Overdue Update
Decided that with tumblr deciding to nuke half its content I better check on my blog and make sure nothing was flagged. As you could probably guess after almost two years of no real updates or posts, I’ve stopped messing with this (wow an update about ‘leaving’ I haven’t seen this recently). When I first saw Cat Soup it took me weeks to get it out of my head. For a year anytime I met someone who said they liked anime I told them to watch it, regardless of whether I thought they’d enjoy it. Eventually I learned there was a manga and read the 4 chapters that existed at the time. I was so excited to read them that I read thru them while working a shift at a food service job. I’d read a chapter and then just mull it over, re-reading it in my mind. Despite Nyako and Nyatta being absolutely despicable characters their ability to see the world as cruel and take advantage of it was sort of inspiring to me. For a solid week I was honestly upset that I couldn’t be Nyako and Nyatta, that I cared a little too much about the random person yelling at me thru the shitty drive-thru intercom, and I think this is completely intended.
Everything I’ve seen or read about Nekojiru suggests that she was someone who saw the absolute worst in people (especially herself) and was terrified and bewildered that other people couldn’t see it to. You read her picture journal (being translated by the very cool @enjoynekojiru) and it’s full of her observations of the normal world falling to pieces and her being the only one who seems to notice or think it’s strange. You have the diary entries in Udon like the dog with worms where young Nekojiru expresses an interest in seeing the worms (a natural dark side of the world) and being treated with disdain for it. Her fascination with India is a further example of this where she seems to see it as a world where no decency exists and that it still magically keeps spinning.
Right now (and for the past 2ish years) that view just doesn’t interest me like it used to. Perhaps it’s because I quit that job, left highschool, and adopted the shitposter’s “who gives a shit” attitude. It’s strange, I don’t think I’m particularly in a better or different mental space as when I started this blog, but I just don’t really care about Nekojiru nearly as much. It helps that there’s not really anything left that I can do for this ‘community’. The Udon posts where just from some random 4chan thread that I found while looking for info about Nekojiru, the scans are just @deadscanlations‘ work, the ‘new’ ones are just taking the tv show (Nekojiru Gekijou) and pasting the text in because the show is just recreating the panels. I guess I could scan in the books I have, but I don’t have access to a real scanner and I’m sure I’d fuck something up that a ‘pro’ would spend too much time fixing. Nekojiru may be super obscure outside of Japan, but her books are all under 5 bucks online, probably would be easier for a scan group to just buy the books themselves or the two collections of her works.
Anyway here’s all my material on Nekojiru, raws, some screensaver, Monster Inside of Me album, and other random stuff. Please import it to your drive and keep it alive in other iterations. Maybe something similar has been released elsewhere, but just in case: https://mega.nz/#F!NEhUnaAS!BJuy7bokn11BPNBLSl_Y0A
And with that, officially stopping. It’s been fun, everyone I’ve talked to has been cool, @deadscanlations has given me lots of help, just by following people who follow me my feed is pretty dope (though I rarely use this). I took a year of japanese because of wanting to translate nekojiru. I still want to (actually) translate stuff and maybe I’ll come back eventually, but right now I have nothing to easily contribute and my drive has seriously dimensioned. It’s so cool to see nekojiru spread and I realize it’s probably thru other people, but I like to think that I helped a little. Anyway, was fun.
TL;DR The blog that has been doing nothing for over two years is still doing nothing and will likely never do anything. Surprise right?
