You guys should definitely check it out.  It’s about time someone made a game based on this manga, oh wait…

Also, since naming this game, I’ve acquired the ability to spell apocalypse correctly without the aid of spellcheck, yaya!

For those of you who enjoy writing style and antics, I’ll be happy to fill you in on my status with anime in general.  I have not touched anime in like a month in a half.  Slow internet mixed with my anime watching habits (watching in spurts) are the culprits.  The latter of the two is especially detrimental for me as an aniblogger because, well, up-to-date shows don’t allow for no spurt watching that’s for sure.  This is a real shame because for the short time (relatively speaking to the big dogs.  Seriously, there are aniblogs that live for less than a week before disintegrating into a pile of cyber goo.) that I’ve been aniblogging, I’ve enjoyed it immensely.  The community wasn’t half bad either.  Talking about anime (a real passion of mine) with other people proved to be a lot of fun, albeit taxing.

I’ve realized that the most important thing about aniblogging is forming a habit.  I don’t think about brushing my teeth or taking showers.  If I somehow had just discovered those two “activities” randomly today, I’d be hard pressed to continue.  Seriously, that shit, when combined, takes up relatively the same time as blogging one entry on a blog.  It is only because I formed habits of doing so (and because I don’t want to smell like a pile of gorrila poo/be ridiculed by society) that I continue.  The same with blogging.  It all depends on habit.  For if a habit is formed, it will seem virtually effortless, wheras on the other hand, it can be a real pain, despite it’s pleasures.

Here’s to me hopefully picking back up my anime momentum again and start writing, because I’m really looking forward to it ;)

ARENA 01: [Katsura Hinagiku] Tōsaka Rin Asahina Mikuru Sakurano Kurimu Izumi Konata [Misaka Mikoto]

Hina and Mikoto reside on the top portion of my favorite characters list, and for good reasons.  They are similar in that they are both tsunderes, and badass when they need to be.  Hina’s got her kendo, and Mikoto’s got her 10,000 volts of electricity shooting out of her forehead…

ARENA 02: [Shana ] [Suzumiya Haruhi] Hirasawa Yui Shiina Mafuyu Holo Saten Ruiko

Even higher up in the character esteem list goes to these two characters.  Similar to Hina and Mikoto, both are tsundere.  Though Haruhi is a very controversial one at that (I’ll probably analyze her in a tsundere? article in the future), Shana makes up for her for being probably the biggest tsundere I know.

ARENA 03: Sakagami Tomoyo [Hiiragi Kagami] Fukuji Mihoko [Sanzen'in Nagi] Sengoku Nadeko Kawashima Ami

I see a trend here… tsundere, tsundere, tsundere.  Though it shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering the name of this blog… What can I say, tsundere is the epitome of moe.

ARENA 04: [Nagato Yuki] [Aisaka Taiga] Haramura Nodoka Akiyama Mio Sunohara Mei Furude Rika

Hmm… first non-tsundere so far.  Yuki is cool though, and comes from an awesome show.  Though I don’t consider her as moe as most of her fans deem her to be, her vote was more to deter the effects of the votes for the other characters.  Most of which I detest.  Mio and Mei bug the hell out of me, and are quite popular (despite my comments earlier about Mio being hot).

ARENA 05: [Fujibayashi Kyō] Fate Testarossa Nakano Azusa Okazaki Ushio [Saber] Shiina Minatsu

And I end this with another round of tsundere.  Saber is apparently tsundere.  Only saw the show, and never played the game.  In the show, Saber was probably the only character I liked, though she wasn’t much of a tsundere in the adaptation.

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Is That A Giga Drill Breaker in Your Pocket?

The world fades to darkness. Suou Pavlichenko rises into the sky, clothed in only a purple radiance that explodes around her. She is perfectly calm. She leans back and from her supine body emerges a colossal rifle. It’s a beautiful and powerful scene to watch. It also kind of looks like she has an erection.

But Darker than Black isn’t the only show with suggestive imagery. It seems that almost every anime with combat has incredibly phallic symbols scattered throughout. Absurdly long swords pierce enemy torsos as giant guns blast through hostile flesh. Gurren Lagann, one of the most phallic shows of them all, is centered on Simon, a kid who finds a drill that grows to immense proportions as he becomes stronger. It has Yoko, who carries a ten-foot sniper rifle curiously at waist height. It has a mech named Dai-Gurren that has an immense … erm … landing dock protruding from its crotch.

Hold on, Dai-Gurren! Not on the first date!

I’ve come up with two possibilities for why anime is so genitalia-centric. On one hand, it’s difficult to blame shows with phallic weapons when real life is just as bad. Since the dawn of time, humans have been killing each other with phallic weapons. We began with clubs, turned to swords and arrows, created the gun, and now we threaten each other with missiles. In order to have combat, one must have a weapon, and all the cool weapons just happen to look like penises. Maybe the shape we so often associate with male genitalia just so happens to be the optimal weapon. It gives a fighter distance from their enemy, minimizes weight for maximum agility, and has a modified tip that increases potential damage. The only alternative, it seems, is to fight with elemental attacks, such as in Pokemon. There’s nothing dirty about Pikachu’s thunder. On the other hand, I could have filled this entire article with jokes about Pokeballs.

The second explanation I thought of is Freud’s theory of wish-fulfillment. Wish-fulfillment is experiencing a desire vicariously through another medium, such as anime. Shows with humans displaying god-like combat are undeniably awesome, and I’m sure everyone who watches these shows wishes they were capable of such feats. And if we’re talking about Freud and unconscious desires, we’re talking about sex. Am I really going argue that all forms of combat, all weaponry and displays of heroism, are just latent desires to have sex? Do I really believe all weapons were unconsciously designed to look like penises? Even though the relationship is rather suspicious, I’m not going to argue that here. It’s probably just a coincidence. Not everything has to be a metaphor for something else. I mean, even Freud once admitted that, “sometimes a Giga Drill Breaker is just a Giga Drill Breaker.”

You voted:

ARENA 01: [Abstained] Evangeline A.K. McDowell Ikeda Kana Shiina Minatsu

ARENA 02: Hanato Kobato Tsukamoto Yakumo [Kinomoto Sakura]

ARENA 03: [Saginomiya Isumi] Haibara Ai Oshino Shinobu

Isumi is funny as she is moe.  Her inability to tell north from south, her tendency to mark technology as broken when she doesn’t know how to use it, and her slow and relaxed speech pattern simultaneously adds to both her moe and comedic side, a great character.

ARENA 04: [Abstained] Hanekawa Tsubasa Mizunashi Akari Suiseiseki

ARENA 05: Furude Rika Akashiya Moka [Nogizaka Haruka]

ARENA 06: Index Librorum Prohibitorum Hoshina Utau [Aizawa Sakuya]

I’ll admit I’m a little HnG biased.  And I have acknowledged Index’s moe level before, but Sakuya still beats her.  Especially after the “onii-chan” fiasco with Hayate and the Las Vegas arc.  Sakuya isn’t just moe, but she’s smoking hot as well.

ARENA 07: [Abstained] Alice Carroll Hinamori Amu Akaba Chizuru

ARENA 08: [Shirai Kuroko] Sawatari Makoto Kawashima Ami

ARENA 09: Kataoka Yūki Furude Hanyū [Segawa Izumi]

Ami is not moe, I don’t even know why she’s in this contest… Kuroko is moderately moe, her voice is disturbingly cute as it is annoying.  Izumi is right up there with Ayumu when it comes to moe.  Sigh, I discourage how this contest is going to be a popularity contest between shows as oppose to characters, and yet I look really HnG biased right now… It really isn’t my fault really, since HnG is one of the best things to exist………………… not biased at all (<_____<)

ARENA 10: [Abstained] Sheryl Nome Minami Kana Shinku

ARENA 11: Saten Ruiko [Teletha Testarossa] Miyanaga Saki

ARENA 12: Amamiya Yūko [Sonozaki Mion] Minase Nayuki

Tessa is win, captain of a submarine, voiced by Yukana, extruding in cuteness, there is really no other contender.  Mion, again, Yukino Satsuki is love.

ARENA 13: Misaka Shiori Ayanami Rei [Misaka Mikoto]

ARENA 14: Ushiromiya Ange [Katagiri Yūhi] Tōyoko Momoko

ARENA 15: Minami Chiaki Illyasviel von Einzbern [Isurugi Noe]

Mikoto wins by default, Yuuhi because of Kugi, which made her character half worthwhile, by the way, her show is one of the worst things I’ve had deal with in my life (-_-;), and Noe because she deserves retribution after getting shafted in her show, oh, and she’s moe… and her name rhymes with moe.

ARENA 16: [Akiyama Mio] Ichinose Kotomi Uiharu Kazari

ARENA 17: [Abstained] Ryōgi Shiki Kawasumi Mai Felli Loss

ARENA 18: [Abstained] Senō Natsuru Yuno Kotegawa Yui

Mio, mio, mio.  She’s just really hot, even though I honestly don’t want anything to do with her show anymore.

ARENA 19: Senjōgahara Hitagi Kotobuki Tsumugi [Sanzen'in Nagi]

ARENA 20: [Louise Vallière] Kamio Misuzu Winry Rockbell

ARENA 21: Sōryū Asuka Langley [Fujibayashi Ryō] Sawachika Eri

Nagi and Louise… the only reason I would not vote for one or them would be because they are in the same round… Who I would vote for in that situation is still a mystery.  In the past, I would have probably voted for Louise, but Nagi has grown on me these past few weeks.

ARENA 22: Shiina Mafuyu [Maria] Sangō Shizuku

ARENA 23: [Abstained] Takei Hisa Kurata Sayuri Kusakabe Misuzu

ARENA 24: [Sonozaki Shion] Lambdadelta Hinaichigo

Similar to Nagi and Louise, Maria will be getting my vote every time, unless she is faced with major contenders like… Nagi and Louise.  Sadly, if that situation were ever to come up, she would probably lose.  I consider her more hot than moe.

ARENA 25: Sakurano Kurimu Alice [Hiiragi Tsukasa]

ARENA 26: [Abstained] Ryūgū Rena Bernkastel Kirishima Akari

ARENA 27: [Abstained] Shindō Chihiro Lisa Niche

Tsukasa is moe.

ARENA 28: Suigintou Furukawa Nagisa [Saber]

ARENA 29: Tainaka Ritsu [Yin] Tsukimiya Ayu

ARENA 30: Ranka Lee [Nagi] Chii

I’m tired of typing for the day…

But back on topic.  ISML, yeah pretty random considering I’m voting in the preliminary round of day 4 and have not voted in the prior 3 days.  I have no idea how the contest is structured, when can you vote again, and when are they going to put out new characters… Maybe day 4 means it is merely the fourth day to vote and does not mean that I missed voting for other characters the other 3 days.  As you can see, I have no idea what the fuck is going on.

Nevertheless, enjoy my selection of the girls in the ISML based on empirical evidence and unlimited intelligence and wisdom.

You voted:

ARENA 01: Yuno Felli Loss [Akiyama Mio]

ARENA 02: [Ichinose Kotomi] Kotegawa Yui Ryōgi Shiki

ARENA 03: Kawasumi Mai [Uiharu Kazari] Senō Natsuru

Most of these picks have to do with my limited familarity with the shows these characters are in.  This was the case for this arena.  Its unavoidable , that is, unless I actually watched them all, which is out of the question.  Due to this day in age, where shows rely nothing more than on moe to boost ratings, there is a correlation between the amount of moe character a show has and the degeneration of quality of a show.

ARENA 04: [Fujibayashi Ryō] Winry Rockbell Senjōgahara Hitagi

ARENA 05: Kotobuki Tsumugi Sawachika Eri [Louise Vallière]

ARENA 06: Kamio Misuzu [Sanzen'in Nagi] Sōryū Asuka Langley

Louise and Nagi are a no brainer.  As for that one chick in Clannad… I don’t know the other characters.

ARENA 07: [Abstained] Lambdadelta Kusakabe Misuzu Shiina Mafuyu

ARENA 08: [Maria] Hinaichigo Takei Hisa

ARENA 09: Kurata Sayuri Sangō Shizuku [Sonozaki Shion]

Abstained because I have no clue about these characters.  Maria <3<3<3<3 and Shion from Higurashi, cause I’ve seen 4 episodes of the show and Yukino Satsuki rocks my socks.

ARENA 10: [Abstained] Lisa Kirishima Akari Sakurano Kurimu

ARENA 11: [Abstained] Alice Niche Ryūgū Rena

ARENA 12: Bernkastel [Hiiragi Tsukasa] Shindō Chihiro

Tsukasa is very moe in my eyes, and also beats out the eye-patch girl in ef-tales of whatever and some other girl from something I’ve never heard of.  You know its only recently I’ve found out ef is pronounced ‘f’.

ARENA 13: [Nagi] Tsukimiya Ayu Suigintou

ARENA 14: Furukawa Nagisa [Chii] Tainaka Ritsu

ARENA 15: Yin [Saber] Ranka Lee

Nagi, Chii and Saber, clearly the best choices.  Anyone who doesn’t vote for them can…

eh, its no big deal, vote for your favorite characters!

ARENA 16: Yoko Littner Kirishima Kotone [Holo]

ARENA 17: Ikaros Daidōji Tomoyo [Kushieda Minori]

ARENA 18: Sōseiseki Konjiki no Yami [Tsuruya]

The fact that I’ve seen TTGL and not Horo’s show and still voted for Horo testify to the fact of how much hotness Horo emits and how much non-moe I consider Yoko.

ARENA 19: Mishima Akane Erurū [Sengoku Nadeko]

ARENA 20: Ibuki Fūko Miyamura Miyako [Suō Pavlichenko]

ARENA 21: [Abstained] Yagami Hayate Hirasawa Ui Enma Ai

This is where it gets abstract.  By that I mean, I’m just blindly voting at this point.

ARENA 22: [Shirayuki Mizore] Isayama Yomi Kuronuma Sawako

ARENA 23: Beatrice Chiba Kirino [Sunohara Mei]

ARENA 24: Amae Koromo Nymph [Nishizawa Ayumu]

Ayumu is one of the most moe characters that I know.  Despite her being overshadowed by all the other great characters in HnG, she is still probably the most moe.

ARENA 25: [Abstained] Sakurazaki Setsuna Hachikuji Mayoi Takamachi Nanoha

ARENA 26: [Izumi Konata] Yūki Mikan Ushiromiya Maria

ARENA 27: Mizuno Kaede [C.C.] Shihō Matsuri

I really don’t consider Konata moe, but I don’t know the other characters.  C.C. emits moe aura even though she is not a loli.  Her craving for pizza and behavior makes her very moe.

Ahh, the ecchi genre...

The worst part of this episode was at the very end, when Ako and Riko announced that there will be another OAD episode next June. I was so pumped in getting rid of this thing off of my “Currently Watching” list, but it looks like all of that anticipation turned out to be in vain. Now I’ll have to wait another half-year before I can get an opportunity to do so… And no, I am not watching the TV series that is to follow the OAD. Like I said in my previous post about Kiss x Sis, straying from its OAD format would be abandoning the only thing making this show watchable.

…Actually the worst part of this episode was the urine. Keita helps out Riko in her bodily functions after they had a little too much to drink. For those that have fetishes of this liquidly human waste must have been in urine heaven when watching this episode. I am actually sane and don’t understand this fetish. So I couldn’t get a lot out of the first half of the episode.

Sigh... I waited six months for this too...

The second half was much more tasteful and sexy. After Riko doses off due to her weakness to alcohol, Keita turns into a horny animal due to his drunkenness and gets it on with Ako. The best scene was when they French-kiss and Keita tells Ako to only suck on his tongue and then vice versa. I thoroughly enjoyed that particular scene, but that’s beside the point, as I will demonstrate…

Ecchi anime is like those flashy internet ads that say you have won a new I-Pod Nano!!!!!!!!! Or some other blatantly outrageous lie: they’re all a damn trap. Ecchi anime lures in unsuspecting randy male otaku in promising ecchi moments and the newest and hottest 2D character designs… and provides them exactly that. The problem is, hentai is superior in every way in terms of its satisfaction power, and real anime is superior in every way in terms of enjoyment of a real story. In the end, Ecchi anime ends up getting nothing accomplished other than to piss of its viewers. I’m not criticizing ecchi itself, for most shows nowadays slip in a little bit of ecchi here and there and that’s totally fine; legitimate anime like Haruhi, Shana and Gurren Lagann have a heavy amount of ecchi in them, but none of them actually uses their ecchi to define themselves as a genre. It is when a show has ecchi and nothing else that the show falls apart.

Kiss x Sis is good example of this kind of show, not that they are difficult to find or anything nowadays, as the anime industry is infested with them.

A recently hobby that I’ve acquired is the tiering and ranking of arbitrary subjects in terms of how good or bad they are. I used to do this in terms of favorite anime or characters but now it has totally spiraled out of control. I’ve made lists for best soundtracks, best couples, best tsundere, best anime OP and EDs, best seiyuus, hottest/moe anime characters, the worst of these categories, and of course, most annoying speech tendencies.

However fun this activity is, it is rather difficult. The only lists that I am completely satisfied at the moment are my top anime and characters list, which I will probably share in some subsequent post. This makes sense because I have been working on them the longest, well before this obsession developed. And even these two lists are subject to change, due to the fact that I am always digesting new shows and forgetting or taking older shows for granted (Which reminds me, I better fix my Top 10 anime page of this blog, since that list is about as accurate as me trying to read something without my glasses).

My Most Annoying Speech Tendencies list is by far one of the least developed ones, but it is definitely the most original and has the most potential to be the subject of a humorous post. Keep in mind that this is not a list of most annoying voices, but most annoying speech tendencies. If it were, this list would be way too long to handle; recent anime and annoying voices almost share a one-to-one correlation with each other, and the blame primarily goes to moe, i.e. characters like Asahina Mikuru (forget Mikuru Beam, Mikuru Voice has much more potentially destructive force) (Kugi’s voice is an exception, for those who might see a contradiction in my arguments. I view (or hear, would be more appropriate) her voice as goddamn sexy, rather than annoying). Anyway, without further ado…

Top 6 (Because 6 is cooler than 5) Most Annoying Speech Tendencies

6. Isaac and Miria from Baccano!

Isaac: Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrriaaaaaaa!

Miria: Isaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakkuuuuuuuuu!

Their tendency to always say each other’s name before they speak to each other in an elongated and exasperating manner puts them up at number 6.

Complemented by Onosaka Masaya’s intrinsic ability to put an annoying and somewhat homosexual spin on whatever character he voices and Miria’s screechy voice, most annoying speech tendencies can’t get better than when it comes to this duo.

Now, if you’re asking why are there two characters sharing one slot on this list, you need to understand that if you do split them, it would be like splitting an atom; it is forbidden to do so. fangzhao over at Mikotoism has similar views when it comes to this subject matter.

5. Wilhelmina Carmel from Shakugan no Shana

Carmel-san’s propensity to “de arimasu” everything so consistently is something to behold. Most characters with speech tendencies break out of their habits at least 10% of the time, but not Carmel-san. What adds to the annoying factor is that it is so freaking long. “Desu”, “Nya” and other similar characters are more bearable by the fact that their sentence enders are only one to two syllables, while “de arimasu” extends for a whopping five syllables, multiply that by the number of times she speaks, and you have a character that sits at number five on the most annoying speech tendencies list.

On another note, the fact that subbers actually sub in her “de arimasu” into the English translation makes it that much more annoying. “De arimasu” at the end of a sentence just doesn’t work in the English grammatical structure.

4. Kamio Mizusu from Air

“Gao!” as she hits her head in a cutesy manner with her own fist…

Ugg… I hated this character. Her “Gao” tendencies weren’t even that bad in terms of how often she recited it. It was just too cheesy and fake. I didn’t buy for a second that it was moe or whatever it was trying to convey about her character (that she was retarded?… ). Now that I think about it, there are other characters in Air that were also damn annoying when it came to how they speak: Kirishima Kano and Michiru. I can’t put my fingers on exactly why they were annoying, and I just don’t care enough about the show to pinpoint exactly what made them make me want to vomit out of my ears…

Basically what I’m trying to say is Air blows (no pun-intended).

3. The Misaka clones from Toaru Majitsu no Index

Remember when I mentioned how long Carmel-san’s speech tendency was (Assuming you don’t have anterograde amnesia…)? Well, The Misaka clones’ tendency is much much worse. The first thing you will notice is that they refer to themselves in third person. That wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t say the fact that they just said something whenever they said something!!!!!!!!!!!!

For those who are confused, basically this is what a Misaka clone would say to you if she hated your guts,

“Misaka really dislikes your guts, Misaka says as she looks at (insert your name here) disgustingly,”

Just like Carmel-san, and probably more so, they never break their own rules. However original their speech tendency was, it got old and irritating very, very fast.

2. Link (The “Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me, Princess” version) from The Legend of Zelda

Now, he isn’t exactly an anime character, but that’s okay, because he’s too legendary to be left out in a discussion about annoying speech tendencies.

I must be clear about the fact that this is the cartoon Link we are talking about, not the ones in the Legend of Zelda video games, the ones that are totally mute…

Here is a video for your enjoyment of this great character.

1. Last Order from Toaru Majitsu no Index

She is a character that inherits the Misaka clones’ speech tendencies with her own twist: She says “Misaka” twice when referring to herself. This might sound like one of those cop-out situations in an RPG or something, “This new monster you encountered is much more powerful, even though it uses the same sprite as a previous monster and the only difference is that its stats are doubled…” but adding that second “Misaka” in there really does magnify things tenfold.

Last Order – “Misaka has the most annoying speech tendency in the whole world, Misaka Misaka states affirmatively as she crosses her arms in her pride.”

ugh…

I discovered this series of videos though Sankaku Complex over the summer. They are basically compilation videos of every OP and ED of the latest anime season. The songs are altered so that they flow into each other, and when a song does change, the background image of the video changes to a picture denoting which show the song is from, along with the name of the song and the artist. The latest volume released so far is volume 7, which is separated into two parts, and it compiles every OP and ED songs of the summer 2009 season.

These videos are quite popular on Nico Nico Douga. For those of you who don’t know what Nico is, it’s basically a video sharing site in Japan similar to YouTube, but the catch is, you have to have an account to see any of the videos on it, which can prove to be a pain for us non-Japanese speaking individuals. Luckily if you type in “How to sign up on Nico Nico Douga” or something into Google, you can find a simple guides that direct you step by step though the registration process.

Here is a link to Anisong Mixxx Volume 6. which features songs from the Spring 2009 anime season.  Sankaku is the only English site I know that allows for Nico streaming without registration.  You can also browse through the Nico charts and search for videos on Nico there, and its all in English.  So this is another alternative if you really want to watch Nico Videos aside from signing up on the actual site.

I was sitting in East Asian Literature class today (What class I was in is kinda irrelevant… actually, it’s kinda ironic) and randomly got a nosebleed.  Thankfully it was a relatively large class and I just stealthily slid out of my seat and took care of the problem. What actually caused the sudden discharge of blood surplus is a mystery. It’s not like I was looking at NSFW images or anything on my laptop, nor was the professor hot or anything (actually both statements are for the most part true. The professor is actually kinda hot and I was wasting time on my laptop browsing through anime related websites that had potentially NSFW material on them.) But one thing is for sure though… and that is that nosebleeds aren’t caused by arousal of any kind. According to my sources (by sources I mean the first couple of links on the first page of Google search, one of which was a Yahoo! Answers question.), the link between nosebleeds and arousal in Japanese anime and manga started with some old wives’ tale. It’s supposed to be a euphemism or an implication for ejaculation. Recently, female characters have begun showing the same tendency as their horny male counterparts, most notably fujoshi and lesbian characters (with Kanako from Maria Holic in the lead). What nosebleeds can imply for those female characters can only be stopped by your imagination.

This got me thinking, what if arousal actually did cause nosebleeds? Well, on one hand, it could cause a lot of unnecessary messes and complications, and on the other, it might not be so bad. Everyone would have to carry around those portable Kleenex packs. Considering how sick our minds are, we would probably all bleed to death by the end of the day. Putting that aside… let’s look at some of the lighter complications of nosebleeds. People would inadvertently bleed in front of someone they did not wish to see them do so, this would lead to the other person bleeding back or ignoring the bleed and the person all together from there on out. This would ultimately lead to human society taking a totally animalistic turn in its sexuality. Everyone would be completely open about their sexuality whether they like it or not. No beating around the bush, no religious sects suppressing any cardinal desires, no hiding our loli or furry fetishes. Everything would be out in the open and practicality would ensue, whether this is a good or bad thing would be up to whoever lived in such an alternative universe.

What was the point of this post you ask? Well, I haven’t updated my blog in ages, which is a shame, so what better way to give it some life than with a completely useless post about nosebleeds? (Anything?) Anyway, if I were to post anything again, it would probably be about Railgun, which is airing at the moment and Shakugan no Shana S, which I am patiently waiting for the second episode for.