Hot damn, has it really been that long since I watched anime? Wow. It still boggles my mind as to how I can simply up and quit all anime then months later, oh hey, look, I feel like watching anime again.

Really, what the hell is that about?

As the intro pic shows, I watched Mushishi. Yes, watchED. The whole thing. All 26 episodes… over the course of a few days, of course. My comp has been giving me shit for the past two weeks (long story) so yeah, had the urge to watch this show. I wasn’t particularly thinking about gettin’ back into anime but you know how it is… well, you know. How it is… that is… you know…

I’m also a lil buzzed at the moment, haha… so my attempts at being creative while blogging don’t even make it to the starting line right now.

Well, anyway, Mushishi was incredible. Absolutely brilliant. And you know I liked something when I actually describe it with the word “brilliant.” I surely hope they’ll make some more of this anime in the future. It’s based off a manga that runs in Afternoon, which is a monthly publication last I recall, so yeah… a one chapter per month manga is kinda tough to animate when you have to wait so friggin’ long for material.

It seems the manga is up to around 9 volumes and this series covered most of all the volumes up to volume 5 and a chapter in volume 6. Or something like that… I looked it up the other day but it’s a bit hazy now, heh.

The point being is that they should have enough manga to do a short series (12-13 episodes) or an OVA but probably not enough for a full 24-26 episode season. Hell, then again, I’m merely speculating (and supremely hoping) this will have more anime for it so who knows…

Hella hella good stuff. Hella… HELLA!

Oh, and I never thought of blogging it so I didn’t take screenies or jot down any notes. This series would have made a great series for blogging but alas, all I got is that snazzy pic of Ginko up there… and I took that screenie just before I started typing all this up, hahaha.

Okie, that’s that. Maybe I’ll come back and blog this, who knows? Well, I do, actually… given how many times in this blog I’ve said “I’ll get back to blogging this later” or something thereof, this series has a 99.999999999999% chance of being forgotten in the annals of shit I never blogged. I may never utter the name Mushishi ever again.

…except for the occasional blurb and reference in the future.

…and except for when I feel like being silly and I do somemushishithing like that.

…and probably some other exceptions.

OK, maybe it’s more like 95%.

And since there’s a high chance I won’t bring this anime up again, I’ll give it a score for completest sake.

Overall series score: 9.7 out of 10

That is the highest score I’ve given to any series to date. There are a few series from back in the day, well before this blog, that would have a score that high or higher but hell if I’m gonna troll through all the anime I’ve watched and give them scores. Like, that requires work and stuff.

I also tagged this as a “mini-review” even though it’s not. I scored an anime, I have to put it in the “mini-review” category. I just have to. Blame the OCD.

I have plenty of shit to sort out for this blog, like the sidebar, since much of it is not accurate anymore. I went through it a lil bit but I’m too lazy and also, what the hell was I thinking when I wrote up some of this CSS. It’s so convoluted and, well, straight up retarded confusing.

Anywhooooo… we’ll see where I go from here for this blog.

Maybe I’m here, maybe I’m not.

Seriously. Eventually.

Srsly.

Games, anime, manga, and anything else that can be thrown in… they just don’t mix. I truly cannot balance them. Part of it is cuz I get so sucked into whatever it is I’m doing.

It’s probably a curse but honestly, I rather enjoy losing myself in my interests.

Usually.

In case it wasn’t obvious, games are winning lately.

No, that’s not true. Being lazy and fuckin’ around wasting time is winning.

Games are second. Among them, Odin Sphere is leading. The game feels like such a throwback to the old school shit yet it also feels so refreshing. For one, I would’ve never expected 2D to impress me so much.

Umm… there is no “for two.”

I’m sure I’ll watch something… eventually.

I opened the box.

Manga 1 | Everything Else 0

Yep. My lack of updates here is attributed to going on yet another manga binge (and a lil bit of gaming). I simply can’t get enough manga. Every time I run into a deadlock of series to read, I’ll spend an extensive amount of time searching for more. And once I do find more? Of course, I have to read everything.

It’s a never ending cycle. I’ll constantly “catch up” on every new series I find and thus, be without any manga to read. That cannot remain to be since I *have* to have manga to read. I’m just so into manga it’s beyond an obsession. It’s more like a curse.

Yet, I never blog it. More accurately, I never have the drive to blog it. I haven’t figured out why. There are some incredibly awesome series’ out there, many of which deserve to be mentioned at any given juncture, yet… this small juncture that is my blog is not one of them. No, I can’t consider the currently reading manga updates buried in the sidebar as a viable “mention” of said series’.

So why am I here? Will I finally mention some of the more pimp series’? Sadly, nope. I’m just at a crossroad. I’ve nearly caught up on everything I care for and felt like taking a breather. I may watch some anime on this, my precious day off since the manga I have left won’t suck up the entire day. Then there’s this lil Orange Box sitting next to me that I’ve yet to touch. It constantly calls to me.

“Open me.”
“Play me.”
“Quit ignoring me you sonuvabitch, it’s been over a week already.”

Manga. Anime. Games.

It truly is impossible to juggle them all.