Yeah, I’m going this year again.

Basically me, two friends, and a couple of friends’-friends.

I have a few complaints about the website. Firstly, the design hasn’t changed at all since last year. And then I can’t find any useful information about the timetable. I’m somewhat disappointed, but otherwise it’s OK.

What kind of annoyed me last year was the utter lack of a (proper) garderobe. Even if there was one it was ineffective for me, since I couldn’t find it. Sounds like I’ll just come without a jacket then, otherwise it’s just too much hassle, and I’m not willing to carry it around with me. Awful stuff.

When I came there last year I saw AnimeOnly.TV, which since then sure went somewhere, but I’m still pissed at them since guess what - it’s in Danish. My Japanese is pretty rusty, more like, really bad. They should have named it AnimeInDanishOnly.tv instead. Awful stuff. At least it doesn’t have any DRM (which I know of)..

I hope they’re going to have an interview like last year. I really enjoyed the Junko Mizuno open interview session.

And hopefully it’ll be in English again.

If you see me around there this Saturday, get my attention somehow. I’ll be wearing my new Dushkin.org T-shirt.

Recently I’ve been chain-watching (like chain-smoking, only watching stuff instead of smoking) Chobits recently, and as an analytical person, realized the obvious flaws of the weak storyline.

There’s no point of you reading this if you haven’t watched/read Chobits, but be assured that it contains no spoilers.

The problem is simple. I haven’t actually watched the last couple of episodes. At first sight it might seem that protagonist being Motosuwa has a conflict - Yumi vs. Chii. There’s an obvious focus problem, since Chii is the character the reader is meant to focus on and empathize with. However Motosuwa gets that title instead.

Chii is pretty, carnal (due to limited knowledge about the social structure), ignorant, and absolutely subservient, not to mention that a relationship with her would be socially unacceptable within the scope of Chobits. On the other hand, Yumi, the real girl, thinks for herself (and demonstrates she can do just that), knows how to behave within the social structure and recognizes the fact that people tend to “go the wrong way” with Persocoms.

The audience simply empathizes with Yumi and Motosuwa, since they’re both going through something - Motosuwa’s frequent soliloquies, which every now and then are simply a cover up for something else that he means to say, but instead says in a different way and Yumi’s sudden sadness when someone talks about a persocom. Chii hardly reveals any feelings besides an occasional suggestion towards Motosuwa and maybe Asimov’s robot law. Chii is just a part of the background, I can’t relate nor empathize with her.

Nice drawings can’t cover up for a bad storyline.

First of all, sorry for not writing for so long, a few people bugged me about this, and I realized that I should have at least posted something short like “today I bought a pet plant” (which I did actually, help me name it).

Anyway. Kawaii seems to be taking over. I’ve been to Israel last month and they have an Anime channel in there, and of course Pokémon (but that’s pretty standard). My idea was to replace different authority figures with nice smiley Kawaii figures. Koizumi is a good start, of course. Taking a look at his website, there’s a link on the right to an “E-mail magazine”. What’s going on here? Is Koizumi trying to make himself something like a pop figure? Hello Kitty style. Hello Koizumi. And there we have it. Kawaii politics.

I would personally feel much more guilty, from a dictator point of view, to bomb something if their leaders are so kawaii.