IT'S ALIVE!!! The Life Sized Gundam moves ...
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Ever closer to completion, now the lights, sound and steam is on for the Odaiba Gundam ...
Now all we need are rules for movement and combat ...
photos via Danny Choo, btw)
Showing posts with label anime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anime. Show all posts
Adventures of Unko-san: the Lucky Poop
Saturday, June 13, 2009
via Pink Tentacle:
“Unko-san,” a new anime series about a brown turd-shaped fairy with lots of luck, is fast becoming the rage among high school girls in western Japan. Short episodes of the anime are now showing in the Osaka area on Kansai TV’s “Otoemon” music program. The stories revolve around Unko-san — whose name is a play on the Japanese words for “luck” (un) and “crap” (unko) — and his quest for happiness on Lucky Island, which is populated by a host of other poo fairies.
I am a bit speechless, as fastidious as the Japanese can be about hygiene and cleanliness every once in a while you encounter something that makes you just shake your head.
anime and manga has moved
Friday, March 27, 2009
I decided to split off the anime and manga stuff into a new blog over on wordpress. I decided it would be better for me and my few blog readers. The move lets me concentrate on tech, general news, and weird/fun stuff here in this blog while having an outlet for my anime and manga news elsewhere
follow the anime and manga at http://ducoduos.wordpress.com/ if you want to :)
Regular Japan/Asia stuff will be here, like the food conveyor youtube video. Will let me keep this blog the way for general stuff and fun/kewl things i find strewn around the 'net.
Ride Back anime
Thursday, March 19, 2009
I have been enjoying fansubs of the Ride Back anime lately. Its got a lot of the feel of the '80s style of anime in it. Its original, something which is lacking in the current flood of moe anime. Ride Back feature a young college student (no high school kids, yay!!!!) named Rin Ogata, Rin is a very promising ballerina who suffers a career ending injury. To avoid a rainstorm one day on campus, Rin wanders into the Ride Back club house. Ride Backs are motorcycles that are articulated and change form into bipedal mecha and can use their arms to balance in turns.
Wonderfully animated by Madhouse and with a very enjoyable story. I am going to follow this one, Hopefully a company will pick up the rights to this and bring it into this country.
Ride Back opening below:
Appleseed Ex Machina
Monday, March 02, 2009
In case you have been living on another planet, Best buy is rearranging the way in which they buy and stock anime DVDs. To keep a long story short, about 400 Best Buy store are clearancing much anime for 1/2 price through March. Run down to your local BB and see if yours is on the list and score some cheap anime.
One that I picked up was Appleseed: Ex Machina. This is the newest version of Shirow's classic story of utopia with a dark secret. John Woo directed this version so expect the dramatic slow-mo action and baletic gun play Woo is known for.
One thing to not expect is decent CG. What is up with Duenan's hair? it looks like she got shingles on her head. Ugh. Bodies that seem stiff and joints that don't move. Atrocious at times the best blend seemed to be the almost cell animation look they were using for the flashback sequences. Wish they had used that look more.
The final battle sceen has a fight with aerial drones that is a nod to the spectacular fight scene in the final Matrix movie.
The story is good and not a straightforward retelling of the Appleseed story, it has enough to be fresh and the story fits with Woo's style of storytelling. This is my favorite version of the Appleseed story, just wish the CG had been better.
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Rocket Girls mini review
Sunday, February 08, 2009
I bought the Rocket Girls complete series recently. I have been into watching anime as I ride/exercise on my bike downstairs on the infamous tire destroying indoor trainer. I have been sticking with complete series that I can watch from beginning to end as I ride everyday.
Finished Madlax a bit ago and moved on to Rocket Girls. Was instantly captivated by the blend of hard science and typical schoolgirl drama with a touch of comedy.
Yukari Morita ia a young high school girl who goes off to find the father who abandonded her mother on their honeymoon in the South Pacific. She traces him to a small island that is also being used as a base by the Solomon Space Adminstration which is having trouble launching a spacecraft successfully. Yukari's and the SSA rocket admins' paths cross and they realize that a the weight and space savings that a slim, short high school girl would bring would allow them to launch successfully. Yukari agrees to be an astronaut in exchange for their help in finding her father. I won't go into the plot farther so as not to spoil that part of the story.
A lot of hard science and mathematics go into Yukari's training and the rocket development. I don't mean that this is an animated lecture on orbital physics but that the science and math are present and effective. You won't find any reality bending glass spaceships or psuedo mumbo jumbo dimensional portals in RG. Its all real life.
There are plenty of genuine laugh out loud moments such as when Yukari's first mission finally lands in a most unexpected place.
The animation is mostly traditional cell animation with some CG on the spaceships which is quite well done.
Rocket Girls is only 12 episodes and well worth the time and money.
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Anime Girls Generator
found this little generator to make anime girl mascots
Download here
Founded by Shin
This will be a fun thingy to play with :)
Linebarrels of Iron mini review
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
I have been watching the Linebarrels of Iron anime series at crunchyroll. Crunchyroll has gone legit and removed all the fansub torrents so Linebarrels is a licensed anime directly from Sunrise.
The plot is not to farfetched, 13 year old high schooler is injured by a giant robot falling from the sky. The robot uses its "powers" to revive or save Kouichi and he becomes a Factor who can pilot the mecha. Kouichi was a bullied weakling who immediately begins to use his newfound power to even the score and has to learn limits and maturity.
Pretty standard stuff for mecha anime. Kouichi's personality conflicts over the damage he causes as he rampages as a "hero of justice" force him to rexamine his definition of a hero.
I like the mecha designs in this. Not quite as spidery as the designs in Neon Genesis and not as blocky as tranditional Gundam designs.
They also have blended computer animation into the production process quite seamlessly, things have come a long way from the primitive animation used in the racing scenes of Initial D and the constantly repeated loops of D Generation Eve.
Overall, its a good series, not groundbreaking. You can catch it for free at crunchyroll so its well worth the time to view.
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