Kampfer. Asura S2. 5cm per second.

Hey! I’ve got to put up something nice and decent once in a while right?

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Kampfer

Senou Natsuru is your normal, everyday high school student. However he´s been chosen to be a Kampfer, who´s objective consists on fighting other Kampfer with either guns, swords or magic, however, there´s catch; first you can´t chose if you´re a Kampfer or not, and second, you must have the body of a girl to use your powers.

Funny thing about Kampfer. Having read and talked about nosebleeds in other blogs lately, I am actually surprised that although Kampfer had so much fanservice going on, not a single drop of perversion filled nose blood of youth was dripped. You really can’t deny that Kampfer had been one of the steamier fanservice we’ve seen in a while.

I enjoyed the slight improvement of animation during the transformation scenes. Unfortunately, the rest of the anime looks pretty “budget”. Overall pretty average, but still enjoyable. Not much to say other than that. Laughed the laugh, fought the fight. Don’t expect any form of ending and you’ll do alright.

Kampfer
Rating: 3-Stars
More info: AnimeNewsNetwork.com

I dedicate this screenie to Razrigz, the miku-phile. Lol!

More buttbumpz anyone? :p
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5 Centimeters per Second

“Should have,
Could have,
Would have.”

The three phrases which constantly echoes sitting through 5 centimeters per second.

It’s been a while but I felt that I had to write the story for this myself. That’s how beautiful the story is.

5 cm per second tells of a story about 2 friends, Tohno (male) and Akari (female).
Akari and Tohno were 2 kids who preferred to pass time at the library rather than the playground due to weak bodies. As time past, they got closer to each other. Other kids noticed the bond and started teasing them about it. Which just made them closer as they shy away from everyone else.

Although being very close from young, circumstances forced them apart when Akari’s parents got relocated due to work. And Tohno’s parents too later on. Moving further and further away from each other, to a point that it almost seems impossible for them to meet anymore.

Not just an anime about romance, but the choices one makes in life. Regrets, though vaguely expressed by Tohno is something one cannot deny from watching the anime. Instead, Tohno looks ahead. Knowing how some things will not change regardless oh how much he wants to be with Akari. And makes the hardest but deemed right decision for both… which is to part. Personally, it hurts. Even more so when it came to the ending.

*I’ll cut it short before I really can’t resist talking about the ending here. All I can say is, again, it will hurt*

There really isn’t much to talk about when it comes to it’s animation. It is one of, if not the best you will see. Animation alone was already shooting goosebumps up my arms, to the shoulders, down my back. Let alone coupling it with a beautiful story.
And the colors were absolutely… heavenly.

After all is said and done. The movie ends. Some might feel depressed, some might not. But what everyone needs to do, is to watch 5cm per second again. Could be a days later, could be months. You’ll be surprised how the second time will effect you, like how it’s making me feel now…

5 Centimeters Per Second
Rating: 5-Stars
More info: AnimeNewsNetwork.com

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Asura Crying Season 2

Following the precedent Asura cryin’ Tomoharu has now the dilemma of making a contract with an ‘Akuma’ since he might lost his dear friend Takatsuki if not, but doing so will compromise his own existence as the one from his ghost friend Misao since this will make them an “Asura cryin’ “. The biggest threat to humankind according to the school presidents. And the decision will be even harder since they now recover some of their past memories, memories of a 1st world they didn’t know that existed.

Do I even need to say anything? Just looked at the screenshots showing the monstrosity they dare call animation.
Dropped!! And to think I gave season 1 of Asura Cryin 4-Stars.

Asura Crying S2
Rating: Dropped
More info: AnimeNewsNetwork.com

*Yes, I know. Having just looking at the screenshots of 5cm per second, then looking at Asura Crying S2 just makes you want to puke blood. Trust me when I say, you’re suffering was my intention! Lol!

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Stuffus all round

Yay… new post!

Having my one week hols now, which is supposed to be used for catching up with work.. projects and all. My goodness I hate projects.

But as of now I’m relaxing a little… (Did two sets of notes but that’s all these 3 days! Hahahha so dead) Read Percy Jackson first book (which I fondly call Peter Jackson). I love that book! It’s so quirky and cynical and exciting all at once. XD Gonna have to watch the movie this wed!

Though I’m pretty sure I’d be disappointed in quite a few ways. I’m such a stickler for details I tend to get nitpicky if I watch the movie after reading the book. So I shall psycho myself to separate the two this time round – plus Logan is HOT! (yes yes this is the real reason.. ) I will do a review once I’ve watched the movie. After all I’m starting to regain interest in blogging again. Boom after the recession

What else? I’ve been playing Gaiaonline thought getting rather tired of it. But I must thank Gaia quite a bit since it propelled me to continue drawing. And I’ve been drawing quite a lot! Used Photoshop and my Wacom tablet.

Well here’s an example… (blah… be warned. The colouring is awful but I shall improve! As well as not be exceedingly slapdash and lazy!)

MY OC!!! Katsuto’s his name. Hehhehe. Quite a bit of background to his character but I shan’t be going into it right now. No stealing my OCs or I will come over and rip your head off thanks much. And in addition curse your entire family and later generations. Ok exaggerated but I’ve had bad experience. There’s the Creative Commons License anyway ^u~

For manga, I’m still reading my usual. Still loving Nurarihyon no mago, but now I added a new one to the list! Kamisama Hajimemashita! Heehehhe! Check it out! It’s shoujo but it’s really cute

In other news, I’m playing pm4 again, after cha passed it to me in her thumbdrive. Hehhehe. Missed it quite a bit XD – and I’ve got 4 endings already. Hahahhahaa.

And also, I’ve been hankering for Emma Watson People Tree collection – the Oxford cricket jumper in particular. Someone get it for me!!!

Okay that’s all for now. Going to watch Durarara now! HAHAHHA! Izayaaaaaa!

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Update No.19 : Makoto Ito

*FIXED FOR THE POST NOT APPEAR*

Sorry for long absence!

Now i come with latest update, Makoto Ito model for GarrysMod!

Now its available to download! below:

Alternate:

(Skydrive) : Download
(Gmod) : Download

More Picture:

Makoto Ito is a male character from school days anime.

He is a generally mannered and composed student in year one of class three, his life becomes
complicated when he begins to unfaithfully initiate polyamorous relationships with girls
that he is unable to singly commit to. Though he is initially casual, gregarious and
understanding, his addiction to womanizing the female protagonists over time corrupts his
personality and he instead becomes more apathetic, rash and egotistical towards others,
regardless of interpersonal harm or later consequence. However, once he truly knows he has
done wrong, he is quick in his attempts to remedy the situation. Makoto lives with his
divorced mother and has a younger sister named Itaru who lives with their father. He is
good friends with Taisuke Sawanaga and Otome Katou.

Happy Killing Makoto!!

Addition:

New Wallpaper into Gallery!

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K-ON! Radion! Special Vol.1

Artist: Toyosaki Aki & Hisaka Youko & Satou Satomi & Kotobuki Minako & Taketatsu Ayana

Tracklist:

1. Radion! Special Vol.1 Start!
2. K-ON! Introquiz
3. “Ra!” “Di!” “O!” “N!” Dotou no 26 Renpatsu
4. Radion! Otayori Corner Special
5. Let’s Go (Yui Mio Ritsu Tsumugi Azusa Mix)

This is first volume of K-ON! Radion and only the last one is the new song of K-ON!

The Radion was pretty fun and the new song was pretty good.

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The God That is Possibility: Gundam Unicorn 01

When Gundam was first forced down my throatI first started watching Gundam, I was unilaterally dissatisfied. I have come a long way since, and have seen many of the shows in the franchise and am very much fond of the franchise as a whole. My love and fondness is tested and proven by many of the things that still bug me about the whole thing. Some major, some minor, but the net result is that Gundam never really fulfilled its possibility given the immense library it has.

Not to say it doesn’t have its moments. Such moments can be sublime, as far as I’m concerned. But for the most part there are lots and lots of things that I must work hard to rationalize and apologize for. Without doing so I will fail to enjoy myself watching the shows. It’s beyond mere suspension of disbelief, but I don’t know what to call it.

A lot of it may have to do with the creation, and direction of Tomino Yoshiyuki, but it’s beyond that. The possibility of Gundam is that it is the finest expression of robot anime. It’s that awesome a possibility. For some people, it may be already that. If that is the case then the expectations for robot anime may indeed be so low. I think there is MUCH more to see and do, not just thematically but also in terms of execution of the most exciting aspect of robot anime: combat.

On both counts, in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn episode 01 the possibility is being realized.

A more particular and thorough post on this episode will follow in the next few days, but for now I am in the mood for long-winded talk on what Gundam means for me, and how Unicorn reveals itself to me as a rich vein of fulfillment. If fan service can be moving and understated all at once, then I’ve experienced it here.

In 0079, 0080, and Z we are presented with variably grim and dark themes revolving around war and violence. The experience can be immersive and surprising, especially how stark and remorseless it gets. While some, heavy-handedness can occur even in non-Tomino works, the darkness in the shows occur to me remarkably weightless — not like without substance, but more like numbing in how far it goes. The meaning of the deaths are left for me to make much of, despite the lecturing and pontificating throughout the shows.

How Gundam Unicorn’s first episode felt, by use of depth of field (the colony looks both claustrophobia-inducing and forbiddingly vast at the same time), and by the musical score, heavy. There’s gravity to the whole experience. I really felt the dreadful onset of an inevitable war. The betrayals and counter-betrayals of organized humanity felt even more meaningful, standing on the shoulders of series upon series where the machinery of (military/political) organizations discount their morals and scruples for victory, however petty.

The high-school age characters, behave in their environments in notes that are the kind of perfect triviality. I don’t have the vocabulary to distinguish it, only that it feels so far from say the first episodes of, Mobile Suit Gundam SeeD, Code Geass, and Macross Frontier. The other examples have this strange and at times contrived levity: offhand mentions of homework, student council duties, test results rankings… In Unicorn you get a lecture (admittedly standard device for exposition) and a field trip setting. This allows for behavioral and relationship conflicts to play out without feeling too ’slice of lifey.’

When the litany of names are called out by the ‘jilted’ would-be love interest, dead classmates all from stray beam weapon fire, it felt like home, only more beautiful than I remembered it. War is hell.

The current head of the Vist Foundation (Cardeas Vist) saw it fit to lecture the captain of the Neo Zeon remnants. It was a thorough lecture that served as a rather effective exposition of the themes of the Universal Century narrative, going through the history of the Federation vs. Zeon conflicts — through 0079 and past Char’s Counterattack. It was interesting, how the captain tried not to look bored, how he gave the chairman his polite attention through the long speech. It made for a calibrating dynamic for me — I needn’t be bored by this, because this impressive man is toughing it out.

I particularly enjoyed how the cards were revealed: they will not open the mysterious ‘Laplace’s Box’ if their ideals are petty or limited to ‘reviving Zeon.’ They are to be given the key, and the key is Gundam, the Unicorn Gundam is presented as the God of Possibility: a creature from a medieval tapestry. It’s delicious fantasy, to have the titular robot exist within the narrative at a highly mythological level.

Possibility itself is held up as a God. More exciting than hope, and more powerful too, possibility is what inspires — what captures our imagination. Possibility is hype. Possibility is anticipation, expectation far from the cusp of fulfillment and yet never lacking of confidence that it will be realized. Possibility is just about the most awesome thing there is — it is in the realm of the future. For all my rhetoric of ‘remembering love’ it is ultimately a love weighed down by the gravity of history. What’s truly exciting is what’s ahead, the eternal becoming.

Gundam tells the same story over and over: The Earth is threatened by a Malthusian cataclysm. Resources become scarce, nationalism fails in that it fosters conflict. Newtype powers are really about authentic communication without misunderstanding and conflict. Oldtypes fail in that they only see NT powers for its military application — powerful NT = ‘ace pilot.’ Oldtype souls are weighed down by the Earth’s gravity, and are never truly free to embrace the future that is space. There are those who will take these ideals too far, and there will be heroes who will fight them.

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn is poised to do the same, and some would see this as a failure — how the franchise itself is weighed down by the gravity of its own mass, and refuse to commit to the future (as represented by non-UC/alternate continuity shows). I see differently. I am not content with how the franchise has told the above stories over and over. I think there are many failures, as much as I love the respective shows — I find myself far from satisfied. I love the franchise so much that I want to see the stories fulfill their possibility. Unicorn may just be it!

There is something to be said about perfecting the telling of the story, and the Universal Century is for me, still the best continuity to do it. Is the possibility of perfection better than perfection itself? Not knowing perfection, I think yes. The symbol of the unicorn, is wonderfully fitting. It’s a promise — that this time, funnels make more sense in how they behave in combat; that the show remembers that mobile suits have nuclear engines; there is a Gundam without LOLTOMINO; that a dramatic story can be delivered straight and be taken seriously despite and because there are giant robots in it, no apologies necessary.

For all the little nods this episode gave to the Universal Century’s rich history, it is forward-looking. It posits itself as the fulfillment of the hopes of humanity in coming to space, in leaving the Earth; the possibility of robot anime as an expression of high fantasy, and substantial and fulfilling entertainment.

After 30 years of trying, Gundam might just pull it off. Give me more.

Further Reading

Here is a history via blog posts, of my love affair with Gundam. I think it’s fair to say that I demand more from Gundam as robot anime than from any other show or franchise. This too, is love.

Tsundere for Gundam

Before I knew it, I became a fanboy

I love the Universal Century

Learning to live with LOLTOMINO

While I’m nowhere as critical of the franchise (particularly Mobile Suit Z Gundam) as Ningyo, there’s a lot of good things in his analysis of what Unicorn did well in relation to older Gundam shows (Ningyo 2010/02/21)

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