Archive for April, 2009
Series Review: CLANNAD
While walking to school one day, delinquent Okazaki Tomoya encounters a girl, named Furuwaka Nagisa, standing at the bottom of a hill. He finds out Nagisa is repeating her senior year in school thanks to an illness that had her too short on attendance to graduate. She is determined to rebuild the Drama Club, and, with the help of Tomoya and a few others, Nagisa sets off on her mission.
Series Review: To Aru Majutsu no Index
I recently finished watching To Aru Majutsu no Index and figured I should write a review for this! Actually, I should be writing more reviews as it is, so this is part of my effort to write more reviews!
Why My Jerk Level is Over 9000
For the longest time, I made fun of my husband-o’s love for all things Dragonball. I judged him and his love for 30 episodes of powering up. I laughed at him for enjoying 200 episodes of filler. I told him he was the world’s biggest idiot for actually watching both Dragonball and Dragonball Z, especially considering the series has no cute girls.
Then Dragonball Kai was released, and I said I would watch it. “HD recut, eh? Why not, it’ll make the nerd happy (and I have nothing better to do)” I thought. So we watched the first episode. Then the second. And a horrible thing happened. I found myself thinking “man this anime is totally badass and manly….WAIT WHAT”
Yeah, that’s right. I am enjoying Dragonball Kai, something I totally spend 2-3 years making fun of someone for loving. Damnit.
I am a person who hates, hates filler. I will skip episodes of crap and read summaries, because if it has no real point, why the fuck do I care? I want kissing and crying and epic manly battles, not bullshit beach episodes or hot springs. I want episodes where I don’t hover over the info menu, staring at the time, wishing it was over. It’s weird that I get that from Dragonball, a series renouned for it’s filler.
Kai is a recut of Dragonball Z: dumbing the series down from 297 episodes to approx. 100, and broadcasting in HD. The animation isn’t really upscaled–it’s the same as it was 20 years ago, honestly–but it’s the cuts that make it awesome. Things that originally happened in episode 10 are happening in episode 2. It’s mind-blowing, awesome madness. It is fast-paced and exciting (and manly). I am loving the hell out of it. Even despite the lack of cute girls (Bulma, your hair is awful).
I am still a huge jerk, though. Oops.
PS: I didn’t realize until David pointed it out that the belt around saiyans.. is actually their tail. MIND = BLOWN
PPS: It is impossible to find Dragonball fanart that isn’t dickgirls or shit drawn by Billy, age 8.
tl;dr I am a Dragonball fag now thanks to Kai.
Game Review: Saya no Uta
After having brain surgery due to the result of a car accident that killed his parents, Fuminori Sakisaka wakes up to find the way he sees the world to be a bit off centre. People no longer resemble people; they are disgusting bubbling monsters who can barely speak. Food he once loved tastes and smells like roadkill. Fearing he will never get better and considering suicide, he meets Saya. The one normal ‘human’ he can see amongst the blood and guts.
Game Review: Blue Dragon Plus
Blue Dragon Plus takes place one year after the original 360 game; the world still loves cube worlds that came as a result of the first game, but the team soon discovers new threats via a three-headed dragon shadow called Balaur. Cue game.
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