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[Serious Blogger Project, turn 2.1] Sergio’s dedicated aniblog.

Back in turn 2.0, we covered our project’s darling blogger sergio and his varied blog. One thing led to another and he’s now found a new home at tenshi.tomatone.net, where he’ll concentrate on anime for us lucky folks.

I’d describe sergio’s blog as a blogger’s blogger’s blog. I say this because the owners of some blogger’s blogs have shown great affection to it. Now I need to define what a blogger’s blog is. Well, a blogger’s blog is a blog where the posts are often interaction between bloggers and follow upon each others’ ideas and require some knowledge of its culture to understand. Some say Beethoven was a composer’s composer, well sergio is a step further. (but doesn’t retain the distinctive traits of a blogger’s blog)

Anyhow, this odd tangeant aside, I wish good luck and success to tenshi.tomatone.net !

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Posting at Sankaku Complex’s speed for a day.

I need 3 more posts and I think I will have their daily production beat.

One of those posts will almost be like an essay so it’s no spam either. Wish me luck.

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White Album’s first episode is very impressive.

I had no expectations on White Album going into it but the OP convinced me I wasn’t looking at something cheap like Akikan. The images and animation is very crisp and pretty at 720p, the music is polished without being too exuberant. Great first impression.

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[Akikan episode 01] Uh oh, not again. It was last season’s weak point too.

Someone tell me if Akikan’s first episode was good because I stopped watching it within two minutes of the end of the OP.

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The serious business of business card exchange in Japan.


Do not confuse this with how the west would like you to believe:

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I’ve got an announcement for all the gamers among us!

I’ve launched a new gaming website two days ago with a bunch of my good friends. We’ll try to cater to the RPG niche but everyone is welcome to the forums.

The main point of this post is this: I’m looking to recruit writers/journalists/reviewers/etc. (No experience needed, more on that later.)

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Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas.

I’m heading out to a family party. Hope you have a good time too!

Here’s to some good loot!

kampai Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas.

Don’t drink and drive BTW, stay safe.

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[The Serious Blogger Project, turn 2] Sergio, on Clannad art. Simplicity and Beauty.

  • This a part of the Serious Blogger Project, click here to learn more about it

I’ll do my best to accurately present this blogger. Sergio is a linguistics student in Spain. He has developed a distaste for the popular culture of his country and thus turned outwards to the rest of the world to find something meaningful. Among the discoveries he made, Japanese culture caught his interest. His website blogs his way into his quest to learn Japanese, his various interpretations of different cultural elements in Japan. That is only information as it is relevant to this blog however, the width of topics discussed in his blog far outstretches the one in my presentation.

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There’s a theory about the 00 gundams being designed after chess pieces going about.

http://www.japanator.com/elephant/post.phtml?pk=9028

What a pathetic theory. The only comparisons applicable are so general that they could be likened to any sort of strategy game. “fast and agile” lmao.

Yeah, I just wanted to make fun of that 00 Gundam theory. I’m constructive like that.

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