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1.95x–>1x show.

It starts out absolutely horribly. I blazed through the first few episodes, displeased with the show. Over time, it got better, I think. I slowed down to 1x for the second half of the series. I’ve been thinking about it, and I just can’t justify Ureshiko’s behavior for the first six episodes or so. She’s really bad at communication, or she’s absolute shit. Her husband is nothing but absolute shit. Yeah, he couldn’t help the fact that she wouldn’t explain stuff to him, but where’s the love? “You won’t kiss me so I’ll abuse you and make your life wretched.” Fail.

In any event, it’s nowhere close to a good show, but it’s a lot better than it could have been.

(For those wondering where #4 is, #4 was Boys Be, which I pretty much twittered.)

So a couple entities renowned for their manga punditry conducted an experiment recently. These two entities are Scott of The Anime Almanac and the Reverse Thieves team. The experiment was this: can bigoted humans who value principles over entertainment enjoy entertainment that violates their principles? Wait. Before I go any further, chew on that for a moment. Scott calls it a “fun challenge,” but really, what is it?

It’s an opportunity to reinforce ignorance.

» Continue reading this…

Today, mellow_bunny mentioned the 2009 ABA. Maybe some of you will remember that I won an award in the 2008 ABA, though I only returned to blogging a couple weeks before the closing of nominations. That, my friends, is a lightning campaign. And I won’t bet my luck on it twice in a row.

I already began my campaign, as CCY-senpai noted, when I launched Miao on My Mind on October 24th. If ABA’s schedule is the same in 2009 as it was this year, that means that I’m giving myself approximately half a year to run.

That’s similar to the US Presidential Elections, where candidates campaigned for two years for a four-year office.

I want to be Obama to the McCain of whoever else thinks they’re a good Satire Aniblog.

To that end, I’m going to have to ask you, my readers, to support me. I know that one of the things that propelled me to victory in May was my tsundere campaign of “vote for me and I’ll fucking hate you.” ( Exhibit A | Exhibit B | Exhibit C ) This, much like campaigning quickly, is a trick I won’t repeat. Please. I fucking love all of you, and everyone who votes for me gets one round of fellatio. If you nominate me in the first round, I’ll let you put it inside. If you nominate me and blog about it, you can do it raw, and if your nomination secures me someone else’s nomination, I won’t make you pull out.

Seriously, guys. I’m spreading my legs for you.

Preemptively.

The ABABABABAB 2009 site isn’t even close to up yet. For all I know, there may be a rule specially disqualifying me. But. Barring all such horrendous hypotheticals, I want to win. I will do anything for it.

Even if that means wearing nekomimi and a maid dress, or erasing my sidebar, or being professional, or loving sports, or liking bad things, or pretending to be intelligent.

I will do it.

Hey guys. I finally got off my ass and moved from Godaddy. It was a grueling process, but everything seems to be working now. Some text formatting got mashed in the MySQL database transfer, and I’ve already patched it up to the best of my ability…

Please, all readers: tell me if something’s broken. I’ll fix it to the best of my abilities. If some links were damaged, or a page’s formatting messed up, etc., do let me know. In the comments. On twitter. By IM, or e-mail. Whatever. Make it happen.

Thanks to the implementation of CommentLuv on Shin’s blog of filth, I noticed IcyStorm’s latest blog post. Thing about that blog post? It was posted on October 8th. IcyStorm—is this how you want to be remembered?

From the YouTube video description:

This is, without a doubt, the least appropriate thing I have ever created. It’s Too Soon™ it’s not nice, it’s an insult to one of the best episodes of anime of 2008… and it’s deliciously funny.

All Hail Krauser-san!

Oh, did I mention: spoilers for episode 6 of ef ~a tale of melodies~?

By the by, it’s sooo much better than ef ~a tale of memories~. See this MAL blog post for more info.