Category Archives: Miscellaneous

everything that does not belong in editorials or anime

Idiosyncrasies and Eccentricities in Viewing and Reading Habits

By ghostlightning | Published: September 23, 2010

Some people have certain rituals or manipulate their environment to create the best experience watching anime. I’m not talking about this at all. I use the same computer for work, play, reading manga, watching anime, and writing blog posts. So the only thing that’s probably peculiar is how interruptable I am. By this I mean [...]

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Anime and ALCOHOL: Drinks to Go With the Shows We Watch

By ghostlightning | Published: September 10, 2010

The writers in this post are all of drinking age in their respective countries. Recently I watched a show that was so horrible I needed the assistance of both alcohol as well as dozens of twitter contacts and friends to get through the marathon. I immediately realized that there’s something awesome here. Anime can be [...]

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Great Teacher Onizuka episodes 02 and 03 – The Teacher of Twenty (Plus) Faces

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: September 9, 2010

After moving on from his student teaching and missing the national standardized exam, Ryuuji manages to find Eikichi a private school that doesn’t use the national qualifying exams in their consideration of applicants. Things are looking up after he recovers from his despair induced night of boozing the day before, and he even has a [...]

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Mission Accomplished, Achievement Unlocked, I am Still Alive…

By Crusader | Published: September 6, 2010

Me and My buddies went Zeke hunting, twas a good mission and many Zekes lost their lives and limbs and most deliciously of all their pathetic HOPE for salvation. Tenshi’s blade might be for Aiur but I have returned and it has been a rough adjustment trying to get back into civilian life again kind of like [...]

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Great Teacher Onizuka episode 01 – Schooled

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: September 1, 2010

With most students going back to school lately, it’s a fitting coincidence that today I begin retroblogging Great Teacher Onizuka. Back in the last round of voting it tied with Kare Kano, and due to the popularity and enthusiasm displayed for both I promised to blog each in turn. GTO just happened to lose the [...]

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Kare Kano episode 26 – RAGEFINISH

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: August 26, 2010

I have watched the entirety of Macross 7. I have watched the entirety of To Aru Majutsu no Index. I have watched the entirety of Blue Gender. And through all of these trials I have never just quit an episode midstream. At 6 minutes and 38 seconds into this final episode of Kare Kano I [...]

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My Life in Anime & Manga

By ghostlightning | Published: August 26, 2010

Let’s get serious for a moment, totally dead serious. Sure anime and manga is just a hobby for some of us, but for me it’s a life-long love affair. I’m 33 years old and though that’s still quite young (don’t mess with me here), I’ve gone through quite a bit (career, marriage, child). I’ve started [...]

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Kare Kano episodes 24 and 25 – Plot, Budget Cutting…Then Suddenly, Yuri

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: August 19, 2010

Aside from some more budget conserving recap segments, this week’s pair of episodes started off like any other ones. The characters are preparing for the upcoming festival and we confront some internal thoughts among them, this time primarily with Yukino at the start. Things continue onwards like any other enjoyable episode of Kare Kano. Then…something. [...]

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The Nobility of Realism in Legend of the Galactic Heroes

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: August 17, 2010

(Essay two of three on Legend of the Galactic Heroes. As they will cover the entirety of the series, there will be spoilers.) In the grand scope of its politics and conflicts, Legend of the Galactic Heroes definitely seems to favor one school of international relations theory for explaining how the universe works. Realism, one [...]

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Kare Kano episodes 22 and 23 – Back to Normal?

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: August 11, 2010

The ’14 Days’ arc continues the run up to the Cultural Festival and the characters’ preparations for it. Despite the drama of the previous episodes and a bout of Arima angst this time, things mostly seem to be coming back to Earth as far as the characters having fairly normal lives. The play is coming [...]

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