TOW #16 "Gunn's Golden Rules" (IRB- 2nd half)

                In Gunn’s Golden Rules, Tim Gunn takes the audience through times in his life that he has had to “make it work” in tough situations. He explores positive moments as well as some negatives, hoping others can learn from his own mistakes. His main goal is for others to have good manners, an open mind, and to not let a difficult time get in your way of what you want. He uses anecdotes to tell how each experience reflects his intentions on the reader learning from his mistakes and moments, while being able to connect with some as well. Other things that are of his own interpretation are his descriptions of other people. Gunn loves fashion and can therefore describe a person’s outfit accurately, along with his opinion on it. He is careful not to allow his opinion to skew the visualization of the person, though. Since it is autobiographical, there are plenty of opinions about things, situations, and people he encounters. A main component to the message is his view on manners. He then continues to portray the purpose of his writing. Even with the multiple events he recalls, the point is never lost. From reading it, the message is quite clear. In the book, Gunn takes you through moments in his life that changed his ways of thinking. He in turn hopes that the readers’ thinking can be changed as well.

TOW #15 "Tokyo Ghoul: The Ani-TAY Review" (written review)

                In this review, Ani-TAY explains both good and bad points of the recent, and fairly popular, anime called Tokyo Ghoul. He starts out with a brief description of the plot and characters, and later elaborates on specific points he finds “fantastic”, “not bad”, and “terrible.” He talks about everything from voice actors to censoring. In each separate topic’s paragraph, Ani-TAY gives his opinion and uses specific evidence from the show or others for comparison. Under the “fantastic” heading, he lists the tragedy aspect of the storyline, the fact that the main character is forced to give up part of his humanity, the range of the voice actors, and the beauty of the animation. He explains what he loves about each topic and why. An example would be how specific voice actors are put into roles that are very ouside of what their “type-casting” usually is, like Mamoru Miyano and Kana Hanazawa. In the “not bad” section, he lists the odd censoring and how they rushed through the last arc. In Tokyo Ghoul, they use two types of censoring. “First is the standard and craptastic "let's just cover all the offensive bits in black" type of censoring, the second is it will invert the colors of the scene.” Ani-TAY dose prefer the inverted over the random shadow, as many others do. If his exasperated tone wasn’t enough to realize that, he does outright say it. The sole topic under the “terrible” title would be the ending. Even though Ani-TAY hadn’t read the manga (original comic), he still felt the ending was a little abrupt. They did in fact end the first season in the middle of an arc, and anyone can tell. The author dubs Tokyo Ghoul (season 1) as “yet another member of the Disappointing Ending Club.” Though, all in all, Ani-TAY gave it a good review, being sure to give specifics in recommending and not recommending since it is a horror anime, there will be blood. He even calls it one of the best he’s seen since Another, one other successful horror anime.