I suppose I should explain my lengthy absence. Originally, it was indeed that I had encountered what I assume was burnout: I felt that trying to find something to say about everything was starting to pall, and I started procrastinating on actually updating the blog. I still liked to watch and enjoy anime, but maintaining [...]
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Hayate's expressions in this scene can best be summarized as "trollface".
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Since Santa presumably knows everything you've done like some kind of more efficient Wikileaks, it is comforting to imagine that turnabout is fair play. I've been somewhat out of touch these past few [...]
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Attending the Singapore Toys, Games, and Comics Convention: one day. Organizing my notes from the NUS talks: one day. Researching based on my notes: two hours. Getting distracted by other fascinating tangents to the research: two days. Trying to find random pictures to break up the text: four days. Actually sitting down seriously and writing [...]
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Friend: What did you think about the Nanoha movie? Me: It's always interesting to see how a series can be compressed and distilled into a movie. Friend: Don't bluff, you're watching it for the naked loli transformation scenes, right? Me: Actually, I'm watching it for the loli in the commentary track asking the shota what [...]
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As anyone who might be following the Animenauts Twitter feed will definitely be aware of by now, considering how much I spam that feed, I just came back from the Singapore Toys, Games, and Comics Convention. Most of the day was spent at the NUS talks held at the second-floor conference room, where papers on [...]
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It is probably not a good sign that I immediately pictured Suika Ibuki as being some sort of displaced (and horned) Yui Hirasawa, especially since I'm pretty sure I've encountered Aki Toyosaki's voice in plenty of other anime before. (Particularly Momo Deviluke from To Love-Ru, who looks more like a standard youkai anyway.) To be [...]
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This is actually my current party, although it's missing the PSP-added Welch Vineyard, which I keep thinking is the name of an actual business somewhere. One of the problems I face with JRPGs, or indeed many RPGs of whatever geographical origin, is the tendency to put in Hidden Items. Not because there is a story [...]
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There are few things as draining to my enthusiasm for watching anime as reading what other people have to say about it. It's like being… no, it is exactly being the one moe fan in a world of anti-moe. Sometimes, in my darker moods, I have to wonder if I'm the only person who still [...]
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Possibly as a follow-up from the previous post, a common tendency for those characters not usually seen as the brightest bioluminescent organisms in the ocean is to have them be some kind of unexpected genius in some field. I think it's part of the explanation given occasionally on the difference between the Intelligence and the [...]
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