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  • lolikitsune crafted this last love song at 10:27 pm on March 16, 2009. Permalink | Reply
    It's categorized as Commentary, and it's tagged over nine thousand things, including: , , baruch spinoza, bs, , , decks, decksual, , , fffffffffffuuko, , , grammar, hurr hurr, , kajiura yuki, , , loituma, , , , , , pizza, , , shaft, , twilight, unlimited blade works, , . What a slut.
    At least it only has 8 comments and 1,971 views.

    Bunnies Are Cute, Pizza Is C2HAET, I BUY MAD DECKS, I am almost as gay as Tomoya’s right hand, *censored* 

    These post titles shall descend further into the depths of obscurity as n(umber of posts) approaches infinity. And yet, these fingers will never type anything.

    Time for some anibloggerality:

    Munto sucks as of episode 7; Kyoto Animation turned the once-intriguing Yumemi into a puddle of moe moe jelly and basically sexified everything. lelangir approved; I just want more Gass. Too bad the guy’s dead because he finished pumping his gas. Har. Har. All he wanted to do was BANG BANG take your akuto. *badabum tshhhhhh*

    Clannad After Story’s ending is officially balls, I don’t care what the game-playing purists say. Maybe it’s a good adaptation. A good adaptation of shit is still shit. I’m not saying Clannad’s shit, I’m just saying that this scenario is possible. I do know that the execution viewed objectively was weak, and I do know that the ending felt like Mai Hime 26. Only this time there was no Mashiro-chan to fix things, just a loopy plot that somehow had something to do with some nonsensical dreamscape that just didn’t make sense. Also Fuuko is Fffffffffffffffffffuuko. There—you got it, the invective I promised not to deliver.

    Anyway, since that’s all the anime I’ve watched recently, I guess I’ll move onto juicier topics like my life. (I’m just too squeezable for my own good. Some might even call me ‘fruity.’)

    Yesterday I helped SAKI relocate her bunnies to a new home, if you know what I mean. You probably know what I mean because I mean what I’m saying, and words are words. Which have meanings. Yeah. There was lots of bittersweetness for various reasons, but mostly it was a good day. I read the first chapter of Twilight whilst lingering at SAKI’s place and I must say, it’s a Shaft production waiting to happen. The sickening overabundance of adverbity is not so dissimilar from Shaft’s overabundance of Photoshop filters—meaningless, trite, a disguise that obfuscates none of the shittiness beneath the underneath.

    Ate some delicious curry chicken katsu for lunch (apparently, SAKI’s family is more weeaboo FUCKING AWESOME even than I, and as such eats Japanese foods with more regularity than I—which is to say, more than once a year at anime conventions), which was accompanied by several doses of “oh my god I need to not laugh my food across the table.” I hummed some Loituma and got someone else at the table to struggle against the urge to laugh food across the table, and just now I broke the limit of cluttery anti-flow a lolikit can inject into a single sentence and it just keeps going oh my god I’m going to turn into Faulkner at this rate can you believe it? Tick-Tock.

    But enough about yesterday—which concluded with a slew of torrenting and taquitos—and onto today. Because apparently, I’m just blogging my life here now or something.

    This morning, I attended my philosophy lecture (History of Modern Philosophy, as you might recall from my course list; currently we are studying some B.S. Ethics), and for the first time in a long time I doodled something in my notebook that wasn’t abominable. Well, it might be abominable, but I was not abominated by it. Maybe my standards have fallen. Maybe I was just happy.

    After that, I met up with a high school friend back from college on spring break. This was immensely pleasurable, as I missed this friend dearly. She noted that I was more comfortable in my outgoingness than I used to be. This may be the result of my time stuck in a cubicle last semester, or it might be the result of some decking action.

    Speaking of decks, could I get some WOWers to level for me? Hurr hurr hurr.

    I ate lots of pizza in the company of good friends and then I went home to mom to shit out half my fullness and sleep off the other half. Finally I made it back to the dorms, a place I’d been avoiding for a week as I tended my cat for my out-of-town father, unpacked ten gallons of clothing and damp towels, thought briefly about the fact that I hadn’t watched anime in weeks and how glad I was that I had no idea what the fuck was going on in the aniblogosphere, discovered that ghostlightning’s illustrious blog had attained the coveted 100th post, cursed my fate for now knowing some of what was going on in the aniblogosphere, and subsequently shut myself out of my dormroom, sans computer, in a frantic search for SAKI, who had similarly secluded herself away from a computer.

    Apparently, she was in the library stacks on campus, in the deepest and darkest corner of the trollbooth, drawing ambiguously gay porn.

    … I love my life.

    EDIT: yes, yes, I’ll post her drawings, up in the Rule 34 section, once I feel giving. Right now, I’m not sharing. Use comes before generosity. Now to go fap to my potentially female self…

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    • lelangir 6:44 am on March 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      NO U

    • CCY 9:02 am on March 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Looks like this is a preview for “lolikitsune’s life”, animated by Shaft. I’d watch it.

    • lolikitsune 9:25 am on March 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      @lelangir: Look, dude, you just suck at having taste. Get over it.

      @CCY: I’m not that arrogant, Senpai.

    • The Sojourner 10:11 am on March 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      A gradual drop of enthusiasm in class, for my case, can be shown in the eventual shift from note taking to doodling.

    • ghostlightning 2:06 pm on March 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I had something interesting to say, but I ended up spending too much time at the Rule 34 Section. Fuck my life.

      a) ghostlightning, your life is indeed fucked. Go watch Aria.

      b) ghostlightning, you totally deserved that. Go watch Akikan.

    • lolikitsune 2:50 pm on March 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      @The Sojourner: heh. I actually pay attention to things better when doodling (I’m a terrible note-taker, I soak up lectures better just listening). I think the two main problems with my involvement in my classes until now were 1. exhaustion caused by a constant lack of sleep and 2. overwhelming urges to, instead of taking notes, jot down my thoughts on socialism and morals. Ah, college.

      @ghostlightning: Ah but see, Mike, I would recommend Aria both for those whose lives are fucked by others (FML) and those whose lives are fucked by themselves (YDI). No matter the cause, you’re fucked, and if you’re fucked, you need Aria.

    • digitalboy 6:14 pm on March 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      if the clannad ending is anything like the Mai Hime ending then it must be the BEST ENDING EVER.

      Anyway, this post is written in the shittiest style possible. Reeks of ‘trying too hard.’ The kind of thing shirked off as ‘not trying at all’. Lies. The part about anime was interesting, the rest was boring. Kill yourself.

    • Michael 11:24 pm on April 11, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      woah tking faulkner

      fuck yea

      ey

  • and crafted this last love song at 2:03 pm on December 28, 2008. Permalink | Reply
    It's categorized as Anime,yuri, and it's tagged over nine thousand things, including: 100th victory celebration, , , , , , pierce the heavens with my crotch grab, School Rumble, shaft, , , , . What a slut.
    At least it only has 19 comments and 4,526 views.

    first impressions: Mariaholic & Unlimited Poetic Justice Works 

    ←[99] SHAFT + School Rumble + Strawberry Panic. That’s the impression I got.

    One half of the lead character binary is Kanako: lesbian, tall, tomboy, deretsun for Maria; only becoming insecure (tsun) once her homosexuality is put into question. Her character design and personality remind me of a cross between Yakumo and Tenma. Her external side is amiable, unconfident, pretty darn moe; her internal side is yuri. She contains both the lady-like grace of Yakumo and the horribly klutzy comical antics of Tenma. Her internal/external tendencies can reflect both Maria’s “split” personality and that pleasant Tenma/Yakumo proportion. Maria in fact breaks the fourth wall and calls her out for her lack of verbosity.

    The other half of the duo is Maria, the trap. Without drawing needless parallels to Eri Sawachika, it seems established already that Maria is the seme and Kanako the uke. Maria’s façade is humorous enough now that the entire universe has been spoiled of the secret, though it’s the masculinity that is paradoxically accentuated by the feminine appearance, making him much more conniving and serpentine. In some ways he reminds me of Light – not overbearingly GAR but with enough boyishness to possess “best” (or worst?) of both gender.

    What’s significant is that the viewer experiences the anime through Kanako – we see her internal monologues. By positioning the viewer “outside” of Maria, [s]he is effectively transformed into the incrementalist, the character that is revealed bit by bit. Reaction porn for some hopeful action porn? I think what this means in the long run is, unless SHAFT starts dealing out paradigm shifts and situating the viewer within Maria’s soliloquies, it will be expected of the viewer to find humor (1) in that incremental revealing of Maria’s secrets and (2) Kanako’s predictable reactions – all the super deformation is reserved for her. The anime, replete with Kanako-colored lenses, establishes a sort of Unlimited Poetic Justice Works: since all of Kanako’s yuri actions are laced with guilt, it’s only natural that we expect Maria to backlash with hypocritical masochism (HUH?).

    Anyway, this show is really hilarious! Its comedy does not downplay at all the yuri, and even if you DO NOT WANT trap, you’re basically forced to temporarily forget about it because we’re observing Maria via Kanako. Kanako the flaming lesbian.

    Final verdict: if you liked the characterizations in School Rumble, the yuri/catholic(?) themes in Strawberry Panic, and SHAFT’s crazyness, you will definitely enjoy Mariaholic. [note: I did not catch a lot of marimite in here - marimite isn't really even indirectly satired.]

    BTW, 100th post, dedicated to lolikitsune, mai dear waifu.

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    • lolikitsune 2:05 pm on December 28, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      [note: I did not catch a lot of marimite in here - marimite isn't really even indirectly satired.]

      Walking slowly is preferred here.

      It should also be noted that what you call “significant” goes for Maria-sama ga Miteru and Strawberry Panic as well, which makes me believe that it’s standard. We have the same dichotomy between the refined person who’s familiar with the school (Maria/Sachiko/Shizuma) and the newb (Kanako/Yumi/Nagisa). The only real difference is that Maria is more male and less insane than her counterparts in the other two shows mentioned.

      I’m not saying that penises and sanity necessarily go hand in hand or anything…

    • lelangir 2:11 pm on December 28, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      oh screw that part *forgot*

      yeah…yea….I guess Maria is an incidental troll on Sachiko or sumfin. Oops.

      Yeah^, that is also something I didn’t pick up. How come the viewer is always positioned within the noob? I think we hear Yumi’s internal dialogue, not so sure about Nagisa’s…but that’s interesting. It’s kind of like the transfer is student is always divided into (1) retard or (2) devious keikakudoori-person

    • lolikitsune 2:20 pm on December 28, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Well, one reason we don’t hear much internal dialogue from Nagisa is that she’s slower than Aria’s pacing. Not a whole lot there to hear. But I do remember a little bit of her being dreamy, and we see everything relating to her from her POV. (There were some other storylines IIRC.)

    • edogawaconan 6:03 pm on December 28, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      if you liked the characterizations in School Rumble, the yuri/catholic(?) themes in Strawberry Panic, and SHAFT’s crazyness, you will definitely enjoy Mariaholic

      wow great combination (if not scary) o_O

    • ghostlightning 8:43 pm on December 28, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Ok, will download nao! ^_^

    • TheBigN 8:17 am on December 29, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      The interaction between the lead pair is brilliant. No, I’m not saying this because I’m a fan of yuri and traps (mostly).

      And dammit, I wish I’d gotten to Twitter sooner.

    • lolikitsune 8:34 am on December 29, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      @TheBigN: WINNER TAKES ALL LELANGIR

      EDIT: ichiban / hayaku / kono twitter / check wo shita / mono gachi

    • Baka-Raptor 4:31 pm on December 29, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      What? Flaming Lesbians?

      I have to go now…

    • The Sojourner 2:26 am on December 31, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Can’t find the subs. I am withering with each passing day.

    • Iatheia 1:19 pm on January 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      You know, there is just a tiny-tiny-tiny problem here. You cannot compare _this_ crap to Strawberry Panic, and especially not to Maria-sama ga Miteru. Sure, SutoPani was trashy, and it was meant to be trashy. But I value it tremendously because it kept the yuri side of equation. There was not a single male character during the whole series (excluding the teddy-bear). And in the end it really bring much to the plate quality-wise. A so-called yuri heaven… or hell, if we take the original (marimite) to be heaven.

      Here… all we have here is an idiocy. It could have been good anime under the “yuri” genre (and oh, really, there are not enough anime made in that genre period, this is why we are forced to watch _this_), that we would have enjoyed for generations to come. Sure, an all-girl school is such a classical setting. But it could be a quality series, nontheless. But they just _had_ to dumb it up for the audience. “Hey, the girl is not a girl, but a boy! And unlike in Otome-boku, let’s make him evil” Oh, my, such an ingenious plot! *insert sarcasm*

      So, please make a correction. If you liked SutoPani for reasons only “OMG, she is going to jump her” or “OMG, boobs!” or anything of this sort, and you are male, and you belong to LFB category, then yes, you will like this anime. Unfortunatelly, the rest of us will have to wait another ten years for quality yuri, like Simoun…

    • lolikitsune 2:17 pm on January 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      @Iatheia: an idiot who thinks of Simoun only as “quality yuri” is ten years too early to call Maria+Holic dumb for not being yuri. What’s wrong with mixing lesbians, traps, and hilarity? It’s not dumbing down, it’s making something different with comedy in mind.

      Strawberry Panic was shit like most (actual) yuri shows (and here I’ll insert “unfortunately” because I really do feel for the genre as one of its fans). Maria+Holic promises to be more than that by being funny instead of trashy. Sure, it’s got lowbrow humor, but lowbrow humor is better than idiotic, unsympathetic characters being over-dramatic for no reason other than that the creators don’t know how real human beings interact with each other.

      In short, go fuck yourself.

      P.S. there could still be “real” yuri in Maria+Holic, and Maria’s masculinity would not be a detractor from that. And if there isn’t “real” yuri? Who the fuck cares! There’s plenty of yuri out there, and I’d take a good show in a different genre (different genres including yuri… parody) over crap pigeon-holed into the “yuri box” any day.

    • lelangir 2:43 pm on January 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      In essence, Mariaholic upsets the typified notion of “yuri”. Is this yuri? Yes – insofar as we define it as homosexuality between two females. But, Mariya is a boy…

      no she’s not ;)

      Don’t confuse gender with sex.
      Don’t confuse gender or sex with sexuality.

      Being a “girl” is not a stable idea. The “girl” is fictive. There are humans with vaginas, but those can be “men”.

      In regards to overarching themes of gender, Mariaholic is very comparable to Panic. There is less of this Marimite, which displays girls in homoplatonic, sister-like love, IMO. Obviously this isn’t the case with Sei-Shiori, which was pretty trashy-romance-novel-esque, but the relationships between all the other girls come off as that of siblings. Pseudo-yuri.

    • lolikitsune 4:03 pm on January 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      @lelangir: while you’re right on a general level… Maria’s gender is masculine. He doesn’t want to dress as a girl and the “girly” behavior is a pretense. So it’s kind of irrelevant…

    • lelangir 4:33 pm on January 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      @lolikitsune: So you’re saying that just because he has a different intent than those that are inexplicably bound to and by their social ascriptions makes him somehow transcendent of gender? Absolutely not.

      Consider the reverse: a female student goes into an all-boys school incognito. She appears as a male. What is she? Just because one gender “covers up” the other doesn’t mean there is a hierarchical relationship between the two. Gender is horizontal regardless of politics. Gender is self-delarative: Mariya is whatever he wants to be according to his discretion. But he cannot escape his penis.

    • lolikitsune 6:14 pm on January 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      @lelangir: as far as I learned and experienced, gender is 50% a person’s idea of their identity and 50% The Other’s idea of their identity. Maria thinks of himself as a man(boy?). That’s 50% right there. The Other is either Kanako, [the rest of the school], or the viewer, which respectively see Maria as male, female, and female/male depending on the viewer’s fantasies and willingness to project them.

      As for me, I always err on the side of respecting a person’s self-identity if I know it. To me, Maria is a man. This is not to say that to some he is not female–but at the end of the day, he’s a dude who thinks of himself as a dude and who’s essentially playing a female role.

      He’s like a Shakespearean actor…

    • lelangir 7:02 pm on January 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      @lolikitsune: Nice, yeah. However, I’d say that the 50/50 thing is really the 2nd level. The first is the political battle to determine what leverage each side has. If side A wins, it may be determined that the notion of gender is then 50/50. If side B wins, gender is constructed entirely by society and the individual is helpless to say otherwise.

      Maria knows he’s a man….but whether he “thinks” of himself (sees himself via the Other) as a man is different perhaps.

      I like the Shakespearean actor metaphor insofar as we take into account the fact that removing the Shakespearean actor from the historically dependent Shakespearean society/discourse disregards the play between person/structure – 50/50 ;)

      and, if this keeps up, our ULTIMATE PLAN will be pretty bitching.

    • lolikitsune 7:11 pm on January 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      @lelangir:

      and, if this keeps up, our ULTIMATE PLAN will be pretty bitching.

      You say good things sometimes *poses*

  • lolikitsune crafted this last love song at 9:18 pm on October 23, 2008. Permalink | Reply
    It's categorized as Anime,meta anibloggery, and it's tagged over nine thousand things, including: , , , , , , , , , , , narcissu, , , shaft, , , , , . What a slut.
    At least it only has 15 comments and 1,065 views.

    A Certain Whoredom Index: ef ~a tale of melodies~ Episode 03 

    Gee whiz, lolikit, the references are splurting out all over the place!

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    • Ryan A 9:31 pm on October 23, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Of course, and fuck yes for lights and shadows, don’t need smoke and mirrors to do trickery any more.

    • frankeinstein 9:52 pm on October 23, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Lol, since when did lights work properly in ef? You just need a lamp-post and suddenly everything will give off that surreal and extraterrestrial effect.

    • Baka-Raptor 11:03 pm on October 23, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      The German text says that Krauser will appear at Tokyo Tower on the night of the next full moon.

    • ahaha 11:09 pm on October 23, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      ef’s artistry pales by comparison to your menu bar, though. The icons taking up over half the bar clearly represent man’s search for meaning in an uncaring, existential universe while the empty space is an inescapable metaphor for the horror of non-being. Don’t even get me started on the Dock.

    • koneko-chan 2:55 am on October 24, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      osx… ok. VLC!?… ewww.

    • Zeroblade 5:28 am on October 24, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      And then proceed to rape it.

    • Shirukii 6:01 am on October 24, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Excellent. Soon the entire aniblogosphere, nay, the world, shall find humor in nothing the pointing out of logical/scientific fallacies.

      I was well on my way to this goal before uni rammed its foot up my ass and raped away all the time and will I had for blogging.

    • lolikitsune 6:23 am on October 24, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      @Ryan A: need I point out that, as a matter of fact, that scene did indeed have smoke and mirrors in it?

      @frankeinstein: good point. I still remember the completely fuxxed perspective and lighting in that scene where Miyako crashes her bike in episode 1.

      @Baka-Raptor: even I know that German has about a 1:1 ratio of words when translated to English, so you’re obviously making that shit up.

      @ahaha: best analysis of my menu bar ever. And you’re so right. You know, sometimes I browse iusethis.com looking for freeware to download just for the sake of using more software.

      @koneko-chan: it’s because mplayer is my main video player, and I can’t have multiple videos playing in it at a time. So I had episode 3 up in mplayer, and I opened episode 2 in VLC. I think it’s a reasonable use of the program.

      @Zeroblade: ef doesn’t have rape, and neither does DMC!

      @Shirukii: you need to pull uni’s foot out of your ass and get to blogging again. So sayeth the lolikit.

    • TheBigN 10:00 am on October 24, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Will read when I watch episode 03. But already this seems hilarious. :P

    • lolikitsune 10:10 am on October 24, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      @TheBigN: don’t force yourself, man!

    • CJ Blackwing 12:57 pm on October 24, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      I was reading this post enthusiastically until you called me a whore. GDIAF.

    • lolikitsune 1:30 pm on October 24, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      @CJ Blackwing: I called you a whore in the second full paragraph‚Äîat least you cant say I was stringing you along until the end. Also, it’s a waste of my time (and yours, and everyone else’s) for you to deny your true calling in life.

    • Michael 4:47 pm on October 31, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      I agree with ahaha. Your site design is deep. Drowning Tsuruya in an ocean of blue is indicative of your rebellion against your previous blog, along with other things! I’m sure ef is FCKN DEEP.

    • lolikitsune 4:50 pm on October 31, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      @Michael: you’re the first person to truly understand my bottled-up emotions. I think I’m in love.

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