neko's thinkbox

After a late night talk with Neko, I decided that you know, I live in the boonies, and interenets are slow in the boonies ergo internet video sucks in the boonies. Rather than post a preview of next season (BTW, I’m on summer ‘09 NOW), I’ll do the most difficult thing to do: Figure out which is better, the manga or the anime.

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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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My shoe in your face, faggot!

Just woke up with a headache, and after reading a couple of mails, I just felt like ranting here.

Due to my current Ar Tonelico addiction, I went to amazon.jp and wanted to order the Ar Tonelico 1&2 mangas + some doujin anthologies, the whole about 5000 Yen. Shipping+charges would have been approximately the same amount, which I thought was already pretty horrendous, and one item was even a marketplace item so I couldn’t have it shipped to Luxembourg anyway.

Then I remembered what someone suggested to me once, which was to use the Tenso service, some kind of revolutionary (sic) thing that would give you a Japanese address which would upon receipt and payment forward your orders to your own address, and apparently would make you save shipping fees and charges immensely. Well, I checked the rates and they were pretty much the same as amazon’s, but the difference was that marketplace items would be shipped there, too. So I thought to myself, chansu!

Chansu my ass. My orders arrived today at my Tenso address, and unlike the 2 packages amazon said it would be, there were 3 packages. And what does Tenso do? It calculates shipping costs and charges for the three packages SEPARATELY, which ends up being something short of 9700 fucking Yen! And if the three packages were bundled/joined, I’d be paying only about 5500 Yen or so. More than 4000 Yen saved! The reason I wanted to use Tenso was to SAVE money, not pay twice as much. COMMON SENSE, right? Sent them a mail already with this complaint, blissfully ignoring the small note somewhere in the FAQs that they “do not currently provide a service to bundle multiple parcels together“.

I’m pretty sure they’ll reply with the same answer, and I am pretty sure that this was the first and last time they’ll see me there, too. Just why didn’t I go with Rinkya? They would have bundled the packages allright, and come cheaper than this pile of false advertisement. Of course, the one to blame is myself, because I naively took that page at face value. Gosh, I hate such unnecessary expenses, especially with my expensive UK studies which start next month…

If you can, avoid Tenso.

Want a spoiler?

“Courage” is lost.

Actually, this series wasn’t really high on my Catching up to clearing list. But due to unforeseen circumstances – read: hints and spoilers on twitter – my utmost curiosity was awakened, thinking to myself, “that is impossible“. And now I’m here. But before joining the new conjecture bandwagon fad, I’ll first drop a few comments about the series so far.

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What am I going on about?

And before you go “dunno, lol”…

Well, as previously announced on twitter, I’m posting a whole blog entry in a vain attempt explaining how awesome (or not) this day was.

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Following up on my last entry and comments, I am finally reaching a decision.

Once again I am sorry to litter up the aniblogosphere with my own personal problems, I initially tried to make it a relevant topic but now it’s just being a general annoyance. Saying that this would be the last post where I expose my real situation and feelings would most likely be a lie, because I have yet so much to say about life and stuff. Perhaps I should open a side blog or something, I don’t know.

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