Anime 40 Questions Tag

1: What is your #1 favourite anime?

Hmm... Hard to choose one... I guess... Hetalia... Or Aquarion... Or Kamisama Kiss... Or Code Geass... Really hard to choose just one.

2: Has an anime ever made you cry?

No, not yet at least... Wait... Code Geass made me cry. Can't remember what about, probably something with Nunally, Rolo, or Lelouch... CLANNAD: AFTER STORY! That ending though...

3: Which anime made you laugh the hardest?

Probably Ouran, those guys are hilarious.

4: If you could make a spin-off of any anime, what would it be?

Huh... A spinoff... Hmm... Not sure... My first though is Hetalia and make it about Prussia or maybe do a mockumentary about the filming of Hetalia and maybe have like actual ships behind the scenes, yeah I like that Idea.

5: List your top [5] anime's (not ordered)

Oh gosh... Uh... Ok... 

- Ouran Host Club

- Hetalia

- Code Geass

- Kamisama Kiss

- Steins;Gate

6: List your top [5] anime opening and closing theme songs.

- Code Geass

- Free! Iwatobi Swim Club

- Steins;Gate

- Vampire Knight

- Soul Eater

Not necessarily in that order.

7: Have you ever watched an entire anime in one sitting?

I think I have... Most likely Ouran or Aquarion.

8: Who is your favourite anime character?

How about a list...

Tomoe (Kamisama Kiss)

Kyoya Otori (Ouran)

Prussia (Hetalia)

Okabe (Steins;Gate)

Death the Kid (Soul Eater)

Lelouch (Code Geass)

Jin (Aquarion EVOL)

Shrade (Aquarion EVOL)

Roy Mustang (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Yeah... There are more but I don't want to be here for days,

9: Name an anime character you absolutely hate

The Zuka club... And Lelouch's father.

10: Which [3] animes would you most recommend?

Code Geass, Hetalia, and Kamisama Kiss

11: Who is your favourite voice actor? (If you have one.)
J. Michael Tatum!!! 
He's my favorite VA. I met him last year at a con. It. Was. AWESOMER THAN PRUSSIA!!!! He's so talented and his panels are hilarious. He could read my Calculus book and make it interesting. Kinda[read:really] want to see him do an audio book in the future...

12: What is your favourite romance anime?

Kamisama Kiss

13: What is your favourite comedy anime?

Ouran

14: What is your favourite action anime?

Fullmetal Alchemist

15: What is your favourite harem anime?

Not really my thing.. Haven't really seen any.

16: What is your favourite science fiction anime?

Steins;Gate

17: What is your favourite mech anime?

Aquarion

18: What is your favourite drama anime?

Vampire Knight

19: What is your favourite slice of life anime?

Free! One of the only shows I will watch subbed.

20: What is your favourite adventure anime?

Even though I haven't seen much if it... Fairytale.

21: What is the first anime you ever saw?

Ouran

22: You get to have a harem of [6] anime characters of your choice, who do you choose?

Oh gosh... Any 6... Ok...

Kyoya Otori (Ouran)

Prussia (Hetalia)

Rei Ogami (Code:Breaker)

Tomoe (Kamisama Kiss)

Lelouch (Code Geass)

Loki (because I do what I want)

23: What is the most times you've re-watched an anime?

3

24: Name [1] anime you wish everyone would watch

Code Geass

25: What is an anime you regret watching?

Clannad- just not my cup of tea.

26: You get to have [1] anime character as your waifu/husbando in real life, who do you choose?

Lelouch

27: Which anime character are you most like?

Probably.... Hungry from Hetalia.

28: Do you watch a new anime because you think it will be good, or because its popular?

Both... When I go searching for something, I look for what I think is good. I'll look into something if I've heard the name enough times.

29: Has an anime's fanbase ever made you hesitant to watch an anime?

Not really.

30: How many anime episodes is 'ideal' for you?

27 a season.

31: Have you ever watched an anime with over [23] episodes?

Yes... Maybe... Dunno actually.

32: If you could make a game for an anime of your choice, what would it be and why?

Code Geass... That would take a lot of logic, skill, and nightmare frames.

33: Would you ever watch an anime with over [100] episodes?

If I had time I'd try to catch up on Fairytale.

34: Have you ever watched an anime only because you liked a specific character?

More like because of a favorite VA. I watched most of what I have because J Michael Tatum voiced a character.

35: Have you ever dropped an anime, if so why?

Not really. I'll get busy and have to come back to finish every so often.

36: In your opinion, what makes a good anime?

Plot, characters, and voice talent.

37: Name a popular anime you love

Kamisama Kiss

38: Name a popular anime you hate

Don't really hate anything.

Is there an anime you wish was more popular?

I think everything I've seen is more or less popular... I think.

Thoughts on live-action adaptations?

They're okay. I liked the Ouran live action and I like the Boys Over Flowers adaption too.

Inferno and Carmen Sandiego

So, my internship is finally solidifying, meaning I finally have a clearer idea of what I'm even doing.

On the mythology side, I'm tracking a couple of stories through history and modern media. Last night I figured out that Cupid and Psyche is my favorite love story.

On the Inferno side, I'm doing a "Where in hell is Carmen Sandiego?" kind of thing. I'm excited and I think it's going to be interesting to see what I come up with as the final project. Now, to figure out how I'm going to to actually do this. Oh well, stranger things have happened. Sanders out.

Hetalia Tag

So this is literally me... Sits down at computer, looks at friend's blog, thinks to self "Hmm... Tag, I want to do one. Come on self, let's go find a tag." Google's "blog tag" finds random stuff that isn't what I wanted, Google's "Hetalia tag" Shenanigans ensues. So yeah... this... is...

Hetalia Tag

1. Favourite character in Hetalia?

I'd have to say... 'ZE AWESOME PRUSSIA!!!!

2. It's time to take a siesta~ Who would you sleep with? (Please don't make this sexual)

England, he'd say on his side, and I'd stay on mine.

3. What country would you be in Hetalia? (It's either a canon character or an OC)

Hmm... I'd probably want to be... I don't know... Canada... Because Canada seems to have it together.

4. Do you love America? 

He's cool, but the hero thing gets on my nerves.

5. Would you join the Allies or the Axis Powers?

A hard decision... Can I pick both? Actually, Italy would get on my nerves, sorry Germany, but Allies.

6. Italy started flirting with you, what do you do?

Walk away... 

7. Your OTP in Hetalia?

Many ships but my OTP would have to be...

USUK!!!!!

8. Who would you date from the Allies or the Axis Powers?

Prussia! 

9. How did you know about Hetalia?

A little voice actor named J Michael Tatum kept mentioning and talking about his three most well known characters during his panels that I was watching on YouTube. So I finally broke down and watched Hetalia, and I haven't looked back since.

10. What did you think about Hetalia at first?

I wish this was real. About 15 episodes in Must ship... Must ship it all!!! 

Life Lessons from Capcom's Ace Attorney series

Objection! To me, the excitement of court room drama is best conveyed by Capcom's Ace Attorney series. The Phoenix Wright trilogy, Apollo Justice, Miles Edgeworth (Investigations), and the latest and greatest, Dual Destinies, these games involve an interesting story line and a game play that is rather simple but satisfying all the same. But this post isn't about how great of a job Capcom has done, no this is about the various life lessons that I have learned from playing these games.

I'm fine! I'm [Insert Name], and I'm fine!

Apollo Justice, with his red suit and Chords of Steel, has a catchphrase that he says constantly. He proclaims at the top of his lungs, "I'M FINE! APOLLO JUSTICE IS FINE!" At first I thought it was a little weird, but it fit into the world of Phoenix Wright just fine so I let it go. In Dual Destinies though, the deeper meaning of him yelling, "I'm fine!" was mentioned. In the Monstrous Turnabout, Apollo says,

"I find that shouting "I'm fine!" in a loud voice really relieves stress. It's part of my "Chords of Steel" workout, and a must before every trial."  -Apollo Justice

In The Cosmic Turnabout, Apollo talks about what he told his best friend Clay Terran when Clay's mother died,

"I always think, that everybody else has a mom. Why am I the only one...? But, you know, when I start to feel that way, I yell at the top of my lungs. I holler, 'I'm fine!' and then, you know what? I start to feel like maybe I really will be fine. APOLLO JUSTICE IS FINE!!! ...Okay, Clay. Now it's your turn." When Apollo finishes the memory, he comes back and says, "When you say it out loud, it really starts to feel real. And as long as you don't give up, you can keep on fighting! That's what we believed." -Apollo Justice

So I've taken to telling myself that I'm fine. While I don't shout it from the rooftops, the basic idea is overall the same. And it helps. Telling myself that I'm fine actually helps. I feel better and I'm able to keep going and move forward.

The worst of times are when lawyers have to force their biggest smiles.

This really goes for anyone, but sometimes you have to force a smile in the face of bad times. This statement, though it was probably stated in earlier games, made an impact in my life for me because when I read it, I really needed to hear it. It reminded me that times aren't so bad at the moment and the day I have to force a smile is the day that I have to haul myself through life kicking and screaming. But right now, I'm not at that point, so I haven't hit the worst of times yet.

So those are just a couple things that Ace Attorney has taught me. I'm planing on replaying the trilogy, as well as Apollo Justice, at some point, so I might have more as I go through all those wonderful courtroom adventures again. Sanders out.

WHOOO!!!!

I am SO pumped! Whoo! If I could I would totally run laps around the school right now. But, I can't so I'm not. Anyway, today was actually pretty fun. I freaked out for a moment though when I realized that I didn't do something this morning but the day was fine. In AP Euro, we did a little bit of geography work and put the routes of explorers on a map and where Spanish and Portuguese colonies were, as well as where their trade centers were. I still don't know where the Dutch trade centers where though... I figure it out eventually. AP Lit. That class and that man. I can honestly say, for a moment, I thought I was going to die. First of all, Mr. Johnson has a stuffed monkey on his desk that I managed to sit right in its line of sight. I thought it was staring into my soul. Then, I watched him put up a sign that said, "Do not disturb if lights are off. Late students wait in the hall." So naturally, I put the monkey staring into my sole and that sign together and thought, "I'm going to die today. Right here. This is it." Then Mr. Johnson started explaining things, he said we were going to have our eyes closed so that just cemented the fact that I thought I was going to die. Anyway, I didn't die. Instead our activity was actually really interesting. I learned something about myself. I always thought my happy place was Camp Meriwether, but now, my happy place is my favorite teacher's classroom. I fought it a little at first, but then I stopped wondering what it meant if my happy place was my favorite teacher's classroom. So that was AP Lit today. In AP Environmental, we looked at various things about the earth... Like volcano locations, elevation charts, my group looked at a locations of earthquakes and the depth of the earthquakes. It was actually really interesting and cool.

The reds show a shallow depth while the blues are really deep. But you can see that most of the earthquakes happen around the fault lines, the boundaries of the tectonic plates.

See! If you compare where the earthquakes occur and where the fault lines are, they match up and everything makes sense as to why earthquakes happen where they do. Isn't that really cool!!!

So that was AP Environmental. AP Euro we just went over what causes changes in supply or demand. Then lunch. For yearbook, we went to the art room and did photography things. Ms. Prince was talking about shutterspeed today, the final part to the Triangle of Life (at least that's what I call it). It's a photography thing. Basically it just shows that if you change one thing it affects the others. The other parts are ISO and Aperture.

So that was yearbook. I talked to Ms. Milstead about my SCE and what I could do for her. I'm brainstorming ideas of an activity or something to better explain the 9 layers of hell in Dante's Inferno or something about the medieval period, like why people just died in that period. Then in 3D modeling, I continued making the little monster we're currently working on. In AP Calc, we reviewed for our test. And now, I'm blogging during SCE. This post took me an hour to write. Mr. Brey, the principal, is wandering around the SRC and now I think he's leaving. He did a few things last year that irked me. He hasn't really done anything this year that has irked me, but I'm sure he's already irked someone somewhere.  Mr. Brown is talking to Ms. Napoleon and I'm trying not to think about the one rule that applies to every European history class. So that was my day, it was fun, slightly eventful but not too eventful. Tomorrow is Friday, things are happening on Friday, I've got a Calc test and apparently we are doing the newspaper activity in yearbook again, so NEWSPAPER HATS!!! Well, that's it for now. Nikon out.

Life at the Moment

Senior year. It's supposed to be awesome. So far... It's alright. I mean it is awesome but at the same time, I can't help but feel like it could be more. Anyway, I feel like I've hit a wall. I haven't actually written in weeks, I'm pretty sure I've lost some muscle memory from the summer when I was carrying my camera everywhere. That or my body has decided to completely block out the physical activity and act like it never happened. Physically, I'm tired but ok. Mentally, I'm the same as ever, multiple thoughts, roads not taken but really want to be taken, random thought. Emotionally, I just want to cry some nights (and days, in the middle of class... That sign in Ms. Mullen's classroom really gets on my nerves... If I want to cry in math then I'll cry in math... Just not in front of anyone), but I don't because I tell myself not to and it doesn't solve anything so I move on. Eventually I'll probably just feel numb and emotionally fragile because I probably should cry.

On a happy note, I'VE GOT THE AWESOMEST SCE EVER!!!! I'm doing an independent project/ internship with Mr. Brown and it's involving mythology and I think I'm doing something for Ms. Milstead. The point is Mr. Brown is awesome. Lit is awesome. And everything that my SCE is about is awesome! That part of life is great. Though I could do without the strange division of hours, the journal entries, CARP and Ms. Napoleon (hee hee the one rule of every European history class), but you know, somethings can't be helped.

AP Lit is alright and so is yearbook. I love my AP Euro class, though I need to remember to read the book and notes... Yeah... Totally should do that. I have to make up the summer work for Econ so I'm not failing. I also have to pull up my calc grade so I don't fail calc. The one class I wish I could drop but can't... AP Calculus AB. But, I'm meeting with Mr. Hulme tomorrow to see if he'd be a good tutor and hopefully I can work with him because I might just fail calc... Bad thought shake it off. So that's senior year so far... OH YEAH! I'm taking 3D modeling and it's AMAZING!!! I love it! SO that's life at the moment. I read something today that really touched me in such a way that gave me the boost I needed.

“The thing I think we have to remember is that there is no finish line with depression, anxiety, or any other sort of mental illness. We’re on this path, and the path is constantly changing. Sometimes it’s flat and well-marked, and we can see all the way to the horizon.” I realized that I had gone from shaking his hand to holding it. “Other times, it’s so heavily shrouded in fog and mist, we can’t even see past our fingertips and we need someone to show us where the path is. And sometimes, we come to a wall that we don’t think we’ll ever get over. I’ve been staring at the base of that wall for weeks, and just now you helped me remember that there are always handholds to get up and over it.”

-Wil Wheaton, http://wilwheaton.net/2015/08/tears-in-rain/

A New Year

So, it's 2015 now. Yay! I predict that there are going to be a few "game changers" in the government this year. What they will be? I have no idea. So far we have the Republicans in control of the house. Maybe something will actually get done and be productive. The things that might manage to get passed will, hopefully, be passed on a somewhat mutual agreement from both sides. As for me, my resolution is to blog more and to take more photos.

That being said. New blog, it's a year long photo challenge issued by myself for myself. The Rules/ Guidelines/ Conditions/ Catches/ ect. are on the first post as well as a page of their own.

http://www.cmsandersphotography.blogspot.com/