Ah, productivity. I feel you there. I've unfortunately had a lot less time for anime and other hobbies because work has been intense for a while.
Honestly, this year I've primarily focused on rewatching many of my favorite series. Most of the notable things I've watched this year have been said rewatches, and I've barely gotten to any of the highest priority anime I planned to watch for one reason or another (aside from seasonals). Between this year and last year, I've watched 16 of my current (yet ever-changing) top 20. That said, the best thing I've seen recently that's new to me (but by no means new in general lol) is Mawaru Penguindrum.
Yeah, I legit hated it, it was so hard to watch it weekly.
Yeah, I do think the Animation is a downgrade but the story is still fire. And episode 9 hit like a truck.
I'm in 8th grade but Online school's a bitch xD
No worries! It happens lol
Damn, I''ve been watching a bunch of Monogatari, but most of my time has been going into Umineko and of course school :( I've been watching, one weekly which is Haikyuu. And I recently dropped fire force due to how shit it was.
I've been doing great aside from having some school stess. And A dentist appointment today :( But I've been enjoying the animes that I'm watching.
When I said six, I meant six people haha. Also, I think it's worth noting that the dub completely changed the entire voice cast when TCPi took over midway through Advanced Generation, at the start of the Battle Frontier portion of the series ("season 9" of the dub). You are probably familiar with the 4-kids cast, and I don't even remember if that's good or not, but it's better than what came after, and I have fond memories of that at least.
I heard there's another adaptation of something from Webtoon this season, and I also heard it leaves much to be desired. I don't even remember what it's called, so I don't know true that is.
It's really awesome to have a connection like that. And I agree, a Ghibli film would be a good, quick introduction.
I play/have played a ton of different games, but specifically at the time of PAX South, I was most interested in the playable demo for the then-unreleased The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D. Majora's Mask happened to be my favorite game, and I'd say it still is—followed by Persona 5 Royal and Persona 4 Golden. I've heard of League of Legends (yes, it's extremely popular) and Hearthstone, but I've never played either. Since you don't play a lot of video games, what else do you like to do in your spare time for fun (besides anime of course)?
I think we felt too defeated at the time to care. But it was humorous enough that we all clearly remember 12 (probably) years later. I think we played a bunch of Angry Birds around that time, too. It was pretty fun. And the amusement parks were always a blast every year.
I think our Chao Garden adventures in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle reigns supreme as the defining video game experience of our seven consecutive vacations.
Yeah, it was a fantastic experience! I've since met many more through MAGFest which, like I said, was a ton of fun. It's a shame you missed the golden age of CP; I guess it's an experience unique to essentially one generation that can't quite be recreated, but I guess you could say every generation has an experience like that. But no matter how you make friends in person or online, friends are friends whether you can see them or not. It is nice to be able to meet, of course.
Yup! Not as much as I'd like to honestly. We were just talking about a week ago, though.
Very confusing :|
I just found this on mal xD
n the mysterious future, crystalline organisms called Gems inhabit a world that has been destroyed by six meteors. Each Gem is assigned a role in order to fight against the Lunarians, a species who attacks them in order to shatter their bodies and use them as decorations.
Phosphophyllite, also known as Phos, is a young and fragile Gem who dreams of helping their friends in the war effort. Instead, they are told to compile an encyclopedia because of their delicate condition. After begrudgingly embarking on this task, Phos meets Cinnabar, an intelligent gem who has been relegated to patrolling the isolated island at night because of the corrosive poison their body creates. After seeing how unhappy Cinnabar is, Phos decides to find a role that both of the rejected Gems can enjoy. Houseki no Kuni follows Phos' efforts to be useful and protect their fellow Gems.
Serena and Bonnie, yes, and I think it's Clemont. I watched in Japanese though, so I kinda just know them as Serena, Eureka, and Citron respectively lol. Anyway, there are some good group dynamics in other series, too, but I think XY is among the best. In general, I personally think the four-character cast is the most ideal for Pokémon. I think SM had too many (six + Rotom?) and PM has too few (two). While I adore Haruka and Takeshi (May and Brock) in AG, the only other series with four main characters, Masato (Max) is really annoying. I similarly love Serena and Citron, but Eureka is unironically one of my favorite Anipoke characters because of her snarky, sarcastic tendencies (like trolling about Serena's crush) and surprisingly good growth in the Zygarde/Team Flare arc. As for the battles, the battles in XY are easily the most dynamic. I was a bit disappointed that they kind of regressed afterwards despite continual improvements in animation in other areas (though I hated the art style change after XY... SM Satoshi is super ugly imo). I think the best battle comes from DP, though, and a top 3 contender (that I place at #3 personally) comes from SM.
Oh, you're not wrong. I don't really have enough interest either way honestly. I guess the anime just bummed me out. Maybe I'll give the original or the anime another chance (if there's a second season), but... I just meant it's possible that the original is actually pretty good despite the adaptation.
Ah, that's pretty cool. Have you guys gotten to talk about it? As for how I got my dad to watch those anime, I'm not exactly sure. I told him the premise and promised him that he would absolutely enjoy them. He watched them in the order I mentioned; at first I think he was skeptical that Death Note was just some demonic occult thing, but after a few episodes he was hooked on the mental chess game between Light and L. I can't say for sure, but I think Hunter x Hunter was his favorite followed by Attack on Titan. If you had one anime you wanted to show either of your parents, what would it be?
It's a mess.
There's so much I want to do and see there that I can't imagine two weeks even being enough time. I should honestly try to plan a bit more actively. But the food is definitely one of the most attractive things for me, so no matter where I go or what I do, I'll definitely be happy in that regard.
PAX is a large series of gaming conventions. Aside from E3 which wasn't open to the public at the time, I think it was the largest gaming convention. Maybe. It could still be. Or I could be completely wrong. Going to conventions was always a dream of mine back then, but now I don't really have interest. The experience with friends is always great regardless. MAGFest—Music And Gaming Festival—is, well, exactly that. While I don't have any interest in going to PAX again, MAGFest is still something I consider going to every year. A lot of those musician friends I mentioned before also go to MAGFest, and it's an absolute blast.
We did a lot of stuff at the beach, of course. Most nights we went out to eat. I'll never forget one of the first times I went down the shore with those two friends when we ended up at what was effectively a tourist trap restaurant. The service was horrible and we waited for hours. My one friend was probably only 9 at the time (he's two years younger), and I think he was a bit uncomfortable with ordering, so he just ordered a single corn on the cob. My man waited literally two hours to get this corn, and the first thing he did was pick it up... and drop it. I'm pretty sure he washed it off in the bathroom. Anyways, we also usually went the boardwalk a couple of nights. We were pretty invested in the crane machines a couple of times; I remember we collected a whole set of Angry Birds when that was a big thing. And we always went to one of those boardwalk amusement parks near the end of the week.
There were a lot of other things we did that weren't shore-specific. We had silent competitions with some family members (cousins or something idek) that would pop in and pop out for the downstairs fridge space—our Hank's root beers vs their Miller Lites. One of the years we played through Spider-Man 3 on the Wii. One year (maybe even the same year), we all played different Pokémon games and worked on a ROM hack of FireRed. I think we played through some Pokémon games on several years, actually. I know one year two of us did some Gen IV competitive battles through Battle Revolution. We got super into raising Chao in the Sonic Adventure 2 Battle chao garden—that became a tradition. And in the final years, we spent a lot of time grinding Slender, yet we somehow were never able to get the eighth page...
There was one other important "vacation" I forgot to mention. To make a very long story short, I started actively participating in online communities when I joined Club Penguin in 2007. The blogging scene was getting big at the time, and I made a blog in 2008 and became friends with other CP bloggers. Some of us ended up starting a project in 2009 called Penguin Generation—the goal was to recreate the glory days of CP and simultaneously create our vision of what CP should become in the future. I know, it's pretty rich that a bunch of 10-12 year olds (at the time) had such large (and legally-questionable) aspirations. I'm still proud of what little we achieved in the end, though. That project in particular led to a lot of great friendships, many of which have lasted to this day. The co-founder of PG was, or became, my best online friend at the time (and one of my best friends in general). After I graduated middle school (and a few months before I decided to close PG), we made plans (read: spent a long time convincing our parents to meet in person and hang out. I went out to where he lived at the time with my dad for four days. We went to some cool places and had a lot of fun doing various things at his house, too. It was one of my most memorable trips.
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Honestly, this year I've primarily focused on rewatching many of my favorite series. Most of the notable things I've watched this year have been said rewatches, and I've barely gotten to any of the highest priority anime I planned to watch for one reason or another (aside from seasonals). Between this year and last year, I've watched 16 of my current (yet ever-changing) top 20. That said, the best thing I've seen recently that's new to me (but by no means new in general lol) is Mawaru Penguindrum.
Would you recommend Yowamushi Pedal?
Yup, I've been in the area my whole life lol.
Well, here at least, it's fairly stressful.
I haven't watched too many weekly tbh. I would like to watch jjk though.
Yeah, I do think the Animation is a downgrade but the story is still fire. And episode 9 hit like a truck.
I'm in 8th grade but Online school's a bitch xD
Damn, I''ve been watching a bunch of Monogatari, but most of my time has been going into Umineko and of course school :( I've been watching, one weekly which is Haikyuu. And I recently dropped fire force due to how shit it was.
I've been doing great aside from having some school stess. And A dentist appointment today :( But I've been enjoying the animes that I'm watching.
I heard there's another adaptation of something from Webtoon this season, and I also heard it leaves much to be desired. I don't even remember what it's called, so I don't know true that is.
It's really awesome to have a connection like that. And I agree, a Ghibli film would be a good, quick introduction.
I play/have played a ton of different games, but specifically at the time of PAX South, I was most interested in the playable demo for the then-unreleased The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D. Majora's Mask happened to be my favorite game, and I'd say it still is—followed by Persona 5 Royal and Persona 4 Golden. I've heard of League of Legends (yes, it's extremely popular) and Hearthstone, but I've never played either. Since you don't play a lot of video games, what else do you like to do in your spare time for fun (besides anime of course)?
I think we felt too defeated at the time to care. But it was humorous enough that we all clearly remember 12 (probably) years later. I think we played a bunch of Angry Birds around that time, too. It was pretty fun. And the amusement parks were always a blast every year.
I think our Chao Garden adventures in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle reigns supreme as the defining video game experience of our seven consecutive vacations.
Yeah, it was a fantastic experience! I've since met many more through MAGFest which, like I said, was a ton of fun. It's a shame you missed the golden age of CP; I guess it's an experience unique to essentially one generation that can't quite be recreated, but I guess you could say every generation has an experience like that. But no matter how you make friends in person or online, friends are friends whether you can see them or not. It is nice to be able to meet, of course.
Yup! Not as much as I'd like to honestly. We were just talking about a week ago, though.
No worries, no worries.
I just found this on mal xD
n the mysterious future, crystalline organisms called Gems inhabit a world that has been destroyed by six meteors. Each Gem is assigned a role in order to fight against the Lunarians, a species who attacks them in order to shatter their bodies and use them as decorations.
Phosphophyllite, also known as Phos, is a young and fragile Gem who dreams of helping their friends in the war effort. Instead, they are told to compile an encyclopedia because of their delicate condition. After begrudgingly embarking on this task, Phos meets Cinnabar, an intelligent gem who has been relegated to patrolling the isolated island at night because of the corrosive poison their body creates. After seeing how unhappy Cinnabar is, Phos decides to find a role that both of the rejected Gems can enjoy. Houseki no Kuni follows Phos' efforts to be useful and protect their fellow Gems.
Oh, you're not wrong. I don't really have enough interest either way honestly. I guess the anime just bummed me out. Maybe I'll give the original or the anime another chance (if there's a second season), but... I just meant it's possible that the original is actually pretty good despite the adaptation.
Ah, that's pretty cool. Have you guys gotten to talk about it? As for how I got my dad to watch those anime, I'm not exactly sure. I told him the premise and promised him that he would absolutely enjoy them. He watched them in the order I mentioned; at first I think he was skeptical that Death Note was just some demonic occult thing, but after a few episodes he was hooked on the mental chess game between Light and L. I can't say for sure, but I think Hunter x Hunter was his favorite followed by Attack on Titan. If you had one anime you wanted to show either of your parents, what would it be?
It's a mess.
There's so much I want to do and see there that I can't imagine two weeks even being enough time. I should honestly try to plan a bit more actively. But the food is definitely one of the most attractive things for me, so no matter where I go or what I do, I'll definitely be happy in that regard.
PAX is a large series of gaming conventions. Aside from E3 which wasn't open to the public at the time, I think it was the largest gaming convention. Maybe. It could still be. Or I could be completely wrong. Going to conventions was always a dream of mine back then, but now I don't really have interest. The experience with friends is always great regardless. MAGFest—Music And Gaming Festival—is, well, exactly that. While I don't have any interest in going to PAX again, MAGFest is still something I consider going to every year. A lot of those musician friends I mentioned before also go to MAGFest, and it's an absolute blast.
We did a lot of stuff at the beach, of course. Most nights we went out to eat. I'll never forget one of the first times I went down the shore with those two friends when we ended up at what was effectively a tourist trap restaurant. The service was horrible and we waited for hours. My one friend was probably only 9 at the time (he's two years younger), and I think he was a bit uncomfortable with ordering, so he just ordered a single corn on the cob. My man waited literally two hours to get this corn, and the first thing he did was pick it up... and drop it. I'm pretty sure he washed it off in the bathroom. Anyways, we also usually went the boardwalk a couple of nights. We were pretty invested in the crane machines a couple of times; I remember we collected a whole set of Angry Birds when that was a big thing. And we always went to one of those boardwalk amusement parks near the end of the week.
There were a lot of other things we did that weren't shore-specific. We had silent competitions with some family members (cousins or something idek) that would pop in and pop out for the downstairs fridge space—our Hank's root beers vs their Miller Lites. One of the years we played through Spider-Man 3 on the Wii. One year (maybe even the same year), we all played different Pokémon games and worked on a ROM hack of FireRed. I think we played through some Pokémon games on several years, actually. I know one year two of us did some Gen IV competitive battles through Battle Revolution. We got super into raising Chao in the Sonic Adventure 2 Battle chao garden—that became a tradition. And in the final years, we spent a lot of time grinding Slender, yet we somehow were never able to get the eighth page...
There was one other important "vacation" I forgot to mention. To make a very long story short, I started actively participating in online communities when I joined Club Penguin in 2007. The blogging scene was getting big at the time, and I made a blog in 2008 and became friends with other CP bloggers. Some of us ended up starting a project in 2009 called Penguin Generation—the goal was to recreate the glory days of CP and simultaneously create our vision of what CP should become in the future. I know, it's pretty rich that a bunch of 10-12 year olds (at the time) had such large (and legally-questionable) aspirations. I'm still proud of what little we achieved in the end, though. That project in particular led to a lot of great friendships, many of which have lasted to this day. The co-founder of PG was, or became, my best online friend at the time (and one of my best friends in general). After I graduated middle school (and a few months before I decided to close PG), we made plans (read: spent a long time convincing our parents to meet in person and hang out. I went out to where he lived at the time with my dad for four days. We went to some cool places and had a lot of fun doing various things at his house, too. It was one of my most memorable trips.