Mindflow #19

Hello my dear friends ^^.

In these days full of boredom I did something I set a little apart lately, watching anime. In detail, I begun to watch two new series, alongside Digimon Xros Wars which I follow since June/July/Dontremember, c’est-à-dire Bakuman and something with a huge title like Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai (everyone shorten it as Oreimo). The first is about two boys dreaming to become mangaka, with a nice love story in the background. The second is way more strange and talks about a 17-years-old boy named Kyosuke discovering by accident the biggest secret of his 14-years-old sister Kirino, who works as a model and don’t have a good relationship with him at all: in reality she’s an hidden otaku of maho-shoujo anime and erotic games about little sisters. This unpleasant situation, which makes him the only one person she can talk with about her secret hobbies, will change the relationship between the two, I hope in better.

As you maybe already got I don’t want to talk about Bakuman right now (IT’S BEAUTIFUL, GO AND BUY THE MANGA *.*). Oreimo seems to me the first kawaii otaku-targeted anime (see Haruhi, Lucky Star, K-ON etc) which actually means something. See, Haruhi is a crazy series about a crazy person , Lucky Star is pointless slice-of-life self-celebrating otaku subculture, K-ON is even more slice-of-life and revolves around NOTHING (90% of the time they aren’t playing but having tea or doing terribly plain stuff). Anyway I love both Lucky Star and K-ON for the cuteness of the characters, both in looks and attitude (err, frankly after 20 episodes of nonsense K-ON really pissed me off regardless of the relative cuteness of the girls, Lucky Star is SOO better).

But geez, this Oreimo is more than that. First, is a lot more realistic. For example, in the world of K-ON boys doesn’t exist (ok, is set in an all-girls school, but I hear vaguely of boys only in a bunch of songs by Houkago Tea Time) and in Lucky Star they’re actually useless. There, indeed, a boy is one of the main characters. Second, the life of the characters in aforementioned anime is way too much plain (no, stuff like “I got fear of my looks in my yearbook picture” isn’t a real problem), in Oreimo Kirino suffers of her situation (take on her double life of first-class girl and otaku) and in the last episode (the best as of now IMO) she was about to lose her best friend for this. Third… I don’t have a third point, I just love Oreimo.

I feel like Kirino sometimes. Ok, I don’t play that kind of games and being an otaku in Italy is not that dramatic as in Japan, but to have everyday someone saying to me “sing Japanese” in that teasing way isn’t a good thing to experience. And it’s a bit sad being unable to talk with my close friends about the things I like, no one of them is into that kind of stuff. I can only talk about that lame Western pop music (ok, I enjoy it as I enjoy almost all music, but it’s not the point) and make fun of that b**ch of Lady Gaga (obviously I can’t talk about the music I actually like), but that is only a part of me and I feel a little incomplete talking about Japanese stuff only with my web friends. So, in these days I feel I need to make some otaku friends (JUST LIKE KIRINO, see? It’s all her fault).

Everytime I have a singular feeling, as now, I feel the need to write a song about it. And everytime I get nothing. Solinsieme was one of those songs, but I wrote it one year after the fact XD. Ah, about that Spring Project, I have nothing to continue it in the same way I started it. I’ll keep that wonderful idea for better times and better lyrics

P.S. I changed my hairstyle. I don’t like it. I’m waiting for my hair to grow again. For the time being, I look like a maybe beautiful but surely uncute bad guy. I FEEL MYSELF SWEET, SO I WANNA LOOK KAWAII TOO! >.<

P.P.S. Why I continue to write English-only? Maybe my soul speaks English. More likely, maybe I feel uneasy to write about my feelings in Italian. Maybe this is the true reason why I write songs in English…

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