Heralding the Lunar New Year: Dragons in anime!

Credits to Azure.

Today, the 23th of January, is the first day of the first month in the Chinese calendar, meant for the welcoming of the deities of heaven and earth, and a day for us to visit our elders. More importantly, it also heralds the beginning of the year of the Dragon, as shown on the Chinese zodiac. And the lack of posts regarding the chance to post about nothing but dragons on AOIA was to me, a clearly wasted opportunity. In the spirit of Chinese New Year and dragons, it’s time to talk about dragons.

Anime Blog Carnival Merry-Go-Roundup – “What makes a 10/10 anime?” by @fkeroge

Badum tsssh!

Please ignore the stupid wordplay that I used.

The anime blog carnival project organized by du5k was nothing short of success. It brought many new perspectives and ideas that I would have never considered if I haven’t read them.

On being a hipster and why I don’t watch “generic” animes

This picture is just about perfect for this post

One of the most profusely annoying things that some people ask me when they somehow find out I like anime is “Hey, do you watch *insert generic anime* “. And my reply is as follows:

Which then results the fanboy/girl in them to launch into a fan-gasmic rage against me. To put forward my stand on this matter: I will never for any reason; voluntarily watch one episode of such an anime (because I have watched a few when I was younger or when someone else switches to that channel on the telly).

So now, this is a post explaining why I DON’T watch these “generic” animes per se if I will use the colloquial term for them.

Anime Blog Carnival – “What makes a 10/10 Anime?” by Valence.

While my laptop’s at the shop for the next few weeks days thanks to an unfortunate coffee spillage, I guess I can only write meta for now. Seeing as how @fkeroge invited himself to this ‘Anime Blog Carnival’, I guess that I can, and should, do the same too.

@fkeroge’s Super Subjective Reviews! No. 3: Fullmetal Achemist: Brotherhood

Yeah, go watch it or something.

I said in my last segment of Super Subjective Reviews that I would review Aria next. Unfortunately, I still haven’t found the time and the need to finish it. So instead, let’s move on to another one of those iconic anime out there. I present to you: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood!

Anime Blog Carnival – “What Makes a 10/10 Anime?” by @fkeroge

This is an idea that Du5k from One Minute of Dusk came up with. Basically, several bloggers have agreed to make posts about what they consider to be a “perfect” or a 10/10 anime. Well, I wasn’t a part of the original circle of people who would do these posts, but I thought it was nigh time that I talked about my standards for the “perfect” anime. So after inviting myself to the event, here are the characteristics of what I would consider to be a 10/10 anime.

Senki Zesshou Symphogear Episode 1: Songs can save the world and the anime

[EDIT] Is it SENKI Zesshou Symphogear or SENHIME Zesshou Symphogear? *half awake and confused at 3am*

raep face... with bonus cat ears... and headphones...

I was about to spend the entire post singing a thousand seven thousand praises to Nana Mizuki but apparently this episode was that bad that I have so much I wanted to talk about. In fact, I find it so bad that this is the most amazing and awesome anime I have watched in years. THAT BAD.

I have no idea what I’m writing about anymore, I enjoyed the episode a lot actually, despite how bad I think it is.

On a side note, you won’t be hearing from me in the coming weeks, mainly due to my GCE O level results releasing tomorrow afternoon. In fact I’m only writing this because I can’t sleep… Dammit, Valence didn’t need to take it and CyborgCommunist is preparing for this year’s exams…

Weiss Schwarz Update: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

For Weiss Schwarz players out there (or PMMM fans, because this might possibly start you playing), most shops dealing in WS have started taking pre-orders for both trial decks and boosters for the PMMM series.