“My head is popcorn.”

broderic on August 29, 2019

I’ll always will remember the ending to that NogiBingo! episode wherein she lays asleep behind the scenes trying on the AD role.  That’s Sakurai Reika, Nogizaka46’s captain. 

By next week she will have graduated.  Here’s to our Captain!  JOLLY GOOD SHOW REIKA!  Well done and thank you…

I still don’t know what Nogi’s captain does.  Is she supposedly the task master keeping her fellow members in line?  Is she the members’ representative with the management?  Is she management’s lackey?  Who knows?  I”m sure the members do, but the thing I know is that Nogi’s captain is a reliable member meant to be steady and reasonable in the crazy idol world.  Reika seemed to embody that ideal. Although it seems like Nogizaka has an abundance of members like that.  So Reika was the most representative of the class and style of a Nogizaka member — a leader.  

Man, I’ll miss her. She’s been the only Nogizaka Captain I’ve known.

Suddenly, I’m sad that she’s graduating…

THE CAPTAIN IS GRADUATING.  LONG LIVE THE CAPTAIN.

夜明けまで強がらなくてもいい

broderic on August 13, 2019

Nogizaka46’s 24th single is going to be released at the start of September. Here’s the MV for the title song.

I am not feeling it yet. Also, with the other songs on this single… But I’ll always support them. Maybe to included extras on the BluRays would be completely worth my while.

For Kyoto Animation

broderic on July 27, 2019

Haruhi OP – made me the weeb I am today.

It’s been a week since the fire in Japan at Kyoto Animation studios. If you are just hearing about it the story is rather sad. Thirty-four employees of this famed animation studio were murdered by some nut via an arson attack. There were about another thirty survivors all in various conditions. It was the most tragic of crimes in Japan since the days of World War II.

Kyoto Animation means a lot to me. It has produced some of my personal favorite anime. K-ON! and Haruhi come to mind. Haruhi being my re-introduction into the anime world. K-ON! really is so good it’s my favorite of all time. This studio has done really fine work both in television and in the movie theatres. You can’t beat the K-ON! Movie, and you really can’t beat A Silent Voice movie. Both will make you cry. really is so good it’s my favorite of all time. This studio has done really fine work both in television and in the movie theatres. You can’t beat the K-ON! Movie, and you really can’t beat A Silent Voice movie. Both will make you cry. Cry like the news from Japan…

I pray for those souls lost in this senseless attack. I pray for those survivors. I pray for the studio to come back and give us some more beautiful anime.

Link of the Day [7.26.19]

broderic on July 26, 2019

It’s over.  I feel like somethings missing in my twitter TL.

Mizuki day.  It’s over…

What a crazy thing.  All those well wishers on twitter just kept going and going and going with sweet Mizuki goodness.  I’ve never seen twitter do that.  Well, I hope she has a lovely year coming up…

If you want to get your Mizuki goodness:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/山下美月生誕祭

Sweded Nippon

broderic on June 29, 2019

Somehow I’ve became a Lyrical School fan. I guess it’s just that I really like their tunes.

This is their most recent song for the summer of 2019, “Last Dance.” I like the video as well. When I first saw it, I thought that it reminded me of Be Kind Rewind. Then I saw their credits wherein they say they were inspired by the very movie I thought it was emulating. How many sweded films can you name?