starkissdream

Veterinary student. Old soul. Struggling musician. Educated Christian. Faithful friend. Intense bookworm. Daydreaming romanticist.

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Winter 2016 Anime

Finally got around to watching all of the first episodes of the new animes that have come out for the Winter 2016 season.  First up are the second seasons of things that I have watching in the past that I either really liked or just feel obligated to continue watching since I stuck it out for the first season:

Sequel Anime: 1. Ao no Exorcist: Kyoto Fujouou Hen (good) 2. Kono Subarashi Sekai ni Shukufuku 2 (good) 3. Rewrite 2nd Season (meh...kinda think it should have just ended with the first season) 4. Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu: Sukeroku Futatabi Hen (good) 5. Super Lovers 2 (if you’re into BL)

New Anime that I recommend: 1. ACCA 13-ku Kansatsu-ka: Follows the life of a young government worker in a fictional world tasked with keeping other branches accountable.  Not sure why this one interests me so much...maybe because of the art style- somewhat reminiscent of 90′s anime.

2. Demi-chan wa Kataritai: A young high school biology teacher meets 4 girls who are “demis” aka non-humans.  He discovers what the daily life of a vampire, dullahan, yuki onna, and succubus are like through interacting with them.  Good light hearted laugh.

3. Eldlive: A young boy who speaks with a voice that only he can hear in his mind is recruited to become a member of the space police (Eldlive).  There he finds that he has talent and skill despite being bullied, teased, and outcasted in his normal life.  This one is ok...I could do without to be honest but it is not terrible and gives me something else to watch.

4. Fuuka: About a boy who meets a girl named Fuuka.  Music draws them together and a young romance blooms.  Oh yeah, there’s a famous singer who is the boy’s childhood friend that likes him too.  Typical sweet, love triangle that frustrates you, but is entertaining none the less.

5. Gabriel Dropout: When you’re an angel and you graduate in the top of your class in Heaven, what do you do next?  Live in the human world, obviously.  Gabriel is a model angel who becomes sucked into the human world of online video gaming.  Very cartoonish girly characters and full of laughs.

6. Handshakers: A boy who is innately talented at fixing mechanical devices is summoned to fix something at a university.  There he finds a girl, holds her hand, and is transported into another dimension where he fights as a handshaker.  At first I thought I hated the semi-3D-ness of the art, but it is so well done that I just needed to watch more.  So far the storyline is just meh.

7. Kobayashi san Chi no Maid Dragon: A typical office worker lady saves a dragon as she walks home drunk one night.  In gratitude, the dragon decides to transform into a semi-human form and serve the lady as her maid.  Art style reminds me of Danna ga Nani Itteiru ka Wakaranai ken.  Very cute anime that is just funny to watch.

8. Kuzu no Honkai: The worst love hexagon you will ever see but can’t stop watching because it breaks your heart and makes you remember all of your “first loves”.  Seriously.

9. Masamune kun no Revenge: Teased as a child, Masamune vows to get revenge on the girl who stomped on his feelings.  He becomes unrecognizable in order to win her heart, only to achieve his revenge by dumping her in the end.  This series makes me laugh out loud at how silly each character is.  You just want to shake the screen and yell “just be honest with your feelings goddammnit!”.

10. Urara Meirochou: Young girls at the age of 15 travel to a town in order to learn how to become a diviner.  4 young girls come together at an apprentice house to learn and grow.  Very cartoonish, very moe.

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Yuri on Ice. This anime. I just can’t even. My ovaries.

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Fall 2016 Anime Watch List

This is for me personally and any one else who is interested in what new animes are out there and what I would recommend.  When each season starts, I attempt to watch the first episode of each anime before I make a judgement whether or not I want to continue watching the series.  Watching anime is time consuming, although entertaining, so I try to limit the number of series I watch at any particular moment (I try not to do more than 10 per season).  Without further ado, here are the series I am watching for fall 2016:

1. 3-gatsu no lion: This series follows a young, socially-awkward, brilliant shoji playing boy.  The artwork is different and beautiful.  Despite his young age, the boy’s inner voice is mature due to many hardships during his childhood.  The series follows him and 3 sisters who help him to discover how to live life again.  I think this will be a good series.

2. Ajin 2: This is a sequel from the first Ajin season.  This anime’s artwork is very different from what I usually watch.  It is raw and lacks the sparkly detail you would see in most shojo animes, but it fits the tone of this series.  This season picks up where the first season left off: Nagai Kei, while still apathetic, finally decides to take a stand against Sato in order to protect humans from the small group of violent ajin (mysterious creatures who grant humans immortality).  This is an interesting series, but if I hadn’t watched the first season, I probably would have ignored it.

3. Bloodivores: This series follows the protagonist who is the son of a human female and male bloodivore (aka vampire).  All of the characters have Chinese names (story is based on a Chinese web series) and the art is your average anime art.  The protagonist and his friends are framed for murder and sentenced to death, but arrive in Aori, a mysterious abandoned city, without a clue of how they got there or why they are there.  This series has started off rather mediocre, but I am hoping that it will rev up soon.

4. Fune o Amu: This series follows an awkward, deep thinking man and another more socially aware, good with words man who are working together to produce a new dictionary.  The first episode was interesting and caught my interest because of my introvert personality and how we tend to think and analyze things.  I think this series will be a good one as well.

5. Hibike! Euphonium 2: I was a band geek.  This anime is about band geeks.  Need I say more?  This season picks up where the last season left off- the band has just won the regional competition and is practicing for the nationals.  This anime is definitely not for everyone, but (concert) band geeks will relate.

6. Magic-kyun Renaissance: A typical shojo anime series.  Protagonist is a girl who transfers into a school which cultivates magic arts (basically people with artistic talent), however she has never been able to produce a magic art.  On the first day she transfers, she encounters 6 handsome men with remarkable magic arts.  This will most likely turn into some sort of reverse harem thing so if you’re not interested in cheesey girl-that-gets-together-all-the-guys stories, I would recommend you stay away.

7. Natsume Yuujinchou Go: A new season of Natsume!!!  I love this series.  It follows a high school boy that possess the ability to see and communicate with yokai- a trait passed down from his grandmother.  Each episode deals with a new yokai that Natsume encounters.  The art work is gentle and the yokai are not super creepy looking.  It is the type of series that leaves you feeling warm inside after each episode.

8. Occultic;nine: Every new season there is always that one anime that is random, weird, far out, something all of my friends ask “why did you recommend that to me?” that for some reason I enjoy the first episode and just keep watching.  This is it for me this season.  9 random characters are drawn together by their connection to the occult and go about solving mysteries.  The story line is not straight forward, and you see different snippets of what each character experiences which makes up the whole story.

9. Shuumatsu No Izetta: This series is set in a fantasy world which appears to be similar to our Europe.  The country of Germania (obviously Nazi Germany) has invaded its neighboring countries and the princess of one of those countries is on a mission to protect her county from the clutches of Germania.  She is reunited with an old friend, who is the supposed last witch, and the two set out to stop Germania from taking over Elystadt.  This series has very nice artwork with strong female protagonists.

10. Udon no Kuni no Kin’iro Kemari: This series follows a young man who returns to his hometown after his father passes away.  His father ran an udon shop however his son has no intention of taking it over.  While he is back home, the man runs into a child who appears to be lost in the closed down udon shop.  The man discovers that the young child is actually a tanuki and decides to take him in and quit his job in Tokyo. This feels like it is going to be a cute story with lots of udon involved.

11. WWW.Working!!: This is a new Working!! series.  While each episode is set in our beloved family restaurant Wagnaria, the crew is completely different (no Takanashi-kun) but none the less, extremely dysfunctional with daily crazy antics.  If you enjoyed the previous Working!! seasons, then you will enjoy this new cast as well.

12. Yuri!!! On Ice: Title is misleading- it is NOT about yuri (girl on girl action) rather it is about a male figure skater whose name is Yuri.  Yuri is a graduated college student who is currently in a slump with his figuring skating and is not sure which direction to take when suddenly, his Russian figure skating idol comes to his hometown.  I LOVE figure skating, and with Japan’s obsession over their olympic figure skater (Yuzuru Hanyu) you know this will be an anime geared towards the ladies (has similar undertones to Free!).  First episode was enjoyable.

13. Lostorage incited WIXOSS: This series follows a girl who moves back to her hometown and struggles to make friends in the school she has transferred into.  Everyone at her school appears to be playing a card game called WIXOSS, so she decides to learn about it in order to make new friends.  The deck she buys contains a mysterious card who tells her she now is forced to play a real life version of WIXOSS against other players with her memories at stake.  Artwork is very nice even though the heroine is whiny and annoying for most of the first episode.  We will see how this story progresses.

So there you have it- 9 new series and 4 continuing new seasons.  I hope to continue my blogging for each new anime season for my records as well as for those of you who are interested.  Want to know what else I have watched?  Go to mydramalist.info and look up user tealeaf808.  Happy watching!

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33 Cheap And Easy Ways To Throw An Epic Harry Potter Halloween Party

You can use dollar store finds and household items for an absolutely magical effect.

I really want to do this

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Recipes Inspired By Brownies

Chocolate Chunk Brownie Sticks

White Chocolate Chip Skillet Brownie

Peanut Butter Fudge Brownie Trifle

Fudge Brownie Pancakes with Chocolate Sauce

Brownie Cookies

Chocolate Cream Pie Brownies

Brownie Mosaic Cheesecake

Brownie Sundae Bars

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Educational pancakes.

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I’m impressed not only by the skill and creativity involved here, but also by the self-control it must require to not just eat all of them immediately.

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This takes playing with your food to a whole new level.  (I want food web brekky so bad. Trophic cascade into my tummy!!!)

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ぼたん

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http://food52.com/recipes/25289-cindy-mushet-s-italian-jam-shortbread-tart-fregolotta?yhoo=1

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Heather Theurer

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angry GMO, vaccine and science rant

As a person with a very strong background in science, I get very upset when I see people posting things about how vaccines give children autism or how GMO corn has an insecticide inside of it.  I get very upset when people jump to conclusions before doing proper research and wondering where their information is coming from.  I get even more upset when they try to get other people to agree with them when they have no clue what they are talking about in the first place.

Eating DNA does not kill you.  DNA that you consume does not get incorporated into your DNA.  If that were true, I would have turned into a carrot or potato by now.

Vaccinations do not cause autism.  That study was done by one scientist who gathered parents of about 8 children who were vaccinated and were showing GI signs that were looking to sue for money.  How is that a reliable piece of evidence?

Growth hormones are not used in chickens.  EVER.  Why then is everything labeled hormone and antibiotic free?  Consumer marketing.

Go wake up, do research and learn how to think critically.  I fear for the future of my country.

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Calling all cat lovers, THIS is your cake. 

(Source: Caroline)

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That water is so fucking clear…

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

But more importantly…

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A poetic and artful umbrella, Komorebi is based on a Japanese expression that approximately translates to “sunshine filtering through foliage.”

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Need

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To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.

oh look, my husband

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omg...my roommate just made me watch Mortal Instruments: City of Bones last night...it's a sign!!! <3

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old fut status

woah..what happened to xanga?  apparently they thought they needed to upgrade to xanga 2.0 and get all fancy.  so for those of you who havent been on xanga in a while, go check it out and have a laugh.