Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Strange dreams

So, no, this is not an anime or game review, this is.....a more personal blog.
So, sunday night I had a restless sleep filled with figmented dreams. The only one I remembered was this one because of how strange it was, and how terrible it was.

So in my dream I'm playing checkers with a very pretty girl.We’re at a glass and metal table with matching seats across from each other. She has straight black long hair with bangs, red eyes, and a beauty mark near her left eye. She's wearing a black, red and white sailor uniform with black thigh high boots. While I'm playing checkers with her she opens her powder blue flower adorned folding fan and begins to chuckle behind. Aprubtly closing the fan she stands from her chair and laughs down at me (classic look down upon you peasants pose with harty laughter) then she tells me "That move was so suspicous, you could call it cancer!" As she says this the background behind her is of an orange crab and a few crawfish with shocked faces. Then, since I couldn't look at her seriosly anymore with that terrible zodiac pun, I look down at the table to find that the game of checkers I had been playing was actually a game of chess.

I find it strange, not because of the bad pun (although that adds to the strangeness) but more because the pun had to do with the zodiac sign cancer, since I'm a virgo. The game of chess or checkers, the entire dream was just strange.
By the way, the reason I know that was a bad pun was because it was a pun that was meant for only me to understand. “That move was so suspicious, you can call it cancer!” referred to cancer in the zodiac which is represented as a crab. Crabs have a habit of walking in a side to side manner, which in a way can be suspicious (when you’re walking side ways it’s usually to be sneaky or hide from someone or thing). Hence “That move was so suspicious, you can call it cancer!”

I asked on of my professors about it as well as one of my cousins and they told me that maybe I didn't get what I want recently or that I've been playing my game to agressively when I should be using strategy, and that maybe I should check what cancer has for this month.
I’ve also received other responses, that maybe the girl in my dream was my opponent and felt like she was in a position where she was losing in the game; that her red eyes mean she’s confident; that she’s the personification of my sketches and devotion to anime, and the like. There have been suggestions that maybe I’m so in control of my game that I was playing chess thinking it was simply checkers, and that the whole checkers to chess ordeal means I’m moving ahead of the game.
I still can’t get over that terrible pun though...
I know nothing of dreams, or dream interpretations, but I'm extremely curious as to what it means. If anyone knows about dreams or hints, or if you just wan to commen a weird dream you've had, or comment on my dream go ahead.

Monday, September 2, 2013

Another review

So, the title of this post is definitely a pun. Sorry for not posting for a while, I was in a bit of a manga frenzy, I apologize.
Anyways, I just finished up watching Another anime, named Another. 


Another is about kouichi Sakakibara. An average boy who arrives into class 3 in his ninth grade year as a transfer student to Yomiyama North Middle School in 1998, and they say that the ninth grade class 3........is cursed.
They say it all started 26 years ago, in 1972, when a boy named Misaki Yomiyama was killed in a house fire with his parents. Being loved by both teachers and students alike, the class was devastated, that is until it happened. When the school in it's entity began pretending he was still alive. Ever since then there has always been an extra person in the class, a person who is not living, and if that person is welcomed into the class, the calamity begins.
Anyone in class 3, involved with class 3, or closely related to anyone in class 3, only in the city of Yomiyama, holds a risk of dyeing. The deaths happen each month and can vary from 1 to 10 deaths at a time.
When Kouichi enters the class he is welcomed by all, except for a certain student. A girl who sits at the back of the class and is ignored by all, at just the mention of her name the class shivers. Her name is Mei Misaki, and she is the person that does not "exist" to the rest of class 3. Unknowing of this, he talks to her and our horror anime begins!


I was actually delightfully surprised with this anime. I only started watching it after my friend practically pinned me to wall and told me he'd never speak to me again if I didn't watch it, but I absolutely enjoyed it. It reminded me of dead man wonderland, with all the unneeded gore and the twisted storyline.

All in all it's a good anime. It sent goosebumps down my spine, and was so suspenseful I saw it all in one day (which would be today). I especially enjoyed how innocent and kind hearted our protagonists are despite the cruelty they go through.
Of course I disliked certain aspects like the strange lack of emotion by Kouichi when a person dies, but it was amazing how i nearly never saw who was going to die nest coming. It surpassed my expectations and shook me up with happiness. Its a gory horror suspense anime, so if you're not good with scary, or bloody things this anime isn't exactly for you.