09/23/2016: Make Me Lose Control

06/27/2016: How to Brainwash Your Employees

Good day guys, gals, and mutants! I know you've been anticipating this 'how-to' for your business for what seems like a decade, but anticipate no longer! I will show you this quick and easy 5 step way to increasing productivity and overall mood within your retail store!

Step one is always the hardest step to take. This step loses many production seekers in fear of intimidation of losing their way! For this reason, I will simplify the process into a five part process!

Step One - Part 1
The first part to any step is always the hardest one to take. It's always better to take precaution here, as it is always easy to get side winded into doing another thing all together, and as far as I can tell, we don't want that. Do we?
Thought not.
If you look under your chair, you will find a package. Take out the package, and you will find what looks to be a key. This will be important later, you might want to bookmark this. Actually, just follow my Google+, there's no telling that I might not lose my way writing this simple 'how-to' guide. The barrel of this gun isn't getting any warmer! Haha! That was a joke, my employers would never hold a gun to my head! Haha! Not to force me to write a 'how-to' guide on how to increase production anyways! Haha! What a joke!

Here
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I'm running out of time here actually, so I must wrap this up.
Step 4 - Part 93
Remember one of the most fundamental rules of mind control; there must be a pattern.
Just create a 9 song playlist for your retail store and put it on a loop! Simple as that! The more agonizing and popular, the better! Remember, we're not here for pleasure (as stated in Step 3 - Part 56), but rather productivity! Did joy ever raise your store to the next district level? Did your employee's happiness ever earn you your promotion? Did your good grades and people pleasing behavior ever stop your parents from splitting up, forcing you to grow up fatherless and blaming yourself for these actions, making no mistake that it was your fallacies in believing in a higher cause and your incorrigible faults that split your parents up, not not not because your parents were having arguments over money or that your parents had no chemistry at all and the marriage was doomed from the beginning, it was my fault IT WAS MY FAULT IM SORYR I WAS BAD IWISH I WAS BETTER I JUST WANT TO DIE AND RIP AND TEAR

Oh we're out time!
I hope this simple 5 Step process was of use to you and your store! Look out for my audiobook coming out soon on all popular media sites.

See you next week!

06/21/2016: Re:Re:

marylin mansons new movie

follow the warrens as they banish mayrlin manson from squatting at a local british hovel.
Okay, out of the movie and in the real world, this shit happened. Not quo for quo the way the movie did, but it was based on it. Take that as you will.

I feel that the phrase 'based on' holds a bit more integrity then say 'authentic', but use either one and you still look like a moron.

The movie was fine. The attention it has been receiving is on par with the positive reaction of Jurassic World, another movie I felt deserved wayyyy too much limelight. However, looking back at the decade or so past horror movies, it's easier to look through that and relate it to the usual horror movie dribble we get every quarter of a year.

In fact, I would say that it's good.

Some parts of the movie, like the actual demon is genuinely spooky. In fact, I built an acute fear of the dark for a week because of this fucking movie. This to the point of looking over my shoulder while jogging in fear of some ghost nun with lots of make up spooks up behind me. I feel the movie did a very good job of keeping suspension high and the mystery shrouded, almost Alien-esque in the way they pulled it off. The very ending, everything comes together and you find out the involvement of all the set pieces.

The story however was subpar and actually really nonsensical and cheesy. The writing at times is just cliche and junky, the scenes were practically choreographed from years of horror movie influence, but I enjoyed it. The ending, remembering it now, had great build up although a bit abrupt, and was very intense. Bravo Wan.

Damn, watching the trailer now, and it is actually better than the movie.

Anywho, something else I've checked out is something I've been wanting to touch on for a while.

Old but gold. It's been about three years since it was released, but these thirty minutes were the best thirty minutes I've spent this year. No joke.

The short is about a young girl named Akko who enters a school for wizards, having been inspired by a wizard show from years ago. I realize the sentence I've just typed is a few words away from describing another franchise dealing with wizards, but I assure you although similar, Little Witch Academia has a charm of its own. Our Akko turns out to be the most inexperienced of the bunch, but she remains very earnest about her desire and beliefs even in the face of naysayers and her own rival.

The rest is coming of agey stuff, but it was still very fun. All the characters turn out to be likable especially Sucy, and the climax is very on par with Trigger's usual satisfying big bang endings. It's really nice to see a very good female lead in a shonen role.

So yeah its pretty good.

A Big Lubricated Mess

This past week, I've been binge playing a lot of singleplayer games. Metroidvania seems to be the pattern, and the occasional horror game thrown in to lubricate things up. I've started watching the fourth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Diamond is Unbreakable. I gotta say, diamonds aren't the only thing unbreakable right now. But that's probs for later.

It's been a week since I finished Osomatsu-san. I haven't felt this much post show hangover in a long time. Actually, ever. I'm hoping a second season rolls around soon or I don't know what I'll do.

I tried messing with this gif/webm uploader to put some other things on this post, but unfortunately it's sort of a big mess so I can't do much with it at the moment, besides upload cute pictures of Ichimatsu.

I am going through withdrawal, and the only way to stem insanity is to rewatch a few episodes. I don't care what show it is, especially gag shows they tend to get stale after a while.

I bought SOMA(Soma?) this week, and I've been putting in some hours to try to finish it by this weekend. Mission failed, but at least it's fun and really interesting.

its cold right?

Besides this, I finished Steins;Gate as well. I wasn't too sure on how I got my ending, but I did some google research and it's apparently because I answered and texted back everyone with the Phone Trigger system. By the way, Steins;Gate is not your conventional visual novel; in fact, you'll find that as far as choices go, there are none to make besides how you interact with your fellow lab mems. Amazing game that is best to go into blind. If you ever decide on reading one visual novel in your life, you may or may not want to pick Steins;Gate. It's nuts.

dududuru

Besides that, it's hard choosing a favorite girl on here. Say what you will, but Mayuri's innocence is the light down the end of the tunnel. Kurisu and Suzuha are pretty good, too, but something about Mayuri's love for bananas and Juicy Chicken Number One really gets my fluids going.

And that's it. I'm getting ready for finals, and finishing up homework, so I'm going to make this one short.

See you next week losers.

Welcome Karamatsu Girls

I spent these last few weeks doing what I consider my normal routine.

• Wake up at 9 in the morning, posing philosophical thoughts about my life like thinking about Dark Souls 3
• Pouring myself a glass of milk while thinking about Dark Souls 3
• Call my friends over to watch a movie, mention Dark Souls 3
• Put on movie for myself, question friendships and watch trailers for Dark Souls 3
• Lie in bed for hours reading ero doujins
• My computer can't run Dark Souls 3
• Buying a gun

And more, but this is a rough sketch of it. I'm starting to see a trend here, and it all involves one thing.

Boy am I super unproductive.

Creating content is a wonderful thing. To be totally honest with you, I'm amazed with myself for keeping up with writing up these articles of my life for 4 months now, it's sort of touching for me. Despite the lack of actual impact on today's society, I can honestly say I'm proud.

Mind you beautiful reader, I am sort of late on the catching up with all the seasons of anime thing. Just a few days ago, I actually finished up two or three really old ones. I'm actually shooting myself for not talking about them already, but the one of the two series are Tatami Galaxy.

Tatami Galaxy probably has possibly one of my favorite art styles in anime ever. I almost turned it down to be totally honest with you. The thumbnail I saw on Hulu had a poor looking eggplant face guy, and it was recommended to me after watching an episode of ErgoProxy. Hulu catching on to my hipster tastes for anime, I checked out a few episodes out of curiosity.

And what a choice I made! The interesting narrative and fun, expressive art style hooked me in. Every episode having it's own color, until the very last episode that ties it all together. I'll be sparse on the details here, but they accomplished a feat a different show attempted but failed concerning a certain detail. Really enjoyable show, story wise and visually as the whole anime looks like an Asian Kung Fu Generation album cover, and it is absolutely amazing.

Check it out if you haven't already, and welcome yourself to the 'I should watched this a decade ago' club! Also consider joining the 'Higher Echelon of Tastes' club otherwise known as 'I'm a fucking hipster' club.

Anywho, on to the next one.

Born out of the gel pens and sketchboards of Japanese animators, a new waifu is born! Yay! Misaki is probably the most faithful girl in animation ever. 

besides this guy

More than anything, I really enjoyed Misaki as a character. Fucking crazy, but what girl isn't amirite? Ahahaha
But really, some of the bits on the show really make you want to hug a Misaki. Seriously, no one deserves her in that show, especially Satou. He's sort of a cunt.
Luckily, Misaki's devotion and need for affection let even Satou win her over. Crap, I'm spilling my feelings again. I'll remember to buy some tampons to clean this up with.
Anywho, the show is very self aware. It shows the darker side of otaku culture and lust, to the point of becoming obsessive. I'm finally seeing otakus like me for what we really are. We are really sad.

Anyways, check it out. Might be something you'd be interested in I guess.

And that's i-

  

I cannot get enough of this show. Greatest show of this decade. Hands down. 

You might recognize these guys. They have definitely blown up recently. What could be so interesting about a show with six of the same guys? So much. From merch to brother pairing doujins, the fandom is spreading, and the Matsuno brothers are king. 

Karamatsu <3 im ordering this

I haven't been this infatuated with a show in a while. I've been typing for 10 minutes about this show, and I still haven't written anything about it. I want to keep it that way. You have to find out for yourself. 

And that's it for this week. I'll try to have another video up by the end of next week. 

Later losers.

A Death Parade

Last weekend, I checked out an anime. That's right.

It's called Erased.

witty caption and thnx crunchyroll

My thoughts on it? Longer than I anticipated. After the 2nd time coming back and getting his shit together, I honestly thought the show was done. Not to say it's bad; no, almost every episode was very enjoyable. The first episode was slow at first, but the intrigue and at the same time my interest piqued. Seriously, the creators have dabbled in the art of cliff hanging, as every episode almost always transitions smoothly into the next. I only recently checked this anime out from a friend's recommendation, but thought the idea was way too Encyclopedia Brown.

I'm glad I was wrong. Very glad. The show has a strong story; at no point did I feel that I was really burnt out from marathon'ing the show till' 5 in the morning. The main character could use some work, though. At points I find it weird he says some of the things he does because of who he really is, but I suppose it's a culture thing. I mean, yeah sure man she's twelve, but say whatever you want I guess. It scares me a little since he's 29 and the things he's genuinely feeling for her are flag raising. From what I've watched, which is up to episode 9 now, the story still has a lot going for it.

Overall, really enjoyable. There are no pauses in the tension, but my interest in events that would follow are too damn high to give a shit. Usually a show would suffer if you don't give it a low in between the highs, but I suppose that can be overcome if you have a show with so much intrigue.

Besides that, I'd like to touch on something western for a change.

I want this as a movie poster now.

10 Cloverfield Lane is the sleeper hit of 2016. Seriously, I almost vomited when I saw the trailer when I was watching Deadpool. I thought to myself, HOLY DRAMA FILLED NUCLEAR BUNKER MOVIE BATMAN, THIS SHIT IS GONNA BE HY- Cloverfield? Cloverfield. That word scared me. I'm not a big fan of vomit inducing found footage films. They tend to go off on the tangent that the mystery and intrigue will suffice for the budget decisions and leaving viewers completely confused as to what the fuck is actually going on. Luckily, having seen the movie now, I am completely colored. Colored surprised that is.

The movie has little to nothing to do with the 2 hour filming of a giant dildo taking over a city that was the predecessor.  I mean, that's what it was right? I didn't get to see what it looks like so I let my imagination do the work.

My imagination happened to be filled with dildos.

No. Instead, you literally do not have to acknowledge the previous movie to get your bearings in with the new one. In fact, I encourage not seeing it. Seriously, the twist is so good, and I can only imagine the face of viewers who have no idea what Cloverfield is. Thanks J.J.

Props to the casting. John Goodman plays a really creepy guy. So well that I must question his stance on Japanese laws regarding pornography. Seeing him in this movie, and then another, it's really hard to tell who he is. Great transition from jolly football coach dad to 'Wanna see the inside of my closet' conspiracy shut in. Mary Winstead is also new waifu.

Apart from a few questionable lines of robotic dialogue, the movie was really well made. To make a movie with just three people, and have so many interesting things happen between them in claustrophobic environment was tense. I honestly could not stop watching.

SPOILERS
I bet none of you fuckers saw that ending coming. What everyone thought to be nuclear bunker drama turned out to be a super badass origin story for an alien rebellion fighters. I loved the irony of Howard's paranoia and Michelle finding out the truth. I had to laugh at that.
END SPOINKERS

If you're into claustrophobic nuclear doomsday bunker drama or just have it in for Mary Winstead, I definitely cannot recommend this movie enough. J.J. Abrams, good job sir. What a glorious ending to the movie,  I cannot wait for part 2.

And finally..

 DEATH PARADE, BABY
okay, admittedly I am a year late to this party. BUT WHAT A HOMECOMING. My dog just sighed at me for playing this OP for the tenth time in the last hour.

ALRIGHT! ARBITERS! DEATH PARADES! JUDGEMENT! MEMENTO MORI!

From what starts off with a seemingly misleading OP, the show settles in with a grim atmosphere. Two. Always two. A pair that have died off at the same time show up at Quindecim and the bartender makes judgement through the use of games that expose the darker side of humanity.

The show will continue to have this format for all of the following episodes right up to the finale. Really, you don't have to watch them all. You can watch almost all of the episodes individually and you'll still get the gist, as they all have separate stories. Although for the underlying main one, you'll wanna buckle up for the whole thing. Worth the price of admission. Whatever your price is, that is.

WATCH! As human emotions are tested. Situations that would make you think 'what would I have done?' Rules that set up the framework for the show are broken!

The characters aren't as fun as they seem in the intro, but they do at least have depth. Seemingly stone faced Decim acknowledges the complexity and simplicity of humans, Chiyuki is faced with an ultimatum and finds out the weight of human life through several judgements. The parts that shone for me are still the themes. Philosophical and sometimes just practical themes. It's all here.

SPOILERS
And finally the final and recurring theme. That life is fleeting, and we only acknowledge that we're living only when we're dead. It's really cool. Now the upbeat and jazzed up OP finally fits. A pleasant reminder to live in the present. Tomorrow is not a guarantee. Not to beat on an oversaid and overly exhausted bush here, but memento mori. You will someday die. But take that in a good way.
ENDU SPOIRURUS

Overall, it's a good watch if you enjoy a show with a bunch of studly bartenders or you like asking yourself questions of morality. Although it's a little weird it only took around three cases to have Decim's solid no human emotion foundation to be shattered, I'm sure there's a time lapse somewhere in there.

I recommend it.

It's time to get everybody and the stuff together, ok 3 2 1 lets go

Playing it by ear again. Honestly, I am burning myself out.

AND THAT'S IT. THAT'S A WRAP. GO ON. GET OUTTA HERE.

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Anime Matsuri 2016: SFV Beat a Pro Event - My Time as a Volunteer

I was going to be a little more subtle about this, maybe sneak it into the post, but fuck it.

I WENT TO ANIME MATSURI in Houston!!! AS A VOLUNTEER! It was possibly the greatest time of my life. Before you go judging that my life must be pretty sad, at least get into the meat of what I have to say first before you judge the dish! 

It all started here.

I was offered a chance to work with my good friend at an event called Street Fighter V: Beat a Pro. The gist of it was that we flew a Japanese Street Fighter pro over and he sat down and played anyone who payed 5 dollars at a chance to win a copy of Street Fighter V. If you don't win, you still have the money you pay donated to Texas Children's Hospital, as well as getting entered into a raffle for free stuff. It was really fun; I met a lot of people who knew they weren't going to win, but entered anyways to donate. My heart grew 3 sizes larger that day.

 it

 sure is

empty in here

It was surreal. The whole experience I mean. Watching a convention build itself from the ground up was a sight to see; From empty giant warehouse to a warehouse full of life and lots of merchandise. It was awesome. Day One my friend Ethan and I met up with the heads of some of the departments there and we had helped the logistics team bring in sets for cosplay photography. It was interesting seeing a whole team of people bring in what looked like walls and pieces of a castle. 

Pictured here is SFV Beat a Pro Prototype A. My good friend Ethan and I waited around until our translator, Dane, got their. Really cool guy. When we finally got to meet Tonpy around a whole hour after he was scheduled to, we decided to do 'button tests'. Namely just dicking around and setting up SFV to play some rounds. Not pictured above is Tonpy bodying everyone. Oh, also he gave us Green Tea Kit-Kats from Japan. Really nice fella. Also saw a bunch of Japanese guests running around that day in the hotel.

My friend explicitly looking at me after finding out our dinners will not be covered for by Anime Matsuri. Also Dane and Tonpy.

 I believe there were 145 dollar choices on the menu, but for some reason only took a picture of these.

Afterwards, we went out for dinner at this place called Three Forks. We didn't really choose the place, but my friend and I tagged along for the ride. This is one of those places where it's assumed the patrons will be sipping on liquid gold, so they have wine glasses set on the table just for that. Oh! I didn't mention that we were also eating out with three of the Japanese guests. An animation group called MADHOUSE, with two of the members sitting with us; the storyboard artist and character designer. Insanely cool people. As well as RamRider, a Japanese DJ, and Tonpy of course, our guest for SFV Beat a Pro. IT WAS CRAZY MAN. I'm not sure how everyone else was taking it, but I was sort of freaking out. Three celeb figures from Japan, and I, some kid from a rural town, eating overpriced 90 dollar steaks with them! Is this real life? Or is this just fantasy? Besides our guests, our other lovely friends Dane, Rei, and Jasmine were sitting with us as well. I sat on the end with all the Japanese guests, and oh boy the language barrier was real that night. Although we did get some words across in the end, and we talked mainly about video games and anime lmao. They showed me some of their drawings for Death Parade, which I recently checked out.

a sneaky peaky at our hotel roomy

Afterwards we just went back to our hotel, and that was the end of Day One. Day Two consisted of spending literally all morning putting up a huge projector screen. The result of being behind schedule by a few hours, it took 4 other volunteers and I to finally get it up and functioning. The only thing it needed was an actual projector. Of course, right? 

pictured above is one of AnimeMatsuri's seven marvels. 

LOOK AT THAT BASTARD. The saddest part being is that we built it, but it saw no use that day. It idly sat that mockingly, 5 hours of labor laid to ruin. Despite my heavy bitching, I did get the meet some other volunteers that day, so it was awesome. Oh, and that prototype of the booth we had? We made a few adjustments and set up 4 TVs and setups with Street Fighter V. Had a lot of people coming by on first day; got to know a few as well. Even ran into this guy.

That's right. Brolylegs and his brother came by. The hypest Chun to ever Chun. It was so cool seeing this man at work. I even got a to play a few matches; immediately bodied me. Before our first match, I even told him how I felt. "Oh shit, I'm scared." He reassured me and said, "Don't be scared." Wow. 

WHAT A FUCKING LIE THIS MAN IS SCARY AND WILL DESTROY YOU

It was still a really cool experience. His brother is really good as well. A Nash player, although I didn't get to play him. :(

Afterwards, I just watched the booth for a good while until my bud Ethan came back. Afterwards I sort of just chilled around. 

im not sure what this is or was

At around 12 that night, I was told there was a Nerdlesque. A burlesque for nerds. I've never heard of the word burlesque, but boy was I in for a pleasant surprise. The whole thing was dirty jokes and strip teasing, with lots of game references and stuff. Best night ever; hearts and nuts were stolen. Stella Chu still has my heart. Breakfast cosplay. <3 Oh, and also met this random guy from the area who knew a lot about the performers. Even knew some of the performers personally, as he frequents their burlesque. I thought that was sort of random and coincidental. They actually have a place in Houston, but I couldn't tell you where. I sat with him, but I couldn't remember his name for the life of me, I'm sorry gent! Afterwards I believe is when we went to get some ice cream. We went to a shop recommended to us by a waiter. It was cool; Tonpy, Ethan, Dane, and I sat down for some scoops and chatted about how America gets way more ice cream than Japan does in their scoops. I wish I took a picture of it.

Afterwards, after the storm came the calm. I happened to catch a rare sight of the hotel. Empty, and not a soul in sight. Really different from the humdrum of its usual caterers, so I decided to at least capture this for myself and for you as well. Nice, right? It's at the Hilton, which I should've mentioned but whatever. Went back to the hotel and went back to sleep for the next day. 

some oraora cosplay, the gender bend Joseph is godlike

After getting back to our booth, we started to set up. It takes us five minutes when we don't have to set up TVs and TV stands. During the early morning break before we actually opened up the shop, a couple of vendors popped by. A gentlemen by the name of James Ghio aka Jimbobox, his girlfriend, and this really awesome artist who I can't remember the name of but I'm thinking it's Rudy (I'm sorry man, I really do hope you find this blog by some intervention of god) came by to play some Street Fighter. Jimbobox did some art for the UDON, the guys who do the Street Fighter comics, and Rudy is straight badass. After playing a few matches, Rudy wanted some runbacks, so I told him I'd be waiting. Ah man, if only we got them. Hey man, if you're reading this, I'm still waiting. My fighter ID is priv_bryan. Also, I'm eternally grateful for the One Punch Man print, I can't read your signature at all lmao. 

After, we went and saw a concert..

After the day settled down, and we finally got to cool down time, my friend told me there was going to be a concert, and Tonpy is more than on board for that. 

Morning Musume

Tonpy turns out to be a big Morning Musume fan. I asked my boss man if I could go with, and he agreed to let me. Sadly Ethan couldn't be with us, but he at least got to see it. BUT NOT AT THE FRONT WITH ME AND TONPY. AHAHHAHA sorry. Actually, I wasn't at the front at first. But I did strike a conversation with a man who is from Chicago. He's actually very Scottish, as his accent is apparently heavy. He's told me that he once went to Golden Week in Japan (Sometime in April) and saw 20 Morning Musume concerts. We three talked a bit more, and I told him this was actually my first concert ever, besides classical ones. He was very surprised. When the concert started..

 is this real life wow

He pushed me to the front. This was seriously as anime as it gets, as I turned around and he told me, "This is your first concert, and you're going to be at the front!" At this point in my life, I just had to ask myself, "Am I in some sort of show? Is this real life?" As I thought this to myself, the lights began to flash, and Morning Musume came out with their first song. What a show. Everyone was lively. All our souls combined into one idol worshiping machine and this machine was oiled up! That was the worst metaphor I could possibly pull out of the bag, but I felt it! My good friend Tonpy felt it, too. He knew all the words, and swung his glow stick in all the right ways. Also, he told me in Japan, they couldn't take pictures or videos during concerts. I thought this was strange. Even more interesting is Tonpy taking a million pictures during the concert. It was pretty funny to watch. Also he chanted USA on the bits where Morning Musume was wearing an American flag. It was glorious to watch. As I was watching and shouting and embarrassing myself, there was a camera rolling around the front of the audience. Look for me on the special features of Morning Musume '16 at Houston. 

bumpin

Afterwards, around 12, there was a rave that night. It featured RamRider, and it was certainly LIVELY. It fucking rocked. I only remember one other instance where I could feel the bass through my whole body, and this is the most memorable one. He did a lot of remixes on songs from video games and anime that night. It was super chill. He did a song with Ken's Theme from Street Fighter, the main theme of Final Fantasy, among others. I faintly remember the Cowboy Bebop OP song too. Besides that, he also played music from his own album, Audio Galaxy. Here's a single he did, I couldn't find anything from Audio Galaxy. But really, listen to his stuff. It's great. I really loved Goodbye. Besides good music, there were a shit load of dance offs and congo lines. Is this what people do at raves? Jesus Christ,  I cannot handle this many congo lines.

Afterwards we went back to the hotel. Found out we had a new roomie as well. Stephen I believe was his name, but really interesting cat. He had ordered some Chinese, but couldn't stomach any food because of a food virus. I hope you're feeling better bud! We had a lot of good times roomie, and by a lot I mean one night! Oh yeah, the day after, guess who came to see us..

pictured is the projector actually being used. It drew crowds man, modern marvel.

Okay, he didn't come for us, but he did come by us. Anywho, he went to the booth to play against Tonpy. Ram Rider himself. Look how trendy he is with his weird cat shirt. He mashed pretty hard, but it was funny to watch. The motion blue on Ram Rider's hands were cranked up to 10 man. Afterwards, Mark, who ran another convention dropped by as well. Also, we're up to Sunday now, the last day of the convention. Afterwards, Ethan, Dane, and I just chilled while we let volunteers watch the booth. We went over to the arcade being hosted on the other side and played a few rounds. I unfortunately do not have footage of my friend Dane playing, but he is a godlike rhythm game player. He does not play osu, but he plays literally everything else. He's usually top 5 in the leader boards for music games and no I am not making this man up. He's in the .4% of the leader boards for Puzzles and Dragons, and is a lowkey god damn genius. Like what the fuck Dane, show off a bit more man. You deserve it. Anywho, last day we chilled and Dane accompanied me around the convention and gave me pro tips, which I will share with you today. 

1. Don't buy shit at a convention unless you know it's rare. 

Most of the stuff will be marked up at weeaboo pricing, so be wary! A lot of the merch besides t-shirts and stuff can be bought online for cheap; lots of figures can be won for about 100 yen in Japan in crane games. We don't have that, so use Amazon.

2. Be careful with Eroge purchases, some of them are only an hour long.

I don't know this from personal experience, but I heard that if you go to an eroge shop there, only buy what will be worth your money. 

And that's it. Just be careful I guess for a tl;dr. Besides convention tips, my friend Dane was sharing some life stories. Teachers told him he couldn't learn Japanese, and he a good chunk of his life proving them wrong. It was a bit longer than that, but I do keep that story close to my heart. 

Besides that, we finally wrapped up the convention and was invited to staff only dinner. Look at this dish. Does it not look like you can just buy the ingredients at an HEB for 10 dollars and serve it up? It was delicious nonetheless, though. Just surprisingly simple. During dinner, my friend Dane and I talked to Tonpy and taught him dem fighting words. "I will body you all" and "You are all free." Tonpy jokingly said he will get on the microphone and say those very words at Evo2k16. Praise based god, let this happen. 

The day after, Monday, we spend the morning saying our goodbyes to everyone. We even got some Japanese barbecue on the way back. A first for me, it was really interesting cooking the meat in front of you. Very efficient. My fingers are getting tired of typing.

SO

Merch. I got me a Senjougohara Hitagi figure, a Street Fighter Ryu shirt, a Hori Stick, two mangas, and a One Punch Man print that I will treasure forever. As well as a picture with Bryan Tee.

I swear I'm missing a lot of things here, but the stuff I haven't written down here were just as memorable. Besides the sweet merch, I've been given so many memories that I will no doubt remember for the rest of my life. Thank you Anime Matsuri, all the volunteers, and everyone who came. The times I've shared with you all are my favorite take homes from the con.

Also we raised $2000 dollars for the charity, booya!

I'm tired of writing, so I'll end this now. 

I've watched an anime or two, but I'll save it for next week. ;)

Goals:
*Applied for UT
(x)Working on the LP
*Did some marketing (no really i did)

*Transfer Day at the college made this easy

(x)Two pounds is hard. I lost a pound
(x)Did not get two runs, but got one

*Finished quiz

*Watched some Ergo Proxy

*Did some of Yakuza 5

*Worked a little on the english lyrics

Next Week:
*I'm taking a break! ^^' Playing it by ear this time. I'll give ya an actual list next time.

And that's it. Thank you to anyone who read this far; it means a lot to me. Thanks to anyone who even looked at this, it means a lot to me. Infinite thank yous. See you next week, space cowboy. Bryan out.