I always feel like I need more cowbell.
first off: WTF, Japan, continued: Japan Pays Foreign Workers to Go Home with the caveat THAT THEY NEVER EVER COME BACK TO WORK IN JAPAN, EVER, AND THAT INCLUDES YOUR CHILDREN. SAYONARA, SUCKERS.
Secondly, I am trying to aim for a more serious, thoughtful review of Smile, now that there are subs for it, out by this weekend, and why I have problems with the premise, and why I think it's both a step forwards and backwards, and can it avoid the heavy handed AT social commentary/pandering/exploiting trap? Or as kitsune714 said succinctly last night, "WHY DOES JAPAN HATE THE BROWN MAN?" and also, "Matsujun couldn't pass for HALF OF ANYTHING."
Please bite your tongue on the obvious rejoinder on that comment.
Thirdly, for fans of the Littlest Hobo, pori-chan.com has episode summaries/previews translated as the official website goes live every week, so if you want to know what's going to happen next (mild spoilers/plot outline), just visit there while waiting for GiriGiri/TimeLess fansubs.
Fourth, there is no fourth, only Black Adder Goes Forth.
(also, Maya Miki's husband is SMOKIN' HOT. As if you needed further proof that she is queen of EVERYTHING.)
Now, I am off to make a summer fruit trifle.
ETA: fifth, I may or may not have spent ten minutes in Sanseido Books this afternoon looking at pictures of Kanata Hongo and his TEENY TINY DOG NAMED L'AMIE and making incoherent, appalled noises at how cute boy and dog were.
Secondly, I am trying to aim for a more serious, thoughtful review of Smile, now that there are subs for it, out by this weekend, and why I have problems with the premise, and why I think it's both a step forwards and backwards, and can it avoid the heavy handed AT social commentary/pandering/exploiting trap? Or as kitsune714 said succinctly last night, "WHY DOES JAPAN HATE THE BROWN MAN?" and also, "Matsujun couldn't pass for HALF OF ANYTHING."
Please bite your tongue on the obvious rejoinder on that comment.
Thirdly, for fans of the Littlest Hobo, pori-chan.com has episode summaries/previews translated as the official website goes live every week, so if you want to know what's going to happen next (mild spoilers/plot outline), just visit there while waiting for GiriGiri/TimeLess fansubs.
Fourth, there is no fourth, only Black Adder Goes Forth.
(also, Maya Miki's husband is SMOKIN' HOT. As if you needed further proof that she is queen of EVERYTHING.)
Now, I am off to make a summer fruit trifle.
ETA: fifth, I may or may not have spent ten minutes in Sanseido Books this afternoon looking at pictures of Kanata Hongo and his TEENY TINY DOG NAMED L'AMIE and making incoherent, appalled noises at how cute boy and dog were.