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Jakob Johann von Uexküll (that thing from FlipFlappers has the name of the title) Wenzel. Knew someone with that name (weird guy - knocked out his own tooth with a defibrillator) and I just liked that name. Used to be a name that many German noble men in the 17th to the early 19th century had. Or ancient names like Aeneid, Cicero (if you want to pronounce it like he did, it's probably more like Kikero), Kafka, Æthelstan, Parzival (or the more 'modern' Percival) Especially Fairefiz, literally means 'colorful sun'.

Monogatari - Kizumonogatari I - III Lupin III - Castle of Cagliostro Cardcaptor Sakura - Movie 2 Detective Conan - Movie 2: The Fourteenth Target and Movie 4: Captured in her Eyes FMA - Conqueror of Shamballah

Interesting combination of a typical anime opening song and and epix choir. 8/10. Saranzanmei ED

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Ah, didn't see that - apparently CloverWorks who worked on Neverland and Bunny Girl Senpai also were involved. No wonder it looks so neat. Though, I did wonder, and though about mentioning it in my previous post, that Darling didn't feel that Gainax-y (The fluidity and explosions/dust did feel off) considering that it was from Trigger, as I had though. Them working with other studios and not even being the main studio explains that, I think.

Warm... or rather hot. Was so happy when it was stormy and rainy the last few days but now its awfully warm again. I fear that it might get even warmer to the point that opening my window is equivalent to checking if the pizza in the oven is done...

Finally watching Darling in the Franxx completely between Slayers Next and SLayers Try. Only 3 eps in but hasn't left that much of an impression on me story or character wise but the animation is premium and the modern art style is refreshing after watching some older series. Since its Trigger who made this, I'm predicting that somewhere in the last 5 eps. aliens will somehow appear or be involved with the conclusion of the story.... (getting Kill La Kill lash backs...) 6/10 so far

As mentiones, Baccano!! is from the same author so the characters and their characterisation is similar, same with the many jumps in time and seeing the same events from different perspectives if you want this. Also, youll be suprised to meet two characters from Durarara!! in Baccano!! (technically, they're from Baccano!! but had a 10 sec. appearance in Durarara!!). However, the setting, story and themes are very different... Mekakucity Actors also gives off similar vibes and is closer to the setting of Durarara!!

Tacit

Egalitarian

Tangential.

Starting my third semester in Computer Engineering. Bachelor Pretty interesting stuff, though also lots and lots of assignments as we get stuff from both, data science and electrical engineering and together with it, most assignments from both courses. Especially electrical engineering is pretty nasty - for me, the hardest lectures and exams are from the EE part... I'd also like to study mathematics but this and a full bachelor and then master degree in CE... might be a bit too much work...

Had to buy a new mouse because my old one broke. Got the Logitech MX master 2S for 50 Euros (bit less than 56 $) since I'm kind of limited to which mouse I can buy. If its too small my wrists starts hurting fairly fast so I chose a mouse where my hand could rest one while using. Also I just realized that I got it fairly cheap - most online stores sell it for 75 - 80 $. Anyway - there goes more money for the mechanical keyboard I wanted to save up for...

Yeah, KyoAni is a considerably popular studio among animators due to their human work environment and often hiring newer animators too. (I think they have this program or facility where they train new animators?) From what I've read the arsonist was angry because KyoAni supposedly ripped off one of his ideas - He was supposedly a LN author who published online and had entered a competition were KyoAni allegedly stole his idea for an anime or something like that... Artists who killed people that allegedly stole their idea has happened in the part and there doesn't even need to be some kind of mentally ill person for this to happen, so perhaps he will have to face full punishment in prison, perhaps even capital punishment, rather than being incarcerated in a special facility for the dangerous mentally ill. But yeah, anything at this point is just speculation. We'll have to wait what the following weeks(s) bring. The arsonist himself suffered burns an is currently in a hospital so getting any info from him might take a while.

According to nbs news and according to independent its over over 30 dead and over 30 more injured. 23 dead seems to be to common number overall now, though its always hard to assess the numbers in a short amount of time - putting out the fire usually takes some time... According to many new sited the perpetrator shouted "Die" (or "Die thieves") - now, one can assume many, many reasons why someone would do something like this but personal problems with a specific employee seems unlikely to me (though, its just my amateur opinion on this). Perhaps a disgruntled fan or an ex-employee? The motive and full extend of the damage will probably be be uncovered in the next few days. Also, one has to wonder, what effect this will have on KyoAni's anime production...

Having seen the first two eps. I'm surprised how well its done - I kind of feared that it gets the Berserk curse of awful adaptions... It well animated, nothing that spectacular, and blends the CGI fairly well with the rest. They recreated the characters faithfully so far and the atmosphere is just right, IMO. They did change some things from the Manga so far, although its only the structure (I have't read the first chapters in ages but I think that they first two chapters were very different from the first episode). Looking forward how its going to continue!

The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 and Subaltern: Chronicle of the Peninsular War by G.R Gleig (especially the second book has a very beautiful, yet horrifying and depressing depiction about the reality of war at that time (and probably today) by someone who saw it first hand.) And two books I've waited for long: The Tavels of Ibn-Batutah by ...well Ibn-Batutah the man himself and The Thirteen Books of Elements (1 - 3) by... do I even need to say it That should fill my book craving (and empty my pockets) until next month. Originally wanted to save up for a Mechanical Keyboard and the next Durarara!! volumes but yeah... not going to happen for a time now..

Stuffed tomatoes, smashed potatoes and lamb's lettuce with a cold beer (A Czech Pilsner Urquell, for the interested beer lovers)

There are suprisingly many people who think Power Napping is just short sleeping (for some one - three hours!) while they should be between 20 to 30 mins. I guess many people think that they won't even fall asleep during this time or wouldn't get enough sleep - which wouldn't happen if they did it regularly... (power napping is something you learn over time and is shown to be immensely effective, while, as you wrote, any longer than that is actually energy draining) As for napping in general - I don't really do that. I try to get my 8 - 9 hrs of sleep, go to sleep at roughly the same time and wake up at roughly the same time and hardly ever feel tired during the day. Although there are days where I get wayyy less sleep due to assignments or studying but this also means that I can't nap due to them...

I guess many anime fans tend to look down on people who like the 'big ones'? I mean, unfortunately many anime fans tend to be elitistic to some degree... Another reason is probably, that the big shonen anime run for so long that only hardcore fans keep discussing and memeing it - and if a studio like Toei is predominately known for shows like this, they tend to get overlooked. Unique (as not that OP or DBZ isn't unique but after a couple of years they tend to feel generic) like FLCL or Monogatari that aren't released regularely or completely different to anything before and after will stay relevant in discussions for a long time, because they are not that present on the release schedules. And with it their studios. Also, not necessarily anything to do about what we talked but I'm just gonna drop this

I can only recommend it. Many older Magical Girl anime (at least the few 've seen) tend to be a bit repetitive. The fights might be nice but end always more or less the same way and characters do the same thing over and over again. In Cardcaptor Sakura, you have a different enemy every time (not the usual recurring Evil McEvilson, son of Evil Evilsen) and each enemy has to be approached differently. And the characters aren't annoying (Looking at Usagi from Sailor Moon...) and generally likable. And it has a it of nostalgic feeling to me. Not that I'vee seen it as a child but it gives me the same vies as DoReMi, and generally a naivé, laid back feeling.

It's weird, at least for me, KyoAni's move light sided series tend to be really well done, but the more series movie or series (like Violet or Koe no Katachi) tend to be ... off. They're good, really good, but KyoAni just tends to put too much into the emotional scenes. Like, so much cliché and a soundstrack so loud that you think more about the music than about what actually happeneing. Is it just me, or is Toei Animation one of the least discussed studios, even though its among the most influential?