Atama Ga Warui: New Changes

If you have been here before, then you will immediately notice that I have made some drastic changes to the blog. Needless to say, this blog has, for the most part, been a complete failure. Changes in my lifestyle and time spent made it so, but that isn’t the whole story.

When I started it last summer with a younger online comrade of mine, I had every intention of making this blog something special and respectable with his help. Unfortunately, as time went on, unexpected limitations to the net and lack of overall symmetry with our anime viewing soon began eroding my desire to not only write about Japanese visual culture, but also to bother putting in effort on this blog if my comrade could not. So, I left this place alone, but kept watching anime when I could.

However, when mid 2008’s summer rolled around, I began to get fed up with much of my plans being left unfinished and my time being wasted doing things that could be done later. I was still an anime otaku, but had become VERY quiet about it because of how busy I was (and still am). Soon after a few realizations, I began taking bounds to really move and do what I love and even put aside my online chatting so I could experience freedom to think and do. Because of my rekindled joy for anime, Atama Ga Warui has been thrown into this equation of rehabilitation.

So what exactly are these changes?

Hatsune Miku Nendoroid + Caramell Dansen

I really have to apologize for my last entry about the “singing seiyuu.” I really don’t know what planet I was on at the time I decided to write that, but it seems I had a massive disconnect between my otaku nature and the stresses of living life, as it were. I also have to admit that I have been slacking tremendously on my seiyuu following recently, which also hindered my ability to distinguish the many seiyuu who do sing many songs, while not singing many OP or ED themes. That is where the source of my disconnect lies. I appreciate the comments I received though. They really woke me up and brought some clarity back to my foggy, work-induced mind. Thanks guys.

Well enough about that!

Danny Choo blogged a few days back about a Hatsune Miku Nendoroid Dance that is probably the cutest otaku-related thing I have seen in a while. Thought I would share it with anyone who may have missed it.

As many commentators agreed, the last bit of this video is OMGMOEGUSH! or something to that effect, but the whole thing is really wonderfully animated in CG and paints Hatsune Miku, as well as the other Vocaloid singers, in an even more adorable light. I don’t have much a thing for nendoroid models myself, but I really enjoyed this.

For those, like me, who really liked the song at the end of the video (Caramell – “Caramelldansen [Speedycake remix]“) and want the full version, I did some further YouTube searches and found a nicely put together AMV-like production using the acclaimed anime dance routine “Hare Hare Yukai”. I have been looping this song every so often on YouTube because it’s THAT addicting. Ironically, an online friend of mine recently recommended me to listen to Swedish techno while designing.

Enjoy!

Atama Ga Warui Question: Do you like nendoroid models?

Atama Ga Warui Welcomes You!

To anyone who might happen upon this blog, the writers of Atama Ga Warui, fatestaysmart and lovelykoi, welcome you. I am still working on things behind the scenes to kick this blog off right, but now that we have the essentials (a custom banner made by yours truly, FAQs, disclaimers), it’s time to get the ball rolling.

I am fatestaysmart, the Head Writer and Master of this blog. My co-writer is lovelykoi, who will probably come up with an introduction later…Maybe. Let me offer some information you should know before you are inducted:

• Due to this blog’s name in relation to the content we produce, a few may call it a walking contradiction…except blogs don’t walk.
• lovelykoi and I have differing fountains of knowledge and life/Japanese visual culture experience…which only will make our entries all the more amusing and insightful.
• We invite you to click the tabs underneath my smexy banner…because you should want to know what you’re getting yourself into by coming here.
• We want to get to know our readers better. So please don’t be afraid to drop even the smallest comment because we don’t bite…only prod gently.
• Anything that we write that you believe is complimentary of the name of this blog is merely a diabolical fabrication of your mind’s eye…Megane Rin-chan demands your attention!

That is all. Welcome, thank you wasting two and a half minutes of your life reading this, and do stay tuned for more. We certainly shall appreciate your patronage, how ever meager it may be.