A Day At School
Friday, April 11th, 2008Follies… we all have them. Today I had a nice little one; insignificant, though raises an interesting question.
It was hard to escape that first Lucky Star commercial from last Spring, in fact I still haven’t escaped the thing. A year ago I set my cell ringtone as Konata making that murmur-ish noise, since it was distinctive and I have trouble answering the phone (or listening for the thing). Well, I think my phone has been on vibrate for 90% of the time since I set the tone (usually from me sitting on it and causing it to tantrum into silent mode), but it isn’t always.
Today, we had the weekly quiz in I am un-HaXor class A, and it just so happened that 5 seconds into it, when all the paper-motion had stopped, and the room was silent, Konata starts her noise. <.<) (>.>… D: I fumbled to get the thing on silent, which it obviously wasn’t, and everyone started laughing. It is a funny noise, but this raises some questions.
Why wasn’t the phone not on vibrate, when statistically it should have been? Did any of those ears recognize what that noise was? I am not sure if any of them did. This is strange because I can walk around the CS building and see people with TTGL desktops, NERV messenger bags, or reading scanlations and manga tankoubon. It’s pretty normal, but I don’t think this local demographic, while accepting of Japanese anime/manga, have any idea about the notions of kawaii, moe, mahou shoujo, etc (the less run-and-gun type stuff). I’d even say most that do take to the media, are entirely incoherent when it comes to animeblogs.
I should just run around yelling
No I wont do that (not GAR E-nuff), but I have always wondered how big is anime blogging, especially locally. Also, how “otaku” are these local players? My future intent, when I come across unfamiliar faces sporting J-media, will definitely be to ask about their range of interests and if they ever happen to read these jolly ole’ things.
Most likely they will run…
but better not run like this… WILL FOLLOW DEM!
Ryan A
