The beginning of my very own little Cold War

Let me get this straight. As I may have said elsewhere, I blog out of no particular self-constrained obligation to do so, but only when I am intensely annoyed or pleasantly amused; or when I've decided that I've procrastinated for long enough. Demand and supply has absolutely nothing to do with it, although in some cases the two do seem to misleadingly coincide (in the case of a Doraemon movie review I did which unfortunately derives most of its hits from paedophilic search terms).

Blurring the Lines between Reality and Fiction: General Election 2013 / Zettai Karen Children: The Unlimited - Hyoubu Kyousuke

In case the image above doesn't load for whatever reason (copyright infringement, sour grapes, etc), 'losing sucks', doesn't it? I wasn't planning on typing out this piece, but I suppose I should since the state government inadvertently gave me (and many others) a weekday off by declaring Monday to be a state holiday for people to relax after the general elections.

RG: Gundam Mk2, Titans Version (and some random, inconsequential statements)

Filler post while I do anything but type out the continuation of my Seoul travelogue. Recently I came close to getting a free trip to Hong Kong, but ducked out for reasons I will not elaborate. Had it gone through, I would have gained the license to make use of the self-defeating Malaysian joke (really just disguised desire) "I took a flight to Hong Kong just to yamcha/for breakfast, and came back after that". I didn't though, and as such escaped having to come up with yet another travel post.

South Korea 2013, Pt. 1: Waffling It Up.

Free waffles. Temporarily my phone wallpaper.

Well I suppose I have to start somewhere. The destination for 2013's Lunar New Year trip was made by majority vote, and heavily influenced by pop culture such the mostly pointless variety show Running Man, food and travel shows on the tube, and I suspect, the opportunity to ogle plastic women. I had the pleasure of abstaining from the vote, mostly due to my 'if it's free, count me in' stance, though I admit to wincing quite often.

Rurouni Kenshin: Shin Kyoto-hen (Limited expectations might be of great help here)

Allow me some time to blabber before I begin the review: I have to wonder why they even bothered making this two episode OVA. Was it to just to show that they can? Or to milk the popularity of the best selling series? Or perhaps as an indirect promotion for the live-action movie (I'm not entirely sure which came first- If I'm not mistaken, the 1st episode of this OVA came out before the movie)... or perhaps this was meant to drum up interest for a complete reboot of the series? That last possibility is definitely enticing, but no Ruroken fan would ever go along with a reboot if it ends up like this OVA.

Interim Post: In which I wonder what happened to February, and ponder on bits of plastic

So much for my never once verbalized promise to myself for maintaining a consistent blog as a platform from which to launch myself into a sudden unprovoked state of literary acclaim. What ever happened to the month of February? 28 days went by without a single posting. I've been lazy, albeit with good reason...

To make up for that laziness, I'm making this a double post. Not the type you're used to seeing in buggy forums or the occasionally messed up Facebook Chat, but two posts in one: in which I talk about random stuff and kill off the gunpla reviews I've meant to do but never got around to doing. Which makes the photos here totally relevant. I swear it wasn't an afterthought. Well it was premeditated, if that makes it any better.

Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse (Total Harem would be more accurate)

Despite knowing next to nothing about this show, I had high expectations for Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse. All I knew was that it involved mecha- to which I have no objection, with a cast of pretty girls (again, no objections, for obvious reasons). I was not disappointed on both counts, as should be apparent from the illustration above, but still...