I think I win

Term started this week. However, due to me "Winning Class Assignments Forever Amen", expect my to keep talking about video games in the near future. *shrug* What can I say? Between one class telling me that I have to play a game in the month of February (and write a paper on it), and the other asking for both something about Japanese popular culture that interests me AND putting Anime Boston on the syllabus...

Winning. Homework. Assignments. Forever.

Bonus points for a number of the possible games I could choose for this assignment already being on my to-play list (I am so very tempted to make a case for either Persona 3 or Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne).

In other news, for some reason, I found myself rereading Kino no Tabi by Keiichi Sigsawa and thinking about watching the series again. It's a very, very excellent series, by the way. Kino and the talking motorcycle Hermes travel from Land to Land, seeing and observing what they can about the world, but never staying more than three days. Most of the places they visit are alternatingly beautiful, heartbreaking, cruel, and whimsical. Kino's world is a mix of pastoral wildnerness and flying machines mixed with slavery, cannibalism, justifiable homicide and unjustifiable homicide, even as with these as the standard operating procedure for various countries Kino and Hermes visit. Kino attempts to be an impartial observer, refusing to make judgments about any country, and relies on a combination of quick wits and a mean quick-draw to stay alive. As the tagline says, "The world is not beautiful, therefore it is."

It's one of my favorite series ever, and I highly recommend it.

The cure for headaches is tea, ibuprofin, and memery.

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