Madonna the Otaku?

Okay, so, everyone knows of Madonna, fan or not of her music. The news is a bit old, and I've speculated over it for quite some time, but I just felt like finally posting a little random blurb on this.

There's been quite a few rumors about Madonna being an otaku-of course, an anime fan-particularly about Death Note. While there hasn't been any picture of her reading the manga or watching the anime or anything like that (at least to my knowledge), nor do I think that she has she confirmed or denied the rumors, she did come out with this music video called "Jump." I don't listen to her music a whole lot, but regardless of the rumors, I do find this song to be rather catchy, and the whole layout of the video overall is pretty sweet (freerunners for the win!) I think the song at least came out in 2005-2006...too lazy to do the research right now, but yeah. Here it is.



Set in Japan with signs all around written in hirigana, katakana, and kanji? And the outfit. The hair. All I can say is...'nuff said.

Looks pretty similar to another particular blond from the Death Note novels that lives on in the hearts of fans worldwide, ne? -_^ Now all she needs is a chocolate bar. XD There's even speculation that the car at 1:21 is a blue version of the red muscle car that Mello's partner Matt drives in his short but touching death scene towards the end of the anime, during the whole Takada kidnapping scene.

(And please excuse the posting of an entire video [no matter how short it is...believe it or not though, this and another clip that lasts for only a few seconds are the only times that Matt is seen in the anime, yet he has one of the biggest character fanbases...probably because gamers win XP] for something so minute, but I couldn't find the shot of where the whole car is shown right before he dies.)



But anywho! All of this being just a coincidence?

I think not. XD

I rest my case.

Sooo far behind! But Hetalia ftw and...PASTAAA!

Wow! I haven't posted in like...forever. I've got a lot of stuff to cover, so bear with me and I'll probably get things out gradually (if I'm not too distracted by World of Warcraft, NaNoWriMo, or just being plain lazy.)

Alright, first off! I'll start with the blog's usual dosage of anime. It would seem that Puppet-chan (among others) has gotten me into this new anime. It's kind of on the cute side, the episodes (with my experience) can only be found online, they're only an estimated five minutes long or so, and they're not dubbed yet. But it's pretty humorous and a fun way of seeing history and culture with countries of the world being literally personified, somewhat through history and culture and somewhat through stereotype. And along with friendships and rivals and siblings and such between countries, I believe there are even characters that are 'divorced' due to the countries having a history of dividing with each other.

This anime I speak of is called Hetalia.

I'll be honest, I haven't really gotten too far into it-only the first several episodes-but that's more so due to time constraints and such more than anything. I have seen amusing clips of later episodes. The series starts off with Italy and the Holy Roman Empire, and then sort of breezes through the first world war in the first few episodes and moves on to focus on the second (which I think is actually much longer than the first world war, partially due to so many different new countries [America! XD And Russia and Japan...] making their debut.

So anyway, I can give a link to the site that I've been watching them on, but I think I'll actually do that a bit later. For now (and at least as long as it's on before youtube takes it down -.-;; ), here is episode one!