Kurogane’s Anime Blog

Finally, after much persuasion by Owen.S, I’ve made the jump and joined MyAnimeList. Now I can stalk read Owen’s miniblog in it.

Feel free to add me, my username’s kur0gan3. “Kurogane” got taken up by some UK-fag, while “Kurogane Shiroikaze” was too long T.T. Currently, still need to add OVA titles and movies to my anime list, probably will take quite a while to add the manga and other sections of the site.

By now, I hope that everyone has figured out that my earlier post was for April Fools, if the glaringly obvious timing of the post, along with the nice link at the bottom of it haven’t cued it in. BTW, yes, you can use TinyURL to forward to a Youtube video.

As for saturnine herse-… himself, sorry, his reaction has been mostly tsun-tsun, but it’s really to fit in her, I mean, his online persona. She’s He’s pretty dere-dere in real life, I assure you.

By the way, I’m starting a Suki Suki Satchan club, does anyone want to join? I also need someone to design a club badge for it, if anyone’s up for the task.

P.S. Oh man, I still need to write my true tears review. I’ve got a ton to say, but I keep feeling lazy to put them in black and white. Gotta lay off the games for a while, seriously.

So finally the truth is out. Yes, Saturnine Owens is a girl. Being someone who’s actually met her in real life, I second the bewilderment of DS for her to take on such an aggressive persona online.

Let me tell you about the events of that day… when I first met this beauty. It was for ACGC 2008, some generic local anime/games event, and I extended an invitation to Saturnine, which she accepted as she was also going out on the same day. I relished the chance to finally meet this charismatic person for the first time, coming to the meeting place at the local Borders, with a lot to talk about on my mind.

Just like DS, I was expecting to meet with a guy… so I was surprised when one of the cute girls that I noticed instantly upon entering the store suddenly walked up to me, causing me to feel nervous a bit. “Hi there, are you Kurogane?”, she said. In a daze, I managed to mumble something resembling “yeah”, and she proceeded to introduce herself as Saturnine Owen. My mind blanked out for a few minutes as I tried to process the incongruence of the fact.

When I came about, she was lightly shaking my arms, asking me if I’m alright… “Man… everytime I show myself to someone, they always do that.”, she added. “Of course… you’re… you’re… so beautiful….”, I wanted to blurt out loud, but instead I kept my calm and mumbled another “Yeah”. I felt really pathetic at that point. Such a beauty in front of me, and I’ve only managed to say out two words.

Anyways, we proceeded to look for a book, about story writing and structures, and I realized that all the tl;dr posts that she made are truly from her own knowledge. She confided to me that she was planning to be a screenwriter some day, as she loved to write. I listened intently to her, all the while fixated at her beauty, her gracefulness and generally enjoying being in the company of such a beauty. I noticed many a spiteful glances directed to me, although she didn’t seem to notice or, if she did, mind.

Moving out of Borders, any thoughts of heading for the event I had planned to go with him her, evaporated in to thin air, and instead I suggested that we head for a nearby cafe to sit down and maybe eat some lunch (it was around 1pm at that time). As we both walked in, I could see nearly half the cafe’s male customers turning their heads… some very visibly to their girlfriends, earning them a quick pinch or under-the-table leg jab. I chose a rather secluded corner of the cafe to sit down, not wanting to attract more attention.

Sitting down at the cafe… I ordered food, although what exactly I ordered and ate, until this day, I still cannot remember. Breaking the ice by talking about true tears (as I just watched 12 a few hours before heading out), we started to talking about various things, wandering through many topics. I shall not bother with the details, and besides I would love to keep some things between us ^^.

Without noticing, nearly 2 hours passed and Saturnine decided to take off early, as she had a promise to keep. I enquired further, believing that I’ve earned her trust enough, but she just blushed slighly and answered, “Hi~mi~tsu~”. I guess now I know who she made the promise to. I nearly fainted at that point, but I kept my composure, and we both headed to the counter to pay. I tried to pay for the both of us (I must note that I actually only had 50 ringgit at that point, and the total came up to 45 ringgit, pretty much leaving me penniless), but she insisted on splitting the bill, as she didn’t want to owe me anything. I felt a bit disappointed (but relieved at the same time). Till this day, I wonder if she noticed that I was actually forcing myself to pay for it. Sigh… male pride :(.

Parting with a “Ja, mata ne!” and a sweet smile on her face… I managed to wave goodbye, and left for the event, suddenly remembering about it, but feeling empty and yet satisfied at the same time. Sigh… another bittersweet memory to include in my days of youth. It’s just too bad DS already took her, but I will always keep this feeling in my heart.

P.S. Luckily, I did bring a camera along for the event, so I managed to take a picture of Saturnine herself. Enjoy her glorious beauty :)).

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And there you have it guys. It’s been a fun 2 and a half years with Animeblogger.net, but it seems the site has grown so well that our dearest webmaster, Maestro isn’t able to support everything by himself.

So, with him, I’d like to appeal to all my readers, whether casual, loyal or currently-stalking-me-somewhere to help out as well, and donate to keep the whole domain up. No amount is too small or too large. Be it $0.01, $1.00 or $100, any amount will definitely help us up.

I’ve installed the donation drive plugin on the sidebar as well so you guys can track the progress easily and the donation link is located there as well. On behalf of myself, Maestro and the other bloggers on Animeblogger.net, I thank you all in advance for your help :).

P.S. If you donate over $250, I’ll send you a personal picture of myself, uncensored. XD.

To the people on that Friday night/Saturday morning when Masakazu Morita-san came in for a surprise visit to the GACC committees, I sincerely apologize for hijacking myself in some of your group photos.

I was pretty caught up in the flow of things that night, being surprised and all, so I didn’t realize that it was inappropriate for me to be inside some of your group pictures. For that, I have nothing but myself and only myself to blame.

However, I would also like to say here that I am not a particularly socially sensitive person, and I admit that I am an dumbass at noticing social cues which are pretty obvious, so I would’ve appreciated it if someone could’ve pointed out my mistakes to me before hand. I am not a person who is afraid to admit my own wrongdoings, but I am a person who really hates to be kept in the dark and forced to accept punishment without any knowledge of the reason.

Again, I apologize sincerely for the incident, and I shall endeavor to not repeat the same mistake again, to the utmost of my abilities. I dearly hope for everyone who I have hurt their feelings will accept this sincere apology of mine.

Comments will be closed as this is not an incident that concerns my regular blog readers, but I felt that using my blog as the platform is the best way to reach out to all the people that I have offended as I do not have all their personal contacts.

Ah yes, fansubber dorama. DarkMirage isn’t a newcomer to this, and I will say I agree with his post and most of its contents. In fact, I did download the .ass of Nyoro~n’s Gundam 00 01, and that itself already contained many hilarious mistakes, that even I, who don’t possess a shiny JLPT 1, noticed.

I’ve had the good fortune to have not touched any Gundam 00 speed subs ever since then, but meh, I guess this issue provided some pretty good insights on to the perspectives of the fansubbing scene. While I will admit that every one who has the motivation to produce a sub deserves respect, but it doesn’t mean that the subber is free from responsibility of admitting his mistakes, so I’m glad to see that the subber at Nyoro~n has acknowledged his mistakes although he initially defended himself. At the least this mistake didn’t almost trigger another war.

Oh, and Graham is definitely giving off a real homosexual vibe, even w/o the missubbing by Nyoro~n.

Comments are closed, since I’m just lazy to deal with more dorama.

So #animeblogger’s favourite green-haired loli trap is having his 2xth birthday(tried to ask for his age but he replied, “Hi~ Mi~ Tsu~♥) in a few days time, so in conjunction with his birthday, he’s asking everyone who likes his blog and has access to a online payment method and would like to give him a present to divert the funds to Maestro to help out for the hosting of Animeblogger.net.

I second his call for donations either, and our dear Maestro has been a really gracious host, doing the utmost he can to help us fans form a very good community. So, everyone who would like to donate, please do so as a birthday present for impz and also to help Maestro and the site too. I’m pledging USD20 myself for this month, so I hope some of my readers can match me as well, but fret not, even a USD 0.01 cent donation is also accepted :).

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Happy 19th birthday aura-berry!!! May you have another happy year and more birthdays to come!!!

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After a long, long while, Animeblogger.net’s personal blog aggregator, the Antenna has finally VERSION UPPED thanks to the noble efforts of guru3, who you may remember as the person behind AnimeSeen (god, I have no time to update my list there :( ).

New features to the antenna include:

• User accounts, enabling personalized feeds based on blog, series or channels of interest.
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And it’s the truth. If someone random came up to me in public, in real life, and asked me, “Do you like anime?”, I would answer yes to it, because it is true, I like anime. In fact, anime is a big part of my life and I will admit that it’s my main form of entertainment, above all else.

So, if you like something, what is wrong about being proud about it? Of course, I don’t mean idiots, like this, that proclaim anime is the superior form of entertainment a good example of an anime fan, but don’t disregard that there are others who actually feel proud to like it, but aren’t being an ass about it.

“Being proud” about something doesn’t necessarily mean you have to flaunt it on everyone or force your own opinions about it on to others or even close off your acceptance about other forms of it. I personally understand that there are various other forms of entertainment that are being enjoyed by other people as much as I myself enjoy watching anime, and I do enjoy the occasional CSI or House M.D episode a lot.

But maybe it’s just because I’m a rather less opinionated person, I just feel that all this drama is rather unneeded. Liking something isn’t about whether you’re proud of it, nor whether it’s deep or not, nor whether is it frowned and stigmatized by the society, it’s just purely about whether you enjoy it or not. That’s my own 2 cents on this issue, and given that many responses towards this are pretty negative, I just felt like balancing the scales a little bit.

So, unless if I ever stop enjoying anime, if anyone asks me, “Do you like anime and are you proud of it?”, I will answer, “Yes, I like anime and I’m proud of it.”, without hesitation. As long as you like it, and you enjoy it, and remember to exercise moderation and open-mindedness, there’s nothing wrong to be proud of liking something, not just only anime, but other things as well. I’ll just sign off with this little tidbit I conjured for tj’s initial post that got the firestorm started, but somehow got stuck liking it a lot…

“BELIEVE IN THE OTAKU IN ME THAT BELIEVES IN THE OTAKU IN YOU!”

Thanks for reading :).