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Whether or not we've been into animes/manga/Japanese things in general long or not, we've all experienced various kind of traumas, shocks and came to know many things we did not wish to know, or things we will never ever forget.
Because I find the topic both fun and interesting have my attempt at coming up with a personnal list.

Porn : Ok I start with this and you'll think I'm perverted but the whole concept of animated porn is something no one can forget once you've seen it. (Well animated porn is not the only "oddity" on the Japanese market but let's let this slide I don't particulary fancy embarassing myself further ^^)
Anyway, this was supposed to be a category so let's continue :
- Yaoi : I'm pretty sure I don't need to explain why this came at a shock when my 15-years-old self stumbled upon yaoi.
- Tentacles : One day I'll understand the appeal of tentacles. Maybe.
- Eroge/otome games/homoge and other dating sims : Thinking back about it, I should have imagined the concept. But I still can't believe these exist and probably never will.
- Hentai/yaoi animes with favourite seiyuus : Since I'm too curious for my own good and some people keep on sending questionnable things to me I once checked a hentai with Ono Daisuke. But there's worse, a yaoi anime, a VERY graphic yaoi anime, with Hochuu Ohtsuka. I don't want to even think about it ever again.

Seiyuu : The existence itself of such a large fandom for them came as a shock to me. Not a trauma though, I was and still am very glad to know there are people who pay as much attention as me to voices.
- Character songs : This one is both heaven and hell. Heaven when they're good, hell when they just can't sing. Still, the concept of making "characters" sing still is strange to me.
- Drama CDs and seiyuu events : Same as above, I love the concept but it's still strange. As for drama CDs I carefully avoid the ones with questionnable content (cf the above category)
On the other hand it's a very good way to learn Japanese.

Miscellaneous : That word itself is a trauma.
- Ballpoint pens : Who in their right mind would stab people with them? Yet, I still have some with me. Just in case.
- The character curse : Also known as I-am-bound-to-love-characters-no-one-cares-about. Examples are : Kyubey, Shiki-san in Durarara!! (do you even know who he is?), Akechi Mitsuhide, ...
- Durarara!! : That and any of Narita Ryogho's works is a trauma in itself.
- Spoilers : I hate spoilers. With a burning passion. Will never ever get over the fact I've been spoilt for Gundam 00.
- Cliffhangers : Same as above. Made me finish Code Geass in 3 days.
- Kyubey : It went as far as to invade my notes for class. He is EVERYWHERE! (but so cute, I want a plushie of Kyubey ^^)

- Pineapples : cf Katekyo Hitman Reborn. (his hairs do like a pineapple)

- Shi Ki : Generally all of Fuyumi Ono's works are traumas inducing. Ghost Hunt was a masterpiece of horror stories, Shi Ki took gore to a whole new level.
- Symmetry : Please don't tell me I'm the only one who can only think about Soul Eater when I hear that word. It is, by the way, very troublesome when your own mother is a bit of a symmetry addict and rants about that from time to time.

Well, I guess that's where I'll conclude my list. I let it sit down for a few days and nothing more came up to my mind, you're free to suggest more, I'm dead curious about your own traumatic experiences.

In which she rants

You probably have noticed this is not something I do very often, in animes, or in anything, there are things I don't like but I try to find positive in everything, except today, today I want to rant. I want to rant a LOT.
Well maybe not a lot and maybe it's my fault for expecting something awesome when "beach" is in the summary, especially when it comes from High School of the Dead.

Anyway, you may not know but I really, really loved High School of the Dead.
Sure, the first episode almost scared me away, come on, she was sleeping on her breasts, who does that?, but I'm glad I continued because it was badass, even Shizuka-sensei was badass, I'd happily jump on a second season, anytime.

So, why the OVA wasn't to this level? WHY?? (that was a cry of despair)

Do these images tell you what happened in this OVA or do you need a summary?

I almost wanted to say I couldn't summarize something where nothing happened, but that would be mean. Thing DID happen. They made their breasts bounce played and had dirty fantasies accidentally breathed hydrangea smoke, and at the end zombies appeared! For one minute.
And Shidoh wasn't there. (because he's obviously my favorite character)

Oh well nevermind. I probably never will like fanservice just for the sake of fanservice.
And I'm disappointed.

Lovey Dovey Prattle of a lost blogger

Very surprisingly, since the Spring 2011 wrap up post I have nothing to say anymore. I probably should continue my reviews from previous season but I'm lazy and feel like it's useless.

So I thought I should at least do Madoka, since well, it's Madoka. Except the only thing I've been able to think about that is how much I want a clear character design of these mahou shoujo without a name and how I want to do fanart of them (that's totally related with my almost legendary attraction for characters no one else cares about).
Well, actually I didn't particulary dislike that ending, and not particulary loved it either, it was just too normal for a show like Madoka.
And it lacked some evil!Kyubey.
Oh well, was an interesting experience nevertheless and a show I'd recommend.

Then I realized I have too many ambitious posts I want to write. But not much material to work from and/or a lack of language skills to do.
Like, for example, is it really pysically possible to time travel using a mini black hole and other various time travel theories. (cf Steins;Gate) but damn, whenever my genius-physics-studying friend start talking about it, I barely understand, I don't even want to start thinking about translating it in English.
Or I wanted to do a post about yaoi, why do girls like it, why do they/we write it, is it somehow, making them/us act like boys, what do we/they think of yuri and hentai, how do they/we discovered it? etc etc
Except that my experience on the subject is limited, extremely limited and I would have to ask some friends for help, and everyone is busy with exams and school and work and stuff so I'd feel bad to disturb. (Plus I, myself, am busy with exams and stuff and on top of that I'm sick, but that's beyond the point)

Then I was asked by Sebz to guestblog, much to my surprise, amazement and gratitude, and I'm stuck with the same question over and over and over. What to write? I can't possibly blog anything too personal on her blog, so that leaves out a lot of topics. Oh, well, when my head will stop hurting I'll probably find something.

To conclude this long and boring post (hell, there's not even a picture to make it seem easier to read), I think I found something for my next post. Anime induced traumatic experiences. How does it sound?

Lovey Dovey Prattle of an evil Boss

Actually, this is just because I'm trying to somehow get a regular pace over there, and because I just wanted to talk nonsense.

I'm tired, damn. This whole Tokyo Game Show is tiring, I love the thrill though, but I'm dead. Don't think I've ever talked that much about video games in my whole life, because guys for the records, the only video game I play is Mario Kart.
And I can't even play anymore little brother went to college with the Wii.

That being said once again I love the thrill, and it's kinda fun, and I feel I've been damn productive at the end of the day.
Next time I'll think I'll be able to manage not one, nor 2, but THREE damn blogs, plus fics, plus mod activities, plus mandatory fall housework/gardenning stuff, plus covering an event like the TGS, just kill me please?
Oh and I've been organizing an offline meeting too, we'll be only two though so I guess it should be ok.

And it has good sides too. I've been fangirling over Ryu ga Gotoku aka the Yakuza video game serie like crazy. Well it was easy to guess, knowing it just needs a very very small mention of them to get me crazy.
Which leads to another crazy addiction of mine, mainly Shiki, and Akabayashi from Durarara!!.
I'll pass on this or I'll still be there tomorrow, well no, it is tomorrow already.

I'll just shut up, and go to bed. It's too late already anyway ^^

#00

Hello the world!

I’ll start by introducing myself, I am a French girl, young, very young at heart, Nicknamed Kuuki on the internet.
I tend to sometimes go overboard, when I’m either really, really happy or really sad, or just because I feel like going crazy, thus you may encounter a strange being called “Kuuki-sama”, her wish is to conquer the world and she’ll be very happy to gain your support.

There are a lot of things I like, however I seem to have taken a special liking to Japan, its culture, its history, animes, mangas and the likes.

This is my first attempt at writing a serious blog about Japan, animes, etc, wish me luck and let’s hope everything will go well.

Enjoy yourself and don’t hesitate to make any suggestion you’d like, I’ll try to answer my readers’ expectations as good as possible.