Hi everyone. Nice to meet you. My name is Takaii and I’ll be hopping on board to write for Random Curiosity! I never thought that I would get the opportunity to write for RandomC, but sometimes amazing things happen, right? I’m here to post my thoughts on whatever series I may be blogging, and listening to what you have to say down in the comments. I love reading comments and can’t wait to see what you guys have to say.
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I was exposed to anime back in 2000, when Rurouni Kenshin and Outlaw Star were still the newest thing out in America. Once subtitled anime got more popular, I began watching just about anything I could get my hands on. Anyone remember streaming videos through Winamp? I was able to watch my first Japanese animated movie, Appleseed, off of it. Some of my old favorites that will never leave me are Mahoromatic and Love Hina, with Love Hina being the first anime I watched with the original Japanese voice actors and Mahoromatic introducing me to Ayako Kawasumi (voicing Mahoro, Saber, and Alice among many others). For anyone that watched the English dub, Mitsune’s voice was so bad that I vowed to always watch shows in their original language. And thus, the door to anime had been opened. For series that are a little bit more current, my favorites from the past few years range from Clannad, Gurren Lagann, Lucky Star, to Toradora and Ookami. While I’m not the most well versed on all the different types of anime out there, I do have a very open mind when it comes to things I will watch. My favorite genres though are romantic comedies, slice of life shows, and those really, really GARR type of shows that get your adrenaline pumping (Gurren Lagann anyone?). I also enjoy listening to music from anime, especially the OSTs. For the past few months, the most notable songs in my mind are Angel Beat’s Brave Song (GlDeMo Ver!) and Bakemonogatari’s (Kimi No Shiranai Monogatari by Supercell). I’m very open to different types of music, and I would love to hear some of your song recommendations. (Anything Japanese is fine, it doesn’t have to be from an anime necessarily.) From the OST viewpoint, Maeda Jun‘s work on Angel Beats is what’s been on repeat for me while I study. It makes for really, really good studying music. Completely off topic, but I managed to get Eri Kitamura’s signature on Yui’s picture on the Thousand Enemies album (Eri Kitamura voices Yui). I know that she doesn’t sing it, but it feels right having her sign it. On the writing aspect side of things, I tend to focus on the important events during an anime, while trying to still bring out the gist of what’s going on during the entire show. I’m not going to focus too much on summarizing, and express my opinions on the important points instead. I value any feedback you may have, and I hope that in turn I can entertain you guys to the best of my ability. I’m very, very excited to start writing for Random Curiosity and never thought that I’d be here writing an intro post for myself. I hope that I will be able to provide entertaining posts for you in the near future. |
On that note, I hope I didn’t bore you too much, and here’s my formal introduction; (Takaii desu. Douzo yoroshiku onegaishimasu)-Takaii
I’m still trying to get MyAnimeList setup, but I’m having trouble recalling everything I’ve ever watched. For what I’m blogging, I’m fairly sure I will be covering Bakuman and Yakumo.
omg another one? haha; glad to see another blogger other than the usual crowd.
Hope to see your great reviews soon
You start your introduction like this is alcoholics anonymous. Oh well. Hope you can lighten divine’s load a bit. gl hf.
AA?…AHAHAHAHAHAHA dat was RICH!!
Welcome on Board, and don’t worry. Just be yourself. We all love the same Thing
Welcome, i’m just glad to see you can properly introduce yourself in Japanese unlike the other new guy who literally butchered the language.
Thank you for the words of encouragement!
Wow, just when I’ve finished typing up my obligatory welcome to Suzuku’s post, Divine’s gone and recruited another minion to do his bidding. lolAnyway, welcome aboard to you as well.
=D welcome aboard!!!!! =3 watch Fairy Tail!!! hahas!!!
Don’t worry, the excitement dies. Nishishi~Just don’t leave when it does 😛
I promise I won’t crawl under a hole when it does. Kekekeke~
-laughs hard-
I have some music you might want to try, though music is really subjectiveChristmas Dream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI7IYjBaRBQPure Snow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsK7hb-MYtkFlavor of Life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lds8c8AMKE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UvdKt3hLNMIf you find any of those interesting, let me know.
I never could finish Tenchi Muyo, but I did enjoy the Christmas Dream Song.For Pure Snow, I have this song and I enjoy it a lot. The piano intro is beautiful.Flavor of Life is a great song too.And I LOVE Do as Infinity. Little nostalgic since that one was from Inuyasha.Thanks for the links (:
To be honest, i didn’t finish Tenchi Muyo’s spin offs either. The full thing really is a bit much but it was pretty big back then.Do as infinity is back but since its not Dai writing the songs, unfortunately its lost much of its charm :(Anyway, good luck and hang in there. Work, life and other priorities don’t always mesh well with blogging regularly
Welcome aboard! It looks like you like some of the anime I’m into, so I’ll probably read your posts when you update. I look forward to them~!
Welcome aboard! Any specific genre you’ll be doing in times to come?
welcome welcome! i love Gurren Lagann! so awesome! welcome! glad to see you blogging at RC!
ARA! another NEW BLOGGER! HARU NE TAKAII-SAN! i await for your upcoming posts! GAMBARE! =3
Great to have you blogging as well. Looking forward to them!
Welcome welcome. I know you’ll do a great job. Cant wait and see what you have in store for RandomC.Thats awesome you got your CD sign by Eri Kitamura. I also got her signature in a special autograph book from AX lol.
Awesomeness..!! Looking forward to your posts..=)
Where is the pic from? I’m guessing pivix.Anyways I’m looking forward to your posts, do your best!
Wow two people joining RandomC at once, wonder if i could start soon :pWelcome! and hope you stay with us for ages to come.later I may find what songs I’ve got hanging around and name a few (starts digging through mountains of anime collections)
Ohh..another one! welcome and good luck 🙂
Welcome and good luck!
This is absolutely great, more writers for RC! 😀 It brings a tear to my eye when I see this site going strong like this. May the best of luck be with you.
Wohoho… Another new writer?? Great and just like suzuku i looking forward for your post.
Now this is getting crowded, great 😀 good luck for your work, looking forward to your post’s ^^
another one?! i guess random just getting popular. . . looking forward to your post
random curiosity now has 2 new bloggers, also hoping to see your posts soon…
hehe your anime history is almost exactly like mine.
Awesome you’re blogging Bakuman? Looks like you’ll be th writer I’ll be looking forward to the most each week then 😀 Good luck!
wow more bloggers? now that’s what makes this site going…well takaii-san, hope our interests would clash like… next season? haha…
Welcome, Takai! Best of luck and most importantly, have fun blogging on RC! Wow, 2 new bloggers in 2 days. This fall will be fun to follow indeed. XD
welcome =] hope you provide us with some great episode impressions in the future! =]may i recommend you maaya sakamoto as a jap singer? she is also a pretty good seiyuu, look her up at ann 😉
lol another one! Best way I updated my uber long list on MAL was that I’ve kept a word doc of every anime I have and recalled what I’ve watched that wasn’t on the list. So then it was a matter of sitting at the computer for 4 hours one day a year later after making it I think and then punch everything in. Was tiring, but so worth it. Now everthing is so up to date :D!!Good luck with the new posting ;< so lucky~ lol
Fuck YAH! The posts will be rolling in now… I look forward to reading your posts!Anymore new bloggers we should know about? Or is it just Takaii and Suzuku for this fall?
Good luck and welcome.Must have more bloggers.
Welcome aboard! The more the merrier as they say.
another one? great! looking forward to your posts, too. 😀
Divine, you’ve just inherited Omni’s “Blogger Factory” didn’t you?!Anyway welcome Takaii.. and stay here blogging for a long time! ^_^
We have the same taste, anime wise, music wise. haha Welcome!
“Anyone remember streaming videos through Winamp?” Goddamnit i remember that times ;_;
Hey can you introduce Random curiosity PODCAST’S? that would be wonderful. 🙂
And slowly, Random Curiosity becomes the official anime newsletter of the Internet. Wish I could write for R.C. too. Guess you gotta be watching raws to make an entry. Welcome to R.C., Takaii. I look forward to your entries, though sadly, I don’t know anything about what you’ll be covering from this point.
Welcome to random curiosity!Eri Kitamura’s signature?!?!?Holy crap!!!! WHERE DID YOU GET IT?!?My 5 dream signatures to get in my life are Itou Shizuka, Kugimiya Rie, Eri Kitamura, Yui Horie, and Aya Hirano in that order!
Anime Expo 2010. It was more like Wait In Line Expo. However, I did manage to get Yui Horie, Eri Kitamura, Katsuyuki Konishi, MELL, Nabeshin, and Yuu Asakawa’s signature. (:
Wow , welcome and congratulations!! 😀 , i will be waitting for your posts ^^
Welcome Takaii~I’m glad you’ll be covering Bakuman (I love that manga <3).Good Luck with everything~
Welcome!I completely agree that the Angel Beats OST is the best music for studying
Hello and welcome! I’m Firechick! Nice to meet you. Are you open to anime suggestions? Because I know some anime (though the titles I know are very underappreciated and ignored) that I think you might like. But all and all, welcome to the blogging world!
do you actually have angel beat ost
Whee, what exciting times for RC! Two new bloggers! I look forward to reading your work, Takaii. Welcomeeee! ^__^
Quite a few songs from the Angel Beat OST are also on my “studying” playlist. Since I love Tenmon’s tracks, I also have songs like:AndroidTo The New WorldA moon filled skyConfessionI really like the last one though I find myself focusing more on the violin than on studying when it plays 😛
Who are you, and how did they clone you from me <_<! … Looking forward to your reviews :D!
Aha~ does that make two in a day?Sweet! Random Curiosity got from people to join the blogging. Good to have you with us Takaii, may you enjoy yourself here.I started watching anime with Rurouni Kenshin too, well, from where i’m from. All the best with the blogging.
got more* people
Proactive, aren’t we Divine? I guess trying to blog 10 shows at the same time really was too tiring XDWell, nice to see some new writers.
Streaming off winamp….Those were the days…
Welcome! I look forward to reading your reviews with the fall season approaching!
Welcome and I’m looking forward to Bakuman too =p
Another writer for RC? The site is growing faster then I thought. Regardless, welcome and I look forward to your posts in the future!
Welcome! Looking forward to your reviews :)Beeing introduced to anime with kenshin is a great way to fall in love with it. I still watch the dvd pack occasionaly of kenshin since its truely still one of my all time fav anime ever <3
Kenshin…Love Hina…Toradora…Clannad…AND the music from Angel Beats? I’ve found a new favorite reviewer, and you haven’t even posted a review yet. 🙂
Oooh, forgot to mention that I’m looking forward to your Bakuman reviews! Should be interesting to see if it translates well to anime.
Oh noes another minion!! Lol Good Luck man! I really look forward to what you and that other new guy (sorry just got up and forgot this name) can put out.
Ooh a new blogger! Good luck, you’re going to be great!
Welcome, Takaii. I look forward to your MAL account. I’d love to recommend some great romance shows to you when your done catching up with it. I’ll send you a request~ :]
Sweet! What shows are you gonna blog? (hopes Naruto: Shippuden…and Gundam Unicorn)
Wow, this is so exciting! I’m glad Divine won’t be doing as many shows, I get worried about him lol!I’ll probably follow Bakuman, so can’t wait until you start blogging!Welcome to RC!
Another blogger… 😀 Welcome to RC and looking forward to your blogs too as well Suzaku’s 😀
Welcome! I’m so envious you got Yui Horie signature, great to hear about Bakuman being blogged I’ll be spinning in my chair for every post! ^^
Wow, another one?! That’s awesome ^^ Welcome!
omg Eris signature *o* it seems like you have good taste in anime =oWelcome and I’m looking forward to read your posts :)!!
Nice to see more bloggers. Looking forward to what you can bring to Random Curiosity.
Nice to see that there are going to be more people blogging on RC. That means that will get to see more blogs about other anime’s
hi, welcome. You should use anidb.net to compile your anime list. It’s a lot more comprehensive.
I’ll be looking forward your post ! Do your best ! :)A Clannad, Angel Beats and Gurren Lagann’s fan 🙂
Hello and welcome. Brave Song is my fave song so far this year and Kimi No Shiranai Monogatari for last year. I usually get my dose at these sites:Janfive’s Greatest Anime Songs – http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=79584Animesuki Forums’s Favorite Anime OPs and EDs – http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=47091Anime Instrumentality Blog – http://blog.animeinstrumentality.netHope they help you in your anime musical journey.
Takaii, if you look half as good as the girl in that picture then I’ll anxiously await your posts.
Welcome Takaii, I’ll be looking forward to seeing your post.
This is bananas!
Wow. Two new bloggers at the same time! Welcome!If this means Divine will get less of a load to review, I would be relieved.
Woah, not only one, but two bloggers. I’ve been doing too much work and hanging out and to little randomc time.
welcome welcome welcome! 🙂
Whoa. another new blogger :oi like your taste 🙂 Rom-coms and slice of life are among my favourite genres as well ^^hope to see you blogging more of those in RC
Welcome! I’m a big Lucky Star and Gurren Lagann fan too. Oh! You’re so lucky for getting Eri Kitamura’s signature. I think you managed to get it when she came to Anime Expo? Here some song recommendations : Minori Chihara – Final Moratorium http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AEk2qJ0C38&feature=relatedNana Mizuki – Orchestral Fantasia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s86MtklphgKou Shibasaki – lover soul http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTW41PnF5W8Bump of Chiken – Karma http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz8A889diyQ
Thank you for the song suggestions!Yes, I waited in the very, very long NIS America line to get her signature. Yui Horie was sitting right next to her too. It was pretty surreal.I like Minori Chihara, but I didn’t enjoy Final Moratorium too much. The other three songs though, I enjoyed quite a bit. Especially 2 and 3. Orchestral Fantasia has some awesome instrumental parts and I like ~lover soul~ in general.
Welcome ^^. Hope with this more show will be covered here and I can choose better which anime to watch in every new season XD.
It’s so great to see more bloggers! Welcome!
YAY, Now We don’t have to worry about Divine burning out on us ;P
I think Divine has the will power of 10 bloggers.
Yay! Welcome and Thanks for comming to blog!
Welcome!! :DCan’t wait for you to be blogging Bakuman. I hope you’re funny too.
soooo agreed. we need more funny
I also hope I’m funny too :D.But in a non funny, excessively formal kind of way. 😉
Welcome! I love romantic comedies and slice of life anime so I look forward to your entries! And I like the music you mentioned too so keep them coming 🙂
Nice to have you ^^
Welcome to RandomC Takaii
Congratz Takaii! Can you understand Japanese? Or will you be watching subs?
MAN WTF!?!?!!?!?!?! blogger’s are coming outta the effing woodwork’s HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!!! i got a bad feeling about this………………………………………… of course no offense meant to u Takii, IN FACT….SHOW ME WHAT U GOT MANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Look forward to reading your posts.
Welcome to RC and I hope to read a lot of good blogs on here! 🙂
Ohh a Love Hina Fan 🙂 what about Negima?Are you planning to blog the Negima Manga? its pretty much second to the big three now.
That’s a pretty interesting idea.I am a Negima fan, but I am very, very behind. Too bad the anime was not the greatest, right?
I ran into the same issue with dubbing. XD; I can still stand to watch some shows dubbed in English, particularly the ones that aired on Adult Swim and Toonami, but most of the time the stuff kinda makes my ears bleed. Looking forward to your posts dude. :]
Welcome onborad my friend.I’m glad to hear you like Ayako Kawasumi-sama and being Love Hine your first watched anime on japanese was great (it was mine too).And about MyAnimeList, take your time, it was hard to me too, but thanks to my anime list on Excel (I’ve one with my 6.7 TB collection) I was able to complete it.Nice to have you around
Thanks for the welcome (:And yes, Ayako Kawasumi is one of my favorite voice actors. Saber!
welcome 🙂
Welcome :))))
Yakumo?? !!Looking forward to read your summaries/impressions! Welcome and best of luck.
welcome~!
Welcome to the staff!I will look forward to your posts and insight on the shows you will do. Its always refreshing to have new blood in the place.P.S What’s the name of that anime you have to the side? I am curious about it.
woo-hoo Bakuman you say? definitely interested =] =] Show us what you got (^_^)b lol
YAY BAKUMAN! 😀 Welcome to RC 😀
Woohoo! Nice to meet you!
Nice to meet you Takaii!And even though its not that much of a coincidence, all those songs you like/listed are on my current playlist. Your viewpoint on music is basically the same as mine too. Good Luck with blogging~ I can’t wait to see your reviews/summaries particularly on Bakuman. LOL and I guess thanks for taking some of the load off of Divine.
Welcome to RC Takaii! i’ll be following ur summariesi like your taste of anime, is as same as mine 🙂
Yep. Maeda Jun’s music is amazing. I listen to it all the time.
nice 2 meet youthis site got 2 new writers in one weekend.I wonder if someone will eventually blog super sentai or Kamen Rider
I am lookin forward to reading your stuff 😀
Does anyone know what anime that pic is from in his intro?
Hey Takaii, when you say Bakuman, will you blog the and/or the anime when it starts next month?
O_o I meant to ask the *manga* and/or anime…
I haven’t read the manga, and I am intending on blogging the Anime (:
hello TAKAII!!!Welcome, just wait to read ur work ^___^Do ur best!
Good luck Takaii-san!!!Ganbatte!
Oh, is it a good time to ask you guys to consider blogging Pokemon Best Wishes?
Clannad, Angel beats and Toradora you say! I love you already! lol, Glad to see you have the exact taste as me. I am looking forward to reading your blogs! Oh and Welcome to Random Curiosity! All the best.
Welcome Takaii ^_^
Congratulations Takaii~Anyhow, after reading your interest in music, being a notable song by supercell, I’ve recently started writing a feature on them on my site (there are more parts I am looking to expand on.) If you are interested you can check the first part here: http://ac730.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/supercell-feature-part-1-ryos-journey/Other than that, I suggest you keep following supercell’s recent releases, because since their ED for Bakemonogatari they’ve released 2 singles out and are very much worth checking out.And good luck with your blogging endeavours!
Hey Takaii What’s the name of the anime from the pic you used in your intro? I want to check it out.
Oh hello Takaii. For some odd reason, Im already looking forward to whatever you’d be blogging. <3
I look forward to your posts and welcome to Random Curiosity ^_^
congrats! and welcome!!