Feb 19 2007
Just a friendly reminder…
This anime blog is NOT 100% based on TRUE FACTS and in fact is 90% MY OPINION.
I’ve been getting a lot of comments lately (mostly from the Narutards but what else is new?) that I’m complaning too much and comparing ABC to the manga. Okay let’s break this down.
Blog
-My complaints
-Comparisons
-Stupid jokes
+Episode summary
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Episode summary = About 200 other blogs out there.
Really, if I wanted this blog to be strictly verbatim of what goes on in the anime, I woulda started some kind of “anime fansite dedicated to episode summaries” or just contributed crap over to Animenfo.
If you don’t like my opinions/thoughts/etc don’t read it! Very simple. This blog is public so that those who wish may read it and those who don’t want to, don’t have to. Your idiotic comments about “me complaining” etc aren’t going to change anything. I’m starting to grow out of the whole anime trend because I’m getting older and most people who watch this stuff are kiddies and the low maturity levels are starting to give me a headache. I’ve been picking up less and less series because frankly I just don’t care anymore.
It used to be all about “pretty animation” or “catchy music” or “I like the character designs” so I’ll watch it. I’ve sat through crap like Yumeria, Iketeru Futari, Tenchi Muyo, Pretty Sammy, Angel Tail, Ayashi no Ceres, Himiko Den, Gravitation, Weiss Kreuz, Shamanic Princess, Lost Universe and the list goes on. If I look back now, I wouldn’t even bother with these shows but back in the early days it felt like the most awesome thing I’ve ever seen. Nowdays it seems the only thing out anyway is yaoi, yuri or lolis. You hardly ever find a happy medium so you gotta just pick out from what you can. I’m also sick of people acting like (insert anime here) is god’s gift to man and devoting their lives to it. Why don’t you get outta your parents’ house and see the real world…perhaps that will make a big difference on how important anime really is.
It’s people like this that ruin fandom. It’s people who don’t shower, people who glomp and people who act elitist (and look like someone who crawled out of a cave) that ruin anime conventions in the same way. For those who know of the Animenano podcast…probably don’t even know that me and JP quit. I don’t even know if Hung knows. But I guess he does now. Nothing against you Hung, but it just grew out of us. It was fun when we started and all but now all we end up doing is talking about license of the week and making fun of each other.
For those who noticed my poll…it’s relevant to this. I used to burn EVERY show I managed to sit all the way through. Now I just deleted Tokimeki Memorial and Busou Renkin. When I look at it, you know I’m not gonna go back and watch them. I used to keep raws for making AMVs, but after the Youtube fiasco I don’t even feel like making any (and Adobe Premiere crashing doesn’t help motivate me either.) I guess the whole anime thing is just slowly growing out of me? I still enjoy doing fanart once in a while and working on manga. I still enjoy writing in this blog and making fun of my summaries through comments with those of you who I’ve known since I started here. Hell if it wasn’t for anime blogging and the podcast I woulda never met JP :-).
I don’t do these rants very often but it’s something that’s been kinda boiling in me for a while and I just decided to let it out. Probably if I continue getting those kinds of comments I’ll just be deleting them. Really, you’re staining my pretty blog with them! I may lose readers after this post but as I said…you’re free to read and not read this blog. I originally created the blog with intentions to kinda just let out steam/thought/opinion on shows that I’ve watched. I noticed that people enjoyed anime summaries so when I didn’t have too much thought I’d do the summary and a few comments here & there. I coulda kept this in some private livejournal but I enjoy when people post comments and we get to talk about what happened in the episode.
I hope this clears up any misunderstanding on what kind of blog this is. Once again, if you didn’t read any of the above it’s NOT A DIRECT ANIME EPISODE SUMMARY BLOG. If you’re here for that, please look elsewhere. Thank you.
P.S. Sasuke is gay. 
73 Responses to “Just a friendly reminder…”
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Female rants are scary.
Sasuke is gay.
KAGEBUSHIN RULZ.
Sakura is love.
I burn 80% of my anime.
I too am growing out of it.
I think I burn like…10% now? Used to be 100, about a year go was 60…
Whoa, you guys quit? I didn’t even know, but I haven’t felt really inspired to get the podcast running again anyway.
Well I guess that means I can start looking for new hosts!
… That image reminded me of Mokoto when she put on a maid outfit on the manga …
Funny shit; you’ve managed to hit the nail on the head without smashing too many fingers. It is kinda sad though that we tend to slowly grow out of things that we’ve loved.
And yea, Sasuke is very gay-ish; not that there’s anything wrong with swinging that way.
I don’t watch anime too much anymore so I’ve come to enjoy reading blogs, for both the commentaries (especially if they’re funny) and the brief summaries, but once I grow out this I’ll have to start kicking cans in the park to get my thrills; I can’t stand live action movies.
Oh, and that’s the maid I want in my house–she seems dirty.
That maid is Alice from Ragnarok Online
Hung> yes go for it. We haven’t felt inspired either so we figured to just give it a rest. Maybe you can find hosts who are more into doing the podcast weekly? ^^;
heaven> Glad you see the true meaning of my post!
And I take it you didn’t bother going to see Ghostrider? lol.
P.S. Sasuke is gay.
LMAO who ever said sasuke is straight should get a psychological exam ~_^
that maid is kinda sexy…….. O_o
Similar haircut … that is pretty much the same used by “sword maiden” archetype.
Serious, sometimes I am watching a anime and start wonder why that character looks so familiar … its because I seen its identical twins on some other series.
Ignore the retards. They’re just… retards.
‘I R NARUTARD. JOOR BL0X SUX0RZZ LULZ.’
What do you expect from these people? Just don’t mind them. It’s your blog, and it’s your rules. But I’m sad you deleted Tokimemo … I always waited for your summaries on them.
Anyway, I hope you rediscover your passion for anime. I myself don’t like the season of the loli, so I started reading manga. A lot of it. LOL.
Well, you could try watching stuff like The Rapeman.
I COME FROM AUSTRALIA? LULZ.
Good post–it’s funny, I used to religiously burn 100% of what I watch, but I just sent a couple partial series to the trash the other day and didn’t bother. DVD-Rs are cheap and all, but you’re right, there are some things that you just know you won’t rewatch EVER.
On kind of a related note it seems like a lot of people are posting about “growing out” of anime, or how “all anime nowadays is a steaming pile of bat guano”, but personally I have to disagree. I’ll admit other than Manabi Straight I’ve been underwhelmed by the winter season, but for all the bad shows I think looking back over the last year there have been as many or more gems out there as there were two years, five years, or certainly ten years ago. There’s just a lot more volume than there was, and much of that extra volume is…well, Cabbage Love.
I don’t plan to “outgrow” anime any more than I plan to outgrow laughing, breathing, or eating–I’m 33 years old, have been watching anime as far back as I can remember (I still know most of the theme to “Star Blazers”), and they’ll have to pry my anime out of my cold, dead hands when I die. And I’m happily married with a house, full-time (and then some) job, mortgage and the whole nine yards, so I don’t fit the “otaku living in their parents’ basement clutching their Feena-hime pillow and mumbling about cabbages” stereotype. It pains me to see posts mentioning “outgrowing” anime like it only appeals to kids–sure, a lot of anime is crap, but a lot of any form of entertainment I can think of is crap, and for me at least, even a bad season of anime beats the hell out of what passes for good network television.
That turned into more of a rant than I meant it to…anyway, I like your blog’s formula, I’d rather read an interesting opinion than a detailed episode summary any day.
My thoughts exactly. Even though I act crazy sometimes, it’s not to the point of insanity like the Narutards you just mention. :V
I lav Alice, even as hardcore yanki version.
Sorry to double post, but I forgot to mention a couple of other things.
Yes, this is one gripe I can’t let go. Back in the good old days (I just knew about it these past 2 years), there were a lot of shows so good you could just rewatch them by burning them on CD’s. Nowadays the 80-20 rule seems to be in effect. Particularly this “season”. Miss the Golden Age.
Good thing I ventured into manga, like Michael did, alongside watching anime. Maybe that could be my new pastime/hobby. :/
Hope your burning passion for anime still burns. As for me, the passion hasn’t burnt out yet. Maybe I’ll come back to this state of anguish if the situation hasn’t turned for the better.
22 years of wasted life, and I haven’t regretted yet. orz
[...] It’s official. ;_; [...]
lol, rants are nice ^^y
i dont rly feel like reading the awesome detailed summaries too XD
and viewers who will never grow up(the stupid fandom majority) will always be the bad part of animeblog community.
hmm, about me… i used to watch/burn anime a long time ago. but i’ve stoped doing so 3 or 4years ago =p
particularly speaking, i’ve found myself unable to download nothing that came out from this season up to now (byousoku 5cm is an exception although i haven’t touched it YET)
its a bad effect that 80% of the anime released nowadays looks like crap for me. i’m also going back to be a manga-only reader. re-starting to read things i’ve stoped reading 2 years ago and also new titles =p
so now, i’m watching a few animes with my hand on the keyboard, going ffw and rwd to go throuh a filler ep XD
i guess we need more makoto shinkais in the anime industry, maybe then, we could feel like that time when
we could burn everything without a second though again.
I think you’ve finally hit the 2nd to last stage of an anime watcher: disillusionment, the period at which you knew a lot of anime you had watched really did sucked, but still lived in denial. It happens to all avid anime watchers, so I sympathize. There’s only two ways to go from here. Complete abandonment of the medium (there’s always golf and texas hold’em) or acceptance that somewhere inside, you really did like watching what you dislike (though Haruhi 2 is supposedly around the corner).
Whatever you choose, I’ll have to give you this. You definitely had guts to finish up shows like Cabbage Love and Horniness.
O__O SASUKE’S GHEY?! OMGWTFBBQ!!111
… just needed to get that out ^^;; I like your blog for what it is; it’s absurd to think you won’t get plenty of opinion on someone’s personal space. That’s the real draw of blogs for me: being able to connect with other people’s thoughts on different shows. Blogs have kept me from even poking my toe into some of the really crappy anime that’s out there. (Yes, I too used to burn everything … of course, this was before I tried to watch more than three series at a time ^_^) The market of shows being released and fansubbed has been oversaturated anyway; more picking and choosing becomes mandatory. I still think there’s good stuff out there; it just comes less often and is harder to find. I don’t know what I’ll think in another few years though … o.o
The answer to this _predickament_ is hentai. You and jp need a genre you can enjoy together. Hentai it is. I don’t think Trouble Chocolate made the cut somehow.
Ohohohoho!!! U SHOWED THEM WHAT YOU’RE MADE OF HINANO! XD
Thanks for all the great feedback guys. It’s good to see everyone’s varied opinion regarding anime watching/burning stuff.
Tess> yea sometimes I wonder if I should just turn comments off on the Naruto posts
Michael> I’ll still be blogging Tokimemo till the end and I woulda prolly kept it had it not been awfully stretched to 26 episodes. And I don’t know what the deal with your flag is. Must be some script bug
suguru> I really like your comment. It’s good to see an older person’s opinion on all of this. I guess when I said outgrowing anime, not necessarily referring ALL of it to “age”. Just sayin how majority of anime fans, are still the living-with-their-parents type, and the kind like you are rare and few :D. I still enjoy anime obviously, however probably not as much as I used to 5-6 years ago.
Ronin> I still read manga, haha. I love manga which is why a lot of my posts are comparing how good the manga and how terrible the anime is (and that’s kinda how this whole anger got started in the first place…people bitching at my comparisons :P)
berz> I totally did the whole scroll through the filler ep when Naruto was still in fillerland lol.
Fubared> I think I hit that stage in 2004, when I temporarily only saw like 2-3 series that year and instead focused my attention and watched like 30 Japanese Dramas lol. However in 2006 spring, so many good shows came out I got back into the swing of things. But now as the year has come to a close (and I’m stressed over finding a job) stuff like blog drama and rude fans really take away a lot from my fandom
As far as Happiness and Yoake Mae (lol I love your names), I’m the type of person that once I start something I usually finish it. The exception is 26 episode series. If it’s like 12-13 eps, and I’m halfway there, I’ll finish it up.
Senna>
I don’t mind different opinions, in fact it’s great to be able to discuss stuff…what really irritates me is people who come outta nowhere just yelling at me for STATING my opinion. Like how DARE I insult X anime and compare it to the manga! (and by X anime I obviously mean Naruto.) As far as fansub market you’re absolutely right. Back when I fansubbed, people would fight over who subbed what series. Nowdays, you can barely find enough fansubbers to sub A GIVEN series. (poor sumo^6!)
I’m sad to hear that you and JP quit the podcast…the AN podcast was really entertaining and the three of you really clicked and it eventually inspired me to do my own podcast. But I understand the “growing out of it” part. I’m starting to feel like an oldster at my anime club and cons already…:) And don’t let fandom get ya down, like what you like, no matter where that takes you.
As for me, I am very picky about the anime I watch now. The 2006 spring and summer seasons drew me back in as well after a long spell of watching very little and since then, I’m very particular about shows that are either genuinely funny or are well-written as stories (good character development, plot, etc). I burn roughly the same ratio as you as a result. In other words it’s just like the rest of film and TV–most of it is and will be crap and my goal is to find the 10% that isn’t.
I see it as my goal to highlight that (and maybe poke fun at the stuff that isn’t!).
I’ve lapsed on burning some anime and deleting others. I’ve always like what you written. And much like suguru, I don’t plan on outgrowing anime either (though I don’t remember the them to Starblazers). I will admit that as I’ve gotten older, my tastes have changed. That’s were most of the enjoyment seems to come from, watching something that I wouldn’t have considered when I was younger (I’m 37).
Oh, if you noticed, Tsubaki and I are about the same now. Anyway, I pretty much stopped burning anything and deleting them all. It’s funny how across the world, people are doin the same thing as you.
Also, I still get fangirls cursing me for suggesting that the twins in Ouran are gay. And that post was eons ago.
Btw, I’m still interested in Jpmeyer’s scene in that new nokia ad. The one with lots of headphones.
I have nooooooooooooo idea which Nokia ad that is. We watched like 3 or 4 different ones on Youtube and didn’t see anyone that looked like me.
God, the manga version of Ex-fansubber was sooooo much better.
Good luck finding a job. Out of curiosity (and feel free not to share if you prefer not to), what kinda job are you looking for?
With regards to any type of drama, I find that it’s like a game of catch. People who throw it want it coming back to them. The best remedy for me has always been to not catch it at all (ignoring it). It’s one of the hardest things to do and it does break some pride, but at least if I don’t focus on it, then there’s more time to do other things, like watching bad anime. lol
If you ever get back on a good upswing of viewing, here’s to another year of bad anime.
oh, btw, i’ll be gone in a few days. no more erratic replies for a while =(
moving to japan and getting some work @_@
(no time to watch anime either)
so good luck finding a job ^^
hahaha, i am still far from any disillusionment, since I always try to find something good. To me, if the thing starts, i will stop watching it. That happens when you continue to watch something bad and it will hurt you.
Mamoru ep 17 is the stop for me, tokimeki being 12 and I stopped blogging them early once I found that it’s crap to me.
Well, about how you store animé, it’s your choice.
And well, as for the whole it’s the fans that ruin animé thing, I should know. I know (and used to know) people ruining fandoms because they are short-sighed and stupid. And it doesn’t just end at anime. Even the eroge fan-translation realm has it, and it’s been there for quite some time, and has some really strong ‘anti-commoner’ sentiments.
…Shit, I really want to kill gp32 and half of the MT VN forums now. Wait, make that run those fuckers over with a loaded Hummer.
As for the ANO podcast, I thought hung was jealous of you and japes, LAWL (no hard feelings, ‘kay? T_T)
:V i’m not like normal otaku. I’m not loud, arrogant, nor am I living in a basement clutching a body-pillow (Well, it’s hard living underground if you live in Singapore orz, I’ll admit to living with me parents, though :V)
And as for the whole disillusionment thing, well, it takes something extraordinary to get the interest. I must say I found it (in the form of Overman King Gainer), and as for you and japes, you gotta find that series that defines your interpretation of AWESOME.
:V Isn’t it sad, animé?
Anime blog without opinions is boring. And as for burning, I do it far less now than before. I don’t watch that many show again anyway so it’s just waste of time and money.
I don’t see myself as ‘growing out’ of anime any time soon, but I have learned my lesson about watching any old crap (I still do watch some crap, but that’s mainly for the sake of making fun of it. Still, it’s like any other hobby, sometimes you get fed up and want to move on, other times you just need a break and then you find yourself slowing coming back to it, even if it’s to a lesser extent than before.
I burn most series that I finish, either because I may want to watch/screencap it some time in the future, or because it was a pain to download and it’s easier to have it on disc just in case.
Sasuke is HARD GAY…and my flag on here always says I’m from the US even though I’m not, but that’s probably AOL’s fault.
i really enjoy read your blog ..
just keep up the good work~
this is really nice blog!
You and jp quit? That’s sad. I always thought you three were like an anime podcast dreamteam. It will be hard to replace you two.
Or did you want hung to follow Naruto’s example and start with version 2?
Talking about licenses is boring, I absolutely agree. Maybe hung will come up with some new, interesting ideas for the podcast
I’ve been a lurker here for a while but never posted anything. Well, I guess that status ended now, aye! Not sure why anybody would complain about your blog. I read blogs precisely for opinions, and I read yours mainly because your opinion > obvious crap content. If I want to know how an episode turns out, there’s that method called WATCHING IT, bah. Blogging is seriously there to opine.
Been burning less and less, too, and watching less and less. I guess more familiarity with any entertainment medium does that, as well as lack of time. (I’m also much more picky with my books and games than I did, too) It’s more like a particularly quirky hobby now than the be-all-end-all of personal enjoyment. In a way I guess it’s sad…but I think it’s less outgrowing, than branching out to find other things you also enjoy? Tying yourself to a joy doth the winged life destroy, or so William Blake said.
I love your blog. You’re rants are what make you you!
Now you go girl! I feel you totally. I’m getting the anime burnout already, and I’m selectively watching animes. No longer do I sit down and watch every single crap that comes out of Japan.
But hey, I don’t regret doing those because I got to meet great people like tjhan and all.
Nice rant, u basically scored every point u can.
I agree it gets really annoying when ppl complain about how u see things instead of making valid points to counter ur arguments (what i’d refer as gutters). With this kind of ppl theres nvr gonna be good discussion…
It’s sad how people react to or view of anime/game/manga these days. They dont see them as common art and culture but instead blindly follows the stream, without truly knowing why they like it.
Another note of my own opinion, extreme fan-ism is what I always dislike, it ruins the discussion space because they simply cannot accept other groups.
As for the burning part, well…. I dont really burn stuff at all heheh. But usually i refrain myself from going overboard when a new wave of anime comes out, and start picking out the best/favorite 2 or 3 (I get rather nitpicky in terms of quality and taste). Heheh, its really about time managing issues~
I will never accept that Sasuke is gay! xD But I’m surprised you had to make a rant about this (not Sasuke being gay, about the content of your blog xP). You just go, girl. Everyone has different tastes and different ways of doing things.
Like suguru, I am an older fan…actually much older
(add about 15 yrs to his). I started watching anime
when I was a kid with series like Janguru Taitei
(Kimba the White Lion), Tetsuwan Atom (Astro Boy),
Yuusei Shounen Papii (Prince Planet), and Mach Go
Go Go (Speed Racer). By the early 70s, I guess I
got tired of anime (and cartoons in general) and I
stopped watching for the next 25+ years. Around
2000, I happened upon Ao no Roku-go (Blue
Submarine No. 6) and, a little later, Tenchi Muyo
(OVA) which started my current interest in anime.
I suppose this anime renaissance happened, in
part, because of my job. I work as a non-linear
editor and I find it difficult to suspend disbelief with
live action entertainment…I tend to start looking at
edits (both video and audio), camera angles,
lighting, etc. With anime, this is not the case.
By the way, after working with editing applications
like Premiere and Avid Media Composer, I prefer
Final Cut Pro…just a personal preference and
probably overkill for what you need.
As for burning, I am currently burning everything.
DVDs are cheap and I need to keep my hard drives
clear…I have over 1TB, but I need to keep most of
it clear for work. Due to work, I always have a
backlog and burning allows me to view when I have
spare time. For the stuff I don’t want to keep, I can
just give it to some younger colleagues who have
an interest.
Ever since discovering it a few months ago, I have
always enjoyed reading your blog. It’s fun to read
and has some incisive and insightful commentary.
To me, blogs are not there primarily to get news
and information (hard facts), rather to get the
opinions of someone other than yourself, family,
and friend on topics of interest to broaden your
own views on those topics.
Thanks for all the good work you have done and
hopefully will continue to do with this blog.
I’m really not surprised that a lot of fandom are starting to feel burn-out at the moment - it’s staggered me for a while exactly how some people manage to watch so much without wanting to smash things. People keep saying it’s bad that there are only one or two good shows airing at a time as if its a horrific thing, but I don’t really see whats wrong with that. If there are only two shows worth watching, only watch two shows - there is no sense in burning yourself out watching shit when there are better things you can be doing.
I don’t think getting old means going out of anime, but it does result it something of a re-adjustment. Ten years ago I’d rewatch everything I got my hands on repeatedly as well, and I watched a load of shit (and I mean PROPER shit - I’ve a least heard of most of the stuff you list as crap :P). Its just what I did as a fanboy - when I’d get in on an evening, I’d just grab a random tape and rewatch things over and over.
These days, well, there’s work and things. My freetime is the most valuable commodity I have, and I simply don’t want to waste it on trash - These days I spend as much time playing video games and reading actual books as I do on anime and manga. I suppose I probably am less passionate about the stuff than I used to be, but I’m still a fanboy, and I probably always will be. I just don’t see the need to watch anime every free moment I have these days - a lot of evenings I’ll not watch anything these days. I’ll still spend time catching up on blogs and forums posts (hence why I’m replying to this), but I don’t see the sense wasting my time with crap.
As for fandom, well, I avoid most of it. Really, the only places I hang out on online are the #an and #ab channels, where people are generally OK, and the AnimeonDVD forums, which being a DVD centric site (not that there isn’t fansub talk) means most people posting there reach at least a certain level of maturity (after all, most of them are people who, like, have cash to buy stuff). I don’t read most other forums because, well, the people there piss me off. I realised this early on, and as a result managed to avoid seriously being burnt by overt annoyance.
If fandom is really annoying you so much, I’d honestly recommend just avoiding it all together. You know Japanese, so it’s not like you have to go to all the English sites to learn about things or to get subbed releases. I suppose it doesn’t help that, between your blog and thingss your manga, AMV and Flash work, you are drawing attention to yourself. If fans are starting to piss you off too much, I’d probably be inclined to suggest that you delete your blog - I’d miss the otome game reviews, and you’d probably annoy a lot of people, but frankly you’d be better off pissing off a bunch of people you’ll never meet than working yourself into a situation where you kill your own fandom.
Oh, and I also feel the need to mention that this time of year is ALWAYS awful for anime, and there tends to be a lot of posts like this time of year ^^;
Really, I wouldn’t worry too much about growing out of anime fandom. The slowdown is probably a good thing - you’ve just realised that its not worth wasting your time with crap, and when that really, really awesome show turns up you’ll just appriciate it all the more.
Anyway, I’ve started to waffle on yet again, so I’ll just answer the poll question - I tend to buy everything I sit all the way through. Thankfully it helps that I have a pretty accurate crap-filter these days, and those few shows that manage to get through I quickly weed out, so it doesn’t end up being all that much. I don’t follow all that many series, but when someone does produce something I like I do like to actually buy it to show my support (and to watch again, of course).
Hrm… I had posted a comment last night, but I guess it never went through. Anywho, Hinano, I love your blog and what you write about. Don’t let a handful of idiots bring you down because I sincerely believe there are more people who care about write and respect your opinions on things.
As for burning, my current anime state, and whatnot, I’m actually someone who is probably MORE into anime than I was 2-3 years ago. I was huge with anime in the late 1990’s and the early part of this decade, but when I moved out of the dorms, most of my anime interest declines and I was more into gaming. It wasn’t just losing out on the T1 line and moving away from other anime fans; a lot of my interest in anime just died down. From 2002-2004, I only watched maybe 5-6 series total. Ironically, around me it seemed like EVERYONE was finally getting into anime, or everyone was getting reconnected with anime. It was like this boom that I had experienced a few years earlier.
At least from what I’ve noticed, most people seem to have had a “golden age” between 2002-2004, and are now on the downswing. On the other hand, I’m more on the upswing. When it comes to interests there are inevitable highs and lows–I may be on the up end and others may be on the down end.
I can sympathize about real life stress taking over interest in anime watching. Back over the summer and beginning of the fall, I actually was only following NHK and Honey & Clover because I had a lot going on. I moved back home from graduate school (even though my degree wasn’t finished), needed to find work, didn’t find work and was broke, needed to finish projects from school, and was part of planning a wedding. For a good 5 months, I questioned my interest in anime. I actually thought I was going to go back to how I was a few years ago and tune out anime for awhile, but once things settled down, I got a job, and summer became fall, my interests returned. Your disillusionment may be heightened by current stress. I’m not saying it’s all about stress, but stress tends to bolster things.
So yeah, keep blogging about whatever you feel like and I’ll keep reading!
Hey Hinano,
I like your blog now matter what. When you put your opinion on it, it’s one of the actual reasons why it’s so good and it’s true that you shouldn’t let others bring you down.
P.S. And i agree with you that Sasuke is gay
Sasuke is not gay!!11 He’s just a medieval misunderstood metrosexual!
Abject apologies for the alliteration.
I no longer burn anything even though I have access to a DVD burner, since I’ve realized that until retirement a few decades down the road, I’ll have no time at all to rewatch anime.
Who’s the maid? I love the stance she’s got… and it fits well with the rant.
Yes, you don’t summarize shows - but pretty much every blog out there, as you’ve pointed out, does it. Opinions are getting kinda rare out there, and comments beyond ‘I liked this’ are similarly hard to find.
Personally, I just say ‘ignore them’ when it comes to the desu-tards who dominate the landscape. And yes, it’s getting rare to find anything other than harem or action series out there… which is probably why I did pick up Black Lagoon when it was airing; it’s unashamedly action, and did it in a way which was both entertaining while providing a bit of meat in terms of drama… without being mindless like Naruto.
Whoa more comments! I read through them all and it’s really good (and surprising actually) to see so many people who aren’t brainless Narutards that visit this blog!
tj han> they aren’t gay?
fubared> im trying to get into HR/Recruiting but I’ve been getting royally screwed by temp agencies the last 2 months.
berz> good luck in japan!
impz> haha you finally dropped Mamoru!
drm> i never payed attention to the eroge community but i’d assume theyre as stupid as the retards who lurk on 4chan.
karura> the flags are screwy haha. sasuke IS hard gay i mean look at his new outfit. it screams HA-DO GEI! to me. I like how you make fun of stuff on your blog, cause some shows plots are so retarded that sometimes that’s the best way to read about it.
kurisu> we quit cause we sorta ran outta inspiration/ideas and I think hung although didn’t “officially” quit, lost much interest himself.
equiv> thas why I’m focusing now on my online manga (although I wish Kablam would add it to their catalog so people can actually purchase it!)
tsubaki> i dont regret doing it either. I got to connect with people from singapore like you and tj and malaysia and everywhere else. hell I met JP this way so I’m glad I got back into anime but I guess with life stress and the shitty amount of shitty shows it’s causing the burnout.
nightingale> the funny thing is in japan “OTAKU” is what that EXTREME fan-ism is. maybe thats why in japan they look so down on these people. rather than “anime fans” or people who enjoy anime as a hobby they see them as these psychos who think anime is their god/way of life/religion.
whispered> so you’re not a narusasu fan I take it? lol. i dont care if people like sasuke (i just did that to spite some idiotic narutard) i just hate when people totally try to shove their narutard beliefs in your face like some kind of religion.
mochi> good to see opinions from people like you as well. you seem to really go back far haha, way farther than me! I wish I had your job lol. I love editing AMVS T_T Too bad I couldnt find a job in that field so Im stuck being a boring office lady.
digi> i’d hate to drop this blog, especially after seeing al the comments and realizing “wow there are more than just morons who read this blog!” I guess it’s the morons who feel the need to spit in your face with their stupidity while the smart people just read and enjoy the blog for what it is.
deftoned> most likely you’re right. i’ve been realy stressed out trying to find a job the last 2 months and temp agencies are driving me up the wall so that could be what also helped bring all this on.
birbrained> as others have said, i’ll try to avoid all the morons
Haess> its Alice from Ragnarok Online. (I made her my pet today!) I used to love harem shows (at one point i thoght Tenchi Muyo was awesome!) but nowdays i feel like I’ve been thrown into a laundry machine of recycled storylines and plot devices. Maybe the animators figure that people like me by now grow out of it so they’re appealing the same material but to a new audience who may not be familiar what was already done.
This is definitely well-written. Actually, one of the reasons why I frequent your site so much is because of your opinions. Because they aren’t always about how hot the main guy is or whatever else things many blogs post about (no offense to other blogs). You tend to emphasize more on the plot and whether or not this week’s episode was well-written or whatever. Comparitively I’m a total n00b to anime, but I’m not a n00b to stories and dramas, etc, so I too don’t watch an drama/anime just for the hot guy (but that is an incentive :P) or whatever. I mean, I dropped Naruto a loong time ago (could never get over the constant fillers) and reading through your opinions about Bokura ga Ita made me stop at around episode 5, because your opinions mean something and they really do count alot. What I mean to say is that its not brainless and that its good that you say what you mean and think about a series, because you don’t think like a prepubescent teen.
I hope that makes sense. But all in all, your “complaints, comparisons, and stupid jokes” make your blog yours and keeps us coming
Your blog is the only thing that comes up with early summarized previews of Busou Renkin which is probably the best part about your blog that tops other anime blogs (I only know of one more and I wanted to add a smiley here but don’t know how to).
Long live Busou Renkin (I think I should’ve insterted Hinano instead) summarized previews and here’s to Hinano for your decent effort in keeping this blog alive (I honestly have no idea how long more you’ll last - since you said that you’re growing up, well so am I) :(.
Thanks again for your wonderful blog
In a sea of many week-by-week episode summaries, you definitely should differentiate yourself from the pack with other interesting things to talk about. I just plain gave up on following shows on a weekly basis because (1) there would be 2 or 3 different posts based on a raw while I’m waiting for an episode to be subbed and (2) I didn’t have - and still don’t have - time to watch something specific every week and so backlogs accumulated. When I DO write episode-based posts, it’s in batches and even that’s not very often. So do your own thing ’cause it’s your damn blog and nobody else’s!
I should really get to burning off some of the anime I’ve finished because I’ve been noticing my external HDD’s free space slowly decreasing as it fills up with stuff I’ve haven’t gotten around to watching yet.
It’s a little sad that the podcast is on permanent hiatus because I liked the chemistry between you, JP, Hung and whomever was filling in. Maybe some other people could get it back up and running. (Kind of volunteering right now, if I can get Skype to work…) I was about 5 episodes behind anyway so I wasn’t that anxious for another episode to come out though.
Hinano - that’s why I loved Mahoraba when it came out… since it took the formula, and turned it on its ear. Although Hayate the Combat Butler looks promising - it takes the romantic comedy thing.. and twists it around a bit.
Mahoraba actualy gets better? Cause after ep 1 I gave up on it seeing that it looked like every other Harem show (and had annoying female haremettes)
Hihinano
I’m actually pretty surprised at the amount of positive responses towards your original post, Hinano. You mentioned something along the line of “most things that come out are yuri and loli anyway”, which I thought would draw out all the “fanboys” and all kinds of verbal abuse.
I personally think the measures some people go to support a character are kind of silly. Actually, it makes kinda makes me lol (lol as in shaking my head in disappointment) how people take an ‘attack’ against, say, Kaede from Shuffle REALLY personally and will literally go psycho (lol) towards the person that said a bad thing about her.
I’m slowly “getting out of” anime too. I wish I could get excited about a series on the basis that it looks “moe” or whatever, like many fans do (not that it’s a bad thing, it’s just that I’m not like that). The thing is, I’ve looked back on series that I’ve seen and can think of some truly brilliant ones (Twin Spica, Now and Then Here and There, Hale nochi Guu). And when I look at it, I’ve only discovered the great series when I’ve abandoned this whole “keep up with the seasons” crap and researched anime which I genuinely liked the concept of.
Which is what I’m doing now. I figured I won’t force myself through most of the Winter anime “just because”, and instead catch up on older series instead. I’m watching Fantastic Children now, which is one of the most brilliant and epic series I’ve seen. There are so many series out there. It’s like music, if I only stuck to what was on the charts all I’d only be experiencing crap such as generic rapper #23232, Rihanna, Paris Hilton, Ashley Simpson, Fergie and Pussycat Dolls.
That’s not to say all new anime is bad. I’m currently following Red Garden, Kanon, Code Geass and Nana at the moment, all of which are decent series IMO.
Crayola> Hehe I’m still watching Nana too, just not blogging about it
I’m surprised at the positive feedback as well. I expected there to be all these flames which I guess goes to show as I previously said….my blog is read by intelligent people, but only the morons who want to spit in your face are the ones making the rude commenteray 
Lost Universe, LOL. Can’t believe that you quit the podcast now that you got a man out of it!!!!!
Does Hung get a matchmaker fee?
As for on topic discussion, I was interested to learn that everyone else is also getting out of the anime packrat mentality and just deleting old stuff that will never get watched anyway. I guess with stuff being so readily available nowadays, it makes no sense to go through the pain of backing the stuff up.
Also, to all you Sasuke haters: Wait till Orochimaru tells Sasuke that the only way to get revenge on Itachi is to pimp ninja hos like it was going out of style. At last we will see the true power of the Sharingan, and the revival of the Uchiha clan (albeit all with the same father).
>>I expected there to be all these flames which I guess goes to show as I previously said….my blog is read by intelligent people, but only the morons who want to spit in your face are the ones making the rude commenteray
It’s because all those who piss and moan are those who visit maybe once get mad and never return, but their mark is left. That, or they’re too chicken to post now.
Kabitzin> Hung, like cupid, clearly works for Free. XD I haven’t been keeping up with the latest Naruto chapters because I’ve been buying the “volumes” as they come out instead.
I collect more manga these days than anime anyway.
Well… I kinda made that stuff about Sasuke up…
But it could still happen.
Crayola > I’m watching Fantastic Children now, which is one of the most brilliant and epic series I’ve seen.
Word. I ended up marathoning most of that show in a day because I’d let the DVDs build up, but it was soooo worth it. Its a shame most people won’t look past the character designs on a show like that.
Hinano - the harem… well, it doesn’t happen. That’s all I’ll say about it. The manga’s somewhat better, however, although the anime wasn’t bad. It’s way better than say.. Shuffle.
It’s interesting how the concepts which aren’t harem tend to get ignored by fansubbers though - Binchou-tan, Les Miserables, Bartender, etc. Even Hidimari Sketch isn’t getting that much attention, although the blogs I’ve seen regarding this are mixed in terms of the way they treat the show.
That being said… Crayola - the Psychos for Kaede people don’t bother me as much as the desu-tards that showed up during the SaiMoe thing… and whose ‘desu desu desu’ spam I see on some blogs to this very day. I mean, come on - Suiseiseki wasn’t worth THAT…
Hehe I stayed away from Rozen Maiden
I prefer Hinano in trouble chocolate for my Marionette cravings
Rozen Maiden is pretty good, true we got the “Desu” meme out of it … but still its pretty good.
Hinano - well, if you can stand the manga, the Negima manga’s Chachazero’s a fun marionette. Completely psycho, even with a ‘cute’ appearance. Note that I do not recommend any of the anime series so far… and it’s still pretty ’standard’ harem, unfortunately. More so than it was after the Kyoto arc.
The new Negima is sooo awful haha I totally gave up on it
I rather enjoyed the first series even if everyone else hated it
The first and second series do a pretty thorough job butchering the manga. They’re pretty much what I consider to be the ‘how not to do a manga-to-anime’ translation… especially when the mangaka (Akamatsu) pretty much admitted he wished someone other than XEBEC had done the job for the first one.
But as far as deadly psycho marionettes go, Chachazero beats most of the Rozen Maidens (except maybe Gin-sama).
>>The new Negima is sooo awful haha I totally gave up on it
I rather enjoyed the first series even if everyone else hated it
I agree on that! Back when it started I was incredibly hesitant about the series, but lots were into it. I thought back then it didn’t have the same feeling as the original Negima (story and characters) and was too wacky for its own good.
I actually love the new Negima. The first few episodes were hilarious and the animation is pretty unique. It’s getting pretty boring recently, but some Negima manga fans give it a hard time because it isn’t like the manga. But it was established from the start that Negima!? wouldn’t be like the manga series.
Hey, just treat it like a “Negima Fumoffu”. That’s what I did XD
I love your blog! I love all the comments you make about these shows! Without your blog, I wouldn’t have finished watching Bokura ga Ita! I needed a comic relief after that massive bowl of emo! (LOL) And your Bosuo Renkin comments are the best!
LOL bowl of emo, yea sometimes I wonder how I finished that myself
Well, my main complaint is how they butchered the manga and cut out so many things and characters - the first series more than the second - and the art.. well, the art suffered. The OVA’s are a tad better in this respect - they don’t follow the manga at all, but they’re more entertaining, IMO, than the series has proven to be.
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At All - Man, this actually made me a little depressed, but your burning out certainly is something I can relate to–at times like these its best to Drink Some Redbull1!!!1 or better yet give up on anime for like 3 months and come back to it.
Also, Anime is definitely superfluous to everything else in life, so with things like looking for a job and such, it really becomes unimportant and a burden.
BTW In the past two days I just discovered the animenano podcast and the personas that are Hung and jp x hinano and its sad to see the podcast, as it is now, die, because your group dynamic was really entertaining (Although i did FEEL BAD for you, Hinano, when you were getting “made fun of” all the time. I’ll still keep checking your blog and holding out hope that maybe the podcast may be recovered.
BTW2 I THANK you for all your talk of Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiyah as it made me watch it today and I enjoyed it a lot.
ALSO watch some seinfeld. Sorry for the doublepost