Here's Saitama with a Santa hat sucks, it covered his bald head!
Sorry if I can't give a fancy Christmas card like everybody else.
(I forgot how to use PS orz)
May a prosperous new year come to you.
And as well as a very sincere:
Well, damn I suck and forgot to reply for a long ass time. :X
YESSSSSSS! GINTAMA! <333333
"Try Gintama again" - did you not like it during the first time you tried it? ;o
Glad you seem to really love it now with giving it all 10's! :D It really has every good element of anime in it to make it a great series. Sometimes I'm really not a big fan of comedy in some anime, but the comedy in Gintama is freaking perfect. The serious arcs have the perfect balance of comedy and seriousness so that one element doesn't overshadow the other and gah.. just perfect. I swear I could fill up my top 10 favorite characters of all Gintama characters, but I want to have more of a diversity. lmao. At one point I had Gintoki, Kagura, Shinpachi, and Katsura there, but it looked silly with almost half of them being from one series. D: I might removed Katsura and add Kagura... but then I'd feel back leaving Shinpachi out because I love him too and I'd feel bad leaving one of the Odd Jobs out. SUCH A DILEMMA! lmao.
I still need to watch Gintama': Enchousen, the second Gintama movie, and catch up on Gintama°, but I plan to do that really soon. Just distracting myself with other series for a little bit to let Gintama° build up a little more... but I'm reaching my limit soon and need a Gintama fix. haha. I hear the arc they're on right now is incredible so I really can't wait. I know the name of the arc and watched very little of a trailer for it. It looks so badass and sad. D:
Seriously, college is ridiculously expensive. And then textbook prices are even more ridiculous as if the tuition wasn't enough. -.- My last math book was around $200. lmao. ugh.
Pfft, I'm sure you're not doing "bad" in your classes! But I know what you mean. You want to do your best especially since your parents are paying for it. : Thankfully I only went to a community college for this degree so it wasn't too bad. I also had financial aid cover a huge chunk of it.
Ahhh, how is the Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun manga?! I absolutely loooooved the anime. Sometimes I find with comedy anime/manga it's better an an anime. The voice acting really makes the comedy shine (like in Non Non Biyori and Gintama), but maybe it's still enjoyable as a manga? ;o it has a pretty good score on MAL...
I enjoyed Gangasta too, but more in the beginning. For some reason towards the end I stopped really caring as much. Maybe it's just because it left off in a weird spot... idk. Hopefully some other studio buys the rights off them and makes a second season. It's too bad about them though. D: They made some really good anime like Samurai Champloo and The World God Only Knows.
I plan to read the OPM manga after the anime finished and i'm LOVING it! Sonic is my new fave. haha. The Noragami Bishamon arc is coming along soooo well in the anime. So happy because like you said it's a beautiful but sad arc.
Ahh, yeah I can understand that. College homework and studying can keep you so busy. D:
I got my associate's in August, so I'm taking a little break from school to figure out what I really want to do for my bachelor's. College is so expensive, so I don't want to go into it with a mindset of "maybe I don't want to do this... but maybe I do... but maybe I don't..." you know? I want to be pretty firm in being confident in what I want to do. So, I'm taking the time now to figure that out and hopefully go back to school within the next year or so. But ugh. I took a stats class during the summer to finish my degree and it was terrible. I'm bad at math as it is, and to do 15 weeks of stats class in only 5 weeks was one of the worst things I've ever done. lmao. I should have just sucked it up and took an extra class the previous semester. Oh well.. I passed with a B- ,so it's all good I guess. haha.
Have you watched any anime or read any manga lately that you liked?
I see you're watching One Punch Man and Noragami Aragoto this season. Sooo good! :D
Glad you're doing well!
This was way longer than I intended. lmao. Sorry!
Greetings, and welcome to the 2015 Winter / Spring Edition of the Namine's Café Newsletter
First, I would like to thank everyone who has joined the cafe, as well as those who actively support us. After being open for less than 18 months, we are closing in on 5000 members and 100 affiliations. And Namine's cafe just recently passed the incredible milestone of 8000 pages of chat comments (that's 160,000 comments), the first club in MAL to ever achieve this goal.
We have an amazing amount of things happening at the cafe: First, we have three major competitions coming, including an Anime Couples Competition, a Voice Actor Competition, as well as the 2nd Annual Namine's Cafe Best Girl Competition. We'll also be having several other small competitions along the way, including an Anime Scavenger Hunt, a Best Scene Competition, a card making competition, plus many more. In addition to our competitions, there some big news at the cafe. First of all, Skype is back!!! While we still have a dedicated IRC chat, we've brought back Skype, and it's as popular as it ever was in the cafe. Also, member card editions are returning to the cafe shortly, with some of the best card makers in MAL signed up to help make wonderful cards, so stop by early and often to see what cards are available.
The details for each of our event sare listed in the below spoilers:
Namine's Café Anime Couple's Competition
Following the success of our previous competitions we held last year, we've decided to follow that up with another competition. Last month, we held a vote on what type of character competition we should hold, and Couple's Competition won.
Here's how it works:
The competition takes place in two phases. The first phase is where everyone gets to nominate a couple for the competition. You can nominate up to 3 anime/manga couples. They must be a real couple in the anime (no wishful thinking here :-)), having at least dated or kissed in the anime as a minimum. You rank your nominees from 1 to 3. The ranking determines how many points each character gets, like so:
#1 choice is worth 5 points
#2 choice is worth 3 points
#3 choice is worth 1 points
The points each character gets from each members nomination are cumulative, and when the nominations are over, the points will be counted, and the top 32 couples will compete in a double elimination bracket style competition where then members vote on them in one on one, er... two on two, competitions xD.
The nomination phase will last 15 days, starting on Sunday, 2/15/2015, and will close on Saturday, 2/28/2015. The first voting competition will start on Tuesday, 3/3/2015. A new competition will start every day, and each vote is open for 2 days. If a couple wins, they move on to the next round. If a couple loses, they move to the single loss bracket, where they will face off against the other match losers. If a couple wins their match in the second bracket, they will move on for another match in the second bracket. If they lose a match in the second bracket, they are out. This means that even if your favorite couple loses, they still have a chance.
Here are the rules:
As stated above, you can nominate up to 3 anime/manga couples. It can be less than 3, but it cannot be more. Any couple over the first 3 will be removed.
The couple must be a couple in the anime/manga. If they are not, but are a couple, or have kissed or dated in a LN or VN, then they will be accepted (proof must be provided in this case). Straight, yuri, and yaoi couples are acceptable. For threesomes and love triangles, make a choice on which pairing to nominate (or nominate both separately :-)).
List the full name of both characters in the couple to be nominated, as well as an anime that they are in. Hot-linking the characters to their MAL page is welcome, but not required.
Only one nomination list per member, please.
Namine's Café Second Annual Best Girl Competition
Our first competition last year, the Moe Competition, was an incredible success. This is the second annual competition, but instead of just moe girls, all girls will be allowed to be nominated.
Here's how it works:
Similar to last year's Moe Competition and the Couples Competition, this competition also takes place in two phases. The first phase is where everyone gets to nominate supporting characters for the competition. Since we're allowing all girls, we're also increasing the field of play. You can nominate up to 7 anime characters, listed in the MAL database. They can be your favorites, or just characters that you believe are the most cool. You rank your nominees from 1 to 7. The ranking determines how many points each girl gets, with special bonus points for #1 & #2 pics, like so:
#1 choice is worth 10 points
#2 choice is worth 7 points
#3 choice is worth 5 points
#4 choice is worth 4 points
#5 choice is worth 3 points
#6 choice is worth 2 points
#7 choice is worth 1 point
The points each character gets from each members nomination are cumulative, and when the nominations are over, the points will be counted, and the top 64 girls will compete in a single elimination bracket style competition where then members vote on them in one on one competitions.
The nomination phase will last 15 days, starting sometime in March (exact date TBD). The first voting competition will start shortly after the nominations have been closed. A new competition will start every day, and each vote is open for 2 days. Because the field will be double the size of the other competitions, the best girl competition will be single elimination and not double elimination.
Here are the rules:
As stated above, you can nominate up to 7 anime girls.
The nominee must be listed in MAL, and must be in at least one an anime - sorry, but no pure manga girls allowed. Furthermore, nominees must be female - no traps allowed.
List the full name of each character to be nominated, as well as an anime that she is in. Hot-linking the character to their MAL page is welcome, but not required.
Only one nomination list per member, please.
No double nominating. Meaning that the same character is nominated as your 1st and 3rd choice. If this happens, the 2nd listing will be removed.
Namine's Café Voice Actor Competition
Another competition we'll be having is the Voice Actor Competition
Here's how it works:
The competition takes place in three phases. The first phase is where everyone gets to nominate Voice Actors the competitions. You can nominate up to 5 Japanese Voice Actors, and up to 5 non-Japanese Voice Actors. Following the nominations, there will be two separate competitions: one for Japanese VAs and one for non-Japanese VAs. The VAs must be listed in MAL. You rank your nominees from 1 to 5. The ranking determines how many points each character gets, like so:
#1 choice is worth 5 points
#2 choice is worth 4 points
#3 choice is worth 3 points
#4 choice is worth 2 points
#5 choice is worth 1 point
The points each VA gets from each members nomination are cumulative, and when the nominations are over, the points will be counted, and the top 32 Japanese VAs and the top 32 non-Japanese VAs will compete in separate single elimination bracket style competition where then members vote on them in one on one competitions.
The nomination phase will last 15 days, starting sometime in April / May (exact date TBD). The first voting competition will start shortly after the nominations have been closed. A new competition will start every other day, with the Japanese and non-Japanese matches alternating, with each vote open for 2 days. Because there will be two separate competitions, the field will be double the size of the other competitions, similar to the best girl competition, so the VA competitions will be single elimination and not double elimination.
Here are the rules:
As stated above, you can nominate up to 10 Voice Actors - 5 Japanese and 5 English a/o non-Japanese.
The VAs must be listed in MAL.
List the full name of the VA, as well as at least one to two characters they've portrayed (so that others know who they are). Hot-linking the VAs to their MAL page is welcome, but not required.
Sometime witin the next couple of months, we'll hold an Anime Scavenger Hunt. There will be prizes for the winners.
Here's how it works:
The scavenger hunt will actually be a series of hunts, differing in levels of difficulty. Every couple days, a list will be pulished at the cafe for a new hunt. The list will contain objects, characters, quotes, etc. The job of the hunters is to find what anime the items on the list come from.
Here are the rules:
Each list will contain a set of items that need to be identified from specifica anime. The list will also include a MAL user account
If an item on the list can be found in multiple anime, listing o ne of the anime is acceptable
Teaming up is allowed
When all the items have been identified, a PM needs to be sent to the user account identified on the list. The first PM, based on datestamp, that correctly identifies everything on the list is the winner.
Namine's Café Best Scene Competition
Another competition the cafe will be having is the best scene competition.
Here's how it works:
The competition takes place in two phases. First, anyone can nominate up to two scenes that they like in anime - either it's really funny, sad, kawaii, uber-erotic, etc. To enter a nomination, members will need to make a snippet of an anime containing that scene and turn it into a video. Scenes can be up to 5 minutes long. The first 50 scenes will be accepted. If turnout is high, that can be increased. Once all the nominations are in, the compettions will begin. Each week, 5 scenes will be selected at random and added to a poll therad. The top vote counter will win that week. The #2 vote counter will also stay alive. Follign the 10 weeks of voting, the 10 2nd placers will compete in 2 weekly votes, with the 2 winners added to the 10 1st placers. The 12 remaining scenes will vote in 4 separate votes of 3 random scenes each, with the winner going to the final. The championship will be a week long vote of the final 3 scenes. The one who submitted the winning scene will win a major prize.
Namine's Café card making competition
Namine's cafe will hold a card making competiton, where anyone who wants to try to make a card can join. Once the competition starts, there will be a 2 - 3 week period where everyone can make and submit a single member card. The cards (exact number TBD), will then be pitted against each other in head to head competitions. Don't think you can make a card - don't worry so much. Try your cand at making a card and who knows, if coul dbe amazing.
Namine's Café Skype Group
The cafe once again has Skype. please Click Here for more information on the Skype Group, and to get an invitation to it.
Namine's Café Official Steam Group Activities
As many of you are aware, the Cafe has it's own Steam Group. Please click here for more information on the Steam Group, and to get an invitation to it. We are currently planning some possible Steam game tournaments in the future, and feedback on this would be awesome. Also, we may be getting our Minecraft server back, as well.
Haha. That's totally understandable.
I sent you a message on Tumblr a while ago, but didn't get a response so I figured you were just super busy. :p
Pretty good, how about you (besides busy)
Sadness that HxH ended, but I started the manga now so it's all good. Just started the Greed Island arc in the manga. :3
Watching anything from this season? Fate/Stay Night is so freaking good.
Hello ^_^
Seems like we have a similar taste in anime, so I was like leaving a comment here. I'm also a huge fan of the KnB series but I also love most of your fave series (FMA:B, Natsume Yuujinchou, Drrr, Baccano, Psycho Pass etc.). I've also started HxH recently, I like it so far ^^
Anyways, nice to meet you!
Haha, yeah.. when I worked/went to class it was really hard to find time for anime. I really need to seriously start looking for a job again, but ugh.. the anxiety thinking about working with new people/getting used to a new environment makes me want to put it off for as long as possible, but I know I need to just push myself and get a new job. lol. I'd like to avoid retail if at all possible because one and a half years at Target was enough retail for me. -________-;; Saying that.. i'll probably be dragged into retail anyway. lol. And class starts next month. Joy. :p
I just finished Natsume and i'm sad. :(((((((
but, it doesn't exactly conclude the series, so there is still tons of hope for a fifth season. I guess they were just waiting for the manga to catch up, but there should be enough chapters now for another season! Hopefully they announce they're starting production. :3
I went from watching my DVD's which called Sensei "Sensei" in the subtitles, but the OVA wasn't included in it, so I had to watch that on KissAnime.. and that version subtitled "Sensei" as "Master." So, Natsume kept calling him "Master" in the subtitles and it kept weirding me out.. lmao...
Btw, I see you're quite far into the Haikyuu manga. How is it? Is there enough material out right now for them to be able to announce a second season when this one ends you think? I might start it after I catch up on Noragami's manga.
OH MY GOD. I'm crying from laughing.
Here's some motivation (as if you need it) to watch the rest of Natsume.
The episode i'm currently on Natsume is in a situation, so Sensei has to use his powers to pose as Natsume (like how he does with his Reiko form) and try to act like him. lmaoooo.. i'm sure you can imagine. ahahahahaha.
Ughhhh. You need to watch season 3 and 4 of Natsume. A few episodes into season 4 and ugh. The feels in both these seasons with Natsume and his life situation. <3333333 I love this show so much.. I don't want it to be over. :((((((
On a related note.. I ordered this beautiful wall scroll.
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Here's Saitama with a Santa hat sucks, it covered his bald head!
Sorry if I can't give a fancy Christmas card like everybody else.
(I forgot how to use PS orz)
May a prosperous new year come to you.
And as well as a very sincere:
or Happy Holidays I guess
From: Banchi
YESSSSSSS! GINTAMA! <333333
"Try Gintama again" - did you not like it during the first time you tried it? ;o
Glad you seem to really love it now with giving it all 10's! :D It really has every good element of anime in it to make it a great series. Sometimes I'm really not a big fan of comedy in some anime, but the comedy in Gintama is freaking perfect. The serious arcs have the perfect balance of comedy and seriousness so that one element doesn't overshadow the other and gah.. just perfect. I swear I could fill up my top 10 favorite characters of all Gintama characters, but I want to have more of a diversity. lmao. At one point I had Gintoki, Kagura, Shinpachi, and Katsura there, but it looked silly with almost half of them being from one series. D: I might removed Katsura and add Kagura... but then I'd feel back leaving Shinpachi out because I love him too and I'd feel bad leaving one of the Odd Jobs out. SUCH A DILEMMA! lmao.
I still need to watch Gintama': Enchousen, the second Gintama movie, and catch up on Gintama°, but I plan to do that really soon. Just distracting myself with other series for a little bit to let Gintama° build up a little more... but I'm reaching my limit soon and need a Gintama fix. haha. I hear the arc they're on right now is incredible so I really can't wait. I know the name of the arc and watched very little of a trailer for it. It looks so badass and sad. D:
Seriously, college is ridiculously expensive. And then textbook prices are even more ridiculous as if the tuition wasn't enough. -.- My last math book was around $200. lmao. ugh.
Pfft, I'm sure you're not doing "bad" in your classes! But I know what you mean. You want to do your best especially since your parents are paying for it. : Thankfully I only went to a community college for this degree so it wasn't too bad. I also had financial aid cover a huge chunk of it.
Ahhh, how is the Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun manga?! I absolutely loooooved the anime. Sometimes I find with comedy anime/manga it's better an an anime. The voice acting really makes the comedy shine (like in Non Non Biyori and Gintama), but maybe it's still enjoyable as a manga? ;o it has a pretty good score on MAL...
I enjoyed Gangasta too, but more in the beginning. For some reason towards the end I stopped really caring as much. Maybe it's just because it left off in a weird spot... idk. Hopefully some other studio buys the rights off them and makes a second season. It's too bad about them though. D: They made some really good anime like Samurai Champloo and The World God Only Knows.
I plan to read the OPM manga after the anime finished and i'm LOVING it! Sonic is my new fave. haha. The Noragami Bishamon arc is coming along soooo well in the anime. So happy because like you said it's a beautiful but sad arc.
Ahh, yeah I can understand that. College homework and studying can keep you so busy. D:
I got my associate's in August, so I'm taking a little break from school to figure out what I really want to do for my bachelor's. College is so expensive, so I don't want to go into it with a mindset of "maybe I don't want to do this... but maybe I do... but maybe I don't..." you know? I want to be pretty firm in being confident in what I want to do. So, I'm taking the time now to figure that out and hopefully go back to school within the next year or so. But ugh. I took a stats class during the summer to finish my degree and it was terrible. I'm bad at math as it is, and to do 15 weeks of stats class in only 5 weeks was one of the worst things I've ever done. lmao. I should have just sucked it up and took an extra class the previous semester. Oh well.. I passed with a B- ,so it's all good I guess. haha.
Have you watched any anime or read any manga lately that you liked?
I see you're watching One Punch Man and Noragami Aragoto this season. Sooo good! :D
Glad you're doing well!
This was way longer than I intended. lmao. Sorry!
Hope you've been doing well! :D
I sent you a message on Tumblr a while ago, but didn't get a response so I figured you were just super busy. :p
Pretty good, how about you (besides busy)
Sadness that HxH ended, but I started the manga now so it's all good. Just started the Greed Island arc in the manga. :3
Watching anything from this season? Fate/Stay Night is so freaking good.
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Seems like we have a similar taste in anime, so I was like leaving a comment here. I'm also a huge fan of the KnB series but I also love most of your fave series (FMA:B, Natsume Yuujinchou, Drrr, Baccano, Psycho Pass etc.). I've also started HxH recently, I like it so far ^^
Anyways, nice to meet you!
I just finished Natsume and i'm sad. :(((((((
but, it doesn't exactly conclude the series, so there is still tons of hope for a fifth season. I guess they were just waiting for the manga to catch up, but there should be enough chapters now for another season! Hopefully they announce they're starting production. :3
I went from watching my DVD's which called Sensei "Sensei" in the subtitles, but the OVA wasn't included in it, so I had to watch that on KissAnime.. and that version subtitled "Sensei" as "Master." So, Natsume kept calling him "Master" in the subtitles and it kept weirding me out.. lmao...
Btw, I see you're quite far into the Haikyuu manga. How is it? Is there enough material out right now for them to be able to announce a second season when this one ends you think? I might start it after I catch up on Noragami's manga.
Here's some motivation (as if you need it) to watch the rest of Natsume.
The episode i'm currently on Natsume is in a situation, so Sensei has to use his powers to pose as Natsume (like how he does with his Reiko form) and try to act like him. lmaoooo.. i'm sure you can imagine. ahahahahaha.
On a related note.. I ordered this beautiful wall scroll.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CW89GP8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1