are what should be cheering me up and making me feel good about things. I don’t find myself getting nerdy over anything lately. Leaving for Japan on the 28th of August isn’t doing much either in terms of cheering me up.

One thing is that I’ve grown disjointed with a community that I thought I was vaguely a part of. Reading blogs and leaving comments really made me feel a part of something and really reinforced writing to the community. It also encouraged me to watch more anime and experience more. Now, I just don’t visit the other blogs anymore because I don’t feel interested. It’s been months since I’ve read what the community thinks and I am months behind with the latest shows.

I’ve been trying to play True Love Story 2 and other renai sims like four or five times today but I can’t get past the first few parts without turning them off. It’s like what’s the point? I can vaguely read it, and enjoy it but I don’t want to try. I need to study for my Japanese language exam but I don’t feel any motivation to.

Life is such a blah right now. It might also be my home life. I had experienced college life for the year and maybe I’ve gotten so hooked on living alone away from home that I was able to enjoy my life and hobbies more fully. Also, being home isn’t the best thing ever anymore, but that’s something for not here. I will say this though about my home life. My brother is literally a hikikomori, and it is annoying.

So, what do you guys do when you’re feeling down and anime and games just don’t seem to excite you in the usual ways? Does this mean I’m growing disinterested or I’m just burned out? But that would be odd to be burned out since I’ve been gone for a week camping. You’d think that I would be excited to just marathon stuff. Maybe this is just some brief wave of sadness and boredom, but it feels like I’ve been feeling it forever.

Maison Ikkoku – A mature romantic comedy

I’m not too much of a Rumiko Takahashi fan. I hated Inuyasha and Ranma 1/2 just got so boring after the first season. But if there is one show based on something by her you must watch it is most definitely Maison Ikkoku. I haven’t really been writing about this show because I haven’t really found much to say about it until now. The show is 96 episodes plus an OAV and a movie. Currently, I am at episode 57 and I’ve been gradually watching Maison Ikkoku over the course of three months.

The thing that I love most about Maison is that it is the absolute most mature romantic comedy I’ve seen. I’ve watched a good many romantic comedy anime but nothing like Maison. The comedy in Maison Ikkoku is never all that over the top and flows well into the show. There was this one scene in one of the Christmas episodes that just made me realize that Maison Ikkoku just isn’t like other romantic comedies I’ve seen. It involved Godai buying some gifts for the various girls he knows. I expected him to mess up and give the gift he wanted to give to Kyoko to Kazue and vice versa or something. Then following some kind of weird adventure for the episode to getting the gifts to the right people. Stuff like this happens all the time in these shows so I was expecting that, but it didn’t happen.

It’s such a mature show that you don’t see very often anymore. If it weren’t animated and used real actors I could see a large range of people watching it because it is just perfect sitcom material. You have a widow and two guys that are interested in her. I’m not sure if the Otaku culture was around even then but Maison Ikkoku just gives me that vibe that not just anime fans would watch or even read what this show has to offer.

The show matures gradually over time. In the start of the show it’s pretty much on the comedy side but I think it’s in good reason because it goes with how immature and unexperienced the lead male, Godai, is. He gets no respect at first. He’s just some ronin trying to get into college, but as he begins to show what he is capable of and starts to get his feet wet doing various jobs he starts getting respect. Maison also has a rich assortment of side characters that are just enjoyable. YOTSUYA-SAN FOR THE WIN!

Maison Ikkoku has turned into an excellent watch, and will most likely get a 10.

Ok, so I am unbanned from 4chan – The tonberryking has returned

Um, I dunno. I was permabanned from 4chan at home since Thanksgiving, and then I got banned from college. I haven’t been there since but then out of the blue today I decided to go there today at home for shits and I found myself unbanned for some reason. Well, currently I’m banned due to “trolling” for some reason. It’s only a temporary thing. I don’t know how claiming Code Geass R2 sucks is trolling but whatever. The mods sure seem a hell of a lot more stricter. I wonder why I got unbanned in the first place. I always thought my permaban was unjust anyway.

No one believes it’s really me posting but whatever. I did still get auto-sage from posters though like the good old days. Although, I really miss those days when it seemed like I was really a part of something even if I was hated. It really seemed like I was a part of the Internet in one way or another, but being away so long kind of has put me into that outsider and cannot be the real deal category.

/a/ has really changed from what little I browsed of it before my temporary ban. Seems like a whole lot of fail. I miss the old days. I’ll probably visit now and then maybe.

Code Geass R2 – Shit sucks

Kaguya: Did you hear, Code Geass R2 sucks.
Tianzi: Oh my…

I am so sick of Code Geass R2. I am so sick of it. The show sucks. It isn’t living up to the first season AT ALL. I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s because it’s on a more global scale. Maybe it’s because the plot can be more easily seen that they are making it up as they go along. The way it has been going so far is just disappointing. Code Geass R2 has definitely been turning into a show that isn’t a WOW I NEED TO SEE THIS ASAP. I really liked the suspense and intrigue and such of the first season but this second season has been a sack of bullshit. I am sick of it. Episode 12 looks like ANOTHER filler episode. God damn this is like how I felt when I was watching Mai Otome in relation to Mai Hime or Higurashi season one to season two.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami – I love Murakami

POST CONTAINS SPOILERS

I had been hearing good things about Murakami ever since I was in high school, but I never really got around to checking into his stories. Mainly because I just wasn’t as interested in reading as I am now. The first story I read of his was “A Wild Sheep Chase” in the fall. It was alright and an interesting ride but I was let down with the ending more or less. I then read a collection of his short stories titled “after the quake” in a day after someone told me to check into it. I really liked that. I would say that “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” compiles all the things that I had heard about Murakami’s stories. It was an excellent surreal read for me on page with something that Satoshi Kon would do (kinda). I only read weird fiction stories and this got pretty weird.