Gosh darn it, it would appear that I’ve spent a little too much time in Beta, and now all my years of hard work formulating what I believed to be a revolutionary product has been rendered for naught! Indeed, I think I might need to take another week off to get over this shock and adequately concoct a suitable action plan in response to this development.

Or I might just want to spend some time watching some cartoons.

“Supplementary” because it’s not from an anime or manga (or game), rather it’s from the dreaded Real Life. Not that this particular Cat-based money box is much of a rarity – they were a moderately common sight on UK high-streets over the Christmas period, and they’ve been the Crunchyroll daily deal on more than one occasion. What is perhaps more shocking than seeing them is the fact that I don’t actually own one.

This particular example was spotted at the May London MCM Expo, the a-few-times-annually-in-various-places UK comic convention, which for the most part is just an excuse to buy ludicrous amounts of stuff, cosplay, or both. Actually, as a first-time attendee, the cosplay was initially a little overwhelming – it’s not like I’ve never seen people cosplaying IRL before, but being an early-attender, I was getting to the ExCeL at the point where a good 60-70% of the attendees where dressed up, and that was kind of boggling to me (even when being “dressed up” amounts to simply throwing on one of those Naruto Akatsuki capes). Not that I have a problem with cosplay, mind you – although I may not be inclined to say any differently if I did. At these con situations, they not only outnumber you, they have weapons. Not a good mix, really.
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I think I’m going to be sounding like a broken record here, reiterating something that I’ve said in a previous post, but there’s nothing like being stuck on a train for three hours to focus ones mind towards writing something up one has been meaning to for a while. Funnily, in this case, I’m writing up something that involved my last three hour train ride somewhere, but on that occasion I didn’t drag my laptop with me – oddly enough, I figured being sat-up all night wouldn’t result in a productive state of mind.

Well, okay, that wasn’t necessarily funny.

Anyway, at the beginning of May, around the bank holiday weekend (or the Royal Wedding this year, for a reference point that might have a smidgen more relevant for the non-UK crowd. Clearly the actual date would be better, but that’d involve opening a calendar), the Sci-Fi London festival occurs, sporting a bunch of events and movie screenings. Part of that for a while now has been an all-night Anime movie marathon.
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Hey, it’s another submission from the Twitters! Who’da thunk that the secret to actually getting people to submit these things was to have an obvious way for people to contact you? (I’m guessing… everyone?)

Anyway, this one came in from Monsieur Shillito, and is from the second episode of Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi. That title took me at least three attempts to type correctly, which probably means that I should have just stuck to Crunchyroll-speak and called it A Bridge to the Starry Skies. Sounds like a pretty inconvenient structure to build to me!

Yeah, I’ve got nothing on this show, it being one of the shows up on Crunchy that I’ve yet to subject myself to.

This one came in from 21cDigitalboy via the Twitters, taken from the second episode of Ao no Exorcist. Well, at least I’m assuming it’s from Ao no Exorcists second episode, as I’m entirely trusting that he didn’t monkey around with the file name in an attempt to befuddle me into looking silly (which, truth told, isn’t the most difficult of operations to successfully execute).

Still, I think this must be the first sighting of the season, and it’s not from one of the shows I’d have thought, but then that always seems to be the case…