JOURNAL: Schu no ko (Angela-chan )

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  • Gravitation and Hellsing 2002-05-29 22:45:46 Well, it's what I've been doing lately other than boring Summer School.

    Gravitation is...HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    K is officially the coolest guy ever! And Ryuichi is me! I love this series!
    I stayed up all night watching it with Laurel. The whole thing. All 13 eps and the OAV. I never laughed so hard watching an anime.
    Ok, for those who don't know, Gravitation is Shonenai. I want to state that before I continue my review.

    SHO-NEN-AI!

    *grabs pom poms* SHONEN AI SHONEN AI YYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAY SHONEN AI!

    Now that I've weeded out all the haters, I can go on.

    Pretty much, Gravitation is the story of Shuichi. He's started a band with his buddy Hiro. Hiro is cool. Anyway, they're trying to get signed and their manager is trying to get Shuichi to write lyrics. Yeah. So Schu-chan is walking through the park all depressed cuz he can't write anything when *gasp* his lyric sheet gets blown into the hands of a mysterious blond bishonen. Now like I stated before. Shonen ai. We know where this is headed.
    Not that simple tho. Yuki's all mean and tells Schuichi that he has no talent. This causes Schu-chan to obsess over Yuki.

    And chaos insues.

    It gets sad and happy and funny all in 13 eps. It's wonderful.
    The characters are great, the story is great and the series is just fun. It's highly reccomended. And that's my say on it. I don't want to give away to much. Just trust me. If you agree with my taste in anime, you'll love this.

    Now to Hellsing. This. Is. Cool.

    *pom poms back out* Blood blood blood. Violence Violence Violence.
    Blood guts gore, we want more! YAAAAAAAAY VAMPIRES!

    Now that I've weeded out the ones who get queasy at blood I can continue.

    As stated in a previous entry, I go to a catholic girls school. This series makes Evangelion look like something we could watch in school.
    And I love it.
    There's nothing I don't love about this series...ok one thing. Victoria's breast size. How the hell did they get that big? Not to mention they defy the laws of physics. Get over it, drooling fanboys. You'll never see a chest that looks like that on something you have a chance with.
    Ahem...moving on... The music is great (especially the opening) and the art and animation are wonderful. I've read the first volume of manga and to my limited knowledge, they did a pretty good job of keeping everyone in character. Alucard is a little less funny than he is in manga, but still has a slight dry sense of humor and is cool as ever. I lied. Two things I don't like. Viccie's chest and the first fight between Alucard and Anderson. It was cooler in the manga. That fight was so cool in the manga. In the anime it's just...too short. Yes, it was cool but there was no Alucard decapitation. It was cool when he was decapitated cuz then his blood wrote on the wall for Victoria to drink it and then he came back and it was the coolest pic of him ever! instead he just got stabbed with all the swords and then he pulled one out and told Victoria to drink it and he just wandered off when she didn't instead of her running out of time when her indecisiveness kicked in.
    But otherwise awsome. My CDs got flawed so i'm missing the middle of the series (need more CDs) but I can't wait to watch more! I love it! Vampires rock.
    And Integral is cool. Integral is always cool.

    So yeah. Two fun animes all must see!
    C-ya later!
    Schu no ko signing out. 
  • Star Wars and gaming 2002-05-18 19:20:38 I saw Star Wars Episode II yesterday. It exceeded all of my expectaions. I remember walking in thinking, "Oh man, this is going to suck." based on my being scarred by the first one.

    It. Was. Awsome.

    Now don't you dare e-mail me telling me that I'm stupid and it sucks. Nothing will change my opinion that Yoda's fight was easily one of the coolest EVER Star Wars scenes and that this movie was great.

    Yes, the acting sucked. Yes the plot was a little dull, but this is a Star Wars movie. It wasn't exactly known for it's brilliant acting. They became a cult icon for the sheer raw fun of the movie. Remember when you were like 10, (at least I was) and watched Star Wars: A New Hope for the very first time and had that sense of awe and wonder like staring a like a kid opening the brand new video game system he/she wanted for christmas? (I say this drawing from experience...since I first saw them around christmas time when I was 10 and I had gotten a Sega Genesis...oi I feel old.)

    Those original movies were pure magic. Episode I replaced the magic with marketing crap (labor and production costs are cheaper for Marketing Crap then those for magic, i believe). Episode II shows that the magic has been re-installed...yeah, the marketing crap is still there (though the cereal is quite tasty..like Kix with marshmallows) but the magic is back.

    I loved the movie. It filled me with that same sense of awe and wonder like when I was back in the den of my old house with my dad watching A New Hope and falling in love with the classic.

    If you are a Star Wars fan, like me, you must go see this movie.

    If you are a Yoda fan and treasure your Yoda Pez dispenser, like me, you definatly without a doubt, must go see this movie.

    And that's all I have to say on the subject.

    now on to gaming. I know I said I'd continue my babysitting rant, but i don't feel like it.

    Who here feels old when they a little kid that the first video game system they ever owned was an ORIGINAL game boy (the old gray clunky one about the size of a brick) and then are asked to confirm that they actually did make them that size and that they only had one color for the casing? Have you had anyone ever ask you how you could stand playing a handheld game without color or how could you stand non 3D games?

    Remember when the corckscrew thing on Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was the coolest graphical thing ever? Or when parents were in an uproar about how the first Mortal Kombat game contained blood (oh come on. Everyone knew the "secret" code whether you had the game or not!) and THAT was the most violent game on the market?
    God, I sure do. And I'm sixteen. I feel old at sixteen!

    The first video game I ever played was Tetris...no not Tetris worlds, young one. OLD BLACK AND WHITE TETRIS! ON MY BRICK SIZED GAME BOY! Don't you laugh at it, whipper-snapper! it works better then your damned Game Boy Color (I pick on the color. I have an advance and I love the thing. I didn't get a GBC...I knew to wait for the Advance...I am a happy girl) And yes. My game boy still works. I still have it. I will never part with it.

    And now the immortal question. Does anyone remember the Sega Master System? (child: what??) It was sega's answer to the nintendo (and it had a racing game and shooting game built in!) god, I used to play Shinobi and Alex Kidd and Ghostbusters...don't even get me started with Ghostbusters.

    My point is, I loved these old "crap games" (as I've heard them called.) I'd gladly take the old 2D King of Fighters (IORI!!!!! *dreamy sigh*) over Tekken 4 (of course, I never really liked Tekken anyway, but I digress...). It's another reason that I LOVE! The GBA. They are releasing old Super Nintendo games on the system! I love this. I can finally rekindle my love of Super Mario World! And I think the good thing that came out of Sega's desicion to stop making systems was Sonic Advance. It's just like the good old days of the Genesis. I nearly cried when I popped that cart into my Weiss Boy (I call it that because I have the white GBA and I put little Weiss Kreuz stickers on it).
    I love games like that.

    My favorite game at this very moment is Golden Sun. Yes, it's a new game, but its style is that of the sprite-based old RPGs...yes, graphics are better and the story is incredible. I have many hours logged playing it.

    The GBA is a wonderful wonderful thing. It's quietly bringing back old style gaming (i can't bring myself to say old school..yo yo what up, homie?) and making me a happy Schu no ko.

    So yeah. Someone e-mail me. I'd like to discuss this topic more, but I already feel like I've wasted enough of your time.

    So that's that

    Schu no ko siging out.

    PS:
    Schu no ko's Top Three Games to buy for GBA:
    1. Golden Sun (I like this better than FFVII...and I LOVED that game with a passion)
    2. Sonic Advance (If you're a Sonic Fan there is no reason why you should not buy this game)
    3. Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (Side scrolling, undead killing, non linear fun!) 
  • X and Babysitting 2002-05-17 01:41:02 I just heard some news today that makes me want to get a real job (more on this in the second portion).

    X is my favorite anime/manga. I love X. I can't get enough of X.
    I wear my Kamui costume in public (I got snickered at one time playing DDR in my Kamui costume. I was dancing to End of the Century) I've made a paper-mache shinken (messy fun!) and I bought these really nice black demon wings for Anime Expo (Wings go Bouncy Bouncy!).

    Though Kamui's not my favorite character. That goes to Seishirou.

    Hands down.

    I can't read Japanese but I buy the latest volume of the manga everytime I go to a Kinokuniya bookstore (blessed family in Seattle) and then I find translations or someone to translate it for me. I have the entire series fansubbed and I plan to buy it on DVD.

    I have the fucking box that the trading card packs come in....not full of cards. Just the box. It has 4 packs worth of cards in it.

    And next to the Subaru/Seishirou notebook I've been eyeing, there is now one thing I must have.

    The PS2 fighting game.

    Now all I need is a Japanese PS2 and I'm all set...of course then I have to import the game when it comes out. And then there's that pesky problem of all I can do is play Japanese games...of course I don't have an American PS2. My parents...that's for a later rant.

    So I need money. Anyone willing to donate to the "Schu no ko is an X obsessed loser who needs a Japanese PS2 only so she can play the X game" fund?

    Of course one solution is get a job. Which brings me to the second part of my rant.

    I have a job. I babysit.

    Laugh if you want. Then let me introduce you to the Demon Children from Hell and the Demon Children from Purgatory (who were formerly known as the Demon Children from Hell until I met the current Demon Children from Hell) And then spend a weekend with them.

    Now, I'm going into my Senior year of High School. I go to a private Catholic Girls School (Back off you horny bastards, I'm taken and I will beat you to a pulp if you come near me) and so I don't exactly have this little luxury called "Time".

    Believe me, if I did, I'd have a lot more AMVs up.

    I like kids. I'm never going to have one, but I like them alright. So I babysit. It's the perfect occupation. I get to work on my hours, get at the least 25 bucks a night usually more (easily more if its an overnight job) the kids are in bed by ten (right at the sanity breaking point), free reign of the TV (and PS2) when the children are in bed, I work at least 2 times a month, and I get to participate in my favorite activity. Corrupting the nation's youth.

    Unfortunatly, it's not enough to import a PS2 and the X game. *sigh* i'll continue my babysitting rant later. It'll be paired with a Star Wars rant I'm sure. 
  • Yearbooks and Insanity 2002-05-07 16:43:06 I got my yearbook last friday. They're weird things aren't they? A large book of "memories" of a place you hate. Your picture looks awful and usually they've screwed you out of pictures they claimed would be "In the Yearbook" In about ten years or so, you'll look back and reminice about things like "Toxic Waste Day" or "That time carrots came out your nose". Or Prom and such if you go to those sorts of things (I go to homecoming, only cuz it's easy to incorporate cosplay into the theme)

    But signing yearbooks is something different entirely. It's the little mark of you that you leave forever imprinted on the pages of the future leaders of america's memories. Insanity? Of course. Bright colors and things that make no sense have to cover the blank space destined for your John Hancock. It can be simple things, such as "Have a nice Summer" or "I loved having you in class." but those are BORING! My dear friend Jennine is noted for reserving a page and then making it look like a rainbow filled with bright colors and obscure inside jokes exploded all over it.
    There are returning things from last year, such as Kat's signature catgirl, and my chibi bishonen and/or Kuroneko-sama. And there are new things, such as "MUFFIN!"
    And this is where it all matters. Will we remember who these people are? Only if they have the insane signatures. (There are people who signed my sixth grade year book who I swear I don't even recognize, but they loved knowing me). So Xavier yearbooks, beware of my blue pen. Only insanity can come from it.
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    In other news, I'm writing this a school. It's a novelty for me, but I'm bored and I'm done with my work.

    Justin "Forgot" my copy of X so ostarting Your Eyes V.2 may be pushed back a little.

    I will strangle him.

    I'll be getting Gravitation soon as well as Hellsing, (Which I really want to see even though I've only read the first volume of manga, which is so super spiffy and Alucard is SO COOL!) so I might be giggly over those series for a while. Yay!

    That's that

    Schu no ko signing out. 
  • Spiderman and Spiderman 2002-05-05 22:44:48 This will be brief.

    Go see Spiderman. It is the best superhero movie

    EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    That is all.

    Schu no ko signing out 
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