Shinjuurou’s Script From Un-Go is Now My Benchmark for Badass Dialogue in Japanese Cartoon

Whenever I watch anime now, I will compare the character’s dialogue to Shinjuurou by asking myself, “What will Shinjuurou say in this instance”. “People fall, we grovel and desperately strive to keep on living our undeserving life.” or something along that line is what he will say and when you think about it, is the ultimate badass dialogue that can handle very single situation out there.

For example, let’s take the one and only dialogue that is close to remotely good from that “exposition dump, tell don’t show because I am a VN writer Madoka” when they talk about killing animals. Kyuubey, the most reasonable character in that cartoon who eats his own remaining like how dogs eat shit, told Madoka about how humans kill animals and don’t give a shit because animals are stupid. Of course, Madoka being a pansy ass can’t give a good argument and plays the card that all women play when they are overwhelmed by logic, which is of course cry and shout “SHUTUP, don’t hurt me, I shit pink shit” like a faggot.

Now, substitute Madoka’s reaction with Shinjuurou’s ultimate badass dialogue and see what happen.

Kyuubey: Humans kill animals and don’t give a shit because animals are stupid.
Shinjuurou: People fall, we grovel on ground and struggle to live out our undeserving life.
Kyuubey: Err, whoa, totally didn’t expect that, I love you, let’s conquer the world… … with SCIENCE!

And they fly off to the universe and shout GATTAI and robots fly everywhere while nuclear missile are shot from your ass to destroy every planets out there.

My Reviews on Shows that I haven’t Review.

Kimi ga Nozomu Eien: The girl I like got bang by a car and die… not. Which really complicates issue so maybe it will be better if she just dies.

Planetes:Lets pick garbage in space and terrorist.

Wings of Honneamise: Watch me build up for 2 hrs just to shoot a rocket.

Millenium Actress: I chase after this unknown guy because it is awesome.

Only Yestarday( Omohide Poro Poro): Watch me talk about menstruation and agriculture.

Hajime no Ippo: I cannot fall down because I must show the advertisement for my mama’ shop on my butt! Totally don’t give a shit and fall down everytime after that match.

Haibane Renmei: Walls and birds have something to do with sociology according to moesucks.

Kawamo wo Suberu Kaze: This bastard son is yours! You.. you… baker with beautiful fingers!

Mugen no Ryvius: I want to fuck my sister bwahhhh, I am so sad. I totally contribute to nothing but act like I am awesome only in the last episode. You bastard aniki! How many times do I have to tell you that I am not from Gundam Seed! Kono Yaro!

Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai: Anal.

Ok ok, I will stop it with that obvious hack joke already.

Anal, I give you one! <- Totally inside the anime’s script when the ghost girl stick a sticker on Anal’s gameboy.I swear.

Ano Hana Review

*Cue dramatic cry scene for the hundredth time.

Some Character: ANARU!

Me: Yeah, you like sticking in the wrong hole huh?

… …

Fuck,I  feel like such an asshole.

The show is good, I like it, it is not boring.

9/10

That’s all because writing 1000 words for a Japanese Cartoon while getting all sentimental and serious makes you look like a faggot.

Disclaimer: Truth to be told, among the FF series, I have only completed FFVII and FFVIII. So, maybe FFVIII does really suck and I have no taste whatsoever to think that it was kinda cool because I don’t understand the gist and mastery of Final Fantasy.

My motivation of playing FFVIII, despite it got bashed and raped by almost everyone, was actually due to the memories of Lion Heart being a very awesome move when I watched my bro played it 10 years ago. It’s with this simple trigger that I conjure up enough mon to brave through this supposed shitstorm. I thought I will have a difficult time to wade through this because everyone and their mother told me that this game belongs in the toilet. Thanks to that though, my expectation is so low that FFVIII blown me away with how fun it actually is.

I understand all the complains of the story and pacing issue but I can’t really understand the complain of the juncture system. Maybe I have a guide beside me so I didn’t do stupid things like drawing 100 Scan, I actually can’t share or understand the frustration that many others have on this issue. The complication of the juncture system can also be easily solved by pressing the auto button on the menu so I don’t really understand how it is supposed to be complicated.

In fact, I am more surprise at the fact on how no people point out the  unclear purpose of a spell. For one, I still don’t know what the magic, “Pain”, does even after I completed the game. Hell,players wouldn’t even know what Holy does without prior knowledge of previous FF game! Holy? Is that a fucking healing spell or something? I looked at the magic option and nothing was explained, maybe it was explained but it is clearly not in plain sight because after 60 hours of game play, I still can’t find any snippets ingame on what an  Ultima does. Having to painstakingly cast every spell to know what it actually does is definitely more complicated and tedious than putting spell in your stats to see number grow for me.

Lucky for me, I haven’t cast a single non healing/support spell after disc 1 thanks to the “complicated” juncture system that make me completely owns Ultima Weapon’s ass with one Zell’s limit break. I am actually still kinda bitter about how anticlimactic that was but I also pretty much killed every form of Nyx from P3 with one blow as well so no complain there. Hey, at least I died once during Ultimecia because I never knew that she will cast a spell that damage 6000 of my HP after tasting my badass Lionheart.

Not to mention, all the hassle of drawing of spells can be nullified by playing Triple Triad, which is something I can play for straight 10 hours. Maybe those who hate the juncture system hates Triple Triad and that I can definitely understand and sympathise with. However, I think that most people’s problem is not knowing how to exploit the Triple Triad game because only those who don’t know that you can actually refine spells through cards and items will do something as stupid as drawing 100 blizzard from an enemy.

I do want to point out that the GF summoning animation is too long for its own good though. I know that it is good that they are long due to the boost ability but I pretty much gave up on summoning GF after disc one thanks to that. Hell, I don’t even know what the “Brothers” summoning sequence look like because normal attack does the job 10x better than GF.  The terrains are very convoluted as well. Sometimes I need to walk around for 10 mins to find a semi visible ladder/door.

Now after much talk about the core game play, let’s get  to the stinkiest stink in FFVIII – the story. The story definitely have problems with its video game logic and out of the blue scenarios. Lots of stuff happen without you knowing why the hell they happen. The whole GF makes you forget  about your childhood bullshit and Squall sudden romantic interest towards Rinoa after disc 2 makes no sense at all. Not to mention, I still don’t get all the time compression bullshit on disc 4. The scary thing is that’s just the tip of the iceberg, there are tons of other shoddy plot points and pacing issues where things happen so sudden without any buildup.

However, after I played a handful of RPGs recently, I have come to conclude that most RPG have shitty writings.  Try giving Xenogears an anime/movie and see how well it will fare, it will be lucky if it doesn’t win the Golden Raspberry Award.

RPG mostly always follows a simple “save the world from morally ambiguous villain that sometimes might just be god who find this world so disgusting that he/she wants to destroy it” cliché since 30 years ago. How can one even expect a good story from this cliché is way beyond me.

Most people felt that RPG’s have awesome and good storyline because gaming is actually an aggressive activity where you  actively participated in, that’s why people will always neglect the finer points due to being too engrossed with it. They thought that they are enjoying the stories but little to they know, it’s not the story but the whole package that was hidden behind the story that they are enjoying.

There’s a reason why most  RPG anime failed. It is not because they divert too much from the original game but rather, they either followed it closely and the story is dumb like that or they have to divert it because an actual realization will just make the show real bad. It’s kinda like the Dragonball movie, divert away or stay close to the original will both spell disaster because DB’s story is dumb in the first place.

That’s not to say that the story of FFVIII is not weak at all, the above paragraph only further prove that FFVIII has mediocre writings. Still, like I once said, a mediocre story in RPG equals to an above average story for RPG and FFVIII does have its moment.

Firstly, it’s definitely set up to be a style over substance story. The purpose and motivation of each and single scene is about how cool will it be if motorbikes flew across flying fleets that crash into one another than the practicability of actually doing that. This is 1999 and gamers are mostly teens that don’t understand literature and just want to see cool scenes. So with that in mind, I can definitely see what FFVIII is trying to do with these nonsensical scenes

Remember how my motivation of playing the game is actually because I am enamored at how cool Lionheart looks when I was a kid? That should be a good indication on how well FFVIII has done in their style department and how it can captivate its target audience.

I will admit that I am still very childish( I am nearing 20 now by the way. I still can’t believe it because I feel like I am 12) to be amazed by the good-looking cut scenes  of  flying motorbikes and gunblade  and find them to be very awesome. No, getting trapped in a room because you wanted to apologize to someone does not bother me at all if what comes after that is a cool parade scene with awesome chorus. Ebou, Whowaze!

With that all said, I kinda like some of the subtleties in FFVIII though I am not sure if these subtleties comes from me giving the creator too much credits or are they creator intentions. For one, everyone and their mother is bewildered by the motivation of Ultimecia and why the hell did she want to compress time. I know because I don’t know what the fuck happen as well. Little do we know that she actually already mentioned her motivation when she gave the speech in Disc 1 where she talk about how sorceresses are scorned and hunted down in the future. Because of these witch hunt, Ultimecia suffered and her hatred grew of this world grew( I felt corny after writing that). There will be only one sorceress during one time so she has no one to rely on, she treated every human as enemies because they are the one that hunt them down. This is why she wanted to compress time and live alone in this time compressed world.

So why the hell did human hunt down sorceress? It’s because of a time paradox created by Ultimecia herself. Going back in time triggered the event where Squall will eventually defeat her and give Edea the idea of  SeeD whose mission is to hunt down Sorceress because of Squall knew that there will be this evil sorceress bitch in the future call Ultimecia, coupling with the fact that sorceress can cause lots of trouble as shown by Adel. This is also why Ultimecia wants to know the true meaning of SeeD. End of Story.Suddenly, every fucking thing makes sense isn’t it?

Not only that, there are also little inexplicable things done by Irvine that I find to be a nice touch. For example, his sudden pussified antic during his assassination and his weird, “This is fate isn’t it” line when he first met Selphie hinted at his knowledge of the orphanage are really subtle . This shows that the writer actually sort of have some ideas in what they are doing so I feel that the whole GF makes you forget bullshit and the sudden realization that they know each other since young can be less bullshitier if they paces it better.

The whole Seifer wanting to become a Sorceress Knight because he saw the Laguna’s film of a knight protecting the sorceress from a  Ruby Dragon was a very good touch as well. You will only be aware of this by observing his limit breaks and through some miss-able dialogs.

With these knowledge in mind, things started to tie in a lot better and doesn’t look as detach as it is isn’t it? All these aren’t explain explicitly and I appreciate that because I treated these as subtleties  instead of the failure on the writer’s part.

That’s why even though I know that most(I am using most and not all to be courteous) RPG can be lacking in their writing , they still have these tiny surprises and cool things that makes me appreciate RPG stories.

In the end, maybe because FFVIII was being shat on too much, it makes my expectation so low that I am surprise to receive a B material when I was promised with a S material. The meaning of S is obviously, substandard.

The ending still gets to me even though I don’t really understand what the fuck is going on. Must be the song.

Wohoo, I  just spoiled the ending of a popular 12 years old game for you … a 12 years old game…

So, anyone have any ideas on which RPG to play next? I have the mood to try something similar to FF VIII. Now I have a psp, ps1, ps2, nds and could get a XBOX360 for free if I want. MSX, NEC PC 88/98, Sega CD/Genesis/Saturn/DC, Turbografx,  Gamboy, Gameboy Advance, SNES and NES games are more than welcome as well. Don’t worry, any recommendation will do because I definitely haven’t play them yet. You will be surprise at what game I haven’t play.

Alive The Final Evolution

In all honesty, I have zero expectation when I first lay my eyes on Alive . I thought it will be another generic Shonen manga . It’s not until I saw that the author died from cancer after finishing the last volume that I vowed to purchase the whole set no matter what. The idea of an author, trying his best, fighting his incurable disease and hold it out till his last-minute is something admirable and worth my respect for. Hell, he even wanted to start another series even though he knew of his illness( I presume that cancer patient actually know how long more they can live).  Maybe I am just imagining it but  his actions show that he truly like comics and not necessary doing it for money. This really get to me and as a fan of comics, I just have to show some respect for his passion by buying the comics.

Even so, I was really surprised at how good the comic actually is. It was a competently written story that carries the theme of living very well. Of course it is filled with corny lines about how we should struggle with our sadness and continue living but considering the author status when he wrote the story, these cheesy themes just seems to carry more of weight. You can feel that the author had thought really hard about the theme of life and death.

The fight scenes are really well done as well. It’s done in a tactical approach that actually make sense. This is why when our heroes is in a pinch, you will be really interested in how the author will deal with the situation because you know he is capable of  coming up with witty methods to get out of it. This is why every battles are worth looking forward to and why Alive is one of the best Shonen fighting manga for me.

After reading the author’s final note in the last volume, it does really impact me and make me reflect on life and death. It might be due to the knowledge of how the author might have actually written this note during his deathbed that I felt kinda sad. His cover note on how he thanks his fans for supporting until the end also added another meaning and depth behind it because it makes you wonder what he really meant. Is it a simple thank you message or is it a real goodbye?

Maybe I am injecting too much of my impression of the author, which in turn helps make Alive better than it actually is but I honestly think that it is a good work even without knowing the author’.

Even if you don’t like the work, I still think  that the passion of an author who wants to finish his work even with illness is something we should look up to, especially to those who put their work on hold because they want to play more Idol Master.

Kawashima Tadashi, a true manly man.

Hourou Musuko Makes Me Cringe And Binge.

Ah. So I have had just watched finish this girl-wanna-be-boy and girl-wanna-be-boy series. Left quite a few impressions on me, this show.

1. There is an overhead bridge where, somehow, plenty of events take place there. Now, the scenes there usually are quite lengthy, but the background ain’t as static as most other animes usually have. The cars actually move! I mean, they follow a proper traffic system for a full 5 minutes. Now that is something I have not seen in other shows.

2. The very first line. “What are little girls made up of?” And subsequently in the middle, “What are little boys made up of?”. These may seem cheeky, but that is what the main character, Nitori, seems to be confused about, and is searching an answer for. Or not. I’m not a mind reader.

3. Are kids really that outgoing nowadays? Maybe, considering the pre-martial pregnancies rate has been shooting up… But seriously, wtf? Friends with someone who rejected you during 6th grade, and someone you rejected not long after, and going out with a girl a year older at 7th grade. Jealousy over romance and ex-romance. Seriously? These kids have more life than I do man.

4. No tsunderes. Slight tsundere characteristic but no pure out-and-out-I’m-a-tsundere character. At least part of my nerves ain’t wrecked trying to bear with the tsundere girls.

5. Seriously, what is the problem with society at large being okay with girls wearing boys clothing but not the other way round? Not that I’m fine with it, I’m also way against boys wearing girls clothing, but what is the reason behind it? Society stigma? Then why are girls fine then? And yes to be honest I do not mind. Or is this just a mindset ingrained upon our society and daily lifestyles?

6. For the second consecutive anime (previous being Kure-nai) going, they mentioned about a particular food, which is some muffin like stuff eaten with jam. Forgotten the name, but it does make me hungry.

That’s more or less what I remembered. May have more, but oh well, I have pretty much lost my language capabilities after not using them for nearly 9 months.

Bayern Munich Spend Millions and their Defence Still Suck.

I don’t think anyone will understand this post but I can’t help but vent my frustration here after today’s Bayern match. It will be a disarray of ramble and rumble that may or may not make any sense at all.

Bayern Munich spend million of dollars on transfer but there are some fatal flaws in their plan. First, they don’t have any left back last season so what did they do? They bought a RB and let Lahm, their only competent defender and best player plays on the left. Brilliant idea! Lahm was a natural LB anyway but the reason he switched to RB was because they have none on the right! In other words, the team now only have 1 RB and  0 sub for their RB position. So what if their only RB  can’t play? If that’s the case, the team can only tap on to their shitty reserve(Koz is his name) that were on the relegation zone in low German league. Guess what happen when they do that? People attack the right side and fuck up the defence that is already weak in the first place. Simple shit.

Koz  can’t play. He loses ball every time, he won zero challenge, his tackling gave their opponent a chance to score. Total disaster. To add salt to the wound, our CB don’t fucking understand marking. They spread out wide and leave  space for opponents like some prostitute leaving their pussy open for penis. The CB don’t understand positioning during set piece as well. One seemly harmless corner kick or freekick can make the penalty box a disarray of shit where opponents are free to score. I can’t count how many balls were given away from set pieces last season. That’s clearly our weakness and one season had pass and nothing learned. Fuck it.

Now, we actually just bought some 22 years old German born Ghana CB named, Jerome Boateng , to solve our back line problems. He is promising and definitely the best in our centre defence now. The keyword here though, is promising. He played only a handful of matches last season and mainly played as a fullback for his career. Worst still, he just come back from some injury. What’s the chance of him failing and fuck up? High. Even if he became awesome, what can 1 CB do? Shit, that’s right, the answer is shit.

Though I hope I am wrong, today’s match is just some pre season fun anyway so no big deal. However, if this is their actual performance, I think we will be  3rd or worst again this season. Hey, Bundesliga just got the 4th CL place, we definitely have room to fail right?

Our attack is awesome though, no problem with that… … mostly… … if Gomez don’t fuck up … … if both our Wingers dodn’t get injured… … if Schweinsteiger actually perform like he  should perform.

Thoughts on Persona 3 Fes

Few posts back, I talked about how I thought Persona 3 FES was an ok game, I even compared it to “Romeo X Juliet” in terms of ok-ness, which I agree  is a little too cheap since ok means terrible for anime. I also didn’t go in depth on why I think it was an ok game because the point of the post is not about Persona 3. I even made the most unpopular claim of preferring the Answer Arc to the Journey Arc. All these things are things of utmost importance because claiming that Persona 3 is an ok game and preferring Answer Arc is like saying K-on is better than Princess Mononoke, in fanboys’ mind, that is.

I have to agree that most of my personal disdains towards Persona 3 FES may be rooted from personal preference and choices I made in game so what I will talk about below maybe things that I should blame myself. However, if I have to say it objectively, Persona 3 isn’t as revolutionize as people said it is. Dating sim, Pokemon collecting and high school setting elements are found everywhere in games, just that they are not being combined into one like what Persona 3 did. The only innovative thing I can think about is the knockdown battle system, which itself isn’t that brilliant of an idea to amount to anything anyway I don’t know about you but if you think that combining of done before things together is a brilliant and innovative thing then so be it.

Now, for some evidences of done before game mechanics, one good example of the much lauded dating sim RPG element can be found in Thousand Arms from 13 years ago where you have to interact with girls to enhance your sword power, sounds familiar? In addition, if you have played before dirty otaku games like Tokimeki Memorial and Sakura Taisen, you will know that shit (P3′s dating sim element) is just a watered down version of true dating sim, nothing amazing about it.

Pokemon collecting is just Pokemon collecting, Digimon World for RPG and Monster Rancher for general Pokemon collecting game did the Pokemon collecting a lot better anyway. Hell, even its own fucking SMT series’ innovation is this Pokemon collecting stuff and no one talk about them so I don’t think we should give any more credit than what it is.

High school setting is just high school setting; we all know that no one is interested in those exams and study to increase your academy bullshit. Those are even less interactive than going to work in “The Sims”. If you want to have some radical change in setting, look no further than Earthbound now that is radical enough for us to jizz on. High school setting on the other hand? Eh, not so much.

Now to some of my personal complain and how I disagree on people’s opinion about the Answer VS Journey Arc and why I prefer the former.

The first complain about the Answer arc is it being a grind fest while the Journey is not, which I totally disagree on because the Journey Arc has more grinding than Answer Arc when I played. This is actually all my fault for being a semi-competitionist where I have to complete a certain milestones in RPGs. These milestones are namely, having the best weapons, complete storyline with all side quest and optional boss beaten , left no treasure box unturned, and having strong enough stats and skills(strong or not depends on my own preference) for the main characters. These milestone are actually sane when compare to collect 99x of every items but never have I thought that these milestone is what made the Journey arc a fucking grind fest.

Now, in order to defeat the optional boss and get the ultimate Pokemon (the ultimate Pokemon is my idea of being strong enough for this game), you definitely need to be level 99, which itself took at least a fuck long time to accomplish. If you played the game normally without much grinding, you will reach about level 76-80(I was level 76). Therefore, you will have to at least level up some 20 or so levels.

After level 80, you will most likely need30000- 50000 experience point to gain one level. Most enemies give you about 2000 experience point per battle. If you are lucky and pick some randomly generated and shuffled experience point card and met the strongest enemy, you will gain 8000 experience point or so (which sometime can be a rare occurrence). Therefore, with some 8000 and many 1000-2000, you need the average of 10-20 battles (mostly 15) or so for each level.

At the same time, your sp (which is damn important) degenerate like fuck crazy and the enemies are so strong that if you make one mistake, you will be screwed. The final deathblow to the cock is that your character will get tired after 40 or so battles so have fun wasting more time, going to school, date some girls then go to sleep to regenerate your condition. Therefore, 15-20 battles actually sound longer than it seems to be. I will say it at least took 35mins to level up one level if all things move smoothly.

It’s only after level 90 or so that you can battle with two eyes close even when you are tired but level 90 took 5.8 hours or even more with all the regenerating, game over and such bullshit. I tell you, 5.8 hours of fighting the same monster, using the same tactic, seeing the same view with no story progress or any other purpose other than leveling up is as fun as it sounds.

Now, leveling up to 99 is actually the easiest part and I completed it without much hassle (I secretly love grinding for levels). There are more fuckup stuffs that I hated more. After leveling up to 99, you have to level some of your Pokemon to a certain level to get certain essential items for the optional boss as well. This is more frustrating than training your own level because your Pokemon do not earn all the experience like you do! Sometimes, your Pokemon will be weak against an enemy(which happens all the time), you can’t train it efficiently because you need to switch it out if you don’t want to lose 1 hour of training time due to game over.

That’s not all! Leveling up your Pokemon isn’t even the most tedious part. To be frank, it’s just a tip of the iceberg when compare to the horror you are going to face – fusing your ultimate Pokemon. Now, the ultimate Pokemon (I will call it Ulti for now) is a Pokemon with a set of desired skill that is essential to defeat the optional boss. To have the desired skill set, you need 6 different other Pokemon that each undergoes its own complicated fusions in order to let them all have similar skills to make sure that your Ulti receive the skill it needs. Since the Ulti is like some slut who accepts every skill equally, you will have a hard time to make sure you have your desired skills. It’s a complicated process and only those who played the game will understand how fucking tedious this is. To simplify it, the whole process will be literally just pressing the O and X buttons for 10 hours, if you are lucky.

To understand how tedious all these process are, a normal game completion without all the bullshit I mentioned above took about 70 hours. In the end, I took about 110 hours to defeat the optional boss and I actually cheated!  If I didn’t cheat, I think I will hate myself and threw my newly bought PS2 out of the window by then. That’s 40 more hours of mindless leveling and fusing of Pokemon, with cheat!  40 hours of mindless grinding! How long did I take to complete the whole of Answer arc with all milestones complete? 30 hours!  Even if the Answer Arc is total grinding like everyone say (even though I disagree), 40hours> 30 hours. Case close, end of story, I don’t need to elaborate anymore.

I am a nice guy so I will elaborate more. There are other things that make me prefer the Answer arc to the Journey arc. The main thing is that I love traditional RPG. I love battles, leveling up and learning new skills. I love the Persona 3′s battle mechanics and the Answer arc fleshed it out better than the Journey arc.

The lack of a compendium where you can summon any Pokemon you want make me cherish my Pokemon more. It makes me explore new alternatives and discover the usefulness of some Pokemon due to not having too much freedom now.  The best examples are the Pokemon, Loki and Cybele. Both these Pokemon are useless in the Journey arc because there are much better Pokemon available thanks to the ease of fusing. However, only during the Answer Arc where I found out that they are actually the one of the best Pokemon out there because they have no weakness! The skills they learned also complement one another, which make you unbeatable if you alternate between them. This just adds more depth and strategy to the whole battle system.

I also like how the pacing of the plot goes. You encounter a mystery and you kept on chasing it. You won’t have any distraction and what not so you are always on the run. Best of all, you don’t need to wait for 28 days to progress the plot.

The Answer arc also does the whole “show, don’t tell” part better than the Journey arc. I always hate it when the Journey arc goes all expository with their back-story.  For example, in the Journey arc, Akihiko always go all expository about his orphanage’s day and how his sister or something die so he want power to protect. On the other hand, the Answer arc actually shows what transpire when they go all back-story modes.

The Answer arc also has a better-characterized main character. Aegis when compare to the emo blue hair kid has more personality because the emo blue hair kid has none. The emo blue hair kid is just a silent kid that suck up to everyone by changing his personality whenever it suits the situation. Everyone also loves to suck his cock for no reason and he gets to bang all the women with no qualms.

It’s ok to be silent if you can customize your character to suit a consistent persona but for Persona 3, there aren’t many choices to give your character a personality.  You are forced to give cheesy answers to suck up to others in order to progress and you can’t be an asshole if you want to complete the Social Link. Therefore, in the end, you are pretty much screwed with only one direction of progression.

The most disturbing part though is that I still can’t get over the fact on why everyone is lamenting about Makoto from School Days when our emo blue hair kid is actually no better than him. I am just downright disturbed by this. I can’t get over it even until this day because no one seems to bring it up. Why people? Why? I thought all of you hate harem. So why don’t you have any complains with Persona 3′s main character?

Have you notice how I never talk about the story? I talked about the plot pacing and the method of revealing the plot but I didn’t really go in depth on what is it all about. You know why? Because both stories for both arc suck. Actually suck is too harsh, there are actually ok and serviceable. I really can’t hold any grudge with the story because even the best of the best RPG story Xenogears can’t make a good TV show too.  Hence, you can’t really gauge an RPG’s story objectively; a serviceable story is a good story for RPG. However, you can gauge a RPG by the characterization, which make up one part of the plot, which in turn is a detail of how a story reaches from point A to point B.

In this case, both character interactions/characterization for both arcs are similar. The Journey arc has more characters but you caring about them or not is another whole issue all together.  Out of the whole social links, I only liked the Dying Young man one and maybe the Devil one. The rest are kinda meh.

All the female’s social links are interesting at first but degenerate to them, wanting to suck your cock and bang you in the end. Even the much lauded Hermit link is kinda meh (I hate internet speak) except for the ending part during March 30/31.

Except for the two social links that I said I like, the rest of the male’s social links are just eh. Look around the top favourite list of social link and no one care about Kenji or that Kendo/Track&Field/Swimming guy. The Moon guy is fat so everyone hates him. Keisuke is just some boring shit about being a doctor or musician. Student council guy was actually cool so maybe I should add him to my favourite list as well. The monk and old couple have a strong start but kinda dwindle out. The sport rival guy was just ok but nothing memorable. If I miss any, it means that I totally forgot about them.

E Minor told me that he likes how all the social link interconnected to the main story or something but to be frank, I can just see some shallow connections. For one, Mitsuru seems to be able overcome her embarrassment when she is beside you pretty fast when it reaches the main story progression.

Also, even though both stories suck, I still prefer the Answer arc’s story by giving a new twist to the sacrifice self to save the world from god summoned by some people who find earth to be too disgusting, even though the Answer arc destroyed quite a lot of the Journey’s arc motivation and build up. I didn’t care about the Journey’s story anyway so who cares if it was destroyed.

I still have some minor things to say about Persona 3 but I guess that’s enough elaboration for now. So bye bye for now, I guess. Next post should be about my new favourite, Fist of the North Star or something.

 

Watching Moe Moe Kawaii Show #1

YuruYuri Episode 1:

“Hi, my name is I don’t know. I am stupid and I fell down when I woke up. I am a generic pink hair girl. I wear primary school student’s clothing because I forgot I am secondary student now. I am so Dojiko. * Slant head and hit it*”

Your opening song can’t destroy me! I have a strong penis, it won’t go dysfunctional just like that!

” I am wearing the same panties and I am a lesbian” *grab boob“. SO HILARIOUS! What? They are 12 years old?… … Shit just got serious.

Yeah, 8 mins in and my brother is still strong as a bull, hopefully.

Yeah,forwarded to 12 min  and they are still in the same room

Yeah! Fast forwarded it to the 20 min and they are still in the same(?) room! Such imaginative settings!

I lasted 8 mins in total before closing the window! I am awesome! Next!

Double J Episode 1

You see, I am lying in my twitter feed. I actually believe that Double J will be a good show! How can the author of Cromartie High School write anything short of genius prose? Eiji Nonaka, I am sorry to doubt you.

Double J is surprisingly funny and enjoyable for a 4min show. It will be funnier if you know the author’s previous work contains mainly of manly rugged delinquents- the total anti-thesis of what Double J appears to be.  This makes you wonder if he is trying to be funny by poking fun of the moe genre or poke fun at himself for being a sellout. Knowing him from Cromartie High School author’s note, it’s more likely the latter which makes the whole situation  so much funnier.

Looking around the internet, no one seems to share my sentiment so don’t take my words on it. Who knows, maybe I am just overly indulging myself by thinking of what’s going on behind Eiji Nonaka’s head when he wrote Double J. Still, I like the absurd dry humour and the flash animation didn’t  bother me.

“You don’t sharpen the end of a toothpick because it is done by machine ” *show angry serious face*.  Awesome.

Good run! I am rolling like some fire man. Wait a minute! Can a fire rolls?

Ryokubu Episode 1

“HOW CAN I LOSE!” Hot blooded moe loli! Atsui Chi Moechata Moe Loli !!!

Such inspirational show! It teaches us that you can play basketball even if you are 122!  Oh, they are primary school children? Sorry, I am too used to high school children looking like primary school children. Good! At least the show don’t lie.

Oh, maid uniform to seduce? Good good good, preparing to become prostitute since the age of 10. – Japanese Education as portrayed by anime

Primary school children have such huge booby?

“You don’t like to be called Master? We understood! Onii chan!” – Ryokobu’s dialogue. Nothing short of poetry.

4mins in and I am out.

So, can I conclude that all anime suck and I  hate anime with all my guts so I can now pursue other non time-consuming hobbies like masturbation? No actually, Double J was at least fun for me.  Ryokobu and YuruYuri are so ridiculous yet honest in their whole “titillation with 12 years old girl” concept, I can’t really bring myself to hate them. You just don’t go and hate on something when its whole intention and purpose are made clear to you within 50seconds. Instead, you are to be blame for continuing watching it when you know it’s not your cup of tea. Like Transformer and Pirate of the Caribbean movies,  these moe moe kawaii shows are here to stay if they make money, so quit bitching about it.

Apathy is the Main Cause for Burnout

Let’s do this blogging thing before disappearing again because if I am on hiatus this time, I might only be back during December. For blogging, disappearing for a long stretch of time means you are screwed. If you don’t believe me, you can always try. This is especially true for those that aren’t significant in the first place but being as significant as I am, I would never know . That being said, disappearing doesn’t really affect me at all because I have only lost 10 readers in my 3 months of disappearance. I have 15 readers before that… …

Regardless, let’s move on.

I find that the idea of the syndrome of a dying world in Persona 3 is very interesting. In other RPGS or anime, the syndromes of an apocalyptic world are always chaos, darkness and destruction. Persona 3 on the other hand is actually apathy. That got me thinking and it do make sense. Chaos and destruction still have that glimmer hope of survival with struggling and such but apathy will just paralyze the whole society.

I brought this up because I think I am getting  apathetic about quite a lot of stuff now, especially anime and its fandom. I still like these Japanese cartoon and love to talk about Hajime no Ippo with my friends but for some reasons, I don’t care really care to go in depth about them anymore.

Actually not only anime, I don’t even care about anything anymore.

I think I can actually boil it down to a few things, all related to critics. Namely, my over valuing of it due to the sense of depth it gave  me and how I finally felt that most of them are stupid now.

In the past, I enjoyed reading critics and thoughts on anime and stuff like books, ideas, news and such but nowadays, I just couldn’t care.

I remember reading some comments on Moe Sucks and one of the author actually state that the reason why she is ripping on K-on is because she wants to tell everyone how bad it is  so Kyoani will learn and create a better show.That got me reflecting, it’s indeed a noble intent but is she serious? If she is not serious than what is her motivation? Just having fun? Isn’t having fun with the displeasure of so many a bit twisted and asshole-ish? Even if she is serious, does it really amount to anything?

Firstly, thinking that a Japanese company will even bother with reading an English blog  by some nobody with no industry experience is just outrageous.

Secondly, Michael Bay had been ripped off by so many critics and yet he is still churning all these Transformer 3. Sure, M Night Shyamalan is dead but how much of it is really due to his critics?  That’s not saying that critics aren’t important because they are a source of entertainment and they do affect the industry but nowadays, anyone with half a brain can write on the internet and become a critic themselves so no one in their right mind will care about critics on the internet if their stuff makes money.

Thirdly, where is the alternatives and ways Kyoani can improve on?

With all that being said, during the  course of my disappearance, I become tired of a certain group of critics (definitely not Moe Sucks because I don’t even follow anime blogs nowadays and when I do, they are the few I actually read) because most of them are aspiring-to-be-director or wanabee who can’t churn out anything that are even on Michael Bay’s level and their intention and motivation are just to tease, not educate. Sure, it was fun 10 years ago, ripping and making fun of stuff but when you keep on repeating this act of  ripping off without providing real constructive alternative, it just became tedious and tiring.If you analyses it rationally, it’s just an act of bully and nothing more, which is kinda pointless and elitist.

Not to mention, related to the third point on not providing ways to improve above, most often then not, even if a critic  knows all the flaws of a movie, when it’s time to make their own, they can’t churn out any shit that is any better. Why? Because they only know how to point out the flaws but don’t know how to correct them.

This is especially true after I watched the fiasco called “Kickassia” by Nostalgia Critic. NC definitely know what he is talking about but when it is time to make his own movie, it turns out suckier than the movies he critics on. This in turn kinda moot all his previous points for me due to credibility issue.

I know his critics are all just fun and tongue in cheek, I was(is sometime still) entertained by him, but when I started reading/watching the 1000th entry of an article/video that rips on something, I just can’t feel it anymore.  The final deathblow though, is that 80% of these ripping on something articles aren’t even that funny or sincere at all, which in turn just makes the writer look like an asshole with too much time on his/her hand.

This got me really thinking, even though we are tired of the defense of ” If you are so good, why don’t you prove yourself and make a better one before you critic” by fans, it does hold some truth . Action do speak louder than words.

Why did I bring all these up? It is because I was once the biggest fan of these shitty criticism articles but now I think that they are fucking stupid ( To make it clear, I still like well reasoned, constructive criticisms that actually matters. Sincere rants on moderate is fun as well.).  This creates the some kind of void in me like how a 30 years old look back at garbage they did in their early days and curse themselves on why are they even enthusiastic with such stupid stuff . This in turn make me kinda apathetic about anime critics all together as well. Too bad, I followed too many of them in the past so when it is time to find a new voice, it took a long time and resulted in making me apathetic about following trend on anime.

Though, now I actually found that new voice and that new voice is actually casual discussion of things without giving a fuck or make a stand. Sure, they are as pointless as ripping off something but at least they aren’t as tedious.  There are no sense of elitism and they are actually fun because most of them are more positive than not.

When you reach a stage of life, you will find that positive celebrations are indeed much more fun than negative criticisms. I am at that stage of the life now where I prefer to read others celebrating the things they love than shitting on things they dislike. Sure, it’s still fun to shit on thing you dislike( if done on moderation)  but focusing on things that excites and interests you is just more fun . Of course, getting over zealous with you celebration still sucks because it’s lame.

All in all, if I go on blogging regular, which I think I will now after writing this post.   I will definitely take the laid back route of talking about stuff without giving a fuck because that actually suit my personality better than ripping on stuff to provide a false sense of depth and elitism which I thought of doing before the disappearance.

Actually, I lied, fuck you.