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Seriously.

Anyway. Studio Ghibli + Eureka Seven = Xam’d: Lost Memories.

A new BONES production. As we all know, those are very very good. And Xam’d is some pretty funky stuff. We’ve got people that can turn into robots or something, we’ve got the damn ship with the dysfunctional bunch on board ala Gekkostate, and there’s this layer of Ghibli mysticism heavily laid out across the land. I can’t decide who’s had a bigger influence on the character design, because the protagonist is definitely BONES, but that red-head looks like she jumped right out of a Miyazaki production.

So hay, I thought I’d download the first ep and take a look.

Damn, but I was hooked. This is the good stuff. Its plot is currently a little haphazard, which was rather similar to how E7 started off, so I’m hoping it gets into the levels of EPIC WIN E7 wraps up with.

But yeah. Watch Xam’d. It’s the best show this season you aren’t watching.

It’s been some time into the Summer season and I still haven’t really taken a look into any of the new offerings. Some call it lethargy and whatnot, but there’s this feeling you have when you just keep with what you’re already watching and ignore the rest until that season is done. Perhaps it’s the somewhat overflowing number of new animes coming out that is somewhat intimidating. I don’t know.

In the meantime, there’s a whole lot of shifting going on here and there. How many of us can profess to having already moved on to current-gen consoles? I’m still here on my PS2 waiting for what else might be still coming to this console, i.e. Persona 4.

Sometimes I worry that I’m getting too old for this. Hah.

Meu, out.

I found a rather interesting post on GameFAQs which led to a blog post which can be found here. Credits to their respective peoples.

Darker than Black Season 2 is in the works, eh? Bring on the Hei, that’s what I’ll say. There’s also talk about how the leaked cache seemed to detail some personal information about the animators, phone numbers and that sort of thing… Overall I’ll take this with a grain of salt for now but it’s certainly interesting.

When I heard that BONES had actually done a movie, I was like, how on earth did I miss this? And after watching it, I must say, did I miss the hype for this movie or something? Because I hardly heard anything about it, but as a wise man would put it: Sword of the Stranger is nothing short of a masterpiece.

So here’s a quick review.

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Words are lost to me.

Having watched Soul Eater, I can pretty much safely say that BONES has really outdone themselves here. The 3D looks snappy, and the various crazy angles get so much love. The design style also has a whole lot going for it. It’s hard to think of anything that’s not OVA-level and above with this sort of animation.

It’s a pity then, that it’s all gonna be wasted on something that’s not even finished in Manga form, as opposed to, say, another Eureka Seven. Still, the first episode was pretty amusing, so I might keep this on my loadroll for now.

…Why the heck is that kid always drooling, anyway?

No, seriously, half the time I don’t know why I like this show, but I do. It’s like sugar or something. Maybe crossaints and pie. Cinnamon cake pudding ginko mayo lemon salad margeri-I digress. If you like Code Geass and haven’t watched it, what are you doing? Direct Downloads are dime-a-dozen on Google. If you don’t like Code Geass, well that’s fine too. Like cats. Zing.

As usual, because I’m lazy like that, you can head over to RandomCuriosity for the usual pile of screenshots. Because Omni is a better man than me. Screenshotter, anyway. Is that even a word? Screenshotter?

Again, I digress.

If anyone’s wondering, no, only half my hyperactivity is due to Code Geass R2. The other half is a caffeine high - It’s 1:31 AM here as of this post, and I’m downing tinned mocha lattes. It’s all that’s keeping me up, really.

Been playing Digital Devil Saga 2 again recently. I really like the game, but really, leveling to get all the mantras can be so tedious sometimes. When I looked at this picture, I went, “Weaksauce. That’s probably not even a quarter of my count.”

>_>

Yay random oddity.

Watch your family.

Temporarily anyway. A bit of thorough googling found a solution - Namely, we axed one of the widgets. Or two.

So post and let’s be friends! =D