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Was kind of bored so I just decided to post this comic up. It’s my generic Gundam ranting, with fairly uninpsired artwork. I didn’t really have any ideas at the time, but wanted to make a comic, so I did this. It’s ok, I guess.

Oh, a podcast happened.

Been watching the Tenchi TV series lately, while neglecting new anime like Bokura No and Seirei, because quite frankly I’m not interested in either of them. I miss the look of these old 90s cel productions. They have a certain quality to them that I really dig. Kind of sad that cel animation was dumped right as they perfected it. My favourite part thus far has been the episodes devoted to Kiyone, given she is my most favourite character. The others are quite good and funny, but those Kiyone-centric ones give me warm fuzzies. She was the first 2D girl I feel in love with, after all.

Aside from watching old shows from the mid-90s, I watched Lucky Star episode 12 today. Highlights being the entire Comike part (especially with Tomokazu Sugita’s cameo) and the really surprising Godman reference right at the end. Funny stuff.

Ok, another short one this week. I have like 5000 blog posts planned out, but no time to write them.

Items I’d like to get to:

• Death Note Review
• Mid-season evaluation
• Directing in anime
• Why I love 2D girls

Anyway, that’s all for today.

Been watching the Tenchi TV series lately. I had started to watch the original OVA a while back, but it got lost in the crowd with all the other things I was watching. I recently got the TV series collection for my birthday, and just decided to watch that given I like it a bit more than the OVA. Watching it now, I find the animation isn’t especially good, but it’s not bad either. It’s rather charming though. I simply love the look of these 90s cel-done productions, even if they are a little uneven at times. This is also the first time I’m watching it in Japanese, and I like it a lot better than watching it dubbed on the Cartoon Network and on VHS.

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Spoilers for the Death Note anime after the jump

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Not related to this post at all, but if you want to see further works by this guy, visit his sexy site! WARNING: His site contains a lot of weird sick shit that I really get into. You’ve been warned. 

Since everyone and their dog is doing it, I’ll post my picks for the summer. At the moment editing a podcast where lastarial and I kinda talk about this, but for some reason we miss out Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei…

Best of Season

• Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei - Comedy about a suicidal teacher. Also directed by the best man in the world.
• Tetsuko no Tabi – High Quality character design and laffo concept have me sold. I also used to like trains as a child.
• Doujin Work – Man I wish those dudes would translate more of the comic, as it’s hilarious. It’s basically lolis drawing doujins with a bunch of very, very close to home jokes thrown in. That is awesome.

Normal stuff that won’t completely blow my mind

• Sky Girls TV – Well the OVA was good.
• Moetan – This is really a given for me. Hot character designs have me sold~
• Zero no Tsukaima 2 SEXIER EDITION – Because I watched the first season and liked it. They’ll really have a winner on their hands if they make a series just about Siesta though 
• Baccano! – How could you not watch a show called Baccano!
• Dokuro-Chan 2 – Should probably watch 1 again, as it is a subperb example of how to use the animation medium

Might as well

• Nanatsuiro★Drops – Itou Noiji. That’s it.

Never

• ZOMBIE-LOAN – Sounds retarded.

Not really a special occasion or anything, I just got some food and thought, “hey, I’ll do that thing lonely geeks do.”

I am a lonely geek.

Edit: Thanks, Cortana.

Went out to the CD/Game Exchange today to trade in some stuff. Four shitty Weezer CDs (from when I used to listen to shitty music), an Invader Zim DVD (Jhonen Vasquez is for silly teenagers) and Tsukuyomi -Moon Phase- volume 2 (I had two of them.) I felt a bit ripped since all I got was 9 dollars, but I guess that’s how it goes.

I didn’t just walk out with 9 dollars, though…

Judge Back Cover | Harmagedon Back Cover

Got both for about 1 dollar each. The first one I saw was Judge, which I’ve never ever heard of before. After that I saw Harmagedon, which I heard of “back in the day.” I’m kind of sad since it seems Harmagedon is actually a good movie (apparently it has a DVD release somewhere) but Judge should be pretty bad given I’ve never heard of it before, and the plot is pretty laughable.

Gotta watch these while I’m still living in a place that has a VCR.

In episode 11 of Xenoglossia they go to a volcano to get some dumb idol core out of said volcano. In episode of 10 of Evangelion, MAGMA DIVER (the best episode ever) they fight an angel in a volcano.

Episode 8 of Evangelion happens in this episode, too.

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This entry will have spoilers for FAREWELL SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO. But spoiling Yamato is like spoiling King Kong so no one should care.

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Mistakes of Youth will cease to be in OTAKU USA.

Old entry was DELTEETED for un-needed dorama. Also don’t bug anyone (namely Patrick, who is a very busy man and doesn’t such drama) about this k? Thx.

I didn’t mean to sound emo and dumb in my last entry. I just think is a funny emote so I used it.

Speaking of SA emotes I just did something I can never make right. Bets on how long it is until they ban me for being a ロリコン.

Here you go you disgusting lolicon perverts who fap to images of little children being sexually handled by adults you bunch of disgusting weirdos

Also, you may notice there’s no comic today. Sorry.

Children are precious. They are our future. We must love and respect them. We must guard their purity.

So clearly we must lust after them like the dirty perverts we are.

Art site has been updated with loli porn. This is a first for me, supringly enough.

…except it wasn’t that epic?

Like every anime fan should once in his lifetime, I sat down and watched the highly influential Space Battleship Yamato. However, I came out rather underwhelmed. For a show that’s been remembered throughout the years as a classic, I expected a bit more. On the whole, the entire production seemed fairly amateur. I’m not talking about animation or audio quality– just the basics like storytelling and character development. It’s all very simple, and that isn’t especially a good thing.

Yamato is old though. Like a friend of mine said yesterday, Yamato is just Yamato. In the same way Pacman is Pacman. You can’t rate Yamato by today’s standards, as things were simply different back then. Obviously animation wasn’t that great, but the medium of Japanese animation was still coming into itself as a means of storytelling. People probably just started with what’s a easy, and monster of the week is pretty damn easy! Yamato wasn’t meant to have the kind of constant “to be continued” found in most anime, it’s just a simple TV show.

What I do find funny is how taken I am with the original Gundam. From roughly the same era, and suffering from the problems, the Gundam TV series is one of my favourites. I think it’s probably because you can tie random events together better in a war setting (as they change the course of war) but Yamato is random events happening along a journey, and everything gets fixed in the next episode.

I am dowloading the movies now, and plan to watch series 2, but all for educational value. I learned a lot through Yamato, surprisingly enough. If I happen to find it really good then I guess that’s a plus.

Here.