Thank God Hanasaku Iroha is 26 Episodes

Honestly, I can’t get enough of this show. It’s one of those shows that’s incredibly easy to watch for some reason. Yesterday, I was 10 episodes behind. I started watching it again, and before I knew it, I was all caught up.

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I know, I know, I haven’t really been writing much of anything lately, or watching any anime lately, but that’s because I’ve been bogged down with work, and been on an obsessive Whalers binge ever since the Jets moved back to Winnipeg. There’s also the issue of my new ceramics wheel that’s been keeping me somewhat busy, but now, with camp actually starting, all of my training bullshit that I have to do will be over, and I’ll have a much more open schedule. Open to watch some anime.

On to Hanasaku Iroha. It packs a punch. Not only is the animation of the best quality that I’ve seen, but the story and characters are asskickingly awesome, and it’s filled with what is so far unrequited love.

Ahhhhh unrequited love. It’s awesome, and yet, it sucks. In real life, it kind of just sucks, but in anime, it’s what lays the foundation more than anything else for interesting and dynamic characters.

Take Ko and Ohana for example. I love watching their relationship, mainly for the fact that neither of them really have any clue as to what’s going on with themselves or the other. Ko told Ohana of his feelings right off the bat, and Ohana got freaked out and got the fuck outta dodge. So now what’s Ko to think? He’s got a hot pussy clamoring to get some of his meatshaft, but he still has feelings for Ohana, who may not even like him. It’s only a matter of time before he decides to give up on Ohana and slide in to scoop up his hot coworker (hot with glasses for that matter!)

But while he’s been tempted away from Ohana, Ohana is being tempted into liking Ko. It’s pretty clear that she’s really digging Ko, but she apparently is too stupid to realize it yet, so now she’s turned into a disheveled corpse of what she once was, and as of episode 11, she looked completed unnerved.

Episode 9 (I think), showed a great metaphor of their relationship, when Ko, riding a train, and Ohana, riding a motorcycle with Tohru (who’s also involved) passed each other unknowingly, and were then shown riding off in separate directions, away from each other.

OOOO COULD THIS BE FORSHADOWING!? I hope not, but if it is, can you imagine is Ohana fell for Tohru, who CLEARLY wants to get himself some of the Ohana pie? This would create all sorts of crazy bullshit, considering that Minko wants Tohru more than anyone in the world.

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There’s shit going on all over the place, and personally, I like it! I expect the end of this anime to be full of fast paced BAM moments and huge bunches of explosive drama!

Nyan Cat is My Hero

I love stupid shit. It’s pretty much a law of the land by now. Nyan Cat is perhaps the stupidest of all things out there. It’s a fucking pop tart cat.

AND I LOVE IT.

So what did I do? I took all of my favorite versions, remixes, compilations of the classic Nyan Cat and made a playlist of them, WHICH I BLAST IN MY CAR LIKE A FUCKHEAD. I mean, who wouldn’t blast this awesome shit?

Shit’s fuckin SICK. And the second video even samples the dude from this shit:

What I really want to do though is learn to play it on my piano. It looks like a lot of fun to play:

So yeah…..I dunno……there’s not much to talk about lately. I’ve been watching shows. They’ve been good.

My Top Anime Movie Has Been Replaced

It stood there for over a year, but at long last, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time has finally been dethroned as my favorite anime movie that I’ve seen.

That’s right, I just completed watching The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, and it was fucking awesome. (EXTREME SPOILERS OF THE MOVIE)

It was on impulse, that I decided, “Why not just watch it now?” So I turned on YouTube (that’s right, YouTube), and let it play in all it’s glory.

Fantastic and awesome, for all the same reasons why Haruhi Suzumiya (endless eight aside) was fantastic and awesome. Not only did we get to see all the characters in their glory, but we get a plot including the usual awesome time traveling explosion of awesomeness that loved by me in particular.

By now, everyone except me has seen Disappearance, and if you haven’t, do yourself a favor and go watch it now. Make sure you first have seen every single other Haruhi thing though, because there’s references to it all. I don’t want to waste a lot of time in review, so I’ll be brief I’m, bout to rattle off some of the reasons.

I knew I shouldn’t go and get another tattoo, of you on my ar- wait a second that’s not right.

1. Yuki Nagato

ACCEPT!

First of all, let me just say that I’ve always thought that Yuki is one of the most beautiful female names in the Japanese language that I can think of. If I were a Japanese man with a Japanese daughter, then her name would be Yuki without question.

Now that I’m done with that, let me say that her post-world-change form was awesome. It’s strange though, in real life I really don’t like shy girls at all, and usually in anime they piss me off too, but her shy girl act was just…….really enjoyable to watch. I would never want to be in Kyon’s situation because honestly, I have no idea what world I’ve choose (more on that later).

Maybe I’m just completely bias toward Yuki because she’s awesome. But I loved her in this me, and admit it, you did too.

2. Time Travel Done Right

predetermined fact

That’s right….PREDETERMINED. God time travel is soooooooo sick when it’s done right. We got to see all sorts of shit thrown into this plot arc:

  • Future Asahina Mikuru is always nice to see.
  • Future….KYON!? BAM!!!!
  • Past, Present, and Future Yuki.
  • Returning to scenes past like when Haruhi wrote on her school grounds.

It was awesome. AWESOME. I feel like Time Travel always makes the plot better, everything gets more intricate and complex, but not confusing and muddled.

Awesome.

3. Blood

Blood

Yeah, it even had some of that. I like when an anime has blood. (it gives me a reason to link to that song lol).

I could go on for years giving more reasons why I love this damn movie, but you don’t want to read all day when you could be watching anime, so I’ll make one last comment before wrapping this up.

Kyon’s Decision

This part was done awesomely. Kyon vs Kyon: An internal battle of wits and mind state. I loved this part. It kind of reminded me of the end of NGE when Shinji went through that psychotic internal mindfuck that even left me in a crazy state for 3 days.

What would I choose? For me, I would probably be left in limbo forever, because both worlds kick so much ass.

On one hand we have a world with the SOS Brigade. A world where aliens, time travelers, and ESPers coexist together along with God, who is a girl named Haruhi Suzumiya. Crazy shit happens and there’s no such thing as a boring day.

On the other hand, we have a normal world where none of these things exist. HOWEVER, Yuki is an undeniably awesome characters who clearly has a thing for you, and it would be great to see how she changes over time (because she definitely would). ALSO, you would have a reformation of the SOS Brigade in some way after telling Haruhi about the true her. Don’t forget how she brought them together. It would have been the same exact world with the only difference being Yuki and the existence of the paranormal. Surely life would still be interesting with Haruhi at the helm.

So what do you choose? Both have some level of the SOS Brigade, but one has a much crazier (in a good way) setting while the other has awesome Yuki.

But wait, Yuki is awesome in both worlds!

Kyon made the right choice!

Now, after declaring this the best movie ever, here is my top ten (I think)

NOW:

  1. The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
  2. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
  3. Akira
  4. Tokyo Godfathers
  5. Howl’s Moving Castle
  6. Streamboy
  7. Princess Mononoke
  8. Spirited Away
  9. Kara no Kyoukai (5)
  10. Perfect Blue

I think that’s right…anyway…time to rewatch the first season of Haruhi and pray for another season.

SHAKUGAN NO SHANA III: FALL BITCH!

Well, apparently, J.C. Staff was waiting for me to celebrate my 400K on Eye Sedso before it decided to put out the best fucking news ever!

SnS FALL 2011

By now I’m sure you’re all pumped up as FUCK, but I only just learned from Riyoga that the much anticipated-most-likely-to-be-fucking-brilliant third season of Shakugan no Shana will air in the Fall of this year. THAT’S IN LIKE….NOT A LONG TIME!!!!!

As you should all know by now, I fucking love this series, and it was the first time I saw heard Rie Kugimiya in action, and thus became immediately hooked on her. Now, some people do not share my sentiment, and instead are dishing out CRAZY PROCLAMATIONS.

Riyoga DOES share my sentiments, and CLEARLY knows what the FUCK he’s talking about.

I am not an episodic writer. In fact, I hate the shit (usually).

HOWEVER. SHAKUGAN NO SHANA IS ON A DIFFERENT FUCKING LEVEL THAN ALL THAT OTHER SHIT, AND SO, I WILL SHIT ALL OVER MY ISSS WITH SHAKUGAN NO SHANA PARAPHANALIA (ie episode review)…..SORT OF.

JESUS CHRIST YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW EXCITED I AM. I JUST JERKED OFF INTO MY MIND TO THE THOUGHT OF MORE SHAKUGAN NO SHANA.

PS: FUCK YES.

PPS: MORE SHAKUGAN NO FUCKING SHANA BITCH FUCK YES!!!!

400K Is Fine…Just Got Some AWESOME SHIT Though!!!

Oh hi Mark. Thanks for stopping by Eye Sedso! I want you to know that I wrote this post JUST FOR YOU!

Anyway, Today marks a small milestone for me. Today, I reached 400K in terms of hits, but instead of doing anything to celebrate such a stupid milestone that I don’t really care about, I’ll write about something new I discovered (was shown), that I’m sure all of you bloggers out there already use. But hey, I’m behind on the times….I guess I’ll dish out one award, why not?

Most comments: Glothelegend

Congrats to me! I’m the best!

Recently, after being no longer able to take the bullshit of WordPress’s new Full screen mode when writing a draft, Ghostlightning ascended down like an angel of justice and bestowed me with the wisdom of Windows Live Writer, which after opening, is the greatest thing ever made ever. Holy shit I’m going to be writing non-stop about all sorts of shit. This is fucking fantastic I’m fucking EXTATIC.

Immediately WordPress went from “getting on my nerves” to being FUCKING AWESOME. They did improve a couple things, so shit.

Let me change the header really quick.

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That’s AWESOME. And there’s way more sizes that I can make too! EGADS! What’s this button do?

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I’m Better Than You At Watching Anime

There a lot of fuckers out there who love anime. That much is true. But when it comes to actually watching the shit, I’m in another league.

Sure, a lot of people watch a shit ton more anime than I do, but the difference between them and me is this: When you watch anime, a lot of you are so fuckin picky that it’s ridiculous. I mean come on, I’ve seen my share of anime, so I’m not completely naive to think that every anime is going to be perfect, but a lot of you find the smallest things wrong with some shows then seem to make up your mind that you’re not going to like a show no matter what.

That kind of sucks. I should pity you.  Instead I’m going to insult you (not really though).

You can look at almost any show on my List, and I’ll probably say that I enjoyed it. Even if a lot of other people thought that the anime in question sucked balls. Not just any balls, but LARGE BALLS FILLED WITH VAST AMOUNTS OF SEMEN.

Before I get into the specifics as to why exactly I’m a better anime viewer than pretty much all of you, let me first tell you why you all suck.

1. This Show Is Too Cliche

Cliche? What type of excuse it that!?

Bitch, there’s your first problem. EVERY show is cliche if you dig deep enough. I bet I can even make Durarara, a pretty unique anime in it’s own respects, cliche. I hate when people use this arguments as to why a show is bad. For example, take the seemingly overused plot of:

“Girl with powers suddenly starts living with normal high school boy.”

I feel like there’s at least 2 shows with this plot every season, yet, who cares? While a lot of shows have similarities, they are also very different in their own rights. It’s not about how cliche a show is, it’s about the execution.

2. There’s not enough DEPTH

Look, he's telling you he likes art. That's enough depth for me.

Since when do you need to know everything about a character’s past to enjoy a show? CAN’T YOU JUST ENJOY THE FUCKIN SHOW!?

I mean, don’t get me wrong, a show with a good amount of depth is always better, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that all shows that lack depth suck. Almost all shows have a background story for a character, but do you really need some elaborate scheming story riddled with odds and ends for a character to be interesting? You do? That sucks, you officially hate almost all anime.

3. Another Harem?

Loincloth is reason enough for a show to be great.

Everyone is apparently sick of harem anime, but I won’t not watch a show just because it’s a harem. Harem anime can still be great, even if they aren’t the most original plotline in the world. Asu no Yoichi was by no rights the first harem ever made. It came from somewhere deep in the pack, but it was still one of the best. Cliche? Hell yeah. Another Harem? Hell yeah. Awesome as fuck? Hell yeah. A harem can still be good, and frankly, it can be nice to watch all of the girls who you don’t like, and hope for all of them to die.

4. Too longggggg

This picture is just THAT awesome.

SHUT UP BITCH. Length can be  a good thing too. Gintama? Over 200 episodes, and it’s still not enough. It may never be enough. Usually, a long show means a good show, except for shit like D. Gray Man, which sucked aweful shit. Length should never be an excuse. I still have to watch Legend of the Galactic Heroes. I’m not putting it off because it’s too long, I’m putting it off because it really doesn’t interest me.

5. Too Many Fillers

Picture created by the late Baka-Raptor. Yeah, I stole the shit out of it, but I can't think of a better picture when talking about Naruto Fillers. Frankly, I thought the Mask filler was better than the other fillers....I mean, at least it was different.

Naruto fillers sucked, so I can see this as being valid. D Gray Man seemed like all fillers, so it sucked too. InuYasha had a lot of fillers, but they were all FUCKING AWESOME.

6. There’s too much fanservice

This show was fucking awesome.

It’s pretty easy to be able to tell what shows have fanservice and which ones don’t. Learn how to pick em pal.

These are what I feel are the top complaints made from all reviewers, the most prominent being “Cliche.”

So now on to me. What makes me better than you? Besides the fact that I’m a Legend with a fuckin ISSS instead of a blog, I also have the ability to enjoy every show ever (almost). How do I do this? Easy.

WHY I AM BETTER THAN YOU AT WATCHING ANIME

1. Flaws? What are those?

Nyan gloves? BAD ASS

Unlike you silly nitpickers who work to find as much wrong with a show as possible, I usually just ignore everything wrong with a show and focus on the things I like. The end result? Every show seems a lot more enjoyable (ie better) to me than it does to everyone else. EXAMPLE:

Ookami-san most J.C. Staff anime. Some people seem to think that a lot of J.C. Staff’s plots are generic and dumb. Well fuck me sideways cuz I still like em all. I’m not going to pretend that I think the plots are all unique. They usually are pretty generic, but who cares if they’re good? Oh? You say they aren’t good? Then how come I like them? Go fuck yourselves, I’m always right.

I’ve said I like unique characters. Let’s take a show like Ookami-san. It was filled with great character with at least one thing unique to them. Ookami was a tsundere with some awesome cat boxing gloves (that had electricity). The main character was afraid of people/good with a slingshot. It had enough right there for me to enjoy the whole season.

That’s the thing right there. I don’t need much to enjoy a show. Just one or two tidbits. Dragon Crisis had a shit ton of flaws, and while I didn’t love the shit out of it, it’s true that I still enjoyed the show as a whole, when most people dismissed it as garbage/less than par. That’s cuz all I did was ignore the flaws, like Rie Kugimiya’s character, some of the weak plot, etc. I focused on the cool stuff, like Ryujis assent to manliness non-pussiness acceptable-ness, some of the cooler characters, etc. Was the last episode corny and stupid as fuck? Yeah, but I simply decided to dismiss it. This ability allows me to enjoy a lot more than most people. I’m like a fucking superman of anime watching.

2. I don’t choose anime like a fuckhead.

I have no idea what manga this is from, but this is awesome translating, even if it's not entirely correct (just me guessing on that one).

When I’m going to decide to watch a show, I make sure I’m interested in at least one aspect of it. I’m not going to watch a show that doesn’t fit my criteria, because that would be fucking stupid. I watch shows that I know I’ll probably like. Occasionally I’ll get a dud (Venus Versus Virus), but for the most part, I’ll like any show that fits my genre circle. A few times I’ve chosen anime outside my circle, and that almost always ends with failure.

I remember when I watched Fruits Basket I almost killed myself. I recall Honey and Clover, which was the biggest waste of time ever. After I watched K-On, I changed my name to Harold Camping and predicted the end of days. But these are few and far between, and for the most part, I’m dishing out 5s to a lot of shows, and frankly, who wouldn’t like to love every show they watch?

I should’ve just made this post about people having problems with the “cliche,” because that’s really the main thing I wanted to talk about. People saying that a show is cliche is just so…….cliche.

Dear WordPress,

Your new “Fullscreen Mode” for drafts really really really really really really really SUCKS.

Was the previous fullscreen setup just to easy and convinent to use? How come I no longer have any options when I’m in fullscreen mode? I can’t do anything unless I use ctrl + something else or alt + something else. WHAT THE HECK IS THIS SHIT ARE YOU SAYING I HAVE TO MEMORIZE A LIST OF KEY COMMANDS IN ORDER TO TYPE A POST NOW WHAT THE HELL WAS WRONG WITH THE PREVIOUS SETUP!!!????

You’ve pissed me off a couple times, WordPress, but this might be the last straw. At this point, I am now debating switching away from WordPress permanently. How the fuck can I type a post when I can only see this tiny little window of words? SURE I CAN DO IT, BUT THAT SUCKS!

THE PREVIOUS FULLSCREEN WAS FLAWLESS. THIS ONE IS SHIT.

– Best Regards,

Glothelegend

 

PS: Everyone should email WordPress and tell them to change it back to the old version, which was efficient, easy, and awesome.

PPS: Never mind, WordPress, Ghostlightning bailed you out BIGTIME.