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So there's this thing called the squee factor

I must first explain the squee factor so that my rant (or so it will probably turn into) will be understood. With me, when I watch anime mostly, there is this thing called the squee factor. I see anything about the anime and I just squee (either on the inside or actually do it, usually just on the inside.) This is such with FMA: B, as I recognized the other day. It's almost to episode 20 and I'm still in squee mode. When the OP started I was super squeeing, during the entire epic episode I was squeeing. Even during the Mustang parts I was squeeing, despite not being a huge fan of him. Squee mode is even engaged during the ED, although not so much (I love the animation, but the song is a bit iffeh.)

Then there are the anime that should engage squee mode. One such is season of of Haruhi (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about.) Now the first season I really enjoyed. It was random and nothing really made sense until the end because of how the chronological order was off. Squee mode indeed activated when I watched it. When I heard that a new season would be coming out I was quite happy, because it definitely needs more than just fourteen episodes. However, as of right now I, like pretty much all other Haruhi fans probably, and sick of it. There is no squee factor whatsoever. There is only my soul slowly dying inside me. The first episode was good, but then they started it. The Endless Eight arc. Out of seven (or eight? I can't tell the difference) episodes so far, only one of them hasn't been the Endless Eight arc. We get it, there's no need to see the SOS Brigade do the same exact things (although not exactly the same) over and over again. The arc could have been ended in three episodes tops. But this is the sixth (or seventh?) time that they've gone through! It's annoying, there really was no point in any new season if this is all that's going on. When the season ends I highly doubt I'll be able to give it a rating anything higher than a six, and that'll be merciful if I even give it that high. It seems the only day I have to look forward to is Sundays with new FMA:B episodes, because with the new Haruhi episodes all I can do is hope that the arc will finally come to an end that episode (yet it never does.)

After finishing watching the most current atrocious episode, I went onto Youtube to listen to some music, because someone has (or I should say had) all the songs from the K-ON! mini album. But apparently today almost everyone with the music was forced to take it off. So then I was feeling kind of more angry, but I managed to find someone who didn't have it off yet. Even better, they have download links for the songs so I can put them on my iPod. I managed to find Light and Fluffy Time yesterday, which I was happy about, and was hoping to find the other songs as well. Since I'm afraid that the music (thus the links) will be taken off between now and when I get on tomorrow morning (it's happened before with anime, and it's annoying) I'm staying up right now and downloading it. I managed to get My Love is a Stapler done so far, and Brush and Ballpoint Pen is almost done. Naturally I'm downloading the live versions because I prefer Mio's voice over Yui's.

It's actually been a good week for anime music. One of my "friends" (I use parenthesis because he annoyed the hell out of my in high school and I verbally abuse him all the time on Facebook) had God Knows and sent it to me. That was probably what made me the happiest. And now I found all the K-ON! music! And I might be even happier soon, because a certain place where I get iPod compatible versions of anime will possibly be getting Clannad if they can find it. I already have all of the K-ON! episodes, and there's a few more I might want to try. Best of all they're subbed.

An interesting thing I found out today. Apparently using a Biore strip on your nose and taking a shower at the same time does not work well. The strip doesn't harden like it's supposed to, but rather remained soft and starts to slowly burn. And when you peel it off because of the burning sensation it leaves a lot of stuff on there, so you have to fervently wash your nose with water. Even then it still stings a bit. I had to learn that the hard way. Oh, and the strip ends up not doing anything. Just in case anyone ever wanted to try it, don't.

One more thing! Today I spent most of the day with my mom unpacking all my college stuff out of the boxes we brought it home in and sorted it by certain categories and packed in in some storage totes. I feel like that might have been in vain, because I got my account summary from the college for fall semester. The number is so big...and the money I got...isn't nearly big enough to cover it. Here's hoping I get more money, soon.

Posted on Jul 31 2009 by Amber + 1 Comments

And now there's 17

My family needs to do something soon, or some people need to be kind souls and adopt a kitten. Somehow Sakura, the mother of the first batch of kittens we found outside got pregnant (read my parents let her out a couple times because she wanted to despite me telling them otherwise and she got knocked up) and she just had her kittens yesterday. She had five. It didn't look like she was big enough for five kittens, but there are five healthy little kittens. One of them is even a tortoiseshell, like Tortellini. It's weird, for the longest time I never saw a tortoiseshell around the house, and now two kittens appear. These five kittens bring the count of cats in the house to fifteen, and we're trying to get rid of ten of them. Right now they are under the bed. She had them under te bed, but we moved them into the large kennel we borrowed from my aunt and kept them there for the night. But when my parents opened the kennel this morning she slowly began to take the kittens back under the bed. So for now they're staying there, but when they start to move around we're going to have to move them elsewhere, because my dad will probably step on one when he gets up in the morning. My parents can't care for seventeen cats, especially the kittens, and especially way my dad is. We have our grown cats that we have to buy the good food for, since they are ours and deserve good stuff. Then there's the kittens. It wouldn't be that bad except my father insists that we feed them wet food, when they don't need it. It's cheap stuff, but it gets pricey. He's stupid and feeds them like six cans a day, when they don't need it. All the kittens eat dry food, which is much cheaper and they eat throughout the day either way. Plus with the wet food the poo smells horrible and is diarrhea like, I don't actually think they've ever had normal poo. They can't afford to keep all of them, but we can't take them to the Human Society because they have so many cats there that any that are taken in right now are automatically euthanized.

There is less than a month until school starts, and I'm still 7k short of what I need. I don't even have enough for tuition. I'm really starting to freak out, because I need to go back. There's always the option of community college, but I'm pretty sure if I did I might end up quitting, because I hate community college. It's way too much like high school, and I do better of socially and emotionally if I'm away from my family.

Darn, forgot what else I wanted to write. Uh...I'm having height issues. The other night I felt ridiculously tall, but then tonight I was watching that new show on Fox that is similar to The Bachelor but with larger women, and a lot of them were tall, like 5'10" and 5'11". There was even one that was 6'2". Then I started to feel bad again because I'm short and hate being short. If only I could hit 5'10" I'd be happy enough. I partially blame it on genetics and partially on myself. If only I had actually drank milk when I was younger, because I swear my small growth this past year was due to the fact I had milk with cereal almost everyday for breakfast.

Posted on Jul 29 2009 by Amber + 4 Comments

A depressing anime day

As the title says, a depressing anime day. Episode 16 of FMA: B came out today, and expecting another long wait, or at least until late tonight, I decided to start up Clannad~After Story~ since I found it again. It was pretty much like Clannad at first, but then it started getting depressing. I knew Nagisa was going to die, a few episodes before it even happened. I half figured because if she has a weak body and is going to have a baby, and then also half figured it's probably because it's made by the same people who did Air, and in that Misuzu, one of the main characters that was fated to die in the end, ended up dying. I haven't gotten too far past that, I'm only on episode 18, but Tomoya is now pissing me off. I was pretty much neutral on him through pretty much all the series, but now he just pisses me off, pretty much abandoning his kid and having Nagisa's parents raise her, and when is forced to spend time with her he acts cold. I don't know if he's going to get any better, but it probably won't change my opinion of him. Although I must say, the anime as a whole is very strong, I like it.

Then I decided I needed to take a break from the depressing stuff, so I decided to watch the new episode of FMA:B since it's already out subbed. And at first it didn't seem like it would be that bad, but then Ed, Al and Winry found out about Hughes' death, and that kind of sent the episode spiraling downward into a pretty somber state.

I think I need to watch some more humorous anime to get myself out of this semi-funk I'm currently in. Maybe I'll watch an episode of Ichigo 100%, or if I don't feel like ecchi an episode of OHSHC. EDIT: I ended up watching an episode of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, which always perks me up, and an episode of Tenjou Tenge just for the heck of it.

I need to be more productive tomorrow, because I really did nothing but sit in my room and watch anime today. For sure tomorrow I'll go over to the house and play with the kittens, and if I can get my brother to agree I'll get him to spar with me and work out a bit on the bag.

Posted on Jul 19 2009 by Amber + 1 Comments

Good thing I typed these up before

So the blog seems to have been down every time I wanted to post something, and instead of writing some other stuff down, I'll just use this to post a few thoughts (opinion and rants) about a few things.

First off, episode 15 of FMA:B came out this Sunday (although any subs didn't come out until Tuesday, and they weren't the best.) I watched the raws, and the following is based on the raw, meaning I understood very little of it:

Overall, episode 15 of FMA: B was good. I shall start with the new opening. I'm pretty sure I prefered "Again" over "Hologram", although like the first OP the animation is amazing, completely beautiful with the colors and everything. And with all the little battles (some to happen, some not) that they have during it, it was made even more awesome. I like the ED better than the first one, although I don't know if it goes with FMA, since subs aren't out yet. But again, the animation is amazing. The first one wasn't meant to be so vibrant, it was the young Ed and Al drawing, but it was cute. I just loved the pure colors of this one. I loved seeing Xing characters in action, and now I finally know that it is Lan Fan, not Ran Fan as some people translated. One issue I had with her characters, the only really, was that she just didn't look bad-ass enough. She was awesome, just like in the manga, but she didn't look the part, especially when out of mask. Look at an image of her in the manga and then in the anime and you'll see. I thought their voices fit them fairly well, the only one I would have any objection to would be Ling, although I started to get used to it as I watched more. And then Mei (although in the little intermission slide things they do they spelled it differently) was cute, she looked a bit younger than she does in the manga, but she looks more her age. I just didn't like the way they introduced her, in the abandoned place with Yoki as Scar returns from his battle with the one alchemist whose name at the moment escapes me. I guess they didn't show any of Youswell this series, so it would be weird to introduce her helping the boy there. Of course because of that Scar was the one who gave her an imaginative false impression of what Ed looked like. I like the regular more than the dream one. I assume they assume that everyone who is watching this series read the manga, because if not that battle at the very beginning might have seemed odd, since there was no introduction or words exchanged, just fighting. That is the Xing deal. I loved the Hawkeye-66 ordeal. Hayate looked way fierce, and I thought it was hilarious, as I did in the manga as well, just how many guns Hawkeye carries around with her, even off duty. This is just what I got from the raw, I have no clue what was actually being said, although I have a small idea because of the manga. But so far, I say overall it was great, although it was just a few appearances that got to me.

I eventually watched the fansubs, after a couple days later than normal. Since the good fansubs didin't actually come out until yesterday evening I just decided to watch the FUNimation ones.

Naturally I had to go see HBP first day it was out. Went to get tickets the day before and everything. Despite the fact it was on a Wednesday I was expecting people would be there and it would be packed, and plus I like being the first there so we arrived a bit less than two hours early for the movie, and were just barely the first people in the theater. Most people didn't actually start showing up until an hour or so before it was supposed to start. So this is just a rant I had to get out about it. It's actually a lot less rawr than it could have been, because I did it a several hours after I got home. I wouldn't recommend reading it if you haven't seen the movie, although it doesn't really give much away:

Went to see HBP...ugh. It was bad. There were so many inaccuracies, and I'm now pretty sure that they're not even going to bother mentioning the Fleur-Bill relationship/wedding, because yet again they didn't mention it. I won't bother getting into the details, because there's too much I couldn't stand about it. Character inaccuracies were bothering me a lot, and the fact that there was certain magic performed in certain places it shouldn't have been able to. I'm sorry, but just because you're the headmaster doesn't mean that you can magically be the only one who can apparate within Hogwarts.They completely left out the last chapter!! How do you leave out the last chapter? I mean, they pretty much completely butchered Dumbledore being murdered, but they didn't even have his funeral!! Oh, and the entire movie I kept thinking 'he looks more like Gandalf than Dumbledore', and he did. I at one point tried to watch the movie as if it was just a movie, but I couldn't do it. It was bad. I think it was the fact they focused WAY too much on the Ron-Lavender relationship, and made it way too obvious to everyone that Hermione was totally into Ron and Harry was totally into Ginny. And what's with them not breaking up? That's kind of important, they're not together for most of Deathly Hallows for a good reason, but at the end of the movie Hermione tells Harry that Ron is okay with him and Ginny, even though he never actually saw them together, because the one kiss they had was when they were by themselves in the Room of Requirement, which didn't happen in the book again. All I can say is yet again Evanna Lynch did not dissapoint me as her Luna was quite good as in OotP. Helena Bonham Carter did Bellatrix pretty well I guess too. I...how I want to get into it more, but I will resist. All I will say is this: how could they cut out 10 chapters? There was a lot of stuff that wasn't in the book that they put in the movie, parts that they didn't need that could have been replaced by parts that were actually in the book. I mean, what the hell was with that ending? Everyone lighting their wands near Dumbledore's dead body? Oh, and for another matter, what was with the underage magic? Harry and Ginny at the Burrow used magic which is a big no no. And speaking of the Burrow, what's with nobody knowing that he was coming? And what was with the waitress, and Harry liking to ride the trains? He was supposed to stay put! And then running around Diagon Alley like that by themselves, without the invisibility cloak. Okay, I ended up ranting more, probably shouldn't have, but I think I'm done now. I don't want to be, but I will be. The urge will be fought. Oh, but....gah, alright, I need to get one, or two, more things out. At the beginning where Ron was saying how his parents almost didn't let him go back to Hogwarts, what was with that?! His family is supposed to be the pureblood traitors, they trust Dumbledore and know Hogwarts is probably safer than anywhere else. Of course they'd go back. And Bellatrix parading through the school during their very calm escape (since there was no fight) and destroying everything, what was with that? And Draco never actually showed a Dark Mark in the book, it wasn't even confirmed he had one. Oh, and what about...well I guess it wasn't overly important, but they didn't have anything about the fact that Fudge was no longer Minister of Magic and Scrimegeour was the new one, he wasn't mentioned or seen once.

I have to say though, I laughed when one of the inferi grabbed Harry's wrist. I knew it was going to happen, and it was funny when my brother jumped. I mean, it didn't really happen like that in the book, but think about it- it's a movie, you know something is going to to come out of the water unexpectedly, pretty obvious after that. I don't think anyone even knew what they were, because they never bothered introducing the concept of inferi.

And that is that. I'm actually going to finish watching the episode of ATLA I'm currently watching then going to start the J.K. Rowling special that was on ABC I DVRed.

Posted on Jul 16 2009 by Amber + 1 Comments

I'd say today was overall pretty good

So yeah, I'd classify today as a good day. It didn't start off so well, but got better. First we went out to lunch as Jason's Deli, which was yummy. Then we went to Bed Bath & Beyond, and found the storage shelves I want for over my bed at school. My mom says we'll go back sometime to get them, since she has a twenty percent off coupon. Then we went to the mall, and my parents bought my brother a new bat at Sports Chalet, and then we went to the anime store there. Yet again they had no FMA shirts, except one that I really like but it was a small. I ended up just getting a Haruhi key chain. There was a Tony Tony Chopper plushie from One Piece I also liked, but it was kind of expensive, same with the One Piece and Death Note pillows. But then we ended up going to another store that has a bit of anime/manga stuff in it, and I ended up finding a Gunslinger Girl wall scroll. Naturally I have like no wall room in my bedroom, so it's now hanging draped over my closet, since I can't get in it anyway. It has Henrietta, Triela and Rico on it.

When we went to Target I had a close call nearly running into my AP Gov teacher from high school. After I heard how mean he was to a student he liked I wasn't going to chance him seeing me. And then I had dinner, BBQ chicken over pasta, and then my parents took me (since my brother went to someone's house to play basketball) to get ice cream at Culver's. And tomorrow, since my brother shall be at my grandma's house for a UFC top 100 party, we shall either be going to IKEA and spending the day there, or just go to Sweet Tomatoes for lunch and do something else. It is past midnight, so I must try to get another chapter done in HBP before I go to bed, and try to get in at least one episode of ATLA Avatar Extras, I'm partially into "The Blue Spirit" right now.

Oh yeah, chapter 97 of FMA came out today. I read it so quickly, but it took a weird turn. I wasn't expecting Bradley to show up out of nowhere, and I have a feeling that it's going to be a few more chapters until we see the Father-Hohopapa battle, since at least chapter 98 will probably be Greed!Ling and Bradley/Wrath.

Posted on Jul 11 2009 by Amber + 1 Comments

This is truly random

I was on ANN checking something and they had something about iTunes now having NANA to purchase. Naturally it would be the dub. I didn't even know there was a dub until about a week ago, and I watched a 30 second clip of it. Eww. I normally don't mind FUNimation dubs, but this one I didn't like. I'm especially impartial about Nana Osaki's voice. Whoever did it did not do her justice, but I suppose you can't compete with Romi Paku.

On another note, I was watching Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who, or the end of it really, because I was waiting for something good to come on, and again I had a thought about it. The mother kangaroo in it just screams lesbian. I don't know why, but I always think that when I watch it. Watch it and you'll see what I mean.

I have nothing else to say, except naps are nice. Sometimes. Like today.

Posted on Jul 09 2009 by Amber + 1 Comments

You've got to be friggin kidding me!

I'm kind of like really but not overly pissed off right now. I'm still pissed off though. So the grades for summer classes were up today, I got an A in english and a B in calculus. I was happy with those grades. Well, I just checked the GRO policy for the university. First off, to GRO is general I had to have filed the form by June 3rd. Second, you can't GRO from other schools, so the fact that I got a B in the same exact calculus class, more stuff being thrown on me in way less time yet just because it wasn't taken there I don't get a chance to raise it. That's crap. The A is going to help me, but right now my GPA is only a 2.4, and I don't think the 3 credits are going to help me get it all the way to a 3.0 so I can keep my scholarship. Now, if I could add the 3 A credits and then replace the 3 E credits, which I didn't actually get any credit for, with B, then I'd probably be good. I guess the best thing I can do is try to take the class during the regular school year and GRO it then, and since I learned so much over the summer and understood it I might be able to do better. Even a C would be better.

Sad. I have nothing else to talk about! Well, HBP is coming out in about a week, and since my mother got the day off like I've been telling her for a few months, she, my brother, my uncle's girlfriend (or his fiance? I'm not sure if they're engaged or not) and myself shall be going to see it, and getting there a minimum of two hours early to wait in line to succeed in being first. I'm close to page 200 in the book right now, since I have to reread it so I can point out how crappy the movie is. And then next summer I can point out how crappy the Avatar movie will be.

At the moment I haven't started any new anime. I finished K-On!, and am watching FMA:B and S2 of Haruhi as they come out but that's about it. I need to get moving on manga. New FMA chapter will be out this weekend, hopefully. But I haven't gotten any farther on Death Note or Vampire Knight. Or Nana, but I'm waiting for someone to update it, hasn't been updated in a couple months.

I need to put picture of my baby up! She's so adorable, she's grown so much, she got really long and her ears are overly huge. Plus I got her her first collar! It's yellow, which my family didn't think would go with orange fur but turns out I was right and it does, and has little rhinestones on it. Perfect for the princess she is, little Princess Peach. Meanwhile we still have all the other kittens, haven't been able to find homes for them. I feel really bad for Izzy. She's become so social lately, she even sits by me without having to hold her there, and she loves to play. Still, nobody wants her. Foofoocuddlypoops, known as Allie by everyone else in the family, is pretty calm as well. She loves sleeping in the dog bowl though, all the younger kittens do. They actually have to take turns sleeping in them. Except Pablo, he still hides most of the time, but he's so funny looking. Yuuki and Emelia hide most of the time as well. Tortellini is a little butt head. She's my mom's little baby, although she's pretty social. She looks funny though. Instead of having huge ears like Peach, her ears are really far apart, and they go flat whenever she moves them because of how they're positioned. Her fur has gotten a lot longer as well, she's going to be a beautiful cat when she grows up. Except she'll always look goofy with her droopy eyes. None of them are as cute as Peach though. It's adorable and scary that she knows I'm her owner now. The other day I had chicken for dinner and when she found out I had to scarf it down. I gave her a bit, and Rosco some too since I can't deprive my big boy, and she played with it for a bit then scarfed it down. She then proceeded to find anyway she could to get to the plate and try to steal the chicken from me. Very annoying. But today when I went over there she walked up to the chair I was sitting in and sat there waiting for me to pick her up. It's especially cute because she looks scrawny, since the collar is still a bit big for her.

Since I'm hanging out with a friend tomorrow, the first person I've seen from high school in over a year, I should probably go to bed. I didn't think I'd ever see anyone from that place ever again. Except the fact I want to stay in contact with this person, because she's awesome.

Posted on Jul 07 2009 by Amber + 2 Comments

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