anime tryouts; trying the first episodes now
Zipang - pretty much the only real naval anime, despite its seemingly hokey premise. character design looks mature (reminds me of patlabor) and it looks like more of a character drama than anything; this is my favorite kind of anime UPDATE: and lo it is awesome
Witch Hunter Robin - been meaning to watch this for a while, looks very fascinating and dark
Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199 (OVA) - gotta check out a new entry in the yamato series
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Spiral Labyrinth - been meaning to watch this for forever; yang wenli's journey as a young (space) naval officer is relevant to my interests now so i hope it doesnt disappoint. side note: this is the only logh thing i haven't watched...
Area 88 - fly into the danger zone
Macross Zero - take me on your mighty wings tonight
currently reading
Zipang - Picking up where the anime left off --chapter 69. Unfortunately it's only been translated up to c70, but I might go back and read the previous chapters since it seems the anime and manga do have some differences. Also, the artist's style really looks better in manga form, I think.
Gunka no Balzar - military manga in the guise of a shonen adventure that focuses heavily on the details of a early-1900s pseudo-central europe. this psudo-europa is not very original, but extremely detailed--the author even illustrates a recipe for schweinshaxe, a dish eaten by the characters in chapter 5. the main character is an officer from pseudo-prussia who is sent to pseudo-austria to train the artillery cadets at the military academy there. he seems like the typical onizuka ripoff at first (except he's a teacher trying to train cadets who aren't rowdy but rather timid because of their experiences under the other cruel instructors at the academy) but has a sharp military mind, and it's always interesting to see how he'll handle himself in the precarious situations he finds himself in.
Berserk - a miracle of art, a manifestation of creative spirit and imagination in its purest (darkest?) form. to this day, i do not know how a human being was able to create this using only his hands. he must have sold his soul as well, i am convinced of this. truly the one masterpiece of japanese comics UPDATE: after 3+ years of reading it, I'm finally caught up! ....only to fined that the author is taking another hiatus.
oh miura
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Awesome, I will have plenty of time to play your game in-depth and give you feedback when you return!
Happy holidays to you as well, even though you won't see it for awhile I will draw you a Christmas card. I know you will do well at your school. Type to you not-so-soon, but eventually!
*Power Gloves up*
Yes, I enjoyed my Thanksgiving very much, but I did not get to go see the movie after all. How about yours?
I am flying on a plane due to Thanksgiving so my schedule this week will be messed up, but I plan on definitely sticking with the schedule next week. But before I sleep for tonight I will be doing the gaming hour. Only, next week I will not start so late haha. *puts on Power Glove and sunglasses*. I think I am ready for the game :o
I was going to start your game today, but then my parents unexpectedly made me help them move furniture from one house to another and that took the entire day almost (I wish people would tell me things in advance haha). I plan on starting it tomorrow (I left my computer running while I was gone so I was able to download the game), when I get home from work and setting aside an hour a day for it. I would like to get on some sort of schedule when I get home from work anyway, so this will help. I could do...play game for an hour, then take an hour nap haha, then work on the computer project for an hour, etc. Thanks for the info about the bugs. I will be sure to equip the Raid spray *thumbs up* just in case.
Your last day of work, awesome haha. I wish I had a last day of work in sight :B.
How was the movie?
Oh speaking of projects, Im about to release the new/almost final version of my game. I will pm you the link, I haven't tested the later stuff but it should be interesting if you have the time.
Awesome! Yes, I am very interested in playing it. Thank you very much :3.
Tokyo Jungle is simple, but it is one of those "just one more round" kind of games haha. Every time I died in survival mode this weekend I would start all over on it hoping to get just a little further. The city is randomized each time you play it, so sometimes you die due to unluckiness haha. But it is pretty involved for the price.
I am not too up to date on SMT, so I don't know which ones are out for the DS or not. That is a game series I wish I had more knowledge about, because it seems like it would be one of my favorites if only I had played them haha...I have spent many hours on that game art site haha. I think the artwork for the Front Mission games on it are really good too. The artist is one of my favorites and really adds a lot to the human character designs despite them not being the major point of the game:
http://www.creativeuncut.com/art_front-mission-3_a.html
His art on Mystic Ark is what drew me to that game (really cool game by the way)
http://kelesis.free.fr/hp/gallery/yamada/index_eng.htm
Not sure if he does any new game art though.
That RSS stuff sounds very useful. I will try to read up on that kind of stuff haha. Because actually, it is too early to say a lot about it, but someone who can draw is drawing one of my comic stories for me...I just send them the storyboards and script and they put it all together with good art, so, hopefully if they keep it up *crosses fingers* then I will have worked on something people might have a chance of reading (not that people would care about my part in making the comic, the artwork is what would draw them to it if anything, without that it is nothing). And I want to make a good website for it and everything before I show anyone, a site with a decent presentation and all that fancy stuff people use these days haha.
By the way, I downloaded Tokyo Jungle for PS3 a few days ago and it is very addicting. Did you hear about it?
I have really been wanting to get the DDS games.
The thing that drew me to the original Persona games was the Kazuma Kaneko artwork:
http://www.rpgfan.com/pics/persona2-ep/art-persona02.jpg
(the slipper in the head was a big selling point haha)
http://www.rpgfan.com/pics/persona2-ep/art-persona05.jpg
(this one always reminded me of an older X-Men character named Sunfire:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2e/Sunfirex.PNG/225px-Sunfirex.PNG
)
http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-12/p2-persona-chronos.html
http://www.creativeuncut.com/art_persona-2_b.html
http://www.creativeuncut.com/art_persona-2_a.html
Oh yeah, that reminds me. I have Maken X on Dreamcast haha, it was pretty interesting.
This game always interested me as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_Summoner:_Soul_Hackers
I remember being excited when it was mentioned in some game magazines it was going to get a US release. But that never happened sadly.
Back to Persona 2, I really liked winning the lottery stuff and magazine prizes (like upgrades for your Persona so you don't have to spend time leveling up). I got really lucky and won a lot of money and didn't have to worry about money the rest of the game haha.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6043/6265955993_ae25de25ab.jpg
I will have to check out the newer games eventually too. They sound really cool and are something I would probably enjoy a lot.
About the comic stuff. I guess first I need to learn what RSS is haha. I will look into it, I just upload the comics and that is it. I looked on forums and a lot of people say they refuse to read any webcomics that don't have their own layout, etc. To me that is kind of picky because the comics are the important thing, but I guess the presentation is just as major.
Haha, yeah that character was funny. The cool thing about Eternal Punishment is that, the main characters in Innocent Sin are in the game as minor characters, and some of the minor characters from IS are now the major characters of EP. Well, you still can't play as Steven Seagal unfortunately, but for example, my favorite character in EP is:
http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Katsuya_Suou
In Persona 2: Innocent Sin, Katsuya is depicted by Tatsuya as a harsh, perfectionist older brother who often fails to understand him in any way. This behavior has been somewhat toned down in Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, due to the perspective changing from Tatsuya's point of view to Maya's own.
I like the concept of the point of view thing the two games have.
No, I never actually got to play Revelations. I heard about it though and wish that I had. I did forget though - I have played Jack Bros. on Virtual Boy haha. Someone on MAL actually told me recently that the PS2 games got reprints a little while ago and are currently back in stock for a decent new price:
http://www.amazon.com/Shin-Megami-Tensei-Digital-Playstation-2/dp/B00008KTRS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1352396528&sr=8-1&keywords=digital+devil+saga
http://www.amazon.com/Megami-Tensei-Digital-Devil-Playstation-2/dp/B000784XG2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1352396528&sr=8-2&keywords=digital+devil+saga
http://www.amazon.com/Shin-Megami-Tensei-Nocturne-Playstation-2/dp/B00024W1U6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1352396528&sr=8-3&keywords=digital+devil+saga
I would actually like to try them out myself. Not sure if you can find them in stores for that price though. I doubt it haha. And the current stock probably won't last long. Hopefully I can save some money to spend on games eventually.
Are you guys still looking to get your comics published?
I guess not haha.
I would like to try the other Shin Megami Tensei games as well. Have you played any? The ones on the PS2 look pretty cool. Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2 especially.
Thanks. It is my brother's comic based on an idea I had about cryptids in the human world with Big Foot as a shoe company owner (and he also owns the world's tiniest cell phone because the smaller the technology the more expensive it is, but he can't make calls on it because its smaller than his fingernail haha). Someone gave it a bad score on that site, and my brother's comics already don't get much views so to me it felt more like picking on a "nobody" rather than any kind of helpful criticism (as no feedback was given other than "Bad comic"), so I got mad and linked it haha. But it was useless, he is already not going to do anymore pages. Oh well.