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Tiny Visitor

It was probably his own fault she was showing up at his door instead of messaging him first -- after all, Ever hadn't checked Twitter in weeks, not since his conversation with America about the pointlessness of doing the same things over and over. And nothing on there seemed to change, not really. Theoretically, there was a statement to be made, here.

Realistically, he'd just forgotten it existed.

In either case, the girl was at his door now and there was a pause after she knocked on 104's door before Ever opened it -- wearing only a pair of jeans and still shrugging, slowly, into a clean-enough shirt. The flash of torso she got wasn't much to look at: pale, scrawny, and disappearing quickly under a splash of graphic tee.

"Uh. Hi." A pause, not quite awkward, before he smiled at her: the smile all at once, showing all of his teeth. "I'm not busy. Don't just stand in the hall -- "

And he stepped back to let her in, twisting as he did to shove bags from his recent shopping trip with Cee into one corner of the room, and spread his fresh blanket [crocheted, more old lady than twenty-something young man] over the end of the bed.

She was lucky he was out of the basement: this room was much homier than B46 had been. It still wasn't much, but at least it wasn't dank.

Set up

After putting down the laptop, she skillfully set up the laptop, opened the file where all the anime were holding, with a peek, Ever could see how many sub files with name on each. She responded his curiosity with a bright smile. "Mr. Dwight is great, right? Look how convenient and neat it is and he did it for free." The handsome Asian had an important position in her heart, the unexplained good feeling of him even they were not even close. She was just confused about one thing - Why he acted so mean to Rep?

"So what kind do you wanna start with?" She went through the files like a little professional, and counted him some of the genres. "Magical girl? Fantasy? Adventure plus detective? Supernatural? Slice of Life? Action? Mystery? Shounen? Crime? Thriller?" She listed out many many possibilities and then looked at Ever with a smile, waiting.

Break time

There was too much in a day for Ever, she would even see what he might be thinking, they were all written on his face. Shu sighed, pondering if she picked the wrong choices for the hunter, might be he just want cartoons. "Let's have a break, Mr. Ever." She unzipped her backpack, and put some snacks out, candies and chips and so on. "I brought some snacks to eat." The girl smiled.

Do you mind?

Somewhere around the third episode, his fidgety tapping of a pack of cigarettes against his knee turned to actually sliding one free. It would be halfway to Ever's mouth before he paused, blinking at Shu like he'd all but forgotten she was there, lime-green plastic lighter in his hand but the thing not actually kindled.

"Uh." It was his room, but she was so young, and so cute, and a guest. So he hesitated. "...do you mind?"

Cartoon V.S. Anime

Shu was surprisingly scolding: enough to drive her up to her feet, and that made Ever blink up at her, somewhat confused. It had been an innocent enough question, he thought, and he didn't quite see what had made her so -- well. Strident. Annoyed. Angry even?

"Sorry?" It wasn't a proper apology if it went up at the end like that. And his next comment didn't help either, "What exactly is the difference?"

Do you mind?

Even her eyes were looking at the screen, part of her attention was shifted to the hunter next to her. Shu blinked in a denser frequency than she usually does, but it wasn't something really unnatural. Because of some reasons, the hunter was a little bit uneasy. She loved to observe quietly and raised questions when needed, so when Ever picked out the pack, the girl could linked things together, action and reason.

Shu gave Ever a bright smile and was pleased by his courtesy, "Hmm? Nope, please go ahead." Mr. Thompson was a smoker too, although she didn't really enjoy the smell, it didn't really a bother and it would be very rude to say so. She watched as Ever lit a cigarette and breathed out a cloud of smoke, that reminded her of the caterpillar in the Wonderland dream.

Shu was curious about something that she stared at the man interestingly, it lasted for a while with the background noise from the anime playing. "Were you in the Wonderland?" The petite Asian wanted to know if the podded people will be sent to the collective dream or not.

Cartoon V.S. Anime

The apology cooled her down, Shu changed from a tiny angry bunny that might kick with hind leg to a girl that made a sigh as she sat down. "I-I overreacted, sorry." She didn't mean to startle Ever at all.

Shu located the excel software on the laptop and open a new spreadsheet to draw a table. If she gonna just talk, he won't be able to catch up with all of the new information suddenly. "Let's use a table to compare them generally in several aspects. The first and most obvious difference is the origin. Cartoon, generally refers to western animation, whereas anime is japan animation." Her hands danced on the keyboard as she talked.

"Secondly, style. As you can see, anime characters are more detailed in their overall design and facial expressions. The lines used are much simpler in cartoon, let's say: Disney princess and any of these. You can feel how different they are." She pushed her glasses up with a finger. "Next, it's the target audience: Cartoon is mainly for younger generation." Shu paused and looked at Ever with a pout. "I know there are some so-called adult cartoons, but sorry, I don't count them as official cartoons, they might fit every definition under cartoon, but failed the most important key - cartoon is for kids." The girl seemed to have grievances on that.

"And anime targets for older audience because it can involve more mature content, dark negative emotions, sensitive matter, violence to deliver some more comlicated messages. Most of the time, they have a story plot to tell while cartoon that TARGETS KIDS usually have a light theme, mainly for a good laugh and maybe comical."

"Ok, another point is attention span. Cartoon is mainly for short span of attention, you might treat each episode a separate one while anime, each episode is linked with each other, if you miss an episode, you might find it difficult to follow." She continued to type when she elaborated her viewpoints on the comparison, creating more rows on the table.

"Do you need a small break to absorb the information?" She pushed her glasses for a second time and asked with a smile.

If he didn't say anything, Ever's private lesson on the difference of anime and cartoon would go on until Shu couldn't think of more points.