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Still alive

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 19:48:00 +0000

Sup

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And so it ends

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:29:00 +0000

This is goodbye from the TRazor.

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Remembering Love: Gotta Love Naruto

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Sun, 20 May 2012 19:02:00 +0000

I'd be lying if I said that this Remembering Love post didn't inspire me to remember love for this Remembering Love post because it helped me remember that I loved that series. There, squeezed the project name a good load of times just to make Glo happy because if it's one thing Glo loves more than klux, it's the awesome phrase "Remembering Love".

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Remembering Love - Haibane Renmei : A whole new level

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:39:00 +0000

This post is the second in the Remembering Love series I'm organizing. If you've just heard about this project and are interested in participating, feel free to jump in. Today, the TRazor's spotlight is going to be on an anime that is unique in every way you can think of. It's the crowning jewel of Yoshitoshi ABe's career and more importantly, the anime that took the medium to a whole another level for me.

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Remembering Love - Clannad: Beauty in negativity

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Sun, 06 May 2012 17:10:00 +0000

This post is part of a aniblogger series I'm organizing called the Remembering Love project, where bloggers rewatch their favorites and blog about them each Sunday of this month. Yeah. yeah. we all know the aniblogosphere is mutual masturbation, but it's always fun to know what anime each blogger loves the most and more importantly, why he/she loves it; adds more of a personal touch to things. Right now, I'll be talking about Clannad and how it taught me to appreciate the little details. Be warned though, this is not a review, so if you didn't like Clannad, then run for the hills (it will be a long, long uphill climb though).

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The sun is about to rise...

noreply@blogger.com (Moonlight) — Sat, 05 May 2012 12:43:00 +0000

It’s been a while guys. For those who don’t think so, I’m going to pretend it’s because you think about me daily and have imaginary conversations full of wit and laughter and we walk around in a field of flowers, and not because you don’t miss me at all.

For those wondering what the heck happened to Moon and her avid reviewing habit, I swear at first I was worse than an alcoholic at happy hour, just reviewing anything I could get my hands on, *sigh*good times. Moon ran out of words for a while. No joke. How the heck can that happen anyway? I mean just open up a dictionary and take your pick of words. Turns out that in order for them to make sense the words have to go together and form sentences, coherent sentences. Not like when I stub my toe with the door and all that comes out is profanities and rude hand gestures towards the door, that’s pretty self explanatory. Online it didn’t work that way, I mean I could still make hand gestures but you couldn't see them. I could have narrated it but it wouldn’t have been the same. Also, and this is probably the most important part, the fire for reviewing and reading so much was slowly dissipating . That with the no words = Moon’s absence.
It’s not back, the words I mean. But I have learned the less I try and force them the more willingly they come. Heh that should be on a bumper sticker for kidnappers everywhere. ..Wow that was bad.

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This May, let us remember love

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:55:00 +0000

There comes a time for every hobbyist when he thinks "Why am I still doing this?". Anime watching is no different. I'm sure everyone reading this has gone through that phase where anime watching seemed drab and its continuance doubtful. This may be due to a bad season or just watching a string of terrible anime or just not being able to get into anime as a whole all of a sudden. But there's one thing that always revives that childlike pleasure - going to the attic and opening your "memory box". In anime terms, rewatching the favorites.

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What a boring world you live in

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:51:00 +0000

My writing deludes people into thinking I'm a geezer-type anime fan (the ol' grouches who think anything that came after 2005 is as classy as a hobo's cardboard box) and this post certainly isn't going to help things...So I used the Little Big Planet picture. That picture makes you instantly cool. so am i "in" guyz?

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The TRazor's Tourney post

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:14:00 +0000

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Rock On, Anime Community... Rock On

noreply@blogger.com (GoodEnoughForMe) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:01:00 +0000

No, that's not me. You probably don't know me, and that's fine.

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Yunolicious

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:46:00 +0000

Yukki x Fergie. Set to this.

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My otaku level

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:40:00 +0000

Here are some photos of my room and my fully functional mecha unit, which I can actually use to fly short distances.

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Aniblog Tourney 2012 Preview: Complete Predictions for Every Matchup

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:43:00 +0000

Welcome to the fourth and final post in the Aniblog Tourney 2012 Preview. With the brackets now released, me and TWWK from Beneath the Tangles got down to filling them up and man, I gotta tell ya, if just filling up the bracket turned out to be so laborious, I can only imagine how tedious it must've been for the organizers to make the them. So kudos to you guys, great job! Now, onto the meat and potatoes...

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Aniblog Tourney 2012 Preview: Team Blogs

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:37:00 +0000

Welcome everyone to the Aniblog Tourney 2012 Preview show! I am your host, the smexy red smirk, TRazor. As always, I'm joined here by the man who muses beneath the tangles, TWWK. Blogs are generally considered to be one's personal space on the web. But what happens when several authors come together to write for the same blog? You get a mishmash of talents known as a team blog. Team blogs form an integral part of aniblogging because of their popularity and also because of their ~~picspams~~ large number of posts. In this post we talk about our top 5 team blogs, not ones that we pick will win, but ones that we like. So if you click the Read More button already, I can stop writing more stuff you already knew!

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The TRazor layeth the smackdown on 50 questions

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:57:00 +0000

Yes, that 50 questions. Can't say I wasn't tempted to change the questions so that I could plug a post for every question. Before I make the obligatory "Hai guyz I'm jumping on the bandwagon!" remark that seemingly every person has made, I thought I'd rather not take myself too seriously Because let's be honest, these are after all questions no one asked us on Formspring because ~~no one really cares about us that much~~ they're busy with their lives. Plus, why waste 50 posts worth of filler material all on one post? Really guys, has Naruto taught you nothing? So instead I'm going to have a little fun with this post. Meanwhile, somewhere in a dark corner, Marcel Proust is chuckling...

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Aniblog Tourney 2012 Preview: Dream Quarterfinals

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:26:00 +0000

Welcome to the second post in the Aniblog Tourney 2012 Preview. Joining me at ringside is TWWK from Beneath the Tangles. Today, we'll be going over who we want to be in the quarterfinals and pick our personal favorites to win the Tourney...of course, this is all just opinion, don't take it too personally, I'm sure your blog has its legions of followers (or one or two stalkers, who probably don't know each other, which makes them either very good and very bad at stalking). This is just us matching up our favorite blogs and to get our opinion on our favorites out there...consider this quarterfinalists shipping.

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Crimson Hero, The Manga

noreply@blogger.com (Moonlight) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:48:00 +0000

You know what I like as much as romance in a manga? Sports. I mean, when the characters are involved in some type of sport it always gives the material a more competitive edge to the manga that it can’t really have otherwise. I think that’s where my love for Prince of Tennis came from, even if it was repetitive at times it always made you feel like watching it unfold because of the characters seriousness in the game. Or maybe it was that I felt like I was somewhat involved in the game even though my lazy ass was sitting down…

Crimson Hero is a romance, sport, drama, school life, manga. What’s so unique about it? Nothing, really. You can pick apart the plot and characters and they won’t be original at all. What’s so good about it? Everything. The story is charming and the characters are funny and creative.
The manga pumps you up and makes you want to pick up a sport - it’s driven in the only way sports or arts can be.

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Aniblog Tourney 2012 Preview: Quarterfinalists - Then and Now

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:07:00 +0000

With April right around the corner, TRazor and TWWK of Beneath the Tangles decided to get together to make a series of posts discussing the Aniblog Tourney. In today's post, we go over last year's quarterfinalists, where they stand now and what their chances are of making it into the top 8 again.

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The cancer that's killing anime: Moe

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:26:00 +0000

The time has come for the TRazor to layeth the smackdown on one of the most beaten-to-death topics in all of aniblogging: moe. Before you jump for the elitist tag, read please.

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One episode to rule them all

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:35:00 +0000

There's always one scene in every show, one moment, that has you sold on it. That's when you find yourself thinking "Damn, this shit's good!". It's when you finally feel that your time was spent well. Recently, while watching Angel Beats, there was an episode that had me enchanted throughout the entire runtime, when I finally felt that I was having a good time. Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway, because English's redundant that way), huge spoilers ahead.

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Master of Fanservice, I mean Master of Martial Hearts~

noreply@blogger.com (Moonlight) — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:57:00 +0000

There’s something to be said for the few anime that are available to watch online through Netflix...

I’ll start by saying, I don't usually have a problem with finding anime I like, actually where genre is concerned I'm pretty easy to please. As long as it; Has some funny moments, a cute guy here and there, and a main lead that uses words with more than one syllable (sometimes). I mean that’s not so hard to do. Maybe throw in a cute animal just to add to the overall cuteness. So how, HOW, can a show that the girls kick ass be such a disappointment? For me it was because it just made me feel extra dumb. Hey I'm the first to admit I love certain genre because it requires minimal brain usage, no shame in admitting it. :)
Yeah, so if you plan to watch this one just hit the eject button on that brain of yours, send it out to clean and use that in between time to watch this show.

What is Master of Martial Hearts about?
It's about the the world of Martial Hearts. What the heck is it? A fighting contest/tournament that one enters which has the prize of a gem that can grant the winner her one and only wish.
The main leads are friends Aya and Natsume who happen to stumbled into the Martial Hearts world by mistake when walking into a fight in progress between a priestess named Miko and a flight attendant. After saving and hearing Miko’s story and the learning about how the tournament is and a few happenings in between they decide to join.
Who will come out victorious?….dah duh dum, wow no one will ever contract me to do soundtracks lol

Is everyone looking at what I'm looking at?....That is a huge injection ;_;

Requirement to be recruited in the Martial Heart:
-Have knowledge of the martial arts. Which just so happens ALL the girls in this one do. Love it when that happens.
-Be a girl, which is just code for have boobs you don't mind being displayed tot he world. And wear tornable (should be a word, clothes that can be easily torn, or made of foam) clothes.
-Have a wish that seems impossible and you want it to come true
-A cell phone, so that they can text you with the contest information
-Appear half naked at impromptu times throughout the day while fighting another female.

How it works when you‘re in?.. It’s not that easy, there are rules people!
They supply you with the money necessary to get ready and you start battling your way up the pyramid. If you end up being the winner you will receive the gem.
-That’s it?
-Yeah…
-But I thought you said it wasn’t that easy?
-Don’t blame me I don’t make the rules. Anyway you have to fight girls in really skimpy outfits. Maybe it makes you uncomfortable…

This contest isn’t for the faint hearted and boys can’t participate. I guess in this anime world boys have no hearts, sorry guys there’s always a next time. Don’t worry I feel insulted for you. But to be fair the fan service is ALL for you.

Actually even above all that it wasn't soooo bad. More annoying with than anything, and for a fairly short show that’s saying something.
For instance, every time (EVERY TIME) they hit, punch scratch their opponent their clothes magically shred leaving them in their underwear or naked, all I can do is call forth the 14 year old dude inside all of us and he'll say, "Boobies!" Fine he probably won't say it, but he'll think it. For those wondering , no, I don’t even take myself seriously sometimes. And with anime like these, that’s a silver lining.

As for the soundtrack and animation. Nothing stood out and the animation is rather plain. It’s not a new anime therefore it’s actually pretty ordinary in character design and color as a whole. No major flaws that I could see but I'll be honest I dozed off a lot of times. No worries when I came back five minutes later I still understood the plot, so no harm done.

The ending is where you get a feel for the main characters and you see they have some depths. It's a shame it's only for 10 minutes and you don't really care at this point. Which honestly I just didn’t see throughout the show to begin with. Well maybe in a few instances but they get stripped away by battle scenes, pun intended. It’s also at the end where you see the perverseness behind the show, I mean it’s there (duh, the nakedness?) but it shows you more in the end.
They tried to stuff us with useless plot lines and complicate the story to make it more interesting when if you really stayed and watched until the last second it was probably because you (as I was) were wondering if the "gem" was an euphemism for anything but gem. Maybe that's just me cause seriously this was a piece of work... yeah let's go with "work."

What does Aya want as her wish? Watch and find out, why should I suffer alone….

Rating:
No rating. I REFUSE to rate this. I can't. Do I rate as a 14 year old boy or me? Too hard a choice.

--Moon ;)

The TRazor presents: The Otaku Charmer

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:51:00 +0000

Do you have a weeaboo that you love?
Are you curious about your sexuality?
Do you want to know your true fetish?

Then the TRazor has the perfect solution for you!

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Why you should watch Wrestlemania 28

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:03:00 +0000

This post has nothing to do with anime. As a hardcore wrestling fan, I'm just doing my duty as a raving fanboy to promote the massive main-event of this year's 'Mania. You don't need to know much about WWE currently to read or understand this post.

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I'll have an order of side characters please!

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:09:00 +0000

Moon here, I feel like it's been a while.
Well, I know you missed me, I'm sure if I check some folder in my email I will find it full of fan letters, yep. But don't worry I won't check, why ruin the surprise... #delusions.

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I like Another

noreply@blogger.com (trzr23) — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:33:00 +0000

This post contains no puns. So no need to pick up your umbrella and run to the elevator clutching your heart, because I'm not going to pull some puns out of a blue bag.

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