Defending Sukitte ii na yo; for what it’s worth and what it’s not (and some random musings thereafter)
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ABC Award
Carnival da yo~
Leap250’s Blog has been involved with a handful of ’em in the past, and Kai just got us into another one; the Awesome Blog Content Award (hence, ABC). As a nominee we are then tasked to write about ourselves using each letter in the alphabet. And as all chain posts go, I will then nominate a blogger to do the same.
The official rules are as follows
1. Download the award logo and add it to your acceptance post.
2. Nominate a few fellow bloggers and share the award.
3. Since the award is ABC, take each letter of the alphabet and use it to tell something about yourself.
Let’s get started shall we 😀
(*fun fact, the ABC Song and Twinkle-Twinkle Little Star have the same tune)
Anime Year 2013 – aka The Year I Finally Watch Cross Game
Closure in Anime Romances
I swear, people think I’m kidding when I say True Tears is one of my favorite romance shows.
Spoilers and “Spoiler Etiquette”
Because sometimes, we just don’t wanna hear ’em.
(and *spoiler warning, just in case)
Am I an Anime Hipster?
Corpse Party: Tortured Souls – First Episode Impressions
The End of Medaka Box (and some musings on the works of NisiOisiN)
image from cxcscans
I’ll be honest in saying that I was a bit sad to see Medaka Box go. Sure, it kinda tired itself out with plots going off-tangent at times but it was also quirky enough to be a unique “taste” of manga that you won’t really see as much in other more popular (and more successful) titles. It’s not revolutionary, what NisiOisiN (of Bakemonogatari fame) did, but out of nowhere twists and parodies and awesome characters (and side characters to boot) were sure as hell fun to read about. I’m not a big manga reader myself though, and if it wasn’t for the recommendation of a friend I probably would never even try reading Medaka Box. Thankfully I did, and I got to see it off with, probably the most awkward ending to manga I’ve seen – and it couldn’t have fit any better.
A Review on KURO: Eternal Night Chronicles, Book One – A Vanished Goddess
art by Nuri-kun
Personally speaking, I have always considered the light novel as a genre of its own. It is not merely the amalgam of fantasy and sci-fi, coupled with romance at times, that stock the Young Adult shelves of today. Granted, I read them not in their intended form, which is that of Japanese text, but it is with the essence of the novel that makes for me the biggest difference. I attribute it to the specific literary nature of the Japanese – a style that is their own; completely common-place to them yet, to the eyes of an outside reader, a relatively new and unfamiliar sight.
An unfamiliar sight indeed, being shared by what I would assume as, a relatively small niche of fans of Japanese media in general. It may even be pigeon-holed as being only for fans of Japanese media in general. Anime and manga fans are a more casual bunch in that regard I should say. To watch a story unfold in anime, as supposed to reading one in a novel is in theory something that most would consider more fun to actually do after all.
Is it really that hard to transcribe that experience, that of anime and manga, into a book?
Author Miko Limjoco wishes to do just that.
With his own spin on writing light novels, he welcomes readers into the land in darkness; Kuro.
Why I Watch Anime?
*cough* damn, it’s dusty in here *cough* *cough* 