SOS-団 redux

If you're going "Wow, another post already?", then do what I'm doing and blame it on my having my brains scrambled by taking in the Idolm@ster previews and those damned Touhou flash music videos in quick sucession with no recovery period (gee, thanks a lot, K!). Between the sheer 萌え-moe-pawaa of the former and the mind-flaying addictiveness of the latter, it's a wonder I retain enough sanity to understand what's going on while I read the online translations of the Suzumiya Haruhi novels.

Speaking of the novels, I must say that my appreciation of Tsuruya (aka LOLfang-tan the LOLita....well, she's not really much of a loli, actually) has gone way up....along with gaining a certain suspicion of the character. Speculation aside, though, reading the English translations of the novels revealed that there's plenty of material available for a second season already, sequence-breaking and all, so I'm surprised that there hasn't been any word of the commencement of production of new episodes so far. Maybe the director is thinking of how to mess up the episode order even more than (s)he did in the first season (which in turn already messed up the sequence of events that were revealed in the novels), or maybe they just can't decide on what to call the new series XD

Thought for the day: What in the nine hells is UP with the cheap animation budget on the Super Robot Wars Original Generation: Divine Wars series? Here's hoping they take a leaf from Transformers: Galaxy Force and improve the quality of the CG as the series goes on....

Further Misadventures in YouTube Land

Since the 'night of a thousand WTFs' last month, I've been doing more of my television watching on youtube (which doesn't say much since I don't really watch TV anymore). However, during the course of my viewership I have come across a startling fact: The Animaniacs actually speak JAPANESE. Really badly American-accented Japanese, but Japanese all the same.

Let that sink in for a bit.

Now then. I'm betting the cynics out there are going "Oh come now, you cannot POSSIBLY mean to tell me that an old 1995 American cartoon series with American voice actors acknowledged the existence of any other language besides English" or something along those lines. Well, if you search for "The Taming of the Screwy" part 3 and/or "Space-Probed" part 1 on youtube, you'll be able to hear the lines in question as long as you have your speakers turned up high enough for you to hear what they're saying....even if you can't actually understand what they're saying. Unless of course you speak Japanese, but that's a different topic of conversation altogether =P

Of course, if you happen to be one of those narrow-minded people who are going "Aren't you a little too old to be watching cartoons?", you can bugger off and leave me alone while I enjoy a classic series that has infinitely better writing than some of the drivel I see on TV nowadays, so THERE. Lousy closed-minded fools who can't appreciate a good thing even if it comes up and smacks them in the face in a dark alley at night....BAH!...

SMOOOOOOOOKE on da wOOOOOOTTAAAAA!!

Fire in the sky! Channel Newsasia reports that a meteor or fireball of some sort was seen streaking across the sky today. Naturally, the similarity to the "expositionary news clip" cliche seen in many anime did not go by unnoticed, and I'll be looking out for a sudden rise in property damage or reports of kaiju roaming the streets over the next few days. Remember, it's not paranoia if they're really out to get you! XD