A thought about Easter

Well, with the German Easter holidays approaching, I started to wonder why there never was an Easter special in the animes I saw (at least I don’t remember). There is a focus on every little day that I barely heard about (e.g. St. Whites day, St. Patricks Day) but I saw an anime covering Easter? Why could that be?

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The H-Bomb: Hentai

To every other non-Japanese fan of anime, more often than not he or she gets ridiculed for watching “silly cartoons”, and this is normal. If you have not, I salute your awesomeness.

For every other non-fan of anime, he or she sometimes will make the association between anime and hentai, and then you wonder, “How the heck did you make that assumption?” Well the answer is that for some reason, the stereotype exists that all anime fans watch hentai, that “tentacle rape” stuff. I blame “Urotsukidoji” for propagating the hentai stereotype… not! That reminds me I need to watch “Urotsukidoji” myself to see what all the hype’s about. Continue reading

What’s So Good About Anime?

You might think that this is a funny or, at best, a silly question, but I want to thoroughly explore it because this entire community is dedicated anything and everything anime related. It’s important that we, as anime watchers, understand why we love anime so much that it creates an impact on society. If we didn’t like certain facets of anime, why would be watching it in the first place? In this post, I list the key aspects of anime that to me make anime so unique and addictive with an explanation for each: Continue reading

VLC is a piece of crap

Now this is a line everyone has heard every once in a while but apparently many people are still unable process that piece of information.
So instead of me writing a tl;dr post why it sucks, why don’t I just let Yuki explain to you why is that…

So please stop bitching about VLC being unable to play various encodes and use a proper player.