‘How does one deal with death [of a loved one]?’ is all I could think of after watching Tokyo Magnitude episode 9. Rest assured, I’m not going to spoil anything. You won’t hear a word about which predictions turned out true or not or whatsoever. There might be a little spoiler for another series at the end of the post however, so do beware. Let’s just, well, talk about ‘dealing with death’ or ‘death’ in general, plain as daylight.

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I remember the time when the term ‘overrated’ first got to my nerves, and it was back when the Skip Beat anime was airing. I thought of how elitist the term is, as you show the world that something a LOT of people are enjoying doesn’t really deserve the attention it’s getting, or that your opinion deviates from a lot of people, I vs the mainstream fags. In short, saying “ is overrated” means you’re serving a wet blanket to those who pour out their love and attention to it.

Of course at times I find myself using this very term, and to be honest, it saddens me when I do that, because it seems like I’ve outgrown part of my childhood and can’t join in the fun of that certain something, like, say, Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh, and even, gawd, Vampire Knight. Growing up and being reasonable about your taste isn’t really something worth rejoicing, especially if you end up hating what you used to like, and that’s exactly how I feel about Vampire Knight now.

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OH SNAP!

Cosfuck, as the name implies, refers to “cosplays that are f*cked up”, a term which reeks of elitism in and of itself. By referring to a cosplay as “cosfuck”, the elitist sends out this [hidden/overt] message to the ‘accused’ cosplayer: “Your cosplay SUCKS, F*ck Off. Go Die/Pack Up your Bag and Don’t Ever Venture Into Cosplaying. Ever. Again”, placing himself/herself into this high judiciary pedestal, as though he/she was given the right by the heavens to proclaim what’s a good and bad cosplay, what’s fail and what’s not, or which certain demograph (of people endowed with great physique / features) is only entitled to the “right to cosplay”. Sounds like a cool thing to do huh? Not when it goes out of bounds, like flaming cosplayers in the public domain.

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Under normal circumstances (or at least before I got into slice-of-life shows), I would�ve easily labeled Natsu no Sora as totally deadpan boring and dropped it without remorse, because I�ll most likely be watching it with the wrong mindset — with a desire to see awesome magic action or romance, in the same way I watched Aria (and slept through it >.>). But as the past 7 episodes have shown, this anime isn�t just about magic per se, or at least not in the magical extraordinary way we know it. As coburn puts it, magic is naturally part of the world of Natsu no Sora, embedded into the characters and the very society where all this takes place.

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