Death Note blunt analysis

Death Note is good. Saying it's the "best anime I've ever seen" doesn't really mean shit. Maybe if it was "I've been watching anime for years, and out of the hundreds of seasons I've followed, I found Death Note to be one of the best I've ever seen" it would be okay.

If it didn't have such a bullshit ending, I might actually call it one of the best shows I've seen, anime or otherwise. Honestly, the exact replica was bullshit. Also, the ending made no sense. He didn't trust kira #4 to take out kira #3 when she was kidnapped, why would he trust him to take out his enemies then?

The moment he learned of another person with a death note he contemplated killing them. Giving out his secret to people willy nilly dilutes his character. He was trapped, unable to do anything. "Too bad I got someone else to do my dirty work" is no good. He was able to track down the company kira by analysing patterns. L was able to see he was a student by looking at the times of death. Letting someone else do this has HUGE consequences.

My thoughts on Vocaloid

Vocaloid is definitely an acquired taste, and I personally enjoy covers over the original songs. Regardless, they help in allowing new composers/producers to create full songs with vocals, even if they have no singing abilities themselves. From there, the songs can take on human vocals, with the many amateur singers there are on nicovideo. If you like a song but dislike the vocaloid singing it, there's almost always an abundance of covers to look at.

Heck, I know several people who are perfectly competent in singing, yet have composed several songs using Miku for the sound of her voice rather than theirs. Luschka is a perfect example. She's covered several of Treow's songs among others, she was the lead vocalist in his album, Reversus, and she's even released her own album, Birth and Foster.
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm11419786
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm11280964
Regardless, she has actually recently started composing songs using Miku rather than her own voice.
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm12623948
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm13125524

Though I can't think of a way to fully explain this myself, I believe it's simply because it's an enjoyable community to be in. Many of the big producers on nicovideo know each other very well, and the community as a whole is incredibly tight-knit. People can experiment with vocaloids, tuning them in different ways to see what sorts of sounds they can make, and they have the experience of watching as the vocaloids themselves begin to grow better and better, approaching the level that human vocals are at. But anyway, that's just my two cents.

I still play Yu Gi Oh, normal?

So I was at the local trading card game store, playing yugioh with my TCG friends ( they are like 10-12 years old) but it doesn't matter because we are just playing a card game when one of those stupid "normals" happened to tell me that Yugioh was a kids game, HA! I began to "aspie rage" as they call it when I explained to them that, yu-gi-oh isn't a kids game anymore, a lot of the cards from the more recent series have a lot of writing and complex conditions for effects to be carried out, do you think a kid is going to understand "Activate only during the Battle Phase. Select 1 Equip Card equipped to a face-up Attack Position monster you control, and select 1 face-up Attack Position monster your opponent controls. Equip that monster with the selected Equip Card. Then, conduct battle between your previously equipped monster and the selected monster (other effects cannot be activated during this battle)."??!!!??!! And that's not even a joke, that's the instruction on a real trap card, on ONE FRICKIN CARD!! seriously WTF did they make cards like this, even i get confused when they load 5000 instructions onto one card!!!

Haruhi analysis

Haruhi should be deeper.There's some pretty good character development there, it's certainly pretty human. I don't hate her because she's a teenager and most of them are confused, frustrated, self-centered, and believe the world lives and dies by random daily events. Most people struggle to find something that makes them feel like their life is special, valuable, or meaningful, and that they have some degree of importance to the world. I was like this, most people are like this, many don't really find that feeling. So I don't blame her for being obnoxious, just because she has a lot of growing up to do. She has numerous moments of sweetness and consideration that make you realize it's not all bad, and that she's got potential to grow. Your picture is a good example of that :3
How can you blame her for being a bitch? For her entire existence everything that she has wanted has happened in one way or another. She has no experience with conflict. Therefore, whenever something doesn't go her way she bitches and moans until it does, because that's the way the universe works.

Haruhi is much like us in that she has far too much imagination to function correctly, and the world is nothing but disappointment. Unlike us, Haruhi decides "Fuck that, I'm finding an adventure." and attempts to do so, using all force and resources at her disposal. She gathers up the most interesting people she can find and she DOES things. Haruhi is a bitch, but she is also what many of us can aspire to be. And even more so, she is the person many we could only hope to meet, someone who would drag them around, towards interesting things, without any effort required on our part. I think the character appeals to passive otakus as it takes the initiative, even if its forcefull it takes kyon (in which the viewer identifies) into a world of adventures, all far from the dull life the character and probably the viewer fells they are set into. In the end it apeals to what i think is the most recurring theme in anime for teenagers, a strange girl enters the life of a teenage boy and changes his life of dullness into thrill.On the inside, Haruhi is like any other girl of her age, with her own worries and fears. But instead of letting them get to her, she manages to firmly believe in a better tomorrow.
Fun and happiness won't come to your basement hideout to drag you outside and make you live your life. Haruhi knows that, so she does her best to make everyday fun with her own strenght.

Christmas the depressed and aspergers way

My mom cut off my internet and weekly allowance, because shes tired of my Hikikomori and NEET lifestyle. Its not my fault I cant get a job because I have crippling social anxiety, and if you don't believe me  tell that to the disability check I get, and I dont know maybe my clinically diagnosed aspergers? I hate christmas luckily I spent this Christmas with my waifu~ I sometimes think about how hard it is not having friends outside of the duelist league and at the local manga cafe, but then I remember that all people just stab you in the back any chance you get.
So merry Christmas Bloggers I hope you are having a better time then I am.

Reading between the Touhou's

I can't completely blame people for doing this since Touhou is unique in the fact that character development isn't concentrated in any one place. You have to read EVERYTHING to get a good feel for the characters, and that is a rather tall order considering that some of it isn't even translated yet. But most people just push this way past the limit of common sense. The "Reimu is a bitch" thing is by far the worst offender though, considering she's actually probably one of the nicer (if occasionally temperamental, but hey who isn't?) people we've been shown. Marisa is also a lot more even headed than fans give her credit for, especially in the print works.

Hell, there are so many things in the endings that people just plain don't know because they never beat the games. I remember getting the Reimu and Marisa endings in EoSD and being like "Wait, wtf? Sakuya just lets Marisa in and tries to hide her from Remilia?! Why the hell do they make Sakuya out to be murderous bitch to Marisa then? God dammit, this is WAY more interesting than that bullshit they told me". After that I never listened to a god damned thing fans have ever said and decided to form my own opinions.

I sometimes think that we should put together a good introduction to the series and descriptive character profiles based ENTIRELY on canon (instead of conjecture), just to help mitigate the deluge of people that are relatively new and flood the boards with misinformation and stupid questions. I would say we already have the wiki for that, but I think that might be a bit too much for some people to wrap their heads around. Maybe a "Top 100 things fans think about Touhou that are complete bullshit", along with proof.

Damn, I think I rambled on a bit there. Sorry 'bout that.

Role Models

Im gonna be honest for one second.
I grew up without a dad, and i realized by 10th grade that I "learned how to be a man" through tv mostly...and kuwabara is probably the biggest male role model i ever had. He taught me respect, honor, honesty, and hardwork. he was never the best at anything but he always found happiness through the above values. This is all coming from me blowing my whole disability check on yugioh cards because I got kind of sad that I didnt have anyone but my mom to buy presents for this Christmas. Now I dont really celebrate christmas as the christian holiday but it really makes me think about Kuwabara and watching him defend the world from evil on YuYuHakusho

what do you guys think? i just want thoughts...