when waiting took a weird turn in my writing productivity

Talk about something incredibly annoying today. I mean, I know I'm a patient person --- at least... most of the time. But such a slow service was seriously shaving off what patience I have in me. Gosh!

To know what I was talking about, I went to town to pay for the electric bill. But my goodness! It took me two hours just waiting for my turn to pay. Yes, there were queue numbers. But the service was just so slow, I thought I was about to sleep there. Urgh! Was it supposed to be this slow only because Holy Week was over?

In any case, at least the waiting somehow helped with my writing productivity. I was continuing to write HFLM by adding the narratives and also Seitenger. Yes, a different story to tackle this week. I might not follow the pattern I made last week that I would just write dialogues since I already have an outline for this particular episode of Seitenger. So I could just continue doing the usual on this story.

The waiting also made me watch the first two episodes of Shirohiyo and the 3rd episodes of both "The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows" and "The Unaware Atelier Master". So let me put my thoughts on each of the anime here.

Shirohiyo Episodes 1-2: I can't believe Ageha (as a 5 years old) had to deal with something as crappy and hateful as his parents, just because he was the product of an unwanted union and near death. Like what the heck? Blaming it all on a child? I wonder how he will approach the situation now that it finally dawned to him just how much his parents never wanted him, though. Both were selfish people that I wanted to strangle, if I can, to be honest. And now, a half-brother appeared in the scene. The brother that --- according to him --- would kill him in the future. Like, are you freaking kidding me? By the way, how did he know that fact? I guess I'm missing something. But I think things would be better for him in the long run, now that his maid, his tutor, and even the goddess were becoming close to him and becoming his confidante, in a way. Maybe I should read the web novel version for me to know the details since I couldn't find the light novel version.

The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows Episode 3: Does the three leaders of the slum factions really have to fight for Zenos' attention that way? But of course, he would end up using his healing skills and becoming a mediator, at the least. Crazy way to use your healing abilities to stop a fight that had been going on for a long while. And of course, as expected, Krishna has finally appeared. But did they really have to put the cliffhanger of gunning him down like that? Crazy woman, if you ask me.

The Unaware Atelier Master Episode 3-4: As per usual, Kurt is seriously unaware and very much naive. And I also think very much caught up in his past experience of how he was treated in the party befor getting kicked out. He was using way too much comparison with his past experience. Now, the Atelier is about to form. His skills were checked and confirmed. Yikes! But that ninja from the former party was someone I was worried about. What was her goal, anyway? And now she would head to Kurt's hometown? As much as it was a mystery to me, I really want to question her intentions for doing that. I did notice that the characters appearing on the last sequence of the opening credit were getting added in each episode. Now the new party that Kurt joined to was there, as well.

Woah! I guess I went way ahead about this. But I think I'd rather do this, to be honest. Yup, this is better.

(episode comment) the unaware atelier master episode 2

Definitely way oblivious of his own ability that kept surprising Yulishia and other people around him. Yup, that's Kurt, alright. But seriously, I really wonder where he came from and the village that he originated. A lot of the things he would do was normal for him and yet, outside of it, they were incredible feats that wasn't easily achieve by any normal person. Guess that concluded Kurt overall. He was never normal to begin with. And yet his former party really ignored him and threw him out.

He was definitely another case of someone "useless" being thrown out of the party. Only for the party members realizing later on that he had been the most important part of their team. Maybe the real difference for this one is that (1) he really had no idea about the extent of his own abilities, and (2) he has way too low self-esteem. Possibly something ingrained after joining the team and spending time with them, being treated like trash. Then again, I have no idea at the moment. Maybe one of the episodes could show us some backstory about Kurt. Hopefully, they do show something like that.

New characters were introduced. One was an Atelier Master and the other was a princess. Kurt's first encounter with the princess showed another aspect of Kurt's obliviousness and I'm not sure if it's something to be happy about. All of the people who slowly saw Kurt's true potential were all females, by the way. I don't know why I ended up noticing that. Was it intended, by the way? Maybe I'll find answers some other time. Hopefull, there would be a proper explanation or something could still change as the series progresses.

(episode comment) the unaware atelier master episode 1

So... new anime, huh? But I just realized that I was a week too late to start since I saw that there were already two episodes posted. Yikes! But hey, at least I started.

I... don't have much to say about the start. Except... Is Kurt really that unaware and very naive about his own abilities? I mean, it also looked like he was naive about almost everything in life. Not sure what to make of that first realization on the first half of the first episode. But the people around her began to take notice. And yes, it could lead to something dangerous if he wasn't careful.

So this was the typical "got kicked out of a team/party and eventually realizing I'm much more powerful than my previous teammates" kind of story. But according to what I've read in Wiki, Kurt's excessive abilities doesn't extend to anything related to combat. I wonder why, though. And especially the village where he came from where he and everyone there does things that were obviously considered abnormal to many people. What kind of people were they, anyway?

Not many things to say here other than the fact that it was a good start.