2016 May 27ᵗʰ. NnoAnime Overview from Winter to Spring, 2015–2016!

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Hey everyone. I suppose this won't be the last post I make, so I'm not going to try to get too dramatic over it—but it's almost the last post—spiritually—so why not?

今日

Looking back. Get it?

Since the last extended hiatus for this blog, there have been numerous posts. I will, here, attempt to catalogue them by subject anime. Onward!
From 15th January on,

1. Orenchi no Furo Jijou
2. God Eater
3. Log Horizon
4. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
5. Free!
6. No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! (Watamote)
7. Death Parade
8. The Empire of Corpses!
9. ERASED
10. Pandora Hearts

In addition, there were three non-anime but similarly themed posts.

1. Anime Matsuri
2. Nanbaka
3. Feathers Across the Seasons

A convention, a manga, and a song respectively.
It's... It's just so...

*Attempts sniffle,*
*Extremely loud intake of air*
No, I've got nothing. See ya' around.

Now, where did I put those emotions...?

If you'd care to search for any of those anime I talked about, here is a link to a great resource—Crunchyroll.

And here are the usual suspects alternatives, Kissanime, and Animehaven.

2016 April 15ᵗʰ. Death Parade, Again, Again, Again!

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This is going a lot longer than I thought it would~

"Just... Just let me rest!"
-Anonymous viewer

今日

Again, we are back to Death Parade. This anime is finally, by the [REDACTED]ᵗʰ episode, interesting.
Now, do you remember when I said Decim had a heart?
Well...

I now plead for you to watch this anime. This is not the final post over it, no, but the plot is thickening. I am getting invested in this anime, and I need you to be too. Or else Oh wait the therapist said I shouldn't say things like that because it scares people
AHEM, ANYWAYS,
I shall stop spoiling anything, but I must say, this anime is getting quite far into human emotion—and not quite in the way I first would've thought. Now, if you please, check this anime out here, on Kissanime.
Here on Animehaven, and here, Gogoanime.

2016 April 1ˢᵗ. Death Parade, Again, Again!

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Heya folks. Short post today.

今日

This week's post is, again, again, Death Parade. The third post on this show, and the second in a series of 3–4 posts on the subject.
So far in a nutshell, the psychological themes are developing, and seem very relevant. I am still pleased with this anime.
On my list of predictions from the first post on Death Parade, before this review chain, some more are to be checked off:

  Number one is still debatable, though seems fair to say.
  Two is a check, and quite a disappointing one at that. I shall say that is a fault of the show. Some of the characters seem a bit dull.
  Three has yet to happen—at least, for the Arbiters' rules.
  Four is definitely beginning, but there seems to be no main character. Just a rotation.

So far, many more of the characters have been introduced. I dare say all of them. They seem to, for the most part, have their own quirks and opinions. That is definitely a plus for this show, and seems to be one of its main themes—that every viewpoint on their work is represented. I do like this theme, as it seems to be designed for (everyone to like it).
Alas, more information will be delivered...
Next time.

The following information is a cut from the previous post, for information on viewing:
Now, if you'd like to watch this anime yourself, it is not on Crunchyroll. So, below are three links to the show on other decent anime streaming sites.
Here is the link for Kissanime. Here for Animehaven, and here, Gogoanime.

2016 March 11ᵗʰ. Death Parade, Again!

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Hi, humans. Just so you know in advance, I won't be posting next week, as I'm going to be away, visiting my girlfriend Acin, a distance of the length of Great Britain from my computer.

Oh well, see ya' on the 24^th or so.

Promise me you won't do anything horrible while I'm gone!

Oh, we promise!

今日

Just amazing. I should do typesetting.

Hello, hello. Here we have, again, Death Parade. You may remember this anime from a couple weeks ago—you may also remember I had said I would be doing a review of it.
Well, here I am.
But wait! There's more!
This review, (though really more like an impression post), will be split into two or three parts, this being the first.
This post will be over episodes 1–4. The following posts will be mainly over their sections, but may also tie back into these.
THAT BEING SAID,
This anime is pretty good.
At first, you see, I thought it was terrible. Mindless, slightly psychological-thriller gore or something. But everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked second episode came.
Well, the second episode still wasn't much. But the third episode was really nice.
This anime has, so far, brought me to some tears. Some of the themes of death by the fourth episode really hit me, for some reason.

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” –Edgar Allan Poe.

Ahem, well, anyways.

Aw, Decim, you do have a heart!

So far, the first and last predictions I made on the first post over this have kind of half come true. There seems to be a human, (Or, at least a former human.), though it is unclear as to whether or not there is yet any main character.
And for the first one, it seems as though some emotion is contained in Decim.
How cute.

But anyhow,
As far as themes go, this anime gets quite a bit of liberty with what they'd like to talk about. They can pull any character with any backstory out from the aether at any time, and it's totally appropriate. So far, the things they've touched on are, well, touching to me. If you have a heart, and/or an emotionally difficult life, you'll find something in this anime to be taken good, or bad. It's up to you.
This is confusing. I shouldn't be writing right before midnight, anyhow.
Anyhow, I'll see you next time with more Death Parade. Or not. Depends on what is posted next-next week. Either way, I wish you a good 10–15 days. Farewell!
Now, if you'd like to watch this anime yourself, it is not on Crunchyroll. So, below are three links to the show on other decent anime streaming sites.
Here is the link for Kissanime. Here for Animehaven, and here, Gogoanime.

Postscript:
I'm not even linking to Funimation for this anymore. They have some ridiculous member sign up with an age restriction for this. I just want to watch the dang show, people! I don't want to join your sh*t!

2016 March 4ᵗʰ. Anime Matsuri!

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An interim post here, the next real one will be Death Parade. But this was too exciting! I needed to share this.

Excitement!

今日

As it happens, last weekend, the 27-28th of February, an anime convention was held in Houston, Texas. It also just so happens that I was attending said convention, and it sure was a great time!

Danganronpa's famous pink blood.
This scene was shown,
But the blood was blue. Things got weird.

First off, there were some great panels. Among them were some silly occurrences such as Funimation's projector breaking as to not show any red-- (Blue blood everywhere! Is this really Danganronpa?), someone accidentally dropping a set of incredibly intricate wooden laser-cut wheels onto the hard ground while being they were passed around for a prop-making panel, and one panel straight-up being about breakdancing. It was awesome.
Secondly, there was an amazing Cosplay Contest held; it was incredibly difficult to get any quality pictures of the contestants, however sadly. As such there'll be none. But, to the third thing, everyone was cosplaying! It was wonderful to just walk around the convention center, as you'd be sure to find someone who would bring joy to your eyes or laughter to your heart.
Among the attendees of this convention, some characters I managed to find count to be the following:

An entire clan of Naruto cosplayers! ...And a Sailor!

The famous cosplayers from Japan, Kaname and Goldy as Ichigo and Alphonse Elric respectively.

(You either know who this is supposed to be, or you don't.)

And, finally, a suspiciously pretty Kaito!

All in all, it was great fun for the whole time. I hope that I can convince you, now, to go to next year's Anime Matsuri celebration should you have the means. It will be fabulous.
Next year, (2017), the convention is to be held April 7-9, at the same venue in Houston. Find out more here, on their site, whenever it may be updated. 

2016 February 26ᵗʰ. Death Parade!

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Well, I mean...
For next week I have planned to do this same anime again, but as a review. I had been told by my friend, who suggested this to me to begin with, that it is not, in fact, entirely about killing unborn children with darts. Plus, the first episode only had one of the several main-looking characters in the opening.
So, I'll get a chance to laugh at how wrong I am about something! Finally!

今日

Hello. Is it me you're looking for?
Ahem, I mean, *excited yet incredibly serious tone*, today's anime is Death Parade.

Decim, the boring.

Its name in Japanese is "Desu Pareedo," which is not incredibly exciting; just a transliteration into Japanese of the English title.
Anywho, what happened in this one episode I saw was that some couple unwittingly decided which of them could go to heaven and which to hell over a game of darts, with many dramatic plot twists and dead babies along the way. Obviously, if this was the whole show, I'd go straight to a 2/10 rating, (Didn't I used to do those? Ratings?) but luckily its true purpose is totally unestablished by the first episode. Hooray?
With knowing practically nothing about this show, then, I shall list off some predictions to hopefully correct later.

• Decim, the bartender arbiter-of-the-damned fellow, will probably have some sort of confrontation that changes how he feels about his patrons
• If he has coworkers, they must take turns or something with different sets of games.
• Rules of a game will be broken. At least once.
• There'd better be at least one human who stays in limbo with them, maybe they could be the main character.

Anyhow, this post is just terrible since I really don't want to talk about what actually happened in the episode, y'know, since I was warned it was irrelevant and all.
So, with all that, I'm out of here.
If you want to beat me to watching the rest of this, perhaps, here is the link on Crunchy--
Oh, wait, no it's not. Because Funimation took exclusive streaming rights in America. Again. God bleep it.
Here on Kissanime, and here on Animehaven.