Sword Of The Stranger
#It’s not often you find an anime fight scene that makes you sit up and take notice.
Fairy Tail - Natsu vs Michelle and Midnight Full Fight - YouTube
#Fairy Tail has an annoying habit of tearing at your heartstrings…. T_T
Fairy Tail - Natsu vs Michelle and Midnight Full Fight - YouTube.
Proof that watching anime teaches you something ^_^
#Not sure if I’ve posted this before and can’t be bothered to check right now :P
Google Movies
#Knowing that DRM works fine on Debian means I can happily rent and purchase movies off Google Play. My first rental was Dante’s Inferno and animated retelling of the game of the same name, which itself is a retelling of the poem. Different animation studios animated different chapters of the story which both added to and hindered the story. For example, Virgil was ghostly in one chapter, but appear almost human in another.
The second purchase was an actual purchase (not rental), but only because Play did not offer a rental for this title. The movie is Legend of the Millenium Dragon - one of the few anime titles on Play that is in Japanese and not dubbed. This one was an interesting watch, touching on topics related to war, prejudice and magic.
Servant of Evil
#The power of Vocaloid…
AKB49 (sic)
#No, it’s not a typo, I’ve picked up a scanlated manga I stopped reading many months ago. AKB49 is about a boy who tries to help his best friend get into AKB but does so undercover as a girl. He succeeds in getting her in as a kenkyuusei (understudy) - but also ends up getting accepted as a kenkyuusei herself. Err. himself.
All manner of high jinks occur throughout the manga included his/her popularity increasing because of his honesty and straightforwardness.
I’ve now read up to the latest scanlated chapter (#123) and there are similar aspects to AKB0048 – the tough learning, unsupportive parents, lessons day-in, day-out, looking up to your seniors, waiting for your moment.
One thing that really struck me is the similarity between episode 26 of the AKB0048 anime (Next Stage Ep # 13) and the Gekokujyou Vs &Jewel duel. In the anime, the kenkyuusei had to overcome the hatred of their audience after their apparent desertion of the planet Akibastar (play on the word “Akihabara"). In the manga, the Gekokujyou (the subunit of the AKB kenkyuusei consisting of the three main protagonist characters) agreed to a musical duel against &Jewel on their (&Jewel’s) home theatre, leading to a hugely hostile audience. Both teams had 3 songs, plus a possible encore within which to win over their audience. Within one song, GJ dented &Jewel’s effect, the second got them mostly on their side, the third, they let rip and the &Jewel were forced to admit total defeat. After that, the main protagonist - Minoru (f: Minori) collapsed from over-exhaustion, his secret almost revealed. He was saved by the legendary Maeda Atsuko who would keep his secret. Since GJ only had three songs released at this time, they had no encore song, so they sang &Jewel’s song, and did it perfectly. Even the hardened &Jewel fan couldn’t fault them.
Three songs, one encore, total domination.
#1 Draw their attention
#2 Capture their hearts
#3 120%, show everything you have.
AKB0048
#Here’s some videos off YT of AKB0048. See what you think.
The anime also uses some pretty nice CG, which is the first time I’ve seen CG used in that manner. Especially in an anime….
Reboot
#There seems to be an unhealthy appetite for rebooting films (Hulk, Evil Dead, Django etc.), but until now, I didn’t think it affected anime that much. Then came Evangelion’s movie, OVA and (sort of) reboot, and now, I find Sailor Moon is going to get rebooted.
http://www.fandompost.com/2013/04/29/new-sailor-moon-anime-delay-confirmed/
AKB48 - Earworm
#I’ve been watching a new anime - AKB0048, which has numerous songs by the J-Pop group AKB48 and now I’ve got their songs ringing in my head.
I did hear their tracks before watching the anime, and I have a thing for group J-Pop songs, which are pretty common during Anime, but with AKB0048, ALL of the songs were group songs, with the occasional solo in the middle of the songs.
It’s disappointing J-Pop tracks aren’t made available in the West on places like Google Play or Spotify. And even if they are, they are usually far behind.
KAKU-tail-Party7Title
#Project 5Ds Progress
#I’ve finally started building on Project 5Ds.
Progress image
Superman Vs The Elite
#Superman turns brutal.
youtu.be/J0lWjKK6K… youtu.be/APZFAryvC… youtu.be/rPpZbEx_m… youtu.be/NolWkE-C0…
YOURE SUCH A ...... - YouTube
#New Project: Yu Gi Oh 5Ds
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I am starting a new Blender project, or, more specifically, restarting it. I’m going to attempt to model some of the characters from the anime Yu Gi Oh! 5Ds. I have it on a Bitbucket Git repository at the moment (it is a private repository at the moment), but may make it public at a later date.