neko's thinkbox

YAMI WO KIRISAKU OH DESIRE

Reminds me, I still need to catch up to Umineko. Later, later.

After finally clearing all minor and some major hindrances (I sadly couldn’t manage to clear my anime backlog yet though), here’s finally my go at this Fall ‘09 season, 3-4 weeks in already (hence “belated”).

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I didn’t know her, but it was pretty much love at first sight.

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Such a sweet composition, really. But sadly, I can’t say the same about this anime.

However equivocal the title’s claim might sound to you, I think it makes most sense in the case of Basquash. Not so much for its actual tragic content, but for the painful, epic tragedy my viewing experience of this whole anime has become.
 
Here’s a couple of thoughts I want to share with you.

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And just when I thought I’d be going to bed at 3 AM, ding, incoming feed: the Ar Tonelico 3 official website is now live!!

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While I’m stalling on the already long ended Spring/Summer season, and while social life is (fortunately) picking up as of lately, I’m kind of glad to have something interesting to report on: A new wave of figures, because I don’t mind dilapidating my tuition money the big way.

…So. The first figure, obviously still fueled by my ongoing Ar Tonelico frenzy, is Luca from AT2! Coincidentally, it arrived in the same week as the first announcement of Ar Tonelico 3, which makes me even more enthusiastic about this beautiful figure!

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Yatta!

Image byアキ (aki).

We couldn’t have dreamt of a better way to celebrate our move to a new host and domain than hearing the great news that neko’s thinkbox has been accepted into 9rules!
The results were out not even a day after the move, but there were still some formalities to take care of. All the better, since it took us a little while to get accustomed to this faster place… ;)

Whether the join requirements and the screening are (less) strict (nowadays), and whether 9rules is overrated or not is up for debate (not on my watch, though) but either way – we’re extremely proud to have made it through the 150 applicants (it was our first try, too!).
This has been the first recognition this blog has ever gotten in almost three years, too.

Hopefully, entering this new realm of blogging will be an even higher motivation to improve the quality (and frequency? ) of our content so we can entertain you, the reader, and hopefully get you thinking as well (without thinking too hard, this ain’t college). We love watching anime and write for fun, but we also love to hear your precious input, so please keep at it! It’s all part of broadening each others’ views, or something like that…. hum. Arr, I am not really a sucker for cheesy lines, so I think I’ll just skip the speech.

Thanks to the 9rules staff for taking their time to appreciate and acknowledge neko’s thinkbox, and, most importantly, a big thank you to all our (faithful) readers for staying with us!
We hope you will all enjoy reading this blog in the future, too. ;)

-nekosasu and Matt and…? (You shall be reminded that we are still looking for writers… :P)