The Kawaii Menace

Paya-tan

It’s time for a fresh poll. Which creature¹ from recent anime would you most like to see as a plushie? Some of the candidates might be unfamiliar to some visitors here. Paya-tan/Dark Paya (two phases of the same character) is the “crazy and cute” mascot from Dai Mahou Touge, an underappreciated series recommended to those who like their humor black. The mojos are Isako’s helpers in Denno Coil.

As far as I know, none in the poll are yet available in soft and fuzzy form, though there is a President Aria “money box.”

Dark Paya

Mojos

Beelzenef

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I lost interest in the anime Spice and Wolf, but I do like the neo-Renaissance soundtrack. Here’s “Mada Minu Machi he.”

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The most impressive magical gift of the sailor senshi is their ability to sprint while wearing high heels. It turns out that some ordinary humans also run in stiletto heels. Why, I don’t know. See also the Ukrainian army.

1. Beelzenef, strictly speaking, isn’t a creature but a hand puppet, but it has more presence than Nekozawa does. [↩]

Visitors here have declared Microsoft to be more evil than Sony, 19 to 14.

There’s a new poll up.

By a vote of eleven to zero, readers here declared Dolores Umbridge to be more loathsome than Bellatrix Lestrange. I have a new poll up in the sidebar now: which is more evil, Microsoft or Sony?

Let’s see if I can make a poll.