Day 16 - Post a kigurumi cosplay of your favorite anime character

Why kigurumi? None of my fav characters can be cosplayed like that

But here, have a Totoro, I like him =)

And soon - pie!

Anime meme day 17

Today I should post about my Favorite tsundere. The problem is that I don't really like the tsundere stereotype. It's only pretty recently that I've got some kind of a handle on the term at all, in fact.

To quote TVtropes:
The Japanese term tsundere refers to a character (usually female) who "runs hot and cold", alternating between two distinct moods: tsuntsun (aloof or irritable) and deredere (lovestruck). Claws out, then cute like a kitten, a friend once described the character type. If anything, I prefer the yandere trope (I think it's called "ax-crazy for love" or something like that in Western fandom?), at least as expressed in Higurashi no naku koro ni. Because little girls and a boys going frightfully insane in a "Groundhog Day" style universum was just amazingly creepy.

But apparantly Asuka from Neon Genesis Evangelion qualifies, so let's go with her. She's severely messed up in the head, but then, who in NGE isn't?

So for her, have the best - and probably one of the oldest too - anime music videos ever made:

Neon Genesis Evangelion - Engel

You go, Asuka ^_^

Shonen manga: SRZ BUSINESS!

I got book 1 of Hikaru no Go yesterday and read through it. It looks really different from the end parts, which is the ones I've seen most. I mean, the art is very polished compared to a lot of other first-volumes of long series, probably because it's drawn by Takeshi Obata (Death Note, Bakuman) who is always very polished. But the character design evolves over time and it's odd to see the very start of a story when you mostly recall the look from the late middle to the end

Hikaru no Go is about a guy named Hikaru and how he learns to play go (surprise!)

And he plays go quite seriously, but not as seriously as Sai. Who is a 1000-year old ghost who's attached themselves to Hikaru so that he can *drumroll* play go! Hey, who needs nirvana when you can play board games?

this is what I like about this type of manga, that they acknowledge and play with the devotion people can develop for just about anything. Board games, baking, cooking, sports, racing, tea ceremony, comics, ballet, acting... Whatever; in a manga, anything can be an object of fannish devotion and at least within the manga, it's usually portrayed as something positive. Yes, there are parody manga showing what happens when you've gone too far into obsession, but most of the time, sincere devotion to any subject under the sun is a good thing. And that's an ideal I can get behind