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What's up guys, it's your boy Tobias coming straight at you with three broken fingers from the obstacle course today with more autistic anime opinions! You motherfuckers better appreciate this shit because it's going to take me like an hour to write this with 1½ hands while drugged to shit on pain meds... Actually nevermind, you don't have to appreciate this at all, considering I am doing this mostly for my own entertainment and this is the only place I can get an audience to sate my burning desire for attention. So over the past ~3 days following the release of Overwatch I've completely isolated myself from all my friends and watched anime on my own in the evenings instead of socializing and being a real person. I am a spiteful asshole and when I can't play Overwatch myself, I definitely don't want to be around people who can/are playing it and are constantly talking about it. You know when you're with your friends and they've all seen this cool new movie that you haven't seen and they won't shut the fuck up about it for five minutes and you start wondering why you even bothered coming to hang out with them? That's what I'm talking about. Check your privilege please. Now that we've gotten past the not-so-subtle jabs at my friends and a healthy dose of self-deprecation, I'd like to take a moment to thank my good friend Alex for asking me if I wanted to hang out and watch some anime today. That was nice. Thanks man. Anyway, here's what I will be talking about today: Three short OVA that I think are pretty known among more serious anime fans and probably very unknown to your average fan. Pale Cocoon Is a single 22 minute episode OVA. I'll tell you right now that if you hate open endings, you should stay away from this one as the ending is very much a message that is up for interpretation rather than any sort of conclusion. Pale Cocoon is set in the far future and follows two young individuals who can be best described as futuristic archeologists. In this world it is clear that something has happened to the Earth, causing humanity to retreat into this massive underground construction for survival. Here Ura and Riko work for the "Archive Excavation Department", digging up old files of pictures, video and sound from the old world and trying to reclaim lost knowledge. It's a story about the different outlooks on life that people carry and the decisions we all make that end up defining us. I very highly recommend it, as it is very well animated and carries a somber atmosphere not commonly found in anime. Denpa Teki na Kanojo With two episodes á la 40 minutes, Denpa Teki na Kanojo is much longer than Pale Cocoon and also very different overall. This OVA feels very much like your regular anime, at least to begin with. Juu Juuzawa is a high school student with delinquent tendencies who unwillingly gets wrapped up in the hunt for a local serial killer. Things escalate from there and the truth of the matter is that Denpa Teki na Kanojo starts out as pretty standard fare but ultimately evolves into something very, very dark. I interpreted this OVA as a look into human psychology on a surface level (AKA It's not really a "DEEP" anime, but it's very interesting regardless) and uses common anime tropes to give the viewer a sense of familiarity, only to have something gruesome happen shortly after. Is it a mind-boggling genre-breaker that should be viewed by all? No, definitely not. It is however suspenseful, well animated, disturbing and comes with a pretty good cast of characters. Honestly I would recommend this OVA to most people. It also has a lot of cute girls... Just saying. Read or Die Read or Die is spread over three 30 minute episodes and is honestly the kind of anime I would love to own a physical copy of. It's just so... Fun. I feel like I cannot talk in length about this OVA, because it would spoil a lot of the joy that comes with having this interesting world unravel before you as you watch it the first time. It has a great mixture of action, violence, comfyness and that spice of oddness that tends to come with Japanese animation. Honestly, Read or Die is just cool. Not much else to say about it. Many anime try to live by "the rule of cool" but very few manage it without coming across as super obnoxious and overly random (READ: Blood Blockade Battlefront). Read or Die nails it. Bonus Meme

OHHHH MYYYY GODDDD

"And this was your grandfather's first dragon dildo. But it definitely wasn't the last!"

We opened an old chest that my dad stored old mementos in today. Amidst countless Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars there were things like my dad's senior yearbook, two pocketwatches (one that came with a knife!), an old syringe thing that my grandma apparently used for her Diabetes, and other things like that. It's crazy. I wonder (if I ever have kids) what my kids will think when they look at my old stuff and see nothing but magic cards, Kancolle figs, and a few comic books about crazy schoolgirls in zombie apocalypses. I just hope my attachment to the Internet won't cause me to lose precious mementos. I definitely need to remember to save my hard drives and stuff.