Dear Santa, thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you but... honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know its not cause at night there's voices so... please please can you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman, or... Back in a moment. Thank you Santa.
Sunday, April 23
Little Witch Academia Episode 15
The series continues to be excellent, with the occasional episode (like last week) being merely very good. I have mixed feelings about the new opening theme song, but there's some lovely animation to go with it.
This episode runs into the curse of 1080p. The text of the newspaper Lotte is reading is just legible to the viewer. It's actually Kafka's Metamorphosis.
Funny little bit. In episode 15, when Diana looks up their new teacher
in the yearbook, the entry next to it is "Salem Saberhagen", which is
the Cat's name from Sabrina the Teenage Witch. (Also it appears to say
"Second Place in Transformation Tournament, Black Cat Award, Sabrina
Award")
Posted by: Mauser at Tuesday, April 25 2017 11:22 AM (5Ktpu)
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Okay, I certainly didn't pick up on that. My only knowledge of Sabrina is from Archie comics way back in the 70s.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, April 25 2017 04:51 PM (PiXy!)
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Well, I never knew he had a last name. And that's about the same timeframe from when I last saw a Sabrina comic. ISTR some story where Archie was asking her to hop up his Jalopy, and he said he wanted a Roll bar, and she pictured some stand with a guy serving rolls, and suggested a Milk Bar instead, equipping the car with a soda jerk at a stand making milkshakes (with what looked like a Martini shaker....) in place of the back seat.
Dunno why I remember that, I can't remember what I watched last week.
Posted by: Mauser at Saturday, April 29 2017 11:49 AM (5Ktpu)
I didn't know they were called Otamatones, so to find this again I googled for "toy saxophone with a face". It worked.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, April 16 2017 11:45 PM (PiXy!)
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It's Japanese, of course. I think the ones in both videos are the Deluxe models.
I first experienced the wonder of the otamatone about a year ago, which is when I first heard the story that they were created to be the most annoying musical instrument ever. After hearing that first video a year ago, I believed it.
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Wednesday, April 12
One That Looks Good, One That Looks Pretty
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Story Notes
My name is Zoe Fairchild, though everyone calls me Minx. I live in Tarrytown, on the border of the fairy lands and the human world. I'm the city's top female private investigator, which means most months I can make the rent, or eat, my choice.
My parents abandoned me here to look after myself when I was twelve. They had their reasons, and I've mostly stopped hating them for it. Before they walked out, each one left me with a gift.
My mother, the practical one, gave me an ebony-handled Colt 45 Special, saying only that a girl needed to know at least three ways to knock a man dead.
My other mother gave me the Nine Words of Unbinding.
That's where all the trouble began.
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Tuesday, April 11
Puddles' Pinball Prison
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Sunday, April 09
My Hero Academia Series 2
Another promising story killed by Shonen Jump disease. Bleah.
Posted by: Mauser at Monday, April 10 2017 04:06 AM (5Ktpu)
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When you run out of story, stick in a tournament.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, April 10 2017 11:26 AM (PiXy!)
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There's a name for that! God, Arena fighting with bystanders rules-lawyering every combatant's power-ups or explaining why the last-ditch, never before used, but utterly unbeatable special technique failed to defeat the hero is the single most intolerable thing in Anime to me.
Seriously, I hate it.
Posted by: Mauser at Wednesday, April 12 2017 10:54 AM (5Ktpu)
