Mahou Meido Meganekko

Over a year ago, I wrote:

Does anyone make shows about folks who can focus on saving humanity, or are we doomed to a diet of crappy sci-fi soap operas? If WWII had been like this, Roosevelt would have looked like Professor X and have been crippled years ago by his quasi-enemy, Super Seiyjin Stalin; Hitler would have been the lunatic madman out to conquer/end/dominate/destroy the world, Mussolini would have been the jilted bishie lover of both Roosevelt and Stalin, Churchill would have been an angsty teenager, and Hirohito would have been a cute female high-schooler in a sailor outfit trying to end world militarism in time for this semester’s finals.

Crap, I think I just wrote the plot of at least one of next season’s new shows.

So I followed Steven’s link to The Nullset’s preview of the upcoming season:

Hetalia Axis Powers is a gag story where the major countries of the world are made into people that display the stereotypical view of the country. So, for instance, Italy is shown liking pasta and women and Japan is shown as an otaku. It’s supposed to retell history between WW1 and WW2 among other things.

It took longer than I expected….

Update: ” Rie Kugimiya as Liechtenstein, Romi Paku as Switzerland…”

Too. Damn. Funny… Liechtenstein???? Rie’s not being cast to type here, is she? Poland, I could see. Yugoslavia, maybe. But Liechtenstein? I mean, there’s not much tsundere to tell there — “Wham, bamn, thank you ma’am,” maybe, as fast as the Axis would have gone through!

Just the casting is enough to make me want to watch this horror, in a Dokuro-chan kind of way. And we know how that worked out.

Well, after all the fun and games over at Houblog, updating and fixing Bridgebunnies was a snap. (Kudos to the staff at Hosting Matters for all their patience and help!) I finally found the compromised files and killed them. Unfortunately, to be sure I had a clean sweep, I was forced to destroy all my theme customizations. (Backups? What backups? Shirley, you jest!)

Oops, need to go change passwords here too. Be right back!

Ok, that’s done.

I lament for the passing of August. No more gothloli grenades, but I’d been thinking I needed to update the header. Unfortunately, I’m busy with politics right now. Maybe I’ll just throw someone else’s theme up there….

Nyah some more.

Good news is, my order got in and I’m watching Saber Marionette J. Bad news is, I just don’t have time for blogging about animé any more. I am increasingly being distracted by the real world, and just can’t deal with trying to blog, locate and fix the security hole, upgrade the software and so on.

Until further notice, I am suspending animé blogging. Houblog may also have to go on hiatus, but we’ll see. I’ll still be around, making appearances over at Steven’s place and maybe Brickmuppet’s or Fledge’s (I don’t trust those pesky ducks enough to risk appearances at Wonder’s place any more.)