There comes a time in the pondering individuals life in which he must ask himself "How do I know I exist." This is a question which many want to avoid because they cannot seem to formulate a cohesive answer as they are treading a thought process not required in everyday life. However I have undertaken the task of answering this question which I have found myself asking.
Around us we experience many things, all of which can very easily be attributed to us creating a world to live in to stave off the boredom. This is a bit of the inspiration for works such as The Matrix, however if we are creating our own realities then who is to say that any person exists. I understand that I am typing this and that maybe it will be viewed, but how do I know that they are not simply amalgamations of my mind and meant to give me gratification or criticism. This is the question we all must ask ourselves "is there anything which can define reality?" The answer? No, we live in our own realities everyday (assuming that there is more than one consciousness), we take experiences in our own ways and have vastly different paths.
The issue of identity becomes apparent and really can only be summed in a way that has already been done before by more pretentious people. We have no idea if anything is real but take solace in the fact that no-one is sure of what is going on if this reality is not real. In order to accept that we are real we must have one person who we regard as real present us with the same authority. Once we have a mutual contract with our fellow man we can be certain in our love for this reality, even if it is false. Humans are considered social creatures who thrive on the interactions they have, this is because it is proof to us that we exist, if only in our mind and world.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
This entry was spurred by my viewing of a character which conveyed a sense of pointlessness to actions which one deems as human and ended on the note that we are nothing more than ideas. I sat pondering this idea and came with these findings, I hope you enjoyed this diatribe of self actualization and I will see you in my next post.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Just a comment I posted that I felt needed mentioning
This is a comment which I put on an interesting explanation of MEMEME, it may sound self righteous but that's because that is how I learned to cope with life.
I enjoyed MEMEME and Girl. With MEMEME the obsession side is
accurate, moderation is required in everything, even moderation. To be honest I
don't get out much, but that is because I don't have money for it, though I go
to school and am regarded highly for my charisma. I am an otaku and collector
but the thing I am obsessive about is experience. I want to experience
everything because life feels so short, because of this I am proficient in a
large variety of skill and learned to have charisma in all things I do. I was
shy when I was young, but learned a few years ago that if I simply think about
myself and think of how I would want me to be, I can be successful. For
instance I enjoy acting, I currently have a near perfect score in my theatre
arts class and choir classes, I keep being told to take certain routes. I am
told this in many other subjects, especially regarding computers.
The reason I have gotten this far but still have a otaku and gaming lifestyle is because of narcissism, view yourself as the most amazing person in the world and you will be the most amazing person in the world. Love what you do, laugh at yourself. Life is subjective, if you have a sad outlook on life then you will be sad. Learn to laugh, even if the world thinks your inappropriate for laughing at something, be content with the fact that you are you, not anyone else. Probably the biggest inspiration to me for learning to deal with life was Welcome to the NHK, I find myself teetering between Sato and Yamazaki in how I live my life. Whenever I leave a place where I have been for even a month I get them saying that they miss me and want me back because it just isn't the same without me. I leave a trail of quirkiness, as I am blunt and honest about nearly everything (especially sexuality). Take this as you will but this is how I came out of a pit of years without friends, years of being cast from society for no other reason then that I was vulnerable. Now I am at a point that nothing effects me, I can take all the insults in history and not be phased simply because I have self confidence (also because I was forged in the fires of one of the worst schools socially in the midwest). Done with my diatribe, go back to watching videos.
The reason I have gotten this far but still have a otaku and gaming lifestyle is because of narcissism, view yourself as the most amazing person in the world and you will be the most amazing person in the world. Love what you do, laugh at yourself. Life is subjective, if you have a sad outlook on life then you will be sad. Learn to laugh, even if the world thinks your inappropriate for laughing at something, be content with the fact that you are you, not anyone else. Probably the biggest inspiration to me for learning to deal with life was Welcome to the NHK, I find myself teetering between Sato and Yamazaki in how I live my life. Whenever I leave a place where I have been for even a month I get them saying that they miss me and want me back because it just isn't the same without me. I leave a trail of quirkiness, as I am blunt and honest about nearly everything (especially sexuality). Take this as you will but this is how I came out of a pit of years without friends, years of being cast from society for no other reason then that I was vulnerable. Now I am at a point that nothing effects me, I can take all the insults in history and not be phased simply because I have self confidence (also because I was forged in the fires of one of the worst schools socially in the midwest). Done with my diatribe, go back to watching videos.
Ore Twintails Ni Narimasu: Attack of the Fetishistic Dimensional Aliens!
Twintails is a special breed of show, you go into it saying "Yeah this is gonna be shit"; but come out saying "Shit that turned out to be fun enough that I want more". Twintails has a stupid plot but it is driven by the crazy characters.
Earth has been invaded by the Ultimegil a race of fetishistic creatures who all seek attributes to feed their desires but serve greater masters, the greatest of which enjoys Twintails (really long pigtails Miku Hatsune style). A hero rises up to face them with his equal, if not greater, obsession with this hair style:
Sōji Mitsuka
This guy is so obssessed that im pretty sure he is in a padded room imagining all of this. He is a cardboard cutout like every character in this show and honestly is the least funny character in the show as his lines can be summed up with "Twintails are awesome, fuck you aliens, my passion is greater, i have the biggest dick even when I am a girl because hair is amazing"
He spends his fighting time (and a few episodes) as a girl simply called Red (real original guys)
This girl is young looking and draws people who enjoy lolis (this show is full of them). She ends up garnering the attention of just about every person on earth and leaves her allies behind in popularity, proving that the world is a bunch of pedos and that flat is justice.
Speaking of; remember the fetish freaks from earlier? Well they
attempted to answer the question of flat or plot and both died horrible
deaths, but at least the flat lover was a tentacle monster.
Next in our main cast is Aika Tsube, a wonderful tall loli who has many cute moments in the show that mainly have to do with insecurities about her breast size and the many beatings of Twoearle.
This girl becomes Blue when she transforms, her outfit manages to be the most revealing of the trio and she manages to be the strongest physically. She is the ideal tomboy character and appeals to those who want a girl that can kick the ass of all the bullies at school because you don't feel like it (unless you are stronk like me and do 500 pushups a day at a minimum).
Finally we have a loli that actually is contending for a spot in my favorite characters because she peaks a meter deep in my heart. Erina Shindō, the class president with a submissive side and makes Kanbaru look tame.
She looks like serious jail bait and ends up needing to be saved for half the series. However, when she is given a chance, she proves to be a force to be reckoned with and is the only Tail to have a bust. She is Tail Yellow and will strip off her armor in a heartbeat only to become stronger.
Her biggest dream is to be Soji's pet, this is something that propelled this character so high in my esteem for her. This is because even if one can look objectively at something, they will inevitably enjoy something that brings them happiness and this is one of them. She is hilarious to watch and makes the show for me.
The Ultimegil are too numerous to count, but I guarantee that one of them has your fetish, go on, look on the wiki and find one.
The story is like a magical girl show (which I classify this as magical girl in every aspect, even down to the loli fan service) and thus is not too great. The Ultimegil are taken down in troves and the girls occasionally have to get over some self issue in order to take one down. The show just kind of ends with the big boss character being called back on a mission from her boss.
The appeal of the show is the fetishes you have and the comedy, because the characters are one dimensional and only have fetishistic value to drive them.
Ratings:
Story: 5 Really not a story at all
Animation: 7 Good animation all around, no real good moments except the ending theme which has great hair movement at points
Characters: 8 Again one dimensional but will appeal to each on a fetishistic and humorous level
Sound: 8 This show actually has a great sound track, with the opening and ending really standing out
Enjoyment: 8 I enjoyed this show because of the previously stated reasons, with Erina being the shining star for me
------------
Overall: 7.2 Feed those fetishes my friends, and stay strong.
Earth has been invaded by the Ultimegil a race of fetishistic creatures who all seek attributes to feed their desires but serve greater masters, the greatest of which enjoys Twintails (really long pigtails Miku Hatsune style). A hero rises up to face them with his equal, if not greater, obsession with this hair style:
Sōji Mitsuka
This guy is so obssessed that im pretty sure he is in a padded room imagining all of this. He is a cardboard cutout like every character in this show and honestly is the least funny character in the show as his lines can be summed up with "Twintails are awesome, fuck you aliens, my passion is greater, i have the biggest dick even when I am a girl because hair is amazing"
He spends his fighting time (and a few episodes) as a girl simply called Red (real original guys)
This girl is young looking and draws people who enjoy lolis (this show is full of them). She ends up garnering the attention of just about every person on earth and leaves her allies behind in popularity, proving that the world is a bunch of pedos and that flat is justice.
Next in our main cast is Aika Tsube, a wonderful tall loli who has many cute moments in the show that mainly have to do with insecurities about her breast size and the many beatings of Twoearle.
Finally we have a loli that actually is contending for a spot in my favorite characters because she peaks a meter deep in my heart. Erina Shindō, the class president with a submissive side and makes Kanbaru look tame.
She looks like serious jail bait and ends up needing to be saved for half the series. However, when she is given a chance, she proves to be a force to be reckoned with and is the only Tail to have a bust. She is Tail Yellow and will strip off her armor in a heartbeat only to become stronger.
The Ultimegil are too numerous to count, but I guarantee that one of them has your fetish, go on, look on the wiki and find one.
The story is like a magical girl show (which I classify this as magical girl in every aspect, even down to the loli fan service) and thus is not too great. The Ultimegil are taken down in troves and the girls occasionally have to get over some self issue in order to take one down. The show just kind of ends with the big boss character being called back on a mission from her boss.
The appeal of the show is the fetishes you have and the comedy, because the characters are one dimensional and only have fetishistic value to drive them.
Ratings:
Story: 5 Really not a story at all
Animation: 7 Good animation all around, no real good moments except the ending theme which has great hair movement at points
Characters: 8 Again one dimensional but will appeal to each on a fetishistic and humorous level
Sound: 8 This show actually has a great sound track, with the opening and ending really standing out
Enjoyment: 8 I enjoyed this show because of the previously stated reasons, with Erina being the shining star for me
------------
Overall: 7.2 Feed those fetishes my friends, and stay strong.
Black Lagoon Roberta's Blood Trail Review: NSA get out of foreign affairs! You won't be slaughtered!
So today I watched Black Lagoon Roberta's Blood Trail, it was good and left me wondering about myself and my own rage. Roberta's Blood Trail is an OVA which takes place directly after the end of Second Barrage.
It tells the tail of the aftermath of a NSA assassination which took out Roberta's master. Now if you have seen the original series you will know that Roberta would have killed everyone in Roanaper if it meant saving her master and his child. With the master dead, she goes after the NSA which have taken up residence in Roanapur for a little while. Garcia and another maid end up coming to warn them, what ensues is Rock becoming Light Yagami/Lelouch. He ends up figuring everything out by the 2nd episode and the rest is just him conducting his orchestra from the shadows.
Roberta is hyped up on meds and goes on a complete rampage. Annihilating all that stand in her way, not having qualms about how to kill them. She even seduces the guy that wants her to come to Cuba and she ends up using that to kill him. It is a brutal blood bath with some surprising tactics that are used in order to cause as little damage as possible. Overall it turned out to be a game of trying to figure out what will happen next and seeing fairly innocent people witness the cold hearted brutality of most of the people of Roanapur.
Really this OVA is more of the blood soaked goodness of the original series, fan service for the Gib freaks that we are. So watch this when you just feel like watching psychopaths go on rampages and try to kill each-other.
Ratings:
Story: (new category) 6 It is mainly meant to be fan service for previous fans and thus doesn't have the best story around
Animation: 8 It looked great, but what do you expect from madhouse, hardcore gun action
Characters: 7 No real qualms, they aren't deep characters, they are characters who shoot people; end of story
Sound: 7 It works all throughout, the opening track is not so good in this one as the original Mell opening was great and memorable and this just remixes it
Enjoyment: 7 Honestly I didn't enjoy this as much as the original show, it was good, but felt like some of the humor was lost in this OVA
--------------
Overall: 7 If you enjoy Black Lagoon watch this, if not skip it cuz this is just a minor extension of the show
This post was origionally started May 5, 2015 but remained unposted due to events in my life.
It tells the tail of the aftermath of a NSA assassination which took out Roberta's master. Now if you have seen the original series you will know that Roberta would have killed everyone in Roanaper if it meant saving her master and his child. With the master dead, she goes after the NSA which have taken up residence in Roanapur for a little while. Garcia and another maid end up coming to warn them, what ensues is Rock becoming Light Yagami/Lelouch. He ends up figuring everything out by the 2nd episode and the rest is just him conducting his orchestra from the shadows.
Roberta is hyped up on meds and goes on a complete rampage. Annihilating all that stand in her way, not having qualms about how to kill them. She even seduces the guy that wants her to come to Cuba and she ends up using that to kill him. It is a brutal blood bath with some surprising tactics that are used in order to cause as little damage as possible. Overall it turned out to be a game of trying to figure out what will happen next and seeing fairly innocent people witness the cold hearted brutality of most of the people of Roanapur.
Really this OVA is more of the blood soaked goodness of the original series, fan service for the Gib freaks that we are. So watch this when you just feel like watching psychopaths go on rampages and try to kill each-other.
Ratings:
Story: (new category) 6 It is mainly meant to be fan service for previous fans and thus doesn't have the best story around
Animation: 8 It looked great, but what do you expect from madhouse, hardcore gun action
Characters: 7 No real qualms, they aren't deep characters, they are characters who shoot people; end of story
Sound: 7 It works all throughout, the opening track is not so good in this one as the original Mell opening was great and memorable and this just remixes it
Enjoyment: 7 Honestly I didn't enjoy this as much as the original show, it was good, but felt like some of the humor was lost in this OVA
--------------
Overall: 7 If you enjoy Black Lagoon watch this, if not skip it cuz this is just a minor extension of the show
This post was origionally started May 5, 2015 but remained unposted due to events in my life.
Problems of Reviewing shows
Reviewing comes with a myriad of problems; mainly you really have to be in the mood to review, also with shows you will often get side tracked to other shows unless you have a group of people to enjoy your reviews. You need reviews for people to enjoy, so it becomes a process of hopelessness and eventual results. I have watched a few shows recently but have mainly been watching Hunter X Hunter, which I think will be my true next review. I may however toss in Ore Twintails ni Narimasu today in order to appease my mind of being guilty over my laziness, though it took me around a month and a half to complete twintails because I kept being sidetracked by other shows which had more enduring plots. Though twintails has a good amount of plot (if you catch my drift). Fuck it today is a review day now. But first I will get back to the subject at hand.
Reviewing is a beast which requires special attention because often times you will catch yourself just enjoying yourself watching shows and wont think to actually ponder the show in an analytical format. This has happened to me a bunch and it leads to me not even remembering what I was going to say about some shows and having to rewatch them, which I only rewatch a show after at least a year has passed because seeing the same thing multiple times tends to sully its view for me. Thus I will begin going through my backlog and attempt to get through my backlog on at least a biweekly format. Around Christmas I am planning on purchasing a microphone which will allow for some high quality voice work, which will hopefully allow me to pump out reviews at a quality which suits my own expectations for myself. On to go finish the black lagoon review that has been sitting since may. (Laptops make reviews so much easier, I would even take a crap laptop just for that purpose"
Reviewing is a beast which requires special attention because often times you will catch yourself just enjoying yourself watching shows and wont think to actually ponder the show in an analytical format. This has happened to me a bunch and it leads to me not even remembering what I was going to say about some shows and having to rewatch them, which I only rewatch a show after at least a year has passed because seeing the same thing multiple times tends to sully its view for me. Thus I will begin going through my backlog and attempt to get through my backlog on at least a biweekly format. Around Christmas I am planning on purchasing a microphone which will allow for some high quality voice work, which will hopefully allow me to pump out reviews at a quality which suits my own expectations for myself. On to go finish the black lagoon review that has been sitting since may. (Laptops make reviews so much easier, I would even take a crap laptop just for that purpose"
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Update
I really need to start sticking with what I say. I have been swamped with school work so I haven't really been able to sit and type up a review. If I am on the computer I end up playing a game with a friend because it is something to do other than school.
I have finished a few more series including
Evangelion
Hellsing Ultimate
and Ore, Twintails ni Narimasu
I have also finished the Dance in the vampire bund Manga and am waiting for Volume Three of Scarlet Order. Here is a picture of the shelf that has Vampire Bund:
I cam currently Reading Trigun, I have the first series omnibus and the first omnibus of Trigun Maximum. Here is a picture of the purchase where I got that
And finally stuff that came with that. (I have another package on the way, I use manga to pad my amazon purchases for free shipping)
And for the hell of it to prove that I am an otaku but not a super otaku
I have finished a few more series including
Evangelion
Hellsing Ultimate
and Ore, Twintails ni Narimasu
I have also finished the Dance in the vampire bund Manga and am waiting for Volume Three of Scarlet Order. Here is a picture of the shelf that has Vampire Bund:
I cam currently Reading Trigun, I have the first series omnibus and the first omnibus of Trigun Maximum. Here is a picture of the purchase where I got that
Monday, July 27, 2015
Update and Upcoming Events
I have been silent for the past 2 months, I realize that this is quite unprofessional and I appologize for my absence to all who awaited more content. This summer has been "busy" for me, which I will detail below. I have watched quite a few anime and rewatched others which warrants a review as they are fairly fresh in my mind. The most recent series which I have watched is Akame ga Kill! which absolutely exceeded my expectations so this is what I will be covering as my next review, from there I will reroute back to a review which I started writing but never finished: Black Lagoon Roberta's Bloodtrail.
What have I been doing with my time? Well that is a question which is a little difficult to answer as I can't even remember some stuff as this whole summer has melded together with sleep schedules being thrown out the window and excessive amounts of time spent doing random things. I began the summer by playing some xbox games but I quickly tired of this and moved to the computer. I then began playing through tons of steam games and keeping up with other games, what really became a defining factor was my choice to buy Counterstrike Global Offensive as it allowed me to meet possibly the greatest friend I have ever met online. We have essentially been no lifing different games since we found eachother in a Counterstrike casual match which I was playing because I was on competitive cooldown. Over time our friendship flourished and we are where we are now.
After we played a lot of counterstrike I moved to no lifing World of Warcraft which lasted on month and had me hitting level cap and being close to it on a few others. After about 40 days of constant World of Warcraft play I moved to EVE online which happened a few days ago or more accurately 5 or 6 days ago, its really hard to tell as I keep staying up close to 30 hours at a time playing while doing other things as I am part of a mining corporation and have been appointed as the broker because I accel at investing our money and making a hefty profit.
I have in this time watched quite a few anime and bolstered my collection a fair amount, including many anime and finishing collecting every single book that has ever been released in the Dance in the Vampire Bund series. Though I haven't even started reading the 5th omnibus yet, too busy doing other things and want something to do in study hall at school. The reason for this is that unfortunately my phone broke and I lost every single contact to friends I had made in the last year at a completely different school which I won't be attending this year. It took about 5 hours to get over it so I am not infallible, though it took me that long because I was scared shitless about what my mother would do when she found out (She can be quite scary when it comes to money). So now that updates are out of the way it is time to list the reviews I will be releasing in order of release. (Dates are unknown as it really comes down to inspiration and not wanting to overload the passing traveler that stumble by this blog on the internet highway)
Akame ga Kill
Black Lagoon Roberta's Blood Trail OVA
Joshiraku
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Dragon Ball Z Battle of Gods
Strike Witches 2
Spice and Wolf (I rewatched it because I bought the complete series boxset)
That is series which I can guarantee will be done in that order as I have finished them. Here is a list of series I am watching and don't know when I will be done, some I have been trying to watch for years.
Ranma 1/2: I watched most of the series when I was in middle school and am revisiting it to truly appreciate it
One Piece: This will probably end when I turn 40 but I started watching it and have been enjoying it
Naruto: I have watched the whole first part of the series 3 times in my life but would like to watch from start to finish now that the series actually has an end. It will just be milked but hey it won't be called naruto or they are lying. Currently I am most of the way through the first part of the series before Shipuden so I will review it when I am done
Gintama: this is a series which I watched the 2 episode special because I heard it was funny and went "this is that Aqua Teen Hunger Force type of humor but just plain hard to understand at points" so I may or may not finish this series, haven't watched more than the special yet so we will see
Lucky Star: I have heard so much about this series and enjoy the opening so I decided to start lucky star and have enjoyed it but pretty much ration it out because it is a type of show that should be enjoyed over time
Blazblue Alter Memory: I decided to watch this after seeing some stuff about it and liking the opening so I am a few episodes in, little depressed that it only got dubbed for 2 episodes because the voices were good for those episodes, high quality compared to most quick cash-ins which I have seen lately.
Trigun: This is a series which has been dear to my heart my whole time in the anime fandom and I am re-watching it on the box-set I bought so I can give it a proper review, I also bought some of the omnibuses for the series.
Asa Made Jugyou Chu! : I heard this was a bad cross dressing anime but it is short and I thought "might as well knock this one off my list sooner than later"
Bakuretsu Tenshi: I highly enjoy the character designs in this show and the music/atmosphere of the show but the character interaction feels barren, very bleak, which is why I am only 6 episodes in so far
Black Rock Shooter: (I can't make a star Icon so don't judge the name not being accurate) I have been trying to watch this show for something like 2 years now and haven't made a ton of progress, usually I end up starting over. I enjoy the shows cgi parts but the show feels just unpleasant at points which makes it hard to watch.
Free!: I have heard a lot of praise from some people as they laughed a lot watching this show. I have seen some hilarious vines involving this show and it seems to have some really nice character interactions.
Girls Und Panzer: The concept of tank warfare on aircraft carriers that hold nations just sounds insane so I feel like I need to check this out. also Girls Und Panzer Tokyo Drift needs to be a thing with that one scene
Monogatari Second Season, Hannamonogatari, Tsukimonogatari, Nekomonogatari: I lump all these into one because they are ostensibly the same series, they have the same characters etc. I enjoyed the first to seasons to I have high expectations for the rest of it.
Hataraku Maou-sama! (Devil is a Part-Timer): I had no desire to watch this show until I saw it with an anime club I hung out with. The show is quite humorous and even made my mom laugh quite a lot when she watched it.
K-On!: I have heard relentless praise of the show where nothing happens: Seinfeld, oh wait that's the show about nothing. K-On! has received relentless praise and has inspired the whole moe slice of life genre along with lucky star. I also watch Joshiraku which constantly compares itself to K-On! and makes jokes about it.
Katanagatari: 12 hours of my life I will spend watching this dialogue heavy show written by the same writer as the monogatari franchise, why don't I just buy the damned book?
Kiss x Sis: This show...oh this show... the dad needs a medal and it surprisingly doesn't appeal to me that much. It is funny, but the fanservice is over the top and fetishy, if I want an imouto show I will watch Oreimo as it is much better. However I feel like I have to finish this because I knew a girl freshman year of highschool that had this is her absolute favorite series.
Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? of the Dead: I highly enjoyed the first season of Is This a Zombie? and have been saving the second season as a palette cleanser.
Log Horizon: I began this show while it was airing but it simply slipped by as I watched other shows.
Seikoku no Dragonar: I bought the first volume of this manga and cringed at how bad it was, at least there were occasional tits but even then it was tasteless fanservice. I found out at the back that there was an anime and had to see just how bad it was considering it took the only redeeming factor of the manga and got rid of it making it complete garbage
Seitokai Yakuindomo: I stumbled on a collection of funny scenes from this anime and laughed my ass off, so I have this in here because I will watch it when I blow through everything else on this list
Shakugan no Shana: Oh Tabitha Saint Germain please do more anime dubs, I have been most of the way through this series for a while and enjoyed it a lot. It has many flaws but overall is a good watch.
Space Dandy: (again can't do stars) I have heard praise for this show all around and loved the episode I watched when it premiered, I just don't watch toonami but a few times a year.
Sword Art Online II: this... this show is so bad that I have a whole series where Digibro tried to pick out parts he found to be the worst. I am only a few episodes in and it is just so much talking with nothing going on. Stale air and anvil sized drops of exposition on top of blue haired gamer bait camel toe and a useless villian with more plot holes than tits made of swiss.
Tsukuyomi Moon Phase: This is a series which is fun to watch and was recommended to me for a month before I started watching it.
There you have it, a list of anime which you can expect to see in the future, as a side note always assume there will be surprises. See you in the next post!
What have I been doing with my time? Well that is a question which is a little difficult to answer as I can't even remember some stuff as this whole summer has melded together with sleep schedules being thrown out the window and excessive amounts of time spent doing random things. I began the summer by playing some xbox games but I quickly tired of this and moved to the computer. I then began playing through tons of steam games and keeping up with other games, what really became a defining factor was my choice to buy Counterstrike Global Offensive as it allowed me to meet possibly the greatest friend I have ever met online. We have essentially been no lifing different games since we found eachother in a Counterstrike casual match which I was playing because I was on competitive cooldown. Over time our friendship flourished and we are where we are now.
After we played a lot of counterstrike I moved to no lifing World of Warcraft which lasted on month and had me hitting level cap and being close to it on a few others. After about 40 days of constant World of Warcraft play I moved to EVE online which happened a few days ago or more accurately 5 or 6 days ago, its really hard to tell as I keep staying up close to 30 hours at a time playing while doing other things as I am part of a mining corporation and have been appointed as the broker because I accel at investing our money and making a hefty profit.
I have in this time watched quite a few anime and bolstered my collection a fair amount, including many anime and finishing collecting every single book that has ever been released in the Dance in the Vampire Bund series. Though I haven't even started reading the 5th omnibus yet, too busy doing other things and want something to do in study hall at school. The reason for this is that unfortunately my phone broke and I lost every single contact to friends I had made in the last year at a completely different school which I won't be attending this year. It took about 5 hours to get over it so I am not infallible, though it took me that long because I was scared shitless about what my mother would do when she found out (She can be quite scary when it comes to money). So now that updates are out of the way it is time to list the reviews I will be releasing in order of release. (Dates are unknown as it really comes down to inspiration and not wanting to overload the passing traveler that stumble by this blog on the internet highway)
Akame ga Kill
Black Lagoon Roberta's Blood Trail OVA
Joshiraku
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Dragon Ball Z Battle of Gods
Strike Witches 2
Spice and Wolf (I rewatched it because I bought the complete series boxset)
That is series which I can guarantee will be done in that order as I have finished them. Here is a list of series I am watching and don't know when I will be done, some I have been trying to watch for years.
Ranma 1/2: I watched most of the series when I was in middle school and am revisiting it to truly appreciate it
One Piece: This will probably end when I turn 40 but I started watching it and have been enjoying it
Naruto: I have watched the whole first part of the series 3 times in my life but would like to watch from start to finish now that the series actually has an end. It will just be milked but hey it won't be called naruto or they are lying. Currently I am most of the way through the first part of the series before Shipuden so I will review it when I am done
Gintama: this is a series which I watched the 2 episode special because I heard it was funny and went "this is that Aqua Teen Hunger Force type of humor but just plain hard to understand at points" so I may or may not finish this series, haven't watched more than the special yet so we will see
Lucky Star: I have heard so much about this series and enjoy the opening so I decided to start lucky star and have enjoyed it but pretty much ration it out because it is a type of show that should be enjoyed over time
Blazblue Alter Memory: I decided to watch this after seeing some stuff about it and liking the opening so I am a few episodes in, little depressed that it only got dubbed for 2 episodes because the voices were good for those episodes, high quality compared to most quick cash-ins which I have seen lately.
Trigun: This is a series which has been dear to my heart my whole time in the anime fandom and I am re-watching it on the box-set I bought so I can give it a proper review, I also bought some of the omnibuses for the series.
Asa Made Jugyou Chu! : I heard this was a bad cross dressing anime but it is short and I thought "might as well knock this one off my list sooner than later"
Bakuretsu Tenshi: I highly enjoy the character designs in this show and the music/atmosphere of the show but the character interaction feels barren, very bleak, which is why I am only 6 episodes in so far
Black Rock Shooter: (I can't make a star Icon so don't judge the name not being accurate) I have been trying to watch this show for something like 2 years now and haven't made a ton of progress, usually I end up starting over. I enjoy the shows cgi parts but the show feels just unpleasant at points which makes it hard to watch.
Free!: I have heard a lot of praise from some people as they laughed a lot watching this show. I have seen some hilarious vines involving this show and it seems to have some really nice character interactions.
Girls Und Panzer: The concept of tank warfare on aircraft carriers that hold nations just sounds insane so I feel like I need to check this out. also Girls Und Panzer Tokyo Drift needs to be a thing with that one scene
Monogatari Second Season, Hannamonogatari, Tsukimonogatari, Nekomonogatari: I lump all these into one because they are ostensibly the same series, they have the same characters etc. I enjoyed the first to seasons to I have high expectations for the rest of it.
Hataraku Maou-sama! (Devil is a Part-Timer): I had no desire to watch this show until I saw it with an anime club I hung out with. The show is quite humorous and even made my mom laugh quite a lot when she watched it.
K-On!: I have heard relentless praise of the show where nothing happens: Seinfeld, oh wait that's the show about nothing. K-On! has received relentless praise and has inspired the whole moe slice of life genre along with lucky star. I also watch Joshiraku which constantly compares itself to K-On! and makes jokes about it.
Katanagatari: 12 hours of my life I will spend watching this dialogue heavy show written by the same writer as the monogatari franchise, why don't I just buy the damned book?
Kiss x Sis: This show...oh this show... the dad needs a medal and it surprisingly doesn't appeal to me that much. It is funny, but the fanservice is over the top and fetishy, if I want an imouto show I will watch Oreimo as it is much better. However I feel like I have to finish this because I knew a girl freshman year of highschool that had this is her absolute favorite series.
Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? of the Dead: I highly enjoyed the first season of Is This a Zombie? and have been saving the second season as a palette cleanser.
Log Horizon: I began this show while it was airing but it simply slipped by as I watched other shows.
Seikoku no Dragonar: I bought the first volume of this manga and cringed at how bad it was, at least there were occasional tits but even then it was tasteless fanservice. I found out at the back that there was an anime and had to see just how bad it was considering it took the only redeeming factor of the manga and got rid of it making it complete garbage
Seitokai Yakuindomo: I stumbled on a collection of funny scenes from this anime and laughed my ass off, so I have this in here because I will watch it when I blow through everything else on this list
Shakugan no Shana: Oh Tabitha Saint Germain please do more anime dubs, I have been most of the way through this series for a while and enjoyed it a lot. It has many flaws but overall is a good watch.
Space Dandy: (again can't do stars) I have heard praise for this show all around and loved the episode I watched when it premiered, I just don't watch toonami but a few times a year.
Sword Art Online II: this... this show is so bad that I have a whole series where Digibro tried to pick out parts he found to be the worst. I am only a few episodes in and it is just so much talking with nothing going on. Stale air and anvil sized drops of exposition on top of blue haired gamer bait camel toe and a useless villian with more plot holes than tits made of swiss.
Tsukuyomi Moon Phase: This is a series which is fun to watch and was recommended to me for a month before I started watching it.
There you have it, a list of anime which you can expect to see in the future, as a side note always assume there will be surprises. See you in the next post!
Monday, May 11, 2015
Black Bullet Review: Badass Lolis the Anime
Well I just finished Black Bullet, surprisingly it turned out better than I thought it would. The show had felt mediocre and I didn't think I would think too highly of it, though the last few episodes end up shining against the rest.
For most of the show things felt oddly pointless, characters seemed like they had their own personalities but they still felt a little flat. That is how the entire show felt, flat. Deaths felt like they had no meaning and were just sprinkles on your freezer burned ice cream. It was like the show saw how successful Attack on Titan was and decided that it was popular due to the deaths. So it introduced a character only to have them die within a few episodes. This formula was persistent through the entire show and it got bland. I did have to chuckle at the end when Rentaro is sobbing on Enju talking about starting to not be fazed by death as the entire show I wasn't too fazed. I just sat there going "Why does it have to be the loli, why does it have to be the loli, why does it have to be the cool guy, why does it have to be the loli." Though I will say that a few deaths were executed well, but for the most part characters were introduced to be more cannon fodder for your emotions because "oh my god they killed a kid".
There are plenty of shows which have children dying, I mean Deadman Wonderland starts with a class being slaughtered (wow that totally didn't happen in Black Bullet off camera). Black Bullet feels like it see's the popularity of other shows and tries to mash it into their show. But this doesn't work if you can't execute it well. I will say that one thing they executed well was the characters that lost their sanity, they did a good job at portraying people that have seen the gates of Madness and have no care in the world.
There were also a few scenes which I genuinely got goosebumps at, mainly some of the scenes where amazing things or amazing shots happened. Like the scene towards the end about the festival that helps them in the battle. I also really enjoyed the scenes where kagetane appeared. He is the top hat guy with the bat shit crazy loli girl that is a mantis type.
He is just a fun guy to watch that in a lot of ways I can relate to. He views the world as scummy and wants to rewrite parts of it. He wants to see a new world order and does it looking like a dapper gentleman. I don't want to rewrite things, but I am not content with society as it is and would like to change parts of it. Though I have come to accept that you cannot change things by yourself and will condone society temporarily because I am far to lazy to campaign for change. I realize I just slightly contradicted myself but it is simply how my brain works. I can make a change but I don't feel like it so I will condone something I see issues in simply because I am lazy. Though Kagetane isn't lazy, he acts and he is very good at playing mind games. Another feature I saw is his love to flaunt his power, that is something I enjoy doing when the situation permits it. For the most part I don't flaunt such things around because I have no desire for people to see how much I can do; that simply means more publicity and more hassle which I want to avoid for now.
Honestly the show doesn't have a ton to root for other than its somewhat heart of darkness esque look at things. Heart of Darkness is about thinking you are doing something good when really you are the evil. This was explored from a military point of view in Spec Ops the Line, really recommend the game. But certain characters feel like they come to this realization and other characters feel like they are teetering and don't know what is right.
I ussually introduce a bunch of characters but really with a show full of people dying why would I, they would just die suddenly because I said "Hey I like this character". I will say that other than Kagetane I have two characters I liked a fair amount.
Tina Sprout
A cute loli character that during her "arc" she has some very funny scenes and she is someone that has seen death all around her and has come to reconcile with it. She is fine with it all so long as she could carry out her goals, but that changes and she learns to love. She is probably the most mature character on the show and she is like 10. Also she is really cute, has a nice dress, has cool arm things, leggings, a sniper, really good eyesight. I just really like her character, and how cute she is. I love my lolis and this is a girl that made it into my top 10.
Sumire Muroto
Overall the show was above average when you factor in some good characters and some good scenes and really should be a show you save for a rainy day as there isn't much the show accomplishes that isn't done much better in other places. Well except if you want harems of loli's, then you should go watch Fate/Kalied (ha you thought I would say this show excels in some regard, fucking pleb tier bullshit).
Animation: 6 (the show as a whole looked ok, but the Gastrea had really bad CGI for a lot of scenes)
For most of the show things felt oddly pointless, characters seemed like they had their own personalities but they still felt a little flat. That is how the entire show felt, flat. Deaths felt like they had no meaning and were just sprinkles on your freezer burned ice cream. It was like the show saw how successful Attack on Titan was and decided that it was popular due to the deaths. So it introduced a character only to have them die within a few episodes. This formula was persistent through the entire show and it got bland. I did have to chuckle at the end when Rentaro is sobbing on Enju talking about starting to not be fazed by death as the entire show I wasn't too fazed. I just sat there going "Why does it have to be the loli, why does it have to be the loli, why does it have to be the cool guy, why does it have to be the loli." Though I will say that a few deaths were executed well, but for the most part characters were introduced to be more cannon fodder for your emotions because "oh my god they killed a kid".
There are plenty of shows which have children dying, I mean Deadman Wonderland starts with a class being slaughtered (wow that totally didn't happen in Black Bullet off camera). Black Bullet feels like it see's the popularity of other shows and tries to mash it into their show. But this doesn't work if you can't execute it well. I will say that one thing they executed well was the characters that lost their sanity, they did a good job at portraying people that have seen the gates of Madness and have no care in the world.
There were also a few scenes which I genuinely got goosebumps at, mainly some of the scenes where amazing things or amazing shots happened. Like the scene towards the end about the festival that helps them in the battle. I also really enjoyed the scenes where kagetane appeared. He is the top hat guy with the bat shit crazy loli girl that is a mantis type.
Honestly the show doesn't have a ton to root for other than its somewhat heart of darkness esque look at things. Heart of Darkness is about thinking you are doing something good when really you are the evil. This was explored from a military point of view in Spec Ops the Line, really recommend the game. But certain characters feel like they come to this realization and other characters feel like they are teetering and don't know what is right.
I ussually introduce a bunch of characters but really with a show full of people dying why would I, they would just die suddenly because I said "Hey I like this character". I will say that other than Kagetane I have two characters I liked a fair amount.
Tina Sprout
A cute loli character that during her "arc" she has some very funny scenes and she is someone that has seen death all around her and has come to reconcile with it. She is fine with it all so long as she could carry out her goals, but that changes and she learns to love. She is probably the most mature character on the show and she is like 10. Also she is really cute, has a nice dress, has cool arm things, leggings, a sniper, really good eyesight. I just really like her character, and how cute she is. I love my lolis and this is a girl that made it into my top 10.
Sumire Muroto
She is a
scientist that has a funny sense of humor. She accuses Rentaro of being a
lolicon and nearly convinces Tina that he is amassing a loli harem. It is quite
funny to see, she seems to be the only character aware of the show she is in
and nearly breaks the fourth wall all the time. Her voice is also nice, it is
the voice of someone that has seen it all and is
only mildly intrigued by things that others will be exceedingly
energetic about yelling, screaming, etc. In most scenes she reminds me of The
earl of pudding (Lloyd Asplund) from Code Geass. Though he was a little more
energetic especially when his work was threatened. They both remain calm in the
face of destruction and death; true Sociopaths.
Overall the show was above average when you factor in some good characters and some good scenes and really should be a show you save for a rainy day as there isn't much the show accomplishes that isn't done much better in other places. Well except if you want harems of loli's, then you should go watch Fate/Kalied (ha you thought I would say this show excels in some regard, fucking pleb tier bullshit).
Animation: 6 (the show as a whole looked ok, but the Gastrea had really bad CGI for a lot of scenes)
Characters: 7 (again the show had some good character but
most had less character than the cardboard cutouts of race car drivers at gas
stations)
Sound: 8 (surprisingly the show did good with the
opening, ending and general background songs. Though many songs felt cliche
because songs like it are always used to make scenes more badass)
Enjoyment: 7 (i felt meh about the show for the most part,
with cetain characters bringing a smile to may face, but I wasn't loving any
characters; except for you Tina, you get a pass)
--------------------------
Overall: 7 (watch this for your rainy days or loli pleasure
if you exhausted other better shows, this will get you to to the next one piece
episode most likely)
Current Events/ Verdict on Watamote
Well it is May and I have been switching through shows quite a bit lately. I went from finishing Blood Lad to watching Bakuretsu tenshii instead of finishing Black Bullet or shakugan no shana or the other shows I started (black rock shooter being close to six months ago). Now i decided to watch Watamote, this was a bad idea...
Watamote so far (2 episodes in) has been depressing to say the least. With Welcome to the NHK paling in comparison if you are masochistic. The difference is that Welcome to the NHK is funny and gives you glimpses of hope while ending on a fairly nice note. Watamote on the other hand is like a bully, it gives you a nice gift only to swat it out of your hands and crush it. It feels like anything good that happens to Tomoko will just result in her not seeing the whole picture or being crushed by something else.
The show actually left me not wanting to watch another episode out of dread. My worst nightmare would be not having the ability to communicate with others, I talk all the time and love to do so. I have to have human interaction pretty much all the time, if I don't talk to someone for more than a few days I start suffering from mental issues. I probably have some pending mental diagnosis coming but that is me, I start to have moments of psychosis and am less and less in reality. Though all I need to remedy this is a persons voice and us to start talking. To see someone that is so far from reality most of the time and can't communicate actually instills a feeling of dread in me.
My ears had a tingly sensation, the kind I get when I don't want to do something. Like my body is rejecting this anime.
So I think im going to watch something else for now. But I really need to get through the 20 shows on my watch list. Maybe I will start Gintama so that I have something to sort of reset my pallet. Like coffee beans at a candle shop or fruit slice at a winery. Something that is completely different and thus lets you look upon it with an unbiased view.
Though Watamote seems to be trying at a comedy they don't seem to know how humor works.
If you see a man trip you will laugh, if you see him trip then break his neck its not as funny, if you see him trip then break his neck then watch a slew of people brutally hit him till he is dead it is only funny to a certain crowd. But if the man is a 90 year old blind person that trips, breaks his neck, cries out for help, is bruatally murdered by everyone around him it isn't funny anymore. You took the slap stick out and made it into a walking stick that is being used to crush the poor mans ribs. This is essentially what Watamote does it gives you a character that has the false notion that she is the most popular girl. You establish that she isn't popular but then hammer the nail whenever you can. She lacks speech skills and when she does speak it is more pitiful than a dying mouses last squeak. Then she is remotely happy and is crushed, then she goes to the only thing that had made her happy and you find out that even that is nothing special and I quote you "no body cares about those characters".
Watamote so far (2 episodes in) has been depressing to say the least. With Welcome to the NHK paling in comparison if you are masochistic. The difference is that Welcome to the NHK is funny and gives you glimpses of hope while ending on a fairly nice note. Watamote on the other hand is like a bully, it gives you a nice gift only to swat it out of your hands and crush it. It feels like anything good that happens to Tomoko will just result in her not seeing the whole picture or being crushed by something else.
The show actually left me not wanting to watch another episode out of dread. My worst nightmare would be not having the ability to communicate with others, I talk all the time and love to do so. I have to have human interaction pretty much all the time, if I don't talk to someone for more than a few days I start suffering from mental issues. I probably have some pending mental diagnosis coming but that is me, I start to have moments of psychosis and am less and less in reality. Though all I need to remedy this is a persons voice and us to start talking. To see someone that is so far from reality most of the time and can't communicate actually instills a feeling of dread in me.
My ears had a tingly sensation, the kind I get when I don't want to do something. Like my body is rejecting this anime.
So I think im going to watch something else for now. But I really need to get through the 20 shows on my watch list. Maybe I will start Gintama so that I have something to sort of reset my pallet. Like coffee beans at a candle shop or fruit slice at a winery. Something that is completely different and thus lets you look upon it with an unbiased view.
Though Watamote seems to be trying at a comedy they don't seem to know how humor works.
If you see a man trip you will laugh, if you see him trip then break his neck its not as funny, if you see him trip then break his neck then watch a slew of people brutally hit him till he is dead it is only funny to a certain crowd. But if the man is a 90 year old blind person that trips, breaks his neck, cries out for help, is bruatally murdered by everyone around him it isn't funny anymore. You took the slap stick out and made it into a walking stick that is being used to crush the poor mans ribs. This is essentially what Watamote does it gives you a character that has the false notion that she is the most popular girl. You establish that she isn't popular but then hammer the nail whenever you can. She lacks speech skills and when she does speak it is more pitiful than a dying mouses last squeak. Then she is remotely happy and is crushed, then she goes to the only thing that had made her happy and you find out that even that is nothing special and I quote you "no body cares about those characters".
Another note is that Kiss x Sis is also on hiatus. I enjoy some
scenes but overall the show is soft-core hentai.
Also I am once again in ISS which means
watching some anime while reading my Dance in the Vampire Bund Doujinshii
collection. I will start with the latter and move to anime when I see fit. I
can't really decide right now what I want to watch, maybe I will finish Black
Bullet so I can do a review on that, maybe I will wade through the infinite
waters that is One Piece. You will have to find out once I do my next update,
which will most likely be tomorrow.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Blood Lad Review: Otaku Vampire the ani- oh crap we ran out of time
So I decided to watch the show Blood Lad after watching funny scenes from anime and seeing this in it. I had previously seen it in a countdown of vampire anime or comedy anime and had meant to watch it. So because I felt a little burnt out on anime I took a hiatus after watching 1 1/2 episodes of Kiss X Sis... don't judge me, a girl I knew in middle school loved the show.
After returning I decided to watch a comedy show to get the anime juices flowing, it was that or one piece which i started during an all nighter (25 episodes in one night while doing work). Blood Lad won and I began watching, over the past three days I have been watching the show more and more and kept loving all the characters. The show somehow manages to make every character have a likable personality on top of being quite funny. I loved the characters and found myself wanting so much more, yet suddenly the show just ends and I am left sitting there questioning why the show hasn't received more. From what I have seen there is a manga series, yet the anime just stops really abruptly and goes
I'm sitting there going seriously, just after revealing all this shit and telling us all this info as well as setting up whole new plot lines it just ends and leave us out to dry. The series was very funny and was wonderful to watch yet leaves a bitter taste in the mouth when it ends. I feel the same way finishing this as I did when I finished Deadman Wonderland in one night. Both end just as things are set up and don't get a sequel. Can we please just try to give series an ending or license more time. Blood lad only got 10 episodes while Deadman Wonderland got 13 episodes, both series have nearly the same amount of chapters and I saw much more accomplished in each episode of Blood Lad than I did Deadman Wonderland which at points just dragged on with a particular plot point dragging for multiple episodes before being resolved when it could have been solved in a shorter length of time. Though this also comes from a difference in genre, Blood Lad is more of a comedy shonen while Deadman is a horror type show. Not so much horror as Higurashi but still with the horror element, So horror will have more suspense while comedy shonens can really do what they want when they want.
The sound in the show is really only noticeable in the opening and ending, some scenes use it but not many. The opening is quite catchy though, my favorite part being when it picks up pace and Fuyumi's tits bounce to the rhythm of the song as the camera pans up to a fight between Staz and Wolf. I just noticed that I haven't really talked about the characters which I have praised so much. This is in part due to the massive cast of characters with most of them coming back at some point and being great on their own.
The main characters are:
Staz
An otaku vampire that is obsessed with human culture and is an extremely powerful slacker. He essentially could represent anyone who is like me and can do pretty much anything but likes to loaf around and go with the flow.
Fuyumi
Fuyumi is the klutz of the group, she dies in the first episode and is a ghost, she is cute and innocent. She is also well endowed which every girl in this show seems to be save for the three eyed bar keeper and Staz's little sister who is like 9 so that is to be expected.
Bell
Bell is a fun character that manipulates space and uses frames to do so, she is a treasure hunter (though we never see her go for treasure), a traveler/guide and a friend to Staz after a while. She is a fun character that can get what she wants in most situations. She is also well endowed.
Something to add to this I noticed her, then the rest of the cast did one thing most anime/manga don't do. They changed clothes often. I have watched a lot of anime and most times they wear the same clothing through the whole series, rain or shine, ripped to shreds, covered in blood, it doesn't matter. But in this show all the characters changed clothes at times when you would expect someone to change. For instance after their boxing match Staz and wolf are given clothes by Wolfs underlings. In another moment Staz's shirt is covered in holes from his brother scenes earlier but only in places which he had been shot. Then after the fight he has more holes because the teeth of his enemy pierced him through. He changes his shirt off screen but it makes sense because he is fairly close to his house. All these changes were natural and occurred when they should, though Bell could just change her clothes at will due to portals.
Blood Lad was a wonderful show that though lacking in some regards payed attention to itself and if you look close enough there was fore shadowing to many of the events that happen later on. It was a smart series that though at points felt like it crossed the line with ridiculousness kept conscious of this. Overall I loved it.
Animation: 7 (moderately good animation, at times the shots felt reminiscent of monogatari but lacked the quality)
Characters: 9 (quite enjoyable characters that I would like to see more of)
Sound: 6 (the opening and ending are good but the OST is almost nonexistent)
Enjoyment: 8 ( I really enjoyed the show and smiled at many scenes)
----------------
Overall: 7.5
Monday, April 6, 2015
Post Spring Break Aftermath and Warframe
Well spring break was last week and surprisingly I did not watch a second of anime or read a single word of a manga though when I got back to school I ended up finishing Dive in the Vampire bund which is so short it doesn't warrant a review so it receives an 8/10, seeing as its a manga I can't judge it on normal standards so it is just judged on visuals, story, and personal enjoyment. Moving on from Dance in the Vampire Bund which will be done in another review once I finish the series (one more omnibus to go, already skipped ahead to the new series). I also started up Black Bullet again and will go through that in the next few days.
Now how did I spend my spring break I hear the uninterested crickets in the crowd chirp, well I spent it as any normal nerd would and spent the whole time playing games while talking with friends, save for a day when I toured a mall while bored and a day I went hiking because of the partial hippy I am. The games I played were WoW, OSU!, Minecraft Tekkit, and lastly Warframe. There were other games but these were the main ones. I spent the first half of break playing WoW, leveling a death knight and later a pandaren monk. Interspersed between leveling was me tending to my home in tekkit, making an automatic coal generator with a condenser, setting up hundreds of power flowers, setting up a shop, losing said shop 3 times, being raided, making a new base, etc. Also tossed in there was OSU! which is a rhythm based game for those who don't know, it is like guitar hero but with circles and lines.... wait that guitar hero, well instead of them coming down at you they appear all over the screen and go to the rhythm of the song. So that was my week up until Wednesday.
Wednesday was the day that I decided to play Warframe, I had the game downloaded for probably 6 months and had never touched it. Boy was I missing out, the game is loads of fun, it is like if destiny was actually good, I know amazing concept. The game came out in 2013 and is amazing, you are a tenno and you have a warframe which is essentially a body of armor, this armor has different abilities and thus you as a tenno can play whatever class you choose. If you want to be stealthy make the loki warframe, if you want to be tanky make the rhino warframe, etc. These warframes are made in the foundry with blueprints you find while playing the game, these aren't just given to you though, you have to work for them, which means playing the game a bunch. You have to find a total of 4 unique blueprints for each warframe and then you have to find all the ingredients, so it takes a bit. The game goes on a 3 weapon loadout system with you taking a primary, a secondary, and a melee. Now I spent 98% of my time meleeing because it is badass, I get to run, jump, parkour, and slice/mash my way through people while blocking like a Jedi master. You feel amazing, and the game has so much more, there are stealth missions, slaughter type missions, kidnapping missions, and assassination missions on top of other objective mission like mobile defense, defense, and survival (note the previous titles are not the real titles but a simplified layman's term for them). The game is exceedingly fun, hell it even has space combat with the archwings as well as pets and little sentinel companions that do more than talk to you (they are meant for fighting and don't talk like dinkle bot from destiny). The game is so much fun, the last mechanic I will mention is the Clan mechanic which is robust and adds more layers to this amazing cheesecake, the clan mechanic is like having an entire living population. You have a clan dojo which people can access if they make the key, it is a place where you construct a safe house if you may and make it as nice as you want with as many commodities as you want. You can have tons of research facilities which allow you to make a bunch of items only clans can make, one of which is a solar rail which allows people to access dark sectors around planets, the only negative being that you must pay a tax to use this rail which is a portion of all the loot you get in your stay at that dark sector. You can deploy spectres which are AI to defend your rail, as well as contract other people to defend it from rival clans who can start a war by deploying their rail in the sector. There is so much to the player economy and behaviors it leaves me awestruck. I one time needed polymer bundles on a brand new character and I was playing a mission on mercury to get it, when I told a dude why I was there he took me to neptune and did 20 waves of defense so I could get all the polymer bundles a man could ask for. The players are very nice and helped me when I had an issue. Now all that I have just covered is only scratching the surface of this game so I suggest you play it for yourself to see if you like it, it is free on steam and their website.
Now how did I spend my spring break I hear the uninterested crickets in the crowd chirp, well I spent it as any normal nerd would and spent the whole time playing games while talking with friends, save for a day when I toured a mall while bored and a day I went hiking because of the partial hippy I am. The games I played were WoW, OSU!, Minecraft Tekkit, and lastly Warframe. There were other games but these were the main ones. I spent the first half of break playing WoW, leveling a death knight and later a pandaren monk. Interspersed between leveling was me tending to my home in tekkit, making an automatic coal generator with a condenser, setting up hundreds of power flowers, setting up a shop, losing said shop 3 times, being raided, making a new base, etc. Also tossed in there was OSU! which is a rhythm based game for those who don't know, it is like guitar hero but with circles and lines.... wait that guitar hero, well instead of them coming down at you they appear all over the screen and go to the rhythm of the song. So that was my week up until Wednesday.
Wednesday was the day that I decided to play Warframe, I had the game downloaded for probably 6 months and had never touched it. Boy was I missing out, the game is loads of fun, it is like if destiny was actually good, I know amazing concept. The game came out in 2013 and is amazing, you are a tenno and you have a warframe which is essentially a body of armor, this armor has different abilities and thus you as a tenno can play whatever class you choose. If you want to be stealthy make the loki warframe, if you want to be tanky make the rhino warframe, etc. These warframes are made in the foundry with blueprints you find while playing the game, these aren't just given to you though, you have to work for them, which means playing the game a bunch. You have to find a total of 4 unique blueprints for each warframe and then you have to find all the ingredients, so it takes a bit. The game goes on a 3 weapon loadout system with you taking a primary, a secondary, and a melee. Now I spent 98% of my time meleeing because it is badass, I get to run, jump, parkour, and slice/mash my way through people while blocking like a Jedi master. You feel amazing, and the game has so much more, there are stealth missions, slaughter type missions, kidnapping missions, and assassination missions on top of other objective mission like mobile defense, defense, and survival (note the previous titles are not the real titles but a simplified layman's term for them). The game is exceedingly fun, hell it even has space combat with the archwings as well as pets and little sentinel companions that do more than talk to you (they are meant for fighting and don't talk like dinkle bot from destiny). The game is so much fun, the last mechanic I will mention is the Clan mechanic which is robust and adds more layers to this amazing cheesecake, the clan mechanic is like having an entire living population. You have a clan dojo which people can access if they make the key, it is a place where you construct a safe house if you may and make it as nice as you want with as many commodities as you want. You can have tons of research facilities which allow you to make a bunch of items only clans can make, one of which is a solar rail which allows people to access dark sectors around planets, the only negative being that you must pay a tax to use this rail which is a portion of all the loot you get in your stay at that dark sector. You can deploy spectres which are AI to defend your rail, as well as contract other people to defend it from rival clans who can start a war by deploying their rail in the sector. There is so much to the player economy and behaviors it leaves me awestruck. I one time needed polymer bundles on a brand new character and I was playing a mission on mercury to get it, when I told a dude why I was there he took me to neptune and did 20 waves of defense so I could get all the polymer bundles a man could ask for. The players are very nice and helped me when I had an issue. Now all that I have just covered is only scratching the surface of this game so I suggest you play it for yourself to see if you like it, it is free on steam and their website.
Friday, March 27, 2015
Update on Current Events for me
Well I am going to be taking a break from anime this spring break, maybe I will watch a few episodes here and there at night but for the most part I will be playing World of Warcraft. Yes I am one of THOSE people who sits at home in a dark room staring at a screen paying money to play a game. Well guess what I have the money to do so, but also I have many friends who play. I have a few accounts around level 60 so I will be trying to get those to level 90 as soon as possible.
Most likely the next review will be of Black Bullet as that is the show I am currently watching. Overall the show has ups and downs and likes to stay in the "meh its good for a rainy day" bin for the most part. It is not amazing, it doesn't have amazing characters and for the most part is just meh. I enjoyed the first villain though he was killed off pretty quick, no long fight scene that keeps you on edge, no power struggle. Just booped the masked dudes nose and he died, its like one of those freak accidents in a wrestling match, you throw a play punch and suddenly the guy is dead because his nose fractured and pierced his brain when he fell. Now you have a law suit and will never be hired again in the same field because you have been labeled a horrible murderer and are too violent for the ring. So you live a life of depression and drinking as well as some drugs thrown in there until one day someone picks a fight with you and you end up bashing his skull in and cement yourself as a murderer. At which point the police come and take you to reiker prison and you become the leader of the prison gangs before you stage a riot and claim glory. See how much more interesting this is than the plot of Black Bullet? Watch it and you will see.
Heck at this rate I might as well go watch The Gemini Meteor arc of Darker Than Black, Hei is homeless dude and even though I have heard it was bade might be better than Black Bullet. By no means is Black Bullet bad it is just a meh fest with blood thrown in to be edgy and tons of badass loli characters. Guess what I love loli's in anime but that is not all there has to be for me to like it. The show needs to have a good atmosphere, story, and pacing. Black Bullet has a generic atmosphere and a very slightly original concept for the story which is handled in a meh way. And the Pacing is nonexistent, it is too fast for most scenes and you don't get to absorb what is really going on. I sit down for an episode and before I know it, its over and i'm sitting there looking at the screen going "that's it, really I would think it accomplish more with how fast paced it is". So let's just say that Black Bullet will be getting around a 6 if it doesn't step up to what it could be. It is possible that I was spoiled by amazing anime recently or my eyes have been opened by these anime. Maybe I have become pretentious though if that were the case I probably wouldn't even give the anime the score that I give them now.
So march has been a good month for this blog with many posts coming, usually multiple posts a week, so I am hoping for the same in April and I am hoping to be able to work through a lot of my backlog of over 200 anime. So i think sometime in April I will try a challenge where I have to watch as much anime as humanly possible during a week where I have school. This will be to make up for the failed stay up until monogatari is finished thing. I have a goal of over the course of the next few years training my body to be able to stay up for as long as I need it to, the reason I failed last time was due to stomach pain. When you are tired you need more and more food to be able to stay awake because you are using more energy just to function. Though I will watch shonen during this time as if you have seen the Bakemonogatari review it is not good to stay awake and then try to review. Your brain starts to not remember near as much because sleep is the time where you recall all the events of the previous day so if you have not slept then your body will start to forget more and more and you will eventually get to the point where you lose basic functions and begin hallucinating. I want to use a long running shonen like bleach or naruto because I have already watched both series all the way through. (naruto i'm on my 3rd watch through around episode 99, I use long running shounen to fill in gaps where I don't know what to watch). The reason why one piece isn't on there is because I am still watching it for the first time and i'm around episode 4. So for a challenge of endurance watching something that will keep your attention but not require a ton of thinking is required, as too much time thinking means that you will fall behind. This is what happened to me during the monogatari trials I got sidetracked a ton and ended up not watching bakemonogatari for the most part and was instead watching videos on youtube because I would think about a ton of things. If I am watching a show I have already seen I should be fine, I might even pull out some box sets though my TV is crap in that regard.
If I do this challenge I will be making a twitch account and streaming it with a webcam, I don't have one currently but I can buy one for this. I have a twitch account but I made a typo in the name so I will delete it and make a new one. I am tired right now which I find funny due to wanting to do a sleepless challenge, that is mainly because every night I end up staying up till midnight and then have to get up at around 6, that is 6 hours of sleep if I go to sleep right away though that rarely happens. It is also because I am in school and school is draining when not with friends, I am sitting here in ISS on a laptop which is not mine typing this, because I still haven't gotten my laptop back. It has 100 gigs of anime on it, but I have 120 on my home computer. I am going to need to buy an external hard drive soon though, I only have 300 gigs available on my terabyte hard drive and it is depressing. If I get one it will be a 3tb Seagate one, they make good external hard drives. Though I will also back everything up on discs, I have already done that to my torrented movies just in case. For the anime I am going to have to have an entire stack of DVDs, hopefully I can find DVD 9's which are 9 gig DVD's instead of the more common 5 gigabyte ones. If my pc had a blu ray encoder I could put it on two of those because they can hold 50 gigs. Oh the joys of being a pirate, though the anime isn't even a DVD rip, it is from the website kissanime.com they have a huge selection and are sponsored by a ton of people. From what I have been able to tell the site isn't illegal, though I have been downloading the videos for the sake of having access to the anime. The only series that I have put on discs is all but 2 episodes of Spice and Wolf. The reason for this is that I have to download it at 1080p which takes forever and the DVD encoding for one disc which holds 3-4 episodes takes around an hour. That is too long to have a series that I can watch on a big TV when I am content with having smaller 360p videos that I can watch on a laptop or my phone. Also the Spice and Wolf ending theme is stuck in my head now.
I can see that this post is getting very long but I am venting a bit, not to anyone in particular just venting frustration about life the universe and everything. I am also just stalling until school lets out for spring break. I have done all my work and I have a few Dance in the Vampire bund manga to read but I just want to be able to listen to music from my drive while I sit here typing this out. This is probably the closest to my thought document that I have gotten on this blog, though my thought document is similar to a diary and shouldn't be read by anyone. This is a post which I will be sending to the masses.
I will do some more research on streaming because I would like to be able to save the stream and be able to do highlights. A bit of an issue is ensuring that my fan won't interfere too much, if it does I will figure out something. I don't want to do this unless I think that I can get the best quality for those that watch it. So yeah I will get back to you guys once I am done with that and I decide how I will manage this, it is possible that I won't do this challenge until a few months later when I can get a better mic, if so it will be a blue snowball.
Most likely the next review will be of Black Bullet as that is the show I am currently watching. Overall the show has ups and downs and likes to stay in the "meh its good for a rainy day" bin for the most part. It is not amazing, it doesn't have amazing characters and for the most part is just meh. I enjoyed the first villain though he was killed off pretty quick, no long fight scene that keeps you on edge, no power struggle. Just booped the masked dudes nose and he died, its like one of those freak accidents in a wrestling match, you throw a play punch and suddenly the guy is dead because his nose fractured and pierced his brain when he fell. Now you have a law suit and will never be hired again in the same field because you have been labeled a horrible murderer and are too violent for the ring. So you live a life of depression and drinking as well as some drugs thrown in there until one day someone picks a fight with you and you end up bashing his skull in and cement yourself as a murderer. At which point the police come and take you to reiker prison and you become the leader of the prison gangs before you stage a riot and claim glory. See how much more interesting this is than the plot of Black Bullet? Watch it and you will see.
Heck at this rate I might as well go watch The Gemini Meteor arc of Darker Than Black, Hei is homeless dude and even though I have heard it was bade might be better than Black Bullet. By no means is Black Bullet bad it is just a meh fest with blood thrown in to be edgy and tons of badass loli characters. Guess what I love loli's in anime but that is not all there has to be for me to like it. The show needs to have a good atmosphere, story, and pacing. Black Bullet has a generic atmosphere and a very slightly original concept for the story which is handled in a meh way. And the Pacing is nonexistent, it is too fast for most scenes and you don't get to absorb what is really going on. I sit down for an episode and before I know it, its over and i'm sitting there looking at the screen going "that's it, really I would think it accomplish more with how fast paced it is". So let's just say that Black Bullet will be getting around a 6 if it doesn't step up to what it could be. It is possible that I was spoiled by amazing anime recently or my eyes have been opened by these anime. Maybe I have become pretentious though if that were the case I probably wouldn't even give the anime the score that I give them now.
So march has been a good month for this blog with many posts coming, usually multiple posts a week, so I am hoping for the same in April and I am hoping to be able to work through a lot of my backlog of over 200 anime. So i think sometime in April I will try a challenge where I have to watch as much anime as humanly possible during a week where I have school. This will be to make up for the failed stay up until monogatari is finished thing. I have a goal of over the course of the next few years training my body to be able to stay up for as long as I need it to, the reason I failed last time was due to stomach pain. When you are tired you need more and more food to be able to stay awake because you are using more energy just to function. Though I will watch shonen during this time as if you have seen the Bakemonogatari review it is not good to stay awake and then try to review. Your brain starts to not remember near as much because sleep is the time where you recall all the events of the previous day so if you have not slept then your body will start to forget more and more and you will eventually get to the point where you lose basic functions and begin hallucinating. I want to use a long running shonen like bleach or naruto because I have already watched both series all the way through. (naruto i'm on my 3rd watch through around episode 99, I use long running shounen to fill in gaps where I don't know what to watch). The reason why one piece isn't on there is because I am still watching it for the first time and i'm around episode 4. So for a challenge of endurance watching something that will keep your attention but not require a ton of thinking is required, as too much time thinking means that you will fall behind. This is what happened to me during the monogatari trials I got sidetracked a ton and ended up not watching bakemonogatari for the most part and was instead watching videos on youtube because I would think about a ton of things. If I am watching a show I have already seen I should be fine, I might even pull out some box sets though my TV is crap in that regard.
If I do this challenge I will be making a twitch account and streaming it with a webcam, I don't have one currently but I can buy one for this. I have a twitch account but I made a typo in the name so I will delete it and make a new one. I am tired right now which I find funny due to wanting to do a sleepless challenge, that is mainly because every night I end up staying up till midnight and then have to get up at around 6, that is 6 hours of sleep if I go to sleep right away though that rarely happens. It is also because I am in school and school is draining when not with friends, I am sitting here in ISS on a laptop which is not mine typing this, because I still haven't gotten my laptop back. It has 100 gigs of anime on it, but I have 120 on my home computer. I am going to need to buy an external hard drive soon though, I only have 300 gigs available on my terabyte hard drive and it is depressing. If I get one it will be a 3tb Seagate one, they make good external hard drives. Though I will also back everything up on discs, I have already done that to my torrented movies just in case. For the anime I am going to have to have an entire stack of DVDs, hopefully I can find DVD 9's which are 9 gig DVD's instead of the more common 5 gigabyte ones. If my pc had a blu ray encoder I could put it on two of those because they can hold 50 gigs. Oh the joys of being a pirate, though the anime isn't even a DVD rip, it is from the website kissanime.com they have a huge selection and are sponsored by a ton of people. From what I have been able to tell the site isn't illegal, though I have been downloading the videos for the sake of having access to the anime. The only series that I have put on discs is all but 2 episodes of Spice and Wolf. The reason for this is that I have to download it at 1080p which takes forever and the DVD encoding for one disc which holds 3-4 episodes takes around an hour. That is too long to have a series that I can watch on a big TV when I am content with having smaller 360p videos that I can watch on a laptop or my phone. Also the Spice and Wolf ending theme is stuck in my head now.
I can see that this post is getting very long but I am venting a bit, not to anyone in particular just venting frustration about life the universe and everything. I am also just stalling until school lets out for spring break. I have done all my work and I have a few Dance in the Vampire bund manga to read but I just want to be able to listen to music from my drive while I sit here typing this out. This is probably the closest to my thought document that I have gotten on this blog, though my thought document is similar to a diary and shouldn't be read by anyone. This is a post which I will be sending to the masses.
I will do some more research on streaming because I would like to be able to save the stream and be able to do highlights. A bit of an issue is ensuring that my fan won't interfere too much, if it does I will figure out something. I don't want to do this unless I think that I can get the best quality for those that watch it. So yeah I will get back to you guys once I am done with that and I decide how I will manage this, it is possible that I won't do this challenge until a few months later when I can get a better mic, if so it will be a blue snowball.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Ghost in The Shell Review: RoboCop Tit Upgrade Enabled
My Adventure with:
Ghost in the Shell
So I got sent to ISS, which if you little kiddies or oldies out there don't know that is in school suspension. Why was I sent there you ask? well I will tell you my fine chap. I was perusing the interwebs as I often do and found a funny picture which I decided to show my hardcore otaku friend. He promptly chuckled and went to work searching for something to gross me out. What was this you ask? Well that was tons of cartoon network character hentai which got me flagged. Side note I am a denizen of the internet and wasn't grossed out in the slightest, the things I have seen would make a Vietnam vet want back on the battlefield so they can run into some chemical orange and maybe blind themselves. I digress though, the point is this caused my school laptop to be flagged and then the attendance/diciplinary officer called me down and confiscated it so he could search it. Hope he enjoys 100gb of anime. Now the only thing I had on there that I was iffy on was the Ghost in the Shell movie, so I decided to watch it while in ISS to pass the time.
In ISS you are essentially in a permit test cubby where you can't see except if you turn around, so i thought it was perfect for watching considering the privacy. I begin watching and the titillage begins, I kid though the movie was very serious and touched down on many philosophical topics. There just happened to be a lot of tit scenes tossed in there, with the majors thermoptic camo only working when naked save for a belt. The technology is another thing worth mentioning, it is so diverse and you are told nothing except that people have different augmentations that help them with every day life.
This movie had something that I don't see in many shows today, subtlety the show knows how to toss all these scenes and dialog at you that don't make sense to you at the time but are known by the characters. The dialog seems natural and not forced in any way, you don't have long exposition dumps as many modern anime do. For instance an anime which I have been watching is Black Bullet, the show is good, with great action scenes and dialog from the villian but the rest of the characters have seemingly forced dialog, many shows have this issue especially when first explaining something. Some it is justified like in the case of Death Note where Light knows nothing about the shinigami powers and how the notebook works, so it is logical for things to have to be explained. In many shows they state things which should already be known by the characters and it feels unnatural. Ghost in the Shell has many things that it states but doesn't explain, they mention ghosts a lot and you come to realize throughout the film that a ghost is the augmented brain, later you they talk about a shell but you aren't sure what they mean for a while until you figure out that it is the body. The dialog is different from normal speech to us but is normal to them so they don't have to explain it, you just realize it through repition similar to learning a language by exposure.
The movie has multiple scenes which go on between others that further elude to what will happen next, the show seems to have mastered the environment and that is by far the best part of the movie. The cyberpunk dystopian future where everyone is augmented but it leads to further complications. It brings up many points like what makes a human special, what if a soul is a simple algorithm, things like that. Things which a cyborg would go through, especially when confronted by a construct that was artificially created but as sentient as a human. These partial machines feel more human than almost anything I have seen from animation and I loved it. I sat through the whole movie in awe of the cinematography and had to remind myself that this movie came out in 1995 because it looked better than most shows that I have watched.
The soundtrack was something that had no real outstanding tracks but as a whole it immersed you into the universe that was being illustrated, I felt enthralled by the bewitching soundtrack that conveyed a sense of lapsing reality in some scenes but could switch to a fast paced scene as well without feeling jarring. The whole soundtrack flowed well with the movie and helped to cement it into my mind as something to think about.
Something I catch myself thinking about are all the media which seem to have taken inspiration from this movie, from the style, to the setting, to the philosophy of indisinguishable man and machine. This is a topic which has been addressed over and over again from characters that are partially machine fighting with the urge to go full machine and sacrifice their humanity (alla teen titans), to AI wanting humanity (alla a metric shit ton of space movies, with an honorable mention going to AI rampancy in the Halo universe), to just the struggle of man and machine (terminator). It is something that seems to have predicted the future as people become more and more engrained with technology, before we know it we will begin augmenting ourselves more than we already do and you will start seeing cyborgs in every day life. Though this is only speculation as we could just go the Star Trek route but then you have the Borg. More man and machine conflict.
Overall Ghost in the Shell was a highly enjoyable experience, it can't even be described as a movie, but an experience. One has to watch it for themselves because it is filled to the brim with amazing animation and subtle hints at how the universe actually functions. So I sugjest that you go watch this masterpiece of a movie.
Animation: 10 (still holds up amazingly today)
Characters: 8 (the focus was more on the environment than any individual character)
Sound: 10 (had me entranced the whole way through
Enjoyment: 10 (I loved every minute of this movie, I went into this expecting the matrix due to the matrix being heavily influenced by this movie but got something so much better)
-------------------
Overall: 9.5
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Nisemonogatari Review: Supernatural Little Sisters
Well I finished Nisemonogatari, taking it much slower than I did Bakemonogatari and I think I liked it more. This may be due to my love for shows like Oreimo and other shows having to do with little sisters, but I liked it a decent amount. So here is the review of Nisemonogatari:
This season focuses on three characters which got essentially no screen time in the fist season:
Karen:
Tsukihi:
Shinobu:
Karen:
Now personally I loved all these characters with Shinobu being my favorite, followed by Karen, then Tsukihi. I was predisposed to Shinobu though because she is the whole reason I even watched this show, though I am seeing more and more that I am Araragi though not with such a sense of justice.
The show begins with the Karen Bee arc and pretty much goes around seeing what all the other girls from Bakemonogatari are up to, and then doesn't address Sengoku or Kanbaru for the rest of the show, with the others having some roles to play. Eventually it finally brings the focus to Karen and then Shinobu, this is where the season really kicks off and gets into the funny over the top scenes lined with beautiful set pieces. All the characters focused on in this season were addressed in the first season but not developed. Karen and Tsukihi were just pushing Araragi at the end of every arc in Bakemonogatari and Shinobu didn't say a word.
Karen is a strong character who constantly tries to better herself similar to Rock Lee from Naruto (speaking of doing too many hand stands). She can at points be tsundere but for the most part is happy go lucky and whimsical in nature. Later in the Tsukihi Pheonix arc is where she really shines as her conflict has been resolved and she is allowed to be herself. She has this fun attitude and just makes me laugh and smile. Though i have noticed a trend throughout this series that characters seem to become so much better once their issues have been addressed, its like your waiting for their issue to be fixed so you can see if you truly like them.
Shinobu is the next character I will address as she is the next to be developed, she is just what I was wanting out of her. A character which knows that they have fallen from grace but refuses to accept this and still exudes power and superiority. She does not want to admit she wants to help a human and thus demands that Arraragi command her to do what he wants so that she feels she has no choice and doesn't have to acknowledge that she has fallen to his level. She is a cute tsundere character that admits to being tsundere as most characters in the show do. Her voice actor is great and it fits that role of a vastly superior yet young person. I loved every moment that she was once screen.
Tsukihi is the last character I will address, she is funny in the way that she is psychotic in many ways, when she walks in to find Araragi and Shinobu in a bath together she comes back with a knife ready to murder Shinobu and Araragi, when the infamous toothbrush scene comes up she asks what they are doing in a demented way before going to the store to buy an Awl. She is a character that though quite tsundere and just as psycho bitch as Senjougahara still loves Araragi as a brother. Tsukihi was the only character so far that actually was fleshed out as her character really is before and during her arc, save for Hanekawa though she had her issue addressed before the show began.
This show had a large amount of fan service in it, though in my opinion it was fine because it matched the overall tone of this season. It was happy, awkward, and just plain weird at points
But that is how the show is, there aren't many other shows where in one episode you can get a philosophical talk, loli fanservice, imouto fanservice, beautiful artwork, amazing fight scenes, and hilarious visuals. There just aren't many out there. Whereas the first season was something you really should sit back and watch to admire the set pieces and the conversations, this season focused much more on fanservice, and hilarious visuals. Which made it a fun ride all the way through.
Also up for mentioning is the Karen bee opening which I loved on a visual level and an auditory level, to the point that I downloaded the song to my phone and put in my ever growing anime song playlist.
This show really should be watched, especially if you enjoyed the first season.
Ratings:
Animation: 9 (not as abstract as season one, more grounded)
Characters: 10 (in my opinion the characters were better though I just love these more this go round)
Sound: 8 (Just as good as the first season with the only standout track being the Karen bee opening)
Enjoyment: 10 (this honestly barely missed going into my top five favorites)
-----------------
Overall: 9.25
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)