Posted inFirst Impressions Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai Series Introduction

Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai – 01

(Sekai wa Ai de Ugoiteiru)
"The World Runs on Love"

It's a bit unusual to see Manglobe take on a series that can easily come off as a high school harem series, but that's exactly the what we have with "The World God Only Knows". The only other series they led the production for with character designs even close to the ones seen here was Seiken no Blacksmith.

Posted inFirst Impressions MM!

MM! – 02

(Nitamono Doushi no Disutansu)
"The Distance Between Similar People"

Sufficed to say, I definitely wasn't expecting interesting character background and development in this series, but this episode pleasantly surprised me.

Posted inFirst Impressions Series Introduction Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru

Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru – 01

& (Shifuku no Mise Before & After)
"Fortune Cafe Before & After"

Maid outfits? Maid training? Maid JUTSU? From the amazing people at SHAFT, the company who has brought us some of my favorites such as Mahoromatic and Bakemonogatari, comes Soredemo Machi Wa Mawatteiru. A quirky comedy, filled with gags, jokes, and some really weird character designs.

Posted inMiscellaneous Random Musings

Random Musings – Changing Web Hosting

  • As I'm sure all our regular readers are aware of by now, the site's been down since Wednesday afternoon. I've had a bunch of people contact me about it already by e-mail and on my MAL page and had no ETA on when I would get things back up. Well after working on the issue for the better part of the past three days, I'm happy to announce that Random Curiosity is back up and ready to go.
  • Long story short, my web host suddenly pulled the plug on me with no warning, forcing me to find an a new provider. With the help of Mentar from Eclipse, I was able to get things up and running much quicker than I was anticipating, so a big thank you goes out to him for helping RC out both past and present. If you're seeing this post, it means the updated DNS records have already propagated to your machine and you're already on the new server.
  • Migrating the site over and re-uploading all the content took the longest time, but I ran into a few hiccups with the server-side configuration and had to spend long hours sorting them out as well. Aside from the time lost blogging-wise and significantly more expensive cost, I think the downtime and money invested is worth it in the long-run. Gone are the days of sharing CPU and only having ~700MB RAM, as the site now resides on a dedicated server with an Intel i7 920 quad core, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and dual 1TB drives in RAID-1. What that should translate to is a much faster loading site and possibly even a Random Curiosity forum in the future.
  • In terms of the blogging backlog, I asked the other writers to continue working on posts offline, so there has been some progress even while the site's been down. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for myself since I've been working endlessly to get the server back up, so it'll take me a while to get through my shows. Regardless, you can probably expect a huge influx of posts in the upcoming days. Personally, I'm a bit drained from working on all this server stuff, so I won't be posting anything until tomorrow. Thank you for your patience and understanding.