It’s the uncomfortable period between anime seasons. Spring series are starting to grow stale but the summer shows are still dots on the horizon. Everyone’s gearing up for some anime convention, I think, but I’m bored out of my mind in the Bay Area. In the meantime, here are some random nonsense undeserving of their own posts, but together, they form one mighty–
I’m only about five or six hours into the game, but it has been fun overall. My Japanese is terrible so there won’t be any spoilers here. I’m barely following the story as it is.
Insomnia sucks and no pressing anime to blog about so you get a few K-ON! parodies and an assortment of other videos.
This post might not fit so neatly in with the rest of this blog, but I couldn’t resist. The creativity I find on Nico Nico Douga can surprise me at times, like those remixes of anime to resemble some silly Kirby song or Super Mario World being turned into a 16-bit composer of anime tunes. The video below, however, probably has my favorite gimmick: these guys came up with a game within Super Mario 64 where you attempt to collect 8 red coins while being chased by a 1-up mushroom. Considering that the mushroom is somewhat faster than Mario’s running speed and can phase through matter, it’s not as easy as one might think… anyway, this is my favorite clip of their six part series, but if you don’t have an account at Nico Nico Douga, someone was nice enough to upload them onto Youtube, which I’ve embedded below. Things are always being lost in translation, but I think these clips show that there are times when human beings understand each other regardless of culture and language.
