Dark One

The same Dev that decided a contact should give no missions in their own zone, but rather put the doors completely across town?

Just finished Welcome to the NHK. It's an emotionally draining series. Quite good, but man, I need to decompress after watching it. It's the story of a hikikomori (closest Western equivalent would probably be a shut-in) who is also a NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). It's pretty much a rollercoaster dealing with some pretty heavy issues like suicide and I would say, mental illness. I can't see myself watching the series again (probably), but it was worth watching at least once. I can find myself identifying with the protagonist on a few levels.

Interesting side note...the first five volumes in the series were put out by ADV, but the sixth is by Funimation. You might get some odd looks if you're buying the series in a brick and mortar store, since the covers of the volumes feature women in very fanservicey clothing that has absolutely nothing to do with the plot. The covers are not even representative of what the various volumes deal with.

I have to wonder what the trigger is going to be that causes the signed copies to skyrocket in value.

I predict Troy on the news and the story involves a rubber chicken, jumper cables, and clown makeup.

But that's just a wild hypothesis...








It could be fake robot makeup.

I hate to say this, but...

While Sarah is an undeniably attractive woman and I would maim someone to have a similar looking woman in the belly dancer outfit...she doesn't really have the hips for it, IMO.

Love the deer-in-the-headlights look that Chuck and Sarah got when the fam was going nutso on the wedding. Also loved Casey's response to Morgan.

This may call for a review of my Man Card, but...the shoes the Fercs were wearing. Come on. They're soldiers but they're wearing 4-inch heeled combat boots? Those can't be comfortable! Same goes for Sarah going into infiltration wearing heels.

Also, belly dancers are the hawt. We need more of them. Plus, Sarah's semi-4th wall breaking comment.

Ah shazbot. Thanks though. I wish they'd do a quick little update that would have it collapsed by default. I wonder whose section that such a request to do so would fall under?

Keep the Memorized Recipe list from automatically expanding? Meaning that every time I open my Recipe list, it always expands the list of memorized recipes, which means that I have to manually collapse it see the recipes that I've collected.

It's annoying and a right PITA.

Ya, I've done it several times. Mostly when I didn't get around to reading the previously bought issues, then buying the same issue the next week.

Those final two episodes were deeply disturbing. Overall, every person that was a target for Ai, save one, deserved what they got. There was one episode that made me absolutely loathe the target and didn't sit right with me for the rest of the night...the Pinky episode.

I did find it interesting that most of the revengers were women rather than men.

Wizard was the people that did Anime Insider too, right?

The shuttering of that magazine really honked me off. About 3 months before it shuttered, I got a renewel notice and subbed for a 2 year subscription. It took a couple of months for me to realize I wasn't receiving my issues. The only reason I was able to get my sub money back was because I went to the forum for that mag (shuttered about a week after I posted about in it) and found the information to request a refund. Took a couple months and repeated emails before someone actually helped me.

There was no notification whatsoever that the mag was closing down. No indication in the last issue that it WAS the last issue ever, to the best of my recollection.

Just finished the first season of Hell Girl. It was beautifully animated throughout, especially Ai's kimono when she was sending people to hell. Interesting twist in the sixth disc. It starts out very reminiscent of Requiem For The Darkness, IMO, but develops a deeper story by about the third disc. Really like Ai's Japanese VA, especially when she says her "Care to give death a try?" line.

Ya, it's pretty much a Where's Waldo game with the CoV box. It typically shows up at least once an episode when they're in the Buy More.

Someone needs to 'shop black-haired Sarah into a Baroness outfit. Chop chop!

Jeffster Jeffster Jeffster...what are we going to do with you two idiots?

Show of hands...who didn't see that twist coming?

Wait, that's out already? Because it's not showing up on Amazon.