Otaku~nya

ALright in this section, that I plan to do regularly (weekly) I will discus on anime song, and rate it on several aspects.

Today, I will talk about Konna Ni Chikaku De, which is the first ending of the anime: Nodama cantabile. Crystal Kay sings this song.

I will rate this song on several aspects:
-Tune 20/100
-Lyrics 30/100
-Fitting to the anime? 10/100
-Enjoyment 40/100

Tune:15/20
The tune of the song is quite adorable. It's a happy, fun song to listen too and makes me feel happy. But since the song is over 4 minutes if you just listen to the tune it get's quite boring after about 3 minutes. The best part of the tune is, in my opinion, the last 10 seconds or so. I rate this tune 15 out of 20, because of the happiness and the good feel it gives me, and that are positive aspects, but since it gets boring before the song is finished I can't give it higher then this.

Lyrics:27/30
For this subject, I look at how the japanese lyrics sound and the english translation, so I know what it is about. First of, I really love the way the japanese lyrics sounds. Sometimes Crystal Kay sings English and this also fits in perfectly. The english lyrics are, unlike the tune, quite sad actually. The song is about a girl who is in love with her friend, but can't tell him. The lyrics fit the situation perfectly as this would be exactly how I'd feel. I rate it 27 out of 30, since I really love the lyrics in every way. The only minus was the fact that the lyrics are sad and the tune is really happy.

Fitting to the anime: 1/10
Alright, the one big minus to this song is it doesn't really fit the anime. True in the anime Nodame loves Chiaki, but she does tell him, frequently in fact. She keeps buggin him with it ^^ Therefor I can only give the song 1/10. It gets the one point for being about a girl in love with her friend, since Nodame is in love with Chiaki.

Enjoyment:35/40
Personally, I find this the most important part of a song. How much do I enjoy it. Well, I really enjoy listening to this song. Although listening to it to much makes me said, especially when she sings: "You Don't understand, I'm so in lvoe with you." The songs is very emotional and that is one of the reasons I like it so much. Another reason is it is easy to sing. Even the second time I heard it I was able to song a few lines and that increases my enjoyment. All in all, I rate it a 35 out of 40 for being very enjoyable.

Verdict: 78/100
This is a very good song, and it is certainly worth listening to.

Hello, Another note from me!

Today, I will speak about a must have item for Otaku: The Body Pillow. Okay, I don't completly think of myself as a Otaku, but more as a wanabe-otaku. I love anime more then anything, but I still have social contacts and don't watch anime every free second of the day, nor is it all I talk about. My room isn't completly anime (yet) and I still need lot's and lot's more anime stuff. But I think an Anime Body Pillow is a must have for an Otaku. I admit, I still don't have one... But I'm looking for one I like.
The thing with Anime Body Pillows is that most of them have a picture of a hot girl on it. I know, most people wouldn't really think of that as a problem (I understand that, I'm not completly retarded) But since I'm a girl, I'd rather look at the face of a bishounen then a bishoujo. It would be really nice to go to bed at night, hugging one of my favorite bishies until I fall asleep. I'm sure that would make it more fun for me to go to bed, just to look at his face. *fangirl dream*

I don't really have anything against body pillows of bishoujo. I really do like the 'Little busters' body pillow at the beginning of this story. The girl looks so cute like that, you would really just want to hug her. There is just one teeny-tiny problem. On closer observation (Yes, at first I didn't notice, I had almost bought it, it's totally moe) you see her showing of her panties. Like most body pillows this pillow shows a sexy girl, being sexy and showing of her underwear/body. Which if it's not too much isn't really a problem for me, but I know, for a fact, that people I hang out with, and people like my family, will look weird at me when they see me sleeping with a pillow of a hot girl. And I understand why, honestly I do. But I still want one.
And that is why I've been looking for a bishounen body pillow. Noone will look strange if I sleep with a guy pillow. (What kind of world are we living in, if people will think I'm weird for having a cute girl on my pillow.) But I live in europe, and it's really hard to find body pillows here. Not even anime ones, but normal ones as well. And if I do find them, they are mostly hot girls. So for earlier explained reasons I can't really buy them T-T.
I do believe that when I got one (doesn't matter if it's a girl or a boy) I will buy more and more and more pillow casings. Just looking at them on the internet (right now, actually) makes my otaku-me go: OOOOOOh I want, I want, I want so badly!. They are totally adictive =D
So if anyone sees a relatively cheap, noice body pillow, please let me know, because I'm dying to get one.

Tsundere.For people who don't know this phenonmen (Be ashamed of yourself. What kind of otaku are you!?) a tsundere is most of the time a girl who acts all cool, and though, but is very kind on the inside. Tsundere is comes from the words "tsuntsun" and "deredere," meaning "aloof, pointed, morose" and "exhausted, lovestruck" respectively. A tsunderekko (tsundere girl) can express this in one of two ways:

1) She is initially combative/aloof/cold, either towards the protagonist or everybody, and through the course of the story opens up and becomes emotionally vulnerable and loving (basically a personality shift through time).

2) She is combative/aloof/cold on the outside, but secretly she feels very vulnerable and loving (basically she puts up a farce to hide the 'real her').

Escpecially the most recent anime show characters that are Tsundere, or Tsundere like. Many well-liked characters are tsundere's, like for example Kagami Hiiragi, from lucky star or shana from shakugan no shana. But why do we like this characters so much? What is it in these characters that make us relate to them.

I know why I like them. I relate to them myself. No matter what I feel, I keep it in, and get annoyed when people ask me about it, or make me blush. I am tsundere. That is one of the reasons I love tsundere characters. I feel like I'd act the same way, and I can relate to what they feel and do. But that is just why I like them. WHat made them become so popular?

I think Tsundere characters are so popular because they are cute. It is great to see the mean, strict girl go to a crying girl who is sad because she once again got angry at the guy she loved. Many people will relate to that, because a lot of girls and guys just the same, screw up when they talk to their love interest and regret that later. Tsundere characters posses this threat, but greatly enlarged. Anyone cna relate to their feelings of regret and this makes their characters a lot more enjoyable.

Another reason why tsundere's are liked is because they are the characters showing the most emotion. They are most of the time really irritated, anooyed and also violent, but when they have their deredere moments they are just as sweet as they are otherwise violent. By having more emotion the characters are more interesting. And when a character is more interesting they are most of the time also better liked. Complicated characters have more fans then shallow once.

Like many of the other typical anime stereo-types, tsundere are very popular.

I might actually talk about some other stereo-types, if people would like that, and maybe even some more about tsundere but for now, I have finished my talk