Pretty Tiger-Boy!

[elfs]

It is so Sunday. The sun has come out so the girls are outside, playing. I made waffles for breakfast-- they came out perfectly. And tuna fish for lunch-- at least for the girls and Omaha. I had a mozarella sandwich with fresh basil from the garden and, well, cheap balsamic vinegar. I didn't watch any of the anime I intended to last night; I was just tired and went straight to bed. The water tank leak hasn't gotten any worse.

What inspired me to blog, however was this: Onmyou Taisenki, which contains an anime short of a young boy (can you say Ash?) fighting a terrible villain, and using pokeballs, er, magic spheres with which to do it.

This series combines absolutely the most terrible of everything you find in synergistic marketing. The young boy, his very cute tiger-boy with the Big F'ing Sword, the villain and the mysterious magical woman-- it's all very anime, visually. But then comes the marketing. She uses a card set and lays out ranks... gosh, another card game. But it gets worse, oh yes. You see, Ash, er, I mean, the hero stores his very cute tiger-boy with a Big F'ing Sword in his "magic sphere", and summons said cute tiger-boy with shouts and gestures. Now, in the innocent era of Pokemon, the real-world marketed balls were just storage containers for cheap beanie-baby sorts of things. In the era of Onmyou, the spheres are full-blown IR networked digipets who will "battle" with one another, and whichever boy made the gesture most properly (apparently measured with some kind of on-board gyroscope, the chip-based kind cost pennies these days) will "win" any given round when the two balls are "activated" and brought into proximity.

But Kogenta is a very cute tiger-boy.

Comments

[slfisher.livejournal.com]

I'd really urge you to take care of the water heater; plumbing is one of those things that seldome gets better by putting it off.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

We have no intention of letting it rest any longer than possible; an appointment with a plumber is first thing Monday morning.

[slfisher.livejournal.com]

Whew!

I lived in a six-unit building that had gotten renovated, and ten years later we had three of the water heaters fail within a couple of months. The most interesting one was the guy above me; my neighbor ended up with this giant 'bubble' in his ceiling of water, held only by the paint of his ceiling.

At that point, I decided I wasn't going to wait for mine to fail, and I called and got it replaced. Good thing, too; it turns out that they were cheap when they updated the plumbing, and my shutoff valve was *after* the water heater -- if it had burst, the only way to shut it off would be to shut off water for the entire building. (He fixed that when he put in the new one.)

In fact, I'm procrastinating on replacing a water heater now...

[anbu-itachi.livejournal.com]

I came across this randomly in Google... Just wanted to say OMT is basically Bandai's spritual successor to Digimon. There isn't a card-game, the character using them just uses "spell-cards" of sorts.

With the V-Pet, you use air-cuts, cutting symbols and spells into the air, like an On Myou wizard would in ancient Japan, and based on the marks you make, you can preform different attacks and special techniques, defend.