you really think so?
I LOL’ed a lot during the first half of the episode (right from the moment the BGM and Alastor intro came on due to the Shana-tan effect) and enjoyed the action in the second half. Got an early scene of my favourite aspect of Shana x Wilhelmina interaction i.e. an embarrassed Shana shooing Wilhelmina away and the increasingly flappable Meido Manipulator of Bandages looking surprised and hurt.
Readers who view this blog via RSS may noticed that, inspired by the Sea Slug! Team, full feed (with <!–more–> tag workaround) has been enabled and hotlinking protection disabled for Google Reader. In addition, the Simple Spoiler plugin and formatting has been updated.
Next up was trying out tags after reading Owen S’s exhortation. I’m still in the process of deciding how to use this new WP 2.3 feature. At present, I’ve pared down non-anime series categories (retaining blog admin, koma, loot, musings and what) and am using tags to relate posts containing elements that cut across series. So far the most used tags have been oneesama and yuri. ;)
Then I noticed a rather annoying problem: I could only get a maximum of seven posts when viewing by month, category or tag even if said month, category or tag had more than seven posts. Hadn’t noticed this before as I normally use the Manage Posts menu under Site Admin rather than the ELA Archive view but the problem became obvious as I started fooling around with tags.
After riding the merry-go-round of checking the Wordpress Codex and forum, the K2 wiki, my template navigation code, K2 archive settings, Extended Live Archive plugin settings, WP Options Reading settings and so on, I finally discovered that the cause was due to the K2 files being located one sub-directory further down the themes sub-directory (themes > K2_RC1 > k2) than it actually should have been (themes > k2) after switching between the default theme and K2. It’s so good to have “<< Older Page 1 of x” back! And so that’s why the custom banner uploader didn’t work either! Doh. Funnily enough, everything else seemed to worked fine before today’s fix. And to think this not inconsiderable navigational problem has been sitting under my nose for almost three weeks! :(
[BTW since WP 2.3, I can't see Incoming Links either.]
Normally I steer clear of sports series (unless it’s actually an excuse to show beautiful girls in bum-hugging shorts). And most of the time, I associate champions of justice with idiots. At best they do have some mad skillz but are lacking in the grey matter department, like Amelia and her dad from Slayers. At worst, they talk a lot of crap but don’t actually have any ability to fulfill their dubious ideals, e.g. Raki from Claymore. As such, Bamboo Blade as Sports Show x Justice really did not appeal to me at all. But enticed by Kurogane’s pithy comments about Tama-chan, I gave it a try and just melted. Tama-chan has taught cynical ole me how to love a champion of justice. ~~♥
Having seen the second episode too, courtesy of the lone rawman, I feel that I can safely enjoy this series as a story about how a girl’s skill at kendo allows her to make close friends and happy memories.
Scattered random comments follow.
Saw the above work at the London Frieze Art Fair today (Lehmann Maupin booth) by the artist “Mr.” who:
has designed a special installation and performance for this art fair featuring his large-eyed characters in provocative poses interspersed with popsicles and cartoon animals. New paintings in varying sizes will also be on view as part of his continued investigation into the Otaku subculture of Japan.
I pass the test. I will diminish, and go into Bokuto, and remain a Miyuki x Natsumi fan. *returns salute*