a few of my latest things

[kaigou]

Hello, fandom, my old friend. Been so long I've almost forgotten how crazy you are. Almost. It's okay, don't call me, I won't call you.

ANYWAY. So. Noragami. One of the first anime in like forever to really capture me, which tl;dr means: why the hell have I not seen in-depth, sparkling, thought-provoking commentary from either of the Emilys? -- branchandroot and annotated_em, that is. Or even starlady who is not an Emily, but does begin with a vowel, so that's close enough. ONE OF YOU. Satisfy my need for analysis! Or I shall be pushed to poke ivoryandhorn or phoebe_zeitgeist to carry the weight. Which I might do anyway, because analysis.

SOMEONE. AVAIL ME. My former fandom status as a near-BNF compels you!

Also, I just got home after enjoying two glasses of some really nice reisling, the name of which I totally meant to get and did not. In case you couldn't tell from the random name-dropping. Where is my next episode of Noragami? Or my next scanlated chapter? I'm retired from scanlating, so I'm able to say again that scanlators are toooooo slow. Damn it.

Should reisling be capitalized? Inquiring minds want to know. Leik yesterday.

I actually had to explain tl;dr to my sister this evening (while texting). Either I'm hipper than I realize, or my sister is seriously out of touch. I'm guessing the latter. Very eye-rolling, so sigh.

Also also, I realized while talking to my other sister that I AM the disruption at work. Go me! Doing prototypes and shit that will cause nothing but trouble for other departments, and this is WHY I was hired. This is awesome. I'm causing trouble and I'm getting PRAISE for it.

I'm considering changing my tag from "analysis is my chocolate cake" to "analysis is my greek beignet" because holy fuck you people, this shit is awesome. I am addicted to greek beignets. I shouldn't be, but I am.

I just realized that 'reisling' is another exception to the i-before-e rule. Which reminds me of the time I got sent to the principal's office because I demanded to know why 'science' broke the rule of 'i before e except after e'. Yes, newsflash, I have always been a troublemaker.

There was some other also to add, but I forget now. Where's my extensive analysis on Noragami already?

Comments

[sharibet]

Nice to see you posting again! I haven't had much to say online lately, being consumed with work, my crappy commute, and trying to finish a new novel. (Am at the copy-editing stage, so NEARLY DONE, hurrah!)

Can't comment on Noragami, since I haven't watched it yet (am taking a break from anime right now, since it's been a while since I came across anything interesting enough to review, and have been watching Korean historical dramas instead).

re: wine

My bit of German pedantry for the evening: Yes, it's capitalized (being a formal name) and it's actually spelled Riesling, not reisling. In German, "ie" is pronounced "ee" so Reesling.

[kaigou]

Definitely watch Noragami. It starts out kind of cutsie, and then gets darker, and darker... very well-done. One of the first (if not only) that considers the morality of kami.

Ahaha, well, that would explain why the spellchecker kept fussing about me typing reisling. Now I know. Riesling. See, no red line!

Although after two glasses, I'm doing pretty good to remember it starts with an R. Don't even ask me how many times I misspelled "remember".

[leorising]

Yeah, in German, with the "ie" / "ei" pairs, the second letter is the one pronounced. Once I learned that, I never forgot it.

This from a non-native, no-longer-fluent German speaker with a German, "-lein"-ending name.

[kaigou]

with the "ie" / "ei" pairs, the second letter is the one pronounced

Ooooh, it would be so much easier if English went by rules like that. Sigh. Why did English only inherit the exceptions, and none of the rules?

[branchandroot]

Blame Crunchyroll for not putting it up where I can get at it easily! (Incidentally, if you're in a violence-explosions-weapons geek girl with enormous gun sort of mood, Nobunagun is entertaining me; it's the only one of the current Nobunaga-craze shows to do that much so far.)

[kaigou]

I watched some of Nobunagun. Maybe to ep3? Kind of wondering what Sakurai what's-his-face is doing in there, though it does seem like you can't have a series this season or last without... crap, the seiyuu doing Saru. Who also does Yukine in Noragami (which is incidentally done by Horrible, so it's a Crunchyroll series, right? thought Horrible only ripped subs someone else has done, where "someone else" = "crunchyroll"). Oh, and was Shion in No 6. No Horrible, the seiyuu.

Still. I'd think Noragami would be right up your alley, thinky-wise.

[annotated_em]

Honestly, I haven't heard of Noragami! But that's mostly because I'm not in a visual-consumption headspace right now. Can't focus enough to watch anime/read manga at the moment, and the current living situation does make it a little iffy. But I will definitely make a note of the name!

[kaigou]

When you come back around again, definitely give it a try. It's got some substance under there that's much juicier than the rest of this year's crop of mediocre offerings.

[annotated_em]

...okay, having watched the first four episodes last night, I can see the fascination. This one is interesting.