nickchanger's blog - Category: "Television"

I am still a noob when it comes to watching anime and reading manga, but I am getting there. According to AniDB I have 82 animes, but several of these are second seasons or OVA's and others are films. So a more correct unit would be episodes of which I have seen over 700. That is the same as 12 days and 20 hours! I currently have six series and one film waiting to be seen. According to MyAnimeList.net I have read 10 mangas or a total of 662 chapters which they estimate to have taken almost four days!

I should really get another hobby?

Anyway, I have compiled a small list of some of the stuff I have learned about the world from watching anime and reading manga. It must all be true, right?

• Girls gives you a nosebleed, one way or the other.
• All girls are embarrassed by their bust size, no matter the size.
• You cannot die from an epic fight - you just get really really tired.
• At least one of your female friends is a ghost.
• The first kiss is extremely important - so is the first touch.
• Kawaii!
• Eating food prepared by someone bad at cooking can often be fatal.
• Girls and women have much bigger eyes than boys and men.
• Parents are rarely ever home.
• All girls wear skirts and they are always to short.
• For some reason girls with cat-ears and a tail are really cute.
• There is a rabbit on the moon
• Tears are huge.
• Hair can sweat.
• If a girl gets sick, and it is not a cold, she is either pregnant or terminally ill.
• If you have a childhood friend you will eventually start dating her.
• All boys are being accused of being perverted no matter what they do.
• The Japanese word for panties is "pantsu"...
• "Saving" a girl from something even slightly dangerous will make her fall in love with you - even if you are a girl.
• Small children are often really smart while teenagers are stupid as hell.
• If you are afraid of getting robed, assaulted or raped on your way home it will happen!
• Magic exists but you need a card or some other device to use it.
• All guys who does not realize it, or look for it, have at least two girls who are in love with them.

wait... that cannot be right?

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... that really is not the question. You cry when you cry and that is it. If you feel like crying go for it for crying out loud! ... no pun intended - ok maybe a little.

I am not sure about when the last time I really cried were, but I believe it were quite a while ago. More precisely at the funeral of my grandmother (on my mothers side) around 12 years ago. Think it was the culmination of seeing several people around me suddenly in tears that tipped it over for me. Since then I have felt it to be close several times but never really done it. Most memorable is the funeral of my other grandmother (on my fathers side). It was a very moving event, with one of my cousins singing and all, but I was almost ten years older and apparently more prepared.

I have never cried from watching a film. One cause might be that I have not really seen that many really really sad films, so there have probably never been a reason to do so. Even though I have not seen that many I have seen some and although I have noticed a reaction, it has never been big enough to really bring forth the tears. Lately I have seen several anime series with quite sad and moving story lines and the latest have been the most brutal so far, Clannad After Story. It is the second season of the Clannad story. The first season were the first of this kind of theme I have seen and it were a bit supricing to me as it is marked as a "seinen" anime, which means it is targeted at men. The reason for this however is probably that Clannad were originally what is known as a visual novel - a computer game with lots of talk and often several cute manga/anime girls. The whole series is basically about one boy, a senior at high school, who gets to know several girls who all have a tragic problem of some kind which he helps them with. In the second season this style continues for the first episodes but it soon shifts to more or less only focus on this boys life as he struggles with several tragic events happening to and around him. Another anime I have seen which have the same kind of theme is Kanon (2006 edition). It is created by the same team who is behind Clannad, and is basically the same. Were also originally a visual novel. The main difference here however is that this time the boy have met all the girls before (when they were 7-10 years younger) but he have forgotten about it. While he starts remembering stuff some tragic events from the past are unfolded and at the same time happening in the present.

All series are actually quite good, but not exactly my kind of theme so even though I considered seeing Air, a third anime series created by the same team (and again originally a visual novel), I am not sure I really feel like it at the moment. I probably need a lot of comedy for a while :P . As mentioned Clannad After Story have been the most brutal I have seen so far, but it is only because of its length and thereby the amount of tragic events. There is no doubt in my mind that the absolute most emotional and sad film I have ever seen is still Grave of the Fireflies, yet another anime. It is weird to believe that it is by the same company who is behind My Neighbor Totoro! :o

One good thing about all this is that seeing these have proven to me that anime expands over so many different areas, from the very sad (mentioned above) over the more serious (e.g. Planetes to the mindless fun (e.g. Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu, Azumanga Daiou and School Rumble), and from the dark thriller (e.g. Death Note) over an ecchi magical world (e.g. Zero no Tsukaima) to some aimed at children and/or the whole family (e.g. Kiki's Delivery Service). So no reason not to watch anime! Btw, all animes mentioned are recommended :P .

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Holy crap its been a long time since my last entry :o . I had planned a couple of entries but I have been too busy to actually write them :( . So this is just an update basically to tell the world, like it cares, that I am still here :P .

So what have happened since my last "update". Not much actually. School have taken up a lot of my time since we are only two in my group this semester and we are still writing almost as much as we did on any other semester, where we were six people. We plan to finish next Friday so we can relax in the Christmas holidays. This year, I will be going home to my parents, what a shock, and stay there for Christmas and new years. As far as I know we will spend Christmas eve in my brothers apartment, we did the same four years ago in mine. Last year we abolished gift giving, but instead added the game known in Danish as "pakkespillet", translated to "the gift game" I guess. We play it with cards which means that in turns we pick a card that tells us what to do basically. Usually the game is played with a dice that when you get a 6, you can pick whatever gift you want. This game of course means that I have to bring several small gifts, as it was not hard enough already :/ .

The same day I wrote the last blog entry I also started played League of Legends. The DotA clone game that does it much better than both DotA and HoN. It is well structured, clean graphics, and kind of fun. Together with some guildmates from my World of Warcraft guild I have been playing several premades over the last few weeks. We were supposed to participate in a tournament last Wednesday but it was pushed because of patching and problems that followed. So now it will start on Monday instead.
I expect we have a chance to win the first match but will most likely loose the second. The reason is that we still have not really figured out a good strategy (champions, lanes, jungling, items, etc) that fits us well yet. I doubt any of our opponents are reading this but I still wont be telling more until after the tournament :P .

As my time was not limited enough already I have also started to re-watch Gilmore Girls. Stupid, stupid, stupid :/ . But I pretty much had to since I have already re-watched Family Guy, American Dad, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Coupling, Firefly and Futurama this fall. I have also started to regularly watch The Daily Show, great fun and a bit of news.

So... incoming cheesy effect: Merry Christmas ... and all that stuff.

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Today I watched the latest episode of The Big Bang Theory. During the opening sequence we fly from way out into the milky way and into our solar system pass our sun and ending at the earth. This time I got a déjà vu, and not just because I've seen the opening sequence many times before but because of some smaller visual stuff.

Here is a screenshot from the opening sequence of The Big Bang theory:


A few weeks ago I discovered a cool program called Celestia. With it you can fly around in space and look at planets, moons, stars and of course the sun. This can all be done at any time in history or the future. The textures on the planets are as close to "reality" as possible but the sun is basically just a big yellow ball with a few dark sunspots on it. This texture is used for all stars in Celestia so I doubt the sunspots are actually those of the sun but instead just random ones.

Here is a screenshot from Celestia of the Sun:


Did you notice anything? Here is a close-up of my déjà vu:


It might not be a secret to other people but at least now I know how they made parts of the opening sequence to The Big Bang Theory - or at least where they got inspiration.

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There are two major events I would like to write about this time. Next time the only event might be a major, yet invisible, update to the site.

Birthday Party

Last Saturday two of my friends, A and Jar, held a combined birthday party. They both turned 25 this year. To help them finance the party, and to make sure it really will be a party, they made an offer: pay 50 dkr, and drink all you want. That is damn cheap (at the discotheques one drink usually costs 50 dkr)! So of course we paid and of course we drank! Think this party is the most alcohol I've consumed during one event.

I went home, to my brothers apartment, at around 6 o'clock in the morning. As always I did not get a hangover - just damn tired after only around two hours of sleep.

We usually make some really nasty drinks when we play drinking games at parties and this time they even contained burger sauce, mustard and fried onions (is that the real English name? :o ). That was disgusting. To make the loser loose even more he/she had to take a bite from a raw onion - I took three bites and tasted onions for two days :/ .

You can probably see pictures from the event on Facebook - great fun! Happy cinnamon day guys.

Fall Line-up

All of the major networks have started their fall line-up. This means way to much for me to see! Several new seasons of old shows and one all new show.

• Monday
  • House M.D.
    Were very exited about this one. It started with a 90 minutes double episode - sweet! And it ruled!
  • How I Met Your Mother
    There is a good chance we will finally meet the mother!
  • The Big Bang Theory
    It ended with a cliffhanger :o - kind of burned in the premier though.
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
  • South Park [coming soon]
    Give them 13 seasons more!
• Thursday
  • 30 Rock [coming soon]
    Kind of surprised it wins all kinds of awards - it's good, but not that good.
  • The Mentalist
    More humorous crime and mystery.
• Friday
  • Dollhouse
    First season ended with a kind of weird 13th episode where the action took place many years in the future. Felicia Day from "The Guild" guest stared. The new season however continues in the "present". The new season should have a guest start appearance by Summer Glau.
• Saturday
• Sunday
  • American Dad
    The show have become better and better for each season.
  • Californication
    More SHOwtime!
  • Family Guy
    Not much to say ... hehehehe
  • The Cleveland Show
    The all new Seth MacFarlane show. It is a spin off from Family Guy and features Peter's black neighbour Cleveland Brown. With one episode it is ok, but not something thrilling. Hopefully that is just the introduction part.

At the same time I have started watching an old show called "Adventures of Brisco County Jr." It features Bruce Campbell, Sam from "Burn Notice", as Brisco County Jr. Apparently this is the role he likes the most.

During the summer I have finished watching "Burn Notice", "Weeds", "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" (that is Hugh Laurie) and "Robot Chicken"!

Looking forward to 2010 where hopefully "Burn Notice", "Weeds", "Robot Chicken", "The IT Crowd" and the rest will continue.

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