First off, I wanna say that solar did a really cool last-two-minutes-of-the-episode thingy. Wow! That's neat-o! But anyway, to the main anime stuff.
I think what's most intriguing was Honey and Clover's "light angst" sort of scenario. I think it's not traditional from the typical comedy-to-angst story, where the angst level changes in the anime; rather, I think the angst level changes very little from the first episode to the last. This is probably due to the fact that they would insert a random comedic and facial expression moment despite the angsty setting growing around the characters. In a way, this angst is very very dangerous; no longer does the viewer say "oh, here comes the angst *rolls eyes* this is stupid", but the angst actually comes up unexpectedly and goes away just as suddenly, and you never realized that you were pitying the characters until afterwards. Slick they are, slick indeed.
I'm still not an absolute fan of their drawings, but it was dealable. I like how the characters were arranged in Honey and Clover, though. They started out with only a few chars, then added more on over time. The characters that were added on were never truly major or became one of the "group", but they still played a very influential part throughout the story and each had their own depth. The main characters also had their own meanings. While in the first couple of episodes we are given the "surface" views of them, the characters become more and more pronounced as episodes go on. Music... there were some good, some not so interesting. Additionally, its not like "intro was good, ED was bad, OST was good/bad" but rather, some of the insert songs/OP/ED were ok, and some of the OST was ok. Eeh, that just probably confused more people. whaaaaaatever.
Dogs are so whacked up in Honey and Clover... >.> they always have that "I'm so cutely stupid please kill me" look...
30.10.05
17.10.05
My sister is more reliable than anyone else.
Well, my family is more reliable than anyone else. I've learned that throughout life's lessons that You can NEVER rely on other people. Except for my family. Whenever I asked my family for a favor, they would go through with it. Rarely does anyone else go through with as much devotion or thoroughness than what my family does. Consequently, I have been attempting to not rely on anyone else with the exception of my family, but of course even with my family I'm not asking much already since I feel indebted to their generosity and therefore wish to trouble them as little as possible.
This is just a short rant until my sister comes online. I called her a short while ago because I idiotically forgot some important documents at my parent's home in Covina. (Sometimes I think my family is more reliable than I am myself...) So my sister picks up and she immediately agrees to do so. Though I waited only a few minutes, she calls back later telling me that it might take a while because the internet is down.
That's what I like about her. She calls back and tells me something that I would have considered a trifle waiting and regards it as something important.
This is important. You know why? Because I know people who I would ask if they would do something, and they said they would, but they never do it. But that's not what usually pisses me off. It's the fact that I have to wait a while, and then call THEM, and THEN they make up some excuse sayign something came up so they couldn't do it. I HAD TO CALL THEM. And if that wasn't the case, then more or less it's being called up a second or two before, say, going out (assuming we would be going out to get ice cream or do community service or whatever) and then saying that something last minute came up. I don't know. I just learned to hate inreliability.
Lesson for the day: Don't rely on others for anything. Except if you have a family like me, then you can sort of rely on your family. :p
Relying on yourself would be helpful, btw, but if you have problems like me where you can't even rely on yourself to do things, man, you're screwed. Wait, that means I'm screwed. crap.
This is just a short rant until my sister comes online. I called her a short while ago because I idiotically forgot some important documents at my parent's home in Covina. (Sometimes I think my family is more reliable than I am myself...) So my sister picks up and she immediately agrees to do so. Though I waited only a few minutes, she calls back later telling me that it might take a while because the internet is down.
That's what I like about her. She calls back and tells me something that I would have considered a trifle waiting and regards it as something important.
This is important. You know why? Because I know people who I would ask if they would do something, and they said they would, but they never do it. But that's not what usually pisses me off. It's the fact that I have to wait a while, and then call THEM, and THEN they make up some excuse sayign something came up so they couldn't do it. I HAD TO CALL THEM. And if that wasn't the case, then more or less it's being called up a second or two before, say, going out (assuming we would be going out to get ice cream or do community service or whatever) and then saying that something last minute came up. I don't know. I just learned to hate inreliability.
Lesson for the day: Don't rely on others for anything. Except if you have a family like me, then you can sort of rely on your family. :p
Relying on yourself would be helpful, btw, but if you have problems like me where you can't even rely on yourself to do things, man, you're screwed. Wait, that means I'm screwed. crap.
16.10.05
Tsukoyomi Moon Phase
Hmm... I'm not entirely on "full BS" mode right now, so I'll probably not bs as much on this anime as I should. It's actually a really good anime in all aspects, EXCEPT music. THAT INTRO SONG SUCKS. PERIOD.
But anyway.
Characterwise, the development is pretty nifty and noticable. Of the main characters, anyway. Hazuki's brattiness starts to wane as the show goes on, which is kind of disappointing, but also understandable. Her personality was still pretty charming, Hazuki isn't a bad character. I find Art more amusing though... but she was only introduced like, in the last couple of episodes, kind of disappointing. Interestingly enough, the show seems to be able to go on in future seasons, so maybe there will be more appearances of Art in the future... Turning to the guy characters, we can clearly establish that all male vampires in this show are evil. Except for one, which reminds me of PJBW's characters, but since he was mainly an enemy until he died, we really can't consider him too much. :p Onto the good guys! Seiji is pretty nifty, he reminds me of my Guai character in looks and powers, but more with Thomas's personality, though not quite. The old men were pretty cool. I mean, they could fight right? And as long as they can fight, most people would be happy, right?
In any case, I wasn't lying about the fight scenes. Those were actually pretty nifty. And not only the fighting, but the artwork in general was nice and "smooth". There WERE actually times where Hazuki's pose was very cute. Still, in general, the best of the art design likes mostly in two areas: setting, which was very very dramatic (you can really tell the mood of the episode depending on its background) and the fight scenes. Yes, they were action packed. Whoopee. *rolls eyes* The powers were pretty nice, although eventually all the bad guys had the power of summoning plant vines to attack the bad guys. Then again, most of the good guys just threw around paper ofudas and did fancy magic with that. Oh well, hope they can come up with more original moves next time, assuming there is a next time.
Speaking of theme, it's pretty interesting how they spread out the comedy and angst in the anime. It's like typical anime where it's "happy happy happy ANGST ANGST ANGST and maybe one more happy". This one goes "happy ANGST happy ANGST... etc." And it's not always just because there are multiple bad guys, so there's happy, then there's a bad guy and there's angst, and then there's happy again. No, even when there's no bad guys, there can occasionally be the "thinking back ANGST", and sometimes even when the bad guy is in his deep thought "I'm going to conduct my evil plan" mode, a random plate sometimes just falls onto him, for cheap if not excessively absurd and unnecessary humor relief.
Speaking of those random plates, I hear it has to do with a japanese reference, I think it has to do something with a japanese show. But I don't want to look into it. :p
Hmm... what else... plot. Yea, usually I don't look into plot that much, but I actually think this one is worth noting. Probably because it's not linear, and not "direct" is maybe the word? The enemy appearance is unique. It's not the power rangers setup where there's a new enemy in each episode. But it's also not one major enemy for the whole series either. NOR is it the typical half season enemy taht gets defeated, then another half season enemy arrives to get defeated when the season finally ends. Although I had thought that when the first half the season was over, because one "main" enemy got destroyed. So I thought the next bad guy coming along must be the next main enemy. But no, he got killed off in like 3 episodes. What the heck? :P And also, the ending to this series (maybe only to first season?) is rather ambiguous. Perhaps there will be more episodes? Who is this master guy anyway? Seems like it has good potential to be built on, but also good chance of being screwed up.
Uh... about the music comment. In reality, it wasn't that bad, just the intro... >.< Right, the intro I can definately do without. Some of the insert songs I really want to download and get, but I"m not sure how to get them... maybe I"ll try looking for OSTs or image files and they might have some cool songs on them. :p
AAAAaaaand the nekomimi ears. Yea, I can tell that's supposed to be a theme in the whole story, but gosh darnit, if everything was as blatantly obvious as those nekomimi ears in every damn episode, symbolism in English would be an incredibly easy task. Although that's not to say what the damn nekomimi ears MEANs. Hmm. Actually, that's not a bad thing to ponder about. What is the TRUE meaning of the nekomimi ears? Is it really just a fetish thing, or maybe there's a symbolic meaning to the ears... Perhaps I will post again to think about it.
...
A theme of acceptance, that was definately in the entire series. Cats are also usually solitary, but can show affection towards humans. Theme of "taming" the wild cat into a domestic one? While I would ask "why ears", I think the answer would be it was the most obvious symbolic way of representing a girl as a cat. Or vice versa. yea, that might be it. I'll write more on it after I thought about it more. Right now, I want to play RO Block hitter game thingy. :3
But anyway.
Characterwise, the development is pretty nifty and noticable. Of the main characters, anyway. Hazuki's brattiness starts to wane as the show goes on, which is kind of disappointing, but also understandable. Her personality was still pretty charming, Hazuki isn't a bad character. I find Art more amusing though... but she was only introduced like, in the last couple of episodes, kind of disappointing. Interestingly enough, the show seems to be able to go on in future seasons, so maybe there will be more appearances of Art in the future... Turning to the guy characters, we can clearly establish that all male vampires in this show are evil. Except for one, which reminds me of PJBW's characters, but since he was mainly an enemy until he died, we really can't consider him too much. :p Onto the good guys! Seiji is pretty nifty, he reminds me of my Guai character in looks and powers, but more with Thomas's personality, though not quite. The old men were pretty cool. I mean, they could fight right? And as long as they can fight, most people would be happy, right?
In any case, I wasn't lying about the fight scenes. Those were actually pretty nifty. And not only the fighting, but the artwork in general was nice and "smooth". There WERE actually times where Hazuki's pose was very cute. Still, in general, the best of the art design likes mostly in two areas: setting, which was very very dramatic (you can really tell the mood of the episode depending on its background) and the fight scenes. Yes, they were action packed. Whoopee. *rolls eyes* The powers were pretty nice, although eventually all the bad guys had the power of summoning plant vines to attack the bad guys. Then again, most of the good guys just threw around paper ofudas and did fancy magic with that. Oh well, hope they can come up with more original moves next time, assuming there is a next time.
Speaking of theme, it's pretty interesting how they spread out the comedy and angst in the anime. It's like typical anime where it's "happy happy happy ANGST ANGST ANGST and maybe one more happy". This one goes "happy ANGST happy ANGST... etc." And it's not always just because there are multiple bad guys, so there's happy, then there's a bad guy and there's angst, and then there's happy again. No, even when there's no bad guys, there can occasionally be the "thinking back ANGST", and sometimes even when the bad guy is in his deep thought "I'm going to conduct my evil plan" mode, a random plate sometimes just falls onto him, for cheap if not excessively absurd and unnecessary humor relief.
Speaking of those random plates, I hear it has to do with a japanese reference, I think it has to do something with a japanese show. But I don't want to look into it. :p
Hmm... what else... plot. Yea, usually I don't look into plot that much, but I actually think this one is worth noting. Probably because it's not linear, and not "direct" is maybe the word? The enemy appearance is unique. It's not the power rangers setup where there's a new enemy in each episode. But it's also not one major enemy for the whole series either. NOR is it the typical half season enemy taht gets defeated, then another half season enemy arrives to get defeated when the season finally ends. Although I had thought that when the first half the season was over, because one "main" enemy got destroyed. So I thought the next bad guy coming along must be the next main enemy. But no, he got killed off in like 3 episodes. What the heck? :P And also, the ending to this series (maybe only to first season?) is rather ambiguous. Perhaps there will be more episodes? Who is this master guy anyway? Seems like it has good potential to be built on, but also good chance of being screwed up.
Uh... about the music comment. In reality, it wasn't that bad, just the intro... >.< Right, the intro I can definately do without. Some of the insert songs I really want to download and get, but I"m not sure how to get them... maybe I"ll try looking for OSTs or image files and they might have some cool songs on them. :p
AAAAaaaand the nekomimi ears. Yea, I can tell that's supposed to be a theme in the whole story, but gosh darnit, if everything was as blatantly obvious as those nekomimi ears in every damn episode, symbolism in English would be an incredibly easy task. Although that's not to say what the damn nekomimi ears MEANs. Hmm. Actually, that's not a bad thing to ponder about. What is the TRUE meaning of the nekomimi ears? Is it really just a fetish thing, or maybe there's a symbolic meaning to the ears... Perhaps I will post again to think about it.
...
A theme of acceptance, that was definately in the entire series. Cats are also usually solitary, but can show affection towards humans. Theme of "taming" the wild cat into a domestic one? While I would ask "why ears", I think the answer would be it was the most obvious symbolic way of representing a girl as a cat. Or vice versa. yea, that might be it. I'll write more on it after I thought about it more. Right now, I want to play RO Block hitter game thingy. :3
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