My Intellect Comes in Random Numbers
Posted by TP in Anime, Miscellaneous, What I'm WatchinHmm, incoherent musings, as MrMayat would say.
I was looking up on Anime Nano one day, and chanced upon tj_han’s article. He wrote a very long piece of non-pictorial article about sustainability, and I took the chance to reply in kind. For the first time, though, I wrote something that’s very long and somewhat intellectual on a blog that’s largely anime-based. Funny how my brain works.
With thanks to shia of The Bonkurasu Brigade, an event to complement the STCC: A Certain Magical Event (A.C.M.E.), hosted by KKnM in conjunction with their annual CharaFest. I’m very interested to see how the local doujin artists fare (as seen here) so I might be heading down to take a look. Also, I’ve not spend a single dime on anime goods since… Mein Gott! I don’t even know when was the last time, either!
I took the chance to watch Canaan for its three episodes. My conclusion is: either the ditz-who-shares-a-similar-name-with-a-porn-actress will turn a Holy Jesus Christ on the show (i.e. she dies and saves everyone) or Canaan becomes a Ryougi Shiki ex Machina. I dunno, the show gave me that Eden of the East vibe — in reverse: instead of Maki, we get Mino. Instead of obscure Western films, I get diatribes about “the philosophy of photography.” It also has a bit of sexual deviancy (in EoTE, you got that Johnny-mutilator; here, you have a girl that shoots at Cummings with her airsoft gun, and he likes it).
It’s a good show, mind you. It keeps you on the suspense. It doesn’t bore me like the rest of the anime summer season line-ups (only because I’ve yet to complete my backlog), there’s plenty of Nasu niceness. It’s a bit of a stretch whether this is a transcedental anime show – if only because I dig girls with guns (yet I find myself cringing at Gunslinger Girls) – because Canaan is the pit-stop for me, a resting place for me to venture out into the city called “2009 Anime Summer Season.”
Lol, fanarts are the best when they take liberal takes on things.
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1. Thank you for writing down your thoughts on tj_han’s post. Very in tune with mine, (except for the stanford bit) just that I hate writing long posts.
2. I haven’t bought any local anime goods either. Just the odd OST and manga every now and then.
3. “Philosophy of photography” eh? Might get to watching Canaan once I finish with FLAG, any month now…
I like Gunslinger Girls in its manga form, since the second anime season kinda ruined it. TP doesn’t endorse loli labour?
Haha… It’s something I get used to. My intellect sometimes comes up at the most inopportune of times; luckily yesterday came up at the right time.
1. The Stanford International Bank bit was because I was watching a special documentary on the said bank by CNBC. I got “enlightened” by it, and put into perspective the way the entire economic system was modelled. I think it’s time to return to Islamic banking.
2. Well, too much time spent on camera gear. Apart from that, I got no idea how to finish off this uncompleted Blood+ DVD collection I have.
3. Not really “philosophy of photography,” btw. It was an excuse by the ditz-who-shared-her-name-with-a-porn-actress to basically scour for more trouble. There are a couple of tropes that I can define, but I hated going through TV-Tropes, out of fear of not making myself out of the website for quite a long time.
I was never of mind to like Gunslinger Girls. The whole idea of unfeeling loli-killers will shudder even the bravest of pedobears.
for those interested Canaan uses a Beretta Px4 storm which holds 17 rounds. loved the scene where she changed the magazine in ep 1 and the stripping scene in ep2.