Chasing After Rainbows

Links: Autumn 2008 list + review of Summer & Spring 2008 anime Winter 2009 list Spring 2009 list The Winter 2009 anime season was a big letdown. However, in this review, I would also include 24-episode anime from the earlier Autumn 2008 season I could think of. For a review of 12-episode and the first half of the 24-episode shows, check out the review I did on New Year's Eve . Known to be carried over from Autumn 2008 season: Gundam 00 Season 2 - Never watched this. However, I did watch some of the episodes of the first season in 2007 and some in the related world of Gundam. Except for Code Geass (including R2) and Marcross Frontier, I find anime that are set in the future/space, and/or have large robots are difficult to follow. Time traveling too. Michiko e Hatchin - It follows a prison escapee and an abused orphan in Latin America to meet together to form an unlikely pair. Mentioned in the earlier review that I had dropped after the first few episode due to late and irregu...

From Toradora! episode 13, where Takasu is running with Minori in a race. The two girls not screaming on the left seems to have bodies that are too big for their heads. Was this intentional since it's only for a while? Also, shortly after this, the audience is spotted to have angry, gangster-like faces but have excited faces when Takasu and Minori crosses the finishing line. PS. With reference to the 2nd girl in the foreground on the right, I have always noticed that background characters are better designed that the main characters of the anime.

Since we boarded our flight at night, most of us just slept thought the entire flight since take-off. Well, we did spend a lot of time travelling to the airport with some breaks along the way, so this flight is long enough to sleep. Announcement: "...are now arriving into the country shortly. Outdoor temperature is 85℉ or 29℃ with humidity of 93%. Please stow away or secure loose objects and fasten your seat belts when the indicator turns on for lading. Thank you for travelling with us and hope you would have a nice day. During the landing, the plane declined downwards and felt a thud from below, followed by rumbling as the plane touched the ground and reduces it's speed to a halt before the plane is towed towards the terminal so we could just enter the terminal via a bridge from the plane exit. After clearing customs and collected our luggage, I exchanged my country's currency for that country's currency. Amount I received seems to be more than what I thought ...

As mentioned on my Twitter feed yesterday , I have 3 identical boxes (47cm x 33cm x 36cm, about 1.5ft x 1.5ft 2.25ft ) stacked on top of each other and haven't touched those in a while. In fact, I barely touch anything in my room other than the area around the laptop I normally use lately. As my priorities of cleaning up my room are low, since it's not so bad. However, I can see dust and dirt gathering on the surface and that most of the mess are not so visible. In fact, it still looks a lot better than back in November 2006 , shortly/during the time I made a major tidy up and moved the furniture around. Under the new arrangement, the mess level has somewhat kept to a minimum. It's hard to tell what has been thrown out and what's still around, but here's what what is still kept besides the furniture: Digital clock on top of the CD shelf Blue and pink pencil sharpener the stickers on the door and CD shelf 1998 Dell PC set (white), at the spot where the newer 2002 Com...

[revised 5 April 2009] (Continued from Part 7 ) (Related: Alternate Dimension (Part 19) ) Today's lessons seem to involve a lot of writing of notes into the notebooks the teacher wrote, some of which are handed in to the teacher. However, each year I progress since primary school, the hiragana of words I'm familiar with have been slowly been replaced by kanji that gets more complicated as I progress through each year . To tell you the truth, I don't know when I started learning this language , but it somehow seems to be my native language by the time I know what was going on. I also seemed to have learned another that has a completely different writing system and way of pronouncing words to the extent that the ones that are being taught in schools are like a joke, but is useful only when communicating with people of other countries. Anyways, with the learning kanji that has more strokes becoming more of a necessity, my hands are getting tired from all that writing. T...

1 st (Wednesday) Charady no Joke na Mainichi Mainichi Kāsan Sengoku Basara 2 nd (Thursday) Asura Cryin' Basquash! K-ON! Pandora Hearts Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~ Queen's Blade -Rurō no Senshi- 3 rd (Friday) Hayate the Combat Butler!! Higepiyo Slap Up Party -Arad Senki- 4 th (Saturday) Gokujō!! Mecha Mote Iinchō Shin Mazinger Shōgeki! Z-Hen Shinkyoku Sōkai Polyphonica crimson S Valkyria Chronicles 5 th (Sunday) Before Green Gables Cross Game Fullmetal Alchemist 2 Guin Saga Hanasakeru Seishōnen Jewelpet Metal Fight Beyblade Natsu no Arashi! Saki Shangri-La Tayutama -Kiss on my Deity- Tears to Tiara 6 th (Monday) 07-GHOST 7 th (Tueday) Sōten Kōro Sugar Bunnies Fleur 8 th (Wednesday) Ristorante Paradiso 9 th (Thursday) Eden of The East 11 th (Saturday) Hatsukoi Limited 2009-03-30: クッキンアイドル アイ！マイ！まいん！ 2009-03-30: チーズスイートホーム あたらしいおうち 2009-03-31: マリー＆ガリー 2009-04-01: キャラディのジョークな毎日 2009-04-01: 戦国BASARA 2009-04-01: ...

It may sound strange if I put it this way, but I have this strange ability to make myself feel scared for no apparent reason. This time however, I don't even know what triggered it. Just a few hours ago, however, thinking about what I would be doing 5 years from and just cleaning up my room earlier (23 March) seem to somewhat triggered just as I head to bed. As I was sleeping I suddenly started to feel scared and want to cry for no apparent reason. Opening my eyes into a dark room seemed to only make matters worse. Could be someone's comment while I was cleaning, could be thinking too much, or something built up over time faster than I could relief it, could be a video of someone saying life-changing events that they are or will be experiencing. I didn't know wanting to do something as straightforward as cleaning my room can trigger weird things happening to me...