New Year's Resolutions

The real reason has nothing to do with danger. It's all glory.

It's 9:36 PM, and I realize that I haven't compiled a list of New Year's resolutions. Better late than whatever. Besides, making lists is fun! Here we go...

1. I will learn how to unplug Setsuna from Makoto.

Don't laugh. I spent the better half of five minutes wiggling round the cord. My boyfriend comes and unplugs the thing in two seconds. I feel like an idiot.

2. I will get a job and buy more anime.

Because really, I feel kind of pathetic. Meh.

3. I will actually finish something that I get a great idea for in the middle of the night.

Does this need explanation?

4. I will explain to my boyfriend that the ouji-sama act is freaking me out.

I think I've been making him watch too many shoujo series or something. Seriously. I'm sorry!

5. I will convince my mother that ordering things off the internet is not going to kill me.

And she will not guilt me into waiting for the comic shops to get whatever it is I want in, if they ever do. She will not.

6. I will realize that just because making a first impressions post got me readers does not mean that I should get a swelled head, feel like I fit in even though I'd rather be making lists and commentaries, and start doing it all the time.

...Half that should have been in the explanation.

7. I will get a new wallpaper.

That one with Osaka and the knife is freaking me out.

8. I will get my boyfriend something half-decent for his birthday...

...to make up for "forgetting" last year, and by "forgetting" I mean "taking revenge for the Friend Magnet Fiasco". He did get me that nice wallscroll. Even though getting a magical girl fan Card Captor Sakura is a bit of a cop-out.

9. I will post more.

If anything interesting happens.

10. Hm... I dunno... What should I do?

I'll think of something.

Happy New Year from Jisu (Sana Jisushi) at Not With A! Have a good year! And I dunno, let some dark-haired man into your house, eat Southern American food, I dunno. Apparently you do that.

Christmas suggestions

Merry Christmas, everyone!

So it's Christmas Eve, and I'm sitting here reading everybody else's blog. Then I wondered, what else could be done to spread cheer to the sphere? (Stop rhyming, for one.) So I went and hunted down a few things with which to pass the time and feel all fuzzy inside doing it. Not in the way that means you just ate mold, but... aw, man, I ruined it again. Forget that last mental image. Let's move on to Jisu's Master List of Seasonally Appropriate or Universal Things with Which to Pass the Time!

*Watch the worst Christmas special you can find and laugh at it. Classic.

*Wrapping paper tube wars. If no one else is around, challenge your door or your hug pillow to a duel.

*If you think you are pathetic for spending Christmas alone with your anime, play this game and be reminded that you, at least, would not fall to the level of the laughable protagonist. Even for Misato.

*Throw snow at people's garage doors. Garage doors are pretty stable and won't break or get you sued.

*Try to get your Merry Christmas entry in before everyone else! (I fail at this.)

*Play "guess what your clueless family got you". (No offense to clueless families. Mine at least is made of very nice people. Even my brother can be nice when he wants to be. Which is still rare.)

Alternately, you could watch a bunch of Christmas episodes. Here are my personal favourites.

*Tokyo Mew Mew (2-parter) Score one for canon pairings!

*Kaitou Saint Tail What a cute series.

*Digimon Adventure 02 Remember that one?

*Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's (Most of the second half) Not really a typical "Christmas special", but that series rocked.

Now that I have effectively wasted your time, merry Christmas, everyone!

Freedom- First Impressions

The picture has nothing to do with Freedom. I should probably find one that does.

So here we have my first "first impressions" post of the winter. I actually have no idea what this is or even if it's new, though. I was just minding my own business, wondering why no one was seeding Digimon Adventure, when I came across this download and figured I would check it out. Turns out Freedom is a racing anime set in a restricted society on the moon. Fun!

300 years in the future, Takeru dreams of racing a... weird-looking vehicle he and his friends are working on, and of impressing his longtime object of admiration, Chiyo, and beating his rival, Taira (who has a bandage on his nose all the time for some reason). He's about to graduate from a school that puts a curfew on its students enforced by monitor bracelets and reinforced metal gates, takes career aspiration sheets from students and puts them in completely different fields for the rest of their lives, and treats every step out of line as a major Crime Against Society. Citizens' lives are completely regulated once they're in their jobs, just like in the school. The period in between is called freedom, for obvious reasons: it's the people's one chance to do what they want to do. Oh, and... they're on the moon. Turns out that 160-some years ago, global warming killed off everyone on Earth. The colonies on the Moon created their own messed-up society called Eden, which will forever remind me of EDEN from Galaxy Angel. It's supposed to be a replica of the live-on-able Earth. (Brain too tired to conjugate.)

Takeru's got a bit of trouble with his modified vehicle, making him crash- the higher-ups force him to do community service for "endangering the colony". There was no one else on the road!- An old man with a love of the past shows up and gives him a new engine. Takeru almost wins! ...of course, he uses the unstable boost, goes down the wrong path and loses to Taira right in front of Chiyo-Blob. Next time. In a fit of anger, during solitary community service, he looks up to rant out the sun... and sees a tiny metal pod fall from space. Inside is a note that reads "We are safe. Is anybody out there?" On the back is a picture of a girl looking after a bunch of kids... and Takeru seems to have forgotten Chiyo already. Men.

The animation for this is really unique. Very western, and cel-shaded. If I saw this on TV, I wouldn't mark it as anime. It's more like that Skyland thing on Teletoon that I need to get around to watching because it looked cool. The animation's decent, too, besides being unique. There was just something about Chiyo's character design that struck me as off, though. Well, she's a moe blob, whatever.

That was an interesting excursion. This OAV better stay this good, or get better. Until next time~

Conversations on... a topic covered by everyone else today

So she scares me. Still.

Jisu says:

So it turns out Kadokawa's also got Bandai. Did you see the promotional video?

Hane? Kawaii Hane! says:

thatwas the most retarded thing ever

Jisu says:

That's why it was so cool!

Hane? Kawaii Hane! says:

....

Jisu says:

BECAUSE it sucked. XD;

Hane? Kawaii Hane! says:

no it wasn't

Jisu says:

Was so.

Hane? Kawaii Hane! says:

the girl was lame

Jisu says:

Come on. Yuki sucked, but Haruhi was awesome. Maybe a bit over the top, but awesome.

Hane? Kawaii Hane! says:

right when she tried to say otaku i had to turn it off

Jisu says:

You suck. I liked it. XD;

Hane? Kawaii Hane! says:

meh


Clearly, Leo-chan, you suck. In a way that means you are still awesome.

In other news, I finally got added to Anime Nano. Praise to the first person that guesses where my blog icon's from. I need to make a new one. Updated with one from my Yoakena icon claim.

My amusement for the day

More fearsome than the cabbage.

So I was looking for something to do when I found this. It's a fighting game. You put two names in, click the start button, and they start fighting each other. Of course, I had to play with it. Check out my results...

Perfect Isn't Easy

Feena Fam Earthlight VS Takamizawa Natsuki

Take that, perfect princess! Now if she could only beat the anime production team.

Ugu~ asa da yo!

Tsukimiya Ayu VS Minase Nayuki

Of course, we already knew this.

Long-Standing Battle

Me VS Peppers

I suppose I will still have to eat them now...

So yeah, an interesting diversion. It amused my friends, anyway. And by that, I mean that my boyfriend thought it was a riot and the one other person that was on kept putting herself in to face the rest of us and tackled me when she lost to me.

Next Year Picks

Hey, my brother left ten cents in my room.

Sorry for the slow updates, but seriously, now. There's pretty much no news to cover, except maybe Gundam Pocky. Oh, and vote the cabbage for SaiGAR. The sucky animation compels you.

I guess now that I did a preview for next season, I should say what I want to watch. So why not have a watchlist for all of next year? Everyone else is doing it.

I'm looking out for...

Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight!

Cute. So, so cute.

Winter Garden

Dejiko in love! Puchiko in a generic uniform!

Strike Witches

Maybe. If only for the "Tokyo Mew Mew with military weapons" factor.

Yes! Precure 5

I'm in magical girl withdrawal.

Saint October

Maybe. If it doesn't suck.

Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS

Please be as good as your predecessors. And more megane Yuuno-kun.

Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu

No explanation needed.

Kamichama Karin

That manga is so darn cute.

This is obviously going to grow, what with the rumoured 70+ titles coming in Spring. Let's hope for a good year!

Suzumiya Haruhi wills a mass publicity stunt today

Yuki is amused at best.

Two pieces of Haruhi news which I'm sure you've heard already (darn Yoakena icon challenge, taking up my time before I can post): the viral marketing of the mysterious possible licensing, and the protesting little girl. Finally, the official site is down on purpose. If I could get my hands on that French article, I'd translate it, but sadly, my own publicity stunt has been thwarted. It appears, though, that all of this was orchestrated on the same day on purpose... according to Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu, the basis for the next season, December 18 was "the day" three years ago. These guys are having a field day with us, I'm sure.

Still, one thing's left, and that's wo wait til Friday to learn officially that Haruhi got licensed, and by who. My bets are on ADV (apparently they've done viral marketing before, they've already got Full Metal Panic, and what else would the A stand for?), but we'll have to see. I just hope it's someone good. If it is ADV, I hope they have better communication in their production team (remember Angelic Layer's "Alice"?) and they teach their voice actors to pronounce the names. (Still, don't dump on the ADV/Funimation voice actor team. Everyone's been doing that lately, and I actually like these guys. I listen to the commentaries and recording videos with pride.)

I forgot what else I was going to say. It'll come. Eventually.