Everyone, meet Girlffith [sic].
10.20.2005
Kawaii naa~~~
So yeah, it took the Densha Otoko TV Drama exactly 48 minutes and 50 seconds to really *connect* with me.If you follow me, Dave, take a look. I WANT IT, MAN.
And for the three of you left in the world who don't know it yet: yeah, I'm as big a Sakura Taisen whore as anything you can find elsewhere.
EDIT: This figure now graces the top shelf of my computer desk. Thanks, Dave! --K. 2/26/07
10.19.2005
Daily Pic, Part Deux...?
10.18.2005
Berserk ~The Prototype~
I don't think I really have to explain what Berserk is. Just about every anime fan out there has heard of it, if not watched/read it. Recently, I found something of a predecessor chapter of the manga called "Berserk ~The Prototype~." It was done back in 1989, when its mercurial mangaka Miura Kentarou was still just a college student, and basically laid the foundation for what became the Berserk manga we know and love. Many of the elements in the Prototype eventually made it into the manga proper: Puck the faerie, Guts' as a one-eyed/one-armed walking typhoon of death, Guts' disproportionately large sword, his crossbow, his arm-cannon, and even the symbol that would become the Brand. However, some things are different, namely Guts' personality (he's more boisterous and irreverent in the Prototype), the eyepatch he wears over his bad eye (which looks rather silly, I must say), the absence of the God Hand (in whose place there's a demon king of sorts called "Vana" that empowers the Apostles), and...
Griffith is a girl.
Man, that was funny. I mean, Griffith as we know him is plenty girlish, but in The Prototype he's a girl, period. In fact, he's the "damsel-in-distress" that Guts has to rescue not once but twice across the 30-some pages that constitute the chapter. Man, I got such a kick of hilarity out of that that I just HAD to share.
Griffith is a girl.
Man, that was funny. I mean, Griffith as we know him is plenty girlish, but in The Prototype he's a girl, period. In fact, he's the "damsel-in-distress" that Guts has to rescue not once but twice across the 30-some pages that constitute the chapter. Man, I got such a kick of hilarity out of that that I just HAD to share.
Ryan Gosling
I was watching CSI: Miami earlier tonight when I came across a commercial for the upcoming movie "Stay" starring, among others, Ewan McGregor and Ryan Gosling. I was absolutely shocked to see Gosling again after all this time: he featured prominently in the teen show "Breaker High" and pseudo-fantasy extravaganza "Young Hercules" (the afternoon kids' version of Hercules: the Legendary Journeys), both of which I remember vividly from the more bored moments of my middle-teenage years. Wow. Just wow. Even Ryan Gosling's all grown up and playing in action-suspense thrillers. I swear that something seems to happen every day now that makes me feel old.
10.17.2005
Funny stuff in Devil Kings
Devil Kings is a new action adventure game (read: beat'em up) by Capcom for the PS2. The game looks incredibly pretty (insofar as the limits of the PS2 hardware goes), but gameplay-wise it's pretty much a Dynasty Warriors clone (although the move-customization part is more like Devil May Cry), right down to your contingents of allied generals and (AI-challenged) allied grunt soldiers that you sometimes have to fight like a madman/woman to save. Unlike Dynasty Warriors, though, this game doesn't seem to try to have a serious plot at all... at least, it certainly is not the case with the plot of the character I'm playing right now.
Her name is Venus. She seems to be a super ninja assassin type (mixed with a healthy dosage of your typical eyecandy game blonde bombshell bakunyuu type). When her story starts, she's sneaking around the ceiling of some castle looking for this guy called Frost so that she could kill him. So she finds him while he's poring over some map (probably just more vanilla plotting to take over the world), drops down from the ceiling, and proceeds to do the usual vainglorious "get ready to face your death" announcement (I thought assassins are supposed to kill swiftly and SILENTLY?). Then he turns around and a maelstrom of rose petals pops out of nowhere to frame his smiling, perfectly bishonen face. And she, um, melts. So when he comes over to sweep her off her feet and spew absolutely idiotic bishonen pickup lines at her ("just like the thorn on a beautiful rose, your eyes have pierced my heart", ugh), she was too smitten to resist him. Not only did she drop her knives, but as he moved in to embrace her (in an absolute fury of petals flying around everywhere... who the hell picked all the flowers in the garden and turned on the electric fan?), she was laughing giddily and making these absolutely ORGASMIC noises. Seriously. Although there's nothing even remotely R-rated in the footage, the noises she were making are absolutely NC-17. Herbal Essences stuff, if you're old enough to remember those commercials. Suffice to say that by the time the first battle started, she was Frost's faithful servant (in more ways than one, I imagine) and sworn to defend him to the death. LOL. Those homages to the glorious bishonen tradition had me rolling on the floor laughing for quite a while. :)
From what I hear, most of the characters have tongue-in-cheek storylines like that. That ought to make the game a little more amusing (though it'll still play like what it is... a Dynasty Warriors ripoff)... well, that and the beautifully done anime FMVs (only seen one so far: Red Minotaur's intro before the second fight in Venus's campaign. But it was truly awesomely animated -- and I swear it's done by either Sunrise Studios or Bandai Visual, because it looks almost entirely like Gasaraki [and somewhat like GiTS: SAC too]).
EDIT: Watch the intro for yourself, courtesy of the incredible convenience of youtube. --K. 2/26/07
Her name is Venus. She seems to be a super ninja assassin type (mixed with a healthy dosage of your typical eyecandy game blonde bombshell bakunyuu type). When her story starts, she's sneaking around the ceiling of some castle looking for this guy called Frost so that she could kill him. So she finds him while he's poring over some map (probably just more vanilla plotting to take over the world), drops down from the ceiling, and proceeds to do the usual vainglorious "get ready to face your death" announcement (I thought assassins are supposed to kill swiftly and SILENTLY?). Then he turns around and a maelstrom of rose petals pops out of nowhere to frame his smiling, perfectly bishonen face. And she, um, melts. So when he comes over to sweep her off her feet and spew absolutely idiotic bishonen pickup lines at her ("just like the thorn on a beautiful rose, your eyes have pierced my heart", ugh), she was too smitten to resist him. Not only did she drop her knives, but as he moved in to embrace her (in an absolute fury of petals flying around everywhere... who the hell picked all the flowers in the garden and turned on the electric fan?), she was laughing giddily and making these absolutely ORGASMIC noises. Seriously. Although there's nothing even remotely R-rated in the footage, the noises she were making are absolutely NC-17. Herbal Essences stuff, if you're old enough to remember those commercials. Suffice to say that by the time the first battle started, she was Frost's faithful servant (in more ways than one, I imagine) and sworn to defend him to the death. LOL. Those homages to the glorious bishonen tradition had me rolling on the floor laughing for quite a while. :)
From what I hear, most of the characters have tongue-in-cheek storylines like that. That ought to make the game a little more amusing (though it'll still play like what it is... a Dynasty Warriors ripoff)... well, that and the beautifully done anime FMVs (only seen one so far: Red Minotaur's intro before the second fight in Venus's campaign. But it was truly awesomely animated -- and I swear it's done by either Sunrise Studios or Bandai Visual, because it looks almost entirely like Gasaraki [and somewhat like GiTS: SAC too]).
EDIT: Watch the intro for yourself, courtesy of the incredible convenience of youtube. --K. 2/26/07
10.13.2005
Namco x Capcom
This line is from the first 5 minutes of the game... it really cracked me up:
(Right after Shion, M.O.M.O., and KOS-MOS materialize in the middle of Shibuya after the first fight)
Xiaomu: "メガネ(Glasses - Shion)、無表情(Expressionless - KOS-MOS)、 ロリ(Loli - Momo)... We've got the whole fanservice package right here!"
Hehe.
Also, is it just me or did Gainax make the opening animation for that game? It looks almost exactly like the kind of animation that FLCL and Aim for the Top! 2 sport, right down to the ugly (but funny) facial expressions and herky-jerky limb action...
Check it out:
(Right after Shion, M.O.M.O., and KOS-MOS materialize in the middle of Shibuya after the first fight)
Xiaomu: "メガネ(Glasses - Shion)、無表情(Expressionless - KOS-MOS)、 ロリ(Loli - Momo)... We've got the whole fanservice package right here!"
Hehe.
Also, is it just me or did Gainax make the opening animation for that game? It looks almost exactly like the kind of animation that FLCL and Aim for the Top! 2 sport, right down to the ugly (but funny) facial expressions and herky-jerky limb action...
Check it out:
10.11.2005
Reviews Upcoming
Yeah, yeah, I know I promised a D. C. review, but that's going to have to sit on the back burner for a while... (EDIT: forever --K. 2/26/07) I've been working on a detailed (and picture-augmented!) review of Japan's #1-rated 2005 drama series -- Densha Otoko. Dave, if you're reading this: go out, rent that show, and watch it now!!! It is IMHO the most entertaining Jdrama since Love Generation (and the most entertaining Jdrama of all time if you're a serious otaku like me); suffice to say I liked it very much. I hope you all will like my review and my homemade screencaps (I made a ton of 'em) as well (EDIT: since things got put off to this crazy extent, there are already reviews out there that are far better than anything I could've written anyway. Try here. --K. 2/26/07).
After that, I figure I'll review a few of these PS2 games that I've been wasting time with... It'll probably start with Genji: Dawn of the Samurai, only because I'm spiteful and I won't stand for Dave bashing the Tale of Genji (admittedly a long-winded and difficult work of literature... but the stories based on which the work was written were splendid and riveting). いい国作ろう、 鎌倉幕府!
After that, I figure I'll review a few of these PS2 games that I've been wasting time with... It'll probably start with Genji: Dawn of the Samurai, only because I'm spiteful and I won't stand for Dave bashing the Tale of Genji (admittedly a long-winded and difficult work of literature... but the stories based on which the work was written were splendid and riveting). いい国作ろう、 鎌倉幕府!
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