Hey I decided I would update this thread by writing another Journal Entry. There are two things I want to talk about. 1. What I've been watching these days "anime-wise." And 2, Something that has really been bothering me about my personality at work. Let's start with what I've been watching. Too many to name, actually, but I will talk about a few. In the post just previous to this one I said that the anime NANA wasn't anything special. I since then watched through the anime again for the second time around and enjoyed it a lot more the second time around, so my opinion on that has changed! I love Nana Osaki the best because of her relaxed and calm nature. I envy people who are relaxed and comfortable to be around. I always wished I was calm internally, and not so anxious and self-conscious. Characters like Osaki really do it for me because of their super cool personalities! I continue to strive to develop a more calmer personality.
Last night I watched the entire MagiPoka anime (all 12 episodes and all three specials) in one sitting. Well, let's not fib. I took the occasional tea break, and bathroom break. But for the most part I watched all of it in succession. Episode 6 is by far my favorite episode of them all. It's when :Spoiler: Uma is sent to Hell and has a ridiculously fun time down there when she is suppose to be suffering. They first send her to a higher level of Hell... a place called Children's Limbo, where she has to stack rocks for all eternity. When she finishes stacking them Liru comes along and knocks them over with a mallet and laughs in her face. At first this annoys her, but then she starts stacking the rocks and knocking them over herself. Again, this is meant to be pain an suffering to both the body and the mind but she is having fun! She is then sent to a lower part of Hell where she is put into a pot of boiling oil. Instead of suffering with excruciating pain, she says... "Well, I can't die here so there's no point struggling." Lastly they send her to an even deeper part of Hell where she is imprisoned within a flaming chariot while Aiko pushes her around Hell from the front. Uma asks, "What am I suppose to do here?" Aiko says, "Well, I push you through Hell while you suffer in the cage by the flames." Uma replies, "Ok, let's go then!" Because she is having so much fun in Hell they transport her to Heaven where she is meant to live the rest of eternity in bliss, but she ends up getting bored because there is literally nothing to do. At first she says that she will take a nap, but when she lays her head on the clouds she realizes that she's not even tired. She then gets up and starts playing, hoping around and jumping on the clouds, but gets bored with it fast, so she gets sent back to Earth.
I watch MagiPoka every year around Christmas as a tradition. And tonight I watched the OVA for Dragon Half, which is such a great 2 episode series. Lufa is definitely my favorite of the characters, except she needs to learn how to control lightning with her lightning cane. <_<
But besides anime, what's been bothering me a little bit at work is how passive and nice I am generally. I find that I get pushed around at work a lot because I never speak up for myself. It's not that I don't want to speak up and be more assertive, it's just that my brain is not developed that way. I am also easily controlled. If someone tells me to pick something up, I pick it up. I may not jump off a bridge if someone tells me to, but if it's something that I know I can do, I will usually do it without questioning why I should. This happens a lot at a friends place... I have one friend who is very aggressive and likes to control me. Because I am passive, I feel that I get pushed around a lot against my own will. I wish I could do something about this defect in my personality.
Not much else to say just wanted to update my Journal. Wishing everyone lots of happiness and joy over the Holidays! I know that I am going to be getting into a lot of anime over the next couple of weeks! I already have some anime coming in the mail... one of them being the first box set (containing the first 11.5 episodes of NANA.) Literally cannot wait to watch through all of it again!
