[Take Two!] November 12 – 18

Hey guys! Welcome back to Take Two! My official round-up post for the previous week. In case you’re new around here, this post essentially recaps last week’s posts among other gems found over the week onto one page!

PS. I highly recommend the Kotaku article listed in This Week’s Interesting Reads. I want to know what others think about this article. Use the page jumps below to navigate to it! 

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Thanks Tsukki for the segment introduction! Here’s my round-up of posts from last week:

• [ED]: Keshin no Kemono | Sunday Salutations: Continuing last week’s theme of Juuni Taisen I feature the ED and give some thoughts ahlkjhlkjs to a theory I have on the show based on the ED sequence.
• [KnB Challenge] Day 12 | Fave Coach: This should be no surprise, but there’s an extra coach shown for good measure.
• [KnB Challenge] Day 13 | Fave Seirin Member: I briefly touch on my favorite Seirin members and a close runner up.
• [KnB Challenge] Day 14 | Favorite Kaijo Member: Surprise! It can’t be Kise, so who else would be next?
• [KnB Challenge] Day 15 | Favorite Shutoku Member: I talk about my favorite Joker of the series who just happens to come from Shutoku
• [OWLS Blog Tour] The Guise of Diplomacy : Bungou Stray Dogs: It’s my turn to share my take on this Month’s blog tour for OWLS. I look at how Diplomacy was used as a guise for something more sinister in Bungou Stray Dogs.
• [KnB Challenge] Day 16 | Favorite Tōō Character: It’s not Ahomine, but close enough. Never trust character’s whose eyes are closed.
• Architecture of No. 6 : Points of Interest: I’m back with another No. 6 post! This time I look at a few other places around the city.
• [KnB Challenge] Day 17 | Favorite Yosen Member: I didn’t pick Murasakibara for first place, but you know, it’s another bishounen from that team!
• [KnB Challenge] Day 18 | Favorite Rakuzan Member: Akashi couldn’t be chosen for this, but well, this guy stood out to me from the get go also. I’m definitely a sucker for blondes!

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I’m going to do something a bit different here. I won’t just link anime related posts. I’m opening this up to gaming, architecture, art, anything I’ve found worthwhile on the internet! (I’ve crossed our architecture and art as I’m creating a new series on this subject matter since they’re not anime-related)

WordPress:

• My Top 8 Anime OSTs: I love OST’s and I love finding fellow audiophiles! So, go check out Ryuji’s list! A few of my favorites made the list, and I’m sure most of you will agree *cough*Haikyuu!*cough*
• What Does it Take to Get into Cosplay Photography: As someone that’s also a n00b to Cosplay Photography, I really enjoyed Kausus’ post on the subject matter!

Non-Wordpress:

• Streamer’s Hateful Rant Revives Debate About Women On Twitch: This popular streamer went on a misogynistic rant about how women were ruining Twitch. Some of the words and phrases are really uncalled for. Not that I’m ignoring the fact that he’s really butt hurt about it, but it does bring up a good point for females on Twitch, and what Twitch stands for. Yes, women are allowed to dress as they please, and so yes, they should be allowed to be as revealing as they want, but that’s a selling point right? Sex sells. But, does that take away from the streamer’s content? Does their lack of clothes make them lose credibility? While I don’t stand for name-calling by the streamer, I can see why some other points have gained traction.

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OWLS POSTS:

 

We are a group of otaku bloggers who promotes acceptance of all individuals regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion and disability. We emphasize the importance of respect, kindness, and tolerance to every human being.

Our November tour looks at the theme of “Diplomacy”. The prompt is as follows:

Whenever we have a disagreement with someone, we use our words to express our thoughts and opinions. However, there are those who would rather use fists instead of words, those who forget that being “right” isn’t the most important thing, and those who lose sight of compromising and acknowledging differences in opinion and belief. Diplomacy is an important skill and tactic that not many of us have or are able to utilize properly especially in “social media wars” for sensitive issues and anime discourse—we just express our opinions without really listening.

For this month’s prompt, we will be exploring some of the best negotiations scenes in pop culture media and discuss how effective these diplomatic moments are and what we can learn from them. We will also discuss why communication and listening are important traits to have and whether or not there are other means to enforce peace.Whenever we have a disagreement with someone, we use our words to express our thoughts and opinions. However, there are those who would rather use fists instead of words, those who forget that being “right” isn’t the most important thing, and those who lose sight of compromising and acknowledging differences in opinion and belief. Diplomacy is an important skill and tactic that not many of us have or are able to utilize properly especially in “social media wars” for sensitive issues and anime discourse—we just express our opinions without really listening. For this month’s prompt, we will be exploring some of the best negotiations scenes in pop culture media and discuss how effective these diplomatic moments are and what we can learn from them. We will also discuss why communication and listening are important traits to have and whether or not there are other means to enforce peace.

Here’s a list of those that went last week:

• Arria: Fight or Be Beaten in Street Fighting Manga “Holy Land”
• Zoe: Is Violence a Solution?: Yona of the Dawn
• KatSade: Harry Potter for Diplomat

And if you’re interested in joining us OWLS don’t hesitate to reach out and talk us via Twitter, Facebook, or the OWLS blog contact form, and check out our blog tour wrap up sessions over at YouTube.

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That just about covers my Take Two! topics and other related news this week! Thanks for reading! Have you seen other posts, pieces of news that I’d be interested? Let me know in the comments below! 🙂 And as always, thanks for reading!