Ronin’s Anime Chronicles (Temporary WP Blog)

Wow.

I guess there’s no stopping using and maintaining an anime blog, huh?

reconsiders leaving my anime blogging ways behind

I downloaded a new video file from Eclipse Fansubs. Stangely, it is titled “Shakugan no Shana-tan”. Why is it titled as such? It is then that I decided to find out for myself.

As I was watching the clip, I suddenly felt a few years of my life wasting away. Damn.

This is another example of capitalizing on the main character’s charisma and turning it topsy-turvy. That is, towards uber-cuteness.

J.C. Staff earned an OK sign from me. Damn it! Making Shana too cute for words.

uru-chai! uru-chai! uru-chai! uru-chai! uru-chai!

Hahaha! Indeed, I was living a life a minute shorter.

credit due to Basugasubakuhatsu Anime Blog for the pic.

The first day of every week at school feels like rush hour. After a 2-day vacation, doing nothing but relax either at home or somewhere else other than work or school, going back to the productive world of work/school can be a hassle.
For one, those working on a level higher can be troublesome by traffic jams and long queues of people waiting for a ride towards their place of work. This can get pretty tiresome if the movement is as slow as a walking turtle, but can release a bit of stress on your part if it moves faster than expected.
Two, for someone who’s never been around everyone, and only enjoys the solitude in the comfort of your own private zone, having to collaborate with others can be bothersome, depending on what you’re used to.
Lastly, when you’re used to time passing by a bit fast, getting to do something other than lazying around can surprise only a few of the people, those who’re really used to letting time pass by them, and this can get them disoriented in relevance to the flow of work coming their way.
At the end of the day, people get various reactions from their bodies. Some get tired from all the demands of work/school than has been thrown in their direction, while a few of us who’ve been used to the hassles of life get by just fine.
So, as a word of advice to those lazy bums: Get used to it.

I’m always curious as to how these two different conditions seem to correlate.

WARNING: Expletive Language

Listen all you mutha fuckas (2x)

That’s the name of the game (4x)

Yo
Top of the crown
Rape the queen
The fatal mistake in your cradle
Can’t shake the dreams of
Fire inside of your phonograph
Battered with gas
And give you room to breathe
Through an adequate mask
Everybody in front
Let me see ya pumpin’ ya fists
If you up in the back room
When you rockin’ with this
Come on
Keepin’ ya speaker knockin’
Jumpin’ bangin’ bumpin’ blazin’
Hot
Callin’ all freaks (all freaks)
Callin’ all freaks now
Yo yo
Callin’ all freaks (all freaks)
Callin’ all freaks now

That’s right

Callin’ all freaks

That’s the name of the game (4x)

Freaks (2x)

That’s right

Get ‘em up in the back row (2x)
I said get ‘em up in the back row

mutha fucka

callin’ all (8x)

That’s the name of the game
Callin’ all freaks now
That’s the name of the game
Callin’ all freaks now
That’s the name of the game
Callin’ all freaks now
That’s the name of the game
Callin’ all freaks now

I choose to love you in silence..
For in silence i recieve no rejection.
I choose to love you in loneliness..
For in loneliness no one
Owns you but i.
I choose to adore you from a distance…
For distance will shield us from pain.
I choose to kiss you in the wind..
For the wind is gentler than my lips.
I choose to hold you in my dreams..
For in my dreams you have no end.

taken from xerojby

Recently, Wired published a write-up on the emergence of anime as mainstream program. Well, true, it has emerged “from the back corner of your local comic book store”, and being shown almost everyday on TV, but I have to comment on a few points mentioned.

Anime also continues to make inroads on the airwaves, both network and cable. Kids’ programs like One Piece and Shaman King are some of the most popular on Fox’s after-school toon lineup. And more grown-up fare like InuYasha fills out Cartoon Network’s highly rated, late-night Adult Swim programming block.

Grown-up? Kids’s program? I say, “There is no age group in anime.” Everyone’s entitled to watch, unless of course there are some sensitive issues you might disagree with (i.e. same-sex relationships, teacher-student relationships, fanservice).

“Things have never been better for anime fans in America,” said John Ledford, president of Houston-based ADV Films, which published 189 anime DVDs last year. “No matter what channel you look at — retail, broadcast or theatrical — more anime is available in more outlets than ever before.”

Heh. You bet!

Amid all these new releases, the industry is searching for the next Dragon Ball. The over-the-top martial arts action series exploded into a worldwide phenomenon whose television ratings made even mainstream media stand up and take notice. The series has never disappeared off the Lycos 50 list of top internet searches since the feature’s inception six years ago.

One possible successor to the throne caught the eye of Lycos 50 two weeks ago. It’s another martial-arts comedy, called Naruto, that premieres Sept. 10 on Cartoon Network’s Toonami programming block. The site noted that the popularity of the series in web searches has risen dramatically as the release date draws near.

What? How is it no different from, let’s say Dragon Ball?

Action series is more like it, like what you mentioned about Dragon Ball earlier.

“Naruto, the main character, is a ninja who is host to a powerful demon,” said Nick Civitello, a fan of the show who lives in Connecticut. “The people in his village have come to think of him as the demon that he houses. In spite of it all, Naruto wants to prove everyone wrong.

“He represents resolution and hope. Eventually, everyone starts looking to him for strength and guidance. At the time I discovered Naruto, I was deeply depressed. Watching it just made me happy.”

The show promises to attract viewers who grew up with Dragon Ball but now find its kid-oriented content a bit tiresome. “Naruto takes everything that was great about Dragon Ball and cuts out all the crap,” said Civitello.

Kid-oriented? How about mentioning a few of these “kid oriented” themes, huh?

That guy (underline mine) said it better. Being an inspiration for everybody is not kid stuff.

“There’s way too much supply and not enough demand. Publishers overshot their estimates and had way too many returns. Target just started scaling back their anime section, and I don’t blame them. They got burned,” said Tibbey.

Also, if people weren’t so biased about anime in the first place, the demand would increase, right?

Well, that’s all I have to say. I know some of the people might disagree with me, but this is what I have to say.

Finally, I have bought something today!

Here’s the list:

• Star Wars Trilogy: Episodes IV-VI
• Star Wars Trilogy: Episodes I-III
• NBA Street V3(for the PS2)
• Megaman X8(for the PS2)

Sorry I couldn’t take a picture of them, because I don’t have my camera with me today. My parents have it.

I know I should be writing a review right now, but I’m out of ideas to type about. Anyway…

Following the lead of Satoshi and Moyism, here’s my humble desk.

I know it’s not much, because unlike the most obssessive otaku’s of Densha Otoko or Genshiken fame, I don’t invest much of my money on stuff concerning my hobby. So no figurines, new DVD’s, or new manga’s being bought on online bookstores like Amazon and Barnes and Noble, or even on scarce shops outside that sells anime-related stuff. Besides, I haven’t got a self-sustaining job yet, despite the fact that I’m 19 already, legally eligible to get hired at a job, even if it’s part-time.

As a clincher, here’s my desktop wallpaper. It’s rather large (1024 x 768) so I apologize in advance to those dial-up users who would be looking at the picture.

Well, I gotta go and start writing some reviews today!

Man, it’s been a long time since I held a writing pen. It was like last year that I finally saw my creative talents getting wasted, due to the time I spend it more at school.

Back then, I was refreshing my idea since I took up writing 9 years ago, when I first thought of writing stories. Being a newcomer in the writing scene, most of my writings were fairly short, deviod of any coherent plot, or simply of the type that you would see with movie directors. Yes, I was writing script stories back then.

As I read more and more of the stories I see on the Internet, I became more and more interested in further enhancing my skills in writing. With a PC and keyboard, instead of pen and paper, I began composing them on Microsoft Word, story after story, page after page, seeing if I can further perfect the way I handle and tell stories. With fresh ideas running through my head, I was beginning to feel confident that I could do better.

That confidence that was in me was slowly reroding when I stepped into the world of College. I wasn’t as enthusiastic as before as I was trying to compose stories like it was back in those days. Writer’s block was becoming more of a nuisance than a mre obstacle. By then, I was slowly agonizing in my mind, about how I could compose those ideas tha keep popping in my head during unexpected times, like when I was setting my brain on studying a big book on Zoology. My mind kept diverting its attention from writing to reading, and it’s confusing me. And it became worse further…

… when I set my sight on becoming an engineer. Since studying in engierring demands less need for comprehensive skills like writing and reading, I was becoming more and more absorbed, little by little, in the field. My days as a crative writer were starting to fade, like they were a childhood dream back then. Looking back at those happy moments when I was able to write freely, mostly during my free time, I kinda feel nostalgic, wishing that those days would come back to me again, so that I can feel satisfied that I’ve done something to ease myself.

So here I am, writing on his journal, taking a note from somewhere I read on the Internet recently. Writing on a journal can somehow improve your writing skills, if not much. And it became true, as time goes by, putting entries on this journal account I set up a year ago.

There you have it. This entry almost came out as a retrospective piece of sorts. So, I’ll be ending this entry with a quote.

“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness. Not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.”