Birthday • 1983-06-17 Gender •
Male Location • St. Louis Member Since • 2003-08-03 Occupation • Real Name • Christopher (or Chris for short)
Personal
Achievements • running this blog for 4 1/2 years and finally being able to conclude it Anime Fan Since • I watched the original Transformers... I had no idea it was anime at the time... Favorite Anime • Dragon Ball, Bleach, Inuyasha, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gintama, Eyeshield 21, Kinnikuman, Death Note, One Piece Goals • to make my happy ending come true by defeating El Diablo, the albino squirrel overlord Hobbies • video games, drawing (yet I have no fan art submitted...), watching anime, etc. Talents • I can change my voice into 10-15 others, maybe more...
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Friday, February 22, 2008
LS vs. Scampires Today's Wisdom
You can rarely see TV news anchors' legs and feet. The same goes for Muppets. TV news anchors are Muppets.
Comment Response (02/15/2008)
My one-shot "Doo Note" comedy fanfic received excellent feedback! Thanks to everyone who read it! Admittedly, coming up wih a comedy idea for a series as serious as Death Note was not easy. I'm glad that I was able to pull it off with spoiling the story for those following it on Adult Swim.
The part where L hissed at Scooby and Shaggy was the most popular part.
Yes, Shaggy's first name is Norville. I didn't know that either until I did research for the names I'd need for Light's note.
My favorite sport to watch is football. My favorite sport to play is professional sleeping. That's not a sport, is it? Oh well.
I follow the Inuyasha manga as it is released in Japan and in the United States. It's clear that the series is near the end... but Takahashi seems to be taking her sweet time getting there.
Mr. Panda is mad because they had the Daytona 500 without him.
When I started off 2008, I made a large change to make things easier for myself and to reflect the overall drop of average comments/visits I receive when compared to this time last year. I reduced my blogging frequency rate from five days a week down to three. Now I find it hard to stick with the three days a week. No, this isn't one of those "I'm leaving myOtaku" posts that some of my really good friends unfortunately had to make recently. What I'm saying is that my posting will now go from "three days a week" to "whenever I feel like it". For a lazy person like myself, having a set schedule for something really sucks. I'd love to tell The Boss: "Hey, I'm no longer working from Monday to Friday. I'm now working whenever I feel like it." I'm sure THAT would go over well.
Now you'll never know when I'll pop up! It'll be a surprise, like when you open the Cracker Jack box for your prize that's worth close to $0.0000003 in value.
So what have I been up to? I've been following news of the upcoming live-action Dragonball movie. There's also a live-action Akira, Battle Angel Alita, and of course Speed Racer in the works too... it appears that I was right about Hollywood flocking to anime franchises after Transformers' giant box office success. Reading more about the movie made me want to go out and buy DB merchandise. That's one thing some "true" anime fans "forget" to do: actually pay money to support the series that they love. I'm not referring to the people who can't afford anything... that's another argument. I mean the people who earn money, watch anime for free online and then REFUSE to pay a dime towards the series that they're mooching, even though they CAN. Because they're essentially ripping off the creators like bloodsucking predators in the night, I'll call them "scampires".
I can imagine those people meeting the creators at a convention or something.
Scampire: Hey Randommangaka-san, I love your work! I download it for free all the time without giving a single penny to you! And merchandise? Fuhgeddaboudit! I'm such a big, supportive fan, aren't I?
Manga-ka: That you are! Thank you for not helping me with putting food on the table for my family! I love working hard day-and-night and not receiving anything in return!
Scampire: Wow! Really?
Manga-ka: Of course not. Get the hell out of the face. Security!
They remind me of those kids at my childhood comic book store that would read everything for free. They'd even pull the rare comics from their plastic bags to peek inside and not once did they buy something cheap like a stick of gum. The exception is that the scampires don't have a burly Greek shopkeeper telling them to scram while wielding a weapon known as "The Doom Broom".
In addition to inflating my DB-Dorkitude and ranting about scampires, I've been keeping in touch with my family and-- *sees that American Idol is on as I type this* What the--? Wow. It must be nice to produce the exact same show every season and still have millions of people watch it. Whoever thought that up is really a genius. Anyway, my family is doing fine, asides from my father acting up with some of the nurses at the home. I have a feeling that they'll kick him out if he keeps it up. Maybe that's what he wants to do. After being in there for so many months, I'd want to go home too, especially after tasting the food. It tastes like someone sprinkled each dish with cigarette ashes like a normal person would with salt or pepper.
As you can see, there's no fanfic today. Such was my plan for this week for a long time. Next week, I should have Everybody Hates Naruto running again. Oh yeah, it's Friday... the Anime Video of the Week... this week, I'm continuing with the "Month of Sports" and I present the opening for the soccer anime, Whistle! I haven't seen a single bit of the series outside of the video below, so I won't bother reviewing it. I like being honest like that. In my school days, I could never stand in front of the class and say "I haven't read a single page in this book, so I won't do a book report." No, I had to lie and make up some b.s., somehow coming up with Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist being a story about a new dance started by Tommy Oliver, the Green Power Ranger.
Rin: M'lord! We couldn't find a TV-sized version of the Whistle! opening!
