I’m noting this as the first year of 2009 during which I have become incredibly angry.
More than once.
So.. I lasted 25 days into the new year without raging hard, could’ve been better.
Now I was going to update this with something but I honestly can’t be bothered right now, so here’s somebody punching a horse.
And this.
For the retarded of you out there, Cowboy Bebop (top) came first. God, if I saw any genuine “lol dat thing copyd naruto xD” comments I’d probably, well, kill them.
Goodbye for now, hopefully when I wake up I’ll have sucessfully thought of a plan to protect the world from devastation and unite all peoples within my nation.
GOD DAMN SHIT! I just noticed I fucked up the “PART 1″ bit but now I can’t fix it so oh well who cares.
Well I think I’ve more or less got everything I need to know covered, including how to save it at a decent file size whilst retaining the full quality.
Of course, I could redraw lines and borders and make the greys neater but to be honest that would make each page take several hours more than it does at the moment.
Okay, so in theory I shouldn’t start reviewing JoJo yet, but I figure 4/7 series completed is far enough to at least start, as, man, a full review on JoJo would take FOREVER. I may as well do it now whilst it’s somewhat fresh in my mind.
Uh.. where to start? Well, this isn’t really TECHNICALLY a proper review, I’m just going to say what I thought on parts 1-4 in brief, I’ll post detailed “proper” reviews later or something.
Well, let’s start here.
This is Johnathan Joestar.
This is Dio Brando.
..and here’s JoJo slicing an arm in half. (which was one of the most FUK YEH moments of part 1, as he’s getting revenge for the death of an awesome character who didn’t deserve to die, especially so.. painfully)
Okay, so that’s how it all starts. JoJo’s first series, “Phantom Blood” is certainly interesting, but it’s about as similiar as parts 5/6 as.. well, as fire is to ice. I don’t think it’d be far fetched to say JoJo was initially inspired by Fist of the North Star, the characters look similiar, (aka HUGE) and there’s alot of awesome violence. Joeseph also at one point informs somebody that they are, infact, already dead.
That aside, part 1 isn’t really similiar to FotNS.
Phantom Blood starts normally enough, Dio Brando is the son of some douche who dies, and George Joestar basically adopts him as his own child. Now, Dio HATES the Joestars for some reason I’ve actually forgotten, and vows to, basically, ruin Johnathan’s (or, JoJo) life, and he sets about doing so. The first quarter or so of Phantom Blood basically details how Dio ruins JoJo’s life, but JoJo keeps on forgiving him. He steals JoJo’s loves first kiss, he almost blinds JoJo in a “friendly” boxing match, he comes inbetween JoJo and his father, and he even kills JoJo’s dog. He burns Danny the dog alive. Yet despite all this, JoJo still forgives Dio, then there’s a timeskip and so on, eventually Dio finds some stone mask, that when put on, gives the wearer.. well, vampiric abilities. Weakness to sunlight, super strength and regenerative powers, all that good stuff. It also gives them the trademark URYYYYYYYYYYYYY (WRYYYYY) shriek.
So Dio puts it on, and kills JoJo’s father, to summarize. At this point, JoJo’s pretty much at the “fuck you” stage, and finally doesn’t forgive Dio, they have a loooong ass fight in the Joestar estate, which ends with JoJo impaling Dio on a statue and leaving him as the house is burnt down.
Now that’s all well and good.. only Dio survives, he makes his way to some remote town somewhere, and basically eats all the villagers in order to recover from his near fatal wounds.
Meanwhile, JoJo meets some old guy who tells him that Dio is indeed alive, and cannot be defeated “by courage alone”, so he teaches JoJo the “hamon”, or, “ripple”. It’s basically a breathing technique that powers people up and all that. So JoJo and the old guy (who’s name, sadly, escapes me, something like Mr Zeppeli) go hunting Dio. After many fights, JoJo eventually has his showdown with Dio. It’s a good one. One of the best fights I’ve seen in a manga.
He slices his face in two, but even that isn’t enough to kill him, eventually he uses his ripple overdrive “sunlight yellow”/”burning heat” and stuff like that to smasha him good, as you can see at the end of this trailer.
Even so, Dio, as he falls from the cliff into the water, realises that if the ripple reaches his head, he’ll die. So he cuts off his own head from his body, and floats around angrily, eventually getting saved by his lackie.
Several days/weeks or so later, JoJo is on a cruise to New York with his wife, Erina when Dio pops up again, I don’t know whether it’s suprise or what, but JoJo is “defeated” by Dio this time, who is just a head. However, Dio has gone from hating JoJo to actually admiring and respecting him, and his goal is to fix his head to JoJo’s body. Even so, JoJo, despite having his throat essentially torn out so he can’t breathe or speak and by extension, use the ripple, which is a breathing technique. manages to ensure the safety of Erina, and grasps Dio in a death-grip.
It is pretty sad, main characters don’t often die, especially just after they’ve defeated their arch rival. Still.. just a few pages later, we’ve skipped to the 1930′s or so, and we’re introduced to..
Joseph Joestar, grandson of the original JoJo. My personal favourite out of the 4 male JoJos. 5 if you count Gio, as in japanese his name is like “Joruno Jobāana”
So now we’ve moved onto part 2, Battle Tendency, my favourite part. Part 1 is great, it really is, but I prefer part 2, why? Well, to me, Joseph was just a more interesting character, we also had more variation to the fights. Part 1 was basically JoJo VS Dio several times, and a few Zepelli and random people fighting, and part 3 has way too many different people fighting, Jotaro, Joseph, Kakyoin, Polnareff and Avdul..and.. Iggy. Part 2 got it right in my eyes, we have Joseph, Caesar, Lisa Lisa and Stroheim versus Wham, ACDC and Cars.
Joseph looks very similiar to Johnathan, however he is a very different person, he’s short tempered, rude and cunning. He’s also not technically that “strong” so to speak, so I found it interesting watching him work around this in various ways, take for example, one part where there are TONS of stone maskified vampires, and Joseph is pretty worried, Johnathan could probably take them down, it’d be hard, but he could do it. Joseph tries to destroy them all at once by running the ripple through a net, he also finds interesting ways of inserting his ripple into things he really shouldn’t stick it in. He’s a great character, and he doesn’t hesitate to run away if the situation calls for it. Part 2 continues the story of Part 1 in regards to the stone masks, in short, part 2 is Joseph’s fight against the Perfect Beings, Santanica(?) Wham, ACDC and Cars, with a time limit, as Joseph gets poison in his body that will melt or something within 30 days if he doesn’t drink an antedote that Wham and ACDC carry (amusingly, it is in their nose rings, and green) So yeah, helping Joseph are Caesar (Zepelli’s grandson) and Lisa Lisa (a myserious ripple using woman who only actually fights once, near the end) and to some extent, Stroheim, who’s a nazi, and the basis of Guile from Street Fighter.
There’s not really much more to say about part 2, it’s just awesome.
Part 3, and we’re introduced, as with the timeskip from part 1->2, by an older existing character, in this case, it’s Joseph, the year is now like 1980 and he’s a fairly old (but still capable) man on his way to Japan to meet his grandson, Jotaro Kujo, or KuJO JOtaro. To be honest, I don’t really like Jotaro. Which is ironic as I’m pretty sure he’s one of the most popular in Japan, judging from how popular part 3 is over there. To me though, Jotaro was way too emotionless and generic toughman, he was cool and all that but I prefer characters who have personality.
Even so, he did have this bit, which I found hilarious.
Look at the expression on Star Platinum’s face, he knows he’s punching a woman in the face with a punch that can destroy buildings, he doesn’t care. SUTA PURACHINA.
Anyway yeah, part 3 continues the other existing story from part 1..Dio. In contrast to part 1, where Dio was there all the time pretty much, part 3′s Dio only really pops up at the end, and even so we don’t know what the hell he’s doing really, we don’t know his motives. Much of part 3 revolves around working out the mystery of just WHAT can Dio’s stand do. Like part 2, they have a time limit, 50 days. Unlike parts 1 and 2, the main cast is pretty big and diverse, we’ve got a Frenchman (Polnareff), an English born American (Joseph) an Indian(?) Avdul, and two Japanese, Jotaro and Kakyoin. They also travel alot, much of part 3 focuses on the strange locations they visit on their trip from Japan to Cairo.
Another new thing is, well, there’s no hamon. Jotaro can not use the ripple, however a new power has come into being (and I won’t discuss how it works, as I’m pretty sure it gets semi-retconned again in part 6) but needless to say, they are Stands. It’s essentially a “ghost” that ‘stands’ beside the user, giving them unique powers. Star Platinum, Jotaro’s stand, for example, has very small range, but it is also EXTREMELY fast and powerful, it can catch speeding bullets, kill with one punch, and by the end of the series, even stop time.
So yes, most of part 3 revolves around fighting the numerous stand users they come across on their hunt for Dio, and trying to figure out just what his stand can do. It’s not really a spoiler as I imagine EVERYBODY knows by now, but yes, Dio’s stand is essentially Star Platinum, only it can also stop time. This makes Dio essentially godlike in terms of strength, he may have lost alot of his vampiric abilities (such as the freaky eyebeams) but he still has regeneration and super strength. I thought the way he died was kind of stupid to be honest, in theory he should only be able to be killed by a hamon user. Jotaro obviously isn’t, but if you destroy somebodys stand, they also die, so that’s pretty much what Jotaro does. If you’re wondering just HOW they even fight against somebody who can stop time.. well, they don’t. Not at first, anyway. Avdul and Kakyoin die before they can even work out what his stand can do, Joseph then is also killed, Polnareff was elsewhere, fighting the almost as ridicuously strong Vanilla Ice, but he does intervene when Dio is about to decapitate Jotaro, by stabbing Dio in the head, giving Jotaro the chance he needed to turn the tides of the fight.
Even so, in the end, the only way Jotaro wins is that he gives a short monologue about how he’s super angry and when he next sees Dio’s face, his most ultimate strength will be unleashed, Dio doesn’t look impressed by his claim, and punches him onto a bridge and stops time. Jotaro is thinking “When you show your face, it will be the end for you, come on, Dio.” ..Then Dio pops back into the scene, holding a ROAD ROLLER which he somehow got, and he drops it on Jotaro and punches it till it explodes. Turns out, however, Jotaro wasn’t bluffing, for whatever reason, his stand awakens to its full potential and he stops time after Dio does. Then, the rest, as they say, is history. Dio finally is killed, Jotaro uses the blood from his torso to bring Joseph back to life. Yet no explanation of WHAT Dio’s goals were is made, sadly.
Tune in next time for part 2, where I’ll happily discuss parts 4 and 5.
The movie is set in a world where mankind has been at war with the mysterious lifeforms known as Image for over half a century. Renton joined the battleship Gekko-go as a member 8 years ago to search for the kidnapped Eureka. Now, in the battlefield, he will meet her again.
Dominic is supposed to be a teacher to Renton and Eureka when they lived in Warsaw 8 years ago. One day after telling them about the legend surrounding the Snow Moon Flowers, he vanishes. Eureka is described as a young girl whose body reacts strangely to direct sunlight. She’s captured by the military and kept as their most guarded secret. To get her back, he entered the military. 8 years later, Renton will enter the battlefield with his favorite mech Nirvash.
The article goes on to specify that the story is brand new, and while the names and circumstances might be the same, the worldview and scenario is completely original. It also mentions that while there will be many new animated scenes in the movie, “by rearranging the scenes from the TV series footage, a brand new story and drama can be shown.”
Sounds pretty good to me, seems like Dominic’ll have a bigger role and.. be Kamina like? Who knows. He’ll be older too, judging from that picture. Looks like it’s going to skip alot of what the show was about, if you add two and two together. Renton’s 8 years older than in the picture so what, 15-16? Granted, they could be 5 in that picture for all I know. But yeah, it seems like Renton will be as old as he was at the END of the series.
Well, in theory it sounds awesome, and I expect many awesome battle scenes.
I wonder how it’ll end though, pull a Diebuster and say “those aliens aren’t actually the enemies!” and then pull out a NEW alien for them to fight? Or will Dewey suddenly grow into Dewzilla and rampage about firing beams from his eyes.
Oh.
Looks like youtube disabled my account, that’s helpful. ..Yup and they deleted all my videos and so forth. I don’t really care that much that they deleted the account, but really, did they have to delete ALL my videos? There’s some stuff there I would’ve like to kept in some form or another, and I have to now find my like 10 pages of favourite stuff again. Sigh, that’s..frustrating.
Yeah, they don’t even have anyplace for me to petition for like.. anything. God just let me sign in and get some stuff out of it you massive douchemonglers.
Sigh.
I can’t make a new account with my gmail as apparently my old account was linked.
Wow, what exactly was so amazingly bad about my account? I didn’t have any episodes of copyrighted material, all I had were videos with CLIPS of stuff in them, why couldn’t they just delete those videos? What redundant logic, “let’s just ban the whole account and anything linked to it – but not tell them, they have to sign in to see :)))))))))”.
This went from a good morning of finding out I had a box of lucozade to an extremely annoying one.
Why don’t you just delete my blog without warning so I lose all the files stored here too! May as well delete all my email accounts, including my private work one, and delete my memberships on every forum I’m part of, because, you know, I might have accidently said a COPYRIGHTED PHRASE or something.
….
Okay, so pretty much every username I can think of is taken. Even Kaonazhie.
Last sign in: 1 year ago
Doesn’t look like I registered it randomly either. God this is such a pain, really, why not just DELETE COPYRIGHT INFRINGING VIDEOS. Not that there were any, ever heard of fair use? Apparently not! I’M MAKING MONEY OFF MY FULL LENGTH EPISODES THAT ARE CLEARLY THERE HOLY SHITTTT.
You thought I’d miss this one didn’t you. Also, if you what the chapter title is referencing I’ll give you 500 bonus merits. Aside from that, it’s a fairly short chapter, next chapter is the start of Part 2, the main part. February 11th is chapter 5. Also, the lines are all screwed up as WordPress fucking sucks, I press enter and it goes down like 100 miles, whatever.
Chapter 4 – Moving on, to the plan.
What do you say to somebody that you thought dead? One you called your brother? One you have not seen for years. It was an awkward reunion, for indeed, I sensed a degree of shame for not returning with Yorae, returning after so long with naught to show for it. Still.. I was glad to see my younger brother. Although, for better or worse – he seemed to have retained his short temper.
“You.. I thought you were dead..”, Erthus said quietly, Montolio gave an awkward grin and scratched at his ear.
“Ah, but did we not swear to die on the same day?”, Montolio said, narrowing his eyes with mock severity.
“That’s right, we did”, Erthus gave a chuckle as he approached Montolio, looking him up and down, “You don’t look so good.”
“Perhaps, however I fancy I look a fair deal better than you, what happened to your face? Did you get trampled by a kodo?”
“Long story.. a Tauren.. a hammer.. “, Erthus waved it off, turning to Frahlo, who was staring at Montolio.
“Something the matter, Frahlo?”, Erthus asked, giving him a jab to the ribs.
“What are you?”, Frahlo asked sharply, ignoring Erthus. Montolio turned to regard Frahlo, questioningly.
“A priest?”, Montolio asked quietly, lowering his arms to his side.
“No, I am a magi, however I’m suprised even Erthus cannot see that.”, as he spoke, Frahlo turned his gaze up to the Naaru which hung in the air behind Montolio, emanating a golden glow, which Kurineor and Erthus fully failed to see.
“My brother was never very in touch with the arcane and such things”, Montolio said with a small smile, “Does it disturb you?”
“What is it?”, Frahlo hissed, a small spark igniting about his fingertips.
“I would stop that before you lose a hand”, Montolio said, voice turning hard.
“Arrogant, aren’t we?”, Frahlo shot back, slightly clenching his fingers, Montolio’s lips parted in a slight smile. Frahlo thought he heard, “Ignorant, aren’t we?”, but Montolio’s mouth did not move.
Frahlo muttered something under his breath and with a sharp movement flicked his hand towards Montolio. There was a brief flash of light that blinded the small gathering for several moments and a resonating ‘clang’ that echoed through the small clearing, when the light had subsided, Frahlo looked down to see that Erthus had a grip on his arm, and had turned it aside and down, snapping his gaze up, he saw that Kurineor had obstructed Montolio from his view, and was replacing a short scimitar back in its sheath. Not quite sure what had happened, Frahlo made a “huh” noise.
Montolio turned on his heel and began to walk away, “We should head to the inn, I could use a strong drink and I believe your hasty comrade could do with loosening up a little”, he said, not turning his head.
Erthus gave a small sigh and said under his breath, “You’re the one who should loosen up a little..”, turning to give Frahlo an exasperated look, he dropped his grip on the magi’s arm and began to walk after his brother.
“Huh?”, Frahlo said again, looking over to Kurineor, “You, Dwarf, how did you protect him? What did you do?”. Kurineor gave Frahlo a puzzelled look. “Protect ‘im? Nay.. laddy, Ah was protectin’ ye.”, with a short spin, Kurineor began to follow the departing pair. Frahlo stood there for several moments, confused. Looking about, he saw the neatly burnt circle of foliage that had resulted from his spell. “Protect me? Foolishness!”, Frahlo gave a chuckle and began to follow himself. Narrowing his eyes, he thought, “An interesting man though..”
What Frahlo did not see, was the demolished remains of a large tree several meters behind and to the left of where he had been standing.
Several hours later, in the welcoming atmosphere of the Lion’s Pride Goldshire inn, Montolio finished recounting the majority of his tale. Frahlo gave a small nod and leaned back in his chair, “I see.. an embodyment of the Light.. how interesting”, lighting up a small pipe, he continued to mumble to himself, stroking his neatly trimmed, v-shaped beard. Erthus’ looked a tad more angry than the norm, as he muttered dark and violent things generally regarding Troll’s genitals and his blade. Kurineor however, stood up and stretched his arms giving a loud yawn.
“Well laddies.. It were nice to see ye, Ah best be headin’ back to tha’ ‘Forge, dooty calls, ‘ave fun ‘n take care, ye ‘ear?”, the trio raised a hand to wave farewells to the Dwarf. Silence reigned for some moments, until…”Ah!!!”, Frahlo screamed suddenly, causing the other two to jump.
“What?!”, Erthus said in suprise, looking about.
“My gold!!! That becursed little man!”, Frahlo leapt up from his seat.. or tried to, as he fell face first into the table, he noticed that his legs had been tied together by.. a ripped off strip of his own robe. “What is this?!”. he shrieked, beginning to writhe about like a caught fish. Erthus gave a small laugh.
Outside, a small figure zoomed speedily up the road towards Stormwind, cackling loudly and congratulating himself on his perfect getaway.
“So, Mont, what should we do in regards to money? Me and Frahlo have just been staying at this inn mostly, scraping together money doing mercenary work here and there.. I suppose you could join us”, Erthus said, leaning over his mug of ale, brow furrowed in thought.
“It will serve as a start, however, there are some things we must do, beyond simple errands.”, Montolio said, leaning back in his chair and closing his eyes.
“Of course, we must find Yorae.. and Lant.”, Erthus agreed, clenching his fist. “I have not forgotten the promises we swore, any of them, it is good you return, Brother. Too long have I sat idle, thinking things would sort out themselves.. No. We must find brother Yorae, and… brother Lant.”
“Yes, although for any of this, as you said, we shall need money.”
“I have nothing save the few silver in my pouch and the clothes on my back.”, Erthus shot Frahlo a dirty look, “It is the same with him, despite his coming from a wealthy family”. Frahlo stared back at Erthus, deadpan expression on his face.
“Ah.. but we too come from a wealthy family, young Brother.”, Montolio smiled slightly. Erthus looked up at him questioningly.
“I recall Father telling me of an estate he owned in Silverpine, where his family vaults lay, with generations worth of gold and treasure, locked away in a magical shutter – of course, the estate itself I assume is destroyed and pillaged.. however a wizard’s vault remains shut to all but a stronger wizard.”
Erthus stroked his chin and began to smile. “I see, so we just need to get into the vault, providing it is still intact.”
“Aye, then our money problems at least should be solved.”
“When should we leave?”
“At morning light, we should not waste time.”, Frahlo gave a slight groan at this.
“Oh? You are coming too, Frahlo?”, Montolio smirked at him.
As the trio got up and began heading their different directions to plan ahead for the following journey, Montolio caught a hold of Frahlo’s arm, pulling him back and whispering into his ear.
“You know of the darkness in the North, I would think it wise of you to not come.”, Frahlo narrowed his eyes and turned his head slightly.
“What do you speak of?”
“Do not attempt to fool me, the Light illuminates even the darkest of corners. I can see that which resides within you.”
“I am glad you think of me as such a weak minded man”, Frahlo hissed, pulling his arm free and striding away. As he hastily made his way across the near empty inn he didn’t waste a glance back, yet thought to himself, “Fool you? Was it you speaking, or the Naaru? We may have more in common than I thought, Montolio.”
Montolio watched as the magi walked across the inn. “It would be a shame to destroy one of my little Brother’s friends.”
Dawn.
As Frahlo and Erthus sat against the rickety mail box that stood in the ground near the entrance to the inn, Montolio emerged from the nearby smithy, wrapped in a long brown woolen cloak, cowl pulled over his head. “No hats.. no hats“, he muttered darkly as he made his way towards the pair, one hand clenching a longsword, the other a pack which seemed far fuller than either Frahlo or Erthus’.
“How did you get those, exactly?”, Erthus asked in amusement, nodding at the pack and blade.
“I may have been lost for an age, but I did not lose this.”, Montolio said, pulling his insignia of the Alliance from his pack, the small trinket which marked him as a Sergeant.
“It has it uses.. even if I’m no longer in the military..perhaps I should report to Stormwind about that..”, Montolio gave a small shrug and flipped the pack onto his back.
“Well, if you are both ready?”, he inquired.
“Of course, let us head out, to Silverpine.”, Erthus grinned, not even waiting for an answer from Frahlo, who sullenly glared for a moment, before pulling himself to his feet.
Taking a moment to simply gaze at the sky and breathe the lightly fragranced wind, Montolio gave a small sigh. “I could look upon your beauty for only a moment, Elwynn”, tugging his hood over his head firmly, he set off to follow the others.
Despite how their last journey together had ended, Montolio found himself smiling at the thought of a new adventure.
First off, you best listen to this whilst you read this post.
MOST MISLEADING POST TITLE EVER, HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA.
Okay so, I’m writing this for one main reason, my hands feel like they are about to fall off from being so cold, so I figured a good RAT-A-TAT-TOOT on the keyboard’d help get the blood flowing to them and all that good stuff. If I didn’t have Haemophobia..or.. if I was an idiot, I could just cut the tip of my finger, you bet that’d get that fucking blood flowing down there pretty quick, fucking blood, thinks it’s all that.
Anyhoo, I know I’ve missed a chapter update for FFIDUDD(final frontier internet destiny udder damaging diggers, remember?) technically, but really, REALLY, does anybody care? I doubt it. Besides, it’s not technically a missed update until the 11th of this month, so no worries, I pretty much just forgot. Regardless of people reading it, it’s mostly a “Come on Alex can you please fucking keep a schedule sort of thing?”, considering I’ve not had a 9-5 job and been out of school for several years, and basically, had no real schedules to keep, I figure I really need to get it into my head that..well..I need to be able to do things by specific dates and all that.
Bleh, it angers me that I am not good at writing. See, I know good writing when I see it – I don’t just think it. One could argue I’m just overly critical on myself but I’m really not, I don’t think so anyway, maybe my writing IS good but, to be honest, I wouldn’t bet on it. How should I put it, when I imagine a scene, I picture it so vividly in my mind, and I try to notch it down action for action, thus in the process I entirely forget about several key things. Setting and relation. I generally fail to describe the enviroments at all, it’s because in my mind I see it so clearly that..well, I just forget. I think I would be better suited to making movies, but that is essentially a goal I cannot achieve..now. Maybe in the near future, it’s becoming increasingly easy to make your own, independant films. I would dearly love to make my FI universe a reality, yet being realistic it is quite literally impossible, why?
Well, let’s put it this way, FI, or.. Lant’s story, is currently a series of 3 stories, 4 technically, if you include my friend’s SS. FI1 I always imagined as being a weekly TV show of some kind, most likely animated. FI2 would be very episodic in nature, perhaps a comic or book, a serialised in either case, or perhaps it’d be a video game. FI3 would be a two-part movie, live action or CGI, but more “realistic” than animated in either case.
There’s a reason for all this of course, I do not understand why a single franchise can or indeed, has, successfully branched over various forms of entertainment. FI1 would be animated, now, you can say, “anime??” or whatever, but I don’t really think that’s the case. It wouldn’t be anime in the sense of huge eyes and what not, but yes, it would be animated. Why? FI1′s world is based off Earth, indeed, it is Earth. Yet it is also the most “fantasy’ish” of all the FIs. Think bright pastel colours, arabian nights style buildings, huge towers that reach into the sky, floating islands, cities by the core of the earth, all that good stuff. I don’t think it would work well live action, besides, I really like animation, and I have done ever since I saw Prince of Egypt like.. 10 years ago. Of course, there’s also the issue that FI does have -alot- of fights and such, which I think also work alot better in animation. Animation can be thousands of times more fluid than live action, and that’s how the fights in FI are, just because it’s an (or should that be a?) Earth, doesn’t mean it is OUR Earth, the gravity may be higher or lower, people flying about angrily smashing each other in the face and so on is pretty much normal there. There’s no way a real human could perform the sorts of things I have in mind, besides, it would look retarded if they were. That’s another reason the animation is a superior choice for FI1, it won’t look so over the top. Imagine if Goku was firing a kamehameha in live action, it’d look stupid. OH WAIT. Then again, characters in FI don’t shoot lazers.
As for the end of FI1, I imagine that’s a scene that would give an animation team the largest headache in the world, basically, how I imagine it, is a sword fight inside a mountain/volcano, that is pitch black, and the only illumination would come from the clashes of the blades and molten lava flying about, until eventually the swords become superheated and begin glowing LIKE LIGHTSABERS FUCK YES. All of this would be timed with whatever the “main theme/score” of the movie is, the sword clashes would essentially be the beats of the music. Infact, the only time in the whole of FI1 I don’t imagine having a background music of some kind would be two select moments, one being the meeting of the long parted main character and his companions, the other, at the end, when..well, all human life on the planet is eradicated. From that moment on there would be no music, until the very end, the very conclusion, which is a super dramatic ultra cliffhanger of sorts. Not the annoying kind, don’t worry, there won’t be any “SUZAK” ‘RURUSHAAAAAAAAAAAAA’ here, it’s just the perfect set up end. In theory.
Uh anyway yeah, after the events of FI1 comes SS, which I think is very interesting, for if you just went straight from FI1 to FI2, you might be amazed at how the main character changes so much between them. Lant (for that’s the main character) in FI1 is a timid and silent boy, kind yet very..inhuman. In FI2 he is a armored and masked ruthless and monster like killing machine, there are little to no heroic traits about him. Indeed, in FI2 Lant’s goal is to essentially destroy an entire race – an entire race who are not evil or done anything wrong. He pursues his goal with machine like precision, in Highlander fashion, he kills one after the other, that may be a hint as to WHY he is doing it. Anti-Hero perhaps would describe him better. Inbetween FI1 and FI2 of course, comes SS. If you want to know the details about that, I am the wrong person to ask. Needless to say, Lant was originally created in and for SS. His initial role was to play the, how should I put it, the Balio and Sunder, the Saturos and Menardi, the Seymour of SS. You would fight him, Lant, general of the ‘enemy’ many times, despite not being on your team per se, he was in some degree.. an honor bound opponent. In the end he would eventually join your team too. His “class” so to speak, was an Auron/Scias/Dark Knight style character, with a HUGE sword, he would have access to one or two dark magic spells/abilities, namely, the infamous bind which he uses on a certain person who’s name begins with T. I AM FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
Cough ahem. Lant was also AMAZINGLY vulnerable to taunts. Ah right, and his final task, was to apparently pop up when your party lost and scream ANNIHILATED at you.
What Lant is now in SS, I do not know, as much like FI it’s changed rather alot over the oh, 5-7 years. This does actually remind me to interrogate Mike about the new SS though. Last I heard, I think it had three countries/nations/factions and a mysterious band of killer robo-giraffes led by Apachai the Hasty. Then again my memory is notably..bad.
Uhh, I did originally plan this post to be a sort of Mass Effect review but considering it’s now over 1400 words long, I think I’ll cut it off here. ME is good, though. I will review it, silly FI, it was meant to be my opening note “i forgot FFIDUDD chapter update but no worries it’s coming soon :)))))))” Oh well!
Congratulations, FUNimation, you’ve just single handedly made one of the best on-going shows look like it’s Naruto or something.
I would like to say this bothers me because they are changing it so much from the original thing and dub fans won’t be getting an authentic version, but it’s more that it just makes me angry how fucking stupid it is.
To break down the stupidity:
0:16 Actually, if you want to be technical, Cowboy Bebop was produced by Sunrise, just because BONES might have Sunrise former employees doesn’t mean it’s owned by them, that’s like saying Free Radical made Perfect Dark because they have former employees of Rare. That doesn’t really bother me, as it’s a fairly valid point, FMA, E7 and Cowboy Bebop are amongst my favourite shows. Also, what’s up with the way he pronounces Eureka?
0:17 It’s almost been airing a year, and the manga’s been going since 2004, but yes, I guess that is “brand new”
0:28 Okay so here’s the first major flaw. “Quest for the ultimate prize”. Uh, this isn’t One Piece. Also, I feel the need to point out they are showing a clip of when Black Star is spying on a naked Tsubaki, so I thought “oh okay any second they’ll go “…OR NOT LOL xD”. But they don’t.
0:44 Shinigami? What’s that? I might not be Stephen Fry but I’m pretty sure Shinigami isn’t an English word. This is an ENGLISH adaptation.. no? I can PERHAPS overlook this though, if we argue that his name is Shinigami.. which it isn’t. His name would logically be “Death”, considering, you know, his son is called “Death the Kid”, ala Death Jr.
0:47 “Soul Eater and his human partner”. Uhh.. I must have missed the point when he changed his name from Soul Evans to Soul Eater. Pretty sure the “Eater” part is a nickname of some kind, or at the very least, his middle name.
0:54 “All the students at the school have a common goal”. No, they don’t, that’s one reason Soul Eater is sort of interesting, the characters don’t all generically want to power up. Maka’s goals have yet to even be fully revealed other than wanting to do something in regards to making Soul a DeathScythe stronger than her father, Black Star just wants to generically power up (but we don’t know why) and Death the Kid has no goals that we know of. As for the other characters, again, we don’t know. Nice misinformation.
0:58 Sama? Again, I’m pretty sure that’s not an English word. Using honorifics in a dub is pretty fucking stupid, unless, if again, you argue that his name is Shinigami-sama. Which is possible but still stupid, why not just call him “The Reaper” or “Death God” or “Lord Death” I don’t know.
1:12 Nice, did they make this in Windows Movie Maker?
1:22 She is? I thought she was just smart, I must’ve missed the bit where she became a master analyst. Pretty sure she just had good soul perception.. and is smart.
1:30 Quick and aggresive? He seems pretty laid back and calm to me most of the time, odd. I thought he was the one obsessed with being “cool”.
1:32 No he can’t he’s terrible and pretty much the weakest weapon in the show. Even Killik and Ox’s weapons are stronger than he is.
1:37 No it’s more the fact that the Demon God is ressurected that forces them to grow stronger, because, otherwise, they’ll, you know, go insane.. and die. That’s a good point, they’ve not mentioned that once in the entire thing, the madness or the Demon God. They make it sound like the whole show is about hunting the 99 souls.. that was like.. in one episode. Out of 50.
1:49 ..Yes they are.
1:57 But you just said he was a “Assasin’s Specialist”.
2:04 Oh so Kid’s just a “Specialist”? Hey, at least they didn’t rename him to Desu za Kid, because you know, that’s what he’s called in Japanese and they seem to be obsessed with translating the names literally, in some form or another. Also, “double guns”? Not really, a pair would be more accurate.
2:27 No they pretty much help each other all the time apart from like twice. They are a team, afterall.
2:30 Yes they do, in every single episode.
Okay so at the end they quickly list some of the good points, the animation and unique style. I’ll give them that.
Overall, it comes across as fan made by an idiot who happens to know someone with a deep voice. To be honest, I’m not even certain that is real, it just seems so amateur. They seem to be trying to market it as another Naruto, literally. They didn’t highlight the comedic parts at all other than randomly throwing in 2-3 clips. Soul Eater is a parody of Naruto in the style of Bleach, or, as I said a few posts back: Full Metal Bleach Before Christmas. It’s NOT an ultra serious shounen about powering up and angrily fighting people. It’s a shame FUNimation don’t realise that.
Do they wonder, why people don’t take them seriously? Well, I’ll tell you this, as much as I think BONES are a good studio who can do little wrong and I like pretty much every one of their shows, I won’t be buying or even watching the Soul Eater dub done by FUNimation. Why? Well, aside from the fact they won’t even AIR it in the UK on any channels I have. There’s also the point that probably 1% of the profit will actually go to BONES. I imagine FUNimation just paid a set price upfront and then pay a TINY TINY % of every sale (if at all). I don’t support paying terrible voice actors. LET ME GUESS, JOHNNY YONG BOSCH AS SOUL AND TIFFANY GRANT AS MAKA HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BOY IT’S LIKE I’M REALLY WATCHING THE SAME SHOW OVER AND OVER WITH THE EXACT SOME FUCKING VOICES.
Now, not that I think all anime voice actors are BAD exactly, some of them are quite good, it’s just. When I hear the same voices IN -EVERY- FUCKING SHOW, IT BECOMES A TAD ANNOYING. I can assure you 100% that there must be no shortage of people who want to voice act in the states, or ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. Hell, I think voice acting in some form or another would be pretty fun (although I would prefer to narrate or voice over in a game, I think anime voice acting would be pretty shit). The problem is, you probably need to have like 20 years experience and 500 different degrees and certificates. Good job America, because clearly, the best way to promote unique acting is TO TEACH PEOPLE HOW TO ACT IN YOUR STYLE OH MY GOD THE AMOUNT OF STUPID IS HURTING MY BRAIN. Honestly, you don’t need to fucking teach people how to act. That’s the sole reason so many films are TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE, THAT, AND THE AMOUNT OF SHITTY DIRECTORS ASHURAHRSDFU.
BUT, I digress, I’ll try to leave my utter loathing of Hollywood out of this.
The thing is, Soul Eater’s dub will be shit most likely. You know why? They’ll get some 40 year old woman to voice Maka who also happens to voice Rukia, Sakura and every single female character. You know who voices Maka in the Japanese version? A 19 year old who, to my knowledge hasn’t voice acted ever before Soul Eater. Are you telling me there’s 0 18-20 year old girls in America who would like to voice act in anime? Oh right, they’re all strippers and whores, my bad.
Honestly, if you’re obsessed about supporting the anime business, buy the DVDs and shit. I’m not that obsessed about supporting, but maybe I’ll buy the Japanese DVDs of Soul Eater, maybe the actual people who made it would get some money then, I don’t know. Now I’m not saying “disgusting pig gaijin nippon are superior” here, I hate America and Japan equally. I just happen to think BONES are a good studio who are worth spending money to buy their products.
You know how companies like BONES and such could make more money? If they hired some people who know English and are competant writers to translate their episodes and make them up for watching a week or so after it airs in Japan for a fair price. £1 an episode? £1.50?
Now I don’t really know any figures but I’m pretty sure alot of people would pay £1 to be able to watch an episode, maybe £2 to download it, once a week. That’s like.. what, £50 to watch the entire series? That seems about fair to me. Then you make the DVDs, which offer you GOOD extra features, and I don’t mean just an creditless OP (OH BOY). Amazingly, some people would actually like to know how animes are made, I for one am very interested in these sorts of things and I ALWAYS watch the “Making Of” features on Hollywood film DVDs. I bet I’m not the only person either.
Would they LOSE money from doing that? I don’t know, I really don’t think so. Fansubbers get thousands and millions of downloads a week, and fansubbers only do what they do because OFFICIAL TRANSLATIONS ARE MOST GENERALLY SLOW AND SHIT. I’m sure however that loads of people download anime because it’s free, I do it because I don’t want to support companies like FUNimation…mostly. (Although I’ll admit that it’s nice not paying for stuff). What’s £5 a month anyway? That’s like less than WoW.
It’s a shame companies don’t do this, although Gonzo seem to be on the right path. ….It’s a shame Gonzo’s shows are more or less all shit. Druaga is okay but it’s nothing special. Strike Witches I would NOT pay to watch, hell, I wouldn’t watch Strike Witches if you paid me, and I’m being deadly serious. Shit like that reduces the human brain to mush.
Anyway now that I’ve successfully vented all my rage, I realise I’m REALLY REALLY FUCKING HUNGRY.
Oh, I’ve not been doing much, just playing LO, SR2 and I finished Mass Effect, I’ll state my thoughts on that later. (Bonus Hint: I liked it)
You know it doesn’t help I had Gears of War’ soundtrack playing as I wrote this, that always makes me angry and gives me the strange urge to curbstomp people and chainsaw small critters.
I’ve now swapped to my calming playlist, which I could probably patent and sell to people who suffer from RAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKitis.
Here’s a closing statement from Apachai:
<Apachai> fire 2/3 words are meaningless
I think he means 2/3′s of this post was meaningless. Which would be correct.
And this.
For the retarded of you out there, Cowboy Bebop (top) came first. God, if I saw any genuine “lol dat thing copyd naruto xD” comments I’d probably, well, kill them.
