*nervous sweating*
Feb. 1st, 2021 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI moved to a new apartment during the pandemic. Due to one thing and another (mainly the city of Philadelphia being hot garbage), I haven't been able to set up an internet connection. I have an unlimited data plan with my mobile network, so I use my phone as a hotspot, and it works fairly well. Unfortunately, the mobile network won't connect to my PlayStation 4, which means that I can't stream anything on my tv. I can use the HDMI cable for my drawing tablet to project my laptop onto the tv screen, but it's a hassle and doesn't look great to begin with.
This doesn't bother me, since I haven't been interested in movies or television recently, but it's been tough on my husband, who loves cooking shows and European football but hates watching things on a small screen. The obvious solution is to watch DVDs, but the only DVDs I own are anime. This is therefore what my husband has been watching for the past six months, and it shows. I wrote a short comic about this (here).
My husband was sad when we finished Azumanga Daioh, so we started watching Nichijou. He immediately got the opening song stuck in his head (to be fair, it's really catchy), and it blew his mind when I told him that the musician, Hyadain, uses voice modulation software to sing all the parts. My husband wanted to know if Hyadain has done anything else like this, so I told him about Super Mario Hyadain. If anything, this song is even catchier than the Nichijou OP, and I've caught my husband listening to it on his phone a few times.
So earlier today he said to me, "I never thought Bowser was in love with Peach, but I guess that makes sense. That's really sweet. Do you think anyone's ever written fanfiction about them?"
This doesn't bother me, since I haven't been interested in movies or television recently, but it's been tough on my husband, who loves cooking shows and European football but hates watching things on a small screen. The obvious solution is to watch DVDs, but the only DVDs I own are anime. This is therefore what my husband has been watching for the past six months, and it shows. I wrote a short comic about this (here).
My husband was sad when we finished Azumanga Daioh, so we started watching Nichijou. He immediately got the opening song stuck in his head (to be fair, it's really catchy), and it blew his mind when I told him that the musician, Hyadain, uses voice modulation software to sing all the parts. My husband wanted to know if Hyadain has done anything else like this, so I told him about Super Mario Hyadain. If anything, this song is even catchier than the Nichijou OP, and I've caught my husband listening to it on his phone a few times.
So earlier today he said to me, "I never thought Bowser was in love with Peach, but I guess that makes sense. That's really sweet. Do you think anyone's ever written fanfiction about them?"
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Date: 2021-02-02 11:06 am (UTC)I cackled for way too long over this. At 5:45am. No regrets.
Your husband is so sweet and amazing and I can't wait to hear about more of his anime adventures. Also I want to rewatch Azumanga Daioh - that was the good shit.
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Date: 2021-02-02 02:08 pm (UTC)Then again, I guess the target demographic for shows like Nichijou and Azumanga Daioh is in fact men in their forties.
He doesn't like "fighting and yelling anime," so I'm wondering what to give him next. Haibane Renmei maybe?
Idk, I just want people to get vaccinated. For many reasons, but also so we can have internet again and I no longer have to worry about which of my pirated DVDs of early-2000s anime about high school girls will appeal to my middle-aged conservative immigrant husband.
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Date: 2021-02-02 06:32 pm (UTC)Didn't Hyadain do "Ultros Boogie" too?
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Date: 2021-02-03 02:08 pm (UTC)Let me share with you an image I have had saved since at least 2004.
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Date: 2021-02-11 11:36 pm (UTC)