…and I don’t really know what to make of it. I think I just can’t really grasp the fact that it ended. The ending is mostly good, but I’m unsure of the events that happen after the final fight. My Japanese is shaky, so I’m going to wait for subs before I pass judgment.
But, overall, fucking awesome series. I guess me hyping this thing to hell back in summer 2006 wasn’t all that off the mark.
This is the smartest thing he’s said in the entire series so far.
Just finished episode 8. It’s pretty funny how things just go from bad to worse, only because these kids are just a bunch of fucking morons.
Anyway, on to epiosde 9…
http://www.project-navel.com/navel/news/events/index.html
Navel is selling a Kaede dakimakura cover at Dreamparty.
I will get it at all costs.
Now the more sane of you will wonder why I would fork over stupid amounts of money for what amounts to a piece of cloth with a girl printed on it. Well, let me tell you that it is WORTH IT. It is. It just is. For the LOVE OF MY LIFE, it is.
Funny I finish this comic right as Geneon’s Nice Boat sinks. Ok, that was horribly forced. Anyway, this comic is a cheapshot, as usual. This should have gone up when I got my first Black Lagoon DVD, but I guess it took me a while to notice the subtitles in the opening. I forgot how bad those lyrics were. I kinda like the art. I wanted to make the colours a little muted, and I think it works to some degree. Expect a comic about Geneon’s TRAGIC DEMISE soon™.
Not much to say. I watched 6 episodes of Pani Poni Dash last night at MIT, which is a true test of Otaku endurance. I may do an individual post about the entire screening later, but I’ll just say now that my energy gave out around the fourth episode. That show is exhausting. Also, I think I’m the only one who gets some of the sight gags, as I’m sure I’m the only guy laughing sometimes…
I got the rest of School Days on deck. I may just finish it all today. I need to see this sick ending everyone is on about.
So, with that, I am off.
In the eternal words of Isao Sasaki, “Goodbye, my darling”
More than ~200 votes would have been nice, though…
Amazon reviews make for good reading…
“ai yori aoshi and ai yori aoshi enishi are such great shows i feel that this show has something for both the guys and the girls and the voice acting is pretty ok, so i would definetly recomend this to anyone.geneon had a good idea when they decided to make these shrink brick sets, and they did i know that a lot of people prefer thinpaks and all but i really love this idea becuase usualy when i get a thinpak one of the dvds will come lose and start rolling around in the case and get scratched (expecialy with bandais packaging) but that almost never happens with regular dvd cases, and this is the first time that Geneon has made something so affordabel, these really do have a good price.”
That is the best sentence. It doesn’t need a qualifier like “ever”, it’s simply the best sentence.
“It had romance, comedy, and some situations I myself would not find! But, overall, I liked it alot!!! And I do recomand it to all!!!”
And I do recomand we all write like this from now on.
Darker Than Black can be really worth it sometimes. That part is funnier if you know all the stuff leading up to it, though. The episode itself was fairly good. The show has been mostly hit or miss with me, and I can’t ascertain whether it’s just me, or the quality of the show itself. Probably a bit of both. Well, not like it really matters, since I probably won’t be watching it ever again.
Somehow I ended up watching episode 7 of School Days. Only five more to go before the big finish, I guess! I have them all downloaded, too. Sounds like a nice way to spend my Saturday…
I think the show would have been better if it was a just a crazy sexy comedy… on a boat.
What follows are some horrible and unfunny photochops.
I’m so sorry…
…so much better than the anime.
Geneon is dead.
For those who may not know, over the past couple of weeks US anime distributor Geneon has made a couple of strange business decisions. It started with their merger with ADV, to their immediate breaking off with ADV, to their withdrawal from the US anime market just today. All the fine details can be found at the usual places.
I am actually really quite bummed about this, as Geneon titles make up a decent part of my collection. Not only that, but I had my sights set on Karin, Black Lagoon, Zero no Tsukaima and the Nanoha shows. What really bothers me is that Karin and Black Lagoon are being canceled mid-run. I can kind of stand having Karin incomplete (I’ll be slightly angry over the half-empty box) as its animation quality doesn’t really demand a DVD release, but I’m pretty mad over Black Lagoon. The DVD video is such a quantum leap in quality from the fansub video, that it’s a shame to see it crap out, and right before the best bits, too.
Another thing that bothers me is that Geneon had such a great con presence. I couldn’t really get close to a lot of other companies, but I could easily talk with the guys at Geneon. In fact, I had a lot of great conversations with them at this past Otakon. I loved their panels (especially After Dark) so it’s just a shame to see their personality up and leave the industry. I hope they have plans for their out-standing licenses. I can see other companies picking up some, but I worry for the fate of prelicensed titles like Black Lagoon. I kind of hope they rebuild themselves under a new name, but I doubt it.
It’s rather strange how they dropped off so suddenly. I guess they were keeping their financial troubles as secret as possible. All the DVDs I’ve gotten from them seemed to be of awesome quality, so I assumed they had money to burn. Maybe that’s just it– they were putting in too much effort and not getting decent outcome.
With the fall of a such a big player in the industry, I fear for the rest of the US anime industry. In 10 years will we have to go back to only watching anime on unofficial releases? I hope not…
In which Gainax reminds us that they did in fact make Gurren Lagann.
Nice boat.
I demand a season 3.
Lucky Star, one of the most CONTROVERSIAL SERIES EVER MADE (for some reason) comes to a close. While I feel it is an uneven work, I never hated it. It had its fair share of great, good and ok episodes. One problem with the show is probaby how it got too caught up in its own phenomenon. I’m talking about all the otaku in-jokes and the like. While I enjoyed a lot of that humour, looking back on it, these things probably weighed the show down. Instead it could have stood to have more warm, sentimental moments, such as those near the end. In general I find that since there was a lack of many real sentimental moments, I found it hard to really attach myself to the show emotionally and have it resonate in my memory. Of course, I’ll never forget Konata, simply because I’m so much like her. But that’s about the only bit of emotional attachment I have for this show. It works as a decent assortment of jokes, character centric or non, but there’s not much past that. Another problem is how dated it’ll feel in like a week.
Despite this very large barbed compliment, it’s a neat piece. I say watch it before it gets too dated, as most of it will fall flat in coming months. I don’t know, maybe I’ll look back on this show fondly in 20 years as a reminder of this period in otaku history, much like otaku from the ’80s look back on Otaku no Video…
Anyway, that’s a wrap for Lucky Star. It’s been fun, but now it’s done. Oh, and just for the record, the Haruhi pimping didn’t bother me one bit.
I cleaned it up a bit. Please fix bookmarks and shit if you had index2.html bookmarked.
I can’t watch Gundam right now. It’s too heavy for me at the moment. So, I’ll switch gears to watching things that are more funny and perverted. Colorful sounds just about right… then maybe a healthy serving of Golden Boy.
I kinda wanna do a series of pics of her in different outfits. Probably like 3 or 4. I’d never have the time to do that, though.
Been depressed today. Ugh.
Art site updated with something that is pretty much not sexual at all. A rarity!
I dunno after drawing a bunch of porn I kinda wanna do real art again.
There is now a wallpaper section.
AREN’T YOU EXCITED?! GO TELL YOUR FRIENDS :D
I bitched about Aoi House a long while back. I think I complained about how it was unrealistic portrayal of anime fans, or some shit like that. Well, I am a fucking hypocrite. I mean, at first Tina looked kinda dumpy, which would be normal for any anime fan. Now look at her. My logic was, if she’s wish-fulfillment, I might as well fulfill some wishes. So after a while I started dolling her up. Played with various looks and styles, until she became the ultimate moe-machine, at least in my eyes. Of course, I have many different kinds of ideas of moe (most of which involve girls being under the age of 13…) Tina’s look appeals to the moe in me that likes girls like Mikuru (or maybe I’m just getting thrown off by the chest) and her personality is very much one of a girl who I would like to have by my side. Well, I guess she could stand to have more of Konata-ness to her. This however depresses me. My shameless wish-fulfillment robs me of any artistic integrity I may have had. It’s shameless, and I hate myself for it. Despite that though, the penis wins this battle, and I’ll continue to make Tina as unrealistic as possible! Huzzah! Actually, please share with me your thoughts on my shameless wish-fulfillment in the comments section. I’d like to hear what you guys think.
Now to the actual comic. I think everything came out pretty well. I had hard time nailing the Zetsubou Sensei style, but I got it in the end. I hope my utter copying of the screencaps counts as fair use, since they’re in the context of a parody.
There is a new podcast. It’s Otakon chatter, which I finally got around to editing. I’m not as good as Patrick Macias when it comes to this kind of thing, but I think it turned out pretty good. This is the final podcast of SEASON 1. The reason I’m closing this one off is because while there are good episodes, it’s kind of a low qualtiy production all around. It was a good way for me to learn the ropes of podcasting, and I hope to apply those lessons in the new podcast, Mistakes of Youth: BEYOND THE TIME. Look out for it~
I would write more, but I don’t fucking feel like it. As you can tell from the lack of updates on the blog, school has been kicking my fucking ass. I’m going to try to see if I can drop one class to make it kick my ass less. Three studio classes are just too much…
Anyway, until next time~
Art site has been updated with something very NSFW.
I present to you anime beauty, perfected. Well, I’m bias, since I have thing for ’90s designs. But she’s pretty hot, yeah?
Talk about nostalgia, I just watched the first Tenchi movie, TENCHI MUYO IN LOVE (what a lovely Engrish title.) This movie holds something of a significant meaning for me, since it was the first anime I ever watched UNCUT AND UNEDITED. Many (if not all) of you readers probably don’t know this, unless you’re one of my friends who was also there on the fateful night of my 13th (?) birthday, when a friend of mine brought over the dubbed VHS from Potomac Video…
I’ve learned various fun and interesting things from my viewing of the first four episodes of Blue Comet SPT Layzner.
That’s what I’d like to know, pal.
*I understand that if a normal gun is laser sighted, it can be refered to as a “lasered gun.” However, in Layzner, the guns shoot lasers, so I think my Engrish joke still stands 
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It also has the best writing ever.
I guess this is where the guy who wrote the F/SN anime got his start.
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