There's no way a little sister anime can be this good.

If you were to tell me that there was this great new anime series called "There's no way my little sister can be this cute," I'd look at you strangely and slowly back away. But, in a fit of boredom, I watched it, and it was good. Well, better than I thought it would be.

This is mainly because the main male lead is such a good character. Kyousuke just wants a normal and dull life (like Rincewind form Discworld), and stays in the background. In contrast, his little sister, Kirino, is an overachiever, and thus is the favoured child. She's also a tsundere of the worst sort, so I don't like her that much. The two are distant and have a badly broken if existent relationship.

This is all turned on its head when Kyousuke finds out that Kirino is actually a closet otaku obsessed with, ironically enough, little sister eroge.

Repeat to yourself, it's just an anime, you should really just relax.

But not only does Kyousuke agree to keep Kirino's habit a secret, he also agrees to help Kirino find people like her. He would win just because of that little fact, but it turns out that the plot would do anything to cause trouble, and he usually sacrifices himself for Kirino, who both bosses him about and beats him up along the way.

Yeah, I really don't like Kirino.

Which is a shame, because she is, literally, the only character I detest. I like Saori and Kuroneko, the two other otaku; I like Manami and her family, who are somehow able to be simultaneously both kind and hilarious; I like Kyousuke's mum, who sticks up for him when he has to go up against his dad; I even don't mind Kyousuke's dad and Ayase, who provide an interesting antagonism to the otaku plot (and I understand them drawing the line at the NSFW material, I mean seriously Kirino, WTF?). But Kirino's there to be 'adorably' tsundere, and the ungrateful whelp doesn't deserve help. (Okay, she says thanks once. Once.)

Besides, the thoroughly unlikeable female lead, this is a decent anime. Check it out.

Oh, and KyousukexManami forever.

A morbid conversation

P1: (Me and a group of friends sitting around a table)

Me: Say, out of all of us, who do you think will die first?

P2: Darcy: Julio, can't you think of something a little less morbid to talk about?

P3: Me: Oh, fine. Something more lively...

P4: Me: Who do you think will live the shortest among us?

P1: Me: So, who do you think?

P2: Ned: Calum.

Me: Why?

P3: Ned: He'll probably say something like "I can make this jump."

P4: Nick: "I can block this bullet with my skull."

P1: Me: I'll probably die early. My genes have provided me with poor health.

P2: Ryan: Julio! You shouldn't think like that! Think positive!

P3: Ryan: "I am living my life to the full! I am NOT dying!"

P4: Me: Well, technically I am.

Ryan: This is the type of talk we're trying to avoid.

P1: Darcy: Well, in my family all the women lived over 90.

P2: Darcy: Yet all the men died around 60.

P3: Julio: Well, women do live longer than men.

P4: Ryan: When I'm 80, I'm going to have a sex change.

P1 Me: What?

Ryan: If I change sex when I'm 80, I might get an extra ten years.

P2: Ned: So, when you're 80, you're going to have doctors surgically operate on your abdomen.

P3: Ned: This is going to make you live longer, how?

P4: Ryan: Wait 70 years, and then you'll see my genius.

Me: Well, I would probably be dead by then.

Imagine

On the ninth of October, 1940, one of the greatest musicians of humanity, certainly the 2oth century was born. He would grow up on the advent of rock, and would gather a group that would change music forever.

Happy Birthday, John Lennon.

Ai is love

...Well. You know how I said that I only fanboy over one and only one character, the ever-so-perfect Yuki Nagato?

It's quite possible that another character may join this exclusive list.

Amagami is an anime that deals with the age old problem of compressing many routes of a VN into one timeline of anime in a unique way. Every four episodes a girl is pursued then the universe resets to start the next arc. This is because there is no 'true' girl in Amagami, every route is as canon as each other. One of the many side effects of this format is the drastic personality change of the main character, Junichi Tachibana (hereafter referred to as JT) to better fit the arc. So far there has been three arcs, three girls, and three JTs:

• 'Puppy' JT and Haruka Morishima. Haruka is possibly insane, and JT, bless him, reciprocates by acting like a dog. Fetish Fuel: Kissing the back of the knee.
• 'Rival' JT and Kaoru Tanamachi. Bro Arc. Sexy hair. Humorous denial of feelings. 'I'll show you something better than stars'. Fetish Fuel: Making out with a belly button.
• 'Instructor' JT and Sae Nakata. Shrinking Violet. Fourth wall is broken in an attempt to spice up the most boring arc. Fetish Fuel: Between the toes.

But I"m not here to talk about them, as you might have realized. I'm here to talk about none other than the seriously sexy Ai Nakasaki. Yes, that's right. The anime hasn't even focused on this character, and what we have seen of this character is seriously minimal. Anime-wise, Ai is just a satellite character so far.

So why am I gushing over such a character? Well, apparently I am genre savvy enough to recognize a character I would like from a few seconds of animation. I just didn't know how much I would like this character. But she was appealing enough to make me skip to reading the manga as the anime was taking its time to reach her arc. That in itself should have been a clue, as I did something similar with Nagato-san and Disappearance.

And oh, boy, if the anime was half as appealing as the manga was, I would be a very happy man.

• 'Awesome' JT and Ai Nakasaki. Dialog made of win and awesome. Kuudere. Awesome scenes both funny and sexy. Fetish fuel: Ai Nakasaki

Admittedly, Ai is not as awesome as Yuki, being, you know, human. But she makes up for it in pure sex appeal and snark. They both even have awesome character songs.

So, Ai's inclusion into the fanboy list is a great possibility. Kaede from Angel Beats was the last contender up for nomination, but she lost points in her later episodes for losing some of her independence.

So, Ai, are you up for the task of being comparable to the likes of Yuki Nagato? Only time will tell as your arc comes around.

Love +

This is really, really old news. But still, it's worth talking about, as I find it very interesting. A while back, a Japanese (of course) college student married a video game character named Nene Anegasaki. An actual wedding, of course, with all the bells and whistles attached.

Man, how did he break that to his parents.

Um, however, while I can talk about how obsessive and sad the way certain people can take this 'waifu' concept, it has been done repeatedly, I find such a thing boring.

What I find interesting is quite the reverse. Rather than talk about the fall of real man, I shall talk about the rise of the artificial girl. No matter how sad someone might have been in the past, no one would even dream of exchanging vows with an artificial construct. But now, Love plus has broken this barrier (for better or worse, or worse still) and apparently simulated the male's ideal of a mate well enough for this to happen.

Note that I said the male's ideal of a mate. I am in no way saying that Konami have made an accurate female simulation. What they done is take the Tsundere, Yamato Nadesiko, etc. archetypes and made appeals to the otaku heartstrings (through their libidos).

The character married in question is described to be "a mature person", and is one year older than the protagonist. If I had to marry a character from that game...

...you know what? I don't even play the damn thing, so why screw around with metaphysical speculations. I've already met people who claim to have waifus and they creep even me out. Diehard Yuki Nagato fanboy, remember.

And on that note, here's a pic of the very lovely data interfaces of Suzumiya Haruhi.

Purgatory (& emotionless girls)

I've just realized something. I'm an emotionless girl whore.

...

That is to say, I'm a whore for emotionless girls, instead of an emotionless girl who is also a whore. I'm written before on Yuki Nagato, the only thing I'll ever fanboy over, and now I've just marathoned Angel Beats! which has Tachibana Kaede, who has unsurprisingly become my favorite character.

However, look at this.

This is a recent popularity poll for the characters in the anime. The orange bar is Kaede (Tenshi) and has a staggering amount of votes. The only other character that comes even close is TK, who is just so fucking hilarious that's not surprising. I mean, I mean, just watch the damn anime.

And now I'm being distracted. Hah. Later.

The Dice Roller's Dilemma

Technically, when you roll a dice each number has an equal opportunity to land face up. However, we all know this is not the case. We all know that the damn things apply Murphy's Law, and we damn know that the smug little bastard to your left gets all the good rolls. So, naturally, we try to cheat chance, fool fate and do whatever seems reasonable to appease the Random Number God.

Two prevailing theories have led to the dice roller's dilemma:

1. A die that has consistently got good rolls is a 'good' die. Roll this die.
2. A die that has consistently got good rolls has used up its 'luck'. Don't roll this die.

Isn't that sweet?

Mind you, this applies to any random number generator, including gambling and the lottery. Almost every person who buys a ticket chooses numbers that pop up often, following theory one, or rare numbers following theory two.

Which theory, if any, works? That's the thing with random. You never know.

Comedy (a possible stand up sketch)

Ahem. Hello, hello. Ah. This is my first time to do a stand up, so please be gentle, okay?

As this is my first time to this sort of thing, I have tried to look up how to make this little thing entertaining. So, I searched for things that make people laugh.

And you know they did scientific reseach on this topic, and you know what they found to be the most likely things to make people laugh?

Things that are not actually funny.

...I'm screwed.

But have you noticed that comedians don't really tell jokes anymore? No, do you know what they do? They talk about stuff. Apparently real life is so ridiculous that comedians make people laugh just by talking about it. That's really sad when you think about it. Of course, they tell it with a certain flair that makes it funny instead of depressing. This 'flair' really depends on your audience. If your audience is left-wing, you talk about the stupidity of the right-wing. If your audience is right-wing, you talk about the stupidity of the left-wing. If you are Anglo-Saxon you talk about Indians. If you are Indian you talk about the Japanese. If you are Japanese there will be two of you; one to be stupid and the other to provide the physical abuse that signals for the audience that it is okay to laugh now.

Now the only thing left is for some smart-ass to realise this and attempt a stand up based around this... oh, wait. Ha.

You can can either laugh at the stupidity of life or you can cry because of it, folks.