Anime, Otakism and the Rantings of Japanese Popular Culture
That’s what’s happening to me now. Ever since school began 7 weeks ago, I’ve been living in my own world revolving around mainly 2D stuff. The mention of the word school brings about the sudden thought of cute high school girls in seifuku flashing into my mind, not that anyone in my school wears anything remotely resembling a seifuku. And what’s studying? Is it some Kaworu-level yaoi activity that transforms GAR men into Shinji-like characters?
I know I really shouldn’t be posting about what’s going on in my daily life, but I really need a channel to release some steam, or I’ll be cracking from within soon.
Lately, almost everything’s giving out on me. It all started with my Creative Zen, followed by my shoes which are about to split apart pretty soon. That’s not all. Today, my laptop decided to tsun me but not booting up after countless tries during the first lesson of the day. Panic struck as all my progress so far for an assignment due next week was stored within it, and I had foolishly not backed up anything on an external storage device as I was still working on it.
This is an accurate depiction of my emotional gush at that point of time
Once the lesson ended, I immediately took a 30 minute train ride all the way to the Sony service centre in town when the next lesson was to begin in an hour’s time. The best part has yet to come.
There’s nothing named First Summer of Love, only the Summer of Love and the Second Summer of love, but what the heck, it’s the first even if it doesn’t have First in its name, since it definitely isn’t the third.
Anyway, for those curious as to why I chose this as the title, it’s First because this will be the first year I’m documenting my room for future archive usage, ever since I plunged into the never-ending spiral of anime merchandise purchasing, Summer because it’s so darn hot here in freaking Singapore, and Love because moe… Whatever. Anime references with numbers in them sure aren’t easy to find. And what’s up with this cheesiness?!
Disclaimer : The author is no music buff, but only some geek who can reference to anime that references to the real Summer of Love.
As usual, I shall begin with the typical shot from the door. Click on the pictures for a larger image.
Bah, I’m too lazy to pack my bed
The bags are all packed, and we’re soon ready to go. This will be my last post in Japan, Tokyo.
The first and third bags are going to be checked in.
Here are some of the goodies that my homestay student brought over from Japan.
I’m feeling rather down now, because of the homestay program. It just ended yesterday. I’m really bothered that I didn’t play the role of a host that well.
I don’t really have much time to blog for these few days, and almost all the time I can spare now is pretty much to upload the following picture.
Something I will never experience, which is why I enjoy watching it. Not in 2D form, but in 3D form. For me, anything about high school in anime is good. Sports, slice-of-life, comedy and the list goes on. Anything, except romance. Which is why I don’t watch stuff like Clannad and many others of the similar genre. Yes, I am a fool who misses out on how great Key’s work is, and it doesn’t bother me. Not even the slightest bit.
Sorry, but I’m not interested
I have learnt quite a lot in the past few days.
1. You can’t send emails to docomo mobile email addresses in this format “abc…abc…@docomo.co.jp” unless you have received an email from that address. Only then can you reply to it.
Photo says it all
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