Yuqi DESTROYED Shuhua and Miyeon in a heated debate

 

Eve got noticed by the big guys!

Eve keep getting love calls from bigger and bigger anime studios and that's pretty dope! This time it's for anime "Jujutsu Kaisen". Looking at the first episode it's a fast-paced shounen revolving around Japanese spooky curse mythology. I'll watch some more episodes, but idk if I'll continue. 

The 1st episode is basically speed run to quickly get the ball rolling. Everything happened so fast there was no time to get attached to characters. I didn't give a fuck about the main hero's grandpa dying, tbh. I've found the unfunny jokes to be outdated and a bit lame. Some stock sound effects like from Cinema Sins' YT channel harmed the immersiveness. On the plus side though, the fight scene looked great and the hip-hoppy OST at the 1st monster encounter was cool. 

Now to the song itself - it's serviceable, but not the greatest Eve track. I thought it had pleasant guitar riffs, which is given for E ve, exotic Japanese instrument bits in the beginning and at the end perfectly matching with the water visuals, and decent pre- & chorus, but awkward low-energy one-note verses.

+ Get that MAPPA moolah + clout

-  Meh song

Fujo Keiji: BL Unlimited: Kimi Note is sexy and cute

It's a new fresh start for a blog-post series where I try to pull out thoughts out of my smooth brain on ancient/new BL manga and possibly other mediums that I happened to read/see that time and put that into words, this time with a new and I hope better name playing on the title of the anime Fugou Keiji: Balance:Unlimited [The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED], just because fugou kinda rhymes with fujo, haha.

Intro post here.

For the fresh RE:start I chose a manga that I like to occasionally go back to called Kimi Note. It combines four short stories. Out all of them I think the first one is the best, so I'll shortly "review" only that one after the jump-cut. 

Kimi Note (Your Note/Your Scent)

Eve are back on their track [Inochinotabekata] [いのちの食べ方]

Bibidi babi debu

Finally, eve, the lonely edgy weebs' dreams' sonic and visual representation, released a contender for Tokyo Ghetto's place in my book. Sure, some songs since then were aight and had incredible MVs, but none has grabbed me like Tokyo Ghoul Ghetto did until いのちの食べ方 came out.

I fucking love groovy shit in my songs as can be seen from the song rated first in this post. As soon as I heard bass guitar building up in the beginning I knew this song would be the shit. Although eve do write memorable melodies the main guitar melody in this song is especially pleasant. As in Tokyo Ghetto the verses stir up interest with rhythmic bass drum beat before slowing down for more memorable pre-chorus and then finally leading to chorus with great emotional YORUGA (or whatever he's saying), what sung besides similarly emphasized words doesn't matter (vocal melody is whatever). Unlike Tokyo Ghetto, where breakdown seemed to follow continuity of the song a bit better, here breakdown, while didn't sound awful, felt a bit shoehorned in. At the end Eve used a sneaky tactic of abrupt ending of the song playing into desire to hit that replay button again and again.

The MV is magnifique as always. It was done by one person, damn. Their name is Mariyasu. Their website is gorgeous. I like it. Although heavy, Japanese websites tend to be beautifully visually organised.

WPD did nothing wrong

It didn't violate those rules. I know, because I've visited WPD sometimes out of morbid curiosity and for encouraging myself that, wow, I can die any time in a sudden accident without me even registering it (unfortunately, probability of that actually happening is really low, because I'm mostly cautious, practically don't get out of my house and I'm a pussy). Unlike me, many people learned about how fragile life can be and that made them a bit more careful near heavy dangerous machinery, roads, Brazilian flip-flops, Chinese jaywalkers, etc. Yes, people made (sometimes) funny off-color jokes, but I don't think anyone actually praised violence. WPD subscribers were sympathetic towards deceased victims at their core and were often questioning how a particular unfortunate accident happened and what could be done to prevent it.

I think Reddit pulled (and will continue to do it) all the nails that stick out to appease stockholders & media or something. "We've thrown out all the smelly trash! We're all clean! See, guys!".

Many people agree with me that the ban was unnecessary.

D E M O N I T I Z E D

... for violating YouTube rules regarding sexual content. Advertisers don't like their ads on content that is not Christian or family-friendly. I'm sure Youtube guidelines is not the only thing that felt violated.

I think the framing is trying to tell us something

Jessi reacts to Zico's funniest joke ever

Jung Joon Young's "golden phone" is like a Poké Ball.

B-Lーshit: Nigatsu no Eden is awkward and dumb

I envision B-Lーshit¹ to be a series of blog posts where I share my thoughts on various BL manga be it good, bad or in-between. I used to be a big yaoi manga consumer in the past especially back in my school days. Now not so much, but I thought if I still waste my time on this shit from time to time I might as well write a quick post.

I'll be looking at all this BL shit from three points: 

Story. It's clear, I'll be judging the plot, if there's any, in my own smoothbrain way.

Let's go on a tangent a bit on "if there's any" part, which can be summarized by that phrase really. YAOI initially was the abbreviation for "Yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi" meaning "No peak (climax), no fall (punch line/denouement), no meaning". I don't think the term is wildly used in Japan anymore. Instead the term BL is used for both yaoi (has explicitly shown sex scenes) and shounen-ai (no explicit butt sex), probably. At least, that's how I use the term BL, haha, hence the title of the series. However, I still use the terms yaoi and shounen-ai along with English speaking manga sites, and I read mostly yaoi, 'cos it gets faster to the point. That's all being said, I think that initial term holds true to this day coming from the fact that many yaoi manga are generally one shots or not too long and basically are homoerotic hentai drawn by women for women.

Art. Because manga is a visual medium, the way it's drawn is as important as the story for me, if not more in many cases. I can look over bad plot if the art is good depending on my mood.

Sex scenes. YAOI also stands/stood for "Yamete, oshiri ga itai" ("Stop, my ass hurts!") among fujoshis. As I said, yaoi/BL/whatever is basically a homo porn by fujos for fujos. The main outcome of "the story" is often smutty love making in BL. If the sex scenes and the art is very good in my book, it's capable of trumping over non-existent story depending on my mood.

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Nigatsu no Eden

Oi, mate! You got a loicense for that software?

It is unacceptable that Cube's biggest cash cow Hyuna can't afford computer programs that are important for her music career and have to pirate them! It's all your fault, Cube!

Lee Jungyeop-nim, I don't feel so good

La fine.

Dongwoo taking it like a champ

Monsta X nip slip