I used the camera quite a lot today.

My shipment from RACS arrived today and it included the Kurumu figurine. I promised a size comparison between that 1:8 figure and the 1:4 Haruhi.

Haruhi goes up on the shelf, and Kurumu has a home on top of Deneb.

Hash brown potatoes are God's food. When I moved to Massachusetts, there were two foods I missed intensely, and hash browns were one of them. No one there makes them. They do something called "home fries" instead, which are a pale, poor substitute. While I was living there, whenever I made a business trip back to the west coast, I always had hash browns for breakfast if at all possible.

But I never tried making my own at home until today. They're not as difficult as I figured they'd be. I did use too much oil, however, so they were a bit greasy. Next time I think I'll use butter instead of peanut oil, and less of it.

(The other food I missed? Tillamook cheddar cheese. People back east who think that Vermont cheddar is the last word on the subject don't know what they're missing.)

Back when Strike Witches was first airing, I wrote a post in which the theme was "Embrace the stupid".

It looks like Funimation sure has done so. Or perhaps they're  just trying to sell the fact that it's a fan-service show. (But why, oh why, is it always Lucchini that they choose for the most egregious spread-leg shots? Yikes!)

There's a famous chart about the show that appeared on 4-chan and some other places which catalogued each character in the show. They reproduced it on the inside of the DVD case art, up to and including a picture of each girl's panties.

They actually divided it in two, half for each DVD case. I saw one rather egregious problem: Yeager's weapon is stated as being "M1918 Browny Automatic Rifle". John Moses Browning must be rolling over in his grave.

Or perhaps not; the show did less violence to his legacy than it did to that of Chuck Yeager, or Gerhard Barkhorn, or... (Yeager is still alive, and I bet he's sick of hearing about this show.)

UPDATE: There were a couple of other things on that chart I really didn't care for. Yeager's country is given as "United States of Liberion". It's supposed to be Rebellion. But all the printed material coming out of Japan makes it "Liberion" even though that word doesn't mean anything, so Funimation was stuck with it.

They give Sanya's weapon as "Fliegerhummer". I dunno where they got that name. And why would a Russian be using a weapon with a German name? (Eila uses a German MG42 and Perrine uses a British Bren gun, but that's historically defensible.)

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