Wallpaper 5 - Goddess Belldandy

I watched Oh (or Ah) My Goddess and it kinda inspired me to do this wallpaper. I watched the OAV series a long time ago and now it expanded to a series and a movie. It is too soon to write about the new series and movie, but I will write about the OAV series later on this blog. Right now, here is the wallpaper I just put together. My skills are no match for others who do this but I will keep trying to improve my skills.

Supertitious Sailor Moon?

I know some stuff about superstitions and bad luck such as a black cat crossing your path or to get a role playing Superman, even when you heard about their misfortunes. Now here is another taboo; Sailor Moon! That’s right; this series had to go through constant editing, story changes, characters’ misinformation, missing scenes and different distributors.

The story is about a girl who uses her locket to transform to fight the evil that plagues Earth with the help of her transformed friends called Sailor Scouts and her mysterious man in a tuxedo and a mask. From an evil queen to evil sailor scouts of the galaxies, it was easy to hide some of the content but there is some thing you could not explain to the kids.

I understand changing the character names makes it easier to remember their personality. Some part of the story they changed could make sense for the kids but, an anime fanatic or an experienced otaku can not be fooled. The scene that has my attention was the final confrontation between Queen Beryl and Sailor Moon, each of the sailor scouts were “captured” before the battle. The fact was the scouts were killed, not captured and before season two started, all the scouts are alive.
Relationships were changed as well; one was with malicite and zoycite. They had to shield the kids that this relationship was a man and a woman. This is incorrect, in the manga, they are both men. They put a woman voice for zoycite to presume everyone that this person is female. Another relationship is between Sailor Neptune and Uranus, which the anime claimed that they are “cousins”. This is a woman-woman love and it was covered up by making them cousins. Between Serina and Darien, this consists on their age difference. Serina is a junior high school girl and Daren looks like he is in college. It started out as a crush but they let slide.

The transformation transition was covered up by masking it with sparkles until their gear has been placed. I don’t think they could explain anything in Sailor Moon Stars, where as three guys in their class, who are singers called Three Lights, can transform into Sailor Scouts. Boys 2 Men transforms into Destiny Child? How are they going to explain that!

To any distributors out there, this is your chance to finish the saga once and for all. Buena Vista, ADV and Pioneer will not finish it. What about Funimation, Media Blasters or Urban Vision?

Wallpaper 4 - Ai Amano

I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. I took a hiatus from my blog for a few days and I still working on something right now. While I was doing this, I found one of my old wallpaper I had done for a friend and I would like to share it with you.

When I done this wallpaper of Ai Amano, I just experimenting using different Photoshop pallets when I pick this one. Feel free to give me comments.

Shooting Blanks with Early Reigns

The train en route to Sunshine Hill holds six very deadly and beautiful women. On this particular day, these fine women find themselves on a train escorting a man named Spencer through frontier territories. Among his many enemies ride a fearsome gang of notorious bandits, and they're fixin' to take his head along with the train's cache of gold, but that won't happen if these pretty ladies have their way!

This DVD has great animation from the characters to the CG train, but I have to say the story was very short and lack of depth. Maybe with the evolution of the characters with some flashbacks of the past with all the girls, a major “bad guy” in the background and the cooperation of the girls to face all the outcome of the Wild West, plus it doesn’t hurt to make this into a 26 episode TV series.

Right now, Early Reigns is a late drizzle on the DVD Shelf.

Anime Holiday wishes

Happy holidays! I want to share some of my favorite show that celebrates the season.

Maison Ikkoku had some great moments for Christmas between Kyoko, Godai and the tenants and they all spend their party at the Chachamaru. The first Christmas was a few months after Kyoko became their manager and it was a social gathering. Godai brought the manager a brooch but did not get a chance to give it to her. The next Christmas, Godai’s present was a pair of earrings, but when Kozue gave him a hand knitted hat he handed her the earrings. When Kyoko gave Godai a hand knitted scarf, as well as the tennis coach and the tenants, he went to his room and found the brooch from last year. Godai was penniless as Christmas came again and got a part time work at a department store. He heard about her story about having a Christmas star. He gave her the star as well as the streamer that was hooked to it.

Love Hina celebrate the holidays it more of an adventure. When Kentaro was a little bit confident that he would pass his mock exam for Tokyo University or he goes home. He did not pass the mock exam and he was going to sneak home without telling the girls. He tries to infiltrate the house but was caught by Shinobu and that brought everyone out to attack the burglar. Only Naru knew that was Keitaro and found him at Tokyo U to conviced him to stay and study. To go into Love Hina Christmas Special would be too long, but I can tell you it is worth watching.

Ranma ½ Tendo Family Christmas Scramble is part of the OAV series set. It brings all the characters of the manga and anime together to celebrate the holiday and to see if Ranma would survive the beating of Akane, sing karaoke, being Nabiki’s money bank and to give Akane his gift to her. But mostly I think this story revolves around Kasumi and her Santa Claus dream.

Finally, Oh My Goddess episode 5, Keichi has found out the system bugs was coming to the human world by a vortex between himself and Belldandy and was forced not to be around each other. Plus Belldandy was called back to heaven to fix the problem. Little by little he is getting a memory that was suppressed a long time ago which made him want to give her a ring. The rest of the story goes into this, but at the end of the show they were celebrating Christmas.

There are many holiday stories I can look for but these were the one that stood out for me. I would like to give my wishes to everyone.

Princess Nine Hits a Home Run!

Ryo Hayakawa has loved baseball ever since she was little. Not only that, she seems to have inherited her father's superior pitching skills as well. A great opportunity is presented to Ryo when Keiko Himuro, chairperson of the Kisaragi Girls High School, approaches Ryo with a scholarship offer in exchange for becoming a member of the would-be Kisaragi Girls High baseball team. It's like a dream come true, but it's up to Ryo and the other team members to make it through the hardship of the committee to make their dream a reality.

When I heard about Princess Nine from magazines and internet rumors, I was thinking more of the term of white castles and bronze knights with fantasy. Then I found out it about a all girl baseball team, a desire to achieve at Koshien, memory of a father greatness through his daughter. From a want-be model, former softball stars and even a sumo wrestler, these misfits came out and prove to the high school world that girls can play baseball, also.

The DVD has a good presentation, talked about the history of Japanese baseball and even how to make oden. The story show the rise and hardship of the girls’ baseball team, a love triangle between two girls and the star hitter for the boys team, a father secret and Koshien. The animation for this TV series was above average, the story was well written for baseball fans as well for the anime otaku. This is a series I would recommend to watch, but that is my opinion,

For more information, check out http://www.advfilms.com/favorites/princessnine/index.html

Wallpaper3- Simple Keitaro and Naru pic

Today’s wallpaper, I wanted just to be simple with Keitaro and Naru in a very awkward position. Maybe the next wallpaper, I get a little more creative. Please enjoy this work and please send any comments.