(forgot me as well...)

Good luck in the future ;_____;

(lol @ raven)

OMG DRAMA ALERT!

"banned", lol it's a simple deletion, get over it. if in doubt (and if no clear reason was given), just ask the mods why it was deleted, and don't start such an offensive thread on impulse. and stop flaming the mods, "bots", whatever, it really gets annoying reading that

This post is quite lengthy - if you're going to read this, please be patient ^^; I hope everyone who watched Yakitate! Japan will read this, so they can share their thoughts on it as well.

It is strongly disadvised for those who haven't finished the anime to continue reading from here on as my post contains many OMG SPOILERS. Proceed at your own risk

So, I just finished watching all the episodes at once (with lots of intervals, of course), and I must say that I am not really satisfied with the ending. It was a beautiful show indeed, and I had anticipated it with lots of eagerness when I read in the manga that an anime was in the making. Back then I only had read it until the Monaco Cup so I didn't know what would be coming next. As I am abiding to rule 7, not to watch anime until the series is completed, I waited until an ending was in sight to watch it.

Yakitate! Japan somehow reminds me of a badly prepared essay.
During the essay, you write down the main subject and at first it's splendid. But at a certain point, new ideas flow into your mind and you suddenly think of adding them, as it would positively upgrade your essay. You will take time doing that; you will waste your time on explaining irrelevant things and foolishly think that you'll still make it in time.

At first it works out, but after some time you'll notice that you don't have much time left BUT you can't go back and erase everything, it's already too late. So with the time pressure, all you think about is to finish your essay, without caring about the quality. In the end you managed to finish to scribble it down, and you're glad and confident you'll pass.

Of course, the professor/judge will appreciate the detailed way you described things in between the brackets, but he'll definitely let you fail, why? Because your ending literally sucked. It's obvious, no?

It's basically the same with Yakitate! Japan. Everything was fine until the Monaco Cup. But Yakitate 9 was something that just couldn't have happened in so few episodes, the concept was too far fetched and you could tell that the last episodes were amazingly rushed. Especially the last episode, which I just finished watching 5 minutes ago, ended way too fast. Nothing against open endings, I mean, if the show actually had ended at the Monaco Cup, everything would have been okay. After that it was just the usual Dragon Ball effect: stronger opponents keep popping up, even more amazing breads are made, and then the ultimate bread appears! And the next episode, there's an even more ultimate bread than that! And so on.

Anyway, I'd like to draw the attention to the unusual number of episodes we're having with Yakipan: 69. (no. it's definitely NOT what you think, baka ) Usually, anime series are laid out such that they can fill a season or two. If aired every week, they'll be either 12/13 (three months), 26 (half a year), 52 (a whole year), and so on. Of course there are exceptions, but this unwritten rule is what most anime producers stick to. As Yakipan clearly doesn't follow that rule (even with the double episodes), the number of episodes could have been a variable then. With that in mind, there wasn't really a need to set such a short deadline (unless the cost of the production or the drop of interest by the masses triggered this decision).

Hence, from the start of Yakitate! 9 on, they accelerated the pace. One match per episode already is quite straining, but they really had to make things even more difficult with their long recaps at the start of the episodes - some were 3 minutes long! I mean, half a minute is okay, considering that the episodes aired only every week (while I watched everything at once), but 3 minutes were way too much! They summarize the whole episode - why? If you missed the previous ep, then it's your own fault; record it or buy the DVDs later on! Many anime don't even have that, so it's for all intents and purposes an useless feature which wastes precious time. Take the recap time from all the episodes; I haven't checked them all, but if it hadn't been for those, 2 whole episodes and even more could have been gained to properly conclude the anime.

Episode 67: "We're just shortening things. Nobody wants to see the travel scenes anyway." Of course, if you need to have lots of plot to finish the tournament at 69, you need all the time you can get (though, let's think of the recaps...) No problem. Suddenly, What the!?!?

Episode 68: A whole episode dedicated to Kuroyanagi's reaction! It's nice to see a parody of LOTR and it's definitely worth a laugh, but it's BORING after a few minutes. It was so freaking annoying to see how they wasted their precious animation time for such a worthless thing. My hopes of having a long and interesting final shrunk dramatically.

Episode 69: No introduction. We're immediately in the finals, place and ingredients? Oh, just side notes from Tsukino. Meister Kirisaki? Oh, yea, he's awesome. Erm... Azuma? Already kneading, no, baking the bread? Holy, that was fast! How did you do that? No time to explain! In less than 5 minutes the bread was done and there we go, reaction. That's what 69 episodes of Yakipan boil down to: Japan completed in 5 minutes and noone knows how. The bread's there, it's as easy as that! Kuroyanagi's and Pierrot's explanations were too short - argh! The same concept gets boring as well, especially when always concentrating on the reactions, that's why they should have stopped at the Monaco Cup. Even the most elusive play of words gets boring after a while.

In the end, to put it very bluntly, the ending just sucked. An anime of such a greatness shouldn't have deserved to be finished like that and I'm honestly very disappointed how the show got ruined like that. It had potential to become one of the best anime, but it's now second-class. Not trash, but not high-class. Like the essay that fails. And there's nothing that can be done anymore, a second season would make things even worse. Not even Azuma can fix this, unfortunately.

I'd still recommend the show to other people though After all, you won't see many anime about bread-making, so... :P

(I'd so like to see an OVA with only Tsukino, Mizuno, Sophie and Monica in swimsuits though... )
~neko

Quote by somebodyelseEdit 2: I got a fix for you! I rock!

Indeed you rock!
Well I didn't imagine that the answer would be that easy - Some friends in the #minitokyo IRC channel actually figured out so much with the Category in the Skin builder but I didn't want to experiment around too much since I thought that I'd need to reupload everything when using the skin builder. Not that I can't upload, but I accidentally deleted the files off my comp (I don't even know when that happened) and to get them off my own userpage would have been too much of a hassle for me since I'm so lazy '

So, thank you very much somebodyelse for your fast and accurate answer ^^ I appreciate it very much.
On another note I'd like to apologize if my first post was a bit too offensive - I was a bit tired and irritated yesterday and since I still am not convinced of MT v3 I felt like letting out steam here. Thanks for your patience Hopefully the admins can provide a solution to everyone else or people need to know about this trick.

Good, now I can go back to walling without worries Keep genki!
~neko

Well I got this slight problem that I've been using my own skin (http://nekosasu.minitokyo.net) for over half a year if not longer and everything worked out without problems - I could freely browse with my skin and all.
Now, the thing with the elite gallery - I just wanted to check it out a bit so I went to skin options and enabled it. I can't say anything about it yet because! There's a problem! Instead of keeping the old skin, my skin, it just took the first off the list and ta-da, instead of my blue skin I now have a black skin!

No problem, I thought, and went back to select my own skin again. BUT! It isn't in the list anymore, and yes I already searched for it on the page source. It's not there. I wonder why >.>
I won't jump to conclusions now because, well, MTv3 has a whole myriad of problems so anything can happen. But anyways, I want to be able to select my own skin again!

There is no reason why I can't continue using it to browse MT so I'd be very grateful if someone could fix that issue, thank you very much in advance.

I suggest that, on the skin page, the option "member made skin" should have "use current skin" as the first entry so something like that won't happen to other people again...

EDIT: Oh I actually noticed that if you have a listed skin it won't change... so mine either disappeared from the list or it got deleted. I mean I don't get any notifications and all about that so nothing should have happened...? Why isn't it in the list? My userpage skin still exists so I should be able to freely select it! This is a waste of time, great and now if I get told to reupload everything... Thanks.

First off, knowledge of clean and correct English is a MUST to even anticipate the thought of trying to become a moderator. Your chances seem very low

Happy bday lilax-chan, i've already written in your guestbook but i can't tell it enough
(because you did it many many times too in IRC for my bday last week, thanks again )
Best wishes, and keep genki!
~neko

meh, my bday is already over (and noone noticed :P)...
bleh gotta save up the money
but then again i still need to get back to anime... ^^;
merry christmas everyone

Yep! I am older today! weee ^^ 19 years old now. Great feeling, lol
Like last year, I bet noone would have thought of creating a thread (or a wallpaper... wishes) for me so I'll just go ahead and make myself a bit noticeable to the unknown people :P
Yea, sometimes, on days like this, even I have to be an attention whore x.X

So, what will I do today... Hmm... Not much. As far as I can recall it, last year definitely was more fun, and I can already tell after 3 hours (it's 3 AM atm). It would be miraculous to have a better time today. There were so many ppl accessible back then, lots of friends I went to do some karting with, then eating a huge delicious pizza, awesome.
Today, it seems like many ppl are "busied" out. Nevertheless, there might be some 3-4 people coming around in the evening, having a drink at local pub and then goodbye. But... oh well I didn't plan to do big celebrations this year anyways so that's fine by me ^^ I hope that I'll get some cake though or I'ma go and steal one, darnit xD

Oh and since this is a good occasion I'm wishing you guys Merry Christmas in advance, because it might be very improbable that I'll check around here on that day-- meh.

Okay, thanks for your attention people, and remember, always keep genki!
~neko

bwahaha... 19... 'tis the last year I can call myself a teen...

Likkun: You're right. Galaxy Angel Beta is merely a different name for the US release of the GA 2nd manga, afaik. Apricot does make an appearance in the Di Gi Charat comic book (i love the apricot promo card ), but I don't know if GA 2nd picks those chapters up.

Hell it's been so long since I first created this thread... my GA hype sorta went down a bit ^^; but then again
TLTw804! Do you have a Din A3 scanner or what? ;_; Or how did you scan that poster in? Cuz scanning a A3 poster on a A4 scanner is quite difficult, and the quality... Well there's always the possibility to clean a scan but I'm so lazy

okay, that's all. i might redirect you guys to the Galaxy Angels group, it's still up and running though I'm away most of the time ^^; a'ight i'm off to translate some GA :3
keep genki!
~neko

oiisu minna~ ^^

it's been a long time since i did something on this page... haaa mt3... neways.
since a few menue colors still aren't customizable and my old futakoi skin bored me out, i simply created a new one. darker, and cleaner. well that's about everything to say about it lol

one thing though, menue/table header pics still are quite bleh, need to work on them tomorrow maybe

oh now that i think of it, i put my name on the skin, so... hmm... if anyone wants to use it but wants to see his/her nick instead of mine there, just ask me. i might put your name instead (i'd credit myself somewhere on the skin though, ne )

allright. that's all, i hope you'll enjoy this skin. feedback always is welcome arigatou
keep genki!

~neko

ps: and i might finish my (insert random number here) walls someday, so i could finally submit something after so much idling... but then again i need to make a new sig argh so busy/lazy

ps2: http://nekosasu.minitokyo.net
great, posting info about my userpage and not putting a link to it, wooooo (there's always my sig image link though :P)

ps3: LAST ONE NOW. how come the very thin slices below aren't repeated...? unfixed bug or what

Quote by PrydeyWoah yay! Nicely drawn she is. Anyway i gotta question, in the Galaxy Angel's comic, i buy the english version, and how come it stopped at 5, then they said in the book that there would be a change in publishers or sumthing? When is no. 6 coming out? O.o lol i'm not very sure wtf thats about...

Well the manga has been published by Broccoli Books until now, right? I think it's gonna stay like that in the US. In Japan though, they did change publishers; it's now JIVE Ltd. who's taking on the job. (i guess, i think i read that in some news a few months ago )

Seems like GA 2nd is now coming out in the US, tehee... It'll have a different name though, namely GA Beta. Whatever... ^^;; For more information, simply check http://www.broccolibooks.com

great. clervaux is not in their database, so lame ;_; they only have the capital city of my country, blaaaaah
added me nevertheless ^^ i'm still a rarity after all

Quote by XianPuYou know, the trolls that came in here to flame him for creating this thread are as bad, if not worse than the guy that created this thread whining about things. I'm pretty damn sure that he knows that it's their site and they can do what they want, how they want. Do we really need someone to point that out? Yeesh. And for the flamers in here, do you feel better now that you've 'decimated' someone, now that you've put them down because they had a differing view? Oh! Oops, this person makes threads that are already in existence?
Well, surely your mother taught you better ways to deal with things like this. It's called manners. After he calmed down, he showed that he had some. Why don't the members do the same in kind? Damn people...

funny and paradox.

netiquette always applies anywhere on mt (at least let's try to believe so) except spam lounge. so, whenever writing a complaint, proper english and mature capsize control is the key to success. you know, it's always nice to have freedom of speech, but let's not try and abuse it.
obviously, the creator of this post never learnt that, and thus created something absolutely illegible, which one might associate to a child's screaming because someone stole his lollipop.
given the fact that average age of all the users on this page lies above, let's say, 16, something like that is perceived as highly immature and completely unnecessary, and, of course, will be reprimanded, mostly even flamed. no offense, but that is highly justified.
if you aren't happy with what people reply to the thread creator, don't read it. it's his/her own fault to be immature like that. invalid accusations always get the sack.

instead of wasting people's time, why not take a break and play a bit with sand... can be relaxing, at times. haven't tries that yet, though. hell you even already posted captain obvious ;_;

life is hard ;_;

Quote by MinatoDespite managing to sound moroni- I mean, childish- he does have a good point. We should all just calm down and wait for the moderators to sort things out...

Someone who understands me ^^
Good, now let's be serious. Acting all shitty was only to draw the attention (yet again) on the fact that there is no hacker on this website, unless the mods do an official announcement about this matter. So, there was NO reason at all to post this in the suggestion forum, it'd rather have been more appropriate to put this thread into the Spam Lounge, there it wouldn't have mattered this much. Understood? Good, now let's all be happy again. The least that MT would have needed now was a hysteria and panic wave based on some random assumption, because most users already are quite brought up by the new 10-fav rule, etc etc.

EternalParadox, don't get me wrong. You sure cared about my flaming pic (my bad), but not about the real meaning of it all. Read what I just wrote now, you'll hopefully understand. Anyways, I hope everyone calmed down now. Keep genki!
~neko

:3 i so love posting flame images on idiots... blah anyways

There is NO hacker on MT just KEEP quiet!

only the images servers are down, allright? This is NOT the first time it happens so please HAVE SOME PATIENCE

........ this is not the first time that images have been down and stuff.

just stfu the big one and don't start an hysteria. if this gets out of hand you'll be banned, so keep it shut and ask those questions to a mod through the Support Inquiry because noone except them know about it. users just make assumptions and spread false word- just keep quiet and things will solve by themselves kthxbye

Guys, get a clue. "When in rome, do as the Romans do."
If you are not satisfied, the exit door is on your left side. www.disney.com www.google.com etc. Farewell.

How many times does one have to repeat, favs do NOT prove anything near of the quality of a wall, because lately YOU guys throw your favs around on some random friend's wall because "zomg cute character +fav" or "i love you my friend etc your wall isn't that great but since i heart you here your +fav". How about a constructive comment once in a while??

Really, these days you guys are ticking me off. "*whine* I wanted to fav his/her/its work but I couldn't I cried in his/her/its guestbook because I am so sorry I couldn't fav teh 10 rule sux0rz the big one!!111" Proves of maturity deluxe.

I guess it would be best to just screw the favorites rule and to disable them, so you guys can shut the heck up with your whining. Only comments and REAL feedback would matter. And highlights would be manually picked up, as Sheqel said.

Cry somewhere else, will ya.
~neko

Quote by DayBreakCorrection, half of the population of MT is pretty much filled with noobs.
And im not much of a sweet tooth @_@

absolutely true.

anyways, welcome back candy-chan ^^ ca en fait un bail
--> irc? :3

Quote by tetsuo211Now that is so wrong.... games are games, how can people say that games influence people to do stupid things. It's just a game.... what are they going to ban next... rock music???? These people are really stupid to believe that a game a can be the route of all this crap. I'll send Akira after them, then they'll have something to talk about... hehehehehehe!!!!

and another one bites the dust... man didn't you notice it's a fake site? hell!

there's an image of tequila in my megami magazine. i don't feel like scanning it in though...
ah it's that pink-haired girl in the background on that GA II page. that's tequila.

Also in my megami magazine is a picture of Kazuya... well it's more like a draft. but there are already some in-game screenshots where you can see his colored avatar

otanjoubi omedetou gozaimasu cy-kun!! haven't seen you very often on irc lately... hope you're doing well ^^
well, keep genki, ne *hands cy a special milfeulle cake* X3
~neko

Hayaya gomen for the late reply... I just came back from my trip in Portugal, and... argh i'm so tired from these 24 hours of traveling... anyways here we go

1. Nationality: Originally Portuguese (both my parents are), but since 3 years I am Luxembourgish now (for the sole reason that I don't want mandatory army service)

2. Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius, Dec 21th was a close call xD i was born at 6 pm, dunno if that changes something haha

3. Anime or manga character that would portray me best: That I dunno... i'm trying to keep a genki and carefree (ookiraku gokuraku xD) mentality like Milfeulle, but... I'm still a bit too serious for that. Hmm... Keitaro Urashima (from Love Hina) would be a good example.

4. My anime or manga Idol: milfeulle sakuraba xd

5. Suki na tabemono: Many things... but 1st is Pizza! and Sushi! (haven't eaten sushi much, but i LOVE it)

6. Country I would go to: Japan. Definitely.

5. Someone special here at MT: Who knows... nah, not yet

6. Self-description: Confused guy who doesn't know what he wants recently. Generally shy guy, not very talkative with strangers. carefree when relaxed, ironic and sarcastic when challenged. tends to exaggerate with justifications. tolerant, but sometimes consequent. optimistic. sensible. sometimes a bit perverted, as expected from a male. doesn't go out very often because lack of friends and driving license. loves experiencing new things, argh so many things... important: i love writing lots. did you notice? xd

7. What would your Ideal soul mate be like: I always say, Milfeulle Milfeulle... my soul mate really doesn't have to be exactly like her, though... lol
anyways i guess adjectives work best here: fun and joyful (smiling, laughing, experimenting, or simply messing around) but also mature and responsible (who can face life seriously), caring and understanding (listening to each other's worries, comforting), earnest (no secrets), loyal and respecting (i despise those who aren't) sportive (sport and stuff), sensual (mmmh). asian (unyaa~ ^^; ), i don't really care about the looks, though still... *sigh* sharing the same interests? of course!
lots and lots of things... that's too much to ask ;_; oh, important: Someone who doesn't smoke and doesn't do drugs is essential to make neko happy.

8. Daredevil when it comes to matters of love: no, what do you expect from a virgin basically no love experience at all. Only met up with a girl once, so... :/ I know I would be very loyal and trusty in a relationship though... (that is because my dad sees other women and thus betrays me, my mum, and my whole family... that's so disgusting, the best thing is, he has no regrets at all! And that's not everything about him, but this already goes out of public concern... I never saw such a retarded and mindless person. I really feel ashamed being his son...
I saw how much suffering such actions bring to anyone... I don't ever want this to happen again. I swore to myself never to betray any person I will ever be together with)

9. How would I treat someone special to me: I'd do everything for that person (and I hope it's reciprocal)

10. Llikes and dislikes: Name it all you say... I wouldn't finish in even one week, lol... j/k
saa... i like: Anime/Manga/Computer, Music (lots of j-music and anime osts; I play electric guitar) Sport (soccer the most), Winter (snow and snowboard <3 ), Japan (language, culture, everything!), blue, orange, and contrasts, downloading, chatting, staying up late, singing (only when alone or intimate... thanks shyness) argh so many things yet again, i better just leave it like this.

i dislike: injustice, arrogance, egoism and racism. betrayal. people who never listen to one's talk. liars. in short, bad qualities. ppl who bite their nails. cigarettes and drugs. waking up early. waiting for the computer to stop freezing my applications (thanks windoze). getting old. summer (don't misunderstand. i just mean, the extreme heat, and all those redundant insects... flies, mosquitos, eek!)

11. Top 5 anime favs: 1. Galaxy Angel (of course ) 2. o_o; nothing really comes into my mind now... NGE? Futakoi? Kannazuki no Miko? Naruto (rofl)? damn... blah! El Hazard was nice, Trigun too. X as well, meeeh.... my memory is leaking ;_;

took me so much time to complete this... as always... first i say something, then i add something new, then edit here and there, and again something new...
people might think i am taking this too seriously... well maybe i am too ^^; nyo. gotta go sleep now, it's nearly 3 am now... omg i'm dying
keep genki minna! ~neko