Akazora

"The speed at which cherry blossoms fall; it's five centimeters per second." -- from Shinkai Makoto's "5 Centimeters per Second"

Also, I highly recommend you give the Attack on Titan OVAs a watch. Some of them are considered canon, so it'll do you good to get to them when you have the time. Going by MAL, here's the entry for the first three OVAs. The first OVA is definitely canon, as it covers an unadapted chapter(s) from the manga. The second and third are completely AO, and the second one is even more comedy and serious, but I don't regret watching them. The next batch of OVAs are classified in a separate MAL entry. They're adapted from a short spin-off manga covering Levi's backstory, but I think it was approved by the original AoT mangaka, so it's considered by fans to be canon. The first one just came out and the second on is due in April. Anyway, so as to not completely specialize this thread, I just watched "The Place Promised in Our Early Days", known as "Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho" in Japanese. I already mentioned this in the movie thread, but it's a movie made by the famous Shinkai Makoto and I rather enjoyed it.

"The Promised Place in Our Early Days", known as "Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho" in Japanese. Makoto amazes me again, and though this movie wasn't as good as a few of his other works like "5 Centimeters per Second" or "Hoshi no Koe", I found it better than "The Garden of Words".

I'm not even hungry, and yet suddenly I'm really hungry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXlFbUOBK2c

Psychology: the most popular as well as worst paying major a college student can take.

I'm so sorry man, whenever somebody says "understand" all I can think of is Satoru Iwata. Please understand. Okay, I'll stop now.

Nah just joking, I'm not religious. I don't think there is enough evidence to prove or disprove a divine being (or beings), so I'm kind of on a middle ground.

^That song is too damn good. "Until the End (Monday 2 Friday Radio Edit)" -- Master Blaster

There is only so much one kid can do. These forums are nearly impossible to keep up with.

Today is the day I relived my childhood.

I wanted a copy of Steve's notebook so badly when I was younger, you have no idea...

I don't have a Facebook, period. Though because of that I'm rather slow on my friends' college acceptance news, but only by a few hours. Pokemon?

You were asking for this gif, and you know it.

Yuuko Kanoe's a pretty cute ghost, if you ask me. She your type?

I only ever find the need to use Chrome. I only run into problems when I need to log into two different e-mails at the same time, in which case I open up an incognito window.

RIP waistline.

While I'm not denying emotional expression through music is beautiful, I feel like the anime portrays it with such histrionics it's unbelievable. I mean, seriously, random audience members and little children can magically "feel" and "see" the emotion behind the notes they hear and they're all completely and thoroughly well versed on contestants and performers. As a person who's grown around musical recitals and concerts, this is never the case. Classical music just doesn't work this way, unfortunately. Then again, Shigatsu is really no different from sports anime; they make things seem over the top and dramatic while ignoring the technical and legitimately strategic aspects of basketball or volleyball for the sake of keeping things relatable for a general audience. I don't have anything against this, but I think I may have come into the series with the wrong mindset. It's still a really solid and well made anime. It just isn't reaching its full potential with its musical backdrop.

I don't follow the manga, but from what I've heard the mangaka is planning on ending the series in about 3-4 years. If we look at the number of chapters that are out as of now and see how long it's taken for Iyasama to write the series, then in about 3-4 years Attack on Titan will most likely hit and stop at around chapter 100. The first season of the anime which aired over a year ago covered about 33.5 chapters. Given that the second season is confirmed to be in production and is officially slated to air in 2016, the pacing will remain as it has been and will most likely adapt up to around chapter 66. This will leave the unannounced but inevitable third season to adapt the final third of the manga, and the entire story will be covered in three seasons of about 25 episodes each, for a grand total of around 75 episodes. This is just from the news that's been sporadically released since the end of the first season. If you want me to go back and dig around for sources I can try, but some of these announcements were made a while ago. So don't worry, it won't turn into the next Naruto or Bleach. However, the whole series will take quite a few years to finally cap off, so hunker down and get comfortable. If you are in dire need of your AoT fix, there are a few OVAs out which may bridge you between now and the next season. I've seen all the OVAs that are out as of now, and they're pretty good.

I was expecting a troll face but actually dug up some really pretty handwriting. I would post mine, but golly is it terrible. Can't read my own handwriting half the time. I might get around to it later though.

I would be able to die happy if I saw a ghost. Don't know what you're on about, but seeing one would be awesome. Got my camera ready and everything.

Checked out a few of EXO's stuff, and they're a very talented group of guys. Really artistic and well choreographed MVs, and their moves are slick. I never really gave K-pop much of a chance since the artists that people where I live talk about the most rely on an overdose of sexual appeal or are just plain bad. But hats off to the young men a part of EXO for making actually impressive stuff. I'll be keeping an eye out for them.

At your service!

I only vaguely recall something of a twist ending, but that's honestly about it.

I would actually trust your friends on this one. Though it may not have made a huge impression on me, it might have still been pretty good. I just can't, for the life of me, remember what Red Kayak was about.