…Despite not having a writer’s block in this moment (it’s just laziness), I think it’d be fun to do to reply to this prompt. (By the way, this is a prompt that pops up in LJcom’s index page on random themes. But you know I love to spam my blog about favorites, fandoms and the such.)

Favorite Book: Jingo by Terry Pratchett, the latest Discworld book I’ve read

This book belongs to the Night Watch series; this time, instead of fighting disorganized crime and the ocassional political plotter or magical mess-up (so common in the Discworld), the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, equivalent to modern time police force, has to stop a war. The city state (a mix between New York and London) and the not-so-neighboring country of Klatsch (think of an Arabia nation) are at a state-of-war due to the sudden appearance of a sunken island, which just happens to be located in the middle of the ocean that separates the aforementioned nations.

Again, the main character in the book is Samuel Vimes, commander of the Watch and the vivid image of Dirty Harry if this character were ever to appear in a magical setting. Vimes realizes there’s a political complot coming from Klatsch: someone just wants the klatschian prince dead(ambassador to Ankh-Morpork), and it’s up to the Watch to find out who that person might be.

Favorite Movie: I’d say Toki o Kakeru Shoujo, which is the latest movie I’ve watched. It’s based on a book by Yasutaka Tsuitsui by the same title, but instead of being the threatrical version of such story, is a sequel of sorts

It’s yet again another highschool story with a supernatural theme to it. The main character is girl named Makoto who gains the ability to literally leap in time, from the very instant she’s living to any moment in the past she remembers. Well, she spends 3/4 of the movie doing small and silly things like jumping back to the previous day so she can have his favorite meal for dinner, and so on. Until a tragedy unfols and we’re told about her power and how she obtained it.

What can I say? It’s a light and funny movie. The animation is of high quality and character designs are by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Shinseiki Evangelion char designer and mangaka), but don’t worry, there’s no Shinji Ikari in this story. In fact, Makoto has two endearing friends, your typical juvenile delinquent with a heart of gold and the big, intimidating guy who’s in actuality a very kind man. Can you see it coming as well? There’s a romantic subplot going on in there…

Favorite CD: It must be TRF 15th Anniversary. TRF is a Jpop band that, as the title of the CD might imply, has been in the business for a decade and a half already, but it’s never been that popular overseas. Thanks to anime everything related to J-Music has become widely known and popular outside Japan, but I still like to listening to some old bands I first met years ago, when “visual” refered only to something that you could see and didn’t have almost anything to do with music, ahem.

Favorite Videogame: You saw this coming, it’s Sengoku BASARA 2 (and it’s 17 more days until SB2Heroes is released). And… Hmmm… I should write something about the game, but I’ve fangirled so much in my blog about Senbasa that anything I could say just now would sound like a repetition.

And now, I suppose it’s time for me to get back to that text for my German translation class. I’ve been writing yet another of those repetitive posts… repetitive posts… posts… about Senbasa and some historical trivia, but I’m yet to finish it. As I said, it’s not writer’s block but plain laziness what’s preventing me from spamming your flists.