On a completely arbitrary scoring system, where Steins;Gate earned a 10, Robotics;Notes earned a 7. (And 10 is the highest, 1 is the lowest.) Chaos;Head, for those that remember that joke, earns a 5 on a good day, maybe a 4 on a bad day. Overall, it was good. If there are future installments of this franchise, I will definitely rewatch it and suggest others do as well, but it’s no masterpiece (as per the ANN scale).

But in other news, hey, Occultic;Nine is kinda the next series in the franchise, but it’s actually not really. Whatever the case is though, the name has the semi-colon and I’ll likely be sold, eventually.

No, excuse me, I have a light novel to read.

Seldomly;Committed.

Suguha, Kazuto’s semi-sister is cute.

That is all, committed.

Just saying, committed.

I’ve never been moved in so many ways in one day before.

I’m not quite sure how old Ohana is supposed to be, but she’s just a kid. That’s good. You should experience this ride when you’re young because as you get old, it hurts more and it’s engraved in the portions of your memory that make you bitter. When you’re young, the blemishes fade away and you come out feeling alive, maybe even happy, maybe even lucky that you managed. See, when you’re a kid, love pains, conflicts with your parents and the burdens of responsibility to the things you feel important, well, you can feel anyway you want and you won’t mind after.

Moving commit.

Yo, I heard you like fail, so we put some fail in your fail, so you can facepalm while you facepalm.

"so we put some fail in your fail, so you can facepalm while you facepalm."

AKA: 2channer!

Unexpected and incredibly memorable moment.

One-time commit.

Enough poetry. The truth is I was bored with the last season and actually being required to write about boring stuff was actually really really boring. Episodic blogging apparently just isn’t for me. My normal writing style isn’t episodic, it’s more editorial, more expository, more to the point and devoid of fluff. I have no intention of blogging again for anime. I’ll merely mention a note here or there. I’m not as interested as I used to be in this kind of stuff. All of that echi-esque anime is really boring. I’m here for the excitement.

Last week I discovered that Netflix actually figured out how to get anime licenses for instant streaming. I was pleased to watch the first season of Spice and Wolf, Eden of the East and Darker than Black. Among other things, I love Spice and Wolf because Holo/Horo is cute and Eden of the East because the idea of saving a country with a few billion dollars sounds like fun. Darker than Black still makes no sense and thank you very much for not explaining the mystery behind anything – in either season. Netflix bought the first seasons of anime that were at least two years or older from their original release date. When can I expect instant streaming of the next season? I’m guessing in another two years.

The spring season has started. A few series have began to air and more will be coming in the next two weeks. Looking at Neregate’s spring list, I might be looking forward to Nichijou, an anime about being extraordinarily ordinary, Steins;Gate, the scifi anime of this season, A Channel, the Lucky Star like series and two series with silly-long titles, Ano Hi mita Hana No Namae wo Boku-tachi Wa Mada Shirani, really now, was that really nessecary and [C] The Money of Soul and Possibility Control.

Finally, the idea of making Ghost in the Shell: SAC into a 3D movie is silly. A remake is pointless. How about something a little more original?

Anyway, that’s all I have to say concerning anime. It might be a while.

Delayed commit.

Happy New Year, 2011!

May you have an excellent night!

Perhaps this kind of indisision is how the literature industry feels about plays. They see them but can’t tell if they’re groundbreaking for thirty years. Epi is doing something like that but with the entire decade. He’s done a great job too in my opinion.

Let me just nominate Railgun as my favorite. It’s not special or groundbreaking. It’s average. It was good. As my favorite character though, let me nominate Kuroneko. I’d love to see more of her. There’s that sense of mystery behind a character that I want to see unraveled. I’m waiting for that good mystery to up.

That’s all from me. Have a fantastic new year.

New Year’s Commit!

Anime blogging, I hoped, would allow me to joke around with the shows I was watching anyway, everyday after school, before bed, whenever I had time. For a while I was fine but then it got repetitive for me. I found myself falling into the three component post trap again but this time with intro-summary-reflection. Sounds similar, doesn’t it? My blogroll is full of other lovely aniblogs out there and I finally relent to admit that none of my content was anymore unique than their content.

Valence posted something that I registered with.

I read other blogs in closer detail. How they used this ‘screenshot with text’ sin in writing, yet appear to be unique and professional, despite generating nothing as ‘unique’ as luminodrake had written. I thought for a moment – and realized the root of the problem. My posts lacked ideas. Concepts. New opinions, wit, or substance. They were like cardboard, soggy from the rain. I had even tried writing crappy columns every week to try and spice things up to a little bit, but alas, to no avail.

Remind you of anyone?

I recall my old days attending my English classes at school. I would sit there hopelessly pondering, “For what purpose do we analyze these stories?” At the same time, before, during and after class, a few of us would talk about the anime we watched. We would analyze that in a very different way that we would Shakespeare. It was interesting and relevant to us. Writing the way I talked about the anime at school was what I imagined when I started but that’s not what came out. Essentially a garbage dump of summaries and half-baked reflections were churned out.

Read my last long winded post ever. So that was too long. and this is too short. A mix of long and short was better for me, but not by much.

The question is, did that work? As a view monger, I still get 20-30 views per day on existing content and a few more when I post on twitter and elsewhere. I doubt anyone subscribed my feeds, I certainly wouldn’t which means that’s all unique google-generated traffic from somewhere. So, I succeeded there, I get traffic. As a blogger though hoping to find people who shared my interested, no, I didn’t really win any prizes.

So as I said last time, maybe I’ll do better next season.