Well wouldn’t you know it? I finally watched this God damn movie! Now I don’t need to put any more update comments on Klux’s post. So what did I think? Well, there were a few “meh” moments, and some dumb moments, but mainly (due mostly for the way I approached it), I found that this movie was quite good, and the fight scenes at the end were actually GOD DAMN AWESOME.
Mr. Black let everyone know that this movie might not be that great, and so I went into this movie treating it as if it wasn’t really related to the main plot of Bleach. Well, that’s not really correct. I should say I was prepared to disregard any inaccuracies toward the series, and just treat it as a movie (which it was). In that sense, I basically got rid of any expectations. Needless to say, it worked out, because I found it to be pretty good (not as good as the first movie, which had Senna, the coolest character in Bleach).
However, I don’t feel like making too long of a post, so I’m just going to talk about Rukia, and how God damn cool she looked.
Overview
Rukia gets captured. Ichigo has to save her. Everyone’s memories of Rukia and Ichigo are gone.
Well that was easy. Now I’ll talk about Rukia.
Now, we all know that Rukia’s got some really fucking big ass eyes, so when Rukia gets fused with the weird brother and sister that capture her, and her eyes turn black, she looks awesome. I was reminded heavily of Tim Burton’s movies (like The Nightmare Before Christmas). She kicked serious ass. I almost wanted her to win and Bleach to become a show where Black Eyed Rukia just goes from town to town in the real world and kills people. That would kick ass. But instead, the ending to Fade to Black was corny, sappy, and dumb. Was I supposed to be sad at the end? I almost shut it off with only 6 minutes left in the movie. This brings me to something that has been bothering me since the beginning of Bleach.
How exactly does one die in the after life? I mean, the people of soul society are dead people, right? So how can they die if they’re already dead? Do they move onto Soul Society II? What the hell is that?
I’m going to touch on the corny ending for a second, because I feel I need too. Don’t get me wrong, I thought this movie was good, despite the crappyness of the ending.
Analysis of the End
It was very predictable. The siblings that captured Rukia came off at the end as being basically innocent, they only wanted to see Rukia after all. The they die, Rukia cries, and then it FUCKING RAINS. HOW MORE CLICHE CAN YOU GET? Afterwards, Rukia is on that mountain with Ichigo, and Ichigo says some bullshit about being connected, and then the credits roll to Japanese techno music. No segway, it went straight from slow, sappy piano music right to bumping techno. It was almost comical.
Wow, Eye Sedso is really becoming pretty perverted eh? First was a yuri hentai post, and now a post about a manga about masturbation. But wait, is Onani Master Kurosawa really about masturbation, or is it something more?
Onani Master Kurosawa
At first appearance, OMK might appear to be nothing more than an awesome manga revolving around the center character of Kurosawa, who uses the girls’ bathroom to get off each day after school, using his classmates as targets. t first appearance, OMK might appear to be nothing more than a manga that turns the art of masturbation into a bad ass way to get revenge on girls in class by jerking off on their shit. This is what I thought when I learned about if from reading some random site that I’ve never heard of, but seemingly always seem to read and take advice from, such as what anime to watch, and apparently what manga to read. But actually, Onani Master Kurosawa is more than just cum and revenge (not that it needs to be). In fact, Kurosawa pretty much stops all form of masturbation half way through the manga, and OMK actually seems to mainly reflect the emotions that a typical kid goes through in middle school, dealing with puberty and all that shit.
Hmm….should I try and analyze this manga? Or should I just end by saying how awesome it is, like I usually do? First I’ll relate it to life, after I say that Onani Master Kurosawa reminded me of
(Deathnote – death) + Welcome to the N.H.K. + Masturbation
Get it? Now here’s some life experiences and stuff.
Reflections of a Man
I don’t jerk off in the women’s bathroom. I jerk off where ever the fuck I want, and if that includes a women’s bathroom, so be it. What type of man doesn’t masturbate? I’ll tell you: One without a penis. That is the only type of man who does not masturbate. Even a man without hands will find a way to release his white power all over the place. In fact, I bet that not having hands has the same effect on masturbation that being blind has on the other senses. When you’re blind, you suddenly have all of your other senses super-sized. I bet if you lose your hands, you can imagine masturbating, and it will feel just like sex. That’s not a bad deal, maybe I’ll cut off my hands later (no).
That being said, I have had and heard my share of great masturbation stories, and now I will share them with you, all of which are actually true.
Story One: My Personal Best
How many times can you crank the wank in a day? 3? 4? Pussy shit. In my hay day, I hit it hard with 5. 5…… in ONE HOUR. Beat that shit! You might be able to, but by the fifth burst, I honestly felt like I was going to accidentally ejaculate both of my testicles. I didn’t even want to do it, but I had a full boner going, and some spare time, and so I kind of had no choice. I actually ended up breaking a sweat.
Story Two:The Legend of Sanch
There was once a friend of mine, not a best friend, but a friend none the less. I’m not going to get into much, because this is supposed to be a post in good fun, and I don’t want to make it sad, but in his day, he bragged about jerking off every hour on the hour for 24 hours. In case you can’t add that up, that’s 24 explosive cum shots in one day. That’s fucking fantastic. I mean, nobody knows for sure how true these words were, but I’d like to think that they were complete fact.
Story Three: A Funcky Action in the Back of a Station Wagon
Oh my God I’m still laughing at the title. One of my best friends (a term that actually contradicts itself), Matt Parrotti, of FUNKY FACTION, was one time on a family trip, and they were driving to St. Martin (I think). Now, judging by the title and the setting, you can probably see where this is going, but let me re-iterate. He was in the BACK SEAT, NEXT TO HIS SISTER, WITH HIS ENTIRE FAMILY IN THE CAR, AND HE LET OFF A CUM ROCKET RIGHT THERE UNDER A BLANKET. Now, in case none of you get the awesomeness of this, let me tell you, jerking off in such a tight, enclosed space, with your entire nuclear family in the same tight closed space, can be risky. He took that risk by the balls, and came all over it. Nice job!
Story Four:Mid Dance Matt
Not to be outdone by himself, Matt is back for more. Scene? Middle school dance. You should already know what’s about to happen here. This was, I think everyone’s first dance. And yes, I italicized first for a reason, because it will cum back again. Matt, in all his glory, was dancing with Girl-A (not from Hayate, this is just what I’m calling her because her first name began with an A). In case you’ve never been to a dance or to a club. Dancing is grinding hardcore, a girl’s ass up against your general zone of righteousness. To bring back Sanchez, I remember a dance where he was literally railing a girl. Just humping her from the back in the middle of the dance floor, it was fucking hilarious (he was hammered). Anyway, Matt was grinding with Girl-A, and then suddenly, he jizzed in his pants. Not only did a load of cum escape from his grapes, but as it turns out, this was his first load ever expunged from the depths of his ball sack. Needless to say, he was confused as to what happened, and ended up crying in the middle of the song (I made that last part up).
Honestly, all men jerk off, and I’ll be damned if most guys don’t consider jerking off in the same category as a sport. It’s become a common part of daily life….almost as common as breathing, drinking water, or jerking off. Because I really want to show a Pulp Fiction clip, here’s one that involves jerking off:
You should have already seen this movie at least 10 times. If you haven’t please watch it the appropriate number of times more until you have reached ten. The actual part of this clip referring to jerking off is around 3:30.
Analysis
Onani Master Kurosawa isn’t just jerking off and getting revenge. It deals heavily with relationship, several different kinds of relationships in fact, resentment, and trying to change. It’s actually really fucking good as a story. Here are some of the things involved:
Main character who just likes to masturbate. Nothing wrong with that I think.
Girl who hates her life and gets bullied, and has a multitude of issues.
Unrequited love.
Blackmail.
Getting out of Blackmail.
Rejection and temporary loss of sanity.
Balls, used both to masturbate and to take a stand.
Realization of feelings.
REVENGE.
Looks like a winner to me.
That’s my whole analysis, lol. Seems I’d rather talk about jerking off.
FINAL GRADE = 5^^
Bill understands the importance of jerking off, so he didn't even fight this time. Instead, he and Onani Master Kurosawa went out for drinks.
SPOILERS
Was chapter 31 really the end? Fucker. I wanted Kurosawa to end up with the suicidal girl. Damn poor girl gets shit on until the very end.
Now, I’m sure you’ve heard me refer to BAM moments at times during my posts. But what am I talking about? If you’ve read all of my posts from day one, then you might know, but I highly doubt that you have, so I am going to explain. Here are some BAM definitions:
BAM
/v/ The action of reacting to a BAM moment.
ex: Sam was watching Toradora, and was at the scene when Taiga was being carried by Ryuuji in the snow, and she thought it was Kitamura. She then mistakenly confessed her love for Ryuuji to whom she thought was Kitamura (but was really Ryuiji) for the first time in the show, and Sam stood up and punched a hole in the wall because he was so excited, “FUCK YEA TAIGA!” He yelled out his window at a passing elderly couple.”FUCK YEA RYUUJI! BAM!”
BAM Moment
/n/ Any moment that results in a physical display of emotion, such as pumping a fist, or speaking out loud, despite being alone, either in astonishment, happiness, or anything of the sort.
ex: In Deathnote, when Light got his memories back through a huge master plan that he thought up, I pumped my fist in the air, jumped up in the air, and said, “HOLY FUCKING SHIT….BAM!”
BAMmy
/adj/ A descriptive term, when referring to anything that contains a lot of BAM moments.
ex: Code Geass is a very BAMmy show, in that it has many twists, turns, and surprised that make me emit a physical reaction.
It is also imperative, that when you refer to a BAM moment, the three letters, B, A, and M, are not only always capitalized, but are also the only one’s capitalized, so as to not cause confusion. For example, BAM, and Bam, are two different words. BAM refers to the action of reaction of a BAM moment, and Bam refers to….I don’t know, hitting something.
Words like BAMmy, BAMtastic, and BAMerific, all can be seen clearly as words that relate to a BAM. As such, their relationship to the BAM can be seen by what word or words, they are modifying. I mean if you say that something is BAMerhightinfightinjerkinlurkin, that doesn’t really relate to any actually word (and you sound like a moron), but we would know that it is an adj, so it would mean pretty much the same thing as say, BAMmy.
Now you all hopefully understand the BAM moment in its true word. Now when I say something like “BAM”, then you know what I mean. If I say something like Bam, or bam, then I obviously am referring to something different. Now I can use this post as a reference link.
Holy shit, I watched what was technically a hentai. This marks what I believe to be a first in my anime watching life. (The Rapeman is technically hentai I guess, but I consider it comedy/awesomeness, and I also watched this before I ever watched the Rapeman).
But if you don’t get off on hentai, why would you watch it in the first place?
I read the overview, and I thought, “Hmm, this might be good, with or with out sex”, and saw that it had lesbians in it, so needless to say, I just had to watch it.
But there are plenty of hentai shows with lesbians in it! Why this one?
I read about it on Yasashii sekai, and immediately became curious about the picture that was at the top of the page (lol, that was honestly the only reason I watched this show, is to find out what that screen shot was about). Plus it was only three episodes, so takes, like, no time at all. Plus, I was just over at Listless Ink, and decided, “She gets so many hits, maybe I should write something about yuri, so as to improve my dismal hit count of 250 a day on average.” Basically I watched this a long time ago, and am only just remembering that I never wrote a review. Honestly, I treated this as a normal show with above average fanservice, and some sexual lesbian scenes.
Shoujo Sect
So what is this about?
Shinobu Handa and Momoko Naitou met when they were young children. Shinobu fell in love immediately with Momoko, even though they were like…..5. Anyway, they’re now in high school, which is an all girls school, and apparently full of lesbians, and it seems that Momoko has completely forgotten about that incident long ago (or hide and seek).
So now these girls are in high school, and they’re completely different personality wise.
Shinobu Handa
The one on the right, with the orange hair. I can't remember who the other girl is, but I know she's a lesbian.
Shinobu is pretty much the epitome of a lesbian pimp. She actually has pimped out about 9 tricks so far, and has sex with all of them. See this scene above? In this scene, she has brought a classmate in to strip for her, and then she treats her like her own personal sex plaything. And by the way, this is her “club room” at school, which she turned into her own private sex room for sex. It’s pretty sick, I wish I could pimp out girls with the same pimping prowess of Shinobu. Shinobu lives in a house with a bunch of girls she’s pimped out, and they all get down with sex all the time.
So anyway, Shinobou only wants to have a relationship with Momoko, who can’t even remember when they played hide and go seek at the park (which apparently was so romantic that Shinobu fell in love with Momoko here……there was some reason behind it but I can’t remember what).
So what about Momoko?
Momoko Naitou
Momoko, unlike the slacking pimp that Shinobu is, is actually good in school, and relavtivly sctrict in following rules, and making sure others do the same. Eventually, she gets seduced by her teacher, who has sex with her in a random hotel. This is of course illegal in real life. But as youu can tell from the picture, this show isn’t real life, it’s animation. That’s kind of all I have. For a main character, Momoko is pushed to the side a bit. Shinobu is the real main character, but that’s because she’s a pimp. Momoko get’s awesome near the end, when she sees that Shinobu was forced into doing lewd acts, despite being a huge pimp. Momoko does something awesome that made me go BAM (like as in BAM moment), and was awesome.
There’s a bunch of other characters, but they’re all sluts, and none of them really matter.
Now, this is a hentai, so I’m going to have to talk about the porn aspect of it.
The Porn Aspect of It
Momoko is 16, so the teacher is actually a pedophile. I watched this OVA, does that make me a pedophile? No, because I never got turned on, and because Eye Sedso.
That scene is the one where Momoko is having sex with her teacher. Too bad her teacher gets deathly ill right after, and has to transfer schools. It looks like Momoko gave her the AIDS.
Basically, in this school, everyone is having sex with everyone. What kind of school is this? Obviously a good one. Even sisters are having sex! What the hell is up with that? Freakin Japan loves incest. In fact, I’d have to say that Japan is the most perverted nation on the planet, where anything from incest to getting raped by a octopuss is not only considered normal, but arousing. Japan is weird. I still want to go there someday though.
As far as me watching the porn (that’s right, I watched it), I felt that it pretty much the same way I think of blatant fanservice: Kind of unnecessary. Of course, one of the whole point of a hentai I guess is to show some sex, so I guess viewing this the same way that I view a regular anime would be wrong.
At least the sex scenes weren’t that graphic, and they were pretty short, as well as censored (which really didn’t make much of a difference). In some cases, they were kind of funny, but in general, I wasn’t really bothered by them or anything. I mostly used the sex scenes to clip my nails (I clip my nails pretty much everyday). I doubt I’ll watch any more hentai in the future. (does My Balls count has hentai? It might, but it’s a manga so it doesn’t count for this).
If you want to know more about this OVA, then read the wikipedia. I think that the episode recaps are kind of funny…..Time to make a post about Onani Master Kurosawa, possibly one of the best manga’s I’ve read in recent times. Already finished it. Until then, Shoujo Sect get a
FINAL GRADE = 5 (some of this was actually kind of stupid, so no 5* or 5^^)
Apparently the manga was better? I’m not going to read it though.
Bill the Ass Kicker has been in to bathroom jerking off to girls in his class.
I’m actually going to go in-depth for once, to reflect the hardworking attitude of a Hataraki Man. Let’s start this off with the OP, I mean, it would seem to me the most fitting thing to do. (NOTE: I really wanted to put up the actual OP, and not just the song, and this was the best I could do. Skip to 38 seconds).
This OP was one of my favorites ever. Top Twenty definitely (for me). Now as for the show…
Characters
There was certainly no shortage of great characters in this one. They all had their own little something about them that made them unique. I’ll go down the list a little bit and give you some insight about each of them.
Hiroko Matsukata
Here’s a woman dedicated to her work. She puts so much energy into her job, in fact, that I actually felt fatigue from watching her do nothing but work, pull all nighters, and deal with so much stress without a break that it was unreal. (Hataraki Man, in case you were wondering, means “Working Man”…..or “Hardworking Man”…..or something to that effect. This sentence didn’t really belong here, but I thought I should mention it, so I put it in parenthesis, which makes it okay) Not only that, but her boyfriend pretty much sucks. I mean, here’s this girl, pretty good-looking, successful, and you just put off doing anything with her. I mean, God, you’re a piece of shit. I was in his shoes, I would be railing this broad all over Japan. Is this dude allergic to sex? Fuck….
There’s really no way that one can’t respect Matsukata. All she does is work, and she pretty much gets nothing in return. She struggles at times (sometimes with herself) to meet expectations, and wouldn’t you know it? She does it! She’s pretty much like a bad ass of the journalist world. Oh, and she’s voiced by the famed Rie Tanaka.
Mayu Nagisa
Wikipedia claims that Nagisa is 23 years old. I don’t buy it. She looks 15 to me…..maybe 16 or 17. 23 is definitely pushing it. In the beginning of the series (like the first 2 or 3 episodes) whenever Matsukata turns into Hataraki Man (she says “Switch On”….this stopped after a couple episodes, which was slightly unfortunate, but not really a big deal), she would exclaim, “Yes! It’s Hataraki Man!” or something like that.
All Nagisa wants to do is work with an author whom she likes. She was able to get said author a spot in JIDAI, which is the magazine that almost all of these characters work for, but was taken off the assignment for because she’s inexperienced, and actually not that great at her job. I mean, she’s not bad, but not great.
Akihisa Kobayashi
As you might be able to tell, this dude likes food. In fact, the articles that he concerns himself with most are those related to are the adult section and food. What a life, right?
Yumi Nogawa
She acts like a woman to get her way. Basically, she flaunts her T&A to get places, but mainly she’s just a huge tease to everyone. I mean, she has a fiance.
Fumiya Sugawara
Okay, he’s voiced by Kazuya Nakai, so you already know he’s gonna kick some serious ass. He’s pretty much the bad ass of the JIDAI group (and by badass, I mean he always looks angry, and get’s annoyed by people). He’s pretty much the paparazzi of the whole place, and when he and Matsukata have to go on a stake out together, they get it on clash with each other, and generally do not get along. Of course, these are classic signs that they will eventually going to become romantically involved (usually). Fumiya takes pictures of the sky, because he’s deep like that.
Maiko Kaji
She’s the “office babe”. She doesn’t say much, but all of the guys in the office would do anything to get with that piece of ass. She poses for nude paintings for some random old dude.
Kunio Tanaka
One lazy piece of shit. he takes his time and doesn’t work hard at all. My kind of guy.
Kimio Narita
This guy is kind of the mid level boss for Matsukata. He accepts the proposals, and is much more active than the Chief dude, who I’m not even going to talk about. He pretty much always has the same facial expression, and is pretty normal.
Shinji Yamashiro
The fact that the way that they are shown here makes it appear as though they are walking away from each other actually has a deep meaning. That meaning is of course, that Shinji sucks dick.
A dude who would rather work as a salesman then have sex with his hot girlfriend.
Well that’s it for characters…man did I go in-depth (more than I’ve done. Now the one thing I will say is that, although the characters were awesome, they all didn’t get much coverage. Mainly due to the shortness of the series. They each pretty much got one episode to themselves (this applies for the five characters after Matsukata only), and then they were kind of shifted to the back, and never really heard from again, which is too bad. If only the series was longer, instead of a mere 11 episodes.
The Animation
Okay you saw the screenshots, it’s flawless for the most part.
Overview
I probably should have done this before, but by now you probably know that it is a show revolving around Matsukata, and her job, which commands most of her time. She really wants to have sex, but her boyfriend is gay (I kind of made that last part up…kind of). Anyway, she has to deal with all of this shit, and it’s fucking awesome.
Pros and Cons
Pros:
Great characters
Great adaption of making a story that sounds boring and dumb into one that’s actually highly enjoyable
Great OP/ED
Great animation
Although the ending wasn’t a concrete conclusion, I felt as though GALLOP did a good job creating anything resembling an ending, considering that this was only 11 God damn episodes. I accepted the ending as satisfactory, although I am still inclined to maybe check out the manga (anime has so many facets, if you don’t like an anime ending, check out the manga!)
Cons:
In case you aren’t already aware, it was only ELEVEN GOD DAMN EPISODES!
I feel like the side characters never got enough screen time, although again, it was only ELEVEN GOD DAMN EPISODES!
Okay obviously I want more Hataraki Man. I’m going to have to at least check out the manga. Yaunderstand? Before I do, I’ll just say that Hataraki Man gets a high
FINAL GRADE = 5*
Bill just couldn't keep up with Matsukata's pace of work. Bill lost this round, and that means a win for Hataraki Man.
Who the hell said that line (referring to the title)? Irony isn’t cruel, it’s awesome! Time to elaborate in this much belated post.
Irony. To sum it up, I’d say it’s like……hmm….it’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife, it’s like meeting the [person] of your dreams, and then meeting [their] beautiful [significant other]. In case you need more explanation about what irony is, check this out:
So what’s so great about Irony? Well, basically it’s just amusing (to me at least) to watch something, and have a character or characters (or even myself) expect one thing, and then have the complete opposite happen instead. Let me see if I can find an example…OH! Great one. Okay, anybody else here like Jigoku Shoujo? That anime is filled with all sorts of sick nasty awesomeness, from revenge to loads of irony. There’s just so much to choose from! How about the second fucking episode ever?
I’m just going to copy this right from wikipedia:
Ryōko Takamura is being stalked, so she and her family seek the aid of investigator Kōichirō Kisaragi in tracking down and arresting the stalker, not knowing that he is the stalker. Ryōko then sends him to Hell.
How about the CEO of the computer company who couldn’t use computers?
HELL YES! (get it? HELL?) That is just awesome! There’s irony all over the place in Jigoku Shoujo! Personally, I liked the second season more, and I still haven’t watched the third season, because I like to space good anime out. God damn this show kicked ass. Long live Jigoku Shoujo! (that statement is sort of ironic, since that show is all about death!)
Okay, now I’m really getting into it, but I have to go to class. Here’s a few pictures of Irony that I found on Google:
mobile! (If you can guess which post/blog from which I ripped that sentence off from, you win. Hint: It’s my favorite post I’ve ever read ever)”]
Ding Ding! Here comes the [irony
Here would be an example of double, super irony:
Cause: Ku Klux Klan member get's injured from trying to burn a cross. LOL! Jokes on you fella!
Needless to say, the burnt fella will need medical help, so how ironic would it be that a bunch of black people are the ones that save his life? LOL! THAT'S DOUBLE IRONY!
Okay, I’m back from class, which I skipped to play basketball at the gym. It was much more fun than class. Back to irony, and how much it rules.
So if you didn’t know before, you know now that Jigoku Shoujo rocks because of its themes of irony and revenge (not even mentioning all of the other awesome aspects), but what other anime shows have irony? The answer? Every show has irony to some level. If you name a show that I’ve seen, I bet you I could find irony. To try and prove this to myself, I’m going to randomly select a show from my List, and see if I can describe its irony:
Great….I landed on fucking Honey and Clover…..well, I’m not going to do that one because I don’t feel like getting shit on for my opinions (even though I really don’t mind it…..not literally getting shit on, I would mind that)….For the record, I realized I had forgotten D.Gray Man, and that subsequently replaced Honey and Clover on my least favorite anime list, Honey and Clover was boring, but not top 5 badness, K-On also moved higher up (switched with Fruits Basket….there’s no way Fruits Basket was worse than K-On…was I high when I wrote that? No, because I stopped smoking weed forever.)
Well I just got way off topic. Let’s try this again…..Oh, I landed on Bleach.
This picture makes the anime look like the awesomest thing ever. However, in reality, it's just regular awesome, because the awesomest thing ever is Gantz (manga). Hold on, why is Samurai Champloo not in my top ten? I need to change that.
Bleach is not only a good show (that I haven’t watched in like a while) but coincidentally, I was just updating on klux’s wall that I still haven’t seen the fucking movie. I want to see that shit, but it’s a fucking movie. I don’t have time for a whole fucking movie ever. That’s gay. Anyway, (nothing wrong with a homo or two unless you can hear them have sex) Bleach happens to be filled to the brim with irony. Example:
Ichigo and the Shinigami all try and kill hollows, correct? But later on, it turns out that Ichigo gets a lot of power from his hollow (or something). There’s some irony. Ironically, the same type of thing that the Shinigami’s consider to be evil and bad can make them stronger (vizards). That’s kind of weak though, and not a good type of irony. Jigoku Shoujo is unmatched in irony, as far as I’m concerned. Oh shit, I have to go to my volleyball game. We’re going to lose anyway, because half are team is female and as you know, females suck at all sports. There’s even a girl who plays actual volleyball on our team, and she blows cock, (just in skill….she’s actually a real life lesbian (not hot I think…I can’t remember, I was drunk last game….wow I’m a piece of shit))……will be back in time, here’s some more pics in the mean time.
Okay I’m back. And we fucking won nastily. I had two serves where I smacked the ball as hard as I can and aced them both. My third one smacked the back of the wall (I wish). Good fun time. Anyway, where was I?
Oh yea, fucking Irony. Let’s take some literature. One story in particular, taken right out of my Lit class. The story is of course, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin. I linked to it, and it’s short, and it contains awesome irony in stupid nasty ways, so go read it now. I’m going to explain it and it might seem dumb if you don’t know the story, or maybe it won’t, only you, the reader, knows for sure….well, technically, no one will know for sure, because this is an opinion. However, I can prove opinions wrong (Refuse to Come Wack), so….
Anyway, The Story of an Hour is about a women who is married. This woman has some heart trouble, so when her friends get news that her husband has died, they let her off as easy as possible. She sobs and goes to her room to be alone. (this story is fucking awesome). Up there, she thinks. She realizes suddenly, that she is now free. Free to spend time by herself, where she is most comfortable. She is suddenly relieved and almost happy that her husband has died. She now has her whole life ahead of her to do as she pleases, with time to herself. It’s like a great weight has been lifted off her shoulders. It turns out, that her husband didn’t die, and in fact had just come home as this women is walking down the stairs. She sees her husband, whom she thought was dead, and then dies of heart failure.
This story has so much awesome foreshadowing, irony, and literary elements, that I could write a paper on how sick it is that would be about 10 times longer than the actual story, but I’m not going to, because this is supposed to be an anime blog (and other shit, obviously).
But this story captures irony perfectly, and I can’t think of a better way to end this post, so I’m done…..oh wait, here are a shitload of more Ironic pictures.
Okay this is another installment of that list of characters that I think look cool. I think I’m going to do this and then just post my top ten, because I really have no ambition of doing these posts.
Anyway, I can’t pick just one character from Saynara Zetsubou Sensei, so I picked several (in no specific order):
I was going to do that, but I really don’t want to, so here are just more cool looking characters:
Vizard Ichigo – Bleach
With a picture like that, I’m thinking, “how did this not make the top ten?” Then I look at my top ten, and I think, “how did this not make the top ten?” Vizard Ichigo is fucking cool. I mean, FUCK. LOOK AT THE FUCKING PICTURE. THE EYES.THE EYEEEESSSSS!!!!!!!!!! GRRRAAAAAAARRYYAAAA!!!!
Dante – Devil May Cry
“I tote guns, I make number runs, I-I tote guns, I-I tote guns.” Yea, Dante totes guns. And a big ass sword. BRRRAAT BRRRAAT. He also enjoys a strawberry sundae or too, but that only has to deal with image based on actions not image based on actual image.
Chihaya – Asu no Yoichi
Green hair, horizontal long striped socks, cool shirt, cool glasses, and she has a different outsit in every episode of this awesome show. I wish girls in real life dressed like this mre often….
Zero/CC – Code Geass
Both these mutha fuckas gots da STYLEEE SON BALLLINNNN. Sorry, I’ve been listing to Red Cafe – I Tote Guns ft Diddy & Biggy Smalls on repeat for the past 10 minutes. I’m feeling real gangsta up in this bitch. I one time wrote a real hardcore gangsta rap for fun, it turned out to just be funny. I remember one line….well, if Robert reads this than he’ll let you know the line I’m sure. Wow, I didn’t say anything about the characters, did I? Lol, I suck at this.
Shunsui Kyoraku – Bleach
Nice hat, nice flower shit, I like the whole shpiel.
Kaname Tosen – Bleach
In case you haven’t noticed, by now, I’ve stopped titling the pictures. I’m also not resizing my pictures. But here’s this blind guy from bleach. Oh shit, he reminds me of LeVar Burton from Star Trek: Generations:
Wow Bleach ripped this off big. I mean, Tosen is the only black guy in Bleach, AND he has a similar eye thingy….no no this doesn’t make sense at all.
Red Cafe is nasty, simply because he always says, “Huhhhh??” after everything.
L – Deathnote
You’re kidding, right? This is becoming a joke!
So okay, there’s not much special about how he looks. He’s got a white shirt and blue jeans. But he also has sick ass hair, crazy eyes, and he sits the same way that I do (I literally sit like this, my feet never touch floor…..you know, unless I’m in public).
Vegeta – Dragonball Z
Dragonball Z WAS THE SHIT. And VEGETA kicked SO MUCH ASS. He was the fucking man. Look at those sick shoulder pads, that extended middle finger, that upstanding black hair, that DRAGONBALL. HELLO PEOPLE! VEGETA! AWesomeE.
Bankotsu – InuYasha
The best part in the InuYasha series was unquestionable the whole Band of Seven arc. That shit was the shit, and the best character appearance wise was the leader, Bankotsu. All of them had -otsu in their names. What a coincidence, huh? Anyway, he looks Indian in heritage, and he also looks like he could kick your ass, it he wasn’t such a fucking pretty boy. He’s got a big ass sword though (not pictured) and that compensates for his boyish appearance. I mean, he killed 99 demons with that shit. Hard body.
Allean – Queen’s Blade
Arguably my favorite character in general from Queen’s Blade, she definitely takes the cake appearance wise. I mean, sure the red cape accents the green other shit. But the best part is the fucking awesome hat that she has. That hat is just……it’s the epitome of awesome.
Well I’m done for now because I’m tired. I can’t believe I just wasted time on this, the most lazy and uninspiring post I have ever written. I think I’ll do one more before my top ten is revealed. By the way, the Nuggets are STILL UN-DE-FUCKING-FEATED.
Okay, here are my actual top five favorites. Ready?
1. InuYasha
2. Welcome to the N.H.K.
3. Deathnote
4. Black Lagoon
5. Shakugan no Shana
This changes everyday pretty much. The new InuYasha season is rushed absurdly and therefore my opinion on InuYasha in general has been suffering of late, causing me to think about where it stands on my top anime lists. Nyan Koi is better than the new InuYasha season….I bet you didn’t except me to talk ill of InuYasha did you? Yeah, I’m not completely bias.
I have honestly never heard anything about this show. Not a word ever. Of course, that is probably because it aired in 2006, before I ever followed anime week to week (or realized that it could be done….yea, I’m retarded). That being said, based on the quality of the show, I assume that everyone has seen it and that they all have it marked down as a show that they really enjoyed, because it’s awesome.
I don't know why they decided to throw a girl who looks like she should be in middle school into an anime revolving around a workplace, but whenever Matsukata "transforms" into Hataraki Man, she immediately becomes her "hype man", and I don't think any other character would be able to do it as well as this loli, so it's fine.
After one episode, I can’t believe it took me so long to finally start it. I mean, if you want to know the truth, I thought that the plot seemed boring and rather bland: “Women works hard for magazine company blah blah blah”…..that isn’t really my kind of show.
If that isn’t your kind of show, why did you decide to watch it?
Good question. The answer is right here:
Besides DaiDai (Bleach’s….12th ending I think), this is the only anime OP or ED done by Chatmonchy (that I could find), the world’s greatest band. That was my only real purpose to watch this at first. But then I realized several other things that made me more inclined to watch or keep watching Hataraki Man:
Rie Tanaka as the main character.
The pursuit of actually having sex for once by the main character, Hiroko Matsukata. I can relate to this, although she’s in a relationship and still not getting any. If I were her, I think I would shoot myself (like, with a gun…probably just in the foot or something, I mean, I don’t wanna die).
It actually has some really good animation, which surprised me because after watching the ED, I thought I hated the general appearance of the characters, but now I actually think that they’re really well made. This show is quality, and the animation isn’t your typical anime style:
When I think of anime, I think of eyes that look like this, and a general facial structure along these lines. Now that I look at it closer, I guess Hataraki Man is pretty similar, except that the characters actually have lips. Here’s a picture to compare.
Personally, I think this is completely different. the eyes are differently shaped. there are more visible facial features….it’s just more detailed.
It isn’t cliche. It’s not a harem. It’s not really comedy. I guess you could call it slice of life, because I can’t think of any other way to categorize it. I don’t really think of it as drama (yet). It’s unique, and I like it.
There’s a bunch of other reasons why I like this anime so much after just one episode, but I don’t feel like writing about it anymore, and I’d rather just go watch the rest of this short series, which is only 11 episodes, and I will probably finish tomorrow.
SIDE NOTE: I actually watched another episode of Kanamemo, and the most awesome thing ever happened:
Yes, that’s right, the lesbian pedofile gets smashed with a PAN. There are two reasons why this is awesome:
When people unexpectedly get hit in the head with those yellow pans, I am ALWAYS amused. That’s one of the reasons why I liked Tsukuyomi: MOON PHASE so much.
I HATE that bitch and am SO happy she got smashed.
By the way, I fucking MADE that gif, which I have never done before, so congratulations to me and a shitty job, using low quality pictures, all of which were taken by use of print screens of a moving animation (because if I pause it, a “pause” symbol shows up). That shit is hard to do….that’s why it looks like she’s sliding in the first bit.
Oh, and the episode still sucked.
EDIT: I guess the gif only works in the draft or the post, and not in the actual post itself. BULLSHIT, WordPress…..BULLSHIT.
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