Ack! I Leave For A Week And...

Don't let the title fool you, this is actually good news. Unless, of course, this is a sign that good things only happen when I don't go on the internet, in which case we are all doomed.

So I went on vacation and upon my arrival home I found great news!

First of all, LoveCom 12 is subbed (I'm downloading it as I type). But I was expecting that.

What I wasn't expecting was the lovely news from The Muppet Newsflash of mini-movies! On the Disney Channel! With Muppets! Happening in August maybe? As long as it actually happens, I'm thrilled. Couldn't be happier.

Let's just hope I can convince my Dad to get Disney channel again....

*-*Lovely Complex 11*-*

So I finally got the LoveCom I was waiting for (Oh how I adore Kiss-sub). It would seem that Otani's starting to have an epiphany. Sure, it's slow, but this is what we must come to expect with him. And I must say that I appreciate Otani more and more with every episode I watch. He's just so smiley and awesome all the time, I especially enjoyed the flowers circling his head this episode. Too bad that more people can't be like that, you know?

So anyways, in this episode Risa finds out that Otani's ex-girlfriend broke up with her new boyfriend, and Risa tries to keep the two of them apart. This doesn't go very well, because it seems that everyone is against Risa, except Nobu; who, even if she can't think of any of her best friend's good qualities, is pretty much the best friend any 172 cm girl could hope to have.

Otani's basketball club decided to have another get together. (Honestly I don't see what's wrong with them, nothing for all that time and now their party hungry, they JUST had one last episode.) Unfortunately for Risa, Otani's basketball friends are pretty much evil and like to do nothing better than hooking up Otani with his ex (whom they originally got together). And Risa runs out and cries, cause that's what she does.

After Otani demonstrates, yet again, his amazing "make-people-not-be-mad-by-smiling" powers his ex asks if she can see him again to talk to him, because she can never just talk where she is. Then Otani, in his pinnacle of awesomeness, says (And I quote)

"Well, there's this one hopeless idiot...who'll probably end up crying if I see you again. So... Sorry. I don't think I can do that."

And this is why I love Otani.

It's For Everyone

I've been babysitting my cousins this week, and everyone who knows me knows about my obsessions, especially my Muppet one. Sometimes people accuse me of being obsessed with Muppets, and while this is completely true, I haven't the slightest idea how they figured it out; I don't recall saying anything about Muppets to them.

But anyway, my cousin Eric (who is eight) decided to make a point to me that Muppets were for babies.

Well this is completely untrue! Muppets are for everyone! Some of their material is even more geared at adults if you ask me. Did you ever see any of their early stuff from the Ed Sullivan Show? I have a tape.

Muppet Babies may be for babies, hence the title. Though I believe even that has entertainment value for all ages. I simply adore Muppet Babies. I have a tape.

I've always felt that it was complete rubbish to say things like, "That's only for little kids" and such. Little kids are so happy most of the time, maybe the rest of us should give things for little kids a try. And whose to say that we shouldn't still enjoy the same things as we did when we were younger. I'm the same person I was when I was little. Even if people change, why can't kids and adults enjoy the same things?

Oh well, I suppose this is what one would expect from someone who prefers Nickelodeon and Discovery Kids to MTV. *Sigh*

Resistance! I am not an Anime Fangirl!!

"Fanboy/Fangirl: Noun; Definition: A person who has a compulsive dedication to a video game series, anime series, and/or music artist." -Urban dictionary

Now I guess I must admit that according to this definition I am a fangirl, of many things, including an Anime. But that's just it, I'm a fangirl of AN anime (okay two anime); not all anime.

So maybe I enjoy watching Bleach, and I'm desperately waiting for the new episode of Lovely Complex to be subbed. And maybe I have a "compulsive dedication" to Avatar, which doesn't really count if you ask me (Japanese = Anime).

But these things do not make me a fan of all Anime! There are hard core all anime fangirls out there, mobs of them! I know some people like that, I don't ever know what they're talking about!

I haven't even watched any anime besides these shows.

I have never been to a convention (though I desperately tried to get to San Diego Comic Con). And even if I went I would not cosplay.

And I have not read a Manga -- yet (Sources say July 3rd LoveCom comes out in English)

So as I have told you I am NOT an Anime Fangirl! No, no, no. --Yet at least, I'll get back to you after I read that Manga.

Another Addiction: Lovely Complex

The thing is, I've found out, that people who are addicted to things are very likely to become addicted to more things. Perhaps it's written in their genetic code. And in no way, shape or form am I an exception to this rule.

You see, I thrive on having a bunch of obsessions to entertain myself with.

And my newest and biggest one in a long while is the Anime/Movie/Manga, "Lovely Complex". I came upon the movie about a week ago while randomly searching things on Youtube and I don't know how I ever existed without it. Since then I've watched the movie about four times and each of the 10 episodes subbed by Kiss-sub (My hero of the now) twice.

The basic point of the story is that Risa is a tall girl and can she and Otani, who is short for a guy, be more than a comedy duo and fall in love. And if Otani wasn't so dense and started realizing that bubbles weren't appearing around Risa's face and rainbows popping up behind his head for nothing, than this would no doubt be happening. But that doesn't even hint at the amazingness that is Lovely Complex, and it's pure Golden. So I don't care what kind of reservations you have, give it a try it's amazing.

But I must admit that while both are utterly(udderly hehe) fantastic, you must take the movie and anime as completely different things. With the exception of a few minor characters and Otani (sometimes, sort of) none of the characters act like the same people.

Basically this is a story of a pickled radish turning into a crab. (Nope, can't explain. You'll just have to watch it I guess. :D )

Why Blog?

The world of an Avatarded Muppet Fan is bleak, people. I have been stabbed in the heart by the absence of my two great loves, and even visiting my fellow fans on forums anymore is like getting poked in the eye.

Now you may roll your eyes at me. "Silly Nicole," you may say,"she's such a drama queen, complaining about nothing." Now while I may tend to exaggerate, and though my heart has neither been stabbed nor have my eyes been poked; hear this: As you sit at your computers rolling your eyes and pronouncing me the ruler of a certain genre, I have been waiting for over 6 months, HALF A YEAR for the new Avatar Season.

Yes that's right Avatar season finale was in DECEMBER, and oh how Nickelodeon pushed back the new season through the promised March, April, May. And I STILL don't know when the new season is going to start.

And Muppets are as hopeless as ever....

All there is for me is to hold on 'till I can spend my money on DVDs in August/September (oddly enough Fraggle Rock and Avatar Season sets are being released on the same day)

So what does an Avatarded Muppet Fan do in hopeless times such as these? Be Annoyed? Cry? Get a Life? Spontaneously Combust?

Quite Possibly.

Or, One could blog. One could blog her heart out. Why this helps, I know not, but it sure seems to.