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By Nomad(Note the missing question) Otto

Warning: This post is long and contains lots of spoilers

Once upon a time, there was a princess whose parents died, leaving her all alone in the world. However, she did not despair, as she was visited by a prince, who comforted her in her hour of need. Them, he told her, “if you keep your nobility of spirit, we will meet again” and left, leaving her what must have been an engagement ring. However, the princess was so taken by the prince that she decided that she would go and live her life like the prince. Now, was that such a good idea?

By NomadOtto

In this post, our heroic narrator regales all and sundry with his tales of AnimeBoston, along with another look at the economics of wolf and spice; a pleasant time is assured to all. There may be mention of other things, including, but not limited to, inter-city busses, very odd dancing pizza-place customers, and what not to do at a con. In case you’re wondering and/or have the attention span of a newt- 1) The Pillows were awesome and 2) The lines sucked hardcore

By Nomad(currently insanely hurried)Otto

Currently, I’m in the middle of finishing up everything that was left hanging until the end of the quarter, so I’ve been crazy-busy. Since I just beasted through something that I thought was going to take me all day, I have time for a brief post. It’s not my traditional discourse on some aspect of fandom, instead, I’d like to let the inmates run the asylum for a little while, or, to be less rude, I have some question for the readers of Drastic about what sort of things you guys would like to see (at least from this part of the drastic team).

By Nomad(Vote for Kamina)Otto

To begin with, I’d like to make a request of the Drastic community, vote for Kamina! No, seriously, it’s Saigar time, and on the 21st, Kamina is going up against Lord Genome in the Manliest Contest in Anime ™. Vote for whoever else you want in the other contests, but, Kamina holds a very special place in my heart, and he needs your votes. So, yeah, go to http://saigar08.michaeldodd.net/ and vote!

On to stuff slightly more closely related to the mission of this blog. It’s time for another round of manga reviewing, but, since I haven’t really started reading anything new, so it’s closer reviews of stuff that I’m already reading, focusing on Cloth Road, Mirai Nikki, and Otaku no Musume-san. I figured I should probably give you some newer stuff as well, which means it’s time to talk about the trio of visual novels I’m currently “playing.” The big problem with visual novels is that there’s a metric crap-ton of text, and I don’t really have the time or free brain-cycles to sit around and read them. So, I tend to start one, play it for a while, get swamped with work, and, then, when some other one that I really want to play is released, start that one, etc. So, yeah, I’m still in the middle of Utawarerumono and Saya no Uta and you’ll hear a little bit about each game. If you’re interested, read on (and vote for Kamina), otherwise, do whatever else you want to, but vote for Kamina. Oh yeah, I’m going to be getting in the specifics of what’s going on in each volume, so you will probably be spoiled if you keep reading.

By Nomadotto and Ottonomad

Nomadotto: A very happy singles’ appriciation/awareness day to all of you folks out there in lesser animeblogistan. You know, singles’ appriciation/awareness day (SAD, for short) is usually an excuse for all kinds for stupid behavior. Generally, SAD is somehow used as an excuse for indulging in all kinds of sentimentalist, emo behavior, something guarenteed to hurt personal growth down the path of GAR. Becuase you really can’t escape from the bombardment of sentimentality, there’s only way way to keep going strong, a massive dose of burning hotblood. To that end, I’d like to look at a couple of example cases, and suggest the proper, manly show to help the poor unfortunates. But wait, what’s this?

   By Nomad (is not an economist) Otto

    At the suggestion of BigN, and because there hasn’t been much to blog about, anime wise (Zetsubou continues and is frequently funny, Wolf and Spice continues, and doesn’t suck, Mne..something was a pretty good ova, for basically being a story of tits and explosions, nothing else is starting before april) I’m going to talk about what the hell is going on in Spice and Wolf, in terms of the great currency plot. This post doesn’t really have much to do with anime in general, and might tend to sound like a lecture you’d hear from your TA, but is useful if you’re trying to figure out why people are doing what they are. I’ll begin with a discussion of what money is, and, from there, I’ll move on to discuss the three different types of currency, and why the economics of Wolf and Spice are the way they are.

By NomadOtto

Alright, I realize that I haven’t posted in two yonks, but…. eh, I really have no excuses, other than that Black Lagoon is a pain to read and I wanted to finally beat Rome: Total War (Which I did, mostly because by having sufficient cavalry you have hit the “win button” for every battle except sieges). In this post, I’ll talk about my picks for shows for the new season, but, first, Black Lagoon, well, to be more specific, the Black Lagoon manga. You see, I’d watched Black Lagoon a while ago, and really liked it, so I decided to pick up the manga, which turned out to be one of those things that sounds like a really good idea until you actually get into the meat of it. You see, anime adaptations of manga generally don’t have everything that happens in the manga, and so reading the manga usually gives you a bit of extra material, plus, if you’re familiar with the series from the anime, you can get into the swing of reading stuff easier. However, in other cases, pretty much the entire manga is covered in the anime, and so you’re probably going to be bored by reading it again. The problem with Black Lagoon is that it does have new stuff, it’s just that’s it’s spread throughout the manga, concentrated mostly at the tail end of the books that I got, and my tolerance for reading it is low, because the language is hard. Blah Blah Blah, you don’t care, this isn’t LJ, and you want the review, well, check below, oh my droogs.