We Amuse Myself

I was actually debating whether I wanted to bother posting this since I got on a role doing my Polish work earlier (which involved me going through my books and basically compiling information they should have had already compiled for the student reader). But since I promised it, I figured I'd finish it.

The golden question: Why was I watching Gone Baby Gone on Netflix yesterday?
The golden answer: Anime!

Okay, I see I'm going to have to connect the dots since that question-answer combination probably doesn't make much sense. It alllll started about 8 years ago... Fine, fine, won't go that far back. But in high school I used to watch my fair share of anime and read my fair share of manga. Problem was, the manga belong to my friends and the anime I watched on my TV, none of which I brought to college with me (So many friends at UMBC; why didn't they come here?!)

I've been out of the loop, so to speak, for a little while. Then, Mr. and Mrs. Alice took me to a certain comic book store and MADE ME buy a certain delightfully childlike comicbook by the name of The Amulet (Alright, I bought it out of my own free will). Which led (possibly... maybe not, but they happened around the same time) to talks of going to Otakon.

Haha, me go to Otakon? No, that was something I did in high school. Now I'm moving into the real world... going to be an adult soon... can't be running around... doing crazy things... enjoying the last bit of my childhood before I grow too old... Ha. That would be... *disappointment sigh*...

And of course buying The Amulet led to buy the previous discussed Flight, and I thought that might be the end of it. Just buy a Japanese culture-inspired comic book here and there, not an issue.

And then on Friday a certain Ms. Chelsea of a certain Japanese apartment visited me and showed me multiple theme songs from various popular animes via YouTube. And thanks to her showing me a website that had all the old Toonami videos, I started reminicing about the shows I used to watch ...Gundam Wing & G Gundam (my sister made me watch it...and I liked it weirdly a lot) ... Cowboy Bebop...Sailor Moon...DB(Z)... Yu Yu Hakusho... Case Closed (yeah, yeah I know it's Detective Conan auf japanisch) ... Tenchi Muyo!...Man I'm just enjoying typing their names down... Outlaw Star... Oh yeah, Ruroni Kenshin (my friend was OBSESSED with that show)... Inuyasha...FLCL...Lupin the 3rd...(Okay, now I'm just looking up the old Toonami/ Adult Swim lines ups, but I still remember watching them) Good times... good times...Samurai Champloo and Wolf's Rain were the last series I watched and I didn't finish them... I stopped watching them around 2005.

Ooo! Ooo! G-Force! I used to watch that show all the time when I was in elementary school! It's called Gatchaman in Japanese! Go watch it NOW! That was my first anime, not counting My Neighbor Totoro, and I loved it! Loved it! Way better than Voltron. (Pssh, Voltron). It's one of those shows I almost don't want to watch again out of fear that it might not live up to my childhood memories. I remember watching it with my grandma and she was curious about the masked woman with the lipstick... it was a man. See picture below.

Anyway, so I remembered all the happiness I had watching my little anime shows. And Ms. Chelsea and I talked about Otakon as well, and apparently I'm going.

So Friday night I wanted to watch TV, and with anime fresh on the brain I wanted to see if any of my old shows were on Netflix. They are not, at least not to watch immediately. But it recommended I watch these two shows, one of which was Air TV. Don't know if any of my three lovely readers in a certain Japanese apartment have seen that show but it looked okay for a late night watch. It's apparently based on a video game, and from the look of the show I'd assume it was a dating simulation game (... not that I've played those... I haven't, but I figure they probably look a certian way). And I was enjoying it, it was alright, predictable but still enjoyable. And then I met Potato. OHMYGODSOCUTE! You all need to watch this show if you haven't already, just for Potato. I will post a picture.

SOOO CUUUTE! And when he barks he goes 'Piko!' Sooo cute. Need I say more? I have to say, Ein used to be my favorite TV dog (Sorry Scooby, just not German enough)... I think Ein has been overthrown.
So I was still watching the series yesterday morning (as in, I continued it yesterday morning, not I stayed up all night to watch it and it continued into the morning). But at a certain point I got anime-overload and needed to be brought back to reality. So I looked at what movie it was recommending, and I saw Gone Baby Gone. They had been recommending I watch that for a while, and since I liked the TV show they told me to watch, I figured I might as well watch this movie. And sure enough I thoroughly enjoyed it. But then I had to go back to my happy little child world because it's a tough little movie.

And now I'm watching the British version of The Office. Which is WAY raunchier then our American counterpart. The things they get away with on the BBC.