Month: October 2010

Őszi félév

October 2, 2010
valeblog
0 Comment

A mai nappal elkezdődött a 2010/11-es tanév “őszi” szemesztere. A napom javát suliban, de többségében nem órákon, hanem a felsőbbévesekkel töltöttem, gyűjtöttem az infókat, hogy mit érdemes és mit nem fölvenni. Persze túl sok érdemi javaslatot nem kaptam, amit meg igen, azt ütközés miatt nem tudom (ebben a félévben fölvenni). Aztán itthon összeraktam úgy nagyjából az órarendemet. Ennél többet ha lehet, nem szeretnék fölvenni. Ebben a félévben már direkt figyeltem rá, hogy olyan tárgyakat vegyek föl, amik a bizonyos szükséges csoportokba esnek, hogy fogyjanak a kötelezően teljesítendő kreditjeim. Ha ezt a félévet is sikerrel zárom, akkor másodévre már csak nyolc kreditnyi “nehéz” tárgy (コア科目) marad – amennyit ebben a félévben fölveszek, és akkor még mindig csak másodév. Ahogy nézem, vizsgaidőszak körül nyögni fogok tisztességesen, de különben elég laza lesz most (előadások többségben). Csak majd szereznem kell (megint) egy határidőnaplót, mert a régit elhagytam Pekingben.

További hír, hogy ma végre megjött a Xros Wars zenesáv (új (?) szó, hogy mondják magyarul a “soundtrack”-et?) cd, úgyhogy miután hazaértem, elsődleges prioritás volt a feltöltés és a borító beszkennelése.

Hyakko!

October 2, 2010
valeblog
0 Comment

You want light and easy entertainment? Here you get it. Hyakko is the perfect anime if you just want something funny without too much of a deeper meaning. It’s about a bunch of girls at school, their everyday lives, and how they get to know their new classmates at school. There isn’t much of a story—most of the episodes focus on one character, and that’s all. True, occasionally there’s a bitter aftertaste to some scenes, but i think that this level of drama can be passed without disrupting the entertainment much.

Not to mention that as much as i love the character design of Naruto, Kageyama Torako is pretty much the same, just in a girl version. Not necessarily only the hair and eye colours.

I first started watching Hyakko back when it aired, together with Toradora, but it ended up on a “hiatus” the same way too. Then this summer watching Toradora reminded me of the adventures of the Kamizono Academy girls. It was really worth watchin, i totally enjoyed it.

Above pic from アニメ壁紙タウン.

Metallica, Saitama Super Arena, 2010. september 26

October 1, 2010
valeblog
0 Comment

Dear AC/DC, you should seriously contact Metallica. Because what they did this sunday, that is what i call a show. Unlike yours. The two opening acts, The Sword and Fear Factory played for the usual “opening band” duration, not too short but not long enough to get fed up with it either.

And then, and then, and then, Metallica came on stage. Although i wasn’t in the standing-moshing crowd, because i could only buy a seat ticket to the opposite end of the arena, it still sends shivers down my spine when i think about it, and i have to say this wasn’t my first metal gig either. Although i think there were problems with the sound during the opening acts, the whole performance of Metallica, the whole show of Metallica, the whole concert Metallica gave, it was, to put it short, perfect. (Except for a bit of the background screen that died midway.) They played great old songs as well as newer hits, and though i didn’t know just like half of the songs (the Great Old Ones—although they didn’t play the Call of the Ktulu), it was fantastic, i didn’t even have time to space out.

Not to mention the feeling of looking down at the pit, for example during the Master of Puppets and seeing four meatgrinder moshpits swirling in the crowd. I so much wanted to be down there.

Do you listen, AC/DC? This is how you do a great show. You should’ve been there, it was epic. They even invited one guy, for whom this was his 100th Metallica show, on stage. Amazing. Now i understand why so many people have been there both days. I wish i was one of them.

Internet changes

October 1, 2010
valeblog
0 Comment

A couple of years ago in the scene i’ve belonged to online then, it was more or less customary that everyone starts a fansite or a “shrine” for the anime or band they loved. I still see some point in shrines. A shrine is a tiny website with only a few pages, a largely graphic design and minimal textual content devoted to the topic.

But a fansite is large(r), with quite a lot of work put into it, whatever the form of site is. Just writing the content and hunting down some rare images takes ages. I mean it, from experience. But just now i realised that i’ve never been to a fansite with the purpose to check out some info, or just read about details. And that’s the static content the writers (usually) put such insane amounts of work into.

Static content just won’t make people stay there. Once they’ve seen it all, without anything else to do they leave and probably never come back. What makes people stay and/or come back is dynamic content.

Forums, where on the one hand, they can interact with other fans, and on the other, generate unique content. News feeds, which is pretty much the same as writing a thematic blog. And if they still need the info, a cross-linked wiki is surely there in the blue with tons of data (part of which is user-contributed) on the topic. I wonder if other websites (anything beside communities, shrine-types, blogs and wikis, and of course webshops/download portals) would have a chance to survive at all. Like, at all.

終わり

October 1, 2010
valeblog
0 Comment

今シャワー浴びて寝る。10月1日、夜2時。明日(今日)起きると秋学期が始まる。いやだなぁ…

とりあえず、さようなら、夏。また来年ね。

準備戦備ができた。来い、授業。