Fandoms, Feels, and Fangirling on Friday! - Psycho-Pass

Have you guys ever watched something and you finish it and then you're just so done with everything involving that show? (And yet you still rave about it to people because of how amazing it was and you can't stop thinking about it and how much you just want the characters to be real because they're all just so precious and you really wish the guys were real because your expectation of what men are supposed to be like has been raised exponentially by freaking animated characters?!?!?! ...Yeah. That's my life... I maybe take my shows a little too seriously...)

That's what happened with me and Psycho-Pass. It's a SUPER interesting and amazing anime that I randomly found while trying to find more anime to watch. This is who the characters are:

(From left to right: Yayoi Kunizuka, Shusei Kagari, Akane Tsunemori, Shinya Kogami, Nobuchika Ginoza, and Tomomi Masaoka)

To give a little overview about it, it's based in the future (2112 or 2113, somewhere around there) where the Sibyl System runs the crime system, pretty much. The Sibyl system allows Police Inspectors to judge a person's Crime Coefficient and their Hue. The Crime Coefficient is how apt a person is to commit a crime. Anything  below 100 is normal. Above 100 to a certain degree, the person is brought in to therapy (whether by force or if they come voluntarily is completely up to them). However, if their Crime Coefficient is too high, then they're labeled as a Latent Criminal and they can't operate as a normal person in society. I think it also depends on their hue. If a person is completely relaxed, their hue is a pure white. However, the more stressed they get, the cloudier their hue gets, and they're forced to participate in therapy. So, if a person's Crime Coefficient isn't capable of going down and it's between 100 and 300, the person is a Latent Criminal. Ok. Let me back up, because I have to explain how the Sibyl system judges these people.

The Inspectors use a gun known as a Dominator. Here's what it looks like:

So, the Police (Or Ministry of Welfare Public Safety Bureau) use these Dominators. The Dominators are connected to the Sibyl System and tell the holder (using a voice that only the holder can hear) if the person is normal or a latent criminal.

So, the Dominators have three levels: Non-lethal Paralyzer Mode, Lethal Eliminator, and Destroy Decomposer. The Paralyzer mode is used on Latent Criminals with Crime Coefficients between 100 and 300. The Lethal Eliminator is used on Latent criminals whose CCs are over 300, because there's no hope for them. The highest CC in the show was 472, which is freaking crazy.

But, oh my goodness, this show. All of the characters are SO amazing, and my favorites are Kogami, Ginoza, Masaoka, and Kagari. I mean, Kogami is Mr. Fanservice, no doubt in my mind. He does have a few shirtless scenes, after all.

But GINOZA, OHMAGOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That man... At first I freaking hated him at first because he was a total jerk to the Enforcers and...

Crap. I forgot to explain that part.

Ok, so in the PSB, there's Inspectors and Enforcers. Inspectors are just normal police officers, pretty much. Enforcers are latent criminals who work with the PSB as, as Ginoza put it, hunting dogs. They just help the Inspectors with their jobs, but they can still be Paralyzed by the Dominators because they're latent criminals and their CCs are over 100, but not over 300 (or they'd be dead).

But Ginoza was a jerk to the Enforcers, but then you learn some things about him, and... I cried, not gonna lie. And then you learn about Kogami, and Yayoi, and... Eh, not so much about Kagari, althou - Oh, wait, never mind. You do. Oh, and Masaoka. I cried when I learned some things about him, too.

Ok, if you're going to watch Psycho-Pass, DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, LOOK ANYTHING UP ON THE PSYCHO-PASS WIKIPEDIA PAGE BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, I say this from experience.

Although, even though I knew some things were going to happen, I still cried. I cried deeply, and many, many tears.

When certain things happened (that I knew were coming eventually), I literally started throwing things around, screaming at my computer, and crying. It was SO not ok. Like with the last two episodes, this gif completely describes exactly what I was feeling:

But, it is a PHENOMENAL show, and I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who loves action anime. There's really no romance in it (although there are a few ships), and one thing that I learned about it that made me EXTREMELY happy was that the writer of the anime, Gen Urobuchi, refused to add yaoi fanservice to attract the female audience. (If you don't know what yaoi is, don't look it up. Just revel in your innocence.) But it just made me happy because I don't like yaoi, and there are many instances where yaoi would have fit in perfectly with the show, and yet he didn't add it in. Oh, and another thing, the director cried at the last episode's script. (So, if you watch it, you have that to look forward to. I cried SOOOO hard during the last episode, and I'd been expecting it. Just... SO many feels, I couldn't even handle it.)

But this show (multiple times) brutally ripped out my heart, threw it on the ground, stomped on it, lit it on fire, and danced on its grave. Multiple times, I told myself that I was so DONE with it, and yet... I can't get the idea out of my head. I mean, pretty much all the characters are VERY well-rounded, especially Ginoza, Kogami, Masaoka, and Akane. (And freaking Makashima...) But that's seriously what I love about anime. I have yet to see one that had all flat characters. I mean, yeah, there are some characters that are a little bit flat and don't get much development *coughShioncough*, but mostly there are characters who have such lovely back stories and I just want to hug them and tell them that everything will be ok. I just want to hug all of the characters in Psycho-Pass and tell them that everything will be ok.

BUT IT WON'T HAPPEN BECAUSE THEY'RE ANIMATED AND NOT REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *cries dramatically in corner*

ANYWAY, this was really long, and if you hadn't seen my fangirl side before, I apologize, because I'm pretty sure that was a little bit painful for everyone...

But, if this extremely weird and fangirlish review of this show sparked your interest and you want to go watch it, it's on Hulu. And I hope you enjoy it and are ready for buckets of feels to be dumped on you should you choose to accept your mission go watch this amazing anime. :)

Adieu, people!

P.S. And, just for the heck of it (because I honestly found this gif hilarious and laughed at it for about five minutes), here is probably the most random gif of Ginoza ever. :)

Next week will probably be  (So many feels from that show, you have no freaking idea. That week will probably be me just typing out screaming, because that's pretty much what that show reduces me to every time I watch the newest episodes.)

Superhero Wednesday! - Superman

This is going to become a thing on here. I'm a nerd, and I'm not really afraid to let everyone know it. So, every Wednesday, I'll post about a superhero. (I'll try to stick with DC because I like DC a WHOLE lot more than I like Marvel, but... We'll see... I also might get into the villains of the DC universe because they're all pretty dang awesome, too. Especially Darkseid. That dude is scary.)

I'll start with the original seven members of the Justice League, then move on to the rest of the Justice League as time goes on. (And if you're not familiar with the Justice League, there are a BUNCH of members, and they're all so amazing. And I'll pretty much just focus on the Justice League cartoon.)

Oh, and if I ship any members of the JL with anyone HARDCORE, I'll do a bonus post the next week JUST about the ship. Like, there are a few ships in Justice League that I ship SOOOO hard. But you'll just have to find out about those when they come up. *insert maniacal laugh here*

This week we'll start off with the big boy in blue himself: Superman.

First off, we all know that he's from Krypton, which blew up and he's the last Kryptonian. We all know his weakness is Kryptonite, but its power is blocked by iron, and so if you just put some iron in front of the Kryptonite, then he has all his powers back. However, his powers come from the radiation of our yellow sun. If put into a room with a red sun's radiation, he's powerless.

Don't get me wrong, I think Superman is pretty cool, but there are some things about him that just make me mad. Like the fact that Kryptonite can be blocked by iron. Like, what the heck? If he's going to have a weakness, LET IT BE A WEAKNESS. Don't give him a loophole to get out of that weakness!!!

However, there are some episodes of Justice League where I gain much respect for Supey. Such as the episode(s) "A Better World". It's a two-part episode, and it is PHENOMENAL. It's definitely one of my favorite episodes of the entire series.

It starts in an alternate universe where Superman kills Lex Luthor and then the team of superheroes takes over the world. And... It just shows a darker side of Superman that is just so awesome. It shows a darker side of the whole Justice League, because the Justice Lords are pretty much their evil counterparts. I think the thing I love most about it is their costumes. This is Superman's:

It's so much different than his regular costume that... UGH!!!! It's such a good episode. *fangirls and flails wildly*

But one thing that I really love about how DC portrays Superman is in the show Young Justice, which is about the younger versions of the superheroes in the Justice League. There's Kid Flash, Aqualad, Robin, Speedy, Superboy, Miss Martian, and many others.

But the thing about Superman and Superboy's relationship is * SOMEWHAT OF A SPOILER ALERT* that Superboy is Superman's clone, created by CADMUS, to destroy Superman if he ever goes rogue. So, of course, Superman is a pretty skeptical of Superboy. *END OF SPOLER* This picture pretty much captures the essence of their relationship:

It's just kind of adorable and sad because Superboy just wants to be loved by Superman because he considers the Superman to be his father figure, but Superman wants nothing to do with Superboy. And as the series progresses, it just gets more and more sad. But that's what makes an awesome TV show. All them feels, though...

Anyway, I think that's about it for this first edition of Superhero Wednesday. Let me know what you guys thought, and what your opinion of Superman is.

Next week will be about our favorite boy in black, Batman!!!

The voice of the BEST Batman, Kevin Conroy :)

Hello, Blogging World!!!

Well, here I am, inevitably part of the Blogging world. (And good gracious, I can't type right now.)

So, I suppose I should introduce myself...?

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Umm... Well, I'm going to college and I'm majoring in English Education with a minor in TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language). It's summer time right now, so I'm just kind of doing my own thing (which is working and earning money so I can go back to college).

A coworker of mine suggested that I start a blog, because he jokingly tells me that I'm useless and my life is going in circles (which it pretty much is, honestly), and I'm of no use other than to write and tell stories. (And holy cow, you have no idea how many typos I've made in the past sentence.) So, here I am. Awkwardly sitting in my family room on the couch in my parents' house... Alone...

Yeah. I'm new to this whole "Blogging" thing, can you tell?

So, I'm just gonna type and see what happens.

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Well... I have a pretty good job, and I love all my coworkers, and I get along with all of them pretty well. I like to think of them as a kind of extended family. Because not all of them are like brothers and sisters, some of them are more like those really cool aunts and uncles that you love to hang out with, and some of them are like cousins.

Anyway, I'm gonna say that that's good enough for now, because it's almost eleven o'clock at night, and I'm extremely tired because I had an eight hour shift at work today (retail, mind you), and I have yet another eight hour shift tomorrow that starts at eight thirty in the morning. And I am not a morning person. Ha. There are many entertaining/frightening stories that I could tell about me in the morning.

But, alas, that will have to wait.

Adieu, people!!! (Whoever the heck reads this... If anyone...)