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Kimi ni Todoke S2 - Episodes 00-01

Kimi ni Todoke, Season 2

Episode 0: Even though this was a recap episode, I enjoyed it a lot. Much more than I expected. Besides, I haven't rewatched KnT in a while, so it was a good refresher, and reminded me how much I liked the show. It introduced the new opening and ending themes. The opening was good, nice art and song. But I loved the ending; the new song beats the old one by a mile, and I find myself listening to it over and over again. It's a beautiful love song, and really fitting for the show.

Episode 1: Great start to a new season, even better than it was in the manga. Gotta love Sawako's extremely low self-esteem and impeccably clean record of nonassertiveness. Don't have much to say, but this cute Valentine's Day episode introduced a new cast member -- Kento, whom I did not like at all in the manga, but I think I will like a lot in the anime if only because he is voiced by one my favoritest seiyuu, the awesome amazing super fabulous Miyano Mamoru. He and Aya Hirano are reunited! The recap episode was extra valuable because it brought back the memory of the hilarious Death Note-like scene where Kurumi writes Sawako's name in her Book of Bastards Who Dared to Call Her Ume. I love you, Kurumizawa!

AND PIIIINNNNN!!!! I love you, Pin!!!!! Welcome back!!!!!!!

Give me a head with hair

I bought Tresemme Naturals Radiant Volume shampoo and conditioner a couple of weeks ago when they were on sale (2/$6.99 at CVS). I had read/seen rave reviews on YouTube and other places online, so I wanted to try them out myself. I was really disappointed to find that the shampoo totally dried out my hair and the conditioner failed to condition, leaving a thin film I could feel long after I dried my hair. My hair is shiny and I can run my fingers through it with ease, but I'm experiencing frizziness and flyaways like never before. Perhaps the other Naturals shampoo and conditioner -- the Moisturizing one -- would have performed better, but it wasn't available at my local CVS store, but it's safe to say that I won't be purchasing the Radiant Volume ones again. By the way, these products gave my hair neither radiance nor volume.

I'm going back to Suave Professionals Humectant shampoo and conditioner, which are totally awesomesauce for my hair. I haven't had such soft and silky hair in years. As an added bonus, they smell like coconut, very warm, not pungent or overwhelming in the least. Best of all, since they're Suave products, they're cheap as hell, so I don't even have to wait for a sale to buy them (though I still do because I'm a miser like that).

Winter 2011 Anime that I will probably, definitely, maybe watch

OMGSQUEE!!! I didn't know there was going to be a second season of Kimi ni Todoke so soon! Definitely going to watch.

From this list of new shows this season, I'm also interested in:

• Supernatural: Animated Dean & Sam!

• GOSICK: I'm a sucker for mysteries.

• Beelzebub: I've seen that naked green-haired baby who looks like an infant Zoro everywhere, so might as well get the background on, uh, that.

And, if I lower my pride enough

• Starry Sky: The line-up of all those top-notch seiyuu is also rather enticing.

Woot, excitement!

Naruto poster... of doom!

Ignore the guy on the right doing the Naruto pose. (Although that is some mighty fine posing.)

 

Look at the bitchin' poster! It's awesome! I'm drooling...

 

I can't wait for these fillers to be over already. They started off good, but then we had shit involving ninja ostriches and next week we have ghosts getting in bed with a 13-year-old Naruto and I'm not into that, strangely enough.

SuperCatholic, somehow never as popular as Superman

Watching Devil (2010) right now. It's about five really annoying people who are trapped in an office highrise elevator, and one of them is THE DEVIL. It's good and kind of creepy so far, though cheesy and frequently full of stupid.¹ Like, for example, they've got a Hispanic security guy (who doubles as the film's narrator) who's of course super Catholic and believes that the devil is the reason why children bang their heads against tables and toast falls jelly-side down. LOLwhuh.

List of the five people and possible candidates for the part of Satan:

• Preppy white woman who looks a little like Kristin Davis.
• Older white woman who looks a lot like Shirley MacLaine; is a pickpocket.
• Black male security guard who has a violent criminal background.
• Middle-Eastern-looking salesman who was involved in a Ponzi scheme.
• White guy who's supposedly a mechanic and was in Afghanistan.

 

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¹ Okay, so there's a live wire going spastic in a pool of water. The cable wire's exposed and sparks are flying and everything. What do you do? Do you:

a) Get the fuck away and notify somebody so that trained professionals come to take care of the situation, OR

b) Find a wooden stick, use it to lift up the cable, and when you see a rusty metal nail, try to put the still very much exposed and active wire on the nail -- THE METAL NAIL -- but right before you make that incredibly stupid move, you make an even stupider move, the stupidest move you can make, which is to step into the pool of water the wire had just been in. SERIOUSLY, WTF.

Naruto Chapter 515

THAT WAS THE MOST EPIC CHAPTER EVER I MEAN WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED IT WAS JUST TOO EPIC FOR WORDS.

 

I am still really, just, blown... away!

I'ma come back to this here later...

Naruto Chapter 513

Did... did I just see a giant armadillo's giant penis in this chapter?

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How did we get to this point?

 

We need Sasuke back, and soon. I can guarantee you that penises do not suddenly pop up whenever he's around.

 

(Except Naruto's. )

And OMG, yay, Deidara's back (kind of)! I missed that terrorist. I hope he doesn't get defeated and rekilled too soon. I want to see his reaction if and when he discovers that Sasuke's alive, and Tobi was Madara all along.

The clean-up must have been hell...

...but the results are well worth it.

 

First Entry

Why hadn't I heard about SixApart/Typepad's new free microblogging service until now? Insanity!

This kills my soul

I read this on my LJ friends page today (or rather, yesterday):

recommend me a book.

i haven't read anything in over 2 years. i know, i know. whenever we were assigned to read a book in class, i went to sparknotes and read the lengthy synopsis instead. > i mainly stick to classics, but whatever. > i don't like jane austen. > i'm not big on romance in books. i can do with out that.

but really, anything.

Oh, dear God.