Due to Exam week, haven’t been posting for several weeks. Now it’s over, so back to blogging again. Been procrastinating by reading manga for the past week. Some of the ones I’m catching up on (other than obligatory regular fixes such as FMA, Claymore etc) include The World God Only Knows and the Magical Index spin-off, To Aru Kagaku no Choudenjibou.

New songs have been added to that typing game (for lack of a proper name for the game), including none other than Don’t Say Lazy and Falling Down. Unsurprisingly, the K-ON ED’s at the Nightmare Mode. And, unsurprisingly, I epic failed at it – though I did well for the English songs.

click on image to play game

It’s so technological advanced and they can’t just… use webcam or something? Pathetic excuse to skip school

There are many irreversible phases of being in the anime fandom, one of which is when you find that the local anime stores can no longer satisfy you, be it due to lack of variety, inability to get intended rarer products or other varied reasons. That’s when you take the next step: purchasing the merchandise online! Yep, I’ve just taken that new step by ordering the Saber in Tuxedo Costume and pre-ordering the June release Saber Lily Avalon. And as of writing this, the former order has already been delivered to me (actually, it’s arrived for about a week, but I was too lazy to make a post about it till now lol ).

Featuring the famous Saber from Fate Stay/Night, this particular figure is based on its prequel, Fate/Zero.

Finished this series about a month ago, but only got round to writing a review recently.

Wait, scientific explanation for weird-coloured hair? In anime? What about loli-sensei's pink hair?

Its very fascinating storyline, as summed up by its tagline “when the paths between Magic and Science cross, this Epic will begin”, was what initially drew me in. Unfortunately, A Certain Magical Index was far from being anything epic. Come to think of it, I didn’t actually see the paths between Magic and Science crossing.

Firstly, I have not read the novel, so it could be that the novel is really just like that and it’s not the fault of JC Staff. Besides, unlike Gonzo, JC Staff has been shown to be able to produce good adaptations with ToraDora! being the most recent example that comes to my mind and I’ve read the novel for ToraDora! so I can agree that it is successful. According to several fans, Index was actually a rather accurate adaptation of the novel, but I can’t confirm this, so I’ll simply restrict my review purely on the anime, disregarding adaptation issues.

I’ll drop (put on hold) FMA for the time being and start to marathon it when it’s about to reach the part where the anime initially diverged from the manga, which will probably be close to the end of the year. Instead, I’ll have it replaced with Eden of the East. In short, for the season, I’ll be following only K-ON and Eden on a weekly basis. On the other hand, I’m dropping Shangri-la. Eden of the East seems to be the one everyone’s talking about (other than K-ON and FMA) and I must say that even I am impressed with the series. Yes, it caught my attention right from the first episode. No wonder Koda said it is amusing. Mind you, it really is.

Ah yes, by now, most of the internet should be aware of this news.
The World’s Most Influential Person Is…MOOT

Is it bad that I lol'd at this scene? Is GONZO trying to imply something or am I over-analyzing?

I don’t mind admitting that the opening scene in ep1 is intriguing; the protagonist being released from prison and seen to be some big-shot/popular figure

Not too late into the party I hope (wait, it’s a new series, so I guess I’m in time!).

Yup, after hearing all the raves, spams of all sorts, I finally gave in to my curiosity and watched the first episode of K-ON!, which by the looks of it, is the current object of tons and tons of popularity for this season.

The brothers are back! *BroFist*

The first episode is a filler, but I guess they were just trying to do some sort of teaser, what with all the introduction of most of the characters – particularly with the Fuhrer, and the mentioning of that Ice Alchemist as being from Xing—some sort of over-arching. However, I still consider the first episode as being quite useless.