I heard you like manga, so I’ll put a manga in your manga, so you can read while you read.
Archive for March, 2009
I finally got down to writing about Radwimps’ 5th album which I’ve been looping ever since it came out on the March 11. I’m not much of a music critic, but due to my inability to suppress my fandom for the band, I shall have a couple of comments to go along with each track.
Let’s start off with the album’s title, 「アルトコロニーの定理」, a coined phrase by Noda. あるところに (Arutokoroni) is a fairytale-like phrase, which translates to “In a certain place”. Besides that, アルト (Alto) describes the range he managed to be able to sing in this album, and コロニー (Colony) gives the feel of not being alone. 定理 means theorem. Noda loves math, and hoped for this album to be able to serve as an answer to some of life’s mysteries, just like how other theorems would serve as an answer to a problem.
Now, for the music.
Once again, I volunteered as a host for yet another exchange program. It’s already my third time participating as a host, and quite probably the last as well, since I’ll soon be a year 3 student who won’t have any time to spare during the school holidays. I hope not…
This group arrived from Kumamoto, small but more balanced as compared to the previous all-male group from Hiroshima. Due to work, I only managed to meet the Japanese students a few days after their arrival.
I’m currently on internship and I think I found the best thing ever in my workplace. An uber wallscroll of Rei, in the office of a company that deals with stuff related to IT.
Come to think of it, the place where I work at is somewhat similar to Nerv, minus the EVAs, hawt female co-workers and Angels.
Neither do I get why the Evangelion spinoff, Neon Genesis Evangelion: Gakuen Datenroku, is published in a Shoujo manga magazine.
I’ve been reading the manga ever since the first volume was released nearly a year ago, and have even bought the 2 currently released volumes of the series. Still, it was only until today, while I was reading the latest chapter on my iPhone and getting squashed by the mass of bodies on the train home, when it came to my knowledge that it’s categorized under Shoujo and published in Monthly Asuka. I guess this speaks quite a bit about my ignorance.
