Black★Rock Shooter

Watched Black Rock Shooter today, downloaded from one of the torrent tracker... it was [Nishishi-subs] version.

Synopsis
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The story center on a young girl named Mato Kuroi who just got into the her first year in Junior High School. Later she met Yomi Takanashi and became best friend on their first year, spending times together.

But later as they got into the second year of Junior High School they get placed in separate classes which make their friendship to grow apart..

At the same time in another world, a young girl with a blue fire residing in her eye know as the Black Rock Shooter is fighting another girl known as the Dead Master.

My Thought on the Anime
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The story is quite short, ~50 minutes of runtime... But despite the short Anime runtime it has a very good story plot and not to mention the Anime GRAPHICS... The story can be somewhat confusing to begin with since it kept on changing character between Mato Kuroi and Black Rock Shooter in other world.. But as the story goes you'll gradually understand on what is happening...

Download
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[Nishishi-subs] 848x480 x264 AAC

MegaUpload
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BQF0FGPF

Mediafire:
http://www.mediafire.com/?jv520663tio4i2g - Part 1
http://www.mediafire.com/?a8hhjv5clabytux - Part 2
http://www.mediafire.com/?bjx9av9m6weihvs - Part 3

Torrent:
NyaaTorrents

Senjougahara Hitagi, Tsundere or Not?

So, what do you think? Me Myself, I've always thought that she's a Tsundere, until yesterday when someone told me that she's not even close to one.. Therefore, out of my curiosity I conducted a research to find out whether she is a Tsundere or not .. Wait .. Do you know what is a Tsundere?

Basically, a Tsundere is a combination of two words, "tsuntsun" and "deredere". Tsuntsun means egoistic, hostile, tough, while Deredere means exhausted love struck. That makes a Tsundere is a type of person (usually female) who has a cold type of personality and shows hostile toward another persons (tsuntsun), but then they slowly develops a deredere personality or feelings toward another character and starts showing their warmth side.

Senjougahara Threatened Araragi when she founds out about Kanbaru

Senjougahara does have 'tsun' personality, this can be seen when she threatened Araragi not to tell anyone about her secret and physically threatened Araragi throughout the story.. So I don't think there is any problem with her tsun side..

Senjougahara express her feeling toward Araragi (ep12)

But the problem is that Senjougahara doesn't have any trouble showing her true feeling towards Araragi, in fact she even call araragi as her lover, which is against the Tsundere personality. Because character with a Tsundere personality must have an emotional mask, meaning that they didn't show/express their true feeling in words, while Senjougahara keep on asking Araragi whether he love her (ep12), she also express her feeling when Araragi ask her whether she love him or not... By doing this, she's loosing her cold side, which is another aspect of a Tsundere Character.. And one more thing, a Tsundere somehow act abusively towards their love interest..

Full Metal Coast from AnimeSuki created a list of Criteria for Tsundere:

1. Emotional Mask (wouldn't easily reveal her romantic feelings for another person).
2. Hot/Cold mood swings (quick-tempered person but someone who can be sweet as well).
3. When angered (by love of 3rd party) must deliver physical abuse.
4. Aggravated easily (blunt,curt or aggressive).
5. Character in question (who is to be considered a Tsundere) must have love or feelings for character who they are Tsuning towards.

I think the first two are the most important criteria for being a Tsundere. And even though senjougahara does have Tsundere  traits, Senjougahara didn't fulfill all of those criteria (maybe 2 out of 5) which makes her NOT a Tsundere... But despite the fact that she's not a Tsundere, she's still one of my favorite characters.. (Would be better if she's a tsundere)

Note: Some said that she's a mixture of mixture of Kuudere, Yandere, and Tsundere. (I don't really understand what is a Kuudere or Yandere).

Korean Otaku Marries Anime Body Pillow?!

Now this is weird.. Actually this is the first time heard that someone would go that far to show their love for Anime Characters, but later on I found out that this is not the first time that an Otaku married a fictional character (!).

Anyway, this Korean Otaku married a body pillow featuring a Japanese Anime Character, Fate Testarossa from the Anime Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.

He also takes his wife (?) out on dates to a restaurant and amusement park..  Well I guess, different people have their own ways to express their love.. what a weird world :D

With his wife at the Amusement Park

Here's the vid... It's on YouTube.

Winter 2010 Anime

I know it's been a while, but just wanna make a short summary of Anime that I finished watching on Winter 2010 (December 2009 - February 2010).

--- Might Contain Some spoiler, proceed at your own risk ---