Posts Tagged “Random”

Just wiki Bear and you’ll see it.

It was titled “En uheldig bjørnejakt” (An Unfortunate Bear Hunt). I guess it have gone not as planned, uh?

On a sidenote I wish there are groups that could sub Kurozuka and Raoh Gaiden. I mean, ffs, Toradora alone have enough groups subbing it. Not like I dislike Toradora anyway.

Something I have found some days ago

They are the choices of the japanese fans.

For those who don’t want to pause, the list is below:

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This sounded like a good plan.

Hum. Not any snake, Suwako.

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Original and textless is here

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While I was browsing Clausewitz’s livejournal, to research a bit about the ever underrated medieval european swordmanship, I clicked on one link that broadened my horizon as I started to read its many rants. No, those are not “LOL U SUCK I AM RIGTH URE WRONG!!!” sort of rants and advices on writing, it is all the contrary. Anyone aspiring to write, seriously or for the lolz, should humble himself or herself, put his or her pride down and open this link. There you will find a lot of sound advices about worldcrafting, characters and characterization and plot writing, a lot of them are very wise and pinpoint the many pitfalls that too many aspiring writers tend to fall in, especially angst. If you are too proud and turn down everything with a “fuck these advices, I roll as I wish and I do it for fun, RULE OF COOL FOREVER!!!!”, maybe you need to take a pause and rethink the reasons you are writing. I mean, it’s easy to handwave flaws with “I do it for fun” or “rule of cool and epic first!”, but even “cool” and “epic” stories had to have a given plot, world and character logic behind it to make it believable and acceptable. That’s how I perceive it.

Touhou fans doesn’t think so!

The result of five years of futanari doujins

One point that draw fans into Touhou, the many bishoujos and the resulting lesbian love polygons that would put Strawberry Panic or Marimite to shame.

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According to one guy on the animesuki forums, Strike Witches are the most moe thing ever. Apparently, it will trample its competition w/o breaking a sweat. I, and a couple of regular reader of Asuki’s Saimoe thread, loled over it. But we were also facepalming because that guy was adamant in his conviction, and he really think that pantless, this part alone makes me cringe, lolis with random animal ears and pants would stand a chance against the Nanoha, Hayate no Gotoku and Higurashi blocks.

I’ll say it again out loud, pantless lolis is a fucking bad idea.

Once in a while I shall voice my opinion over this tournament.

Today was the upset of the year, in my opinion. Indeed, Rei Ayanami, trumpeted to be the one who will effortlessly wipe out her competition, is out.

This picture portrays my emotion over the result:

I am not sure why Rei have lost. Maybe it is fans being too confident, not caring or people have moved on (I mean, 12 years have passed, people like me have grown up and opened to new kinds of moe). Maybe it is a combination of all of that. In my opinion, it’s a relief that she is out.

However, as far as this tournament go, I have cast away my illusions over the odds of a Key/KyoAni character getting the title. One cannot win saimoe if she:

- is a KeyKyoAni character.
- is not a loli.
- is not a tsundere.
- all of above.

I am not too sure if any of the Higurashi characters can grab another win in a row, Fate Testarossa from the Nanoha series may be cursed to fail again in the most unexpected moment, she often does. Lucky Star? Not a chance in hell, they are KyoAni and I already said what’s about KyoAni and Saimoe. Clannad? LOL. Maybe this year will be Shana, Shugo Chara or Minami-ke. Depending on the outcome of Sunday’s match (where Horo is running), we may see if Horo have the same caliber as the heavyweights of the tournament.

I am rooting for Hanyuu, Fate Testarossa (Can she win once please?), Nagisa Furukawa, Kotomi Ichinose, the Aria girls and Chiaki Minami (she have the strongest chances compared to Haruka who is not loli).

If you want more regular covers of the tournament, you can check Kurogane’s animeblog.

Source

It would be redundant to say what’s NHK. For the uneducated, it’s to Japan what CNN or Fox TV is to USA, or what TF1 or France 2 is to mainstream french TV.

Now, you are all wondering what is the big deal about it. I’ll say, it is a big deal.
It’s quite a feat when one’s creation, that started as a hobby, is being enriched by the fans and have grown to the point it turns into a cultural or/and internet phenomenon. Big enough to grab the attention of the mainstream medias who would make the author the subject of one of their shows. It’s something dreamt by most of nerds, but rarely achieved, or never.

I can think of another nerd that achieved such a thing, in my opinion. His contribution was enough to have given birth to a whole new genre in gaming: Gary Gygax, father of Dungeons & Dragons. Sure, he don’t enjoy nicevideos made by crazy fans, but a lot of authors have used his game as basic framework and expanded upon it. ZUN and Gygax are, in my eyes, nerds deities, but in way different fields.

Next step for ZUN would be to be nominated as one of Japan’s National Treasures. But, having read about the man, his ambitions are on a more modest scale. So he will continue to churn out crazy danmaku and godmoded bishoujos until he call it a day and let Yukari Yakumo kill Gensokyo. But who would want to let its lovely self-built universe die? Certainly not me.

09/06/2008 EDIT:

Here the TV show

ZUN appears around the 8:00 mark.

Well, it’s from the PS2 game. Here Miyuki is cosplaying Nanoha and Ayano is Fate.

I have seen it on the Asuki boards, but knowing that there are people too scared of this board, I felt like posting them here.