Erratica Reduex

This last weekend I finally got around to checking out the new anime for Spring 2014. And I realized that these days I seem to have less tolerance for fan service than ever before. Which is probably why for most of the current season I'm only getting through half an episode or less. 

Of course my ADHD doesn't help, and having Crunchyroll makes it so easy to not be tolerant of crap, the way we had to be back in the days of trading fifth generation copies of VCR tapes (insert standard "You kids have it so good!" rant).

( Anyway, part 1: )

Nicked from Seawasp.

ANIMATION MEME

- X what you saw
- O what you haven't finished/seen or saw sizable portions
- Bold what you loved
- Italicize what you disliked/hated
- Leave unchanged if neutral


( And here we go! )

Case in Point: Shadowjack Recaps Sailor Moon, Ep. 1-13
(From the snarky and fun "In which Shadowjack Watches Sailor Moon" thread on rpg.net

( Part 1: Our Heroine, Usagi )

( Recap Part 2: The Animal Companion, Luna )

( Recap Part 3: Ami, the smart girl )

( Recap Part 4: Rei, the hot priestess )

( Recap Part 5: Mamorou and Tuxedo Mask, hot guys who are nothing alike, really )

( Recap Part 6: Queen Beryl and Jaedite: Big Bad and Minion, respectively )

So on Saturday we finally managed to get the time to spend the $60.00 credit from Rasputins; the one that we got when I traded in a bunch of insipid New Age DVDs that I had been given at work.  It was nice to convert say, Kitaro into store credit that could be used to buy good stuff.  As a result we got Enchanted, and a bunch of DVDs of unpopular-yet-good anime shows like Hyperpolice, Scrapped Princess, and Master Keaton. 

All of which had a nasty side effect: staying up far too late on a Sunday night watching Scrapped Princess.  Admittedly it's a great show- the character designs, the back story, and the family dynamic between the characters are all nicely handled.  And the central mystery of the world is gradually revealed is paced very well.

But geeze, i am dead on my feet today.  I crave sleep like a junky craves heroin.  So no actual game or useful posts today.  I'm going to muddle my way through the next hour and a half, and then go home and collapse.

So this weekend at Ani-magic was my wife's first try at Cosplaying, which meant that after a week of panicked last-minute costume assembly, she got to pose in her Rosenmaiden outfit...outside. At a convention out in the desert. In the afternoon heat. My wife, who can't sweat, in a beautiful, victorian layered hoop-skirt outfit.

While taking pictures of the group, I looked up to see a vulture gliding overhead, only about fifty feet above. And then another. And then three more. And then four more, all in a line. Now that, I thought to myself, if it isn't a bad omen, nothing is, and gave up hope of contest awards. Instead I started worrying about whether my wife would even survive.

Naturally, her group won best of show.

I guess the vultures wern't so much omen-like, as simply window shopping. They were probably gliding long, going "Hmm...look at all those fans. Surely one or two of the herd are going to keel over, leaving us a nice feast..."

And yeah, I'm extremely proud. Make that EXTREEEEEEMLY proud!

It's going to be weird getting back to a normal schedule at our house. And she's mentioned that she's going to need the computer for the next three days. Hmm- maybe not so weird as ominous. I see omens of a lack of night-time computer use in my future.