Hello to everyone. This is Eric Rodriguez. Just wondering if any of you guys are going to be cosplaying and perhaps give you ideas as to where you can find some costumes and around how much they can cost. As far as I know, I will be cosplaying as Kisame, Earl James as Itachi, TJ Darcy as Gaara, Avory as Kankouro, and Antonia as Temari. Now I do not know the exact cost of our costumes or whatever, but I might borrow my cousins katana or use bandages and a handle to make a samehada. If don't want to waste money for example, buying a real sword, you can either borrow from a friend if they somehow happen to have one, buy a fake one ( plastic or such), or better still, try to create one or such using household items ( maybe a knife), however only if you know what your doing and know it won't fall apart or something and hurt someone.
Just wondering however, can we dress up before or after we get to the hotel? I was sort of planning to Paint myself blue or something with the gill slits at around my cheeks or neck.
Just remember, you don't HAVE to cosplay and if you do, you don't have to be as great as the next Gai (LOL). just have fun and enjoy doing it.
EDIT: Apparently you cannot bring real weapons, but I still encourage you to use household items to make weapons ( not real ones but things like my samehada which will be made out of Styrofoam) or paper kunai or something.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Anime Boston Meeting / Anime Screening Tomorrow
Tomorrow (specifically: Thursday, January 31st, since this will stay up), in room 206 at 2:10, there's an important meeting regarding Anime Boston followed by an anime screening.
At the meeting, first we'll be explaining what the rooming situation in the hotel is like, then setting people up into rooms of four. It is important you come so that you can work out who you want to share a hotel room with.
Then we'll be discussing the price change and giving out papers to assure us that your parents are notified of the change. As you should have heard in the e-mail last week the trip will now be $364. You've all payed at least $150 already, leaving $214 for most of you due by February 8th. Also, this no longer includes food, so you will have to bring extra money for that. For a more in-depth explanation as to why this is happening and what you need to do, come to the meeting tomorrow.
As for the screening, we have yet to decide specifically what we'll be screening, to my knowledge (Paulo, if you've worked it out, just edit this). There are some ideas (my personal choice being Dexter's Lab), but keep suggestions coming, to any of the officers, be it through here or at school.
The screening will be after the meeting, so if you're not coming to Boston you could come later than 2:10, but those who are going on the trip are strongly suggested to attend and get there on time.
At the meeting, first we'll be explaining what the rooming situation in the hotel is like, then setting people up into rooms of four. It is important you come so that you can work out who you want to share a hotel room with.
Then we'll be discussing the price change and giving out papers to assure us that your parents are notified of the change. As you should have heard in the e-mail last week the trip will now be $364. You've all payed at least $150 already, leaving $214 for most of you due by February 8th. Also, this no longer includes food, so you will have to bring extra money for that. For a more in-depth explanation as to why this is happening and what you need to do, come to the meeting tomorrow.
As for the screening, we have yet to decide specifically what we'll be screening, to my knowledge (Paulo, if you've worked it out, just edit this). There are some ideas (my personal choice being Dexter's Lab), but keep suggestions coming, to any of the officers, be it through here or at school.
The screening will be after the meeting, so if you're not coming to Boston you could come later than 2:10, but those who are going on the trip are strongly suggested to attend and get there on time.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
The NYAF for all those that couldnt go
*Warning. Large blocks of text for the ADD impaired (that means 90% of you)*
This post is about the New York Anime Festival for all those who didn’t go, and I’m looking at the majority of you (I don’t necessarily blame you since it was such a new convention and didn’t have any reputation). Well this convention was held very close to home; in fact it was held in Manhattan at the Jacob Javitz center, although it didn’t take up the entire building it took up a large part of it (well I really have not seen any convention use up the whole building except maybe the auto show). It was held between December 7th and 9th.
Like any regular anime convention it had a dealer’s room, panels, anime screening rooms but it also has it also offered some unique experiences. Paulo and me (Eric) were the only seniors that attended and the only ones that also attended Anime Boston and the New York Anime Festival. As such I will compare this convention to my experiences to Anime Boston due to the fact that that is one of the most impressive and first experience with a Anime convention. Because of this you will see me refer to Anime Boston many times as a benchmark. This will also help those that are going to Anime Boston understand this con better and what to expect from it. So without further a due here is my experience from NYAF (for all you slow people this is the abbreviation of the festival name)
First Experiences
Well my first experience of NYAF was buying the VIP tickets. So as such we will first talk about the stuff it came with and the badge. Although this isn’t essential to the convention it offers something that other conventions don’t. Well to tell the truth the stuff is under my desk right now.
To elaborate the T-Shirt was nice but wearing it is not really high on my list of clothes to wear, the sake set is worthless to me (for all those that drink all the best wishes to you), and the plushy is really not all that great. All right I’m being a little harsh because in truth I’m just too lazy to take the stuff out and try to use it. But truthfully I don’t really think the stuff was all that great.
Now to move onto the badge, wow what apiece **it (synonym for crap). It’s a piece of cardboard with silly little cartoons on it (not anime its really just cartoons). Its nothing like Anime Boston with its nice plastic badges and nice rope necklace, it’s only a stupid piece of twine and easily breaks causing your badge to fall. Okay onto the next topic of discussion the actual con.
Quality
To begin I would like to say that is convention had very high production values, for all those that don’t understand please let me explain. In terms that you simple people would understand it was pretty. There was no garbage lying around anywhere throughout the three day convention. The bathrooms were clean and sanitary and the side rooms for the games and manga libraries were well kept. There was not the mass of lines at the game room and the manga room was organized.
Another thing to talk about was the seating, one word great. The seats were very comfortable, as any con goer knows seats are very important. After spending a long time scouring the dealer room floor you get tired and want to sit down. So how were these seats great, they were cushioned. I know most of you haven’t been to Anime Boston, but trust me the seats were good even though they were plastic. Many late nights (mostly done by Paulo and Andre) were spent sleeping in these chairs. According to their testimonials the chairs were great but once Paulo and me experienced these seats we quickly saw the flaws in the Anime Boston seating.
But the major flaw that we saw in the production value was the lack of water during screenings thus making us very thirsty once we ran out of our own water supply. For all those ignorant people who say just go buy your water you should go to Manhattan and see how much water costs.
Finally we go to talk about the decorations, although sparse there were some interesting things that they did that were never seen before. In the dealers room there were banners hanging from the ceilings with numbers and anime (specifically Bleach). This allowed easy direction giving in the gigantic Dealers room. Beside this though there were some posters and quite a bit of sponsor logos.
Room sizes
Next we go on to talk about the setup and room design. Well in general there are really 4 sections of this con very much unlike Anime Boston, which is held in a huge convention center. But the NYAF was big; these four sections were very large and were very accommodating to the attendees. There was no shortage of room to say the least except for one instance (but a little later for that story). Well the four rooms are the Main Hall were the main events are being shown, the famous Dealers Room, Screening Rooms, and the Side Rooms. The Main Hall has a giant screen and many seats. The sound quality in this hall was great and the screen allowed many people to see. But beside the opening ceremony Paulo and me only used it as a place to eat, as no café existed. In Anime Boston there were some interesting events that the main hall had but here there were many things but none attracted our attention all that much.
Next the Screening Rooms, they were very large much bigger in fact than Anime Boston. They Screen was of decent size and the sound quality powerful but there are some gripes to be had. These Screening Rooms are temporary and built out of plaster sheeting which is less than sound proof; there were some, just some instances of sound pollution between rooms. But as said before the seating was great.
The Dealers Room was also something to marvel at. I actually believe that it was actually on par with Anime Boston’s dealer room. They had many different vendors and many different sponsors had very interesting booths. The Tokyo Pop booth was nice and big booth nothing really to say. But the Capcom both had hands on demos from their upcoming games (cough Devil May Cry 4 cough). And Ubisoft was showing off Naruto: Rise of the Ninja. These were some interesting additions that I found nice to see that the sponsors actually helped us con attendees for once.
Video Game Room
Lastly the side rooms, personally I can only comment on the game room since I never attended the manga library. The game room to say sadly was subpar. The Anime Boston even though it was very disorganized and such a mess it was big and offered a variety of both Japanese and American games and even some 18+ games late night (Don’t get any ideas now). The tournaments were also much more organized during Anime Boston. But there are some new cool new ideas that I found very appealing and should be implemented during Anime Boston. First they had projectors for the tournaments, which allowed more people to see they competitors in all their glory. They also had mats in front of the games describing the controls, which is very helpful for newcomers to the game.
Screenings
Okay now I am betting that you’re dying to know bout the screenings (if not go to hell, this is my post and if you have any qualms just shove it). All right a very weird thing about the screenings was that they were in English. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that the sponsors were major contributors. But this isn’t all bad since it allows devoted fans (such as Paulo) to see the dubbings of his favorite animes. They also showed a variety of animes ranging from action to comedy to romance. They also decided to show some live action material that was based off of Anime. But the highlight of the NYAF was the screening of an upcoming movie crossover between Tsubasa Chronicles and xxxHollic, almost like an advanced screening since the movie still hasn’t come out yet. So all in all I give it a balanced rating not the greatest I have seen but interesting concepts and much better than other conventions that sucked.
Cosplaying
Finally we reach my last topic of discussion (for all those that made it this far congratulations you have an above average attention span and don’t have ADD). Well this is my miscellaneous topics that fit no were. First well talk about the quality of the cosplayers, alright as a guy I will come out and say it, I look for hot girls in nice costumes but seriously there was a lack of pretty girls. But on a positive note there was also a lacking of fat girls also.
Another thing was the maid café, this was a cool concept but it wasn’t fully fleshed out and could have been done much better. Basically it is a café were you eat but there are girls in cosplay walking around. Although my previous gripe still applies this was the major concentration of all right looking girls. Finally one big shout out to the waffle stand. This was the most popular attraction during the convention it was the best smelling food ever within the history of conventions. It also boasted the longest line.
Conclusion
Well time for my concluding thought. In all honesty I really enjoyed this convention or festival or whatever you want to call it. I really wanted more of you to attend but know that the first one is over I hope to see you attend the next one.
Many of the mistakes can be attributed to a rookie mistake. You must consider that this is the first of its kind and that despite many of its flaws it was surprisingly good. I really enjoyed it and there is no doubt that the will continue to improve on this convention. Despite what you might think as serious complaints there are just small criticisms. In all actuality this was really close to being a spectacular convention. I just hope the fix some of the aforementioned mistakes.
Another point is that Anime Boston is a very popular and I believe the second largest convention in the east coast. Comparing this convention a relative upstart to Anime Boston with at least 5 years of experience is harsh. I doubt that Anime Boston’s first year was as good as the latest ones.
I know this might sound like me trying to redeem the NYAF, it really isn’t since I just want you people to experience something new. NYAF brought many cool new experiences that were sometimes even better than Boston (well definitely not the travel, Damn traveling home everyday was the one of the most tiring things to do in my life).
Anyway with this post I hope to convince you to go to the next NYAF and to also look out for some of these things when you go to Anime Boston. What I have mentioned in this post are all great ways of judging and experiencing a convention.
**If your keeping track on how many words it is, its exactly 1891 words not counting this, titles, and the warning message -TheGrape
This post is about the New York Anime Festival for all those who didn’t go, and I’m looking at the majority of you (I don’t necessarily blame you since it was such a new convention and didn’t have any reputation). Well this convention was held very close to home; in fact it was held in Manhattan at the Jacob Javitz center, although it didn’t take up the entire building it took up a large part of it (well I really have not seen any convention use up the whole building except maybe the auto show). It was held between December 7th and 9th.
Like any regular anime convention it had a dealer’s room, panels, anime screening rooms but it also has it also offered some unique experiences. Paulo and me (Eric) were the only seniors that attended and the only ones that also attended Anime Boston and the New York Anime Festival. As such I will compare this convention to my experiences to Anime Boston due to the fact that that is one of the most impressive and first experience with a Anime convention. Because of this you will see me refer to Anime Boston many times as a benchmark. This will also help those that are going to Anime Boston understand this con better and what to expect from it. So without further a due here is my experience from NYAF (for all you slow people this is the abbreviation of the festival name)
First Experiences
Well my first experience of NYAF was buying the VIP tickets. So as such we will first talk about the stuff it came with and the badge. Although this isn’t essential to the convention it offers something that other conventions don’t. Well to tell the truth the stuff is under my desk right now.
To elaborate the T-Shirt was nice but wearing it is not really high on my list of clothes to wear, the sake set is worthless to me (for all those that drink all the best wishes to you), and the plushy is really not all that great. All right I’m being a little harsh because in truth I’m just too lazy to take the stuff out and try to use it. But truthfully I don’t really think the stuff was all that great.
Now to move onto the badge, wow what apiece **it (synonym for crap). It’s a piece of cardboard with silly little cartoons on it (not anime its really just cartoons). Its nothing like Anime Boston with its nice plastic badges and nice rope necklace, it’s only a stupid piece of twine and easily breaks causing your badge to fall. Okay onto the next topic of discussion the actual con.
Quality
To begin I would like to say that is convention had very high production values, for all those that don’t understand please let me explain. In terms that you simple people would understand it was pretty. There was no garbage lying around anywhere throughout the three day convention. The bathrooms were clean and sanitary and the side rooms for the games and manga libraries were well kept. There was not the mass of lines at the game room and the manga room was organized.
Another thing to talk about was the seating, one word great. The seats were very comfortable, as any con goer knows seats are very important. After spending a long time scouring the dealer room floor you get tired and want to sit down. So how were these seats great, they were cushioned. I know most of you haven’t been to Anime Boston, but trust me the seats were good even though they were plastic. Many late nights (mostly done by Paulo and Andre) were spent sleeping in these chairs. According to their testimonials the chairs were great but once Paulo and me experienced these seats we quickly saw the flaws in the Anime Boston seating.
But the major flaw that we saw in the production value was the lack of water during screenings thus making us very thirsty once we ran out of our own water supply. For all those ignorant people who say just go buy your water you should go to Manhattan and see how much water costs.
Finally we go to talk about the decorations, although sparse there were some interesting things that they did that were never seen before. In the dealers room there were banners hanging from the ceilings with numbers and anime (specifically Bleach). This allowed easy direction giving in the gigantic Dealers room. Beside this though there were some posters and quite a bit of sponsor logos.
Room sizes
Next we go on to talk about the setup and room design. Well in general there are really 4 sections of this con very much unlike Anime Boston, which is held in a huge convention center. But the NYAF was big; these four sections were very large and were very accommodating to the attendees. There was no shortage of room to say the least except for one instance (but a little later for that story). Well the four rooms are the Main Hall were the main events are being shown, the famous Dealers Room, Screening Rooms, and the Side Rooms. The Main Hall has a giant screen and many seats. The sound quality in this hall was great and the screen allowed many people to see. But beside the opening ceremony Paulo and me only used it as a place to eat, as no café existed. In Anime Boston there were some interesting events that the main hall had but here there were many things but none attracted our attention all that much.
Next the Screening Rooms, they were very large much bigger in fact than Anime Boston. They Screen was of decent size and the sound quality powerful but there are some gripes to be had. These Screening Rooms are temporary and built out of plaster sheeting which is less than sound proof; there were some, just some instances of sound pollution between rooms. But as said before the seating was great.
The Dealers Room was also something to marvel at. I actually believe that it was actually on par with Anime Boston’s dealer room. They had many different vendors and many different sponsors had very interesting booths. The Tokyo Pop booth was nice and big booth nothing really to say. But the Capcom both had hands on demos from their upcoming games (cough Devil May Cry 4 cough). And Ubisoft was showing off Naruto: Rise of the Ninja. These were some interesting additions that I found nice to see that the sponsors actually helped us con attendees for once.
Video Game Room
Lastly the side rooms, personally I can only comment on the game room since I never attended the manga library. The game room to say sadly was subpar. The Anime Boston even though it was very disorganized and such a mess it was big and offered a variety of both Japanese and American games and even some 18+ games late night (Don’t get any ideas now). The tournaments were also much more organized during Anime Boston. But there are some new cool new ideas that I found very appealing and should be implemented during Anime Boston. First they had projectors for the tournaments, which allowed more people to see they competitors in all their glory. They also had mats in front of the games describing the controls, which is very helpful for newcomers to the game.
Screenings
Okay now I am betting that you’re dying to know bout the screenings (if not go to hell, this is my post and if you have any qualms just shove it). All right a very weird thing about the screenings was that they were in English. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that the sponsors were major contributors. But this isn’t all bad since it allows devoted fans (such as Paulo) to see the dubbings of his favorite animes. They also showed a variety of animes ranging from action to comedy to romance. They also decided to show some live action material that was based off of Anime. But the highlight of the NYAF was the screening of an upcoming movie crossover between Tsubasa Chronicles and xxxHollic, almost like an advanced screening since the movie still hasn’t come out yet. So all in all I give it a balanced rating not the greatest I have seen but interesting concepts and much better than other conventions that sucked.
Cosplaying
Finally we reach my last topic of discussion (for all those that made it this far congratulations you have an above average attention span and don’t have ADD). Well this is my miscellaneous topics that fit no were. First well talk about the quality of the cosplayers, alright as a guy I will come out and say it, I look for hot girls in nice costumes but seriously there was a lack of pretty girls. But on a positive note there was also a lacking of fat girls also.
Another thing was the maid café, this was a cool concept but it wasn’t fully fleshed out and could have been done much better. Basically it is a café were you eat but there are girls in cosplay walking around. Although my previous gripe still applies this was the major concentration of all right looking girls. Finally one big shout out to the waffle stand. This was the most popular attraction during the convention it was the best smelling food ever within the history of conventions. It also boasted the longest line.
Conclusion
Well time for my concluding thought. In all honesty I really enjoyed this convention or festival or whatever you want to call it. I really wanted more of you to attend but know that the first one is over I hope to see you attend the next one.
Many of the mistakes can be attributed to a rookie mistake. You must consider that this is the first of its kind and that despite many of its flaws it was surprisingly good. I really enjoyed it and there is no doubt that the will continue to improve on this convention. Despite what you might think as serious complaints there are just small criticisms. In all actuality this was really close to being a spectacular convention. I just hope the fix some of the aforementioned mistakes.
Another point is that Anime Boston is a very popular and I believe the second largest convention in the east coast. Comparing this convention a relative upstart to Anime Boston with at least 5 years of experience is harsh. I doubt that Anime Boston’s first year was as good as the latest ones.
I know this might sound like me trying to redeem the NYAF, it really isn’t since I just want you people to experience something new. NYAF brought many cool new experiences that were sometimes even better than Boston (well definitely not the travel, Damn traveling home everyday was the one of the most tiring things to do in my life).
Anyway with this post I hope to convince you to go to the next NYAF and to also look out for some of these things when you go to Anime Boston. What I have mentioned in this post are all great ways of judging and experiencing a convention.
**If your keeping track on how many words it is, its exactly 1891 words not counting this, titles, and the warning message -TheGrape
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Anime Boston
Well as you can guess from the name this post will be about Anime Boston and as the day or in this case days come near (March 21st-23rd), I thought it might be nice to enlighten the people about the convention.
This event happens to be the biggest thing the Anime Club does during the year and kind of also our "thing" since we run things along with the Sci-Fi Cub most of the time, of course there are the screenings but there not as often as we want them to be but thats because of scheduling issues... well anyway back to Boston.
Some people (which were very few) seem to have attended the New York Anime Festival, which personally I didn't attend but from what i heard its kinda of similar in terms of the inside experience but the huge difference its that you had to walk home unlike in Boston were you have to take the elevator to your rooms which would be interesting as you meet many interesting people there. Another big point is also that Anime Boston goes throughout the night which allows you to enjoy it to the fullest as you most likely will only be in your rooms to sleep which, if you really enjoy the convention, will be around 2:00AM as i think that might be curfew, which unfortunately you have since its still a school trip.
Well anyway.... we have also seems that many of you have actually been interested in cosplaying which there is actually a lot of in Anime Boston, you will see everything you may want to see and some which you may not want to. Also if your really into it you might want to attend the masquerade to see professionals cosplayers, at least some of them. Well anyway, you can see by yourself how big cosplaying is in the following sites (they happen to be personal albums from people who attended AB so yeah... just so you know)
Random person's album
Yet another random person's album
And yet another one....
And finally the last one
Well, even if cosplaying doesn't interest you there is still the Dealer's Room, which kind of gives you access to imported and rare stuff from anime you've watched or any other collectibles for a "reasonable" price. Well I don't know if Doc already had the meeting to you guys about the trip and the details but to kind of touch on it, you guys will be spending most of your money in this place in average people take around $200 but if you guys kind of think you'll go all out might as well bring around $500 as some people have and even had to borrow money to sustain their needs for more stuff >.>.
Well anyway thats about the biggest things Boston will offer aside from the non-stop anime screenings and the random games you will experience (support the duck, duck, goose games.. lol). Well anyway I hope you guys got something out of this post but you guys would most likely be having a meeting about this if you already haven't had one. Well for all those going to Boston.. be sure to keep your eyes out for Jesus.
**As a final serious note, rest of Anime Boston money will be due by February**
This event happens to be the biggest thing the Anime Club does during the year and kind of also our "thing" since we run things along with the Sci-Fi Cub most of the time, of course there are the screenings but there not as often as we want them to be but thats because of scheduling issues... well anyway back to Boston.
Some people (which were very few) seem to have attended the New York Anime Festival, which personally I didn't attend but from what i heard its kinda of similar in terms of the inside experience but the huge difference its that you had to walk home unlike in Boston were you have to take the elevator to your rooms which would be interesting as you meet many interesting people there. Another big point is also that Anime Boston goes throughout the night which allows you to enjoy it to the fullest as you most likely will only be in your rooms to sleep which, if you really enjoy the convention, will be around 2:00AM as i think that might be curfew, which unfortunately you have since its still a school trip.
Well anyway.... we have also seems that many of you have actually been interested in cosplaying which there is actually a lot of in Anime Boston, you will see everything you may want to see and some which you may not want to. Also if your really into it you might want to attend the masquerade to see professionals cosplayers, at least some of them. Well anyway, you can see by yourself how big cosplaying is in the following sites (they happen to be personal albums from people who attended AB so yeah... just so you know)
Random person's album
Yet another random person's album
And yet another one....
And finally the last one
Well, even if cosplaying doesn't interest you there is still the Dealer's Room, which kind of gives you access to imported and rare stuff from anime you've watched or any other collectibles for a "reasonable" price. Well I don't know if Doc already had the meeting to you guys about the trip and the details but to kind of touch on it, you guys will be spending most of your money in this place in average people take around $200 but if you guys kind of think you'll go all out might as well bring around $500 as some people have and even had to borrow money to sustain their needs for more stuff >.>.
Well anyway thats about the biggest things Boston will offer aside from the non-stop anime screenings and the random games you will experience (support the duck, duck, goose games.. lol). Well anyway I hope you guys got something out of this post but you guys would most likely be having a meeting about this if you already haven't had one. Well for all those going to Boston.. be sure to keep your eyes out for Jesus.
**As a final serious note, rest of Anime Boston money will be due by February**
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Code Geass my first review/post
Okay as Paulo has so emotionally said our Blog has no activity, as such I feel that I should finally make some posts. This was originally supposed to be The Code Geass review but since Paulo modified it I cant access it anymore. So I will once again start with my review of this anime. On a side note I am not as skilled as Paulo with the whole screenshot thing so as such my review will not contain the pictures I originally planned but I will try to get them in at a later date. So without further ado:
**TheGrape uploaded the pictures
Code Geass
Code Geass, really in a class all its own, is an amalgam of a myriad of different themes that are so popular days. Mech, Politics, Revolutions, Terrorism, and Mind Games just to list a few of the interesting plot points that will arise while watching this great anime. All right so now that you have heard a few biased words of praise from the fandom in my heart I will try to offer a more subjective view.
V for.. very weird
Code Geass is set in an alternate world in the near future (really already two clichés and your calling this subjective) Great Britain or Britannia, as it is known in the anime, is a technically advanced empire that has effectively conquered the majority of the world leaving a few small empires to hold up a meager defense. This story begins in Japan and with its discovery of that eras oil Britannia has led a full-scale invasion with its newest weapons of mass destruction (okay maybe not Saddam style but still big robots can kill especially how they are depicted in the anime). This little history lesson brings us to the start of the anime. Japan now renamed Area eleven has become a protectorate of Britannia. This is the stage in where our characters set this brilliant anime. In a country split between its own personal pride and its new prosperous rulers two men with an intertwined past set off on two different paths. (Well if that wasn’t dramatic enough for you I don’t know what is). But in this anime the characters are very interesting.
First off lets talk about the art style of the characters. Created by art studio Clamp, and for those who don’t know what that is, they made Tsubasa Chronicles and xxxHollic. Well the characters of Code Geass are realistic, meaning no overly gigantic eyes, but they have an air of fantasy that surrounds them. They are unnaturally lanky yet is not daunting and is actually quite easy to accept. The main characters of Lelouch Lamperouge and Suzaku Kururugi are two characters that are character foils of each other. Not in their physical appearance in white they look similar, but in their qualities and own personal history. These two main characters are easily identifiable with but still allow you to easily switch to the other main character. This is one of the most interesting aspects of the anime, who to root for?
Anyway beyond the talk about characters I mentioned some reoccurring motifs in Code Geass (I know mad English words deal with it), I feel like I should elaborate. This anime is not a hodgepodge of motifs that are popular thrown together and hope to work; it is actually a well-scripted anime that effectively combines each of the listed elements to make a unique twist that has made it so popular. It combines effective mind battles that are reminiscent of Death Note but besides being only a mind drama it has it infuses politics onto it. This might sound like a bore (a la stupid elections or the such) but this is not your usual politician making faulty promises but has a political murder mystery and a subtle fight for power within the largest empire in the world. And what does this great empire use as its right hand of might (real corny I know) Knightmare frames or as a generic anime fanboy would call it a mech. I find these mechs very interesting, they are not highly maneuverable machines to the point of defying physics (I’m looking at you Gundam). They run on a rear wheel propulsion system that is surprisingly realistic, almost like a walking tank that can roll at high speeds. But it is also not so realistic that it is reviled. These knightmare frames are very unique each having a different design and even though they are aforementioned not very agile they can be very athletic when piloted by a skilled pilot.
Motion sickness ftw
Anyway it is very hard trying to describe each individual part of this anime, It is not an anime that should be taken apart and studied part by part for excellence, even though it is very good in its parts the “Sum of the Parts” is a very enjoying thrill ride that is very captivating and is fast becoming a very popular anime (reaching Number 2 slot on a recent Newtype standings). These are just my personal feelings on this anime, I know this is my first post in along time, since like the stone age, so offer any comments that you want. I will try to upload the pictures at a later date**.
Opening Songs: "Colors" by FLOW
"Kaidoku Funō" by Jinn
"Hitomi no Tsubasa" by Acess
Ending Songs: "Yūkyō Seishunka" by Ali Project
"Mosaic Kakera" by Sunset Swish**TheGrape uploaded the pictures
Friday, January 11, 2008
Anime vs Manga and your favorite anime/manga battles :)!
Just doing more of a small vote here on the blog. Just asking, which do you prefer and why? do you Prefer anime ( I think John probably does with his love of Veronica Tailor and her Misty voice LOL) or the manga. I myself enjoy both, although the anime more than the manga. ( last note, when I say k4 or something like that, it means kyuubi and the number means number of tails)
the K4 fight (Naruto) just got animated and It was excellent. very very very good animated fight and the previous one was just pure awesome. I must admit, the way k2 naruto looked when he beat up Deidara before Deidara switches last second was kinda funny. almost like he had lipstick on. ALthough right now my favorite anime fights of all time are ( in no particular order)
are One Piece:
Rob D. Lucci vs Monkey D. Luffy ( anime And manga, tho preferably anime)
Short Zoro vs Luffy fight before Baroque works( anime)
Luffy vs Crocodile ( anime only)
Mugiwara ( strawhats) vs Aokiji( one of eric lee's few favorite one piece characters).
Luffy's Father, Dragon, saving Luffy from Captain Smoker from execution.
Portgas D. Ace vs Marshal D. Teach AKA Blackbeard
couple of others
Dragon Ball: almost every major fight. especially the last one against Tao Pai Pai. Cyborg Tao was actually a bit of filler from what I hear, he wasn't in the manga I believe.
Dragonball Z: SSj1 goku vs freezer, pimp slapping Freezer was pure win.
all ssj3 transformations, both dub and sub.
final kamehameha with super perfect serul and gohan ssj2
all the movies.
JJBA: All Za Warudo scenes in anime. All ora ora ora ora ora ora ora ora ora and muda muda muda muda muda scenes in the anime. the toki no tomae scenes.
Naruto: LOTS of fight scenes. when he goes k0 for the first time against Haku.
Sound 4+ kimimaro fights. the cs2 sasuke vs k1 battle at valley of the end. the whole valley of the end battle. the Lee vs Gaara fight ( almost everyone loves this fight a lot). The Naruto vs Shukaku fight. some of the filler fights.
5 gated Gai vs 5 Gated lee in the fillers.
Shippuden: gaara vs deidara fight
battle with sasori. battle with k3 and k4 naruto vs orochimaru. sasuke's "defeat" of Orochimaru. Sasuke vs Deidara battle ( my poor little Dei Dei died :( )
"recent" battles which I will spoiler for people like Murphy who are like 10 chapters behind. (highlight to see the spoilers, you were warned, don't complain if you don't like it)
Pein vs Jiraiya (1, 3 and 6 bodied fights)
Pein's defeat of Jiraiya
Sasuke's "defeat" of Itachi
Thats my thing in a nutshell. Looking foward to reading your comments and comparing my favorite moments to yours.
the K4 fight (Naruto) just got animated and It was excellent. very very very good animated fight and the previous one was just pure awesome. I must admit, the way k2 naruto looked when he beat up Deidara before Deidara switches last second was kinda funny. almost like he had lipstick on. ALthough right now my favorite anime fights of all time are ( in no particular order)
are One Piece:
Rob D. Lucci vs Monkey D. Luffy ( anime And manga, tho preferably anime)
Short Zoro vs Luffy fight before Baroque works( anime)
Luffy vs Crocodile ( anime only)
Mugiwara ( strawhats) vs Aokiji( one of eric lee's few favorite one piece characters).
Luffy's Father, Dragon, saving Luffy from Captain Smoker from execution.
Portgas D. Ace vs Marshal D. Teach AKA Blackbeard
couple of others
Dragon Ball: almost every major fight. especially the last one against Tao Pai Pai. Cyborg Tao was actually a bit of filler from what I hear, he wasn't in the manga I believe.
Dragonball Z: SSj1 goku vs freezer, pimp slapping Freezer was pure win.
all ssj3 transformations, both dub and sub.
final kamehameha with super perfect serul and gohan ssj2
all the movies.
JJBA: All Za Warudo scenes in anime. All ora ora ora ora ora ora ora ora ora and muda muda muda muda muda scenes in the anime. the toki no tomae scenes.
Naruto: LOTS of fight scenes. when he goes k0 for the first time against Haku.
Sound 4+ kimimaro fights. the cs2 sasuke vs k1 battle at valley of the end. the whole valley of the end battle. the Lee vs Gaara fight ( almost everyone loves this fight a lot). The Naruto vs Shukaku fight. some of the filler fights.
5 gated Gai vs 5 Gated lee in the fillers.
Shippuden: gaara vs deidara fight
battle with sasori. battle with k3 and k4 naruto vs orochimaru. sasuke's "defeat" of Orochimaru. Sasuke vs Deidara battle ( my poor little Dei Dei died :( )
"recent" battles which I will spoiler for people like Murphy who are like 10 chapters behind. (highlight to see the spoilers, you were warned, don't complain if you don't like it)
Pein vs Jiraiya (1, 3 and 6 bodied fights)
Pein's defeat of Jiraiya
Sasuke's "defeat" of Itachi
Thats my thing in a nutshell. Looking foward to reading your comments and comparing my favorite moments to yours.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Happy New Year!
Its finally 2008 and I wish you all a happy and successful new year. Im sure that 2008 will bring us great anime to get your hopes up since this year will be big. Hopefully more stuffs will happen in the blog this year compared to last, and that the club will be doing more stuffs in the next couple of weeks. Enjoy this year and have fun! We only have 4 years left so lets make the best out of it before fire rains down from the heavens.
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