It feels weird for me to make this post since I wasn’t even at this showing (I had a good excuse, I swear), but since no one else has put anything up I guess I’ll go ahead and assume it’s kosher for now. I wish I had been there; I can’t exactly comment on what was shown, but I’m not exactly a good authority on AMVs. I guess I hope Children of Daicon was shown, though, since that’s one of my recent favorites.

EDIT: The post below this one is newer. Read that!

Hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving. Remember the Indians? Yeah, me neither.

EDIT: Apparently, this post is so ridiculously awesome, it initially warped time and published a week before I published it. Date manually altered to be more accurate.

Hello! I hope you’re all enjoying Thanksgiving break. And even though the last true showing of the semester is over, this blog will continue to live on and bring you confusing things from Japan. Speaking of confusing things:

Neon Genesis Evangelion. A show any anime fan worth his/her weight in moe has heard of, and one that many have seen. A show that has been the center of thousands of pages of forum discussion and debate. A show that has spawned countless gigabytes of fanart, fanfiction, and doujinshi. A show that is supposedly one of the most influential works in the last 20 years.

A show that has successfully confused a large chunk of its viewers.

Sometime last summer, while apathetically standing in the shower staring at the showerhead, I challenged myself on a whim to create a brief synopsis of the series. And although I had seen the show within the last couple of years, I found the task more daunting than I had anticipated. A group of young teenagers suit up in giant mecha to combat aliens.Was that it? The more I thought about it, the more I realized I wasn’t really sure. One of the most well known anime in existence, and all I knew about it was that there were some kids trying to fight aliens in giant mecha, and Shinji was a pussy. It bothered me enough that I actually went back and watched the whole series over again, trying to pay attention to the background and history behind everything. While I still can’t really claim I understand everything, I hopefully have a functional knowledge which I will now try to express in text. The background, the lore, the people, and the politics of NGE.

Do I really need to say there will be spoilers? If you haven’t seen NGE, and would like to, you may pretend this post doesn’t exist and keep yelling at me to post something new. On the other hand, if you haven’t seen this, and are too lazy to, and still want to sound smart in internet debates (lolwut), feel free to read ahead and spoil yourself senseless.

Also, long post is loooong. Get yourself some pocky and find a comfy seat.

Hello, everyone. It’s been a while. It was all because of EPICS presentation and physics test that I couldn’t post. So, this time it’s Yukino Satsuki-san. (And I gave up trying to come up with a good title, cause I can’t do it.) Who is she? She although it was a very short line, she played Hoshimaru from Naru Taru. Wait, wasn’t it, like, 2 weeks ago? Yeah, I tried, but then EPICS and physics came, like I mentioned.

Hey, everyone! It is I, Grant, and this post is happening again. This week we watched Seitokai Yukuindomo (which I believe has also been referred to as Sex Jokes: The Show), Amagami-SS, and The House of Five Leaves. Feel free to discuss them below. Oh hi there. The first show, Seitokai Yukuindomo, was funny. That’s all I can really think to say about it. I doubt I’ll be watching more, but I would be lying if I said it didn’t make me laugh here and there.

Hey, everyone! Same deal as every other week. Post with comments. Last night we saw Requiem for the Phantom, Seikimatsu Occult Academy, and Blue Gender. To start with was Requiem for the Phantom. It’s hard for me to deliver a good opinion on this one. To me, the scenes in this show would randomly oscillate between ‘just bad’ and ‘badass’. The concept is sort of interesting, though the whole ‘evil mad scientist’ thing seems a bit cheesy to me.

I was originally gonna post about anime I didn’t like, but then this whole week happened, and now I’m in a good mood.

Yo, all. It’s Grant again. By now, I’m sure you all know the drill. Last night we watched Dai Mahou Touge (1-4), Shiki (1-4), and Narutaru (1-3). Thoughts go below! I thought Dai Mahou Touge was hilarious. I’m sure it would have been 100x better with working sound, but I still managed to enjoy this show. The story wasn’t anything special, but it’s obviously not meant to be a show you watch for the story.

aka “good reasons why people are only allowed to be president for 4 semesters in a row”

Somebody call the hospital.