Here’s something you might enjoy, I know I did.

On The Street | Animated

It’s a video from Bill Cunningham, fashion photographer for The New York Times. From what I gathered the man goes around Manhattan, taking pictures of well dressed people, and talks about style. Take a listen as he quite literally gushes over cosplay fashion. I thought it interesting to hear the style trend of cosplay as it would be seen through the NY fashion world.

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Drawing inspiration from some show about Umineko Wafers, co-author Meu suddenly turned violent, murdering me in bizarre fashion nearly two weeks ago, all the while mumbling something about a woman named “BEYATORICHE” over and over again. I was left in this unfortunate state until a kind White Mage recently happened upon my candy stuffed corpse and resurrected me with a Life 2 spell. The unfortunate side effect of being dead for so long is I’m more zombie than I used to be, but at least I’ve returned to the land of the living, even if I do have an insatiable hunger for the flesh of the living now. On the plus side I have candy stuffed inside me, so I’m like a frickin’ zombie pinata or something. Viva zombie pinata bitches!

You don’t believe my story? Fine. Let’s just say I was sick and have only recently started to feel better. It’s not as interesting, but I guess it’s more believable than dying and coming back as an anime blogger turned zombie pinata. So here I am, back again and very much out of the loop in regards to all things, because I haven’t been on the internet much if at all during that timespan. The state of affairs goes as such:

Anime Backlog – Fallen behind much more so than usual, so it’s time to binge again and slog through the shows recommended to me (currently Moyashimon with Baccano! next) in addition to what’s currently airing.

Twitter – Mostly dead. Good riddance too. Twitter is stupid so that’s one less thing to worry about.

Socializing – …Never did this to begin with. lolol.

Blogging – Wut? Oh right. “Blogging”. Got a couple posts that are waiting to be posted and stuff.

Killing Meu and Stuffing His Corpse with Taiyaki – Already done with extra Uuuuuuu~ for emphasis. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

Greetings again, everyone! After a lengthy summer driving around the United States in a truck, I’ve finally returned to the promised land of milk, honey and reliable internet access. I apologize for my absence but look forward to being able to resume, in a trice, my writing for Wolf Hurricane, particularly You Might Like It. But until then, I have a request for the good readers of this site.

If there’s anyone out there with experience in Nintendo DS Homebrew who’d be willing to give advice to a total noob on the subject, and perhaps do some troubleshooting down the road, shoot me an email at onepreacher@gmail.com. Any knowledge on the subject is more knowledge than I have–I just want to put Nethack on my DS, really!

And I brought cake!

This You Might Like It is a tale of two Scotts for me. You see, the man responsible for introducing me to Scott Pilgrim is Scott McCloud, perhaps the best known critical commentator on comics as an art form. McCloud’s best known for his series of books that approach comics from a scholarly yet accessible angle–Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics and Making Comics. He also did a spectacular series called Zot! which I’m considering for a future YMLI. Anyway, McCloud was touring the states a few years ago to promote his latest work, and during his lecture he mentioned a number of comics he felt were noteworthy in helping to shape the comic medium. One that got the nod was Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim–which if you haven’t heard of yet you certainly will when the feature film comes out late this year or early next (Michael Cera from Arrested Development, Juno and Superbad plays the titular Scott Pilgrim). But why wait on a film adaptation when you could pick up a couple of paperbacks and discover for yourselves the exciting, bizarre action-romance-comedy, with a liberal splash of 1990s gaming nostalgia?

Is this awesome Y/N?

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I love American comics. When saying this, I always try to make it clear that this doesn’t mean Spider-Man and Batman. The long-running Marvel and DC superhero series all have their fine moments worth reading, of course (I highly recommend works such as Batman: Year One, Superman: Red Son and the Marvel 1602 miniseries). But their mythologies have never interested me much simply because there’s so much of it! I’m sure it’s not any hurdle to really throw myself in to the comics if I wanted to, but I love a good starting point; I like to read from the beginning to the end or the most recent volume, uninterrupted, without having to do more than pick up a trade paperback. Laziness? Absolutely. But there’s plenty of works for me to sink my teeth into so I feel no guilt over my sloth–I just finished Y: the Last Man, I’ve devoured most of Hellboy, and I plan to start on Image Comics’s Invincible at some point. Which brings me, in a roundabout way, to a comic that matches this profile to a tee–high quality, compact but masterfully crafted mythology, and a series run that’s notable, but not daunting. I speak, of course, of Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo. Quick and Dirty/why it’s not furry after the jump.

Usagi Yojimbo's author prides himself on historical accuracy. Except when awesome.

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Okay, so we established last week that I love platformers. It’s also a fact that I love Nethack, possibly the finest procedurally generated Roguelike dungeon crawler out there.  So when I learned through one of the BoingBoing.net of a game that was described as a combination of La-Mulana (which I wasn’t familiar with) and Nethack (which I was intimately familiar with), exactly half of my attention was earned. And when I downloaded Spelunky, and gave it a try, I immediately saw why this game was being called a contender for the best freeware title of the year…in January. The many reasons why (and a link to get it) after the jump.

This minigame sums up almost every deathtrap in Spelunky in one go.

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This week’s You Might Like It concerns the Japanese freeware adventure game Doukutsu Monogatari, known in the West as Cave Story. It’s excellent for a lot of reasons, but I’ll get to those in a minute. First I have to set the stage. I might as well get the Quick-and-Dirty out of the way before the break.

Well, this isn't the worst place I've woken up with a hangover...

The Quick and Dirty
- Cave Story info, walkthrough, and downloads for the game and translation patch at
http://www.miraigamer.net/cavestory/
- A platformer in the vein of Metroid or Castlevania
- Freeware, made single-handedly by one-man team Studio Pixel
- Other draws: emotive and adorable characters, original weapons and power-up system, holds its own against classics in the platformer genre. It’ll also be coming to the Wii via Wiiware in the future!

Now, I’m going to get a bit…scholarly.

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Protip: if you’re part of a blogging team, try to post an update frequently enough that you don’t have to reset your password and reintroduce yourself every time you decide to get off your butt.

Well, that’s the position I find myself in. I’m Mr Bound, I blog here about every…six months? My own interests skew distinctly American. Sure, my favorite film’s Princess Mononoke, and the Nausicaa manga is among my favorite all-time reads, but in the past I’ve blogged about things like the American animated series Avatar and films like Cloverfield. And now, my plan is to get back on the blogowagon by starting a new feature, entitled You Might Like It. I’ll tackle games, comics, and even the odd TV show that you may have never heard of but might (in my estimation) enjoy.

That’s about it until this Friday, but expect me to encourage submissions from readers of this fine blog for things to review! My interests are broad, so don’t be shy!

I wasn’t originally planning to do a Valentine’s Day post but I figured, “Hey, why not? I could always use an excuse to write a filler post because of my sporadic schedule that doesn’t always allow time to write on the blog”. So here we are, another Valentine’s Day and a post to commemorate it. I also just wanted to post this Taiga picture too. So there’s two excuses for this pointless post. Maybe I’ve been watching too much school romance anime lately, but how nice would it be to get homemade chocolates from a cute (preferably tsundere) girl? Sigh…

Well I finally got some semblance of a free day yesterday, and I’ve been catching up with my anime schedule. My much belated winter impressions should be up soon. Maybe. I’ve also been trying to catch up on Clannad After Story and Toradora after falling behind by 6 episodes for both shows. Perhaps I’ve subconsciously been putting off Clannad After Story because I know it’s going to depress the hell out of me. I was getting teary eyed just from episode 13, and I know it’s going to make me cry a river of manly tears in a couple episodes. Nuuuuuuu! As for falling behind on Toradora, I really don’t know why. I suppose I’ve been losing interest in it ever since the school festival arc.

As tempted as I am to bash Valentine’s Day, I’ll be nice and wish everyone a Happy Valentine’s Day. In the meantime, I’ll continue to long for some homemade chocolates from a cute (preferably tsundere) girl. Sigh.

As the Year of the Rat draws to a close, we transition into what’s only the best sign in the Chinese zodiac, the Year of the Ox, more specifically the earth element Ox. You know it’s going to be a good year because it’s the Year of the Ox. Hey, I don’t have any zodiac bias. It’s just an irrefutable fact that the Ox is the best. Well anyway, Happy Chinese New Year to everyone out there that celebrates it. And if you don’t, then maybe you should because you will get mad amounts of lucky money, carved starfishes, Reese’s Pieces, cute dancing lolis and cake.