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I know haruka wants Kaizoku Sentai Goukaiger to go on forever and ever, but hopefully this will ease her into Tokumei Sentai Go-busters a bit, because OH WOW IT IS THE AWESOMENESS OF ALL THINGS AWESOME FOREVER.

Over on my main blog, I have posted comments on episodes fourteen and fifteen of Kamen Rider Decade.

Kobayashi Yasuko - is there anything she can't do? By rights, I should hate Den-O, but she can bring together all sorts of horrible ideas and make them amazing. Great, great, GREAT stuff.

On my main blog, I have posted comments on episode 10 and 11 of Kamen Rider Decade, as he encounters the really disinteresting alternate take on 555.

 In solidarity with websites such as Wikipedia, Reddit and Google, which will to various degrees modify their websites on January 18th in protest against the SOPA and PIPA legislation currently under consideration in the US, I have blacked out my main blog. If you visit it from now until midnight (USEST (4pm Thursday AEDST) on January 19th (aka., Wednesday night), you will see a simple message explaining this.

The next day, I will blog about why I did this.

Note that if you follow any links I have recently posted to my main blog from here on Dreamwidth, you will be taken to a blacked-out page.

Over on my main blog, I have adapted icysnowdrop 's Kamen Rider meme, but switched it to Super Sentai so I can actually answer the questions. :P

 On my main blog, I have just posted comments on my rewatch of Episodes 04 and 05 of Kamen Rider Decade. Very interesting stuff - Decade's story is getting complicated!

I am rewatching Kamen Rider Decade, and have posted comments on the first episode.

It really is so much better the second time!

So, in working out how best to tackle my massive toku watchlist, I figured I'd wipe the slate clean and watch from scratch.

To that end, I am breaking things into more manageable chunks. Specifically, in the case of Kamen Rider and Super Sentai, I am breaking them into "Original Era" and "New Era".

For Kamen Rider, the Eras are:

OE: Kamen Rider - > Kamen Rider Decade
NE: Kamen Rider Decade - > Kamen Rider Fourze

For Super Sentai, the Eras are:

OE: Himitsu Sentai Goranger - > Kaizoku Sentai Goukaiger
NE: Kaizoku Sentai Goukaiger - > Tokumei Sentai Go-busters

So I am kicking in again starting with the "new eras", and I plan to watch (or rewatch, where relevant) the "original era" series in order. The only real exception to how this will work is with Go-busters, as I want to get my head around the Metal Heroes franchise first; so there might be a bit of delay in when I watch that series.

Hiya, all.

Just a quick head's up - there is an Android application called Eljay, which is a client for LiveJournal-based sites. It includes built-in support for Dreamwidth (yaaaaay!) and it can do everything you might expect... except view your Reading page, because of Dreamwidth's unique friending/reading/subscription system.

But it is ideal for posting on the go, and very easy to use.

And, of course, it is FREE.

It is great to see DW getting more love in these sorts of apps. :)

Hi, gang!

So, 2012 is upon us. Believe it or not, I completed most of my goals for 2011! Here are my BROAD goals for 2012 - I don't go into too specific detail, as many of them cover private things. I'll likely make individual posts as these are achieved, and come back and cross them off here.

As always, I give myself January as a free month to start getting in the habit.

The one of interest to most people is last! :-)

1. Fulfill writing schedule
Meet all writing plans - this means writing an average of 8,400 words per week. Of utmost importance are meeting all PSP 20th Anniversary and AC writing commitments.

2. Travel to Japan
My current plan is to be in Japan for the release of the Super Hero War Kamen Rider / Super Sentai crossover movie, and to see it at the cinema. I also plan to be there on my birthday - but if for some reason I cannot be there for the movie, the August/birthday trip will be enough to meet this resolution.

3. Pay off credit card
I owe $3,300 on a credit card. I want that paid by December 31st.

4. Get a degree
I foolishly quit studying to be a teacher with one year to go. I may return to this, but regardless I want a Bachelor's degree of some sort by December 31st, or be on track for one (i.e., be in my final semester or study period on that date).

5. Don't let OCD or BIID affect work/social life
That means never turning down an invitation or failing to do something due to OCD or BIID. This also means never missing work due exclusively to them, either.

6. Moderate fast food eating
Every year I commit to giving up Vanilla Coke, but that, good sirs and dames, ain't ever gonna happen, and I accept that now. Instead, I will reduce my fast food eating to one "free pass" per week - meaning I can have it just because I want to once a week. Now, because of the way the world works, I can have it when socially appropriate - that is, if I'm out with friends who all want McDonald's for lunch, or something like that. For this purpose, fast food means McDonald's, KFC, Hungry Jack's, Red Rooster, pizza or fish and chips. The purpose here is to save money, not be more healthy.

6. Resume Japanese lessons
The aim of this is to pass the JLPT 3 in 2013.

7. Post more often
This means posting at least five days a week.

8. Live like a sentai!
This proves to be one of the hardest every year. I've long maintained that I strongly support the values and behaviours encouraged by Super Sentai, and that I intend to raise my kids according to them (they may or may not watch the show, but will be raised as though I was cultivating a future generation of sentai warriors). And over time, as much as I'd rather be a blue or a pink, I have come to accept that I am a yellow - and I need to behave as such.

I now automatically THINK like a yellow - I never consciously have to think "What would Luka/Moune/Kotoha/Tsubasa/et.al. do?" but behaving like one is a different matter entirely. Knowing what I should and want to do, and actually doing it, are two different things. So this year I need to make an extra special effort to keep this up (inasmuch as is socially acceptable - a yellow sentai hero would want to say things to my boss that would likely get me fired).

This doesn't mean emulating a favourite character - it means acting consistently on the values and beliefs that made me like a particular character in the first place.

So there we go. Comment and link me to your resolutions, if you have any. :)