Favorite Anime

As you know I am facinated with many things. One of those things happen to be anime. I'm not too sure how long I've been interested in it. But I could say that it all started with a mech called Tranzor Z (or Manger Z) from there I was interested in giant mechs. From there a little hiatus happened (SAT word for you), I believe I watched the Street Fighter anime movie. Then my family moved and my brother and I watched some of the anime they aired on the Sci-Fi channel. One of them happened to be the Fatal Fury movie. But enough about ancient history, what are my favorites over the past few years.Well here they are in no perticular order:

First it would have to be anything Gundam. I'm a big fan of the mecha genre, theres nothing like being able to pilot your own giant robot and saving the world. Currently I'm watching Blue Gender, not the Adult Swim broadcast, the orignal uncut version. Coincidentally the producer happens to be in the mecha genre, which is apparent if you watch.

Gungrave is another. Created by the man behind Trigun comes this story of crime and revenge. Speaking of Trigun thats a really good one, although I prefer the manga better. Inuyasha is one I've been following for the past three years, already past 100 episodes. It combines historical action, romance and comedy all in one sitting. Fullmetal Alchemist is another I love, it can be lighthearted to extremely dark. Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo are pretty good. Naruto, the underground hit is one that I'm getting into. I hope to really dive into the series once I build my new L33T system. Finally Evangelion. The psychological mecha anime that is considered a science fiction masterpiece.

Well those are my favorites. The anime you see on this entry are well worth watching if you ever find yourself bored .

A Quote

Here's a quote that I think is pretty cool. "It was like watching a dream that I couldn't wake up from, and then just like that the dream was over." Don't know where its from? Its from Cowboy Bebop: "The Real Folk Blues pt 2", when Spike talks to Faye before his one man assualt against the syndicate. At times when we find ourselves in a time where life seems unreal. It's like our bodies go through the same boring routine over and over again and then we find out we've accomplished what we needed to do. Like school, we go, come home, do homework, eat dinner, watch some t.v. or play and then go to sleep to repeat the process. Then before you know it you end up in a graduation gown recieving your high school diploma.

What I'm trying to get at is that you should make those "dream" moments last while they can. Because much like a dream, when you wake up from them you'll never have it again. I find myself realzing this, being a kid doesn't last long. Spike wanted a way out of his world, to not worry about money or being killed by the syndicate, but in the end he awoke from this "dream" he knew that in the dream he was able to escape, but he woke up and took down the syndicate. We can't go back to those times of dreams, we don't realize those dream moments could be the best times of our lives. But hardship and betrayal makes it so that we don't see it that way. So make the best of hard times and the most out of great ones.

Mean People

In our lives we meet many people. Either nice ones or the ones that you hate so much you'd want to punch them in the face. Mean people are the ones that make some of our lives suck. I know a ton of them and apparently I have some inherent super power that attracts them to me. Trust me if I wanted super powers it would be the "Jedi mind trick" so that I could trick the mean people into walking into my fist. Its like a shirt I saw that says "Mean People Suck". Its true, they do suck. Psychologically I don't think that mean people know they're mean. There are five mean people I know, one of them who I believe is a sadist. To give you an example of his sadistic qualities, he refers teasing of a underclassmen as "verbal rape" and he watches videos of some dude who gets his kicks out of the brutal torture of animals.

Does he think he's a sadist, no. I could analyze his behavior psychologically this is what it would be: his parents don't speak English therefore out of everyone in his family he has the most power in this country. By thinking this he believes that everyone is so underneath him he can get away with anything he wants. Thats psychologically, I doubt he thinks the same way I do about him. Do mean people think they're mean no, do those around him thnik they're mean no. An excellent example can be pulled from my favorite book "The Catcher in The Rye", in which Holden meets the mother of one of his classmates. She belives him to be a nice boy (don't all parents), the way Holden and the other boys see him as a jerk. I can admit that I'm the victim of bullying, I'm weak and if I stand up for myself I'd either get a beatdown or get into more trouble. The problem with mean people is that they mingle with other mean people, of those five people mentioned above they are all friends or talk to one another. Therefore its harder to stand up to them since they'd probably jump you and maybe even kill you.

I write this since it is one of the various scars of the world. I am the Beast that shouted "I" at the heart of the world. I shall cry out to the various scars people get from the world. To those who cannot admit to their problems or keep them in I shall cry out for you. Every emotion or sadness that is bottled up in the shy, quite, meek, weak or the left out shall be announced to the world. Mean people, sadists, torturers, those who have wronged anyone shall come to know me well. For I am THE BEAST WHO SHOUTED "I" AT THE HEART OF THE WORLD!

A Pitch

In my free time or whenever I'm bored I come up with various game or anime ideas. For this post I would like to pitch this one. Okay imagine this, in the far future the world's economy is at its peak. Everyone has a job and money in the bank. Giant robots of various types are built, either by private enterprises or organizations. Get this these giant robots are toys for the youth. Also in this world various giant monsters attack at will. So who defends the world from the monsters? You guessed it the children. But it doesn't matter if the monsters are defeated, its who defeats them that matters. So at the very moment a monster is spotted, more than twenty giant robots appear to defeat it. In the end you would get giant mecha action and a monster defeated in the process.

Thats the basic plot, the series would then revolve around the children who own the robots. The children range from elementary to high school kids. The mecha designs pay homage to Gundam, Evangelion, Transformers, Metal Gear and even Power Rangers. To pliot one varies, remote control, cockpit, syching with it (damage done to your bot does damage to you) and neuro interface (think it and its done). All in all its fun to think about and this is only one of my ideas.

Edit: forgot to name this, I'd call it "Toybots".

Preferances

Its a much heated debate when it comes to English dubbing compared to the original Japanese voice overs in anime. People say that when dub, you lose most of the original dialogue and most of the jokes are lost. For example, in Inuyasha, the English dub, the dialogue is different than the original Japanese. Even the tones of voice are lost at times i.e Fullmetal Alchemist. However there are some anime that should be enjoyed with the original Japanese voices. Naruto is one that I believe is one. Since Naruto sounds a lot like Ash from Pokemon. I'm not saying that ruins it, Naruto is a very good anime regardless of voice actors.

You might wonder what I prefer. Well here it is, I first watch in English then I watch in Japanese. One series I highly prefer in English is Cowboy Bebop. Even the most die hard anime fan can agree that the English actors were on par with the original Japanese cast. Plus Steven Jay Blum does a great job as Spike. Well regardless of English or Japanese voices, if an anime catches your interest and is enjoyable to watch you can have yourself a good time.

Characters You Can Relate To

You know when you watch something enough times you begin to see that some characters seem to act just like you or you just know how they feel? Well for me its anime, so far there are two characters that I can relate to. One of them is Brandon Heat from Gungrave. He's got that strong, but silent side to him, but inside he's a nice guy, just don't get him mad because he'll kick your butt. I can relate to the quite side of him, since in the anime he doesn't talk much. Even though he's silent most of the time he's still one great character.

Another character I relate to is Shinji Ikari from Evangelion. When I saw him I realized that he was just like me. Minus the part about plioting a giant mech. He juggles going to school and going to "work" just like I am now. He also gets into arguments and is teased a lot by the other characters. I'd say out of the two he's the one that I am the most like. Its always fun to compare yourself to fictional characters sometimes. I hope to one day find a character from Naruto that I can compare myself to, but under the circumstances (really old computer and being aired once every week cut) but more on that later. As for you try to find that character from an anime or video game that seems like you.

Blown Out of Proportions

Video games, one of the few things that my life revolves around. You see games are protected by the first amendment, so vg publishers can put whatever they want in a game as long as it is socially acceptable. However in recent news (Hot Coffee) has shown to most how "evil" some games can be. This all happened when I was on vacation and it was all over the news. Then people from politicians to ambulance chasing lawyers were all on top of it. Don't get me wrong, but wasn't publicly broadcasting the existance of this hidden content a bad thing to do. When they did this the entire US was all like "Dude did you hear about that hidden game in GTA?" "No really show me." Then boom you've just spread a little problem like a wildfire.

I'm all in for game ratings and parents monitoring the things kids play, but this is going over the edge. I mean it would have become a big issue eventually, but you didn't have to blow it up into a OMG someone alert Congress. I don't even think that Tomb Raider nude code got this much coverage. I mean it was as equally bad, but who knows. Kids play what you want, but know this what happens in games stay in the games. Parents sit down with your children and watch what they play, then afterwards tell them what the difference of what is right and wrong.

Woot first post

Good Afternoon, ready for blogging operations. Well after some deliberations I decided to set up a blog. I've ready many some frm my brother. Who knows who will read the nonsense I post or my impressions on video games, manga and anime. So stay tuned.