Journey into Mystery

So, I finally finished Percy Jackson and the Flashback Fest. Er, I mean, Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian. I shall describe it as

INTENSE

I've really enjoyed this book series, and the last installment was satisfying. Lots of action, lots of sadness, lots of win. I spoiled myself about the twist in the prophecy, but I liked how it went. The only thing is, I could do without all that Achilles emulation, but then again this book's theme sort of was LOL TROY.

One day I'll make a larger post about the series itself.

While there are some nice-looking games announced on the E3 (dude, I think I'd play that Metroid and the non-Galaxy Mario; perhaps my brothers might get the MGS Raiden game?), you know what game I want to play a lot? Mini Ninjas, from all things. But it just looks so adorable and Wind Waker-ish! Also, you learn some shit from tengu. VERY CUTE TENGU. Yeah, I'd buy it more for cute crow-looking tengu than for the ninja themselves, WTF.

And in a different way of cute, this Ouran omake with Haruhi's parents. IS THAT A NEW MARRIED OTP? I THINK IT IS. They're both awesome and adorable together and separately, even... they're moe, yes.

Also, Haruhi? Never has your Elektra complex being more blatant after meeting your folks. It doesn't help that Bisco even drew young, non-okama Ranka's face so Tamaki-like. It might've been accidental, a la Takaya syndrome, but it's still there. AND FOR SOME REASON, I DON'T CARE. The pretty blinds me.

Holy crap, my university now has a Master degree on Digital Creation and Communications. That including graphics and animation and web design, between other stuff. You know what? When I graduate from this shit, I might as well try to get in. I'm not sure I might be able to take the actual Master course as I'm doing a tech career, but there's also this 'Expert In' degree that has lower requirements. The only difference being the number of total credits/courses, and the Master people must also do practice job on companies while the Expert don't (aww, I sort of want to do that).

Anyway. I spent 11 hours yesterday, finding a copy of Heroes 2x01 I could download, not on MU, not over 400MB, not to be pasted back with spyware-filled software, not stopping in the middle. Eleven fucking hours, people. If this happens next week, I'll take their hands and twist their fingers until it hurts.

( SPOILERS~! )

And this made me LOL: M. Night's self-cameo in the live-action Avatar movie? Perhaps XDDDD

1. I feel all polemic... almost:

Hah, I still haven't replied on the Evangelion comments because it's such a subjective issue I don't know what to say XD I do assure you I a) never took it as a 'religion' or teh bestest anime evah when I was eighteen, and b) am *also* liking the manga canon better. I can't argue about the Shinji thing because it's a personal preference, and I can see why he annoys a lot of people.

Also, I'm wondering if the origins of why I can't get into the wooden-faced, silent-and-devoted type of characters may lay on Rei Ayanami. But never mind about my own peeves, or why Rei rubbed me the wrong way in the old days, because that's also subjective.

Ah! And I've always wanted to watch Escaflowne, by the way. I never really considered it mecha because it's more fantasy than anything, though. Kinda like Rayearth, actually.

2. On this season's anime:

I started Denno Coil today out of curiosity. I've only watched two episodes so I can't say a lot, but so far it's been quite appealing to me. Also, screw cyberpets: I want to have a Mojo. They're like... so fluffy! With the antenna! Gah, I was squeeing every time they were on screen, even though they're kinda creepy whatever they are (don't spoil me).

I tried to check Baccano!, but I found no uploaded episodes on the stream sites I know. I'll check Mononoke when I'm up to date with Coil.

Lovely Complex is still my guilty pleasure. *facepalm* Sigh.

3. And now some Avatar shit:

There's a HQ version (not cam recorded) of the season 3 trailer. Awesome sauce. Can't wait till September! D: Also, you Earth King (or Bosco, or Sokka) fans -you know who you are- might want to check this out XDDDDD LOLarious.

4. And speaking of ANOTHER king with glasses...

Continuing with the OMGWTFBBQness of yesterday's reaction to the Tsubasa deluxe cover, I must add something.

Clow/Eriol's original sun staff has eleven points. King Clow's has nine. As I see it, either:

a) we cling to the possibility it's not the same staff, for sanity's sake! yay!

b) or Mokona forgot how many points it had ¬_¬

The wait for this FMA chapter was AWFUL. I was up last night until 5:00 am and it came out today in the afternoon. ( SPOILERS )

During the wait, which wasn't just for the chapter but for several things, I read a lot and played videogames. I'm still with The Count of Montecristo, and fighting for not imagining the characters like they were in Gankutsuoh O_o I also started Basara, which I'm enjoying. More about them when I'm done. I'm almost finished with the last case of Phoenix Wright 1.

Random thought: If Watanuki in Himawari's mind is a hysterical kitty, I propose Doumeki's image, instead of a mouse, to be Droopy.

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EPILOGUE MEME. Nothing lasts forever. When your time on LJ is said and done, what will people think of you? What will you think about everyone else? What kind of legacy will you leave behind? What will be your lasting perception of your friends?

My thread :D

Woot for my fandoms! Of course, I'm really mad at the Bleach fanits voting like sheep at that and outnumbering good stuff like Hagaren and HOLiC (ahahahaha, TRC isn't even on the list) and H&C. Hell, I think FMA > Furuba, but I let that slide because it's its last year and all, and Arakawa scored first at one-shots for that ninja girl story, and it's still better than fucking Bleach.

In anime, I think SuzuHaru should've done better than Code Gayass, especially; WTF at DN and BLEACH ANIMES beating Haruhi!. Oh well, at least Saiunkoku Monogatari (I'm behind in that one, actually) did well.

I was planning to rant about this week's Heroes, but I'm, mentally, too tired today. I'll just say the cliffhanger was PURE EVIL, all poor Petrellis are *screwed* right now, and I'm never taking ANYONE's parent for granted again. EVER. Oh, and I'm liking Hiro/Ando more.