My goodness this episode was hilarious. That voiceover! If they had created the three mascots’ characters just for this moment it would have been totally worth it. All the very adult things those three engaged in up to this point, the innocent smiles that we now realize are completely misleading, combined with those cheerful in innocent thoughts the AV actress put into their mouths made for a perfect combination. Continue reading Amagi Brilliant Park 07 — AV Actresses are the Best
In this episode we have a clear analogue to the current drone wars currently being fought by Noble Peace Laureate Obama. In real life I make robots, so this is a topic I’ve thought about a fair amount. Whenever I tell someone what I do, the first things people say are often 1) Will robots take my job? 2) Will robots bring about the singularity and bring humanity to destruction? 3) Something about Isaac Asimov, and 4) That sounds an awful lot like those killer drones. Continue reading Psycho Pass 2 06 — Killer Robot Chickens
Gundam Build Fighters — I watched this over the past couple weeks. Wow it is amazing. A shipper’s dream come true. Everyone gets a boyfriend or girlfriend to ship them with. Even the villains make a cute couple. It’s… perfect. Continue reading The Week in Anime Fall 2014 #2 — Gundam Shipping Wars
After Okinawa, we flew to Kagoshima. I didn’t really have any set plans there, so we just wandered around town.
Apparently Kagoshima is very proud of being the home of Saigo Takamori. Just wandering randomly around town, it seemed everything we ran into was related to Saigo Takamori.
Above is a monument for when his sword thrust through his mother’s vagina. Seriously, that’s the memorial for where he was born. We also saw the grave of his friends, the place he grew up in, the place where he died, his friend’s house… Continue reading Draggle’s Asian Journey Part V: Kagoshima
The newspaper club writes advice columns. Continue reading Jinsei Review — C