OWARINAKI TABIBITO - No Make Girl’s Endless Journey

Brand New Game

Okay, I haven’t posted in a long time, but a lot has happened in the last few weeks.

You see, sometime in February, someone from my old workplace contacted me and asked if I was interested in joining a startup by Production IG and this other venture company. The startup had two projects, an anime community Clappa!, and a character driven blog service Decoblog. I’d be heading up the management and financials of the company, plus giving support directly to Clappa; Decoblog would be run by the guy who started the startup.

Up to this point, I had intended to kinda give up and go home, maybe. But then again, my (non-existent) love-life looked like it might have a faint gasp or two, and then there’s this absolutely incomparable offer to 1) put my MBA skills (hah) to some use, and 2) work close to the anime company I most appreciated.

So, to make a long story short, I’m know in two heaven-and-hell situations. The first being work, where I’m doing a headache of a firefighting job on a total mess of an operation, while having these great conversations about anime and the anime world. It’s sooo awesome to finally talk to people who relate, and they like Noir to boot! The second being my new housing situation, which is a two room apartment a 10 min bike ride from work, shared with the object of my romantic aspirations. Sadly, it’s only an aspiration at the moment. The other thing that sucks is that my new place has no net access yet! Dammit! This is perhaps even more annoying than the non-advancement of my love-life.

Anyway, from now on, watching anime is pretty much part of my job. I have a lot of catching up to do. The candidates are:
- Red Garden (manga was interesting and my bro likes it, so it has to be pretty good)
- El Cazador (dude, Bee Train x Kajiura Yuki is back! None of the Tsubasa crap, give us subtext-filled girls with guns any day!)
- Wellber no Monogatari
- Lucky Star (KyoAni, but I’m willing to give it a try coz Star Crossed Anime says it’s good, and he loved Simoun)
- Claymore (same reason as above)
- Murder Princess (coz Star Crossed says it has rockin’ music)
- Nanoha StrikerS (um, coz Yuribou says it’s good :P)

And maybe some other new stuff that Clappa is covering.