{"id":486,"date":"2011-08-11T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/misakithursday.wordpress.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2018-12-20T00:23:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T07:23:35","slug":"avs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/avs\/","title":{"rendered":"Anime Vacation Spots"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

By the time you read this, I will no longer be here.<\/p>\n

In a week and a half from now (from when I am writing this), I will be in Hawaii, and I have just left yesterday (according to when this has been published).<\/p>\n

To commemorate my nearly-week-long vacation, I’ll be talking about vacation spots in anime. \u00a0Nothing specific, mind you. \u00a0I don’t have the memory banks to store any specifics. \u00a0My brain is an old model, and it has a RAM of 128 megabytes. \u00a0I don’t want to save something so useless as anime vacation spots to my hard drive. \u00a0I should carry around an external brain. \u00a0I hear they make them with dozens of gigabytes now.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Rich Classmate’s Summer Home<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are some things I never understand about anime\/Japanese culture. \u00a0One is why everybody has a hometown out in the boonies. \u00a0Another is why 4-girl 4-komas always have one filthy rich girl with a vacation home out near an isolated beach.<\/p>\n

Back in 2000, it was pretty terrible. \u00a0Azumanga Daioh managed to save itself by having Osaka’s knife scene. \u00a0But now every mangaka and his\/her uncle and that uncle’s dog and the fleas on that dog and the bacteria on those fleas and the electrons rotating around the nuclei of those atoms that make up the bacteria feel the need to put in a vacation home chapter. \u00a0And now there’s no more Osaka. \u00a0There isn’t even Chiyo-chan. \u00a0There’s just some stupid rich girl whose only defining characteristic is how rich and ojou-sama-like she is.<\/p>\n

In comparison, my defining characteristic would be how middle-class and college-student-otaku-like I am. \u00a0Does that smell like UNIQUE to you? \u00a0No, it doesn’t! \u00a0If anything, it smells like too much homework on the weekdays, cup ramen at random times during the day, and lots of Minecraft and TF2 in the evening.<\/p>\n

Heck, at least Chiyo was small and ten years old and small! \u00a0Mugi needs big eyebrows to become a quarter-fledged character and Tsuruya needs a fang and really damn long green hair! \u00a0Come on, those aren’t REAL character traits. \u00a0A simple haircut or a shave could trim all the excess hair away, and these two would be left with nothing but their richness and their money.<\/p>\n

But then again, I wouldn’t mind being left with oodles of cash.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Remote Island Syndrome<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes the rich girl has an island, too. \u00a0Or maybe the rich girl’s best friend’s fellow club member is in an organization that owns an island. \u00a0Or maybe a certain class rep is rich enough to rent out an island for the entire class.<\/p>\n

In any case, anime summers often end up on a private island in the middle of nowhere… perfect for a murder!<\/p>\n

But if you stop and think about it for a second, wouldn’t somebody have some excessive stupidity if they wanted to murder people in a closed circle environment? \u00a0If said murderer kills only one person, then you have a full list of suspects: the people on the island! \u00a0Just send ’em all to the interrogation room.<\/p>\n

Do closed circle cases even happen in real life? \u00a0You see it all the time on television because it’s a convenient way to make everything and everyone ambiguous, but you rarely hear about it on the news.<\/p>\n

I don’t have anything left to say about this. \u00a0I probably had something lined up in my head and dressed up in mayonnaise, mustard, and jalapeno peppers when I wrote “closed circle island” as a bullet point a couple of days ago. \u00a0But now the mayonnaise is sour, the mustard is sourer, and the jalapeno peppers are as prinstinely spicy as ever. \u00a0Everybody knows that peppers take ages to go bad.<\/p>\n

So I’m 1 for 3 here, and I give this section of the post a corresponding 33% approval rating. \u00a0If I saw this kind of rating on metacritic, I’d think Big Rigs or Elf Bowling-quality. \u00a0But this part wasn’t that bad, right? \u00a0At least I didn’t drive off the map into funky gray zone or rotate backwards at a million mph.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

This reads "Pu-u-lu."<\/p><\/div>\n

City Pool<\/strong><\/p>\n

On an unrelated note, the first recognizable character (\u6c11)\u00a0on the pool sign above is “m\u00edn” in Chinese. \u00a0Despite going to Chinese school for eight years, I have a very limited and basic understanding of Chinese. \u00a0Thus the only phrase I can relate this character to is “m\u00edn z\u00fa” (\u6c11\u65cf), which roughly means “nationality.”<\/p>\n

According to Google Translate, the single character means “people” or “nationality” by itself. \u00a0So what’s the extra “z\u00fa” character supposed to do? \u00a0It means the same thing with or without the second character so why do people need to add the second one?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Generic Festival matsuri whatever<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was in Little Tokyo the other day and happened to come across an Obon Festival taking place at one of the temples. \u00a0For a tenth of a millisecond, I gave in to the weeaboo side and thought that there would be goldfish scooping and mask vendors. \u00a0But then I wised up. \u00a0This was America!<\/p>\n

And more importantly, the dango my friend bought looked like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes, I took the picture of the “dango” and the picture of the festival above with the same shitty camera built into my phone. \u00a0But for some reason, the dango picture looks amazing while the one above is terrible. \u00a0I should have brought my digital camera that day.<\/p>\n

But anyway, the Little Tokyo festival was very strange. \u00a0We walked past a bake sale, went into the basement of the temple where lots of daycare kids were listening to a guy making a speech, and came out the other side to see a mob of middle-aged Asian women buying various fruits and veggies that were all really damn cheap<\/a>. \u00a0I’m not too knowledgeable about Japanese culture, so I’m guessing this is the norm.<\/p>\n

Shooting galleries and yo-yo fishing are just stuff of fiction. \u00a0Reality is filled with cheap groceries and middle-aged Asian men who sound like twenty-year-old black women singing English songs on stage.<\/p>\n

I also saw this car<\/a> parked a few cars down from mine. \u00a0One out of the ten people who will click on that link probably recognizes this as the car at the Dannychoo booth at AX<\/a>. \u00a0According to my friend, Dannychoo itasha’d some con-goer’s car for free (in exchange for blatant advertising \u00a0for some shitty blog).<\/p>\n

If I were him, I would draw two big Xes over Mirai’s eyes. \u00a0Screw Dannychoo’s stupid advertising. \u00a0I would also write out “Misaki Thursday” over the “Mirai Suenaga” bit. \u00a0Or I could write “Mikoto Misaka” and change the stupid moe looking stupid Mirai into Mikoto Misaka.<\/p>\n

I didn’t even bother talking about anime in this section, huh?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I got a haircut today<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whenever I get a haircut and the barber\/barberress\/conan the barbarian can speak English, he\/she asks me, “how do you style your hair?”<\/p>\n

Why do people assume I style my hair? \u00a0I mean, I came in with my hair drooping down and clearly unstyled so why do you think I keep buckets of gel at home? \u00a0I use shampoo and conditioner and soap and that’s it!<\/p>\n

One of these days, I’m just going to reply “I leave it to fate” or “I use my pillow” or “what’s hair?” \u00a0I’m sure they’ll appreciate my thoughtful response.<\/p>\n

In a desperate attempt to relate this to anime: the only two anime I’ve watched that show a character actually getting a haircut are Full Metal Panic and Gintama, though the latter involves the Shogun, poop, and pubic hair. \u00a0Anime characters don’t usually get haircuts, come to think of it. \u00a0Even in slice-of-life shows.<\/p>\n

Well, I’m sure it’d be hard to cut hair that can stand up like this. \u00a0You’d need a diamond chainsaw. \u00a0I wonder how much that would cost.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’d be pretty costly to make in Minecraft, but not as much as a diamond chestplate or something. \u00a0Those things are really damn expensive.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Minecraft, I quit the game. \u00a0It’s too addictive and sucked out almost five hours of my day, everyday. \u00a0And that was when I was in school, too!<\/p>\n

But at least it’s not as bad as WoW. \u00a0I remember sitting in front of the Dalaran fountain for an entire day, just fishing up coins. \u00a0Even though I managed to get all the bronze, silver, and gold coins, I don’t think I ever got the fishing title because the stupid fish in Orgrimmar was so hard to catch. \u00a0I fished in the troll lake next to the first aid guy for hours, and I saw so many people catch it. \u00a0But I only ever got the useless fish and a couple of vials.<\/p>\n

Who needs vials anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By the time you read this, I will no longer be here. In a week and a half from now (from when I am writing this), I will be in Hawaii, and I have just left yesterday (according to when this has been published). To commemorate my nearly-week-long vacation, I’ll be talking about vacation spots […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials","category-misaki-thursday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2zM4X-avs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7849,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/7849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}