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  • ghostlightning crafted this last love song at 7:01 am on August 18, 2010. Permalink | Reply
    It's categorized as Anime,Episode Report,K-ON!!, and it's tagged over nine thousand things, including: Azunyan, , Mio, Mugi, Nodoka, Ritsu, Sawako, Yui. What a slut.
    At least it only has 2 comments and 271 views.

    K-ON!! 20 and Let’s be Honest Here… 

    lolipussy is being honest here:

    Would we cry when Alice loses her second glove if we had not been with her for 47 episodes? No. Similarly, HTT’s final concert would not impact us the way it does if we were to skip ahead to it. So episode 20 of K-ON!! is not a standalone best episode of all time… much like Aria the Origination episode 9, it is only as great as the sum of the preceding installments.

    First off, yes. Let’s all be honest here.

    I really shouldn’t have been surprised by this episode. It was going to be their last performance in school, so it would have to be some kind of triumph. The hype surrounding it as people started watching and reacting should’ve increased my expectations but it somehow didn’t — though I was very excited for the episode.

    And then I started watching, and I immediately felt there was something mythic about how the things unfolded. It was as if each small thing was something to be carved into the memories of all involved: the three cheers and the predictable cake joke, the curtain rising to reveal Yui on her ass…

    …and so many other things that would clutter this post beyond readability if I put them all here.

    One of the triumphs of this episode is how the show seriously allowed me, the viewer, to play so many different characters. I was Sawako who did all the shirts, I was Nodoka wanting to do this last thing for not only Yui and the club, but also the Mio fanclub; I was Jun-chan getting bored by the tedium; and by GOD I was Ui being a fucking stage mother off-stage for her sister.

    It was so successful with me that I utterly felt the non-letdown when Sawako found the girls huddled asleep in the afterglow of their concert. It was amazing how their afterparty was an orgy of sudden dread and melancholy, and so very much without cake… another promise Yui got them to break to themselves.

    To keep with the role-playing theme of this post. I’ll pretend I never got to hear the intimacy of their afterparty. It was a moment that was just for HTT, not even for Ui, Nodoka, nor even Sawako.

    But of course I, and every other viewer got to witness it. It’s fanservice after all. But I feel like I’m honoring the moment by not spelling it out. If I’m honest, it’s the best moment of the year.

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    • lolikitsune 7:08 am on August 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      You can be the peanut gallery and I can be HTT and every glorious second of their Honey & Clover tragedy.

      I can be Azusa tending to Mugi instead of Yui because holy crap, Yui was the best prepared for this.

      I can be Ritsu being Morita, and I can be Mio telling her that it’s okay not to pretend everything’s fine.

      And I will cry again the next time I become these people I love.

    • DonKangolJones 7:21 am on August 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Great post. I have seen my fair share of great moments so far this year from several series. But I can completely agree with the statement about this being a culmination of the series as a whole. That moment was great not because if moved the K-ON community, but because it moved the K-ON fan personally.

  • ghostlightning crafted this last love song at 5:23 am on July 30, 2010. Permalink | Reply
    It's categorized as Commentary, and it's tagged over nine thousand things, including: Anime Industry, Casual Viewers, , Fans, . What a slut.
    At least it only has 8 comments and 562 views.

    The Ton-chan Effect 

    There is this speculation that the insular nature of the Japanese anime industry becoming even more so. I can neither validate these speculations nor resolve them here, I’ve pretty much kept to the sidelines when these are discussed in the various fora I frequent (blogs, twitter, google reader shared items).

    Arguably, this will keep fans like me, even if I watch and enjoy some of the contemporary (and popular shows, like K-ON!!), on the outside. Instead of looking forward to shows that appeal to my tastes (a lot of such shows were popular in the past; mostly robot shows and science fiction), I’ll find myself having to adjust my tastes more and more “to keep up” with that of the Japanese audience, if I want to remain interested in anime going forward.

    I imagine this in terms of K-ON!! episode 16, wherein I get to be Azusa wanting music (anime) to be a certain way, to have some level of seriousness (so to speak) but instead become carried by the current of indolent cake-eating. Azusa CAN enjoy herself this way, and DOES (like I do enjoy K-ON!! a lot), but this isn’t what she wanted to begin with.

    Jun-chan is even further removed, a near-complete outsider but interested in the light music club — like many casual anime viewers I’m acquainted with. They unfortunately wouldn’t get into the K-ON!! kinds of shows — and pretty much act like “tell me when there’s a new Gundam show again, or another TTGLI, or Samurai X, or Ghost in the Shell.” It’s quite a challenge explaining to them what I get out of cake-and-tea girl cartoons where “nothing” happens.

    I understand that the Japanese anime industry doesn’t exist for me, much less for my acquaintances who are hardly even invested in it. I’m just sharing this moment when I feel like I understood something about where I am in the scheme of things — which is nowhere of consequence at all.

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    • schneider 5:36 am on July 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      While I have not started K-ON!! yet, I will have to agree with you. I wasn’t a moe fan to begin with, but the more I realized that such shows were to stay, I decided to swim in them rather than sink.

      Thankfully, they weren’t bad at all. In fact, I found my horizons broadened as a result. I don’t regret this choice.

      Azusa resonates a lot with me, because while I like my anime to be a certain way (mecha), I get carried away with cake, because it’s just as fun, too. If I don’t find anime fun anymore, I could just outright leave. But that won’t happen anytime soon…

      • ghostlightning 2:42 pm on July 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Yeah, there’s this thrill in discovering value in something that “you’re not supposed to,” at the same time there’s the letdown of attempting to watch all these shows from the ’80s and “you’re supposed to” like but end up not liking as much (e.g. Votoms, 32 eps in). There are stresses not only on one’s desires, but also on one’s identity.

        I think Azusa can represent many of us.

    • lolikitsune 6:45 am on July 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Good post, very good post. Agree.

    • Robert Weizer 6:28 pm on August 4, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      I’ve resigned myself to the (not altogether unpleasant due to my relative “newness” to semi-regular anime watching [I started it with I believe Cromartie in February 2009, before that was Adult Swim and was infrequent]) fact that I’m much better off just ignoring the hell out of the “HEY WHAT’S GOING ON THIS SEASON” image macros and waiting for digiboy and others to write about it after it’s out.

      Any time that was delegated to complaining about the “state of anime” is explained away by this very fact that “it’s not for America and we have no chance to make any sort of impact at this point” and utilized towards a much more productive action: popping a boner every time I hear 70s and 80s super robot anime is more subbed than I thought or is completely subbed.

    • TheBigN 8:54 am on August 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Instead of looking forward to shows that appeal to my tastes <– This is always an interesting point to consider regarding how one feels about anime today. I don't think we consider how much we expect things to fit into our box of enjoyment, and that might be why some responses to some of the stuff out there today might be too extreme for my liking. At the same time, I can also understand why some people are feeling because they aren't getting what they want, but I don't feel sorry for them if they choose to keep lamenting on that instead of lowering their interest in current anime (I hope not) or trying things that are out of their box, so to speak (which is what I hope for). Not that I want tastes to evolve as shows do, but just retaining an enjoyment for anime. Those two aren't mutually exclusive though. :P

      • Robert Weizer 11:41 am on August 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        I wouldn’t have tried Zetsubou unless I had started reading Fuzakenna and other blogs, personally!

    • lolikitsune 4:20 pm on August 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply

  • ghostlightning crafted this last love song at 5:44 am on May 18, 2010. Permalink | Reply
    It's categorized as Anime, and it's tagged over nine thousand things, including: , . What a slut.
    At least it only has 37 comments and 890 views.

    Hanners cheated. 

    What the hell is this?

    Remember love. Tell the ABT admin that Hanners cheated. Because he did. Five votes? I* demand a recount.

    *I = ghostlightning
    lolikit is ventriloquizing.

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    • ghostlightning 5:45 am on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      This is why people hate me.

      • lolikitsune 5:46 am on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Um, no. People don’t hate you. You got over 300 votes.

        The problem isn’t people hating you.

        The problem is (fake) people loving Hanners.

      • Impz 7:42 am on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Really? I voted for you btw~

        • ghostlightning 7:44 am on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

          Thanks! I’m just saying that lolikit’s “support” will not be taken well by people who don’t know us.

          And it’s my damn name on the by-line.

          • lolikitsune 7:45 am on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

            But you know me, brah. I’m all about us, all about us, all about us, all about us

          • Impz 8:02 am on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

            What support? I thought he’s trying to kick you in the guts. That’s his specialty… so that he can get you so emo for his butt-sex treatment.

    • digital boy 6:47 am on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Let the REAL truth be heard. Hanners didn’t cheat. This is an email I sent 5camp and mefloraine last night:

      Heya, I don’t know if you care at all since the ABT is mostly for fun anyway, and I’m sure there has been some here and there regardless, but there is some obvious foul play going on in the We Remember Love vs. Hanners match which I thought I’d bring to your attention.

      You will see that the poll has 555 votes, the highest number since the Star Crossed Anime Blog poll wherein said winner had posted about the tourney and presumably therefor reckoned a mass of readers to vote, with which he dominated. The WRLv.Hanners case is different, however. I will list a few points to show why I am sure foul play is involved.

      1. This is the only poll I know of to still be getting so many votes on both sides right up to the last day.
      2. As mentioned, it has an absurdly high number of votes. In SCAB’s case, it made sense because his readerbase is simply that large and he directly linked, however it is far less likely that Hanners and WRL would still be incurring so many votes this far into the week, as it is also hard to believe that the ABT even has 555 readers.
      3. It would be easier to see why WRL was still getting votes because Ghostlightning has still been advertising the tournament. He put notes in at the bottom of multiple posts directing to the tourney and posted about it on twitter throughout the week. If Hanners were also using this tactic, it might make more sense that he was also getting votes.
      4. In Hanners’ first match, the blog received 230 votes. In the second match, it received around 280. Where did the 50 extra supporters come from?
      5. Ghostlightning and I have been following the poll’s scores today, and a few hours ago, WRL was four votes ahead of Hanners. Five minutes later, they were tied, and a little while after that, Hanners was ten votes ahead. Where did all of those people come from all at once at the end of the round?

      What I suspect is that someone is interested in anti-voting We Remember Love and is rigging the votes in favor of Hanners.

      I don’t really know if there is anything you can do about this, but it really sucks that in a tournament held for fun, someone is going to rain all over it. It would great if you could at least make a post letting people know that foul play has happened and that you don’t want it to happen again.

      ~Digitalboy

      The first reply I got was from mefloraine:

      Yes, we do care about foul play. There was also for some the ANB match, but since it didn’t really affect the outcome match, we didn’t do anything. But this certainly is affecting it.
      Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

      ~mef

      And then this one from 5camp:

      I’ve been following this match with interest too and I have the glory of trackbacks to find out where all these votes are flooding in from. Trust me; this is a battle being fought on far more places than just the two blogs in question. Twitter, facebook, several forums, some website called Plurk and so on. The forums have often been in Hanners favour while facebook referrers are voting for WRL. Votes keep coming in because people keep linking to it on several places across the web.

      In short, there isn’t really any foul play involved. Just good old campaigning.

      ~Scamp

      If no poll cheating was done, then it’s not cheating. Hanners didn’t do anything that GL himself didn’t do.

      It pains me to say it, but this was a fair victory.

      • lolikitsune 6:51 am on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        I didn’t say GL didn’t cheat :P

      • Hanners 7:18 am on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Thanks for posting that up, I had no idea the poll had been quite so widely linked beyond the campaigning me and GL were doing, although I saw it being pushed in Twitter quite a few times.

        Besides, I don’t imagine anyone has enough Internets to create so many rigged votes!

      • Impz 7:40 am on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Wahhhhhhh, so long @_@;;; Anyway, does it really matter whether there’s cheating or no cheating? More drama, more hits, more attention to the blogs in this competition, more joy, more fun.

        And come on, Lolikit calls anyone that makes his predictions fail a cheater. He is just sore, like any other pundit who gets their calls wrong. So you hear it first from Impz. It’s just squishy bum time~

        Don’t think too much. When you consider Lolikit to be a serious indicator of anything TRULY SERIOUS, you are not thinking it right.

        p/s: I love you, lolikit. Can’t be gay for you anymore though, I’m married.

        • lolikitsune 7:42 am on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

          Ouph, a pundit? That hurts, Impzy boi.

          But yes. Don’t take me seriously. Especially when I’m putting words into others’ mouths. Silly people.

          P.S. Impz being married is all the more reason for your homosexual libido to become repressed and for it to build up… I’ll release your tensions, baby~

          • Impz 7:46 am on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

            And also, Lolikit is the anime blog equivalent of “News of the World”. If you believe him, you are either insane, gullible or his sex doll.

            Nah, you are a used doll for Ghostlightning. I don’t take goods that have not passed quality checks no more, especially defective goods that have been used too often by weird anime bloggers.

    • Ryan A 7:30 am on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      What the hell happened here? lol

    • Chihiro 8:41 am on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      will you cheat for me kouhai

    • DiGiKerot 9:15 am on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Hmmm, I’m still winning my second round draw despite my complete disinterest and lack of campaigning. Clearly there is something odd going on with the ABT voting…

    • Baka-Raptor 9:27 am on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Get your revenge by campaigning for Baka-Raptor. He doesn’t do any of that twitter/facebook/forum/web 2.0 nonsense and is thus at a severe disadvantage.

      • lolikitsune 9:52 am on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Yeah, a severe disadvantage known as getting more votes than either Hanners or ghost did! Pfft. You don’t need any help from anyone, Baka-Raptor. Except for Tidus, maybe, but he doesn’t help that much.

      • ghostlightning 12:31 pm on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Too bad “Los Suns” is losing the WCF. You would’ve gotten me as your complete slave.

    • Sasa 3:50 pm on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Ahahaha, oh my God I can’t believe I forgot to vote on this one.

      Here’s my 2 cents: I kind of doubt that Hanners’ blog is the “better” or even the more popular one per se (probably because he “only” makes rather unpretentious postings, and I seem to be in the minority for putting value onto this). But then again, I actually read Hanners’ blog, yet I think I never was able to make myself through a single one of ghostlightning’s posts (but I think I read all of his comments on other blogs LOL). So count Hanners as winning by 6 votes because I’m an idiot who forgot =P

      • animekritik 4:39 pm on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        I think there should be a tournament for blogs whose readers never finish reading the posts. I’d vote for myself in that one.

  • ghostlightning crafted this last love song at 6:28 am on May 12, 2010. Permalink | Reply
    It's categorized as Anime, and it's tagged over nine thousand things, including: , , . What a slut.
    At least it only has 9 comments and 489 views.

    Vote ghostlightning in Aniblog Tourney Round 2 

    I* didn’t want to descend to using Hanners’s techniques—that is, to shamelessly asking my readers to vote for me—so I didn’t. But now I am. lolikit convinced me that it would be a good idea, and he offered his blog as an outlet of the desire rather than mine. This way when people visit WRL from the Aniblog Tourney site, they won’t see that I’m a self-promoting whore.

    So yes.

    Vote for me.

    I’m up against Hanners… and how could I lose to Hanners?

    *I = ghostlightning
    lolikit is ventriloquizing.

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    • ghostlightning 6:41 am on May 12, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      you are going to get me killed

    • digital boy 12:56 pm on May 12, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      > how could I lose to Hanners?

      Never doubt the pure tastelessness of the aniblogosphere.

      Also I just realized why you picked now to change your layout for the much better lol

    • Owen S 6:56 pm on May 12, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      “…and he offered his blog as an outlet of the desire rather than mine.”

      Stop pandering to the fujoshis, goddammit, I can’t unsee this slash pairing of blogs. notdotq as uke? asdklfjkldj;sf;jk

    • Hanners 5:41 am on May 13, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      What is this shame you speak of?

      • Hellomotto 4:43 pm on May 17, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        The shame of being beaten by a pro-blogger who makes great posts. (Trust me, they’re into irony.) =)

  • ghostlightning, icystorm's fapstains, and riex crafted this last love song at 12:00 am on August 20, 2009. Permalink | Reply
    It's categorized as Commentary, and it's tagged over nine thousand things, including: , , . What a slut.
    At least it only has 11 comments and 5,535 views.

    Endless Eight is the Longest Epic of Virginity EVAR 

    haruhi s2 05 SOS dan park more effort

    lolikitsune must watch these episodes at least thrice to take less time than it takes Kyon to get rid of his virginity.

    This is not an endorsement of the second and currently airing season of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu. It doesn’t say here that this show is good, and that anyone is missing out. Rather, I agree with Pontifus when he says [->]

    All the weight/meaning in the world means nothing if you find the experience regrettable or a waste.

    So I am not apologizing for the currently airing second season of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu. I will entertain no such folly, never mind the delicious Macross references. What I am saying is that I have pierced the barrier of boredom with my drill of personal enjoyment, and I’ll tell you how I did it. Consider it or not at your leisure. (More …)

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    • FlameStrike 12:26 am on July 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      You sir, are a winner.

    • Omisyth 12:27 am on July 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      WE HAVE ENTERED AN ENDLESS RECURSION OF TROLLS.

    • Baka-Raptor 5:21 am on July 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Get thee to a nunnery.

    • j.valdez 5:27 am on July 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      > WE HAVE ENTERED AN ENDLESS RECURSION OF TROLLS.

      This is just a little nitpicking, but “recursion” isn’t really what you would use here. This, in a mathematical sense, implies that the result is derived from a previous value.

      To expound:

      If we have f(x) = x + 1; and we apply that recursively starting at 0, we get 1, 2, 3, 4, 5..etc

      You should probably use recurrence, like lk did because that just means “happening again.” Can it be used as you intended, yes, but you’ll only confuse us computer science and math people, not that I’m some math genius or anything.

      > lolikitsune must watch these episodes at least thrice to take less time than it takes Kyon to get rid of his virginity.

      There’s talk of a Kyon + Yuki thing coming up…or so I hear.

    • bluemist 9:22 am on July 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      To tell the truth, I saw it coming quite a while ago. This concept or idea was floating around the aniblogosphere ever since… and I was against it! (self-applause!)

      As someone who is completely unrelated to lolikitsune or ghostlightning, I can’t help but feel somewhat responsible for this trolling.

    • CCY 9:54 am on July 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Was this enough?

      Well … Is there any other posting you want to do?

      Oh well. We managed to get a lot of trolling done this week, so this should be enough.

      That’s all for today then. I had tommorow set aside in case, but you can just lurk on IRC.

      I’ll see you all in #oihayaku in two days then.

    • lolikappa 10:05 am on July 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      This really has yet to even begin to get old. <3

      .lolikappa

    • lolikitsune 11:47 am on July 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      WHAT I NEVER

    • Mike 2:15 pm on July 27, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      If I want to rewatch an episode, it’s my choice. EE is just lazy boring. What annoys me the most is, they could have made it fairly interesting; think like in “Groundhog Day”. But no, you are in fact rewatching the same pile of poo or at least this is the feeling just as you say. After all, it’s just one chapter from a short novel.

    • CCY 1:22 am on August 20, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      You’re an asshole until I’m in the game.

    • moritheil 3:39 pm on September 19, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      @j.valdez – In the end, though, it was a recursion, right?

  • ghostlightning crafted this last love song at 8:44 am on July 28, 2009. Permalink | Reply
    It's categorized as Commentary,meta anibloggery, and it's tagged over nine thousand things, including: , , , , , . What a slut.
    At least it only has 6 comments and 1,080 views.

    A Brief Respite 

    Today, I went to the admin panel of notdotq. I logged in as lolikitsune, clicked ‘Add New,’ and pasted the full text of my Endless Eight post into the text box on the New Post page. I changed the title to ‘Endless Eight is Endless Lulz,’ added the appropriate tags, threw on a handful of tags like so many splotches of paint on an unfinished wall, and then I said to myself, “not this time, Ghastly Crucifier!”

    And I clicked, ‘Delete.’

    Never again, quoth the phantomflash, Never again will I desecrate lolikit’s sacred Jasonian (pronounced JAY-SOH-NEE-UN) shrine with my tomfoolery of a trolling attempt. Never again will I trick people into thinking that lolikit is the one posting these posts. Never again will I so much as think of outdoing Kyoto Animation, henceforth, Team Troll.

    Never again, quoth the spectralthunder, Never again.

    And then a Frosty Hurricane came upon me, and I sampled his scrotal sweat, and I thought to myself, “what a wonderful world.”

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    • Baka-Raptor 9:37 am on July 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Get thee to a nunnery.

    • digitalboy 9:58 am on July 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      And I did the same thing last night to a thousand-word post *cries*

    • lolikitsune 1:30 pm on July 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      what the hell are you doing to my site ghostlightning

    • nekosasu 5:26 pm on July 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I just happen to think that ‘who enjoys, wins.’

    • TJ 6:59 pm on July 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      what are you talking about? I was just giving advice to some random guy who mailed Baka-Raptor. It’s just a coincidence that someone on this blog (whoever it may be) was trying to out-troll KyoAni.

    • azurefog 5:02 am on July 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I accidentally my coffee! So it was yuurei arashi after all!

  • ghostlightning, hinano, kyoto animation, owen s, and sasa crafted this last love song at 12:00 am on July 26, 2009. Permalink | Reply
    It's categorized as Commentary, and it's tagged over nine thousand things, including: , , . What a slut.
    At least it only has 4 comments and 1,309 views.

    Endless Eight is the Eighth Season of Loveless 

    haruhi s2 04 something was strange

    lolikitsune may only adjourn this anime for furry buttsex.

    This is not an endorsement of the second and currently airing season of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu. It doesn’t say here that this show is good, and that anyone is missing out. Rather, I agree with Pontifus when he says [->]

    All the weight/meaning in the world means nothing if you find the experience regrettable or a waste.

    So I am not apologizing for the currently airing second season of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu. I will entertain no such folly, never mind the delicious Macross references. What I am saying is that I have pierced the barrier of boredom with my drill of personal enjoyment, and I’ll tell you how I did it. Consider it or not at your leisure. (More …)

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