More releases done during the week. Votoms (Remastered) episode 9, Tekkaman Blade episode 19 and Outlaw Star (Remastered) episode 17 were released in our IRC channel these past 3 days.

Hope you’ll enjoy them.

Regards.

- The_Soulforged

Venus Wars movie, encoded from the Remastered R2 PAL DVD and Vision of Escaflowne from R2J set have been released.

Enjoy.

-Dunpeal

Guns, guns, guns!

Meow?

AKA Work vs. Play, or as depicted, Homework Monster vs. Zelda

*Picture NOT owned by me in any way, I got it from a dArtist whose style should be quite recognisable. Very talented artist.

Play Wins! ONE HIT K.O.

Okay random, but that’s really what’s going on now.

I’ve gotten back into my semi-obsessions, which are, for now, the likes of a certain Japanese SNS fashion-related website, as well as Purime 5 (as usual T___T)

Bad timing, since my examinations are in, oh, TWO FRCKING WEEKS?!

On top of that, I have this project due THIS FRIDAY and I haven’t even started properly on it. I’ve kind of gotten a rough idea for it already, and I think it’s pretty feasible, just that uh. Not sure if the teacher grading me will feel the same way about it.

やる気がゼンゼンついてないんですよ～～神様、もう勘弁してぇ～

omake:

'Let's Play'

Miku Miku Shite A★GE★RU~! KIRA★ミ

This shit was released yesterday, no one posted about it.

Enjoy.

Regards.

- The_Soulforged

And the new release for today is episode 04 of Now and Then, Here and There (R2J). As always, available through our IRC channel.

Enjoy again.

Regards.

- The_Soulforged

More new releases done this week, episode 08 of Votoms, episode 16 of Outlaw Star and episode 14 of Escaflowne are already out. Everything in remastered flavor.

Enjoy.

Regards.

- The_Soulforged

Second episode of Toward the Terra TV series is out.

Enjoy

-Dunpeal

New Outlaw Star episode, 15, Tekkaman Blade 18 and Votoms (Remastered) 7 were released to public. As usual you can get them through our bots.

Enjoy

-Dunpeal

Brits vs. Black Knights. Oh, and I love this drawing style.

So I’m slow. In catching up with the more popular (not necessarily better) anime series, that is. I know. Which is why, being a slacker with no grasp of time management, I have managed to marathon the first season in, oh, three days at most? And I started on R2 today, and I’m at around episode 18. I tell you, my EYAs are shot to hell. But firstly, my homework. As for my foot drill test, I’m leaving it to luck and my ability. (On second thoughts, this applies to most of everything I do.)

But that’s besides the point. Dear Lulu has given me so much entertainment these past few days.

I love the linework. Hm, someone told me this was the way to go for more pageviews

Now I’m not one who particularly likes watching ‘politics’-based shows, or those involving devious strategists and whatnot– Gundam 00 kind of started to bore me after episode 3, while I probably just jumped on the bandwagon for Death Note but either way got bored when LADIES– but seeing as to how I’ve taken quite nicely to Code Geass despite the ridiculous voice of Fukuyama Jun as Lulu (ugh, I especially hate his Zero voice just like I hate Christian Bale’s voice when he does Batman), as well as the fact that I loved Ender’s Game a few years back, I might just consider trying them out again once I’ve got free time. IF I don’t get distracted too easily again, that would mean the December holidays, but this year my lack of time management is entirely off the charts, so I wouldn’t count on that.

Contrast. Phew, the legs are mostly hidden. But the shoulders…

I don’t happen to nitpick the plot that often since I’m not very sharp. But as for the art, you wouldn’t even call it nitpicking.. I mean CLAMP does a great job for the manga versions (except for their inability to draw anything but anorexic bishies – just look at the legs and arms), but as for the anime art, though the animation’s fluid, and mecha scenes still manage to keep my interest, characters look okay after a while since animation’s fairly consistent, I can’t say I love it. From the front, most of the faces drawn are fine (albeit always too angular), but the side profiles are the worst sometimes. Really, just look at it. Specifically the Angry/Emo/Angsty Lulu ones. The Fingers are quite horrid too.

Lulu angsts.. a lot. But 'nuff said, take a look at the fingers…

Another thing is that I can’t help but start to laugh whenever Zero does one of his speeches. It is almost never complete without exaggerated hand-movements. That voice also contributes to the reason that I am so amused by it, I believe.

Summarised thoughts on characters so far:- Kallen is rather too tsundere for me, lol. But she sure kicks ass. A real pity she’s reduced to a mere woman (=fanservice) in R2, sigh. And despite C.C.’s outright advertisement for Pizza Hut (They even rendered that crazy Cheese Fondue or whatever it’s called pizza), I rather liked her (moreso before her memory loss in R2, but anyway). As for Lulu, he’s fine without the maniacal laughter that simply must be there at least once every 5 episodes. Granted, he’s quite the genius (at least in his little 2D fictional world), and a better strategist than I will ever be, but he’s quite the siscon… Furthermore, he liked Shirley, that good-for-nothing bimbo.

If Lulu wants an org– I mean, harem, this is it. Daw, isn't he loved.

That said, Rollo is still a bastard for killing her since she didn’t mean any harm to him nor to Lulu (I’ll take her word for it), and being jealous just because of his pathetic buracon. In fact his presence is quite uncalled for. Except for the oh-so-amusing Lulu x Rollo scenes and fanart. Quite disturbing how that even forms a whole fanbase (KL-chan included), but I’m not too surprised now since G00 has spawned such a fandom just based on the fujoshis (sirane included) already. Suzaku is another Syaoran clone, I believe? Suzaku is.. another very contradictory human. Euphie was a manifestation of Lulu’s secret desire for a yandere in the series. No, really. a tragedy. Nina is indeed a lesbian retard, her face when Euphemia died was like the Higurashi girls gone crazy, only a thousand times more unpleasant on the eyes. I see it has spawned several ’shopped versions of other characters on danbooru. Lloyd (especially his voice) is gay. Oh and Sayoko is the greatest ninja ever, while Li Xingke is worshippable prodigy. Too bad he is a lolicon and will die for such a sin.

Main characters for R2.. Pretty decent fanart, I might say.

…That’s all for now, not much to say about the music (bgm is mostly orchestrated :3 and ops/eds are ookay..) or plot (I told you, I’m not sharp enough). Have I told you that I love to ramble? That’s really all I am bothered to do nowadays it seems. :C It’s a bad habit but I don’t think it’s going to change anytime soon. But I shall relieve you of any further pain from reading my horrible ramblings by ending soon D:

Random note, I’ve applied for JLPT Level 3 even though I’d aspired to try for Level 2 this year. :\ It’s quite irritating how Level 3 seems too easy while Level 2 seems too hard. Sigh. Speaking of languages, though, Italian is such a pretty language. A pity learning languages requires commitment/passion and time.

I realise I’ve been neglecting Tetsuwan Birdy: DECODE. ‘Tis sad.

This is Lulu. (Is -ko even needed?) CAN YOU UNSEE IT? CAN YOU?!

P.S. Geass, or rather geis, or geasa -plural- which I assume the word is based on, is pronounced gesh. Sounds horrible, don’t you think? Which is why, I suppose, they decided to coin their own word. Or maybe they just thought it would sound cool to use some rare word.

P.P.S. More picspam below:

A special request made by megane-fetishists

Lulu, pimping out. Britannia, Dark Knights, bring it on – Pizza Hut will conquer all

Note the two (ridiculous) characters in the air. That said, I love the design of this costume.

Cheese-kun is Japan's Pizza Hut mascot

Someone told me to leave this for last

/randomise/ In conclusion, Code Geass is a really popular franchise now… It’s not bad, actually, quite action-packed most of the time, and deserves that popularity, but I think they could have toned down the fanservice. Especially the BL subtext. (Is it really even subtext anymore?!) Also, Fan-pandering and picspam is probably good for pageviews.

If you would excuse me, I have a foot drill test tomorrow. Dammit.

Wall-E and Gokiburi-kun, better known as the near-immortal Cockroach.

Wall-E is probably the most well-done G-rated movie I’ve ever seen It was too cute to be true in many ways. I hear the budget went up to about $180m? But I believe it’s worth it all, since the texturing and details are amazing. Disney, Pixar, you guys are fantastic.

As a sidenote before I proceed to attempt to reorganise some of my thoughts on the movie, it was pretty funny when the three of us as a group were approached by some hairstylist on our way to the cinema. ‘Free haircut?’ or something to that effect since that’s all we kind of paid attention to. I think she simply scouted us because students can’t really say much if they screw up since it was free after all haha and we were the only students on the road at that time. Either way, Wall-E is more important than some free haircut |DD although, it might’ve been interesting to see how it would have turned out, since it seems it was for some ‘training’ for the newbies?

Eve is badass-cool. You question that?

I love Wall-E, but I would love to have or be an Eve. Why? First up, I hate the name Wally irl, just sounds weird to me. No offense, but well. Preference. Dagh but Wall-E kinda makes it sound cute. Second, Eve hovers. And she can fly. There was this one time that I dreamt about flying, it was so exhilarating. Third, Eve is badass if she wants to be (she’s 100% tsundere with 80% tsun and 20% dere after all), with that annihilate-anything-in-her-way laser/gun(??). Wall-E is a wuss to a certain extent. But that’s a semi-good thing, especially for gokiburi-kun (doing), just that he won’t really be my favourite character. Fourth, Eve as a whole is really sleek, with that iPod kind of shiney though it’s not the kirakira/blind-your-eyes-with-glitter shiney.

But what’s irritating is her directive, sigh. :\

Yes, Eve, even I am amazed by how fat they get in fiction. O_O

What was funniest about the movie was how every human was a fat lazy American…

I kind of like mechanical voices now, they’re so fun to listen to. GLaDOS had a nice enough voice to be able to produce a single, and Eve’s laugh was really amusing.

Wall-E is sad to see you go…

It’s been a few days since I’ve seen the movie so I probably haven’t included all my first thoughts on the movie, but it was great. The animation and movie budget is already reason enough to convince me to watch it, and the moral-of-the-story really relates to modern society’s lazy poots now (take yours truly for example, just not fattened up enough yet).

Now that I have your attention, I shall ramble.

*BY THE WAY, this was supposed to be posted on 15 August but I think I wanted to get nice pictures but uh I can’t be bothered now, so here you go. Really late, yeah, but it’s quite a rubbishy ramble-post. My practical’s over, too.

I have the vague idea that I will fail my Chemistry practical (more of the theory part of it). My Social Studies essay is pretty doomed as well since multiculturalism is really quite vague imo, and my writing has never been good, or rather, only for all the subjects which require you to elaborate and/or inference a lot (along with the fact that uh, the answers are probably not found directly in the textbook and notes.

Oh well.

Either way, I’ve been catching up with Soul Eater, which I still kind of dislike despite the very slick and very cool animation by BONES since the characters, though unique and memorable, do not happen to appeal directly to me. I am of the opinion that the voices don’t exactly match all the characters fully…(was that Chopper’s voicer I heard along the way, btw?!) And the character traits get irritating quite quickly, unfortunately, even though the development is coming along.. fine…. or worse. The occasional fanservice doesn’t help much, although the boin boin~ is not overdone unlike in Sekirei.

TUTE DIED HOW COULD HE. Tetsuwan Birdy Decode really appeals to me on the other hand. Despite the leotard, fanservice is not excessive nor overdone imo. Rather, the leotard is pretty elegant sometimes, and the action scenes are all really well-done despite high speed god-mode… Just right! |D Plus the main lead isn’t really of that horrible a character, unlike NICEBOATTHAR Makoto (unrelated but anyway).

Natsume Yuujinchou seems fine for the first episode, OP and ED not really very speshul or anything, but I like the Nyanko-sensei (I liek his voice in ‘true form’ better of course) although the impression I have of Natsume (as well as the series on the whole, for now) is still more of… weird.

Also been watching Ryoko’s Case Files, now I know why I love Ryoko so much, she’s so similar to Artemis Fowl. Rich, egocentric, scheming, it’s all there! In addition the fact that they both deal with the supernatural and have exceptional deduction skills, maybe. Furthermore they aren’t very honest with themselves half the time, and are great actors |DD I really want to read the whole Artemis Fowl series but being the deprived little Shift (are you Control or Alternate?) I am, I have only read around two (plus or minus one at the most) of the whole series. Time Paradox looks intriguing *o*

Speaking of books I have been trying to read Amatsuki for the art. The story doesn’t seem to have proper transitions or logic and keeps skipping here and there though. What’s more, half the time it reeks of Philosophy, what with the ‘Is this world real?’ and who knows what else, that doesn’t really make sense. On the other hand, I really like the art style. I think the anime semi-butchered it, though probably not that badly. Not anywhere near a Yashigani anime, thankfully, since most studios are funded moderately well these days.

Note– YES Hibari is finally back to normal in the latest chapter! (his hair was indeed quite fluffy in TYL mode)

I’ve been playing Super Mario Galaxy as well, got 3 Grand Stars already. I want SSBB and Mario Kart though… or at least Okami D: Also still waiting for FFXIII and Rune Factory. It is a sad long wait. A very sad long wait.

On another note, This poupee girl rubbish actually seems to be pretty interesting. It helps my fashion sense, at the very least, which is less than non-existent, fyi.