Anime vs K-pop

ecently I saw this ongoing immature feud between Anime fans and K-pop fan(s) in lol facebook. I dunno how it all started but from my POV it was fail, fail everywhere. Each of them defended their fandoms like it's some kind of jihad, and acting like jahiliyah to each other in attempt to troll.

The hatred is ironic

But from what I can see is the one side, although many in numbers, fail badly at the art of trolling. The other one, although she may seem completely delusional seems like she had successfully made everyone's attention turn to her. Congrats Datin Comel for being epic! Once in a while it's nice to see low class 'anime people' being bashed by someone other than those from our circle, and it was one hell of an entertainment.

Look, I'm no fan of K-pop, I just grew tired of saying bad things about things I didn't even try out. And I have a few friends who are into K-pop so it had taught me to be less of a hater (yeah right I still act like a hater now and then for a the heck of it). I think it takes time to get used to it. In general, pop is one of my least favourite music genre (though I may enjoy some) and I don't really like hearing repetitive words in songs. Lyrics of popular K-pop songs are too simple and straightfoward, and Korean language doesn't sound as beautiful as Japanese (to me), hence my disinterest towards K-pop. I don't like the idea of the idols having to train too hard for a few years and reconstruct their looks to appear as an ideal celebrity, although I salute them for working that hard. I don't like the fact that I can't see any difference between their looks though - perhaps I should squint harder (and sometimes they look like anime cosplays - come on, those are real life bishins and bijins!) However, one thing I gotta admit is their choreagraphy is waaaaayyyy more entertaining to watch than how J-pop's, and the Korean idols have better vocals than average Japanese ones. I'm serious.

Also one of the factors that makes me dislike K-pop is how the fans can be so obsessive overreact to worthless insults when you can just simply overlook it.

a surprise to those who are ignorant. 

The thing is K-pop knows how to market, consequently overshadowing J-pop worldwide, although J-pop has quietly reached the shores of those who are aware. Hey, they can sing in English (WonderGirls at least) and they can sing in Japanese too (TVXQ, Girls Generation, 2pm, etc) that they even invade anime OPs and EDs. Can the Japanese do that? English pun tak lepas.

It makes the whole anime vs k-pop thing very irrelevant.

So these low class anime people are attempting to hurt them K-pop fans, or maybe one particular fan with all the k-poop hatred and calling her delusional for thinking that she's above everyone and her boyfriend is one of the K-pop idols. Well these anime fans or no better; they're arguing as though their life depends on it. Perhaps if they win their 2D waifu would materialize and agree to marry them. I don't know. I lost it when they start involving heaven and hell into their childish debates. I'm still having a hard time figuring out why are they trying to hard to defend or explain to their enemy when they can just ignore Datin Comel's insults. She seems to be having more fun entertaining these anime macaques rather than actually experiencing butthirt. I dunno how it is on the K-pop fans side but somehow this further proves the fact that anime is for kids.

To be fair, both parties are dumbfucks. Your social life probably fail really hard if you keep locked up in your own world.

Here's something to entertain yourself with (OP performed by TVXQ/Touhou Shinki/DBSK)

Conclusion: before thinking that you know what is the root of all of your hatreds... to them low class anime people, you should try listening to one of the K-pop songs and low class K-poppers should watch one of the casual non-mainstream animes.

Otherwise just stop wasting your time displaying tl;dr of your hatred and replace it with whatever you enjoy most (unless you enjoy failtrolling then go on).

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

I watched this very late. And I even entered the hall 30 minutes late. Long story. Also this won't be so review-ish because I'm sort of out of analytical words to say :P. Just here to let out my after-effects of the film so if you want a proper review go look somewhere else. Don't trust this one (I only like to attack anime)

Also read the summary in wiki or something, too lazy to recap atm. What I'm excited about they're gonna deal with a DRAGON YYAHGSJAHGJHGSFHGHDFSHGFHDGSFHDG

The 3 hour long movie wasn't a waste. It was fun and it felt like we went through the adventure with them. Throughout the film I was often reminded by Gurren Lagann; on how Gandalf chose an experienceless hobbit into the party of drawves and believed in him. Also on how Gandalf sort of admits why he'd choose Bilbo Baggins was thanks to his own weakness.

Of course the necessity of a fantasy-themed story is good vs typically fated to be evil race. It is a nice change to see dwarves being primary main characters rather than secondary main characters. And lolwhut a few of them are surprisingly handsome especially Thorin and Kili. It's only one third of the book, but I see the character development done pretty well (perhaps just for this adaptation, not that I read the novel). Even Bilbo who I think is just a bystander (this also reminds me of Final Fantasy XII), though i thought it was a bit fast. Still, the whole movie does feel like an introduction episode.

they don't look the same!

The lulz parts are Radagast the Brown and rock giants boxing in the rain. That was one hell of an adventure huh. With the many people in one party I was expecting they die one by one but the dwarves are extremely tough (oh no maybe it would happen in the next 2 movies?!). I'm glad they're extending this to multiple films because often one book adaptations is not enough to be compressed in one film.

My favourite scene is the battle in the orc underground cave; it was damn complicated but really got me at the edge of my seat. And speaking of scenes I think most of them are filled with important ones - maaaaaaaaaaaybe the troll and Gollum cameo felt like a waste of time but it was still really entertaining. More like it gives a chance for Bilbo to display his character.

Eh and let's not forget about the epic choir songs during battles! You know I'm weak for folk-ish music too.

If my mom was watching this she'd wonder why a wizard isn't using his for every little thing. But I was thinking that Gandalf is saving his MP wisely.

While watching The Hobbit I keep thinking of the game Dragon Age, the world is almost similar but DA has its own twists and tweaks. The dwarves are given a chance to shine and show how noble they can be (apart from acting similarly like Meleis), so thanks to that I'm more open to select the dwarf race in my next playthrough.

Review: Kamen Rider OOO

This is the second Kamen Rider series I’ve ever completed, after Fourze - and it might probably be the last. Mind you I’ve never been a KR fan, nor have I become one after seeing OOO and Fourze. I did watch a few episodes of Kabuto, W and Wizard but I wasn't really impressed. This might be the only KR I like very much... and n-no it's like I love it because there are ikemens!

fanart does not belong to me

So I was first introduced to OOO when I visited a Reppu_kiri's house during Eid festives, and part of our gang was there. He imprisoned us in his otaku room and forced us to watch a few tokusatsu series. He showed us the movie where W, OOO and Fourze teams up and there are the first 7 riders as cameo. Taichou skipped the parts where I am not familiar with, so it was later I got struck by a cupid’s arrow seeing how stupidly angelic Eiji Hino looks when he invites Gentarou Kisaragi (Fourze) to team up.

To be honest I LOL’d at the funny song when he henshins. But what made me attracted to watch OOO is where he spawns clones in his Gatakiriba combo.

My first impression of OOO is… well…

First I was mesmerized by the opera version of the “Happy Birthday” song.

Secondly, halfnaked protagonist.

Thirdly, the main girl isn’t annoying.

This is the best introduction episode I've ever seen in my whole life.

Then I kept watching mainly because I was attracted to the OST and then… there’s Ankh (the red bird guy who likes icecandy). Plus there are the eccentric characters like Kougami (aka cakeboss), Chiyoko (restaurant owner of a cultural restaurant) and Dr. Maki (the doll-freak). Not to forget the bromantic Kamen Rider Birth team; Date Akira and Gotou Shinjurou. However, the main villains called GREED, in spite of being 800 years old are literally like kindergarden kids. But they can be pretty cute, especially Ankh who's very much fascinated by human technology.

zomg coolest human invention evarrrrr

In spite of the typically childish monsters, and lame SFX, the story proved to have a deeeeeeeeeeeep message wrapped around it. Some parts were kinda predictable, but that didn’t matter cos the way it’s presented is rather intriguing. It teaches you how your selfish desires could bring harm to those around you… and OOO takes it too literally and exaggerated it. On the other hand, Eiji and Hina (the not irritating girl with some kind of brother complex) believes that it’s okay to have desires, but it depends on how you make use of it or something like that. So they don't spread the message that we should all become moralfaggots.

They should get married, you know, but I’d think that it’ll make OOO too cheesy if there’s too much romantic stuff. I mean, it’s a children’s show to begin with, ne?

Personally, it’s the crapload of bromance is what made me hooked. It’s what W failed to do (Phillip looks too girly to me o__o|ll and the female assistant is an eyesore ). Other than that, there’s the COMBO THEME SONGS which excites me whenever Eiji does the combo henshin thingy.

I love the songs so much I listen to them everyday~

Review: Hyouka

One look at Hyouka, you’d think it’s just another slice of life genre about high school kids. Little did I know it’s a mystery-themed adaptation of a 2001 novel of the same name. Even the title of the series has a mystery behind it.

Original Author: Honobu Yonezawa

Studio: Kyoto Animation

Well, but guess what, it’s not your average mystery. Hyouka is about the members of the culture club solving unimportant mysteries, instead of the usual murder cases like you see in CSI. And you’ll be surprised to see how mature the characters are in spite of their age, cos you don’t see teens not acting like children fighting over a toy everyday.

How it all began, is when the main guy Oreki Hotarou meets Chitanda Eru (typical boy meets girl scene yay!) in his club room, and they start figuring how Chitanda was locked inside. So Chitanda got all fascinated by Oreki’s deduction skills, so she keeps forcing him to solve petty mysteries. Since she gets totally turned on by curious happenings, the cases needed to be solved in order for her to reach orgasm. So she went on ahead to ask Oreki’s help to solve her uncle’s mystery related to the school and the club like a selfish little bitch.

The mystery of her uncle was a success, but the detective play didn’t stop there, to Oreki’s displeasure. Cos Chitanda would unknowingly force him to SOLVE anything she finds curious by putting her face really close to his, activate her sparkly eyes and would look like it’s the end of the world if he refuses. Good thing Oreki is a nice guy so that little bitch would always get what she fukken wanted. Of course, she gets away with it because she's cute and innocent.

The art and animation is goddamn excellent that's for sure. They sure overdid the sparkling eyes

I appreciate that Hyouka maintains the fact that it's all about solving (not-so-important-and-unnecessary) mysteries in the rest of the episodes. I’m sure it got us all KININARIMASU. But the best case among the rest is the case of the Hyouka Anthology. Nothing can beat that. The next best case is the one about filming a detective story (because there's Irisu-senpai!)

I do acknowledge that without Chitanda, the story wouldn’t advance. Without her Oreki wouldn’t show his detective skills to the world and make the story awesomely unique. But there’s a lot of listening version of tl;dr, you know, like Death Note. Since you gotta explain the logic behind what happened. Sometimes it feels like the girls in the team is for mere decoration, as not only Oreki but Fukube is a very very GREAT character. I’m more than impressed by him (at how he envies Oreki but isn’t angry about it, his opinion on ‘obsession’) although he's just self-proclaimed biological 'database'. Mayaka on the other hand is an adorable character, but it feels like she's just a mascot girl who exists to fill in the blank. Minus the tsundere trait, I notice that are actually a lot of real life girls who has Mayaka’s dilemma.

Chitanda and Oreki appears to be canon, but due to fetish reasons I ship Oreki with Irisu. But seriously, if Oreki does go out with Chitanda later I can only hope that by the time he enters college, he’d dump her and get a new girlfriend who respects his energy conserving habits.

which is why I feel like punching the air in triumph when I see her disappointed face

Even so it’s one of the best animes of 2012 – not exactly my favourite but it’s better than most. I recommend this, but you gotta endure the long dialogs.

Review: Sakamichi no Apollon

Author: Kodama Yuki

Studio: MAPPA

Also known as “Kids on a Slope”, this is about a transfer student (again with the transfer student!) who belongs to a rich family that complains about climbing the slope to get to school. He thought his life would suck at a new place until he has an instant crush on the first girl who is nice to him for no apparent reason. When frustrated, he likes to escape to the rooftop (again with the rooftop!) but when the first time he wanted to go there at his new school the door was blocked by a badass looking guy sleeping under a white sheet. Upon waking him up, the badass grabs the transfer student’s hand and calls him an angel.

Then I became confused, is this anime supposed to be straight or gay…?

Later it is revealed that the sexual orientation of this anime doesn’t even matter, because the best part is you’re introduced to the wonders of Jazz music, and Jazz rendition of well-known songs (at least I know Someday My Prince Would Come and also Favourite Things). I’m never really into jazz but I do enjoy the jazzy songs found in video game OSTs and such. So I pretty much can appreciate Jazz music more thanks to this one. That said, Apollon has one of the best OSTs in 2012 anime, composed by Yoko Kanno. On related note, I love the OP; "Sakamichi no Melody" by YUKI.

Since the setting is like, 50 years ago in Japan, and the fact that the demographic is josei, you don’t see any of those typical shits you see in high school anime nowadays. Firstly, NO SHORT SKIRTS. Then you have a record shop. Then you have a couple who actually eloped (I think the development is rather stupid but I guess that’s how the youths of the old days was like?). A confession that didn’t cocktease you until you reach the last episode. Stuff about student activism somewhere. And also a different music genre that emerges to cockblock the two boys’ relationship. And this jazz medley:

Kaoru (the pianist) and Sentarou (the drummer) is the typical combination of 'opposites attract'; the former is the clever, rich guy, and rather weak... the latter is the trouble-making dumb guy who can easily beat up a bunch of third years. What the have in common is both are strong-willed, and both are familiar with music... just that initially their views on music were really different. They may be opposite, but that's the ideal formula for BROMANCE - no doubt about it! Now don't get the wrong idea as these guys do have the girls that they fancy nah they're probably  bisexual. Character development is great, not just individually and between those two but also with other characters as well. One of the things about the ending would give a you a bit of shock, when it's really not supposed to be that shocking.

The story stays true to the manga at least, except a few scenes/chapters have been cut to compress it into 12 episodes. But at least you get to hear the songs come to life.

If you like something different from typical shoujo shit, or typical music-themed anime go ahead and try this one. If you're a girl who enjoys "bromance" then this is for you too :3

The Bolehland Culture

Today I will take a break from anime stuff and talk about a wonderful country called Bolehland. It is a multiracial country and has a very unique culture that can never be found in other places! So since it's a multiracial country obviously there are racist issues here and there. I'm so bad at intros so I'm gonna cut to the chase. Oh no this won't be the typical tourism post, I'm just gonna rant about the special things of Bolehland that many may not notice. Or too dumb to notice. Whatever.

Since I am one of the so-called natives of Bolehland, I would like to refer a subsection of the natives as "Meleis" (courtesy of 1Obefiend). I've exclude myself from being part of them because I'm one of the already evolved ones, and yet they'll be the main character of this story. So here we go!

1. Time Dilation Technique

I remember once we have a group camp back in matriculation college, before the day we depart to the camping site we had an assembly. A representative said to us "Tomorrow, you must assemble at the foyer 7am SHARP"

The next day, 7 am sharp, I was the only one at the foyer.

Apparently, according to Meleis culture; SHARP means at least 30 minutes from expected time, and it is "better late than never". They do not respect those who wait, but the person who wait is often too soft to get angry. In Meleis culture it is inappropriate to tell what the other did wrong, but it is okay to talk sh*t behind the person's back and allow him to keep doing the wrong thing.

FYI, this Time Dilation Technique is infectuous! I had not realized this until a few years back, where I was the only Malay in class and I'm always the first to arrive (see I told you that I am evolved)!Thus, it has become a Bolehland culture!

And sometimes they use this habit of theirs when they visit other countries. This may irritate foreigners but foreigners need to understand that time is NOT gold to Bolehlanders. Thank you Meleis, for sharing your secret technique!

2.  Respect Your Elders

Respect your elders regardless of how rude s/he is. Even if you want to share a new knowledge where the older generation did not earn, YOU CAN'T. You really can't show off that you're smarter because it would hurt their ego feelings. Yet they want the younger generations to study hard, encourage critical thinking, but when your opinion differs, you're just being disrespectful!

It is also okay for adults to be obnoxious towards younger people, whether or not the young ones show respect. They demand respect, yet as more experienced people, by their actions, are not setting a good example to youths so that they can follow. So how would the younger generation know the true meaning of respect if they keep doing that?

Because in Bolehland, "respect" means keeping quiet and let yourself be walked over.

3. The Way of Envy

When an evolved native (or even members of the other races) is financially or intelectually better than most, the Meleis get envious of him. But when they envy, they do not put an effort to become the same level as the evolved native. They insult him, spread bad rumours about him, or worse, bring him down.

And these Meleis sometimes see criticism as "envy" too. When they see a critic (rather than 'support'), they will ask you how will the race advance/develop if another member of the same race keep on criticizing them? It's just part of their culture for people to baby them, so it's completely okay to have a half-assed effort. Better than nothing, right?

4. Complaining means you're ungrateful

"hey this nasi goreng is tasteless, why not put a bit of salt"
"STFU YOU UNGRATEFUL BASTARD!"

You just really can't question, criticize and offer suggestions (or hold a protest/demonstration) to the higher ups. The higher you go the more limited your vocab is, so they take that course of action as 'complaining'. Consequently, it breaches their ability to think in other perspectives that they'd label you for being ungrateful. Perhaps it is because they think that they're gods.

5. GTFO country

When you stir up trouble by criticizing Bolehland in any way, for instance, showing how ungrateful you are, Meleis who are not mentally evolved enough to come up with a sophisticated rebuttal would instantly tell you to get out of the country. Even worse if the person is of a race different from the natives, they're often told to go back to their respective countries where their great great grandparents belonged to.

The argument is very weak because these people and their generations have long lived in Bolehland, and oblivious to the culture of their 'original' country. In fact, it is a very invalid argument for this people have grown up and got used to things in Bolehland. But telling them to GTFO is the best thing Meleis can do (and I also found out that this can be infectious too)

6. Meleis are superior

Because they are God's chosen ones. There are no reference text for this because it's merely their own assumption.

7. Wormhole Digger

(aka, Wormhole Hunters, Wormhole Raiders, etc)
When you hurt a Meleis's butt, he is bound to tell you this: "aku akan cari kau sampai ke lubang cacing!" (translation: "I will find you even if i have to dig a worm hole!")

But don't worry, they will never find you. They're Meleis, they don't have that kind of motivation.
(as of now I am still waiting for a certain keyboard warrior to find me at the wormhole).

8. "Apology" means "Cowardice"

According to Malay Beliefs, when you did a huuuuuuuuuuuge mistake and apologize later, it means that you're a coward. This is why many Meleis (is this also infectuous?) love having a cold war with one another because the unapologetic attitude is very honourable and courageous. Yet they love to demand an apology, and when the person says sorry, other than calling him a coward you know what is even better?

They'll question his sincerety.

Perhaps apology is not enough, they'd expect these wrong-doers to exile or kill himself. Or find him deep in a wormhole to beat him up. Such sadistic people my unevolved fellow natives are.

The irony is, they call themselves Muslims, who believes in God (and believes that they're the chosen ones), and yet their belief contradicts to the Islamic way on forgiving others

i can't find a better screenshot lol

I think there are more silly things Bolehland has but I'll leave it up to here. If I get any ideas, there'l be part 2!
So if you're butthurt and is about to rage on the comments section, then CONGRATULATIONS! You've just proved that I am right! But if you're thinking "omg I can't believe I've been so horrible, I should change my attitude" then CONGRATULATIONS you're about to evolve into a pokemon! Forgive me for hurting your feelings then but it is what I intended.

You can call me a race traitor, sure I don't mind being exiled.
You can tell me to gtfo of Bolehland... would you care to sponsor me?
You can tell me that my mouth has no insurance/license, that's because I can't find any.
You can tell me "ingat ko bagus sangat?", no, I am not, but I know I'm definitely better than you.
[Edit: tak puas hati? Talk to my representative here]

oh don't get me wrong, I love my Bolehland. It's just that I hate this kind of people aaaaand of course there are people better than this lot. So do visit the country on your next vacation - think of the FOOD! The food is great here.

Now back to henshin-ing myself into a Japunis.

Anime is for Kids

Sometimes I'm starting to agree with this.

ohlolwat i cannot brain this

I mean considering the fact when average otakus are told by their normal friends that "anime is for kids", the otaku would be like "OH YEAH? HERE LOOK AT ALL THESE HENTAIS". I mean seriously is that all you can do? Show hentai to prove that anime is NOT for kids?

That's child's play.

What if the plan backfired and your friend starts to think anime = hentai?

This is probably a popular retort among newbies but bet you haven't heard about the anime being accused as hentai back in 2006. Unless you have, then this is a reminder. Oh the OUTRAGE! Of course I was one of those who were pissed. Nowadays I couldn't care less about what people wanted to say; anime is cartoon, anime is for kids, anime is hentai... because majority of it it's true because we keep getting derpy moeshits every season - it's meant for light hearted purposes. And you can simply get excited watching the bug eyed creature acting dumb or your ridiculously perfect blonde Asian guy being princey. Seriously, if these shits can't utilize your adult brain then I have to agree that anime is for kids (or maybe your adult brain has reached the maximum value that you cannot fuck your mind further). However, I allow you to consider this statement invalid if you think your fave moeshit or fujoshit is not as dumb as I think it is.

You want to disprove the fact that anime is for kids? Go watch something mindboggling (other than your fanservicey stuff), learn stuff from it and grow. Anime is not just mere entertainment, at least that is what I think. I am aware that half my life lessons were taken from shounen influence. No you don't have delude yourself by pretending you can do Kamehameha or BANKAI (unless you cosplay). What I mean is, when you see the annoying naive hero work hard, then work hard as he does even if it seems stupid. If you see the shoujo manga heroine moves out of her anti-social shell, then try it yourself. However, I see you guys still whining about how your life sucks, no friends, no confidence blablabla-

But then your idol is Naruto and Ichigo.

Don't give me that "easier said than done" shit. Even them anime/manga is realistic enough to show their hardships.

Even that emofag Sasuke has a motivation yo. It's evil but at least he doesn't wallow in self pity.

i guess you can show guro too

I proudly say that I am one of those "shut ins" who used to be a tad too antisocial and I broke out of it. I even have people envying that I have many friends (ONLY ON SOCIAL NETWORK DAMMIT NOBODY TEXT MY PHONE UNLESS IT'S SOMETHING IMPORTANT but it's fine cos I'm too lazy to entertain people via text all the time), because it naturally comes when I try. Heck I'm still a quiet person and I prefer doing stuff alone but i do socialize.

Okay the point is, when you watch anime show them that 'anime is not for kids' by your attitude. Don't be so quick to be pissed off at the statement. Remember that this ignorant friend of yours have never seen such animes with hentais serious plots and life lessons better than talent shows. Just smirk and tell them that you're sorry that they have so very little knowledge of what you're passionate about. Learn from the mistakes the characters did, even if it's fictional, you can prevent it from happening to your life. Learn how to experience a character development with them. Just prove that you can still become mature even if you're into something childish.

Also, do open your heart to your normal friends. Try something else, completely different from anime - maybe reading or outdoor activities. If they know you're not just an obsessive anime-tard, and you're capable of talking about other things than anime, then I'm sure they can accept your childish hobby like it's breakfast. By now I'm sure a lot of my acquaintances is aware of me being a fan of anime and video games, and I've never heard them saying negative things about my interests.

And speaking of mindboggling animes, well, sometimes no matter how ridiculous it seems you can still relate it to real life (the politics, the society, the philosophy etc). You could slip in some deep quotes or mention something hypothetical you extracted from an anime while talking about related real life topics with others. Well I dunno if it would work but I think I've done this a few times. No significant impact but then I'm not desperate to bust the myth.

But just in case I meet someone who has this "anime = kids" mindset, I'm just gonna blab about how much anime has changed me throughout the years... lessons that unfortunately real life stuff couldn't teach, where I sometimes wish boring fandomless people need to know.

In conclusion: if you don't wanna grow up (with your anime) then just accept the fact that anime is for kids, because you are one.

Review: GOSICK (Anime)

This is another 2011 anime that I forgot to review. And I liked it a lot.

Based on a light novel, GOSICK is about a tsundere loli detective with her unintentional assassistant who came from Japan. The year is 1924 and set in European country called Saubure. In spite of it being a fictional country, the reasoning behind the mystery solving session is not too farfetched. And at least they don't disturb too much historical facts for being a fictitious country. I have never seen or read any mystery-themed anime/manga (I don't Conan), but I've seen an episode of CLAMP School Detective but the mystery of that particular episode is not mysterious at all. I had to restrain from laughing at the detectives wondering about what happened derp-ishly. However, what makes GOSICK an interesting mystery, is not because it's another typical Sherlock Holmes mystery (not that I dislike) him, but most of the time Victorique deals with revealing the truth about urban legends. Yeah she can even deduce how magic trick works. So yeah it's not an actual detective story but more like doing some mythbusting the classical way.

Apparently, in an anime world, regardless of where you are as long as you look weird and foreign you're often the topic of urban legend gossip. Like the classmate's are like "omg he's a death god" just because his has black hair and is Asian but lulz Kazuya Kujou doesn't even look Japanese for heaven's sake. But then it's typical of anime artists to make Japanese having big eyes and colorful hair. And as a desperation move the author just had to use that popular stereotype probably to attract moetards. But surprisingly I like this loli tsundere, maybe it's because she's smarter than most tsunderes out there. Then there's also the cockblocker character whom I think would be good friends with the anti-social detective but turns out she's just there to be a busybody. I am a little disappointed at the relationship between characters part, especially when it comes toVictorique Du Blois who only wanted to open up to just one person.

he does not look Japanese

While I like all the cases they involved themselves in, the only thing I am disturbed with is the fact that the 'grey wolves' clan has some kind of superpowers thing. Here I thought it would be another urban legend thing to unravel, but turns out the bad guys were obsessed with the idea until the end. Now I am not sure what the 'superpower' really is (was it to bring fortune?), but it seem to indicate having a genius mind. But lol is that even an inheritence thing? The bad guy could just take any genius to help him take over the world or something instead of making a woman suffer thanks to a prophecy he believed in. good thing that's the only shit stuff about GOSICK and you can only see it at the last few episodes and suddenly the ending looks like the writers forgot the show is about mystery. Or maybe it wasn't in the first place. I pretty much enjoyed the mysteries rather than the actual plot... It's probably just me because the real story seems out of place with the whole thing we see.

The romance here, between the main characters is naive and pretty common, high school crush and one love triangle thing. What you see in the promo poster is what the canon pair is, so there's no suspense there. However, when it comes to the adults they have a rather mature and unorthodox take on it. Personally I love how they write the adults compared to the little kids.

and i love his hair

While I like the ED, the OP sounds too modern poppish it looks out of place for the gothic setting.

If you're a moetard do pick up this show, and even if you're not a tsundere loli fan do try this out and watch it for the urban legend mythbusting. Eventually you'd find Victorique to be charming too.

Review: Fairy Tail - Houou no Miko

After Naruto and Bleach failed me, Fairy Tail is the only shounen I cared about (at least until Magi came along). I shall explain why another time, but not here or else it'll become a super long post.

Since the movie is shown in local cinemas, and only on certain dates, coincidently yesterday the schedule was perfect and the cinema is quite near my area. Now I'm not realy of movie spin-offs so I didn't expect much from Houou no Miko (I'm not really gonna summarize the plot since you can read it elsewhere). By the way there were probably like ten people inside the cinema w.

Yes it is a very generic shounen movie, it's just like the story arc. You have a client, you have good vs evil, you have teamwork, you have amnesia, manry tears, friendship, ecchi (with Lucy as the main p0rn Star but why not erza??) blablabla but nonetheless I enjoyed it.

The art isn't very impressive, just as the anime is. I sorta expected they'd refine the art style in animation. Okay maybe Gray's body is the only thing worth mentioning LOL! Not until they went to a city with some kind of Indian-like culture where suddenly the anime looks beautiful. The city reminds me of Magi's Magnoshutat in a way except that Fairy Tail doesn't have any twisted things regarding magic power unless it's Edolas. But the was one thing which is rather effective to me is their 'night time'; you can really feel that the events happened at night and how creepy it is especially when you have a villain who lurks in the shadows. Of course the series have events that occur at night too but in the movie it's really dark.

Speaking of villains, none of them were very interesting. The antagonists are another magic guild called Carbuncle, with rather typical villains whose leader want nothing more than power and immortality. But meh I figured that they have no time to develop the bad guys so I just consider them as cockblockers. One of the villain minions is also a Holder Mage who uses requip, so it's an Erza rival... but the most challenging part is she keeps dispelling Titania's requips until she puts on the wedding dress (she looks awesome fighting as a 'bride'). However, among all the Erza battles this one is the most dull. In fact, most of the battles are not so memorable and by the end of the movie it looked rather messy. I mean, even by reading the manga I can feel how epic the battles are but the movie didn't give me the same feel. Gray and Juvia did another Unison Raid against a magic bullet shooter which I think is the best fight scene here.

I expected some kind of omfg plot twist but then it's just, well, okay whatever the backstory is, is still kinda acceptable. I think if I was a child watching this I'd probably cry at the sad ending (It made me remember the first time I secretly cried over a fictional character's departure - it was a Doraemon movie) but for an oldfag like me the connection isn't enough to move me.

The only thing that made me smile, are the OSTs which I recognized rather quickly especially at the beginning so I thought I could just enjoy the movie thanks to the audio. As expected from Takanashi Yasuharu! I think they have new rendition of Fairy Tail main theme. And then there's Erza in Bridal gown. And then the epic Fairy Tail bromantic teamwork scene.

One questionable thing is that at which timeline did the movie occur in? I'm sure it's after the 7 year timeskip but then the guild is back in their original building. And if I'm not mistaken they mentioned Bacchus somewhere. So I'm guessing that this happens some time after the Grand Magic Games, or else I'd just consider this as not important.

I'm not a NaLu fan but Hiro Mashima himself has confirmed that they're canon, the movie justifies that but I'm glad Natsu isn't the horny guy type so Natsu is still being himself, telling that you have friends to back you up etc (instead of "oh it's ok i'll be there for j00")

Review: Brave 10 (anime)

I read the manga first, mainly because I like stories in historical setting.. and especially when it's in the sengoku period. The art is very eyecandy and the plot is, well... generic shonen plot but who cares. I'm in it for the hot guys.

Studio: Studio Sakimura

Original Author: Shimotsuki Kairi

Unfortunately, even with the hot guys, being limited to 13 episode makes the story look even more meh.  But since there wasn't much shounen during that season, this keeps me entertained. There are other attractive looking villains in the manga the anime didn't include, probably because it was unnecessary. There are also enjoyable 'filler' chapters in the manga the anime ignored.

Brave 10 is an adaptation of the fictional 'Sanada Ten Braves' story, with some extra stuff like fanservice superpowers based on elements (fire, water, lightning etc). While the original Braves are supposed to be ninjas, lead by Sarutobi Sasuke... However, Brave 10's protagonist is Kirigakure Saizou, a ninja of the Iga clan and the bloody useless Isanami, a slutty-looking priestess from Izumo. Yukimura Sanada needs to collect 10 people into his harem -regardless of gender- including the spineless priestess. This part is interesting since each of his harem member has their own specific powers. She's the only one annoying in the story and is kind of Mary Sue. Worse part is she holds the 'key' to something that moves the story. Other than his beloved harem, along the way Yukimura meets other historical figures like Masamune Date, Mitsunari Ishida etc.

You also have Takehito Koyasu as this fabulous version of Masamune Date. Cue eargasm.

Honestly I don't remember the OST or superb the animation is. Oh great this means that I really watched it for the fanservice... and seiyuus. Plus you really can't have a successful anime which has more than ten people compressed in 13 episodes D: The last few people recruited into the Braves didn't have the chance to develop.

Yet the most interesint character is Ana I think, but I'd rather not spoil much. Perhaps I'd talk about her more once I review the manga.

I'm not sure how the manga ends (haven't got there) but the way Brave 10 is really shitty when little miss annoying damsel reveals her true self. You know what, I always hated it when an anime is about to end cos they usually end it with something that makes you wanna flip your table. Another disappointment is that you don't get to see Yukimura in his crimson armour, but he's clad in sexy Yukata all the time flipping his fan. Which means that you don't get to see Yukimura being the awesome warrior of every thousand years in action =3=

whatever you say~

It's a shame for a historical-based story to turn out like this though. It could've turned out better. But to hell am I gonna indulge in some moeshit sengoku anime. I might as well play Sengoku Basara 3 after this.

I'd highly recommend this to girls if you want a kyaa-fest. To both girls and boys you can just ignore the anime and go straight to the manga. More bromance and you can also see more boobs there (in case you're a fan of boobs).

yeah I'm sure it's not w

Review: Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou

aka Daily Lives of High School Boys

Studio: Sunrise

Author: Yasunobu Yamauchi

There's not much to say about this show since it has no plot and the main point of Danshiko is self-explanatory. Why am I attracted to this show more than Nichijou is because the characters are boys and when they do video game/anime reference I can relate to them more. Why I love this show is because it's funny as hell.

Sometimes what you watch is like a waste of time, but it's worth the laugh. Perhaps if they're girls doing silly things I'd be more inclined to drop it in the garbage. I love it best when they do their 'role plays' - it kinda reminds me of my childhood (not that I am a tomboy)

They have subplots like "Literature Girl", student council, each of the character's sisters etc. But I gotta say the most annoying characters in Danshiko are the girls, especially those in the High School Girls are Funky segment. As a girl myself, and from girls school, I kinda doubt girls do such things cos I really can't relate to it (perhaps its due to the fact that I was more antisocial back then).

I'm highly recommending this anime if you're looking for something light and something to cheer you up. If you happen to have quit or bored of anime, or not even an anime fan, you should give this a try! :3

Review: Strawberi Cinta

oh look! A meleis movie in my blog!

Why is this doing here? Because I'm somewhat enraged at how horrible it is and as a weeabo this NEEDS to be analyzed, so that you shallow meleis could see why it's really shitty cos I fukken hate it when you guys say "wah suwiiiit jerk citer nieyyy!!!".  Now I have no confidence that I have high readership but in case they stumble upon this post, be prepared.

I'm also prepared to be accused of being a race traitor - which is what meleis love to do when they're butthurt - even if they don't know what my actual race is.

Stolobeli Cinta is supposed to be a romantic COMEDY film, which I somewhat agree because the funniest part is listening to the half-assed effort of the actors of Japanese characters to speak in Japanese. And if I'm not mistaken I saw the tagline which says it's an Islamic themed film, which I think is another lousy excuse. Gonna explain later.

First 5 minutes into the movie I literally felt like crying because of two reasons; 1. a Japanese tourist wearing a so-called lolita clothes; 2. Her Japanese sounds like Korean who just went back from several Japanese classes. What makes them think all Japanese, or even lolita fan Japanese would visit another country wearing a costume is beyond me. Sometimes she wear those lensless glasses. Is that Japanese fashion?

I'm sure you anime people, even without attending to Japanese classes, know by now how the intonation and pronunciation of this language is like. You're so used to it that you find Yana Samsudin's Japanese makes you ears bleed. And they even tried to play with mispronunciation to be funny but since you know so well it's NOT how Japanese speak in katakana you know it's not even funny. Since the show is about foreign tourists of course there are some English, and the English is baaaaaad too.

Then we have the Japenis girl and the tourist guide, they just met by the way, seemingly have a crush on each other for no reason. Yeah yeah you can use the excuse that you don't need a reason to fall in love blablabla even Mr. Tourist guide admits that he felt something special - his statement reeks CREEPINESS rather than oh-so-sweeeeeet. Just because he's a tourist guide, he took the advantage to ask the Japenis girl out which makes him look like he's the type who'd just hit on any cute girl from the East. There's not much of backstory for him except that his dream is to eat icecream with a girl who likes stolobeli, and he even told that silly story to the Japenis girl and asked "Cute isn't it?".

NO.

THIS is how you're supposed to act:

owait-

Part of the reason I dislike Mr Tourist Guide is because I don't really like guys who takes advantage of his position to get some cute chic he just met at his job, and Pierre Andre is not even a hot stud so I find it weird why would this Japenis chic fall for him FOR NO REASON. And that's not even the worse of it because the way their relationship develop... you couldn't feel anything from it. Not sure how the meleis could feel it but after watching a lot of romantic animes/j-movie and reading manga of the same genre, you'd know Japanis Girl x Tourist Guide relationship is the most shallowest of all.

"A true man is a man who oves VANILLA" hwahahhaa omg is this supposed to be words of wisdom??

AND WHAT IS WITH THE FIRST NAME BASIS?? SEE HOW MUCH YOU FAIL METROWEALTH!!

Then they have the side characters, one is a weeabo and the other is Fiffy Natasha (the singer of kawaii kawaii handphone. the song is DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP). Yet another fail attempt to put comedic elements. Japenis girl and Fiffy Natasha makes very unconvincing Japanese persons cos they EPICLY FAILED to act like them. Seriously bitches do you even do your research?? It's okay if you're not a fan of Japanese dramas but is it so hard to take time to study them?? Memoirs of Geisha had Chinese actors to play the Japanese and they could pull it off!

You know what's worse? Okay now I can finally get to the main plot. So Japenis girl came to Malaysia to look for her mom (turns out her mom is Malay, and she's half-Japanese hwahahah but still no excuse to butcher moonspeak since you fucking live in Japan for 15 years), but the story itself, rather than making her focus on finding her mom we get to see her being a lovesick maiden. The part where she reunites with her mom is supposed to be emotional, but Malay actors still can't seem to act like they're truly crying so it didn't really work for me.

Another horrendous thing for me is how they wanted to insert Islamic values into the movie, which I think sounded more like reciting a religious studies textbook. And Mr Tourist Guide looks more like he wants to look more knowledgeable in Japenis Girl's eyes than actually knowing his shit. And he's pretty hipocritical at that. First he talks about how prayers bring you closer to God suddenly he gets turned on seeing Japenis Girl in Kebaya. It's like he wants to impress this random cute girl he just met and yet he violated the rule that as a Muslim he shouldn't be alone with a girl. Or maybe he's the kind of meleis who doesn't give a fuck about how a true believer should behave like. Oh that's pretty common.

And when she found her mom OH LOOK ANOTHER PADDY FIELD SCENE MY GOODNESS DIRECTORS DO YOU THINK ONLY PADDY FIELDS REPRESENT KAMPUNGS?!?!?! STOP THINKING INSIDE THE BOX AND GO OUT THERE LOOK FOR OTHER TYPES OF KAMPUNG ENVIRONMENT!!!

I believe the story would be more enjoyable if it wasn't for the horrendous Japanese language, horrendous way of acting like a Japanese person. It could've been better if the writers don't put too much attention on the 'romance' part (which turned out shitty) and focus on the Japanis Girl's main objective. And they could've killed off the side characters in a car accident or something. They made the film even worse. And I'd like to mention that the movie has the poorest character development I've ever seen. I really don't know how to explain this though but there's absolutely no moral values I can extract from the characters. I can't feel anything to relate with them, or learn something from their development just as I did with anime (or J-dramas).

So before you tell me that I'm just insulting and "macam mana melayu nak maju" etc then I just have to say YOU BROUGHT IT UPON YOURSELF. How would melayu maju if they cannot accept criticism and learn from mistakes? It's 2013 man, how long are you gonna keep that KUNO mindset? I believe what I said about the movie is true and I'm not the one insulting the movie, but the makers of this movie has insulted their own product and your beloved race... by baiting more insults from people with more sensible mindset? LOL

Here watch this: [EDIT: video replaced]

and tell me if Yana (and Fiffy) 'berlakon sebijik macam orang Jepun'.

I watched this online so no money's lost. Time is, but it's worth reviewing cos it's the best shitty movie ever.

EDIT: here's some reaction video