Hello and Welcome to my site. I am glad to have you make here since the leaf village is very far away and very difficult to get to. I assume that you are all very skilled ninja of some sort so I do appreciate you coming here to visit me. Anyway, my name is Iruka Sensei and yes I am a ninja; a skilled one at that. This is where I will post about my daily missions and how I have to deal with life. Please don't forget to sign my ninja scroll so we can become ninja buddies and that way I can visit you village as well. I also am very good at submissions so I will be submitting fanart, wallpapers, e-cards, comics, and yes quizes along with the very rare published works that I shall do. Either way you can see I am an accomplished ninja lol. Besides I am pretty funny and really easy going so check me out! I'll see you around sometime. *does ninjitsu and disappears*
Oh dear me, look what day it is, October 1st, today's my birthday blah. Ok I am excited but when you think about it this way maybe it isn't so exciting. In 10 years I will be 30! O_O Geez and within those 10 years I will start a family of my own with my husband *cough cough* Kaydirt *cough cough* which is even more freaky. Oh noes!!! Not babies!!! Me no want them...*pupppy eyes* lol But I guess I will live it up until then! Whoot Happy Birthday to me lol.
Does that mean I have to grow up now? I mean seriously I like keeping the young version of me alive so can I still be childish at times or no? Hmmm Thats a tough one, probably yes! Well I got an early birthday present from Kaydirt, or Korey. He was really sweet and I didn't know but he sent me a bunny in the mail. Its really cute, I mean REALLY cute for my birthday with its cute big floppy ears, its fluffy, and big feet with a cute green bow. I loved it plus he sent me a really nice card too....Whats in the card is privacy though! But I really love him, he's wonderful to me! *snuggles with bunny* Yeah you are jealous of the bunny Korey!!!
Anyway, my parents are coming to see me at college today but we won't be celebrating my birthday till Saturday offically since we aren't an entire family. So our plans are to go eat something nice today. But for Saturday I want to go to the Olive Garden and then see a movie, "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" lol hey that movie looks really cute.
Well anywho, I won't keep you plus I got classes to get too hehe. I did dress up a bit today and got my sorry butt out of bed. Anyway YAY I'm finally 20 years old. I made it!!!
LIKE OMG I decided for the fun of it since I was sooo bored that I would submit some political e-cards because sadly I can not submit my really good ones due to a virus in my computer which is gettting fixed. So I will be submitting things as best as I can from PAINT program sadly. Anyway, these political e-cards are to be funny. To be honest, I was only submitting this to poke fun of both canidates. I realize that I am a Republican and not everyone is going to support my views that is fine and I respect that but having over 50 comments with some people arguing is a little much but then again I do love politics. Honestly, I don't like Obama, I mean if he were to run in like 4 years I would consider voting for him, but I see it this way, I want someone with military experience and has been in office for a very long time. I realize Palin doesn't have that much experience but I do like how fiesty she is. None the less, I prefer not to talk about politics because in 5 weeks it is the big day, oh and I don't plan to stop submitting e-cards based on politics hehe! I love the controversy!! :D
Like OMG! Tommorrow is the big day...I'm no longer a teenager!!! I will somehow because an adult, sorta. :/ Tommorrow is my birthday, WHOOT GO ME! I turn 20 years old I can't believe it. Hehe better ive my last day of being a teenager up shouldn't I? Oh well anyway I will update more tommorrow lol :D Later guys!!!
As of September 20th of 2008 which happens to be a Saturday, Tom the robot from Toonami sadly announced the discontinuation of the Toonami block. Miserably, there are no reports on why it was cancelled but there has been speculation among the anime community that it was cancelled due to shows being butchered as much as they were and the ratings were not high enough. This is very understandable because when something doesn’t do well it does get cancelled; however, in this case there was no way of knowing that Toonami was going to be cancelled due to poor ratings if there were any.
I found this out Monday morning when I was reading a friend’s myotaku site. She had stated that Toonami had been cancelled for no reason at all. I don't understand it completely, but I feel it might be due to ratings. There were a few shows on there that I did not care to watch. To be honest, I only watched it to watch one of my favorite animes which happens to be Naruto. (I really do not care about your opinion on Naruto and this article has nothing to do with the dubbed version of it so please let’s stay on topic here.)
Nevertheless, over the last eleven years, when looking back at it, maybe there were signs that it was going to leave us eventually? If we were to take a look back at it, Toonami started in 1997 as a weekday afternoon action-animation block, which was hosted by Moltar from 1997-1999. Then in 1999 TOM was introduced to us, a small robot but very cool looking for that time. Over the years TOM evolved from a short chubby robot to a taller one with more muscle and more of a body frame. There has been exactly 4 different TOM’s which has ranged over many years. TOM 1 aired from July 10, 1999-September 22, 2000. TOM 2 aired from September 23, 2000-March 14, 2003. TOM 3 aired from March 17, 2003-March 10-2007. Lastly, was TOM 4 March 17, 2007-September 20, 2008. Sadly, the last TOM was the least desirable one due to his looks. From a rad looking robot that wore a visor that looked pretty powerful to a nimble, weak, and odd face looking robot I can see why fans did not enjoy the latest TOM. Many viewers stopped watching the new Toonami block in 2007 due to the so called upgrade of TOM and his new friends T and Flash. Steven Blum, the voice of TOM, over the last 8 years has been probably the best choice in the matter of who should TOM be voiced by, but sadly Cartoon Network or Steven Blum have not had any words about the cancellation of the Toonami block.
Do you remember way back when in the golden era when Toonami was on weekdays and it aired on weekdays nights as well? Ah yes, I do remember after school running home to watch some of my favorite animes such as DragonBall Z, Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo, Gundams, Card Captor Sakura, and Rurouni Kenshin. Even at night I wasn’t able to sleep because if I missed the day time airing, most of the time, I could just catch it once again later that night. But over time, Adult Swim took over the night block for shows and then Toonami was kicked to the curve for Saturday mornings. Eventually, it was then later brought up to Saturday nights where it has resigned for the last 5-6 years. Slowly but surely, was Toonami telling us that this block was eventually suppose to up and disappear? I doubt it, though, I do recall many shows that Toonami discontinued or never really finished when it aired in the Toonami time slot such as Rurouni Kenshin and Yu Yu Hakusho. Maybe this was the part of the downfall?
Is Cartoon Network all about ratings now? Nonetheless, is this was the reason behind the cancellation of Toonami? Right now the answers are unclear and probably will be left that way for some time yet, however, we shall know the truth soon enough. Cartoon Network has gone downhill to say the least, if you were to compare the shows that we the old generations used to watch compared to today’s idiotic shows, you can see a difference between the cartoons and what was really expected from them. Cartoon Network’s policy used to be to air shows that would bring in all different types of audiences and because of that they were a favorite among the TV networks and at a time was doing better than Disney channel and Nick, on the other hand, I doubt that is the case now. I guess, the happiness of the viewers is not as important to them as the happiness of the money they receive each day.
Though I had missed the final airing of Toonami, I thought it was appropriate to at least point out some things I had watched when viewing it on YouTube and give you the touching words from TOM on that fateful night. I realize many may not agree with my opinions, however, I have enjoyed Toonami ever since I was 8 years old and next week I will be going on 20. I have enjoyed watching it ever since I could remember and because of Toonami I am an anime freak! There is no denying it nor are there any regrets for having Toonami be the one to get me involved with anime. I bet for many of you, the story is the same.
So in conclusion, we should all be thankful for all the good memories we shared with Toonami let be for better or for worse. Hopefully shows such as Naruto will continue to be aired on Cartoon Network in a different form. From his farewell speech Tom ends by saying “BANG!” which happens to be a famous quote from a character known as Spike Bebop from Cowboy Bebop since Steven Blum did the voice for him. I think that the way Tom ended the transmission and flying out into the world of nothingness was pretty neat, and hopefully from his words he might return. We can only hope. So thanks for the memories Toonami. The years were great and you shall never be forgotten, only missed. Live life to the fullest and stay gold everyone. Yes, stay gold until we meet again.
“Well, this is the end Beautiful Friends! After more than 11 Years, this is Toonami’s final broadcast. It’s been a lot of fun. We would like to thank each every one of you who made this journey with us. Toonami wouldn’t have been anything without you. Hopefully we have left you with some good memories. So, until we meet again, stay gold! BANG!” - Tom
September 23rd 2008
Mood: Exhausted and Frusterated
Hello, I'll keep this short due to being tired and frusterated with life because of so many problems I have to deal with in my life. I am so tired of it. I'm a teenage girl and I deal in one week more then what an adult deals with in 6 months and I am just so fed up with the life I have been given. I am studying for exams and these problems are not making it better for me because I cannot keep focus on them because I have little things going through my head that bother me so much and it is starting to get to the point where I cannot stand anything around me and I get annoyed with everything because the stress has finally caught up with me.
I'm updating to try and figure it out but things do not looking good at home right now and to be honest things aren't good in other places as well. I am pretty good at delling with stress but right now I can't find a realive factor except for two things and I do not wish to take those measure (1.) Being I drink which isn't very hard for me to get some or (2.) Ask one of my friends for a cigarette. Note to all those out there I don't smoke nor do I enjoy drinking but to be honest, they sound really nice. I'm trying to do other things so I don't think about doing such things but its getting hard. I just want a day off from life. I want to have one day where its "Iruka's Happy Day" and for some sad reason I can't seem to find it right now.
This entire weekend has been enough stress for me for reasons I do not need to mention, then I have family problems, I have money problems, I have school problems because I am stupid idiot because I am not sure of myself in chemisty and my peers make fun of me for it. It hurts, I don't try to let these things get to me, but when you are being called stupid behind your back it starts to get to you. I want to be a nurse and I have done really well in school, but chemisty has never come easy for me but with the help of my professor I am understanding it more then ever; I am enjoying it!
I just wish people wouldn't make fun of others and I wish that all the problems I had I didn't have to deal with because I have two major exams tommorrow. I'm not sure but I am having I guess a nervous break down and I need help or advice and if you have any whatsoever, please, give me some because I could really use it.
If you haven't noticed I got rid of my "Version Vibrant" world so I could have a nuetral place to update about my life and so this will be the new home of "Iruka's Rantings" lol well I think it sounds much better then the previous. Either way I am still here and still alive but due to college I have been very busy everyday with classes such as Chemistry, Deaf Culture, CPR & First Aide, and lastly Psychology. Yes that is my schedule for this semester of my sophomore year because I am working on getting a major in nursing. I am enjoying classes so far and I am learning alot as well.
I also started doing intermural sports on campus so I can get to know new people and so I did. I joined my dorms team and I because one of the top players right away lol. We played flag football yesterday and I got to be quarterback which was an honor hehe....Ok not really since I had the arm to through great distances. We lost our first came to the upper classmen who cheated us, since my team is made up of mostly first years and we tied the second game. Next week is the tournment so we aren't planning on losing again. We want that free dinner to Buca's restaurant hehe. I happened to be reminded of Eyeshield 21 when we played because it was a lot of fun. Yes I got to be Hiruma YA HA! Actually I did play like him so who knows, though I tend to think of myself as more of Agon Kongo. :)
Lets see college again is going well and lets see my love life isn't to bad either. :3 I'm not sure what to really say about it because it is nice and it is fun having someone as supportive as Korey there for me. Plus he always knows how to make me smile, some how...I must figure out his tricks for that. He even got me a birthday present, though I told him he didn't have too, I am not entirely sure what it is yet because my birthday isn't till October 1st, gah I can't believe I am already almost 20 years old.
Anyway have a great weekend and I shall see you when I see you! :D
