It’s the first sea­son after my post-graduation life setup. With­out an engi­neer­ing ‘double’-major I find a lot of time at my hands and tries to allo­cate a good chunk of it towards anime. Well that was a poor choice, as Japan sees fit to send me the most dis­ap­point­ing anime sea­son of my life.

Onee-sama is not amused

Well, let me try going through a list of all the things I watched wasted time on… I’ll save Rail­gun and Todoke for last as they’re the only two that really man­aged to save me from bang­ing my head against the wall repeatedly.

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My gods J.C.Staff, you cer­tainly never run out of ways to enter­tain us. As if Rail­gun episode 10 wasn’t explo­sive enough, you have to raise this flag to pull my atten­tion in with this amaz­ing amalgamation:

Uni­ver­sal OS Macin­dows EXP with a sig­na­ture Outel Out­side marker! In a world when Macs were com­pat­i­ble with every­thing and not over­loaded with pre-programmed set­tings, and when Win­dows actu­ally have good processor/RAM uti­liza­tion.  On that note, I won­der what Macin­dows BST is a ref­er­ence of?

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I’m still decid­ing on my anime blog­ging style. Def­i­nitely not the episodic type, but I fig­ure I’ll try to get four in per sea­son: pre-season expec­ta­tions, ini­tial insights (1~2eps), mid-season impres­sions (6~8eps), and end­ing reviews.

I’m happy and I meant it~

Other than Rail­gun which I’ve already read, most of the 2009 fall anime sea­son has been Meh for me… or so I thought, until I caught up to the stun­ning first cli­max of Kimi ni Todoke, which is quickly becom­ing a mas­ter­piece in my book. I did end up drop­ping two series, but they were ones I never expected to watch in the first place.

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Over the past two weeks my life’s free time had been almost entirely con­sumed by pho­to­shop, as the Tarot Project is finally com­ing together. I only have three things to say on the mat­ter — I’ve never taken pho­to­shop to be such seri­ous busi­ness before; I can finally say I’m more than just a noob to pho­to­shop thanks to the picto-editing skills I’ve acquired; and I haven’t felt so proud of my goods for a long time.

Progress:
[Deck] Char­ac­ter Selec­tion: Fin­ished
[Deck] Card Stock: Fin­ished
[Deck] Art Selec­tion: Fin­ished
[Deck] Card Assem­bly: 95%
[Blog] Back­ground Assem­bly: 0%
[Blog] Ban­ner Cre­ation: 0%

Before any­one asks “why all girls?”, it’s to cut down on the com­pe­ti­tion between char­ac­ter and more con­sis­tency in art style. Not to men­tion — the deck is cuter this way.

I might think about mak­ing a bishie/GAR deck later, maybe, if I feel like throw­ing away another week+ of free time.

No this isn’t part of my srs­bzns set, it’s just funny. Now outta the way for the real deal!

Deck would be fin­ished last week­end if I didn’t keep chang­ing my mind about the char­ac­ters, or two days ago if Com­pany of Heroes: TOV didn’t arrive and cause me to start wast­ing tons of time on it (epic game which requires a post later). But until then, take eleven…

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This sea­son is a bit of a slow start for me (again) since none of the series are quite blaz­ing at me in explod­ing neon signs, either that or because I still haven’t recov­ered from being utterly dis­ap­pointed in last two sea­sons, espe­cially by Valkyria Chron­i­cles and Asura Cryin’. But nev­er­the­less, prospects looks… ade­quate for a sea­son. At least if noth­ing else, Rail­gun already promises not to dis­ap­point. In a ways I guess that’s good, since it means I’ll have more time to catch up on every­thing still piled up from col­lege (I just blitzed most of Saki this Sat­ur­day — awe­some Mahjong yuri)

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