Aloe Dream

… was meager.

Rather than enjoying some anime before sleep, I’m going to blurb. How does a 36 hour period feel like 72? Well, without details, it is about diversity, and especially diversity of enjoyment.

There are times when seeing is epic and times when eating is insignificant, this was my lesson for the moment. I took out a notepad and began a list… 99 reason I should not anime blog. Roughly 24 reasons in, I thought it unfair, and columnized another heading, 99 reasons I should anime blog.

These lists will surface, eventually, incomplete and unnumbered. In short, the initial 99 reasons are quite amazing, as there are no relations to anime, nor downward thumbs; these are positive aspects, diversities, each fully establish in a life.

The converse list, will be similar, and though blank, atm, it will likely be moments in my experience with anime that influence my desire to blog… this is the sad list, as many of those moments have departed in the cyclical flux of my being, and waiting for another chance to shine in elder eyes that were once intrigued.

Diversity, confinement, and the relation between; a similar circumstance to my own. I believe the premise of AloeDream is movement upstream. Maybe I can anime blog, but I require a separate premise. Editorials are out, summaries are out, the “blog” is overkill for my reflections, meta-meta tastes bad, special purpose is more confined, and day-2-day is disconnecting. Is there any way to cope with diversity? 99 reasons.

As life beams the curve balls, we learn to hit them, but we soon find that we can run only one set of bases.

Ryan A, as in less violent definition of ‘A’mok.

Note: The usage of “should not” is not synonymous with “should stop” btw, I’m perfectly fine and nothing “occurred”, simply soft moments of silence, in an unfamiliar environment.

Series of 2007

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And just when we believed 2006 was some sort of awesome… the dawn of 2007. Alright, that’s probably not totally true. With the end of 2007 drawing near, it is time for year-end reflections. Yes, it is that time when bloggers confront their senses and memories with “best-of” questions. Yes, it is time to see the outcome of the pearly hands we were all dealt as viewers. Who wins? Who loses? What happened in 2007 that makes this a memorable year? Yes, all these things, will not be lost in time, they are just ahead.

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Yuzuki-sensei has a good sense about her.

I’ve rooted through the willy shakers, the perilous evils of the mind, and found my way to light! -_-,

One thing M;Y lacks is a strong story thread. I don’t want to be negative about it, but it makes the series more like a slice-of-life main dish, though it originally felt like the story would be progressive. The downfall to the way M;Y is presenting is that it just doesn’t connect the characters as strongly as say…. Kanon, where the connections between Yuuichi, et al. were built like a beach house on the Florida coast (for reference, that means very strong).

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Well, tehe, Kanon finished much different than I had expected. Previously I thought Ayu was down-and-out of the ordeal, but…

Poor thing. I’m not going to go into the story or theory on the magic that takes the cake for Kanon’s story, but it was enjoyable, heartfelt, and turned out light. (more…)