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ltgmarsSo today I swept through the first four episodes of Anna-san no Omame, which for once doesn't have any JE boys in it. I started watching mostly because Tokui Yoshimi ♥ (from Tutorial) is in it, but it also has Becky, who's adorable, though this role in particular is... uh.
Basically it's a whole lot of this:
... which is supposed to be obnoxious, yes, but so much of it.
The story goes that Lily/Riri (Becky's character) is exceptionally talented when it comes to misunderstanding people's opinions of her, so while guys might approach her best friend Anna, Lily always thinks that they're approaching her, and she has these ridiculous speeches about how everyone is in love with her, etc. etc. She's supposed to be a frustrating character, but it's a little much.
I'm hoping by the end of it she actually has a serious side and that the drama has some kind of "kandou" value, if you will, but I'm not holding my breath. It could easily go either way (vapid drama -> serious drama (like Stand Up!!) or just vapid drama throughout, with some mildly cute/happy ending). Right now I'm in it for the short snippets of Tokui ♥ and his deafeningly loud floral-print shirts.
Like this:
In other news, Cami attacked me with Shiina Ringo, and I'm seriously never going to be the same again. The woman is amazing. Leeched her entire discography, and in the end I suspect that I may have found myself another Japanese celebrity to throw money at. (Currently: Arashi (DVDs only), KenKen, Tanemura Arina.) She made that big an impression.
On that note, pet peeve: When people say "that [adj] of a/an [noun]". It doesn't make sense. The way I see it, "that [adj] a/an [noun]" is just an inversion of "a/an [noun] that [adj]", so the extra "of" in there does nothing grammatically. Even if that's not the actual reason, the "of" is wrong, okay? D:
Also. I just realized that I accidentally deleted (a while ago; I thought I'd recovered it, and while I recovered a bunch of other things I accidentally deleted, the file I recovered that I named "20090508_women.doc" was a different file completely, and it's probably too late now to try to get it back) the final paper I wrote for my Chinese Revolution class. However many pages of painstakingly researched information and argument about women before/during/after the Cultural Revolution... I don't have any of the information, outlines, drafts, nothing. I don't even have any of the sources so that I can look up the stuff if I'm curious. I'm seriously depressed now. :/ (You'd think I'd have an e-mail copy, but I don't, you see, because the professor wanted a hard copy, and the only digital copy I had besides the one on my computer (the copy I accidentally deleted) was on my USB flash drive, which I constantly flush because I like to be "organized", FML.) I sent an e-mail to my professor to see if he has it, just in case, but I'm doubting that there's going to be any real resolution in this situation.
Basically it's a whole lot of this:
... which is supposed to be obnoxious, yes, but so much of it.
The story goes that Lily/Riri (Becky's character) is exceptionally talented when it comes to misunderstanding people's opinions of her, so while guys might approach her best friend Anna, Lily always thinks that they're approaching her, and she has these ridiculous speeches about how everyone is in love with her, etc. etc. She's supposed to be a frustrating character, but it's a little much.
I'm hoping by the end of it she actually has a serious side and that the drama has some kind of "kandou" value, if you will, but I'm not holding my breath. It could easily go either way (vapid drama -> serious drama (like Stand Up!!) or just vapid drama throughout, with some mildly cute/happy ending). Right now I'm in it for the short snippets of Tokui ♥ and his deafeningly loud floral-print shirts.
Like this:
In other news, Cami attacked me with Shiina Ringo, and I'm seriously never going to be the same again. The woman is amazing. Leeched her entire discography, and in the end I suspect that I may have found myself another Japanese celebrity to throw money at. (Currently: Arashi (DVDs only), KenKen, Tanemura Arina.) She made that big an impression.
On that note, pet peeve: When people say "that [adj] of a/an [noun]". It doesn't make sense. The way I see it, "that [adj] a/an [noun]" is just an inversion of "a/an [noun] that [adj]", so the extra "of" in there does nothing grammatically. Even if that's not the actual reason, the "of" is wrong, okay? D:
Also. I just realized that I accidentally deleted (a while ago; I thought I'd recovered it, and while I recovered a bunch of other things I accidentally deleted, the file I recovered that I named "20090508_women.doc" was a different file completely, and it's probably too late now to try to get it back) the final paper I wrote for my Chinese Revolution class. However many pages of painstakingly researched information and argument about women before/during/after the Cultural Revolution... I don't have any of the information, outlines, drafts, nothing. I don't even have any of the sources so that I can look up the stuff if I'm curious. I'm seriously depressed now. :/ (You'd think I'd have an e-mail copy, but I don't, you see, because the professor wanted a hard copy, and the only digital copy I had besides the one on my computer (the copy I accidentally deleted) was on my USB flash drive, which I constantly flush because I like to be "organized", FML.) I sent an e-mail to my professor to see if he has it, just in case, but I'm doubting that there's going to be any real resolution in this situation.
