{"id":620,"date":"2009-03-29T22:56:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T05:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/?p=620"},"modified":"2009-03-29T22:56:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T05:56:16","slug":"my-battle-plan-for-the-spring-2009-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/my-battle-plan-for-the-spring-2009-season\/","title":{"rendered":"My Battle Plan for the Spring 2009 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-621\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/snapshot20090329141448.jpg?resize=500%2C275\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nothing. \u00a0I don&#8217;t have a battle plan.<\/p>\n<p>But what I do have is something kind of like an excuse for a battle plan&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->So this blog is dedicated to bashing bad anime (among other things), desho?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_622\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-622\" class=\"size-full wp-image-622\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/snapshot200903170226321.jpg?resize=450%2C253\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;...that this is an example of a bad anime!&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Well, obviously, it&#8217;s hard to decide where to draw the line between bloggably bad and &#8220;holy shit, I need to stop watching this to save my eyes&#8221; bad.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/spring-2009-v3.jpg\">spring &#8217;09<\/a>, I see quite a few shows that I wouldn&#8217;t watch even if you paid me to (<em>Jewel Pets<\/em>, I&#8217;m looking at you!).<\/p>\n<p>So logically, a question arises:<br \/>\nWhich anime should I skip, and which should I <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">blog<\/span> bash?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_624\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-624\" class=\"size-full wp-image-624\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/lucky-star-06-large-02.jpg?resize=450%2C253\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is my serious face.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve come up with this idea (and I&#8217;m totally being 100% srs here &#8211; I even went out of my way to post a picture informing you of the degree of my srsness) to watch the first episode of every anime of the Spring 2009 season, for better or for worse.<\/p>\n<p>This way, I&#8217;ll be able to sort out the anime into&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The good<\/li>\n<li>The bad<\/li>\n<li>The horrible<\/li>\n<li>The bloggable<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;who-the-hell-would-want-to-watch-this&#8221;able<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-625\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/snapshot20090317010334.jpg?resize=500%2C275\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are some obvious flaws to this.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s blatantly disobeying &#8220;Don&#8217;t judge a book by its cover,&#8221; but that&#8217;s okay, because public opinion can draw me back to an anime (like it did after <em>Lucky Star<\/em> 01 for me!).<\/p>\n<p>It also makes me vulerable to attack from late failers (that&#8217;s the opposite of a late bloomer, mind you).<br \/>\nFor example, a Shana-turned-Kurokami could hit me straight in the gut and OHKO me.<br \/>\nHowever, there isn&#8217;t too big of a chance of that (I hope), so my eyes are safe (?).<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-626\" title=\"Why is this picture here?  I have no clue.\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/ef-a-tale-of-melodies-06-20.jpg?resize=500%2C284\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I ain&#8217;t watching no sequel that I&#8217;ve not seen the first season of (my english teacher would kill me for that horrible wording).<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, this is because I&#8217;ll have no freaking idea what&#8217;s going on, and if I watch the previous seasons later, I&#8217;ll find them predictable.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So tl;dr:<br \/>\nTo best suit my blogging style, I&#8217;m going to watch the first episode of every [subbed] anime of spring &#8217;09, but I won&#8217;t be watching sequels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nothing. \u00a0I don&#8217;t have a battle plan. 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