Interview with Omisyth

The last blog­ger inter­view for a while is here, since I am now out of ori­ginal ques­tions. (We don’t want kyoanic inter­views after all, do we). Omisyth! The Brit­ish man of the anib­lo­go­sphere, one of the fewer blog­gers I read even tl;dr, and… OK, just read.

Gar­g­ron: What do you think is your strength, and what are your weak points when blogging?

Omisyth: I think my strength is to be able to under­stand dif­fer­ent points of view on the same sub­ject. I occas­sion­ally dis­agree with oth­ers’ points of view, but I at least under­stand where they’re com­ing from. Unless I don’t like them. In which case everything they write is wrong.

Gar­g­ron: Is anib­log­ging a drug for you, as it is for Digit­al­boy?

Omisyth: I thought it would be, but I just haven’t found much stim­u­la­tion for writ­ing these days. I still love anime but I’m less and less inclined to write about it. I’m not going to be declar­ing a “hiatus” or any­thing like that. If I write, I write. If I don’t, I don’t. Digiboy’ll be writ­ing till the end of time though. Such is the POWER of PASSION.

Gar­g­ron: Recently you have lis­ted Top 10 Anime Fet­ishes, but what are your per­sonal ones?

Omisyth: Curvy women. I’ve never under­stood the fas­cin­a­tion with lolis. Ser­i­ously, if there’s no T&A, what’s the point?

Gar­g­ron: How do your par­ents handle your hobby, if they do?

Omisyth: Ha, my mum doesn’t really care. She just won­ders why there’s scream­ing com­ing from my com­puter every now and again. I blame D.Gray-man and Dragon­ball Z.

Gar­g­ron: Say some­thing about the ‘live and work in Japan’ dream of the most of the aniblogosphere.

Omisyth: I didn’t know that was a dream. What a weird dream.

Gar­g­ron: You know what I mean.

Gar­g­ron: What is the most annoy­ing thing you’ve ever seen in anime?

Omisyth: Hamdo from Now and Then, Here and There. Most annoy­ing, rage-inducing char­ac­ter of all time.

Gar­g­ron: What is the best thing you’ve ever seen in anime?

Omisyth:: Hamdo dying from Now and Then, Here and There. Crushed under sev­eral mil­lion tonnes of water. Asshole.

Gar­g­ron: Evil ques­tion, what are you favour­ite blogs besides your own?

Omisyth: My blog’s nowhere near my favour­ite. Hell, I’m not even sure it’s that good. In any case, I’ll prob­ably do a post about this since they’re pop­ping up all over the place, but for the top 5 I’ll just say We Remem­ber Love, Ha Neul Seom, Mono no Aware, Epic Win and Baka-Raptor.

Gar­g­ron: Why is your blog not your favour­ite? Isn’t it normal?

Omisyth: If I had to describe my blog in one word, I’d just say it’s very “blah”. It doesn’t have any­thing that really dis­tin­guishes it from the hun­dreds of oth­ers. I think that’s part of the reason I’m not writ­ing at the moment — I have loads of ideas but I’m always think­ing that I need to take them to another level that’s both enter­tain­ing and unique. But mostly enter­tain­ing. No-one wants to read some­thing that doesn’t engage them.

Gar­g­ron: Even more evil ques­tion, how do you rate anime? What is import­ant and what not?

Omisyth: I’ll watch pretty much any­thing that’s not shoujo or yaoi, so I don’t have much of a sys­tem. Each show has its own pos­it­ives and neg­at­ives. If it’s great, high rat­ings, if not, low ratings.

Gar­g­ron: And what parts of the show/film are more sig­ni­fic­ant for you than the oth­ers? Graph­ics, sound, storyline, or some­thing else?

Omisyth: Hon­estly, it all depends.  Take Pan­dora Hearts. The show has god-awful anim­a­tion, but the art’s fant­astic. Going into the show, I wasn’t think­ing “if this show doesn’t have great animation/music/characters, I am/am not going to watch it”. There’s no one facet that’s the most import­ant to me — it all comes together to make the fin­ished product.

Gar­g­ron: And at last, say some­thing about lol­ic­ons. (Ques­tion donated by Shinn)

Omisyth: To each their own. When lim­ited to the 2-dimensional plain. KEEP IT IN YOUR MIND, LOLICONS.

Gar­g­ron: Be care­ful with that say­ing, you know where it was engraved and how it was inter­preted once. Any­way, thank you for the interview!