Can't think of a more interesting way to say "Random Spring Season Update"

It's suddenly become a weekly tradition for us not to get back to our dorms till 5 or 6 in the morning on Saturday mornings after staying up all of Friday night doing inane activities like... Not watching/blogging anime. Yes, I have screwed up priorities, blame it on the lack of sleep and the overdose of fried chicken I had today. First and last time I'm 'indulging' in that rip off that is 'KFC's all you can eat for one hour at only 1320yen' nearby. And no, I'm not having Pizza BHut any time soon either. Since I've not posted for a few days, and I don't have much concrete material on any one series to constitute a proper post, here's a random update post for which I failed to come up with a witty title to (as always).


After wildly random and immensely entertaining 2nd episodes, Kyouran Kazoku Nikki and Kamen no Maid Guy (yes, Kamen no Maid Guy. And for the record, I actually loved watching Magikano, so there :P) enter my watchlist at number 6 and 7 respectively, displacing everything from Nabari no Ou downwards downwards still and at more risk of being dropped. Which brings me too...


Special A still sucks may just be the first shoujo series I'll ever drop. Even if the first few jokes of the 3rd episode were actually funny, and Hikari doesn't look as anorexic anymore, it's still too WTF when her skinny limbs are able to destroy kitchen utensils -_-" And the cannonball onigiri joke was only funny in Keroro Gunsou. Right now it feels like I'll only be able to like Special A if they got rid of Hikari and Kei (and especially the student council guy)... which would make the show rather meaningless, wouldn't it? Though speaking of actually dropping series...

Huh? Cry-blah?

Dropping Crystal Blaze after second episode (where I literally zoned out halfway, but that was because it was late and I was tired). psgels assures us it's a solid show, and I kinda believe so... but if my guess is right, even if I do continue watching, it'll just end up being one of those shows where I go 'well I guess that was okay' in the end before forgetting that I've ever watched it in the first place. On the other hand...


I may actually continue watching Kaiba and Himitsu instead. Need subs though. And speaking of subs...


Toshokan Sensou has finally been subbed! *!!!Goes to rewatch episode!!!* Those who haven't caught a glimpse of it, go do so, NOW. Also...


Junjou Romantica has finally been subbed! *...nyeh, prefers snarky NicoVideo comments* Let's talk about something more interesting....


Itazura na Kiss, Code Geass, Allison to Lillia remain very much entertaining for their own individual reasons (which seem wildly divergent from one another, especially when it comes to Code Geass XD). I really should remind myself to watch Nabari no Ou and Tower of Druaga every week though... Probably not a good sign that I'm starting to forget about them already. But it happens when the awesome-r series stick to mind, like...


Kure-nai. I suppose any show that's able to make me feel some sort of emotion besides reducing me to laughter (intentionally or not) at a character must be good to some extent. I was totally with Murasaki over the Shinkurou being a doormat in the subway train thing. (on the other hand, I can totally understand why Shinkurou didn't fight back, but I was still furious at how low he forced himself to sink!) The last time I felt genuinely furious at an anime character was at Hachimaki in Planetes after he goes Jupiter. It's totally different from being absolutely appalled at a character like Shinji in Evangelion to the extent that it reduces the enjoyment of a show. Feeling both angry at a certain character's behavior and angry for the other characters who have to put up with it - in poor Murasaki's case, being rebuked and then lectured about society's rules in a way Mawari from Seto no Hanayome could never hope to achieve - isn't something that occurs too often with me, and having character conflict within the show that I can actually connect to, even if it brings out a form of negative emotion in me, and is something I'm actually grateful for. (Hey, this whole paragraph should've gotten its own post -_-"). And finally...


Penguin no Mondai (not to be confused with that other Penguin Musume show which I haven't/won't watch) is probably the most wildly inappropriate 'kids' entertainment' I've watched, ever. Okay, maybe I'm the only one who was fooled into thinking it's children's entertainment... And am I the only one who's watched this? Maybe I'm hallucinating...


I need to get some sleep now. The panda eyes I'm getting in real life or hardly becoming.

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Spring 2008 Kimochiwarui Rankings

Hosaka has nothing on these guys. And penguin.

There's just something about each of these following characters from this season that creep the bejeezus out of me... But for the most part it's an okama ranking (*coughs*gimmick post*coughs*) more than anything else =P (Sorry, I haven't watched the trap show of the season, Wagaya no Oinorisama). So in increasing order of 'kimochiwarui'...




8) Beckham (Penguin no Mondai) - Yes, I'm recycling images, but seriously some of his other facial distortions are a little too disturbing to screencap -_-" There are some very off-putting elements in this penguin which goes against the kiddy look of the show, but works with the gag portion of it.



7) 'Chinese' Ruler 'Dude' (Code Geass R2)
It's more the way he(?) sounds than looks.



6) Porilyn (Crystal Blaze)
Is (s)he going to be a recurring character?



5) Ginka (Kyouran Kazoku Nikki)
There's nothing really kimochiwarui about Ginka really... Besides the fact that he's in love with his 'dad' and all... (Egads, Papa to Kiss in the Dark!!) You can watch his ED on j1m0ne's blog. And it's no wonder she predicted Ginka's seiyuu correctly, Fujita Yoshinori voiced Kaoru in Ouran and Masumi in Nodame Cantabile (whose real gender I still cannot remember for the life of me -_-"), lol. Oh, and that pathetic student council dude(?) in the second episode of Special Anorexics.



4) Muscle Okama (Zettai Karen Children)
An okama villain (that shoots Iyo-pe! p3nis beams!) in a show called Absolutely Lovely Children?? Now that I think about, quoting from my last post:

"(What kind of warped blogger talks about a 'kid's show right after forbidden boys' love you ask? Welcome to Tondemo Nothing!)"

...it's funny that I didn't blog this episode, lol.




3) Golgo 13Duke Togo (Golgo 13)
Too GAR for me. Well Shin likes him (which is why I stole the image from Atalude :P Gomen!), hopefully not for the reason above...




2) Kogarashi (Kamen no Maid Guy)
Cannot... Resist... Laughing... The concept of Kamen no Maid Guy is just so over the top - gar male meido? The humour in the show is a little over the place, but everytime Kogarashi appears on screen I find myself struggling really badly to suppress the LOLz while my mind screams "WHY??? WHY????"- he's just so WTFBBQ and has such blatantly inappropriate lines to rival Kanokon. This is going to sound so wrong, but if I do continue watching Kamen no Maid Guy it's so see more of this dude XD




1) Shirogane (Monochrome Factor)
Noone is more 気持ち悪い this season than Shirogane here methinks. So he doesn't raep the main male character in the series in the first episode like that one other show, but he comes real close... There's just too much disturbing going on with this guy(???), the hair, those lips ("The better with which to kiss you with..." EEEEKKK), that freakin figure and everything he does and says... The thing is the first episode of Monochrome Factor didn't seem as bad as I've read at first, if a little unoriginal (emo schoolkid VS supernatural beings? *yawns*), but the moment Shirogane appears on screen, it's OH NOES all the way...



Ranking done based on first episode of each show. I could've sworn there were more than 8 when I first thought of this post... Ah well.

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The Problem with Penguins... And the Truth behind Gintama's Elizabeth?

Got 10 minutes to spare? Well you could always watch 3 episodes of Chi's Sweet Home... Or this.

(Edit: I just realized that Zenryoku Usagi's finally gotten English subs! Bunnies GIVING IT ALL THEY'VE GOT sounds way better than "Bunnies doing the best" though, IMHO :P)

I wasn't really paying attention at this scene, so for a moment I thought it was a joke sub -_-"

Penguin no Mondai is about... a blue penguin named Beckham (seriously, who comes up with these names?) who's purpose in life seems to be annoying the wits out of his supposed best human buddy, Naoto. A first glance it looks very much like a kiddy show... Which is why you're seeing it on this blog :P

Too many BL jokes this season...

(What kind of warped blogger talks about a 'kid's show right after forbidden boys' love you ask? Welcome to Tondemo Nothing!)

I wouldn't remove that (suit?) if I were you...

Well, to say this is a kiddy show can be rather misleading really. Zenryoku Usagi from last season managed to be funny and child friendly a the same time. Penguin no Mondai... I wouldn't recommend to the younger audiences personally. It's more of a gag show that's more suited for people over the age of 10 or something since the humour can be rather... disturbing sometimes. Like when Naoto is asked to pull Beckham out of a hole in the wall in which he inexplicably got stuck in, only... Well think Elizabeth from Gintama with a twist, and you should be able to guess what happens. There's a lot of character deformation involved which is ridiculously exaggerated and a lot of exasperated shouting from the characters (Naoto and Beckham have kind of a love hate relationship going on XD), so it was a pretty funny first episode all in all. Just, the humour is rather... warped so it takes a slightly twisted sense of humour to enjoy it (*points to self*)

Penguin no Mondai : It's like Zenryoku Usagi... with one insane penguin...

At first I wasn't even really sure that this is a Spring 2008 show since the animation is rather perplexing. At first glance everything looks like it's in a joyful colourful 2D but when Naoto or any of his human classmates move the effect seems 3D-ish... It's kinda hard so you just have to see it for yourself :P I'll take back what I said about this show being for kids though, it's as much a kid's show as Animal Yokocho is... Meaning it kinda is, but you can't be too sure when there's an Iyo-class 'evil' character in it XD

Continue Watching? Heck, it's only 10 minutes per episode, and it makes the perfect replacement for Zenryoku Usagi this season (Maybe I'll change my catchphrase to "Gopen-nasai!" now. Maybe not). And if you're already filled with the fuzzies from watching Chi's Sweet Home... Well, Penguin no Mondai may just bring you back to the dark side =P

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