So Anime Expo has been over for almost a month now. The reason it took me so long is I only just got back from California a few days ago, and I was busy pretty much the entire time I was there. However, now that I’ve settled back down at home and completed Catherine, I think it’s about time I talked about what went down at the expo.
Before I start anything, this is not an awesome post or anything, but the last post was in May. I think the blog will start feel lonely soon if we don’t do anything about it.
However, I don’t think there’s gonna be many people reading this before the school starts, so SURPRISE! Bet you didn’t expect anything after Chris’s post.
Now, that I think of it, I’m doing this more to surprise you than anything. So, the value of the contents of this post close to none, if not zero. But I’m still going to insert more tag, to waste your time just little bit more. Remember I warned you.
No seriously, why do we like what we like, and how can that total weeaboo over there actually enjoy something like that?
The anime fanbase is probably the most divisive, controversial, contradictory, and passionate community I’ve managed to make myself a part of. This is probably due to the infinitely broad range of niche markets the anime industry as a whole caters to, combined with the fact that if you’re an anime fan in the US, you probably know how the internet works, and the first thing you do when you watch something is to share your experience online. And when that guy passes your favorite show off as pseudo-intellectual, otaku-pandering, mindless drivel, god damn but shit is gonna go down.
OH NO YOU DIDN'T
It’s one thing to see a show as complete garbage, but it’s another thing entirely to find out there’s an army willing to defend that show to the death–defend it in a scientific, literate, intelligent way. How could anyone intelligent enough to weave such arguments together possibly see redemption in this waste of pixels? After all, real anime fans would only watch what I watch.
It’s a topic I’ve spent many a minute pondering on the toilet, and in class. It’s something Gene touched upon in his last post, and was elaborated upon in the comments. Clashing tastes, and why it pisses us off so much when it happens.
As you know, this club is not a culmination of ideas from a dream I had last summer involving brain-eating aliens and fields full of flowers. Rather, it was much like a research project involving a lot of reading between the lines and ignoring advice from everybody except Matt and Daniel. My line of logic is not through innovation, but rather through anticipation. To be frank, I pay close attention to how other people do things, and promise myself NEVER TO DO THEM. This is why I read blogs and browse 4chan, because a good anime club president SHOULD. I didn’t read many blogs, but I’ll link a few that I “liked.”
whoooaaaa in a good way that is
To the point, this blog post is going to be about some of the stuff I did that I sometimes dragged Matt along for that I feel was really good for a club, and hopefully educate some of you on how not to scare newcomers off, especially when Fall comes around and we have to bring more people in. Not that I’m worried about that, I just really liked what we did this year and thought you all should know about it! Mina baka…
And neither is this blog, even though we’re out of showings. You didn’t seriously think we’d leave you in peace all summer, did you?
Finals are over and school is done, but it’s like my life didn’t get any easier. Thanks to all of my procrastination of procrastination, all of that “I’ll do it over summer” is now catching up. So much anime to watch, so many games to play, and so many miscellaneous things to waste time on. This happens every summer, and I never finish everything, and then I push it all to next summer. It’s like some kind of endless loop, or something.
Back at that time, I was nervous, excited, hopeful, worried… I was just starting college, and countless doors to the mystical treasure known as the “rose-colored campus life” lay open before me. And the one I chose was:
The other name, obviously, is
Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Boku Tachi wa Mada Shiranai
Which translates to “We Still do not Know the Name of the Flower we Saw that Day” which we then shorten to “Ano Hana” which translates to “dat flower.” Here’s a graph illustrating how little sense this makes:
Looks pretty conclusive to me
Hey guys, it’s me again with this week’s anime. Last night we watched Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi, Kore ha Zombie Desu ka?, and Golgo 13. It wasn’t a bad night, going from some entertaining moe-cancer comedy to what Gene called MANIME, a refreshing change of pace in the middle of all of the other shows we’ve been watching.
I’m feeling kind of lazy tonight, so expect this post to be short unless I end up discovering I had more to complain about than I thought I did…
That’s enough intro, I think. If you were there, feel free to read on. Or don’t and just comment with your own thoughts–that’s cool, too!