A while back I shared a brain teaser that seemingly can create 13 men out of 12 by shuffling the body parts. The trick to unlocking this mystery is to notice that the picture with the 13 men has each man missing a different horizontal slice of a complete body. Perhaps another picture would illustrate [...]
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I would so seriously lose any ability to care 2+2=4 had I been a high school student in Japan. The title of the post came out of a quote from the news article: Are short high school uniform skirts in bad taste? Posters urging high school girls to wear longer uniform skirts are causing controversy in Niigata [...]
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How sad is that to be rejected by a pool of people who have already lowered their standards. Was it because I stated I have recently been converted to Haruhiism? Posted in Encounters Tagged: eHarmony
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How many men do you see? Now, watch as I, The Neko Alchemist, will materialize before your very eyes the 13th man out of the 12. P.S. I will reveal the “Philosopher’s Stone” in a few days. Posted in Encounters
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Holy crap! What a ripoff from Gundam 00?! Now we have an Espada 0. I wonder if Yammy will get quadruple reiatsu output once he features the other 0 on his other shoulder. Ok, maybe not. But still, to have Yammy be cooler (cooler because he’s supposed to be stronger) than Stark does not [...]
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Having been raised in the Christian atmosphere most of my life, I’ve always been taught that death is an unnatural thing in the grand design of God. It has no place in the original design (Garden of Eden). It is merely the unnatural result of our great, great, great, …, grandfather’s sin. [...]
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Few dame has looked as good on the silver “screen” as Inoue Orihime. Ahh, even if the rest of the Chapter stales with predictable chitchats and frustrating inability of the bad guy to just finish off the good guys, seeing Orihime being rendered as such porcelain beauty rekindles my love for Bleach. Yea, so I’m [...]
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Watching this scene reminds me of the scene from the movie Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me where a character (Robin Swallows) was stabbed in the back, shot by machine guns, blasted by a missile in the face, fell off a high-rise (and landed as a cushion for Austin Powers), dragged behind a car, [...]
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Perhaps it’s too early to talk about theme, but here is a girl, Rin Ogata, whose injury to her leg has rendered her dream as a ballerina ruined, finds unexpectedly another pair of legs that opens up to her an entirely new world larger than any she has ever dreamt of before. The image [...]
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I never fully understood what then-President-Elect, now-President-inaugurated Obama meant by Yes, you can! until I saw this: The last four lines オバマが強要���　日本人よ、Yes, you can! should read Obama demands! Japanese people! Yes, you can!” Is there anything on Earth the words of Obama cannot make possible?! Posted in News   Tagged: gravure, Yuko Ogura   
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