ShortCircuited

This time I vectored an image from some SnS product (think its a cushion or a mousepad?), so the source was an annoyingly sparse 500×500.

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Fumina Konoe Strikes Back was definitely one of (if not) the best Shana-tans I’ve seen.

Figure 1.0: Shana-tan mulls.

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>:3

In the eyes of the beholder - at first it simply looked like the response of a multi-coupled band-pass line filter…

Figure 1.0: Jesus Christ its a lion, get in the car!

hahaha.

For some reason I was quite surprised that they mentioned some actual literature in the anime.

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I am not certain as to the stimulus behind the comparisons between two distinct media, and while not even outright (literature spans the full spectrum of creative and uncreative output of humanity so I guess such complete inspection would be unnecessary and tiresome), it is quite true that fiscal impetus is a primary driving force on televised works. Thinking of literature meant primarily to be entertaining (and thus might cater to even the lowest common denominator - which isn’t always the case as my friend touched on in his Honey and Clover article Mike so graciously linked), many cases come up which are, in a way, just as intellectually uninspiring as anime: The Da Vinci Code, many science fiction works, I would like to mention more but it had been too long since I read a non-academic work. In contrast, writing and publishing a book with a very small intended audience is quite possible, however I do not believe that animated shows easily lend themselves to such solitary efforts, Makoto Shinkai being an anomaly - it simply costs too much and distribution used to be a problem. Although with increased computing power (efficiency) and with the internet, anime might see an increase in independent, thought-provoking works whose primary objective is to show something to the audience for the sake of making them think (see Yasuhiro Yoshiura). (more…)

J.C. Staff <3

I thought that the Shinra Banshou ought to be quite convenient, one possibility shown in Figure 1.0 (comic).

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Some things just had to be said.

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I really didn’t expect that Threaten would work on untapped creatures, but I guess the non-explicit wording permits it.

Solution:

Shared Animosity means you want a lot of tribal to do big damage and with Threaten, one might be tempted to grab their shamans to boost your own. Unfortunately this won’t do nearly enough damage. The trick here is to play Sparkspitter and Threaten it so that you can use it’s ability to get another Spark Elemental out and trample down your opponent.

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Another puzzle which, like the previous one, can be quite unintuitive.

This puzzle actually had quite a few versions due to some mistakes on card wording. The original had a Magus of the Arena and was totally cooler, but what can you do?

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We introduced quite a few distractions to the solution of the puzzle, obfuscating the one key point without which the puzzle is unsolvable.

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