Blog Title: Megane-ko Memoirs

Meganekkos are my passion. My musings are but shards of my being that could be refracted; their flaws clear. And so, lacking pious and eloquent jargon, perhaps my story will make sense when the two are seen as one.

Go study. Stop caring.

Wow...I really don't want to give a shit about anything anymore. Blarg. Go fuckin' die. Can't freakin' sleep because I'm concerned about the emotional health of someone else, while at the same time, becoming exceedingly more anxious about the summer. The summer I'm finally made complete. The summer a brand new chapter will begin in my heart and life. The summer that I won't have to concern

Double-Mindedness is a Bitch

This is long overdue... I'm fucking sick of this bullshit. You think it's perfectly alright for you to expect something of me when I naturally don't ever feel like sharing it with you just because you fuckin' want to know, but the moment I ask a simple question out of pure curiosity, you ask "why?" And then, I tell you why in a way that puts you on the spot as someone who is clearly being

Renai Return :: Take 2

This is pretty fuckin' funny...How long has it been since I've had the need to come around here again. Lots of people must think this place is just another piece of net junk. Sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm not nearly dead just yet. Just...dormant. During my indefinite absence, I've been dealing with life fairly well. Not as plagued by the issues of my own sexuality, and feeling quite

Megane-ko #10 :: Mizusawa

I was bored...and lonely (if Firefox, see mouse-over msg). So I did one after so long. Sorry, no pictures because VirtualDub can't read h.264 mp4 formats. Fuckin' annoying as hell this format had to get so popular. Only have a link to a crappy, full-body official site art image from the official ZEGAPAIN site that hardly does her justice. Name / Meganekko Type: Mizusawa-sensei / Part-Time

Hormones Speak Louder Than Words

**mouse-over any meganekko for msg** Found this interesting article in MSNBC Newsweek Health entitled Why Girls Will Be Girls. The article spotlights a neuro-psychologist named Dr. Louann Brizendine who has been studying the ins and outs of how the differences in women and men start in the brain by paying attention to the biology involved in hormones, such as estrogen, cortisol and dopamine,

Why or why not

Just a few minutes ago, my mother watched anime with me for the first time. I wasn't really crazy about the idea of her sitting behind me watching - I felt as if she was invading a part of my world that she could never be welcome in. I said "I guess so" and let her eat dinner with me while watching the 4th episode of Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni, a series that I had previewed back in Spring, but set

Don't quit your dayjob, sweetheart...

For the first time in a while, I was really into my summer job. Taking care of business, running around doing things for my boss, etc., etc. Even got complimented and offered a higher range of responsibility by the president, which I obviously accepted. I even decided to work a little overtime because I was so in the zone. I even had a nice lunch with my megane-ko friend...whom I recently told

Ren'Ai :: Faulty Reflection

Work ethic has seriously left the building. More and more often do thoughts of running away to a different country keep me awake at night. A place where I could start over; instill a totally different identity from the one I have around here. That would involve leaving my few best friends - my cute megane-ko friend, and the guy that I, for some outlandish reason, wanted to wake up next to this

Ren'Ai :: Mixed Signals

So yeah. I'm not dead. Surprised? Don't bother. Not like I know how long this will last anyway. Only reason why I'm blogging anyway is because I seem to have reverted back to my original reason for creating this space: to share my sexual confusions, struggles, opinions, and the like, through an anonymous voice that, to this day, only one person knows who I really am. I'm confident that it will

Ren'Ai :: Replies

First off, I want to acknowledge two comments made in my last entry, since it seems way pointless to directly reply after so long. Apologizing won't turn back my negligence, but at least I can do what I would have done regardless of circumstances...that is if there weren't circumstances to disregard. Daniel, being anonymous is the best ever. I love it, and thrive off of it. I can always come

Ren'Ai Rant :: Odor Fetish & Harutards Gone Rabid

Wow...it royally sucks when your life just goes spiraling out of control. Or, in this case, my life within this blog. Damn...I've been out of school for like 3 weeks already and I really haven't anything to blog about. Absolutely NOTHING interesting has happened to me to make me want to share it with the internets. Everything has been fuckin' NORMAL! Well...except for tonight when I realized I

Ren'Ai :: The Past Never Knew Me

It's kind of irrelevant where I am right now. All that matters is that I am in front of a computer...at a fairly late hour...feeling very nostalgic, upset, and unable to focus on the project that I have only recently decided to completely rewrite. Why do I feel this way? It seems my past has caught up to me once again, taken me roughly by the wrist, and raised a hand to smack me to the floor. All

Ren'Ai :: Final Stretch

I have been idly sitting in a computer lab, awaiting my "final" to actually start, reluctantly downed 4 slices of cheese pizza, an 8 oz. can of Dr. Pepper, and have yet to start working on a final project that is immensely more important than me procrastinating in this cushy comp lab seat catching up on Anime News Network. There must certainly be something wrong with me. At least I've been

Megane-ko #9 :: Akane Sawai

Name / Meganekko Type: Akane Sawai / Part-Time Submitted by: Ren'Ai Site: Megane-ko Memoirs Akane is a breed of megane-ko that you wish to feel sorry for, but at the same time, wish to turn your back on. Knowing this, it's no surprise that she also slips into that grouping of meganekko from the anime, Jigoku Shoujo, episode 12. Often estranged, confused, and judgmental, she would be quite

History of Manga Book Expunged by True American

After re-reporting in my previous entry of the obvious atrocity, that had been swiftly attended to by Mr. Postmus, I am itching to share my opinion on the action taken. I was going to let loose in that other entry, but I felt I should keep that professional-like, then run my mouth in another entry. First of all, let's make it clear that the said book that had Mr. Postmus in an uproar is a title

Historical Japanese Manga Reference Book Removed

ANN reported today on the removal of a book called Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics, written by Paul Gravett, from the libraries of San Bernadino, CA, County. A mother had been notified of the obscene content by her 16-year old son, who happened upon the book in a shelf nearby other popular children's comics. Soon after, Bill Postmus, County Chair of the Board of Supervisors, shared his

Megane-ko #8 - Ringo

I just HAD to write something up for her! I should be out at a hockey game one of my friends is playing in, but this just couldn't wait! Meet the most amazing AND stunningly pretty megane-ko ever to grace an manga/anime series that I've ever come across. Name / Meganekko Type: Ringo / Part-Time Submitted by: Ren'Ai Site: Megane-ko Memoirs Being the third daughter in a family of five

Ren'Ai Rant :: water-logged ::

I have reached a point where I have no drive to do any sort of writing. This is not particularly the best situation when most of what I do for college is writing. Writing. Writing. Writing. Fuck these people who give me deadlines to write! Fuck those people who make me not want to write for anyone anymore! Treating me like I'm some kind of machine who can keep pushing out dialogue for a

Megane-ko Panic & Shana Movie

I haven't been able to put together a short megane-ko description for the two meganekko I have lined up because I have been expending my writer's energy for assignments. Also, Japanese is a very difficult language to make one's own and takes A LOT of effort, in my case, to study properly. It's really coming in handy for me though, as I'm about to reveal. To make matters slightly worse, I have

Ren'Ai :: DWG = Drinking With Glasses

**mouse-over img for usual secret msg** In light of a close friend's birthday, I decided to do something that would, under normal circumstances, go against my "Megane-ko Code of Sight." I drank some with my friends. Nothing heavy - it was watered down actually, thanks to my housemate who knows his alcohol and my preference to NOT getting inadvertenly smashed. Before I go on though, let me

Meganekko No Shana :: Ch. 2

Title: Meganekko No Shana Chapter 2 Shana and Sakai arrived at school just as the bell atop of the school's gable struck 8:30AM. Shana strode leisurely behind Sakai, who had already taken off up the 15-step staircase that led up to the front entrance. Just as Sakai was about to swing the front door open, he remembered Shana was still far behind him. However, he realized that doing so would only

Ren'Ai :: Slow & Steady

I would have two new megane-ko to blog about, but stupid fansubbers are using .mkv files more and more these days. That file type doesn't agree with the program I use for taking screenshots, which is irritating me to no end. If anyone knows how to deal with this or how to take screenshots another way, do drop me a comment or something. Other than that...I've mostly been doing a hell of a lot of

Ren'Ai :: Endings

Midterms are finally over, and I couldn't be happier about that. No, midterms were not going on for the past...what...3 weeks or something. I just have been overly applying myself and generally had nothing worthwhile to blog about. I wish I could say I had something absolutely mindblowing to share, but I don't. So, I'll just blog for the sake of doing so. Over these hectic weeks, I've been in

Megane-ko #7 - Micchan

Name / Meganekko Type: Micchan / Full-Time Submitted by: Ren'Ai Site: Megane-ko Musings This perfectly harmless and innocent, yet eccentric meganekko hails from Rozen Maiden Traumend. Working as a full-time photographer, she only has time for one obsession: dreaming of the other Rozen Maiden dolls modeling for her. Though she gets a suitable amount of airtime, you can tell she has a one-track

Meganekko No Shana :: Ch. 1

*mouse-over image for msg* I sacrificed a little over an hour and a half to start writing this fanfic story. If anyone is familiar with the series and/or my adoration for Shakugan No Shana, most of the details I used should sound familiar. I do not plan to stick to the anime's character archetypes, and I WILL be flipping character roles/motivations/reactions as I see fit. It is all written on