We had an alliance of kami-tsukai from the two R.O.Ds, like in THE TV. I was Ms. Readman, which meant it was a pain in the ass because I had to speak in a high-pitched voice and always use polite forms.Of course, from what little I remember, I was talking to Ms. King, which means that I'd be using even politer forms if I were myself. Also, if I ( Read more... )

When my brother was home for Spring Break this year and playing Ogre Battle 64, I realized that it was yet another Japanese video game where the hero deserts the evil empire and joins the resistance. I thought that this seemed odd, considering how traditional and conformist Japanese society is (although it's starting to change). I guess that's a ( Read more... )

I actually had to wade through the awful scanslations (I'm pretty sure Romanizing 「しんゆう」 as "yuujin" isn't Hepburn or Diet-standard) to get a proper picture because that damned blitzcon is still hoarding my copy, despite the fact that he claims he doesn't have time to read it because he's too busy working and watching cartoons (which also means that I ( Read more... )

Well, I usually don't bother with AMVs, since I have virtually no interest in music and I try to avoid the fan community, but I happened to run across some good ones today. I would make an account so I could keep them in my favorites, but someone already stole my username, so I'll just have to immortalize (?) them here. Isn't there some way of ( Read more... )

( Variations on a theme )

Continuing from before, here's my December stuff:

「R.O.D READ OR DREAM」 (Kurata Hideyuki/Ayanaga Ran) [A]: I've known about this one for quite some time, as besides the Yuri Shimai article, I've also seen THE TV series. Unfortunately, the key points there were the relationships between "Sumiregawa-sense" [sic] and "Yomiko-sensei" and between Ms. ( Read more... )

As mentioned before, I've collected my past posts that have had allusions in their subtitles. This will undoubtedly take many moons, and I'm not giving you the answers unless you try each of them first, so if you actually care, you may want to add this to your Memories.

Modified Sayings/Adages/Vocab Words/Et Cetera:
Deus ex Apparatus
Gynomorphism
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