Who needs alchemy to create a human: solution

A while back I shared a brain teaser that seemingly can create 13 men out of 12 by shuffling the body parts. The trick to unlocking this mystery is to notice that the picture with the 13 men has each man missing a different horizontal slice of a complete body.

You can smarten your mind and your skirts if you’re motivated.

I would so seriously lose any ability to care 2+2=4 had I been a high school student in Japan.

Ah, I see clearly how 2+2=4 now. :p

I’m a loser in love.

How sad is that to be rejected by a pool of people who have already lowered their standards. Was it because I stated I have recently been converted to Haruhiism?

That really stinks.

Who needs alchemy to create a human

12 or 13 men?

How many men do you see?

Are you sure?

Now, watch carefully as I, The Neko Alchemist, will perform the ultimate taboo in alchemy and transmute before your very eyes 13 men out of the 12.

P.S. I will reveal the “Philosopher’s Stone” in a few days.

P.P.S. The explanation of this puzzle is here.

Bleach (manga) 354: Espada 00

I'm expecting the other 0 to show up on his other shoulder soon.

Holy crap! What a ripoff from Gundam 00?! Now we have an Espada 0. I wonder if Yammy will get quadruple reiatsu output once he features the other 0 on his other shoulder.

Bleach (manga) 350: WTF?!

My first reaction when I saw Ichigo in this form was

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!

Umm… In a good way, that is.

Casshern Sins 24 (end): What is Life Without Death

Having been raised in the Christian atmosphere most of my life, I’ve always been taught that death is an unnatural thing in the grand design of God. It had no place in The Garden of Eden). Death is merely the unnatural result of our great, great, great, …, grandfather’s sin. Eventually, one day when God will return to take his people to heaven, there will be no death but eternal life, eternal bliss, and eternal fellowship with each other.

Bleach (manga) 349: The Return of Hollow Ichigo

Bleach (manga) 342: Death to Ichigo!

Why won't you die already?!

Watching this scene reminds me of the scene from the movie Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me where a character (Robin Swallows) was stabbed in the back, shot by machine guns, blasted by a missile in the face, fell off a high-rise (and landed as a cushion for Austin Powers), dragged behind a car—all that but yet still won’t die.

Ride Back 1: when dreams fall

when one dream falls down

Perhaps it’s too early to talk about theme, but here is a girl, Rin Ogata, whose injury to her leg has rendered her dream as a ballerina ruined, finds unexpectedly another pair of legs that opens up to her an entirely new world larger than any she has ever dreamt of before. The image of her standing not with her own feet on the ground but rather on the wheels of the robot with her own legs merely hanging on the side suggests a picture a crippled person with her crippled part replaced with something far better, for a purpose far greater.

Yes, you can!

I never fully understood what then-President-Elect, now-President-inaugurated Obama meant by

Yes, you can!

until I saw this:

Yuko Ogura on the cover of WPB edition 2/2/09

Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou 1: Where’s the shade of gray?

Summer then winter, white then black. Too bad the theme does not follow suit.

The problem I find with this first episode is the lack of middle ground in the characterization. On one extreme the Lord (the black Nyanko) was way too sacrificial in his devotion to befriending mankind while on the other extreme the lynch mob of lesser Youkai’s was too eager to turn an ugly face the moment a slightest wind of treachery blew.

Doesn’t this also go against the common belief that power corrupts and therefore the more powerful Ayakashi should be more evil than the lesser Youkai’s?

Akikan! 2: Not just about virgin’s juice (NSFW?)

If you think this line is hot, you've gotta hear what she says next.

Oh my goodness, Akikan! continues to deliver lines after lines that make me giggle shamelessly like a lecherous old man. Nearly every damn lines in this show have a double meaning—juice, melon, penis waking up, and I don’t know Japanese but I bet those “baseball terms” Melon uttered must have been some kind of wordplay on the kanji. In any case, I nearly blew my own juice onto my laptop as I was watching the baseball scene. (What? I ordered a super-sized cup of half-tea, half-coffee beverage from Chinatown.)

Akikan! 1: possible Kannagi in the making

Ok, now I know I have a perverted mind.

I’m not sure why there’s so much negative reaction toward the start of this show, but isn’t Akikan! starting out in similar fashion to Kannagi, which most people seem to love?