Animedragon

A good few years back I was on a forum that had a group of people on it that looked down on dub watchers and regarded them as second class anime fans. I thought such an elitist attitude was totally wrong, and still do, there's no such thing as first or second class anime fans, we should all be free to watch in whatever format we enjoy best without anyone judging us.

It's a bit dull and overcast and chilly. The weather man said that this week we would have temperatures in the 10C to 13C range, they've changed their minds and now say this week and next week it will 7C to 8C every day.

I much prefer subtitles, indeed these days I only watch subs. However it wasn't always like that because when I started watching everything was VHS and almost everything was dubbed, subs, when you could find them were more expensive. Anime distributors always claimed that dubs were cheaper, but I never quite understood this because for a dub you had to get someone to write the English dialogue, hire voice actors, hire a recording studio etc. Then DVDs came along, which could have both sub and dub and all of a sudden the distributors started releasing series sub only because it was cheaper that way. Anyway, after watching several series subtitled I decided that I preferred to listen to the original Japanese cast rather than the American cast. I've now now become so used to watching subs that I've reached the point where I don't read them word for word, my brain just absorbs the subs with me needing to consciously read them. Of course the big problem with watching subtitled series is that when you look away from the screen the characters stop speaking English.

Fun Fair

Welcome to AF, it's good to have you with us. Pull up a cushion, or a chair if sitting on the floor isn't your thing, and make yourself at home.

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Oh yes! After I left school I was having a turn out of school related rubbish stuff and I found an old exercise book from my time in junior school, when I read some of it I wondered why, and how, I have the nerve to write such cringe-worthy rubbish in a school book for my teacher to read. I comprehensively destroyed the document so that nobody else could find it and use it against me. I'm really glad there was no such thing as the Internet and forums when I was younger.

Here in the UK many people aspire to own their own home, and sadly many don't realise their dream of home ownership. I think that buying your own house or apartment comes from a desire to have somewhere that is "your place", it's difficult to actually put into words but it's somewhere to come home to that is yours and yours alone. And of course it is an investment, once you've paid off the mortgage it's all yours, and house prices continue to rise so as time goes by it becomes more and more valuable, but if you just rent a house it doesn't matter how many years you pay in rent the house is never going to be yours.

I suspect that what series you can watch in which country depends on the licensing agreements between CR and the owners of the rights to the series.

Cloudy, but bright and top temp 12C, so not all that warm, but not really cold either. The weather forecast says that the temp will stay in the 10-12C range for the next few days.

Network

I've started to watch White Album, I'm six episodes in but I'm having difficulty finding a reason to continue watching it. The basic plot is that the main character's girlfriend is about to become an idol singer, the two of them seem committed to each other, but her production company seem to want to keep them apart. Then there's another singer who appears to sometimes help them get together and other times tries to replace the girlfriend, and there's two other girls who seek the guys help, but I'm not sure what their motives are. The whole plot is a mess.

Where's the GROAN emoji when you need it??

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Pampered pets

Lunchtime I watched Room Camp, a series of 12 three minute shorts featuring three members of the Outdoor Club from Laid Back Camp as they travel round visiting various places of interest, and of course cooking food and visiting hot springs. The series also includes an 11 minute mini-episode featuring Rin and three wheel scooter as she goes out camping, cooking food and visiting hot springs. All 13 episodes are great fun to watch and a reminder of how good the main series were and that we need more adventures of Rin, Nadeshiko and the other girls.

The Distance Seamed Longer Yesterday. WHPVB

I think that Chester Carlson, someone who most people have never heard of, is an unsung hero of the modern world, Why do I say that? Because he created what we now call the xerographic process which led to the development of the photocopier and laser printer* and which office doesn't have one, or more, of those? * Modern photocopiers are in fact laser printers because lasers replaced the traditional light/lens optical photocopiers years ago.

This evening I finished watching Chihayafuru. When I started watching it I wondered how a series based on people playing a card game could be interesting enough to keep me watching for three series. As it turned out I was still watching after 74 episodes because this series has a good and varied cast of characters, excellent animation and artwork, a well constructed and well paced storyline and great background music. The series has a good mix of scenes dealing with the development of the various characters and scenes showing the progress of the karuta games and was very entertaining and engaging to watch. Overall I found this a highly watchable series and easily among the best series that I've watched this year.

I'll agree with that. I've known for a long time that photocopiers are a sentient species.

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Yes, we had quite a bad heat wave last year, bad enough for the weather people and the government to issue a "stay home unless you absolutely have to go out" recommendation. It'll be interesting to see what the weather will be like this summer. The weather man says it will be 15C today.