Downtime

Due to getting a large amount of Japanese text I highly desire to wade through in the mail, I shall not be updating often for a while.

I have already become somewhat engrossed in them. And I have 4 days off work in a row right now. I do find it interesting that Arisawa writes いぬかみ as 犬神. He also uses the kanji for tabacco, which is really weird.

I have no idea when I’ll have serious blogging time again. I’ll like make small posts every once in a while. I also plan on doing some nifty work with the Pages feature of WordPress. Well, I’d consider it nifty.

Best Top Ten List Ever

Top Ten Ways to Destroy the Earth.  And the best part is that this is a serious list.  These guys put together a list of actual ways people could go about destroying the Earth.

None of them is really feasible, though.   That is a good thing.

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Over the weekend I was pondering who my favorite anime-style artists were.  I decided that my favorites were Carnelian and Himura Kiseki, and those two are closely followed by Limit Break and Takeuchi Takashi.

And, the weirdest part is that none of them do anime or manga.  Limit Break and Himura are both fanartists/doujinshi authors, and Carnelian and Takeuchi both primarily do artwork for video games.  Carnelian also happens to share my birthdate.

When thinking about Carnelian, thoughts of miko tend to follow, and following miko tends to come Hanyuu, and thinking of that leads to thinking about あぅあぅあぅあぅあぅあぅ which leads to thinking about how exactly does one romanize that?

*sigh*

Since I don’t want to deal with trolls incapable of reading consistancy errors or incapable of reading vital words before getting angry, items have been put in hold.

Yay!

Meme-licious

So I got two meme’s to do. One from mine sisters and one from mine mother.

High Art, Low Art, and Inukami

This is due to a trail of thoughts about Inukami while at work one day axiously awaiting my return home to watch 2 brand new episodes.

There is discussion of non-anime topics, but they mostly fall under anime and related stuff, so it may not interest some readers much. The talk about various classification of art occurs at the beginning. Also, originally this was part of the previous post, but they were of such disparate natures I had to break ‘em up.

And I finally found shop that carried Japanese light novels that was not amazon.co.jp with its absurdly high shipping and handling costs. Found it”Wednesday morning.” Granted there was a 2 dollar mark up from the list price, but amazon.co.jp has a 3 dollar per book handling fee and then you add absurd shipping costs on top of that price. List price is ~¥550–for a QP!–and yesasia.com has the books for ~$7.50. Amazon.co.jp charges a handling fee of ¥300 per book on top of the absurd shipping to US. Book prices in the US are absurd. A QP of similar quality construction would cost around twice that, and Japan has practically zero natural resources.