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03 Sep 2008 mellow_bunny

Toshokan Sensou, A Kanokon Revisit, Karekano

Toshokan Sensou (Library Wars)

So I finished Toshokan Sensou today. My overall impressions of the show are good. I liked the animation, the music, the characters and the story :)! I wish some of the backstory could have been more detailed but such is life with only 12 episodes.

I think most memorable for me would be the parents coming to visit episode. Also when Kasahara realises Doujou is the Prince Charming hahaa. I liked the somewhat sneaky character of Shibasaki ;). I watched this series in HD and recommend it thoroughly. The show looked great.

As a note, I have found that any anime series of 12 episodes to be much more enjoyable then the larger 24 or 26 episode series. I guess the story progresses much faster and stronger emotions are usually in play.

A Kanokon Revisit

I was doing my nightly Antenna trawl of blogs looking for posts of interests when I came across a post on Euphoric Field. One thing lead to another and I came across this Kanokon post on Euphoric Field. Quite simply hilarious. The post near perfectly describes my thoughts on the show and was written in a muchly amusing manner. Go read~

Karekano (Anime)

The biggest waste of my time and angst ever. 2 years ago now it was that I first hired out the DVD volumes of this show. I only ever made it to the 4th disc however. The angst I felt over the possibility of them splitting made me fear the last disc. I finally decided to face my fears last week and hired out the final DVD.

I… I can’t believe it.. I’m still in shock over the utter crap way it ended. Worst ever. EVER.

29 Jul 2008 mellow_bunny

Nanoha Movie SPOILERS

I’m putting in this warning here at the top so you don’t get spoiled by what I have written below if you are reading a summary from a RSS feed. Just to let you know my source is extremely reliable and has never been wrong with his information before. You probably recognize him (see picture below). He’s an industry expert and much loved Otaku-king.

Onsakumaru. Reliable. Dependable. Renewable.

Not to mention why does almost everybody like this show? What is it about these guys.

Oh.. that's right.. hot chicks, magic... and yuri.

Anywho I don’t think I’ll end up watching this movie. I’m just not a fan :/

22 Jul 2008 mellow_bunny

Baka Raptor: You rox my sox.

In true Bunny fashion I wish to welcome Toshiyuki to mellowSPACE with a carrot cake :D! As he mentioned he will be working on the Kyouki Project which I will be posting about very soon.

In other more awesome news. BAKA-RAPTOR. You rox my sox. Why? Because of your sheer awesomeness and the fact that I appeared on your blogroll and I have 0 idea why.

Blogrolls and friendlist are quite possibly the hardest part of your blog to make. WHY? WHY DO YOU ASK? Because it takes ME time. Lots of it. Wouldn’t it be way simpler if it was more like MySpace in that someone could add your blog as a “friend” and you could like approve it. THEN AUTOMAGICALLY their details would show up in your blogroll/friendspage/sidebar-generale~.

Maybe i’m just super lazy. Also as a crazy side note.. I just found a clothes washing peg in my bed.

21 Jul 2008 mellow_bunny

Ohayo gozaimasu! Toshiyuki desu.

In true weeaboo tradition the title of this post is all of the Japanese I can muster. Ok ok.. I used my phrase book. BUT! I am trying to learn Japanese by taking classes (BOOO WEEABOO .. wait classes? Nice). I’m new to both the anime/manga scene as well as blogging. I’m mainly here because of the Kyouki Project [site here] that mellow is starting up.

I hope to meet more of you soon, i’ve already met Pablo-kun and Extrange on the IRC channel for AnimeBlogger!  Till next time~!

Sayonara!

17 Jul 2008 mellow_bunny

HAPPY USAGI WEEK!

As you are ALL aware, this week is National Rabbit Week (July 15-21) in the USA (Google it if you don’t believe me). I thought now would be a good time to discuss with you some of the aspects of my great family. Let’s start with the three main types of Bunny. We begin with MoeBunny.

MoeBunny

MoeBunny is the type of Bunny you just want to hug and squeeze. MoeBunny normally hangs around other MoeBunny types and avoids contact with CrazyBunny and ThinkerBunny. MoeBunny can be found in most anime and manga and is second in the animal girl category only to Neko Girls.

MoeBunnies are like… 45% of my greater family, they live overseas, mainly in the Asian zone. They love to make sweets and pastries and thus I am well looked after when it comes to Custard Tarts. MoeBunnies are the popular type of Bunny and more readily accepted by Humans, Traps and Taiyaki.

CrazyBunny

CrazyBunny is a bunny you don’t want to be with in dark alleys, dark buildings, abandoned areas and dungeons. Basically they are batshit insane. The only time you want to be around them is when you have a gift of carrots and sugar for them and you are being chased by bad guys. These guys are badass and will FOOK YOU UP. They also know how to party (link picture unrelated but HO SHI-).

CrazyBunnies are around 24% of my family. These guys live all up around South America, Europe, Africa and Antarctica (those ones are probably the worst). I keep in touch with them all on a loose basis they can be handy if you want a good time in town late on a Friday night. Also if you need anything like.. you know.. “killed” they are your best bet. Also these guys like to participate in those bunny suicide comics (BATSHIT I TELL YOU).

ThinkerBunny

ThinkerBunny types are the most logical, the better prepared types and the leaders of my family. They own all our big businesses, they are in our government, they invent our new technologies. They are also very balanced and help keep order in our society. Considering that we generate over 73,000 new family members every hour it helps to have Bunnies with good management skills in charge.

ThinkerBunnies are around 30% of my family. They are located all across the world and always close to urban areas. These guys are great to hang out with and like to chill out and relax with a dance party on the beach most weeknights. They are also in my opinion the sexier types.. so classy and refined.

The Other 1%

The rest of the family (including me) are the rare types. We live in random locations around the globe and form part of the Bunny Protectorate. We defend the lives of our fellows and at times blend in with Human society in order to fulfill our mission.

CELEBRATE!

So that’s my family. Enjoy this special week of celebration and don’t forget to deliver a carrot cake to your closest Bunny friend <3!

16 Jul 2008 mellow_bunny

Wordpress 2.6 WHY DO PEOPLE BAW?

I noticed that the newest version of Wordpress is out today. I was excited and why not? This new version has resolved the flash uploader issue by giving you a choice, it now features page and post revisions, it makes use of Google Gears to speed up load times if you choose, there is theme previews, a word counter, bulk management of plugins, better image management and much more.

Check this video out if you are interested. (EDIT: I forgot to post a link to the Wordpress Dev Blog.)

So with all these great features why do people BAWWWWWWWW?! I have a theory. People hate change. It’s that bloody simple. They got used to the old UI for example and can’t handle the jandal hence the thousands of posts about hating the new layout and how it sucks. The point is the software is making PROGRESS. Wordpress is becoming an even better CMS to work with. Deal with it.

So do you plan to upgrade soon? If you’ve recently upgraded to 2.5 or 2.6 what are your thoughts on the new features?

10 Jul 2008 mellow_bunny

Breaking that barrier.

I was perusing Ryan’s blog over at Aloe Dream today when I came upon his post “Micro-Blogging Revisted“. This post really got me thinking about our internet presence as a community as such.

Before I go on, Ryan is a really talented guy and he has this SUPER AWESOME project called Melative. I’m hoping to perhaps get an interview with him so I can fill you guys in on it. He has some awesome ideas and has created some sweet as things. Back to the story…

Although I may not have looked at the post in the way that Ryan intended he said something which sparked my mind.

Jyri makes a good point about “value” and while the steam of the otakusphere is “the current, the hot, the seasonal”, a couple months later it just doesn’t matter (editorials rule the time! glad to see more of these in recent months!!)

He made a really good point. The way I think about it is that small short posts of information just do not last and don’t hold as much weight in our community. Even posts that are off-topic as such or not about the latest thing can sometimes be lost in the wind. This got me thinking… Is our community of anime and manga enthusiasts able to support a microblogging system? Is it able to support a culture different to the view it has now? Are we forever going to be bloggers who want to create impacting indepth articles on shows we love?

We don’t value smaller posts or posts about off season shows as much as we do editorials or hot shows for instance in that they have no real lasting strength. Does this mean that our community will not be able to branch out into other avenues of blogging or sharing information?

That is what I want to know. Innovation I believe is probably the key to expanding, not changing our horizons. If we were to take all the random maybe fleeting thoughts we have on ways to enhance our online experience and share them with like minded individuals.. the likelihood for an age of creation is high (queue epic music).

It would be cool if perhaps a group of us (or even just one huge massive discussion) sat down and talked about what we see now in the online otakusphere, where it’s headed and what we could perhaps do (or are already doing re: Melative) to try and expand the horizons?

If you are totally lost about what I mean here then take a look at MAL and take a peek at Melative. These are web applications which are changing the way we as bloggers and as an anime enthusiast community interact. Why limit ourselves to just writing away using Wordpress. LETS GET INVENTIVE! Let’s create stuff which is awesome. Let’s make our part of the internet cool, let’s make it fresh and let’s do stuff that hasn’t been done anywhere else.

I’ve seen some really cool fairly unique ideas with some good backers out there. These include new ways to share information with one another, ways in which to challenge one another and ways in which to just have plain fun with anime.

What will it take for us to jump in and just have a chat about it all? Share ideas, ping pong the thoughts and perhaps come out better off for it?

Ryan noted in his post one thing which I know would make a huge difference to the way we all blog. Coming away with some way to simplify everyone’s blogging efforts would be a great result from a discussion.

If you want to see some cool new things arrive in this community then for noe’s sake comment. Let’s get excited about the community we thrive in. Let’s set a new standard for ourselves. Let’s just just crazy guys and girls (who don’t exist).

Holla at me if you are interested in being a part of some sort of open discussion to see what kind of ways in which we can make our community better. I’d love to help get this started and hopefully we can come away with a fresh look at our blogging community.

07 Jul 2008 mellow_bunny

It all begins with a bang.

That’s right you think you know your way through anime and manga. You think you are oh so hip and cool with your knowledge of the five basic categories. Comedy, Horror, Action, Romance and Traps. The real knowledge though lies in something much more deeper. Much more tangible. Much more muched with things.

I GIVE YOU… PURE REAL KNOWLEDGE:

I think it is safe to say the world is a better place because of Chuck. Not to mention he has a MySpace page so he must be up and down with the youngins.

Because I lack the will to write anything even remotely related to anime and because i’m at work and can’t access all my web resources I leave you with the following video.

04 Jul 2008 mellow_bunny

STOP THE PRESS!

Aliens in the form of great fruits of the world have invaded! That and I totally watched Kanokon from start to finish. I don’t have much to say on it except I preferred Nozomu out of all the characters. I think I might read the novels and or manga though. I am still watching Kyouran Kazoku Nikki and I still have episode six of Mnemosyne to see.

That’s pretty much all I have to say at the moment. I’ll write something meaningful and full of screenshots later tonight :P. Carry on people.

Edit: Also lol… the amount of people who are sucked in by a scary title. Excellent.

03 Jul 2008 JTFish

ERI WINS

ALL YAKUMO FANS ARE INVITED TO MY PARTY, FREE CHAMPAGNE!