Owen and I were having a heated discussion following my reading of and commenting on his latest post—one about the unforgivably terrible TV series “Lucky‚òÜStar.” Eventually, the conversation degenerated into this:

[...]
5:50:54 PM lolikitsune: [...] different strokes for different folks
5:50:54 PM Owen S: yeah
5:50:58 PM lolikitsune: for example you like lucky star
5:50:59 PM lolikitsune: i don’t ;)
5:51:08 PM Owen S: you wrote that you did
5:51:10 PM Owen S: I checked the archives
5:51:11 PM lolikitsune: ?!
5:51:12 PM Owen S: you fucking liar
5:51:16 PM lolikitsune: that was SARCASM
5:51:19 PM lolikitsune: you fucking DIPSHIT
5:51:21 PM Owen S: under your rake-star category
5:51:26 PM Owen S: FUCK YOU YOU TSUNDERE LIAR
5:51:29 PM Owen S: FUCK YOU
5:51:31 PM lolikitsune: are you ever going to pass Reading Comprehension?!
5:51:33 PM Owen S: YOU SAID YOU LIKED EPISODE 11
5:51:35 PM Owen S: SERIOUSLY, TOO
5:51:43 PM Owen S: IT WAS A MAJIME NA LOLIKIT THING TOO
5:51:44 PM Owen S: FUCK YOU
5:51:45 PM Owen S: FUCK
5:51:46 PM Owen S: YOU

I checked my archives like Owen suggested, and lo and behold: there it was!

Lucky Star 11—alright. Alright. I’m sorry. There it is. I’m admitting my mistake, just as predicted by the comment-leavers on my first Lucky Star post. Yes, I enjoy the show. I skip the OP every time and enjoy the jokes, and the dad is awesome. Kona’s dad that is. And yeah, I mean it. He’s awesome. It’s always the dads—Bleach, Shuffle!, Tsubasa Chronicle, Romeo x Juliet… it’s always the dads.

It makes sense that this went unnoticed and that I managed to keep up my Lucky Star hating thing. At the time I made this post, 100% of my fans thought this blog was dead. I was on hiatus on ANO and I wasn’t active in IRC. I had previously declared my intention to leave the aniblogosphere. Except that… wait… is that some Owen in the comments? It is!

Alright. *

I can admit my mistakes.

I can accept that the gig’s up.

Yeah, I liked Lucky Star. No, I won’t concede on the points made in my landmark Lucky Star post. They still stand. Just, Lucky Star turned out to be enjoyable. The comedy was decent and the slice of life aspect—while I won’t agree 100% with Owen on the count—was present and pleasant. Kyoto Animation is still a gaggle of prostitutes, Ayu is still an impossibility, Haruhi is still total shit. And I won’t apologize.

Lucky Star was enjoyable. For Minoru and his Lucky Channel. For Minoru and his ED song and dance routines. For the non-self-referential parodies that were funny. For the little tidbits that made me smile.

* That’s not fucking alright!!!

Owen, you adorable fuck, you played me. You took me like some kind of passive object and stuck your prodding devices into my beproddation sockets. You knew all along… you knew all along that I liked Lucky Star. And yet you refer to arguments of mine—that I probably didn’t make! And yet you refer to the critic me—who probably doesn’t exist! You fooled me, and you fooled me well. Somehow, reinforced by your insistence that I was wrong about Lucky Star, my absent-minded trolling metamorphosed into a conviction that I loathed Lucky Star, that you knew I loathed it, that I loathed it, that you knew that, that I sucked at defending my points, that I hated Lucky Star and that maybe that was because I say the same thing over and over again with decreasing levels of coherences?!

Look.

The point is: don’t do that shit.

Don’t fuck with me. I’ll fuck you back and you’ll learn to fear it. I’m not even legal yet, you know. I’ll make you the perpetrator. I’ll make you suffer. I’ll tarnish your family name for generations. Just. Just remember that. I know I’m kind of slow sometimes… okay, maybe extremely slow… but that does not give you an okay to screw with me! I internalize stuff easily, you know!!

Anyway.

You win. You fucking win, okay? Just. Just leave me alone. T_T

Anyway. I don’t have much to say… been doing the same old anime-watching-reduction thing. But I finished some stuff recently, so I guess I can do some recapping.

Kyou no Go no Ni—awww, what a touching story. Actually, I don’t really know about this little OVA thing. I feel like it would have been better if they’d stuck to dumb ecchi, or if they’d tried to make it cute and sweet from the beginning. The abrupt change from panchira jokes to “become a better man and marry me” was … abrupt. Anyway. I enjoyed it. Took way too long to get out. Stupid semi-annual OVAs.

Elemental Gelade—I gave this a 10 on AnimeSeen. I enjoyed it a lot. Yes, the ‘quality’ on an objective scale is not too high. Production isn’t far above Naruto and I can’t tell whether those backgrounds are a stylistic thing or just cutouts for convenience’s sake. But what this show has going for it are a good cast, a plot similar in spirit to Scrapped Princess, Cisqua (who fucking rocks beyond belief), and Pirate Ren in the last 2 minutes of the show (I’d hit it. I really would. Oh my god she’s hot).

Genshiken OVA—it was really just more of the Genshiken show, in OVA form. And it was fun, just like the show. The OVA had a bit too many lesbian undertones, though :\

And now, for some stuff I definitely haven’t finished…

Lucky Star 11—alright. Alright. I’m sorry. There it is. I’m admitting my mistake, just as predicted by the comment-leavers on my first Lucky Star post. Yes, I enjoy the show. I skip the OP every time and enjoy the jokes, and the dad is awesome. Kona’s dad that is. And yeah, I mean it. He’s awesome. It’s always the dads—Bleach, Shuffle!, Tsubasa Chronicle, Romeo x Juliet… it’s always the dads.

Nana 43—sooooo goooooood. Nobu’s going for suicide girl. I hope she goes for him, too, in a Higurashi no Naku Koro ni kind of way. Bad jokes aside, this show really is good. Thank you, Ureshii, for making me ureshii.

Other than anime, I’ve been spending my summer break doing stuff like writing and making maps for Warcraft III. Sleeping a bit here and there, not sleeping a bit here and there, hanging out with friends, and generally having a ball. I feel super good these days, and my first ‘job’ type thing’s coming up—a paid internship at the local lab. Should be good.

If you all wanted me dead in that last poll of mine, sorry?

If you wanted me to keep blogging in spite of my misanthropic/elitist/judgmental ways, well, you have your wish I guess. Though posts like this are about all I can manage right now.

Oh, and proof that Pirate Ren is the hottest thing since Nagato Yuki sucked herself off:

Episode seven of Lucky Star has shown me the way!!
What do I do best?
KYOANI KYOANI KYOANI
What is my game?
KYOANI KYOANI KYOANI
Do I love KyoAni?
GUNG-HO GUNG-HO GUNG-HO

More seriously though, wow, the Marimite thing really shocked me. In the like, “wow, this is actually funny. In that they’re parodying Marimite.” And then five seconds later they’re actually discussing Marimite. C’mon KyoAni, I love you, but don’t beat the horse, k?

(this post will be edited with MOAR fanboying once I get past … er, yeah, this is within the first 2.5 minutes of the episode, OP included)

EDIT 1: Miyuki is playing the Rosa Foetida role with the tooth getting pulled

EDIT 2: Konata watches Strawberry Panic (in other words she’s a complete fucking moron, but I love her for it)

EDIT 3: Tsukasa presses cellphone buttons and moans

EDIT 4: Konata’s ringtone is Hare Hare Yukai. This is slipping back into the storm drain

EDIT 5: Konata luvs girls wif glasses.

EDIT 6: was that manga Loveless?

EDIT 7: the guy on Lucky Channel… was Yumi

EDIT 8: this show is fucking awesome

EDIT 9: I must have been drunk when I wrote this post. Let me fix what’s been destroyed with this image, that so conveniently conveys my passion and friendship (and honest opinions).

Oh sweet mother of anime blogging.
I laughed my ass off.

The show revitalizes itself with calming Kokoro Library slice-of-life…

… touching heart-felt moments of Azumanga Daioh proportions…

… sexy high school girls in swimsuits…

… and even ghost stories! Ah, ghost stories bring back memories of seventh grade. Those were good times. I can just remember the trips to that forest-type place, the squeaky mattresses, the raccoons, the ghost stories… ah, youth.

They even stepped up the animation!
Kyoto Animation, you are my god.

Majime na Lolikit
EDIT: PIP SAID MY HIDDEN MESSAGE WAS DUMB SO I’LL MAKE IT A BIT MORE BLATANT.
LUCKY STAR, AND ITS HAPLESS RETARD-FANS: IMAGINE THAT THIS HERE BELOW SCREENSHOT OF AKIRA IS A LIKENESS OF ME. WHAT AM I DOING IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION?

And in the last week, I happen to have watched quite a bit of it.

Here’re some comments…

NHK ni Youkoso (episodes 5+6)
Eh, I’m really not a fan. Kind of like how Bleach fails at parody and Lucky Star fails at not failing, NHK ni Youkoso fails at not being what it depicts. Sure, it says bad things about hikikomori and NEETs and so on and so forth, but all the while it’s bombarding the viewer with stuff aimed at those in similar positions to Satou. The fanservice is pretty exceptional for a show the summary of which is not “girls blow eachother’s clothes off.” It’s enjoyable, I guess, but I’m not hurrying to finish the show.

Honey & Clover II (all)
For the longest time, I refused to download the first season, calling others “h&cfags” and writing this show off as overrated. And I continue to think that it’s overrated, even as I’ve seen both seasons. That is to say, I don’t think it’s the best show ever. It does amazing things most anime I’ve seen doesn’t, but—and perhaps this is just me—it fails to meet certain aesthetic criteria to be my favorite. That said, it’s fucking amazing. I almost cried at the honey sandwiches at the end, for all they symbolized and all, and it feels like that scene from season one where they searched for the clover has been burned into more pairs of eyes than the characters’ alone. I’m glad I finished this show after so long (almost a year since I was first told to love it).

Rozen Maiden Traumend (all) (because I can’t be assed to find the entity for umlauts)
The second best episode was episode one because it had the funny. The best episode was the last because it was the last episode. Every moment of Kanaria was agony; it was bad enough that she ruin countless minutes of the show’s airtime with her unfunny/unintelligent antics, and then she had to go get the best character killed? Also, I have problems with Souseiseki going down the way he did in episode 8. In season one, he was pretty meh. But in season two, he proved that not only was he an okay person (unlike, say, Jun or Kanaria) but that he was intelligent (unlike… everyone in the show) and that all went down the drain when he died. That actually managed to upset me, so I guess some of the series’ pathetic appeals worked despite Kanaria’s shittiness. Finally, the 10 seconds of fight between Shinku and Bara in which they used all the dolls’ powers were epic. It’s pretty distressing; if the producers can create an intelligent, well-paced fight, why don’t they do something similar for every fight preceeding it?

Mahoraba ~Heartful Days~ (episodes 3-6)
I like how Tamami is Suiseiseki. If you don’t get it, you aren’t worthy of anything good.

Binbou Shimai Monogatari (episodes 5-7)
Oh yes. I did in fact re-GET this, and am in fact attempting to slog through it. It’s really same old, same old, though. You know, cute fluffy happiness with superficial adversity and a hint at yuri undertones.

Galaxy Angel Z (all)
I cannot stress how awesome this show is :3
I was only disappointed by this season once or twice; hell, even season one threw me a few nasty surprises. Milfeuille’s unlucky day was awesome. As was the esper episode. And a number of others (pissed Nomad is piiiiiiiissed).

Sola, Strikers (episode 6)
Still watching these two shows and enjoying them as best I can. Anything I could say about Strikers I’ve said before (and countless others have, and countless times, at that) but I’ll say it again: season one is ult. As for Sola, I’m still waiting for it to burst into awesomeness. Episode 6 did a good job at combining some humor with some plot and not being too slow, and setting the show up for amazing. Also, moving origami and throat-slitting for the win.

Also, for whoever said it was funny hearing Hirano “try” to sing poorly during the credits this episode, you’re a fucking retard. The ogre doesn’t need to try.

Well, I’m off to watch the adventures of Ass-chan and her moneyless sister.
And maybe some Galaxy Angel Z.