日常生活

My Imoto - I was looking around for something "Japanesy", and BAM, here's "The Great Imoto" to the rescue. And how about that, a friendly, giant monster, not out to destroy your town, but - perhaps - to make friends. How nice. I think!

A Fistful of Woolongs - This one's inspired by Cowboy Bebop, one of the funkiest and best anime series I have seen. It's been a while now though, I think it may be time to brush up on my boogie...

Snack Attack - Did you know Japan is a dirty, perverted place? Ah, of course you do. How silly of me, everyone knows that... This one made me hungry for Japanese... Whether it'd be the food or the girls, I dunno.. （　ﾟ Дﾟ）

Ya, enough about Japan already....

Celebrate Mediocrity - It's tiring to be your best all the god damned time, you need to rest eventually. Why not rest ALL THE TIME?!

Untitled Madness - Let's face it, who can put a name on madness anyway?

Zombie Apocalypse - Are you ready? *pump-action shotgun* I know I am! I have played Left4Dead, I know how to handle them..

It's been a while since I saw any anime and I wanted to pick up a slow paced show to easy my way back. I decided on Hourou Musuko, a story about a boy who wants to be a girl and a girl who wants to be a boy.

I think this is my first experience with these particular topics; gender identity and transsexuality. I'm not really sure why I picked it, but I'm glad I did. It's a really nice story, short but so very sweet.

The art style is really neat, and actually what I first fell for - I noticed the image before reading the synopsis.

I only wish the show would've lasted longer, but I guess I could, nay should read the manga. :3

I tried watching SE:L a good while back, but it was dubbed in English so turned it off after 2 minutes. Anime dubs are shit..

I recently got a hold of a copy with Japanese speech and decided to give it a go. I've seen 6 episodes so far.

Honestly I don't really know what the hell is going on. @_@

Strangely enough, the story reminds me of the Otherland-serie by Tad Williams. I liked that one better though.

My workday starts at 7am. On a good day I usually crawl out of bed around 6am, sometimes a little bit earlier, sometimes a little bit later (oops!). The last few weeks my days have started one hour later but I'm still trying to get up and get ready at about the same time as before.

To get me going I've started watching anime while preparing breakfast/lunch for work. I asked a friend for some suggestions on shows and he mentioned Kimi Ni Todoke and Eden of the East. Mornings are awesome again. :3

After running a little low on my anime (I'm not, really - five shows last me a while these days, what with WoW going on and all) I decided to download a few more.

Lucky for me, BoxTorrents are running a Freeleech campaign over the holidays. Woop, that means grabbing a few extra shows while they're free!

Rosario + Vampire - Watched one episode so far. Aono Tsukune accidentaly enrolls in a monster High School, where they don't look too kindly on humans. The artwork and animation is very very nice, and the vampire he befriends is kawaii. ^^

They Are My Noble Masters - Watched one episode. Didn't make much sense at first, but I'm hoping it'll get better. Brother complex, hoooo! (That's out of whack)..

Clannad - ...Watched one episode (hey, I gotta try them!) Tomoya Okazaki is a third-year high school student who doesn't take his studies seriously. However, he meets a lonely-looking girl in the school courtyard, Nagisa Furukawa. Tomoya is rather indifferent at first, but decides that he has nothing better to do and spends increasingly more time helping Nagisa restore the school drama club. Great art (I'm a sucker for the visual) and an interresting story.

Labyrinth of Flames - A two-part OVA, and a strange one at that. A samurai-fan accepts an ancient Japanese sword, unknowing that gift is a betrothal heirloom. Made little sense, but was pretty funny. Gotta love the " O_O;; " expressions.

I also got a few that I haven't begun watching yet: Tower of Druaga: the Aegis of Uruk, Sekirei and H2O: Footprints in the Sand.

I'm slowly running out of anime to watch. Not so much in terms of selection, but what I have aquired so far. I recently finished watching Welcome to the NHK, loving every episode. It was a great show with a great story and great animation. Alas that story ended, and I'm now down to the following five shows:

Strawberry Panic - I've watched two episodes so far. The animation is beautiful and the story somewhat intriguing. With a setting of three all-girl schools, there's hints of yuri everywhere. Wohoop!

Strike Witches - Five episodes into this show, and there's still no pants in sight! Seriously. That's pretty rad.. I'm not sure whether I like it [the show as a whole] or not, as it's kind of childish. Concidered illegal in Sweden, because of the apparent loli.. Pft, lame.

Amaenaideyo!! - Seemingly the only one with the aspect ratio fitting our tv (the subs end up too low on the other shows) so every once in a while I sit on our comfy couch, rather than my poor excuse of a chair. But the show isn't all that good. It's pretty slow and boring. Here's hoping it gets better, I really enjoy watching from the couch. ;)

Chobits - Why someone would feel embarrased from looking at someone naked, especially if that someone was a robot, is beyond me.. Chobits is pretty slow, but sweet. And a supposed must-see for any anime enthusiast..

Koi Koi Seven - Again, a crazy school. (Can't get enough of those, I suppose). You wouldn't believe (but then again, maybe you would) how many anime series are centered around a school. This one's particularly crazy; "A series of strange events fall upon him [Tetsuro Tanaka]. Then, 6 girls who are called Koi Koi Seven appear as his guardians. Army combat helicopters and anti-tank guns attack Tetsuro for no particular reason as he tries to survive each day in the academy."

Funny how they're all concidered ecchi.. Hoomm! In case you're wondering about the title, this image might shed some light on the matter. Or not, either way. It feels like this is something I ought to hide away.. :)

So I ran across a list of ecchi anime over at Wikipedia and I instantly thought - "I should try watch all of it"... o_o;

I've watched a few of them already (or at least a few episodes) - Agent Aika, Amaenaideyo!!, Colorful, Ebichu, Futari Ecchi, Girls Bravo, Golden Boy, Ichigo 100%, Koi Koi Seven, Love Love, Mouse, Please Twins, Popotan, Strike Witches and Tonagura....... -gasp- That was a quite a few. What a pervert! :o

Some of these were really good (not necessarily because of nudity) while others, not so much (again, not necessarily because of nudity)... I'll try and watch them all. \o/

I figured I didn't watch enough anime and decided to change that by watching the 50 episode-long serie, Eureka Seven. I didn't have a whole lot else to do the last few days, so I more or less watched the entire show over the last four five days...

Someone wrote that it's Evangelion, but for kids, and I suppose that's partially true, being the nature of the show - half-adventure, half-action, half-mecha, half-romance...yada yada. But I enjoyed Eureka Seven a billion times more than I did Eva, mostly because this one didn't spin a hundred miles around my head..

It's a rather typhical story I suppose; boy meets girl (or girl crashes into boy, rather), boy and girl go on a world-spanning adventure, end up with a life-changing decision and the finale is heartwarming, sad but beautiful. And so incredible unfair. It's always so bloody unfair! Makes me wanna cry every time, it's depressing really... :-]

Aren't you a lucky guy, Renton? I wish I were you...

Ten years ago, a bizarre phenomenon appeared in Tokyo. Three days later, two types of humans with supernatural abilities appeared: emotionless 'dolls' that only do what they're 'programmed' to and wield the ability of surveillance, and powerful 'contractors', feared and hated by the humans that know of their existence. Rationally self-preserving and without the feeling of guilt, it's not long before contractors are used as ideal assassins and weapons of war.

Unable to analyze the phenomenon that created these beings safely, it's decided that a huge wall be built around it, called "Hell's Gate." PANDORA, an international research group, protects this wall and analyzes what little they can, while the government struggles to suppress dangerous contractors and the publics' knowledge of them.

In all the police force's efforts and doll-assisted surveillance of the city, one contractor continues to evade them. 'BK201', as the police force knows him, stands out as an exceptional killer, while those in the syndicate who know him as 'Hei' see him as a powerful, yet strangely irrational contractor...

- Shamelessly copied from anidb.com.

For the longest, the mask that Hei is wearing put me off wanting to see this serie. Dunno why, but it looked kind of.......silly, I guess. In the end I gave in to the plot though, and I'm glad I did - DtB is an awesome show, and I had heaps of fun watching it.

DtB is devided up into two-episode blocks, putting the focus on one of the characters in each block. The last three episodes plus an OVA is the exception, where they try to wrap it all up and (halfarsedly) tie up the loose ends.

- I'll add more here, I just had to get this written or I'd stall forever. -

Tales from Earthsea is loosely based on a series of novels about the world Earthsea; hundreds of islands surrounded by a vast, uncharted ocean.

I can't think of a good way to sum up the plot of this movie, one'd almost have to know about the Earthsea universe to fully understand -- a few things that happen seems to be taken out of context. The story feels really short, almost to the point where I wonder why they even bothered making this movie.

The king is murdered. The killer - none other than the kings own son, prince Arren - flees the palace by horse, bringing his fathers sword along. Shortly thereafter Arren find himself surrounded by a pack of wolves. Trying to defend himself, Arren realise he can not unsheathe the sword, and thus prepares to die. Instead he's suddenly resqued by a magician; Sparrowhawk. Accompanying Sparrowhawk, they set of towards the city of Hort where Arren runs into Therru, a girl chased by slavers. Arren fends the slavers of, but Therru runs away without saying a word. Later that night, the slavers return in greater number and capture Arren.

Yeah, I'll stop with the plot there. I could tell more, but it'd basically be giving away the entire movie, the plot is pretty...thin, to say the least.

Animationwise however, Tales of Earthsea is really beautiful, everything seems to be alive and every movement is really smooth. I especially like the architecture of Hort, a magnificent looking city, even though it's really run down. The voice acting is also pretty good, no complaints there. There's a song somewhere halfway through, sung by Therru, that's pretty nice.

If you're a fan of Studio Ghibli movies, I suppose this one's a must see (not really), but if you're just looking for a movie to waste some time on, I'd suggest one that ain't so bland. I'm sorry. This movie was bland, and you'd really be -wasting- your time..