You knew it had to happen sooner or later. I mean, we had “mood rings” back during the 70’s. Entirely different technology, but it was only a matter of time before someone managed this kind of upgrade, what with cheap electronics. You know it had to come from Japan.
Mind-controlled cat tail and ears for humans.
Someone better let Wonderduck know…
Well, some folks think this upcoming season is going to be a total loss, but I’m not one of them. For that matter, some think this season is a total loss, and while it wasn’t as good as I’d hoped, it actually picked up about midway. We can’t find a Puella Magi or Moretsu Pirates in every season. I wish we could, but let’s just enjoy them when we can, and take what we can get when we can’t, hm?
Or maybe my taste is just getting lower….
So, what am I likely to be watching next season?
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.. Where they get these game show contestants. So Family Feud was on in the break room when I stopped to warm my lunch. You know how the do the end part, where they’ve surveyed 100 people and the contestants are trying to guess the most common answer? The last question was “Name something you should try to clean before going to a job interview.” The first person quickly answered “Teeth!” for 35 points — a good answer.
The second person also answered with no hesitation:
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Well, I haven’t been feeling motivated to write about anime, but what the hell, there’s always manga. Right now, there’s no “when is it updating?” title out there, the way Negima was for so long. (The less said about its ending, the better.) In general, I’m reading anything with the ecchi tag except for yaoi, loli, and martial arts.
The last is negotiable; I read Girls of the Wild and liked it — once the male lead started getting over his own cowardice. The girls were cute enough — and complex enough — to carry the story for several “volumes.” I put that in quotes and I’m not scoring it, because it’s actually a translated webcomic, and this is supposed to be about manga. It also has at least one villain I would be tempted use my new gun to shoot dead on the spot, if I ever met him in real life.
Sometimes, you take a chance on buying something you’re not 100% sure of, and you find out that you’ve screwed up and wasted your money. And then there’s those times that you take a chance, and you discover that you’ve maybe not won the lottery, but you have definitely walked away a winner of some sort. This is one of those stories.
Instead of hanging out with Dr. Heinous in Dallas, as per my original plan for the holiday, I ended up having an average weekend at home — at least until today, when my brother, yet another cousin, and I went to a gun show at the George R. Brown convention center (aka, the GRB). I’d been thinking for some time about getting a pistol (zombies, you know…) and so when my brother suggested we go, I warmed up my credit card and made ready. I don’t have a CCL, but that’s next on the list. My cousin wanted to tag along, as she wanted a small, concealable pistol for her self-defense.
From the “Missed It at the Time Department:” In honor of the seven years of the manga serialization, there was an announcement a couple of issues back (in May) that ZKC will be returning in a new anime. They are playing it a bit cagey though, and are deliberately raising questions as to whether it will be an OVA or a new series, or something else.
