Well I was underwhelmed in general.
1. Kuroko no Basket, I really enjoyed the manga, and this could be it's biggest downfall. I found the manga funny and the punch lines in the anime just do not come across well. Kagami's voice still has not grown on me and neither has Kuroko's voice actor. It just was not how I pictured they would sound like in my head in any way.
Overall I find the animation kind of lame and was hoping for more.
2. Area no Kishi, I am actually enjoying the actual soccer playing parts. I find the chick annoying. I find the overall worrying of Kakeru in general annoying from all different fronts. I feel like he might be a little stupid and clueless but it is getting to be uncute.
3. Zetman so in general I thought this anime was going to be bad, but I gave the first episode a try that I watched all the way up to 9 and I know there are 13 episodes out now, I just have no energy to watch anymore and I am unsure why. To be honest I really hate the character design and overall animation. The story is awesome and the voice actors are awesome. That is why I liked it, but overall I feel like the animation is a huge hurdle for me since I enjoy looking at nice things or decent looking characters. While the main character and when he turns into Zetman is fricking epic as hell I just feel that the other characters are ugly the women are ugly the blonde guy is so annoying I want to choke hold him through the screen and just delete him and even his super hero look.
4. Tsuritama, for me this was one of the best of the season. However I feel like it has slowed down for me past two episodes. I can only say that I THOUGHT there would be more EPICNESS than there is. Well lets see tommorw because the epicness might happen then. I love the whole cast and the bright coloring of the whole anime, the different looking background animation, and the general feeling of light heartedness.
5. Hyouka, okay so I ripped on this show so much. In fact I only kept watching because it looked so great and gritted my teeth every time Chitanda came on. I like the other girl but Chitanda is like so annoying I almost can not stand it. I felt like this anime was boring, boring, boring, so boring I thought my brain was going to melt. In fact it is still boring however it was interesting to find out what hyouka ment. I still do not get the point of this anime but I feel like it is kind of a "slice of life" animes that do not have any real direction that lacks comedic bits to keep it going, that tries to be interesting and witty. I am watching it, I hope we get to see Oreki's sister who seems to actually be the most interesting character in the whole series.
6. Sankarea- All I have to say is this anime is ridiclous is this really for kids in japan. It is in a shounen magazine right. Well whatever it is decent. I still do not get his hair does he have cat ears>>>> or not. Well I kind of want her to go around biting peoples heads off soon, that would be awesome. I am getting bored and hope it is not longer that 12-13 episodes.
7. Accel World, well it's an okay anime. Nothing great, but it is cool to think of the future with holographic computers that are that portable. I am not buying the chick falling in love with the guy who goes up to her pelvic region however maybe he eats the carpet well.
8. Nazo no Kanojo- I really liked this at first until yuri overtones came in and than I got bored. Bored of the fanservice. I was kind of hoping she would say she was an alien and be the magical girl type of character.
9. Jormungund is the only one worth watching.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Things in LA
I recently came back from LA. I went to anime expo and a some other touristy things. There were a couple things I found interesting.
1. There was grafitti everywhere even in the middle of a nowhere freeway. I mean these are heavily trafficked how did the people who put it there not get hit while putting it up. They are truly thugs living on the edge (:P).
2. I saw a cockroach. Seriously this is the first time in my life I have seen one and I saw two coming out of the sewer in the middle of Judge John Aiso (those of you who don't know this is a street by their government buildings etc and by Tokyo town).
3. LA has a lot of towns. You name they got it. Thai town, Tokyo town, China town, Armenia town, Ethopia town etc.
4. I am not sure why I was surprised but there were a lot of hispanics and asians there. When I say that there were alot I mean a more overwhelming number than white people walking around. Which was weirddddd!
5. It takes residents of Catalina island 6 years of owning a driver lisence before they can have their own car there....well kick those kids out and ship them back to the mainland!
6. Anime expo was kind of stinky....and there was alot more cosplay than people let on... meaning I did not cosplay there on any day and I felt a little weird being in normal clothes since the majority 85% are in some type of cosplay even if its not all decked out.
7. Hollywood boulevard was scary at night and the people dressed up in costumes are there to hustle money from you. Yes batman held my arm until I agreed to give him 5 bucks. My boyfriend was about to punch him he was so pissed off.
8. The homeless people in LA are ungrateful little POS. I saw a guy go into a resteraunt come out 10 minutes later with two boxes and gave it to them explaining what was inside. As soon as he left the homeless people go on to complain about not getting their garlic bread buttered and not getting what they wanted.... Ahh the city where dreams are broken and shattered due to idiotic hopes of wanting to be famous.
9. Everything seems so shady in LA, from the little souvenir shops to the people trying to sell you crap on the streets. I mean it felt a little ummm overwhelming and 3rd worldish.
10. I would never ever go to universal studios without a front of the line pass. I can not imagine having to wait in those godawful lines for some 1-2 minute ride. Also everything in universal studios seems set on getting you wet. Terminator show was pretty cool though and so was the Transformers ride, everything else was a little underwhelming (mummy ride was cool but it was too short).
11. LA has some of the best dressed homeless people. LOL, and I say this because normally when they are you know so you can kind of avoid them, but these people you can't avoid cause they don't look it.
Even though it looks like I spent alot of time complaining here, I really had a great time. It was fun being in a different city, the food was great (mostly at in Tokyo town though because it was by our hotel).
Even though it looks like I spent alot of time complaining here, I really had a great time. It was fun being in a different city, the food was great (mostly at in Tokyo town though because it was by our hotel).
1. One it is left to right. While I know I read left to right, it gets quite confusing when you read manga all the time right to left to have to go back to left to right.
2. Usually the feeling of the drawings are angularish or too roundish compared to Japanese manga. This complaint I guess is purely aesthetics.
3. I can not quite put my finger on it but Korean manga seems toned down violence or sexual wise. Or maybe toned down in the story I am not sure.
Either way I have read Crepuscle and Noblesse. Both have to do about vampires YAY. They are actually really good. Koreans are good at clean humor. I duno what you call it but their humor does not have to do with play on words (that can not be translated into English because it simply does not make sense), or some cultural subtext or sexual context. I like it.
Noblesse, is about a vampire that wakes up after being asleep for more than 600 (or was it 800+) years. He obviously is a badass. We meet his loyal servant who is also another badass. This manga is full of gags. In fact I think it sometimes kills serious scenes (whereas I know that there needs to be relief for extremely high tense situations, this above and far beyond what should happen), however it is a webtoon so there might not be an editor or a person to bounce these types of ideas off like in Japanese manga (that gets serialized) or something. Also i think that it has alot of similarities as far as progression goes to Bleach. For instance we start in a school and it is all silly and we have some bad guys we get a glimpse the main character is badass but we don't actually know how badass he is. Than we travel to another world (err soul society anyone>>>>>) whatever and that we have a flashback arc (which might be short). Either way I really like it I really think the creators have grown alot, the battle scenes are simply amazing compared to the first ones, and the art has improved leaps and bounds. I read all 242 chapters in a two day period so the progression in art is more startling for me than it was for others that might have been following this for awhile.
Crepuscle, the manwha is also about a vampire, we know who the big bad is (or do we). The progression here is slow. I am almost hoping they kind of speed it up. Anyways I think they could have told the story in a shorter way, but meh guess its me. There is no battles TT. I am not sure what this is? character based story...I guess. It is interesting so check it out.
OHHHHH! and the best manga I read in awhile is SHAMO. This manga is literally the AWESOME. Although I am having doubts with this new arc we can say it was the awesome but now it is turning into kind of normal boxing manga. Whatever the reason is, why I really enjoyed it, is because this is a true villain protagonist manga. Which I love and I am not talking about a ANTI-HERO here. I hope we know the difference. This guy should not even have a manga really. He is the bad of the bad, he rapes he steals, he has no morals, what is good for him one day is bad the next, this guy lives by no credo and just does what he wants. Although some might point out the three parts where you might construe kindness or something. He sells his body for his sister (whom you could say he feels guilty for driving here insane although I would argue that you are wrong that he is just bored at the moment and has nothing else better to do), he buys some old guy ramen, he tries to give the prize money to the old boxer guy and his little blind girl after beating the guy up to a bloody pulp and almost killing him.
This guys back story does not even make you feel bad (he was smart guy, who went to an elite private school (top of his class and off to Tokyo University), even when you find out that his parents were strict there is one page devoted to it, and he kills his parents with a knife and his excuse is, "I didn't think they would die from a few knicks and scratches".), even when he got raped I did not feel bad (well I did but it was more of a "oh so that happened in the plot)" well don't feel too bad the guy gets his dick bit off for trying to do him up the butt the second time. But, I mean the author or the artist is a genius any redeeming moment is subverted by an horrendous act. This guy should be in jail and locked up. He is not a psycho he is just plain evil. He knows what he is doing he just does not feel it is wrong. Anyways it is bloody but not in the way of like blood and guts and gore, it is just like fighting, think Holyland but without a nerdy-turned-cool protagonist (Holyland might be a little bloodier).
Kimi no knife. I like this. I might not like it in the future I have a bad premonition. I want the main character to turn into someone awesome or not I can not decide. This is a anti-hero story. I like these stories they are good and make you question stuff. I am not sure where this manga is going, and I feel like the author does not know either. So it kind of gives of the feeling of going nowhere in the plot at the moment. Where as in the beginning it definetly had direction and it also is a manga that could have easily ended at the first volume. For some reason it keeps going. Hmmm I hope the author can pull some stuff up because I am not even sure in what type of direction it could turn to make it longer without it just being more hitman stuff. I see where they are going and it is kind of bland and there is too many outlandish hints, that they might as well put the fact there that the person hiring them is the one that will eventually kill them (in some type of crappy game because he has alot of money or time or something, I have also thought (btw this would be even more disappointing for me that the person hiring them is the person at the top of the organization and he is just trying to weed out some people). But I guess that is all speculation because it might actually be great and be like some plan to clean up Japan of all of it's crime, I dunno.
Noblesse, is about a vampire that wakes up after being asleep for more than 600 (or was it 800+) years. He obviously is a badass. We meet his loyal servant who is also another badass. This manga is full of gags. In fact I think it sometimes kills serious scenes (whereas I know that there needs to be relief for extremely high tense situations, this above and far beyond what should happen), however it is a webtoon so there might not be an editor or a person to bounce these types of ideas off like in Japanese manga (that gets serialized) or something. Also i think that it has alot of similarities as far as progression goes to Bleach. For instance we start in a school and it is all silly and we have some bad guys we get a glimpse the main character is badass but we don't actually know how badass he is. Than we travel to another world (err soul society anyone>>>>>) whatever and that we have a flashback arc (which might be short). Either way I really like it I really think the creators have grown alot, the battle scenes are simply amazing compared to the first ones, and the art has improved leaps and bounds. I read all 242 chapters in a two day period so the progression in art is more startling for me than it was for others that might have been following this for awhile.
Crepuscle, the manwha is also about a vampire, we know who the big bad is (or do we). The progression here is slow. I am almost hoping they kind of speed it up. Anyways I think they could have told the story in a shorter way, but meh guess its me. There is no battles TT. I am not sure what this is? character based story...I guess. It is interesting so check it out.
OHHHHH! and the best manga I read in awhile is SHAMO. This manga is literally the AWESOME. Although I am having doubts with this new arc we can say it was the awesome but now it is turning into kind of normal boxing manga. Whatever the reason is, why I really enjoyed it, is because this is a true villain protagonist manga. Which I love and I am not talking about a ANTI-HERO here. I hope we know the difference. This guy should not even have a manga really. He is the bad of the bad, he rapes he steals, he has no morals, what is good for him one day is bad the next, this guy lives by no credo and just does what he wants. Although some might point out the three parts where you might construe kindness or something. He sells his body for his sister (whom you could say he feels guilty for driving here insane although I would argue that you are wrong that he is just bored at the moment and has nothing else better to do), he buys some old guy ramen, he tries to give the prize money to the old boxer guy and his little blind girl after beating the guy up to a bloody pulp and almost killing him.
This guys back story does not even make you feel bad (he was smart guy, who went to an elite private school (top of his class and off to Tokyo University), even when you find out that his parents were strict there is one page devoted to it, and he kills his parents with a knife and his excuse is, "I didn't think they would die from a few knicks and scratches".), even when he got raped I did not feel bad (well I did but it was more of a "oh so that happened in the plot)" well don't feel too bad the guy gets his dick bit off for trying to do him up the butt the second time. But, I mean the author or the artist is a genius any redeeming moment is subverted by an horrendous act. This guy should be in jail and locked up. He is not a psycho he is just plain evil. He knows what he is doing he just does not feel it is wrong. Anyways it is bloody but not in the way of like blood and guts and gore, it is just like fighting, think Holyland but without a nerdy-turned-cool protagonist (Holyland might be a little bloodier).
Kimi no knife. I like this. I might not like it in the future I have a bad premonition. I want the main character to turn into someone awesome or not I can not decide. This is a anti-hero story. I like these stories they are good and make you question stuff. I am not sure where this manga is going, and I feel like the author does not know either. So it kind of gives of the feeling of going nowhere in the plot at the moment. Where as in the beginning it definetly had direction and it also is a manga that could have easily ended at the first volume. For some reason it keeps going. Hmmm I hope the author can pull some stuff up because I am not even sure in what type of direction it could turn to make it longer without it just being more hitman stuff. I see where they are going and it is kind of bland and there is too many outlandish hints, that they might as well put the fact there that the person hiring them is the one that will eventually kill them (in some type of crappy game because he has alot of money or time or something, I have also thought (btw this would be even more disappointing for me that the person hiring them is the person at the top of the organization and he is just trying to weed out some people). But I guess that is all speculation because it might actually be great and be like some plan to clean up Japan of all of it's crime, I dunno.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Stuff
So recently I have been on a self improvement kick. I had a mini melt down of am I getting old, am I getting wrinkles, I need to loose 10 pounds etc. Also included I feel that I am entirely out of date with pop culture and overall general trends etc. So I decided to watch youtube videos and recent reality shows because OBVIOUSLY these people have all the answers.
These are my conclusions of trying to get up to date.
1. Katie Perry is like a big thing...
2. Nicki Menaj is another big thing...
3. Making videos about make-up is really "in" on youtube and gets you a ton of views if you have a decent face.
4. There is a reality show on youtube...what has the world come to. Btw I am watching it, I kind of feel that the judges are too nice, which makes it kind of boring.
5. People like making "My Youtube Story" videos, "My coming out story" videos, "It gets better" videos, Parodies of songs, covers of songs, "I am sorry I have not updated in so long" videos, Q and A videos, and last but not least "update on my life" videos.
I am actually not harping on any of these videos cause I found them all interesting. Before this summer I did not even know what a VLOG was. I used youtube for what the majority of people use youtube for and that is to watch scenes in movies/shows I liked, video game trolling, video game playing, stand up comedy, and music videos. I find it interesting that I actually watched these and was interested to why I liked it. The only reason I can come up with is that it is like a reality show, that people do voluntarily. While there are inevitably boring people on it just like reality TV, there are definetly people that have great personalities that can talk about being drunk off their ass, or how they hate a certain song, or about moisturizing, and make it seem funny or interesting.
6. It seems that cream cleanser is bad for oily skin. When I switched btw I broke out all over....so I am not sure what that is all about.
7. Apparently there is this bean song that continually played forever at the club I was at the other day that everyone knows the words to. I have never heard this song once.
8. Boy bands have made a revival in the band One Direction. I like the popular song, all the rest of songs are whatever. Maybe they are a "gasp" one hit wonder. HAHAHA
9. I have learned how to apply make up the "Natural Way" haha.
10. Being up to date with pop culture is seriously tiring.
11. Apparently 70's or was it 80's fashion is IN but a modernized version.
In essence there are way to many social networking sites instagram, pintrist (I know I spelled it wrong), tumbler, google+ (which I knew about, but people are using it is new), youtube (I only put this on here because I had no idea that it was considered one until recently), twitter (err I knew about this but I still do not get it), facebook (i put this on here because I basically do not understand facebook now at 26 I feel so old) and whatever else I missed. People update this but not this, basically I feel like some people's lifes must be spent online 24 hours a day updating all these social networking sites about themselves. While I spend alot of time online and could not deal without email, I find that it is really weird or maybe strange to feel like you are keeping in touch by chatting with someone half way around the world that you never met online. While I have gaming buddies I do that with the conversation revolves around games....
After my foray into this I feel that I no longer care about pop culture as much as I did when I was 15-17 and it was good while the time lasted but it is also good to bury that part of my life and not resuscitate it in any way. I no longer care if my clothes are out of date as I like them and they look good on me. I am fine listening to my 90's pop music and early 2000's. I like the cream cleanser that does not make me break out so I will continue to use it. I do like youtube videos so I will continue to watch them and also continue to work out.
I HATE Pastel Colors
I really hope pastel colors mostly die. I was watching Project Runway All-Star Challenge (2009), and I just have to say what are the judges smoking saying they liked Sweet P.'s collection. Honestly so tired of muted pastel dresses....I hate every single dress that was ever created in a muted pastel color. There was not one which I was like "oh I can see someone wearing it maybe". Not one. They were all dull and sad looking. Maybe it is simply because I am tired, or maybe the crappy video quality I was watching (maybe if I was watching in HD maybe it would have been amazing) but gees I really felt it was all sad, sad, and sadder.
I am far from a fashionista or even remotely someone that cares what they wear everyday. But I just feel they all are something my grandma would make me or something, which I would cherish for sentimental value but in the end they look homey, or homely.
Even though I really like Daniel's collection I was still meh about it, in fact I did not like any of the designers all 4 looks I see all this junk about the african american women should have won, well to be honest I hate that pant suit, and it did not even look like it belonged in the same collection.
Project Runway season 9 was so overall underWHELMING. To be honest from runway show alone I liked Josh (even though I pretty much didn't like his clothes mostly throughout the season). I hated Victor's prints but I can still see people wearing them. Now I hated Anya's collection, to be honest I live in the midwest if someone walked around in any of those outfits, I would be horrified. Do people wear those types of clothes in New York? But, whatever the judges died over it. First of all Uli should have won if this is what was in, because her dresses which looked really similar btw were better overall and I could see people wearing them, even in the midwest.
Project Runway All-stars. I will say this AUSTIN should have WON>, and I know Mondo was robbed or whatever from his season but what the hell was that last dress. What did that have to do with therapy it was like a disco dress married with a beach dress married with uninspired design (and to end it as a finale look???). I like some of his stuff, but really was that a half a million dollar line? The judges just died over it...which they liked Austin's too, but what they said every piece was great except what he lacked cohesion...such a BS reason. To be honest I did not think it lacked cohesion because basically it is like uhhh Austin designed all of it, even if he had not come out before the show started everyone would have known oh he designed it and not any of those other designers. Basically I guess judges care more about commercialism versus great clothes.
What is it with pastel clothes nowadays. I feel that pastel clothes remind me of Easter, ice cream, sherbert, and dresses that you wear when you are ages 1-14. When I say pastel I am not talking about ivory or gray. I am talking about cotton candy pink, my little pony purple, and mint green ice cream green. They are so icky and should stay as candy, ice cream, and my little ponies. Another thing I noticed from project runway season 9 is that bag dresses are in, mumu's became fashionable again, and that flowy beachy stuff is also in (because my god most of America is on a carribean cruise most of the time). I don't really get it. I guess I did not get the whole bringing leggings back thing either or the big brown boots that everyone was wearing. I can not imagine changing my wardrobe every time fashions change. To be honest it is all a bunch of a crock, but I love watching it all.
I am far from a fashionista or even remotely someone that cares what they wear everyday. But I just feel they all are something my grandma would make me or something, which I would cherish for sentimental value but in the end they look homey, or homely.
Even though I really like Daniel's collection I was still meh about it, in fact I did not like any of the designers all 4 looks I see all this junk about the african american women should have won, well to be honest I hate that pant suit, and it did not even look like it belonged in the same collection.
Project Runway season 9 was so overall underWHELMING. To be honest from runway show alone I liked Josh (even though I pretty much didn't like his clothes mostly throughout the season). I hated Victor's prints but I can still see people wearing them. Now I hated Anya's collection, to be honest I live in the midwest if someone walked around in any of those outfits, I would be horrified. Do people wear those types of clothes in New York? But, whatever the judges died over it. First of all Uli should have won if this is what was in, because her dresses which looked really similar btw were better overall and I could see people wearing them, even in the midwest.
Project Runway All-stars. I will say this AUSTIN should have WON>, and I know Mondo was robbed or whatever from his season but what the hell was that last dress. What did that have to do with therapy it was like a disco dress married with a beach dress married with uninspired design (and to end it as a finale look???). I like some of his stuff, but really was that a half a million dollar line? The judges just died over it...which they liked Austin's too, but what they said every piece was great except what he lacked cohesion...such a BS reason. To be honest I did not think it lacked cohesion because basically it is like uhhh Austin designed all of it, even if he had not come out before the show started everyone would have known oh he designed it and not any of those other designers. Basically I guess judges care more about commercialism versus great clothes.
What is it with pastel clothes nowadays. I feel that pastel clothes remind me of Easter, ice cream, sherbert, and dresses that you wear when you are ages 1-14. When I say pastel I am not talking about ivory or gray. I am talking about cotton candy pink, my little pony purple, and mint green ice cream green. They are so icky and should stay as candy, ice cream, and my little ponies. Another thing I noticed from project runway season 9 is that bag dresses are in, mumu's became fashionable again, and that flowy beachy stuff is also in (because my god most of America is on a carribean cruise most of the time). I don't really get it. I guess I did not get the whole bringing leggings back thing either or the big brown boots that everyone was wearing. I can not imagine changing my wardrobe every time fashions change. To be honest it is all a bunch of a crock, but I love watching it all.
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