Karasu-kun's Comments (333)

If it is real, they'd have to do a lot to it to make it embrace all of that weight effectively. Japanese design philosophies never cease to amaze me and make me smile. ( View formatted comment » )

yum-my. ( View formatted comment » )

I've always hearted BT, streaming sites never do it for me. I'm one of those people that if I like a series and find an HD/better quality version later on like Boxtorrents or something, I'll redownload it. I've actually reDL'd like 25 some odd gigs sometimes, I think it was 2 Gundam series or something. ( View formatted comment » )

Good stuff, I had gotten 3 shirts that Cospa made, they're awesome, and the highest quality shirts I've ever bought. Sasuga Nipponsei da. ^^; ( View formatted comment » )

Man, lots of 32x and rhythm games, sheez. ( View formatted comment » )

This makes me insanely happy, you have no idea ( View formatted comment » )

Nice rig. Is it me, or are the bunny suit Haruhi figs HUGE? Are they 1/6 or something? ( View formatted comment » )

Yeah, I'm using a deputy auction service. It's not import taxes or anything, they're arbitrary fees that this one charges for things. They just add up over 2-3 transactions, not complaining, just stating surprise really. Actually I got them in 3-4 days, so that made up for any monetary "surprise" I got. ( View formatted comment » )

/agree. I'm not really complaining at all, and I accept that it's a premium, just musing for the sake of creating catalyst for conversation. ^^ ( View formatted comment » )

When I was living in the dorm and had that akward first year "chosen at random" roommate, I had a wall akin to what Danny posted a while back of what his walls looked like in the 90's or whatever. It freaked him out pretty bad when I had a ton of Card Captor Sakura stuff on the walls. ^^; ( View formatted comment » )

I kept an employment agency ad once just because the mascot was cute. ^^; ( View formatted comment » )

Clean them? Why would I? I lurve the smell of dried shrimp powder in my living space! =P Yeah I actually have to wash anything where the food touches any part of the packaging, being in suburbia in a temperate climate, ants become a real problem during the middle of the year. ( View formatted comment » )

I've said it since the first time I was in Japan in the mid 90's and saw mel gibson on a Subaru billboard in a station (before I knew how naziriffic and insane he was): they must give these american celebs truckloads of cash. I cannot even imagine that half of the celebrities that do Japanese commercials have any interest in Japan whatsoever. Some of my favorites were always the commercials that Bruce Willis did for the gas chain Eneos in the early 2000's, those were priceless. "Move You" was the slogan, and he was outf... ( View formatted comment » )

I wouldn't say "worst", but it tried to overutilize the backdrop of Japan and "two souls finding their way to each other while embracing a strange and unique culture" way too much. It really tried to shoehorn that last part into the film too much, and it ended up coming off as like a state of borderline depression/xenophobia or something. If you analyze the characters, they both seem like if you put them into any other cultural situation, or even their own cultures that they'd end up being just as mundane as they a... ( View formatted comment » )

I actually meant to remark about how surprisingly expensive it was to use a deputy/proxy service to purchase the shirts. I didn't mean to just wave it out there that I paid so much for those shirts or anything, I actually gave the amount for a purpose. -_-; ( View formatted comment » )

Also, everytime I read "Right coast" I cringe because I read it as "rightist" and as well, I am the furthest thing from rightist as one could get, heh. ( View formatted comment » )

Yeah, I need to change that, I just don't want to admit I'm from pennsylvania, heh. That's about as far away from correct as you could possibly ever get, in my opinion. ( View formatted comment » )

Honestly I'm just the opposite, I end up finding the food kinda gross at times. I recently got these 'Sweet Chili' sticks from Meiji and I notice that a lot of Japanese snacks have ebi in the ingredients list (shrimp) which adds a fishy flavor to it. And these were supposed to be "sweet chili corn snack" *sic* according to the package. Fish wasn't part of the bargain! ^^; I love Japanese smoke cheese a lot, too. I think my palette is just ruined by american food, honestly. ( View formatted comment » )

You should add なかだし and たまけり to the list while you're at it. Hahaha. Man, Japanese is so pure sometimes, for as euphemistic as other languages (English, for one) can be about things, Japanese is actually straightforward about terms like nakadashi and tamakeri. ( View formatted comment » )

lol @ "grubby mitts" ( View formatted comment » )

Kylie looks oddly akin to Miss Asuka Soryuu Langley in that first pic, imo. =P And oh man, I remember Reebok Pump shoes! The height of early 90's fashion! ( View formatted comment » )

Oh MacGyver, what have you become? Nah I'm just kidding, they both suck. Sci-fi in general has never been my bag. If it's fantastical sci-fi like time travel or sliding or something I can handle it, but whenever they take some rubber headed supposed space aliens or some gibberish trying to resemble real science it makes me embarrassed to be watching/reading it. If I want fiction, I want total fiction, not something that attempts to take a stab at science that the writer(s) probably don't even comprehend the basis of. I was forced... ( View formatted comment » )

I've seen this in "Articles Currently Being Read" 3 or 4 times in the last hour as I'm reading stuff and yet still no comments. So I figured I'd add one, lol. ( View formatted comment » )

All amer-otaku staples and Jump stuff, ho-hum. I'll take a guy with more esoteric interests over a girl with utterly run-of-the-mill tastes anyday -- when it comes to anime-filled rooms that is. ( View formatted comment » )