Lama rasa tak berceloteh dalam bahasa ibunda. Rasa sementara hari yang mulia ini, mahu memmbuat satu artikel dalam bahasa Melayu. Tapi sebelum itu, tak lupa untuk aku ucapkan selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri/Qurban/Haji (potong yang tak berkenan). Tatkala ramai yang berada di Tanah Suci Mekah untuk menunaikan Haji, ataupun balik ke kampung untuk menumbangkan kambing/lembu/unta/gajah, aku terperap di KL, sama seperti tahun tahun tahun dulu juga.
Bercakap pasal Raya Haji ni, pernah juga aku mendengar mitos dan khabar dari orang (melayu la) yang aku berbual bersama. Mitos ini sudah dijual beli, dilempar, disepak sana sini sampaikan kalau engkau orang melayu (yang masih rasa Islam la, yang rosak lain citer. Aku sepak je), enkau mesti pernah mendengar mitos mitos pasal raya Haji ni. Antaranya Read moar...
Looks ok doesn’t it? But actually majority of the fans of the highly popular economically inclined light novel by Hasekura Isuna, Spice and Wolf went raging when Yen Press, the license holder for the series in the USA decided NOT to use the original cover for the US distribution, citing difference in culture.
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So it finally ends. Not counting the upcoming web episodes, Bakemonogatari has finished it’s run after 12 episodes. It was a nice ride throughout the season. As a Shaft and Shinbo created anime, it was expected to be full of weird ideas and story, but even I have no idea how good it turned out to be in the end. So good in fact that it was the only anime series this season that I ACTUALLY watched instead of going to some review sites to read the spoilers. It has it’s own charms that somehow was quite refreshing in the days of recycled, diluted, one genre for all anime that have plauged the industry in the past few years.
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