Foggy the Vaporeon

Twilight is up in my grill! YOU KNOW WHAT!?

The Engineer's Formula to Twilight:
Twilight =
(Traditional + Victorian) Romance +
Drama^(teenage emotions*sexual tension) +
(beautiful + elite + dark + sexy + Xmen Superpowers + statuesque + dazzlinggracefulsparklypretty )Vampires

Ginga Densetsu Weed: Talking dog drama. And it looks awful. That's mostly it. But why are their mouths hanging open 90% of the time???

I literally couldn't manage to hang out with Brandon and the gang because of The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
All I could think about is "there has got to be something I could be doing with my time". I tried messing with the two cats. I tried playing on my cellphone, playing tetris until Ross tried to call me and it made the system crash. I even tried to play with little Kinsey, until I got annoyed with how she kept bossing me into doing everything she wanted to do, and that strangely included standing in Brandon's bathroom, cradling a baby doll with the lights off, so the doll baby could go to sleep in the dark >_<
I even tried to eat some more of Brandon's rump roast, cuz I can usually sit through anything if I'm stuffing my face, but then, during not one but two different sets of sex scenes, between two different couples, going on at the same time, I was finally thinking I NEED TO LEAVE.

I feel bad because everybody else could just sit there except me. That I'm too snooty to just endure it. I willingly put getting away from a bad movie in front of my friends.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/goods_the_don_ready_story/
But seriously this movie made me remember how much I can hate people. Imagine The Hangover or a Will Ferrel film without Will Ferrel, and then any sort of charm removed, all characters as shallow/two-dimensional as possible, and every space in-between filled with raunchy crudeness.

Sengoku Youko: Gah, I'll never remember this title. If only they called it something practical, like "Inuyasha without Rumiko Takahashi-ness". Although I must admit, this manga is pretty bland, which goes to show you how much Takahashi's most popular works rely on her writing-style, mannerisms and sense of humor.
I'll admit, I went into this manga series just looking for sexual-tension between the two step-siblings. I'm so cheap.

Tenchi Muyo Second Season: A much anticipated continuation of the original OAV! It took them so long I didn't even realize they made it back in 2003! Yay, it felt so incomplete with just 12-13 episodes, that I watched on Toonami back when Cartoon Network actually tried.
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Dialogue dialogue dialogue bitching, domestic housework...
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bickering, random crap, pointless new characters...
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God this shit is AWFUL.

Karneval : Come, let us go and see the Cirque du pretty-and-stylish-emo-tortured-people. Aw.
But seriously, I really would like it more if there was more exposition... more characters show up before I even have a chance to understand the ones that already exist.

Clear Qualia : it's Hans Christian Anderson, manga style.

Yoroshiku Master: lol wuut?!?!

Billy Bat: I really like the story telling and the mysterious story. But seriously, enough with the WTF mode.

Sometimes I am convinced that Earth is a living purgatory; you can't even live a simple quiet life without paying BILLS.
And you would think that now that everything is online now that it would be easier, right?
Verizon is such a pain in the ass.

Fullmetal Alchemist: I didn't know it was so good!

I really love how important elements that the anime played down have been reinforced. And the plot is sooo quick and smooth! Yay!

I never noticed how you can see ads on livejournal if you aren't logged in. How annoying.

Yay! Many brand new series on OneManga!

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Meakashi : Lost interest in a few pages

Manabiya: A harem series that isn't too interesting, but still surprising in a way that the girls don't have enormous boobs, and I don't have the urge to kill the main character....

Princess Lover: ....Unlike this shitty piece of never ending fanservice. I can't believe I found myself wishing for shoujo.

Dengeki Daisy: A secret love interest that a girl contacts via cell phone, and he's code-named Daisy?? Only in Japan.

Yeah, I stared not caring about Fly High.

The more I see the antagonists, the more I don't like them. The whole Evil Student Trio of ruthless and improbable authority, ruthlessly dominating in high profile is just way too over the top. I know the heroine herself is over the top too, but unstoppable preppy kids is just cheesy.

And the love interest is becoming too prominent too soon, which leads me to believe she is going to depend on him on getting a problem solved and when a considerable challenge approaches.

I was hoping this manga would combine the action and spirit of shounen with the emotional themes of shoujo. But for a series with a main character who is supposed to be really good at fighting and martial arts, I don't remember seeing any significant combat scenes. Maybe the artist can't actually draw an action sequence, because the heroine's only trademark ability is to Mary Sue her opponents into submission.

I mean come on. Even Sailor Moon could throw a piece of jewelry.

There was one fight in chapter two, one of the Evil Student Trio is somehow beating up an entire gang of ninth graders. It lasts two pages, and she shows up and she's thinks "he's about as strong as I am!"
And I was like "what do you mean by that? Is he strong? Agile? Has he also been training in the mountains since childhood?"

I guess I'm just ranting so much because I had high hopes for this series and it washes out from a lack of organized plot and creativity.

Fly High: Yes! I shoujo series that will probably like :DD

Sometimes I read some normal shonen or seinen, these were the ones that I found to have perplexing undertones:

Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge
Fire Candy
Witch Hunter

I wish that everything that was ever treasured could stay important forever instead of being forgotten.

But I guess the fact that everything is temporary is why cherishing people and other things is so important.

There really is no perfect situation.

Caroline showed me a Youtube of the immediately leaked Trigun: The Movie trailer. I have a feeling that I might be disappointed by this.

First of all this is supposed to be made by Studio Madhouse, responsible for visually stunning movies such as Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Highlander the Anime Movie, Paranoia Agent, Millenium Actress, Paprika, CardCaptor Sakura, and many others, not to mention they've been around for over thirty years. ... But I must say there are few interesting scenes, just a few zoom outs on the space western setting, some Mary Sue turning her head with a good frame rate. Most of the time I can't even tell what's going on.

Is this the way the way previews are done in Japan? This trailer spends the first thirty seconds flipping through images from the anime's opening credits, and playing the opening theme song the whole time!

I correctly suspected that the movie was going to lean more towards the anime side, given that the anime and the movie have the same director. Naturally he would want to stick to his baby, and what he knows best.

Second of all is the story choices that were picked. It is obviously a Cowboy Bebop equivalent, with an original side story placed somewhere in the middle of the main arc and a couple of OCs and stuff. But the problems that I have with this are 1. Everyone is already comparing this manuever to Cowboy Bebop: The Movie. Hardly original. 2. Hardly anything presented will contribute to canon. 3. A sidestory in the middle of the arc surely means that the interesting main villains of Trigun will be of no importance, there is a high possibility they will not be present or only glimpsed through a flashback. 4. This is just the safe way out, Cowboy Bebop already proved this is an adequate method, but it will be difficult to grasp the best parts of the series, since the characters and overall mood of the story changes throughout the entire series.

I know... it would be way too difficult and mostly impractical to pick up where the anime left off. Still it's like saying all the character development that happened in the last ten episodes and an ending that was actually pretty good doesn't really matter. The viewers can't even assume a good finalé even existed, since there are plenty of animes with subpar endings that still get a movie (I'm looking at you, Evangelion!!).

Maybe I'm just being difficult to please. I suppose I should try to look forward to the good stuff:
More Millie and Meryl (underrated in my opinion), and that little black cat
Crazy gunfights and explosions.
that goofy Love and Peace routine :B

And even if it doesn't match the 70% the Cowboy Bebop: the Movie earned from RottenTomatoes, I'm sure it won't be any Utena: the Movie
(shudder)

Naruto, Chapter 453, Pages 2-3: Bizzaro Team 7! Fighting with the real Team 7 over Sasuke? WTF?

Just when I can't find anything in OneManga to suit my tastes, here comes:

Kamisama Hajimemashita : Lighthearted, and not too heavy on the romance.

Beauty Pop : It's very unusual to see such a calm, indifferent, female main character, with skills that surpasses that of a male ZOMG crazy wierd manga.
Even through the characters aren't very well-developed, the gender-role-reversal is refreshing enough to last a volume or two.