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WHAT COULD THIS POSSIBLY MEAN?!

I guess we’ll find out in a few hours…

There’s also stuff going on the source code, as always. Check it out.

From http://www.asosbrigade.com

By the way, I am working on a comic. It’s pretty much sketched out and stuff. It’s just a matter of coloring it, really. Remember, that’s that part that takes one million hours…

Edit: Haruhi’s dub voice auditions are up, as well as the series’ US logo.

Using some of the extra funds I got for Christmas, I decided to catch up with my ol’ buddy Lupin. I ordered seven of the Lupin films; two being theatrical features (Mamo and Dead or Alive) and five of the TV Specials (in one of Funi’s nifty little thinpaks.) The first one that came in was Mystery of Mamo, which I had seen about two years ago, dubbed. I didn’t especially like the movie when I first saw it. I thought the first hour or so was pretty good, but after that I felt the story didn’t really go anywhere too interesting. I went into this second viewing with adjusted expectations, and while the story still came off as weak, I had far more fun watching it. Perhaps it’s because I opted to watch the movie in its original Japanese with the voice work I’ve come to know and love, or maybe I just appreciate movies like these more now. Probably both. The movie pretty much plays out like any given spy movie from the 1960s, but on a grander scale. If you’ve seen any of the older James Bond movies or something like Our Man Flint, you should know what kinds of antics to expect.

Technically, the film is just how I remember it. The character animation is decent. It shines at certain points, but for the most part it’s somewhere in between 1980s TV qualtiy and 1980s movie quality. Not bad, but not stunning. The animation on the mechanical things, like cars and airplanes wasn’t very good at all. The opening car chases resorted to a lot of cheap tricks. They worked, but they certainly weren’t on the level of the opening chase in Cagliostro, produced a year later. The film has great background art, though. Each background painting was extremely detailed and beautiful. This more or less made up for shortcomings with the animation. There are a lot of scenes and shots which are done very well, too, but these are few and far between. But, overall the film was a good way in which to start the string of Lupin animated features that followed after this one. A simple story, but brought to life with the characters we’ve come to know and love realized to their full potential, and a general tone of silliness that makes it fun to watch.

Pumpkin Scissors has been going in a good direction in the past few weeks. For good long while it was hanging around in filler city, with certain episodes being good, and certain others being less than good. Episodes 11 and 12 developed an interesting story, so I was disappointed when I saw the preview for episode 13, which looked like more filler. I went into episode 13 expecting nothing. While it was indeed filler, the episode won 1000 points once cute little princess Septieme opened her mouth and Chiwa Saito’s voice came out. This really just made the episode for me. While the story was pretty cliche, having Chiwa Saito voice most of the episode was a real treat. Now, let’s hope this series can win on more points than just voice work in coming episodes!

YOUR MOVIES ARE TOO DAMN FAST. I mean seriously, take some time to flesh out the plot you know? I know these are compilation movies here, but please for the love of Haruhi a movie isn’t a bunch of battle sequence strung together by watered down plot elements from an already fast paced FIFTY EPISODE series.

Edit

What the fuck was with that happy ending? KAMILE SHOULD BE DESTROYED! TOTALLY AND UTTERLY DESTROYED. Also, what’s with killing off Char? IS SOMEONE TRYING TO SUGGEST CHAR’S COUNTERATTACK NEVER HAPPENED?

Shown

• Tsukuyomi Moon Phase Volume 1 + Box
• Gundam Seed Destiny Volume 4
• IGPX Volume 5
• Makoto Shinkai Collection (Voices of a Distant Star, The Place Promised in Our Early Days)
• Tintin in the Congo (there was a reason my father could only buy this in France…)
• April and Nino (Round Table Featuring Nino albums)
• Dark Side ni Youkoso (NHK ni Youkoso! soundtrack, listening to it right now)
• Specialty (Nami Tamaki Album)
• Blood+ Calendar
• Pacman

Not Shown

• ~300 dollars in the form of Amazon gift certificates, Borders Cards and regular money
• Electronic Razor

Probably forgot things.

I updated my art site with this.

now sleep

I forgot to mention that episode 7 of the podcast is available. SG kind of fades out by the end, but that’s because he was chasing a tornado at the time, and his mic kinda got knocked around and he couldn’t speak into it so well (in truth, his mic just sucks any my sound cleaning program cleaned most of him out :/) I’m sorry! I’m still new to this >_<

I hope everyone is having a hot and sexy holiday season. To make it even hotter, I’ve decided to dump a bunch of a Christmas/winter/holiday themed anime images on you. Almost all the images are resized, so please click on them to see the full version. Warning, some of these images are HUEG (Yes, HUEG.) The patented Mistakes of Youth Witty Commentary ™ will be applied to certain images as I see fit.

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This comic is kind of lazy. I spent a lot of time on the buildings in the first panel, then just kind of rushed the rest of it. I think the comic as a whole looks fairly decent, though. I really don’t like resorting to random blurs as backgrounds, but it looks ok here. As far as the script goes, this was one of those ideas that I got as I was drifting off to sleep. Not sure if I should really used half baked ideas like that, but apparently some people found it funny… and some didn’t. It was funnier at 2am as I was falling asleep, not so much now. In any case, it’s the holiday special and holiday specials are supposed to suck, right? Right? I’ll try better for the new year orz

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http://asosbrigade.com/ has been updated with a link to a myspace page for fans of the series  (lame idea, but done tastefully) and a video stating that  Kadokawa  USA  has the license  and  Bandai  Entertainment is  in  charge of distro.

Now, everyone please join me in \o/ing for a bit.

i wonder how many times we’ll see similar entries like this one across anime blogs today