Monday, November 28, 2011

Baka & Test: Striving for worth


EDIT: adjusted the article to make a clearer picture. Also added more pictures.

Ever since I first heard of it on Animax, it became part of my to-watch list… No, seriously!



The main protagonists, plus some of the Class A students
Baka & Test: Summon the Beasts (known in Japan as Baka To Test to Shoukanjuu), is about Fumizuki Gakuen, a college preparatory high school with classes categorized according to rank, based on the result scores of the placement exam taken during the first day of semester. Class A is known to be the “Cream of the Crop” class, with its facilities designed to cater to prodigious students, those who passed the placement exam with flying colors. The reverse is Class F, with its classroom reminiscent of a poor man’s residence, filled with students who failed who make the grade during the placement exam.


Class F is where the main protagonists reside, and in order to get the hell out of that dilapidated classroom, they must make the cut. Using their shoukanjuu, aka, the avatars, they must fight their way to the top through the Summoning Wars. First, the battle between two classes must be approved before it can start. With a teacher as the witness, the avatars must defeat their opponents if they want to promote. As for the defeated opponents, those who were KIA’ed during the battle, they had to attend remedial classes.

The Beasts at their most bad-ass
If a student continues to excel, his or her chances to promote will increase, including the option to switch facilities with the opposing class. Those who wish to replenish their avatars’ attack strength must take supplementary exams. There’s no limit on how many questions one can answer during the test time limit, as long as he or she knows them enough to get back in the game.


But I have to warn you, though; it’s not the usual slice-of-life kind of anime. There may be scenes that will definitely arouse fantasies to all yaoi/yuri/hentai/ecchi fans out there. So, if these scenes are not your thing, better avert your eyes away.

With all the wacky, crazy, school life going on in the series, as well as a unique way of testing the smarts of students, it became one of the funniest anime shows to enjoy. Try it, and you may get hooked. ^^

The boys are back... in black!
Till my next entry! Ciao! ^^

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Anago Eel Creator: latest craze

Yep, I'm riding the eel-jinka bandwagon right now... SERIOUSLY!!!

Many artists in dA had come on with the humanized forms of their creations made using the Anago Eel creator. It's actually Japanese, but thankfully, some words will be translated once you put the cursor arrow over them. Indeed, you may have enough fun doing it once you're used to it.



Here's the link to the simple, yet cute maker: Anago


By the way, I just hovered to Wikipedia, and I found out that "anago" means "salt-water eel"  in Japanese (hence the title of the flash application).

Go ahead and try using Anago. Trust me, it's fun! ^^



Currently done with one. Six more to go!

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Switched at Birth: Living in someone else’s world

We all dreamed of living in some else’s world. It couldn’t be that bad, right? But what if it turned out to be a reality? Trust me; it’s more than just Freaky Friday in which two people had switched bodies.

It’s all about two girls living in each other’s family, the main focus of the family drama Switched at Birth.


The story is all about two families, the Vasquezs and the Kennishes, who discovered early on in the series that they had raised each other’s children. One of them is Daphne, a deaf girl who was a basketball athlete, and nonetheless still talking, while Bay was a rebellious gal with an artistic mind. Ever since their first encounter, things got complicated. Bay became so affected with thoughts of isolation that she went a little too far breaking the rules, especially when the gifted deaf teenager would soon become her classmate. On the other hand, Daphne wanted to prove that she could live independently, which left her legal single mom worried, because she was raised under her care, and she thought of the reactions normal people would think about seeing a deaf kid studying in a regular school.

But after understanding each other, their families lived together under the same roof, which turned out for the best. That was just the beginning of their story. Sorry, can’t spoil the rest, so you have to discover yourself through watching.

Truly, realizing that your biological parents are somewhere far away is a complicated issue. It had indeed brought a turn-around to your perspective of your life. But let us not forget that it’s all about understanding and unconditional love given by the parents who raised you.

That’s all… Stay tuned for my next entry!

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Real life: Individuality

Ok, so most of you are wondering about my long absence. Here’s the reason, and it summed up to two words: no internet. Globelines had gone haywire for a past few weeks until it finally halted, and we’re getting very so cranky, so we had no choice but to endure the torture for a week. So there, I’m back now.

There, now you know, let’s go onto a random topic that I chose for this blog entry: individuality.

God created us unique. We all come from different walks of life, different races, different features. We all have our own perspectives of life, whether it’s good or bad. Even our personalities are distinguishable.

But sometimes, we tend to look too much on our own characteristics that we end up criticizing others, or worse, laugh at them. So what if we have our whole body and someone else got one part chopped off because of an unfortunate incident, and we just degraded them just because they’re incomplete? So what if we have beautiful skin and others got theirs burnt or marred with scars, and we just called them ugly? So what if we’re one race and a foreigner stepped onto our land, and we tend to comment on that person in such a racist manner? So what if most of us dressed up like princesses and others are in rags, and we just spat at them like crap? Even gothic people got rejected from society just because of the way they were dressed and even of their ideals.

All I can say is: JUST FIX UP YOUR NARROW-MINDED BRAINS AND GET OVER IT!!!

So there, just accept them for who they really are and treat each other equally. No one is perfect. There’s no such thing as a perfect lover, or a perfect book, or even a perfect piece of art. We all have imperfections. Yes, we must correct them, but don’t take away their self-esteem. Put differences aside and work together.

Being unique is not a crime; drill it on your head.

Well, that’s all for now. See ya on the flip side!