Kuroko no Basket 1 & 2 (2012-2014)

I know of the anime Kuroko no Basket for the past months but only this summer I decided to watch this anime. I'm not a basketball fanatic. The reason why I watched this anime is because of the encouragement and the good review that my cousin shared to me. I began to be curious while he's talking about some scenes of this anime and eventually watched it. I watched this anime while there's a NBA championship going on. Most of the people are cheering for either San Antonio Spurs or Miami Heat. I'm cheering for Seirin on the other hand.

I like how the tandem of Kuroko Tetsuya and Kagami Taiga works. Their skills and the way they play basketball. Kuroko's vanishing drive and Kagami's high jump. I like Kise Ryota and the way he calls his friends, adding the suffix of "-chi" after his friends' names. My favorite player from the Generation of Miracles is Aomine Daiki. I really like how he plays and the way he can easily trick his opponent's on the court. Well, so much for the like part. Although there are some parts that can't be done in reality (for example, Kuroko's pass and vanishing drive), the anime never fails to amaze me and gives me thrills on Seirin's plays - on how they will win over a strong opponent with a member of Generation of Miracles as part of the opponent's team.

Anyway, at the last episode of season two, I expected that things will work out at the end - that Seirin will eventually win over Yosen. I also expected to watch the championship of the Winter Cup but sadly to say, the anime ended at Seirin winning against Yosen. I was expecting to see that Seirin will be playing against Rakuzan High wherein they'll be playing against Akashi, the captain of the so called "Generation of Miracles". In order for me to know the events against Rakuzan, I need to read the manga.

The Spectacular Now (2013)

The Spectacular Now was a movie recommendation by my friend Tonio last year. He told me that he enjoyed watching this movie and that there are some lessons that you can pick up while watching the scenes. Hearing his words, I became curious about what The Spectacular Now is all about. I began to read the pdf version because of curiosity. One day, while I was on my favorite bookstore, I happen to saw a copy of the its book. I immediately encourage my dear mother to buy that book for me, saying that it's a rare thing to have a copy of that book. I had a hard time looking for a hard copy at the bookstores. I don't want to read the story in a soft copy after all.

The Spectacular Now is about Sutter Keely who believes that we should all live in the present. Enjoy every moment and its opportunity. I think he's like a happy-go-lucky guy who doesn't think much about his future plans. The thing I like about him is that he's friendly and compassionate. He loves helping people out and he can easily make friends around different bunch of people. He's not that a bad influence after all.

About Aimee Finecky, Sutter Keely's girlfriend, I like how she handled Sutter at his worst. I like how calmly she talked to him and cares for him. Sutter is really a lucky guy to have Aimee as a girlfriend. Also, Aimee's interests are interesting and it can help her to stand out on people.

To tell the truth, I just don't like that sex scene. It seems out of place at the movie, even though you can see that they love each other much.

At the movie, I can see that it's a typical American teenage life but talks about life. I like how the movie tackles about living in the present by the role of Sutter Keely. It sure is important to live in the moment and enjoy life at the present. Yet, we should always be reminded that having plans for the future will help ourselves be on the right track and can also help us to live life the fullest. Also, helping people is a great thing. We may never know that there will be an unexpected great thing that will come to us as we help people.

This is the first time that I like and prefer the movie more than the book.

By the way, here's my favorite quote from the movie. It's a friendly reminder to all of us:

"Stuff's always happen. And the real challenge of my life, the real hardship, is me. It's always been me. It's always I can remember to not be afraid. Afraid of failure, having people down, hurting people, getting hurt. But if I kept my guard up and focus on other things like other people. If I couldn't feel it then no harm could come to me. I screwed up. I didn't know that I shut up the pain, I shut up everything. Good and the bad, till there was nothing. It's fine living in the now, but the best part of the now is there's another one tomorrow. And I'm starting to make it count."

Lupin III VS. Detective Conan (2009)

I already heard about this movie, but today was just the day that I decided to watch this. I heard some comments from Facebook friends that they enjoyed watching this movie. Perhaps it's now my time to watch this. After all, I'm having a lazy Saturday afternoon right now.

I like how the concept of fusing two famous anime of all time in one special movie. I do hope that they'll make more and hopefully this time Conan will be chasing over Lupin after a robbery or something. The comedy and also the action was exciting and makes the movie interesting and worthwhile.