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What have I been doing over the past two days? Well, aside from moving back into my apartment, looking at porno animes, watching “To Catch a Predator” clips and catching up on my backlog, I’ve also been reading up on the FALL 2007 ANIME TV SEASON. At first I was reading terrible blog entires written in what kind of looked like English, but probably wasn’t, and that eventually made me bleed out of my ears. So, instead of killing myself slowly, I hit up the ol’ ADTRW and found this thread, which lists every new show with a nice, succinct description, and sometimes youtube previews. NICE! What follows is a list of shows organized by IMPORTANCE along with witty comments.

Wow, I thought I didn’t have a lot, but apparently I do. :(

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You know maybe I should get a constant job instead of always worrying about running out of money to spend on useless crap. But enough about that, on to the comic. This is kind of extension of what I was trying to do here, but pulled off better. I was going for the Shinkai look with the sunset, and tried to pull off some neat angles. Panels 2 and 3 didn’t come out as striking as I wanted them too, but the last two turned out a little better than I had originally envisioned, so it all works out in the end. I’m trying to pump as much moe as I can out of Tina lately. I like the design of her shirt, but the skirt is a little on the eh side. Overall she kind of looks like cake, but that’s fine. The writing sounds a bit too much like an advertisement, but I find it hard to make these exchanges sound natural. Maybe because they aren’t Oh well. I promise the next comic is better. I just need to draw it.

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Here is a comic. Will update with more in the near future. This weekend has been kinda busy.

WHY IS JAPAN ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS?!

Reasons as to why Japan may be a completely ridiculous nation:

• Some how one of the retards from Kasimasi Girl Meets Girl made it into Saimoe… and won her first round!
• Characters like Yukari from Shana and real Makoto from Kanon, some how made it in at all, despite being in their respective shows for insignificant amounts of time.
• Primula lost to some StrikerS bitch
• For some reason a completely boring character like Hinagiku is more popular the Nagi :???:

On the plus side:

• Nagi and Siesta both it made it past the initial slaughter fest, so that’s all well and good.
• Hidamari Sketch characters are winning! Shock! I guess the otaku of Japan do have some shred of taste. Not saying that American fans have better taste, though. I mean look at all the Naruto retards at cons.

So, basically all of those reasons have to do with Saimoe. Except the one about Hinagiku. That just bothers me. Especially because EVERY FUCKING HAYATE DOUJIN IS OF HER. DAMMIT SHARE GIMME MY NAGI DOUJINS. C72 is thusfar unimpressive. This however may change that assessment, provided there’s not too much Hinagiku (though I fear the worst.)

I hate you, Japan! I hate the characters you like!

My Nagi t-shirt came in today. Nippon Export said four weeks, but I reckon it took just under two to get here. I bought it online because I figured it’d be cheaper than buying it from Sasuga at Otakon ($45), however I ended up paying $50…

It still looks very nice, though. I’ll wear it around the campus and see what kind of looks I get.

Also, Nippon Export rules at shipping.

I honestly hope this isn’t how they go about shipping their figures.

Anyway, off to have lunch and watch a bunch of anime that I didn’t watch yesterday due to me updating the site, or me being stuck in scenic Arlington Virginia for about three hours…

Updated artsite with some character drawings

Going to update the character section with drawings that don’t suck.

Trailer

A very promising trailer which gives me high hopes for the animated series. All the animation looks very fluid and energetic, and it should be given the manga it’s based off. Actually, provided the production values stay high, and they don’t botch up the story, this may be better than the manga! The manga fails on some counts simply because it doesn’t move. KnJ is a work which demands movement. I’m still a little unsure on what the overall quality will be, given it’s coming from newbie Studio Barcelona. The did a passable job on Dai Mahou Touge, and seem to be doing a fairly exceptional job on Nanatsuiro Drops four episodes in. Let’s hope they keep getting better.

School Days is an extremely frustrating show. This is mostly due the leading man, Makoto, who is one of the most irritating romance leads I’ve come across in a while. Not that I have much experience with the genre mind you, most of the romances I watch are also comedies. I still find he’s pretty annoying by any standard, because he just doesn’t know what he wants. So far the show has played out like HURRR I WANT KOTONOHA then HURR I TOUCHED YOU GOOD NOW I WANT YOU SEKAI. And I’m left going, “wow, does this dolt just think with his penis?” So far he’s really offered no other reason besides “durr I wanna touch your private parts” for having any interest in these girls. I find the only reason he’s gravitated towards Sekai is because she doesn’t put up much resistance, and of course he goes in for the kill RIGHT when Kotonoha opens up. If he starts two-timing consistently, then I’m scared of the resulting drama. At least the show is 12 episodes, so it’ll be quick and little painless. God, I just feel sorry for Kotonoha at this point.

…hang on! Isn’t Kotonoha School Days’ legendary YANDERE?! I kind of wish she’d kill Makoto, though. God

Also, Kotonoha’s large, bouncy, breasts have renewed by interest in well-endowed girls. However, her sister provides enough loli balance to keep me appropriately deviant.

My father rented 300 against his better judgment today, on BLURAY. BLURAY because my brother has a PS3 and we figured it’d be neat to test it out. From all the internet talk about it, I assumed it would be at least mindless manliness, but it wasn’t even that. It was just dumb :(

Maybe my idea of manliness is just more in line with this. I dunno.

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This comic is pretty terrible. Well, the art is anyway. The joke is fine, I suppose. I don’t see anything wrong with it. Pretty true to life, except for the fact that I’ll be quiting my own job in a day. The drawings are all wrong here, and the backgrounds are pretty bad. I’m not good with things like stores, since they demand a lot of things that look different. Me, being lazy just decided to make everything the same. Yeah, that entire aisle is cans. Cans of what? Who knows… I do kind of like the opening shot. Can you all tell that’s meant to be a fish-eye from the shelf?  I’ll really try to make the next one better, I promise.

I don’t have much to say past this. I haven’t watched any anime today, as I’ve spent all day on this, or putting up 10 Megami posters (just got 88, lots of nice posters.) In my final weeks before school, I’ll try to update the site a bit– update the character section with better drawings, add an introduction, update the reference guide, and some other things. I’ll also try to completely overhaul my artsite and edit up the Otakon podcast.

So yeah, that’s it, later.

Here you are

Is this a lost cause yet?

For those who don’t go out of their way to watch old shows and study about anime, Ashita no Joe was a fairly influential 80-some episode series by Mushi Pro from the early ’70s. I guess about a month ago, some group put out the first three episodes. I doubt they’re going to do anymore, but I picked them up just because I wanted to at least check it out. They didn’t yet reach the point where he becomes a pro boxer, but the first three episodes gave me a good enough taste of the show.

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Updated~

Not recommended if you don’t like seeing 13 year olds in bikinis.

After this: KnJ 13, comic 58.

I am a newbie to the whole Saimoe thing. Back in the far off year of 2006, right when the Saimoe of that year ended, I had only just heard of the event and had a minor grasp as to what it was all about. One year and many online discussions later, I am more or less fully prepared and informed about this thing. I kind of put off learning how to vote for a bit, since it sounded complicated, and because of that I missed my chance to vote for Nagi. She passed anyway, so it’s nothing to worry about. I’ll get another chance. My first votes went towards three characters I don’t particularly care about, but today I went for some favourites of mine: Konata, Isumi and Sae. Ok, not really favourites, but I actually like them more than the ones I casted votes for yesterday, so it’s something (and I do like Konata quite a bit.) I’m just waiting for when I can put in votes for Kaede, Primula, Siesta, Henrietta and Choco :3 Ah, I hope Kaede at least makes it through at least one round~

In other stupid wota news, I recently got my hands on my first issue of Megami. I ordered just the latest issue, but then decided to get the August issue just because. This issue doesn’t have too many posters that interest me. I ripped out a pic with Louise and stuck it up, along with a Nanatsuiro Drops, School Days and Doujin Work poster– all shows which I’m not totally in love with, but they make nice cheesecake for my walls (mostly cheesecake of girls who have no chests god I’m a pervert). Oh, there is that huge Lucky Star poster of Konata hugging Kagami in a bikini. God this room is like a fucking den of sin. The latest issue has a bunch of stuff I’m interested in, so I’m eagerly awaiting that. All of sudden wall real estate in this room has become quite a rarity. Once this new issue comes in I’ll have to kill some babies. I think I have one too many Shuffle! posters up…