Well I am going to be taking a break from anime this spring break, maybe I will watch a few episodes here and there at night but for the most part I will be playing World of Warcraft. Yes I am one of THOSE people who sits at home in a dark room staring at a screen paying money to play a game. Well guess what I have the money to do so, but also I have many friends who play. I have a few accounts around level 60 so I will be trying to get those to level 90 as soon as possible.
Most likely the next review will be of Black Bullet as that is the show I am currently watching. Overall the show has ups and downs and likes to stay in the "meh its good for a rainy day" bin for the most part. It is not amazing, it doesn't have amazing characters and for the most part is just meh. I enjoyed the first villain though he was killed off pretty quick, no long fight scene that keeps you on edge, no power struggle. Just booped the masked dudes nose and he died, its like one of those freak accidents in a wrestling match, you throw a play punch and suddenly the guy is dead because his nose fractured and pierced his brain when he fell. Now you have a law suit and will never be hired again in the same field because you have been labeled a horrible murderer and are too violent for the ring. So you live a life of depression and drinking as well as some drugs thrown in there until one day someone picks a fight with you and you end up bashing his skull in and cement yourself as a murderer. At which point the police come and take you to reiker prison and you become the leader of the prison gangs before you stage a riot and claim glory. See how much more interesting this is than the plot of Black Bullet? Watch it and you will see.
Heck at this rate I might as well go watch The Gemini Meteor arc of Darker Than Black, Hei is homeless dude and even though I have heard it was bade might be better than Black Bullet. By no means is Black Bullet bad it is just a meh fest with blood thrown in to be edgy and tons of badass loli characters. Guess what I love loli's in anime but that is not all there has to be for me to like it. The show needs to have a good atmosphere, story, and pacing. Black Bullet has a generic atmosphere and a very slightly original concept for the story which is handled in a meh way. And the Pacing is nonexistent, it is too fast for most scenes and you don't get to absorb what is really going on. I sit down for an episode and before I know it, its over and i'm sitting there looking at the screen going "that's it, really I would think it accomplish more with how fast paced it is". So let's just say that Black Bullet will be getting around a 6 if it doesn't step up to what it could be. It is possible that I was spoiled by amazing anime recently or my eyes have been opened by these anime. Maybe I have become pretentious though if that were the case I probably wouldn't even give the anime the score that I give them now.
So march has been a good month for this blog with many posts coming, usually multiple posts a week, so I am hoping for the same in April and I am hoping to be able to work through a lot of my backlog of over 200 anime. So i think sometime in April I will try a challenge where I have to watch as much anime as humanly possible during a week where I have school. This will be to make up for the failed stay up until monogatari is finished thing. I have a goal of over the course of the next few years training my body to be able to stay up for as long as I need it to, the reason I failed last time was due to stomach pain. When you are tired you need more and more food to be able to stay awake because you are using more energy just to function. Though I will watch shonen during this time as if you have seen the Bakemonogatari review it is not good to stay awake and then try to review. Your brain starts to not remember near as much because sleep is the time where you recall all the events of the previous day so if you have not slept then your body will start to forget more and more and you will eventually get to the point where you lose basic functions and begin hallucinating. I want to use a long running shonen like bleach or naruto because I have already watched both series all the way through. (naruto i'm on my 3rd watch through around episode 99, I use long running shounen to fill in gaps where I don't know what to watch). The reason why one piece isn't on there is because I am still watching it for the first time and i'm around episode 4. So for a challenge of endurance watching something that will keep your attention but not require a ton of thinking is required, as too much time thinking means that you will fall behind. This is what happened to me during the monogatari trials I got sidetracked a ton and ended up not watching bakemonogatari for the most part and was instead watching videos on youtube because I would think about a ton of things. If I am watching a show I have already seen I should be fine, I might even pull out some box sets though my TV is crap in that regard.
If I do this challenge I will be making a twitch account and streaming it with a webcam, I don't have one currently but I can buy one for this. I have a twitch account but I made a typo in the name so I will delete it and make a new one. I am tired right now which I find funny due to wanting to do a sleepless challenge, that is mainly because every night I end up staying up till midnight and then have to get up at around 6, that is 6 hours of sleep if I go to sleep right away though that rarely happens. It is also because I am in school and school is draining when not with friends, I am sitting here in ISS on a laptop which is not mine typing this, because I still haven't gotten my laptop back. It has 100 gigs of anime on it, but I have 120 on my home computer. I am going to need to buy an external hard drive soon though, I only have 300 gigs available on my terabyte hard drive and it is depressing. If I get one it will be a 3tb Seagate one, they make good external hard drives. Though I will also back everything up on discs, I have already done that to my torrented movies just in case. For the anime I am going to have to have an entire stack of DVDs, hopefully I can find DVD 9's which are 9 gig DVD's instead of the more common 5 gigabyte ones. If my pc had a blu ray encoder I could put it on two of those because they can hold 50 gigs. Oh the joys of being a pirate, though the anime isn't even a DVD rip, it is from the website kissanime.com they have a huge selection and are sponsored by a ton of people. From what I have been able to tell the site isn't illegal, though I have been downloading the videos for the sake of having access to the anime. The only series that I have put on discs is all but 2 episodes of Spice and Wolf. The reason for this is that I have to download it at 1080p which takes forever and the DVD encoding for one disc which holds 3-4 episodes takes around an hour. That is too long to have a series that I can watch on a big TV when I am content with having smaller 360p videos that I can watch on a laptop or my phone. Also the Spice and Wolf ending theme is stuck in my head now.
I can see that this post is getting very long but I am venting a bit, not to anyone in particular just venting frustration about life the universe and everything. I am also just stalling until school lets out for spring break. I have done all my work and I have a few Dance in the Vampire bund manga to read but I just want to be able to listen to music from my drive while I sit here typing this out. This is probably the closest to my thought document that I have gotten on this blog, though my thought document is similar to a diary and shouldn't be read by anyone. This is a post which I will be sending to the masses.
I will do some more research on streaming because I would like to be able to save the stream and be able to do highlights. A bit of an issue is ensuring that my fan won't interfere too much, if it does I will figure out something. I don't want to do this unless I think that I can get the best quality for those that watch it. So yeah I will get back to you guys once I am done with that and I decide how I will manage this, it is possible that I won't do this challenge until a few months later when I can get a better mic, if so it will be a blue snowball.
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