When Anime Breaks Into Song

You know what's kind of irritating? Having a song stuck in your head. It's even worse when the song isn't one that you really like all that much. I tend to get anime themes trapped in my mind, and they're often from series that I've seen maybe one episode of before dooming it to the recycle bin for all eternity. But this really takes the cake. My review for Taishou Yakyuu Musume hasn't been posted yet, but the first episode has an unexpected musical number in it that's been stuck in my head since I first watched it. It didn't help that I took the time to upload it to Youtube, and thus had to hear it more times while I was editing the video. So if you haven't heard it yet, here's the accursed thing for you. Share in my pain.



Please don't hate me too much.

Worst EVER!

...Or so one would think listening to forum chatter (which is a bad, bad idea, I tell you). Something that continues to amuse me no matter how many times I hear it and how many new anime seasons I sample is the enraged outcry of at least one person proclaiming that the current/upcoming season is "the worst ever" and how "anime continues to go downhill." To me this is mostly a case of what someone online cleverly deemed "rose-colored nostalgia glasses;" of course anime of the past seems better, because we've all forgotten the junk that was released alongside it. Can any average anime fan name even ten or even five other anime that came out the same year as something like Cowboy Bebop or Neon Genesis Evangelion? I would guess probably not.

The only thing that bothers me a bit (judging mostly from this image of upcoming series) is that there seem to be more sequels than usual, and many of them are sequels of series that I haven’t watched which makes them difficult to write about, and I don't really feel like doing the prerequisite "research" on Inu Yasha (and I think more Queen's Blade will turn me into mush).

Anyway, the moral of this story is to lighten up and just watch a few series. I'm sure just about anyone will find something that they enjoy, and maybe others will learn to broaden their horizons.