May 16, 2024
Ugh
Got a taste of why Wonderduck hated hospitals so much, having spent the last two nights in one.
Fortunately, a clean bill of health, except for my BP. Especially since the precipitating incident was a Transient Ischemic Attack (stroke). Transient enough that I was completely over it in a day. But everyone insisted I get checked out anyway.
The Everett Clinic (where I usually go) had shut down their imaging for the day, and they sent me to Providence/Swedish in North Everett. What I though would be a drop in turned into one overnight stay, and then a second.
But, CT scan, Echocardiogram, and MRI all came up clean, so bullet dodged. For now.
Now I'm so far behind on my anime....
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May 12, 2024
Tonari no Youkai-san Ep.06
This show continues to surprise, mainly due to the mixed-bag of plot threads in it. Some are healing, some are sad, and some are downright spooky.
There are some interesting little details, like the difference between the time the Manga is written and the show is made, which the producers decided to remain faithful to. For example, Buchio's new driver's license is shown, which says he was reborn and the license issued in 2017, and it expires in 2020.
The scary story at the end had a twist. Some of the boys in class are telling one of the school's ghost stories: That the taxidermied tanuki in the science room is actually a bakedanuki who was killed by someone who mistook it for a regular tanuki, and now it wanders the halls after hours looking for revenge on whoever killed it. Now, given how much supernatural stuff is real in this world, it seems kind of dumb to go looking for this kind of stuff, but they do. Forunately before they can get into too much trouble, they get interrupted in their quest by a couple of the girls, who quite sensibly suggest they ask Yusuke-kun about it.
If anyone would know, he would... because he's the science room's anatomic model, who has come to life. He tells them that it's just a regular tanuki, but warns them about kotodama, the spiritual energy in words, and how repeating rumors can make them true if they gather enough to form a spirit. He points to himself as an example of this.
As the kids walk home from school, they suddenly realize that one of their number is gone, a kid with a buzz cut that none of them remembers knowing. Who was he? Nobody even knows his name!
And back in the science room, Yusuke-kun notices a green light flow into the tanuki's eyes, and intones, "There's nothing as scary as a dangerous rumor."
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May 10, 2024
Substack
By the way, given what a hostile environment DeviantArt is for writing, I'm going to start putting a lot of my stuff up on Substack as well. Three guesses as to what I named it, and the first two don't count.
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Late late late....
So many shows are coming out late this season, it's really frustrating. Either that or the circle I chose can't seem to keep a schedule.
Loser Ranger skipped a week. Ember normally gets out Elf Wife on Thursday and it's still not out (Except by other groups, and I hate switching mid-season, totally screws up my filing system). Several other shows have had late entries.
I know, you shouldn't bitch about free, quasi-legal stuff, but supposedly these guys build a reputation this way.
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May 04, 2024
Tonari no Youkai-san ep.05
Okay, that was TOTALLY not was I was expecting from this show. Parallel universes.
The news on TV shows a shot from the International Space Station (and of course, there's a Youkai on the crew) and a discussion is had about the probe they're going to be sending into a wormhole they've discovered. Turns out there's a whole Time and Space ministry, and they also investigate terrestrial incidents as well. Of which there have been a few in town lately.
As an example, Railway workers are startled by an unscheduled train blowing through their work area. It turns out to be empty when it stops at the station, but a human worker finds a woman is on the platform, confused about how she got there. Then she's terrified when one of the Youkai workmen comes up to them, and she runs off down the track, followed by the driverless train.
But it's not a ghost story.
The Kitsune, Yuri, has a brief encounter with her doppelganger from the alternate world at her front door, and they both pass out. Taira and Buchio arrive to visit at just that instant, and the version of Yuri they find seems off, and she thinks that Buchio is a ventriloquist's trick. Or perhaps she's dreaming, but how odd, she thinks, that she'd be aware of that while dreaming. But being introduced to Jiro and his father, the Tengu, turns that into a nightmare. Fortunately the science team is on site as well (They were meeting with Jiro) and they have a gadget that will let them exchange the girls back.
The experience in the all-human world helps Yuri face a familial problem that was introduced in the first act.
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May 03, 2024
Re:Monster-05
They're So Close, almost, to having a plot. Five whole episodes of leveling, and finally, next episode, they go to war.
I expect, like everything else so far in this show, it will be a cakewalk.
I was expecting more babes, but they barely get any screen time.
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April 28, 2024
Ah, the Japanese and their Bureaucracy
Episode 4 of Tonari no Youkai-san. We finally meet the car-headed fellow from the opening credits. He's a tsukumogami, meaning a beloved object that acquires a soul. In this case, Wagen-kun was a VW Golf expy beloved by his owner for 40 years. But get this, he's showing up at the driving school because he needs a license to drive himself, and before that, since he was a German car, he had to acquire Japanese citizenship.
<facepalm>
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April 25, 2024
Akira's Butt
So I was a little surprised by the turn of the plot with the four girls on the train. I assumed with the bulge in the back of her skirt that Akira was starting her village's animal transformation a little early. I was not expecting secret mushrooms. I was not expecting them to work from that end either, but I guess if it was possible in The Puppet Masters, it's possible here.
I wonder if anyone connected that segment to the old Japanese horror movie, starring the lovely Kumi Mizuno, Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People.
This also answered the question of how they'd take up the surplus of stations, some of them were just not safe to stop at.
Now the LAST thing I expected was two of the girls subjected to lilliputian bondage to the rotor blades of a tiny Chinook. That can't be good for them - the rotors, I mean.
Forgot I need pictures the engage people apparently... *grin*
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April 21, 2024
Yokai are not exactly safe
I never made it through all 99 episodes of Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro, although I should at some point. But the main theme was that despite all of Kitaro's efforts, interactions between humans and the Yokai world are rarely very healthy for the humans.
And while the people in the village Jiro protects get along pretty well with their resident Yokai, there is plenty of danger from the transients. This is not quite the idyllic life sort of Anime one might have thought it was.
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April 18, 2024
That's a nice change of pace
Re:Monster Ep 3. Our hero gets laid, 7 times, and does not freak out about it.
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