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Animal Crossing: OCD
Because of Sabrina and Miss A, I started playing Animal Crossing: Wild World again. I finally got my town into perfect condition and should get the golden watering can in another eleven days. My insect collection is also nearly complete now, though I have to wait till July to catch most of the rest that I need.
I stuck my friend code up in my intro again. If anyone has the game and wifi, you're welcome to visit. Unless you mess up my perfect environment; then I'll have to kill you.
Also, here's a list of stuff I'm looking for. If you have any of it or can order it from your catalog, I'd love to buy it from you or trade if I have something you're looking for.
Exotic theme
Exotic Bed
Exotic Bench
Exotic Lamp
Japanese set
White Katana
Ninja Sword
Bonsai set
Plum Bonsai
Quince Bonsai
House Plant set
Pothos
Lady Palm
Rubber Tree
Snake Plant
Welcome Kitty set
Lefty Lucky Cat
Lucky Black Cat
Saharah carpets/wallpaper
Tatami Floor
Shoji Screen
Gyroids
Timpanoid
Tall Timpanoid
Metatoid
Edit: Thanks for the stuff, Miss A.
Every Computer Geek's Dream
Anyone remember the freeleech period BoxTorrents (now BakaBT) had back in December last year? Yeah, I still have anime I got during that stockpiled. But I've been working through them and ticked another off the list just now. (Only four more two-season series to go, whoo~) Over the past two days I watched Hand Maid May.
My immediate impression of the series was a cross between Chobits and El Hazard. Basically, it's a harem anime with cute android girls of mysterious origin and some drama revolving around the usual dilemmas presented by human/android relationships in anime. Plus it's got a hilariously incompetent rival character who reminds me entirely too much of Jinnai Katsuhiko. (Which is kind of awesome.) And it's got a lot of fan service. All that's missing are the giant insects.
Did I mention the loli (though not tsundere) android happens to be voiced by Kugimiya Rie? I had no idea she was in it until her character showed up and I recognized the voice. This isn't the first time this has happened, either; Hayate no Gotoku!, which I recently finished, is another example. It's like some invisible force draws me to her loli roles.
Anyway, it was a fun little series and easy to speed through since it's only ten episodes plus one special. Nothing special or spectacular, and very predictable, but still amusing.
Since the series was from 2000, watching it also reminded me just how spoiled I've become by H.264 encoded anime. The version I got was a DVD rip, so decent quality source... but encoded in DivX 5. After the OP there was a full-screen fade from white to black that was literally painful to watch. One time I didn't realize I was leaning forward in my chair, and thus really close to the screen, and I forgot to look away during that bit. I believe I muttered, "Oh my God, it hurts," after being assaulted by the eye cancer at point blank.
Spring 2009 Fansub Comparisons
My thoughts and comparisons of groups subbing the shows I'm watching this season. I figured it would be easier to stick all of this together in one post rather than inserting bits here and there into the week in anime posts. The tag listed next to...MAL has a nice interface. When it works.
MAL's option to flag a series as "rewatching" is broken. Whenever I click the little + button to update the number of episodes I've watched, it adds entries in my history for the entire rest of the series as well as that episode.
It's even more broken in combination with the recent anime dynamic images. The faulty entries show up in there but then don't get removed when I delete them from my history until I update my list with a new episode. Well, I found a way to fix that, at least. If you set the signature image type to Custom - Recent Anime Updates and then choose Split rows by individual ep/chapters (this option disappears when the type isn't set to a custom one but it still affects the other types), then switch the type back to Recent Anime Updates you can then force it to update the image by clicking the Update Signature button.
The site's easy to use and I really like all the little AJAX features, it just seems that some features are completely half-assed.
Des's Week in Not Writing a Post
I decided to stop doing the week in anime screen shots posts when I realized that in the time it took to write them and link all the screens I could instead watch another three, four, maybe even more episodes per week. I still kept track of the episodes I watched and the number came out to be about the same. Except that I spent a lot more time than usual that week playing video games instead of watching anime. (Hello there, FFIV The After Years.) So, yeah, not really worth it.
In their place, though, I set up a MyAnimeList account and stuck in my intro its little dynamic image log of what I've watched recently. It also links to my MAL history page if you're interested in seeing farther back.
I also still upload plenty of screen shots to my ImageShack account. If you're really interested, you can just look through them there. Most of what you see in the MAL log will have at least a couple screens uploaded.
Finally, if I can get around to it, I might start making posts whenever I begin a new series. Incidentally, I happen to have started a new series recently.
I picked up Fushigiboshi no Futago Hime (or The Twin Princesses of the Mysterious Star if you want an English translation) completely on a whim. It's a magical girl anime produced by Hal Film Maker and directed by Sato Junichi, the same combo as Aria. It's also got Goto Yuko and Kojima Megumi (you might know her from the third Cardcaptor Sakura ED, Fruits Candy) voicing the twin princesses. And yes, it's deliciously cute and sparkly.
It doesn't look as good as Shugo Chara! from the couple episodes I've watched so far but I can still use some more magical girl anime in my line-up. And hey, it's got twins. Even if it is totally overused, it's cute every time both of them say the same thing in unison. Though that makes it all the more funny when they completely differ from each other at times.
There's two four-season series of it, totaling 103 episodes, and the only group that seems to be active in subbing it only has ep28 out as of now. Once I catch up it'll be another little series to watch an episode of every once in a while whenever the group happens to release, like I'm doing with the [Sakura] releases of Cardcaptor Sakura. That's one of the nice things about magical girl anime, they're perfect for watching one episode at a time.
