I really really really should be sleeping now orz

Ah well, just a few updates on the anime I’ve watched/ am watching. As usual. No pics I think :\

First of all, I finally completed Hunter x Hunter, TV series and OVAs and all. The manga’s still running, but I hear it’s pretty slow and the mangaka just keeps taking breaks. There was this long hiatus from 2006 to 2007, it seems, and then from then on it just went on and off, but now it’s serialised weekly in Jump. Then again, if this is considered bad, I sorta don’t know what to say to the faithful D.N.Angel manga followers. How is it now, really?

I also picked up this really random old anime called Legend of BASARA. Sure, Sengoku BASARA is the more popular of the BASARAs now, but this anime wasn’t too bad, I hear it’s really similar to Fushigi Yuugi. *And if you’ve realised by now, I haven’t watched that many of the so-called “classic must-watch animes”. I think my reading shoujo manga somewhat helped me tolerate the obvious traditional shoujo manga art style being animated. I’m not sure how hearing somewhat familiar voices such as that of Inoue Kazuhiko or that of Chopper (One Piece) affected my experience, but I think the plot was really quite decent. Another thing I’m really bad at is recommending anime to others, but if you like romance and uh. Epicness? Heroic anime, or other anime similar to Fushigi Yuugi, you might just want to give this a try.

Oh. Just a note, the ending is really unsatisfactory. It just ended really really abruptly and the moment we (the viewers) were all waiting for just didn’t happen. In Japanese, I’d say 悔しいぃい～～！なんでやねん、こんなエンディングなんていらねーぞ or something like that. 

I am currently watching Fullmetal Panic!, and I must say it is pretty interesting. It’s another “classic must-watch”, isn’t it. Sure there’s quite a bit lot of panchira and fanservice, though of course not comparable to the likes of Kemeko Deluxe, but the character dynamics more than make up for that. I’m not a mecha anime person, I suppose, since more than too often they center around a lot of politics due to GOODMAN influence, but sometimes I make exceptions. Like Code Gayass Geass. Darn, I really need to get rid of that bad habit of mine, but KL-chan’s fanart really isn’t helping.

Speaking of GOODMAN, I am transferring a large amount of data to do with the latest GOODMAN #00 first season to my external harddrive at the moment, from unknown sources. I may or may not watch it in the end, but I may just try. If you are wondering why I am doing so when I could so much more easily watch it streamed, I shall reply that I have had enough with this ’streaming’ education system here in this tiny pea nation googling a series with two seasons and a huge market based on mecha otakus just like Sagara and hoping that there are good streamed videos was entirely wishful thinking on my part. Or maybe I just did it on a whim |d I sort of get the feeling that I will not come to like most or any of the Meisters though :\\

&More details here: http://myanimelist.net/animelist/shadowangellz. And yes, I did realise that 86.7% of my Currently Watching anime list comprises of anime that are currently airing.

&! One line (or two, three for rants and rambles) for each other anime I’m watching that I haven’t really mentioned yet: 

Skip Beat! is actually getting interesting! And Kannagi filler episode wasn’t that bad, gaiz. More Nagi needed, though, and Less Over-Obsessed Nagi-Otaku Plz. Casshern SINS is kinda reminding me a lot of Kaiba with the same production studio and uh. story flow? Whaddya call it? I mean they both have some 記憶喪失 (amnesiac) guy getting around and trying to make sense of the world around him and on the way they meet people and stuff. NEED…MORE…EVE NO JIKAN. Haven’t been catching up on Gintama but slow subs are slow, too, even though Tudou would do just fine for me? GSZS is good as usual. Earl and Fairy is cheesy but the sappiness is teh funny. Kemeko was actually kinda funny the last time I watched it, I was quite surprised, but the fanservice and random Kemeko just don’t always work for me. Kuroshitsuji is getting better, some of the previous episodes really didn’t interest me much, I just want the plot to thicken. Michiko e Hatchin is… above-average, but I want a little more ….direction? Nodame is pretty good as usual. I can’t help thinking of Sagara now when I hear Chiaki speak, though. One Piece is pretty darned OMFG-WTFHish these days, but kinda in a good way. Just, someone remind me how many litres the average human has? The whole Strawhat Crew is inhuman, even those without the Devil’s Fruit. Looks like Luke is gonna grow up soon in Tales, but he’s still freaking getting on EVERYONE’s nerves already just about now. Toradora! is funny as usual. Still hate the parrot. I only like Taiga as a Tenori Tiger or when she’s actually violent and/or angry for logical reasons, Ryuuji’s too nice sometimes, and Kawashima is really really annoying.

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AFA ‘08’s coming real soon, gaiz, but first there’s a 20% off promotion going on at Kinokuniya from tomor today~!

And someone keep me away from pixiv, I could spend ages and ages there going 素敵♥！, followed by a loud wail directed at heaven complaining about how talentless I am, a million times at the billions of great budding artists there. In effect, wasting another few hours of the holidays I already happen to be wasting.

I love yukke's style, if you happen to have pixiv please give him/her some love♥♥♥

Can’t really believe that it’s over. And I completed the whole series in the short span of a September! (Maybe a bit more to marathon the first season, though.)

It’s been really entertaining, and I’m kinda sad that it’s ended. What a dramatic ending, with that whole trail of blood down that slope. And I kind of like how he was, as one pixiv image states, The World’s Kindest Liar.

I don’t exactly hope Lulu will be some cart driver though, I don’t see how you deduce that some random cart driver whom I didn’t even consciously notice could be Lulu Resurrected ._.u Imagine that!

*…ALL HAIL CART DRIVER LULU! ALL HAIL CART DRIVER LULU! ALL HAIL CART DRIVER LULU!*

Furthermore, there were so many citizens (in the series) hating him, they wouldn’t want to be relieved for no good reason and forget to make sure he’s dead even if he’s somehow become immortal, right?

Nunnally (the new moe KIRA! character, as illustrated by KL-chan) would feel very cheated of her feelings too.

Hey, but maybe he could have had his soul transferred into Nunnally’s crane and that coulda been what C.C. was praying for and hey, he would have lost his entire harem but he still has C.C. by his side faithfully and she talks to him just like she talked to was-she-dead-or-not Marianne.In short: SUNRISE PLEASE DON’T REVIVE LULU IF YOU DON’T HAVE A GOOD PREMISE which we 48591241562318578922564.34156 fans haven’t figured out yet. What’s that, you say? The classic Deux Ex Machina? Some of us are getting sick of that crap.

Oh, and if Gundam 00 (I wonder if I should even try and catch up to something that’s part of the neverending Gundam franchise) is raking in enough from fujoshis and Gundam fanboys already, you don’t have to repeat the plot in CG, if what I hear about the similarities in plot/ending are correct.

Speaking of Gundam… Let me blind you with something interesting.

I heard this would bring in more pageviews from fujoshis. I think that's wrong. I have the feeling they will kill me instead since YOU CAN'T UNSEE IT MUHAhaha.

Speaking of that KIRA! meme, why hasn’t anyone done a crossover of Death Note and Macross?? (Or at least I haven’t seen any around.) I’d totally want to see Raiko and Lko doing that weird shineyshineyshiney thing. Instead of a mic they could be holding a deadly pen and preparing to have a deathnotegasm.

**SAKUJOU! SAKUJOU! SAKUJOU! made me rofl like crazy even though I didn’t continue the anime series after that.

…Please, let me blind you again?

This is somewhat more unseeable, but anyway. Kudos to Super Spycho on cr.

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Alright, I won’t blind you anymore. I’ve been lurking pixiv and doing random stuff on lang-8 while neglecting my math. I’ve also been majorly mindscrewed by physics and I don’t know what to do to prepare for CHINESEDOOM and ENGLISHAGHWHYCAN’TISCORE tomorrow. I swear, I should have been in the Chinese stream and not the Higher Chinese stream.

Mind you, I'm still looking for a decent Gintama fanartist on pixiv.

I really love Kaiba~ And these two look really sweet together. There's quite a bit of fanart on pixiv.

Click for full-view to see everyone in Code Geass, even some characters whose names I can't remember for the life of me.

There’s a hell lot more decent fanart on pixiv (heck, I’m starting to get the feeling they’re all professionals but that can’t be true dammit you Japanese) ..I don’t mean the stuff I strike out, by the way.. and anyway I figured I should leave it to you guys to just go and find out for yourselves on pixiv Quite a lot are cute/ moe, quite a few pretty, a handful pretty hot, a few DANGITAMAZINGHOWDIDYOUDOTHAT and a lot of them really well-drawn. There are shitloads of KIRA! parodies

+ Code Geass is like totally owning the Top 100 Bookmarked Images list there.

Last one for the lulz:

It's so much funnier zoomed in, though.