January 09, 2005

• I don't know who you, but we should meet in real life so we can get you drunk together. You would be unreal, cause I have no idea what you are talking about.

• I have no idea what you are talking about

  Oh dear! OK, let me try to explain. Ringu is a really scary Japanese horror movie. The main character is a girl called Sadako who has some sort of psychic power, and long black hair that covers all of her face but for her (demonic) left eye. At the time of the events in the movie, Sadako has been dead for many years, but her life story is somehow deeply linked to a sequence of bizarre deaths. The common thread in all these deaths is a videotape that mysteriously kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. You should see Ringu if you haven't yet. It is made without any poor-lighting effects or lound booming noises like Hollywood horror-flicks, but it manages to get deeply under your skin. Sada-chan is Sadako's shoujo anime (little girl cartoon) counterpart. She would fit right into contemporary sugary high-school-girl drama shows like Azumanga Daiou or Aishiteru ze Baby. She flashes wide smiles while saying things like "Ohayou gozaimasu. Sadako de~su. Nokori isshuukan wo gambarimashou!" ("Good morning. I am Sadako. Please do your best in the last week of your life!") or "Sadako ga norotte imasu. Hoka no wazawai wa dokka ni itte ne~ ♥" ("Sadako is cursing here. Other calamities please go elewhere 'k? /xoxo")... I suppose it's hard to get the humor unless you've seen the movie and are at least somewhat familiar with these anime shows.
• I think more people are aware of the Hollywood version of Ringu called The Ring. I saw that version first before I got on bittorrent and downloaded Ringu. I had heard the original was better, but I have to say I thought it was a little boring. I think I'm a consumer whore for the special effects and the scary moments in the Hollywood version just seemed to snap a little better. But I'm not movie critic. On another note, that doll is hilarious, I want one just to say I have one. And I really wish I had seen that flash animation yesterday, because I really think being stoned while watching it would have been an amazing thing.
• Azumanga Daioh confused me quite a bit. I didn't get it until somebody told me it's based on four-panel comics. Still don't see the point though. Neither Ringu nor The Ring scared me. But sada-chan looks fabulous... if only she would appear on Kare Kano to lighten up the mood there!
• I have to admit that I am not that keen on anime or manga. Although the manga version of Star Wars was good.
• There is no point to Azumanga Daioh. It's a sitcom. You watch, you might laugh, you go home.
• Monkeyfilter: You watch, you might laugh, you go home.
• I've seen the Ring. I didn't think the movie was very believable, because there is one scene where the woman is using a search engine to look for information on the internet and actually finds what she wants. That destroyed the realism of the film for me.
• Can I have those two minutes back? Please?
• I would rate Azumanga Daiou among the top five or six shows I've seen. (There's no accounting for taste and all...)
• Also, thanks for reminding me that Hollywood had remade Ringu. I should watch that one of these days.
• Too bad Ringu 2 is virtually incoherent. I quite enjoyed the first one in both Japanese and Hollywood versions.
• I enjoyed Ringu as well. Better than the Hollywood version.
• That was a lot of fun. The Mario bit was good stuff. Bonus points for defining terms for people who aren't into anime.
• none of that was grood for me....
• Great, now my boner is scary. Thanks alot.
• heehee...Sada-chan kawaii! Watched it three times in a row. This is great! Any more?
• Well, if you can read Japanese, you could search 2ch.net or 2chan.net for "sada-chan" or "sadako-tan". There are threads with elaborate ASCII-art scenarios, etc. See also this. Haven't found any other flash, though.