Dear Crowd, shut up! Lets Dance!

Related Media
Warriors and Maidens have a ball – BBC.
The ascent of Manga – Independent

I’d barely waved my fellows off and sat down to do my obligatory facebook housekeeping, when there was not one but two articles published in relation to the event. I admit and I hope some other fans are willing to agree, I’m typically defensive about anime in the media because more often than not, it is horribly misrepresented like using poo to describe chocolate.

Even though the Second, Independent article gives my typing fingers an itch associated with giant fleas, I think there is more good than not overall so I will refrain from rebuttal. It’s not entirely factually correct and the presentation sucks balls but at least it’s positive exposure.

The video article on the otherhand was abrupt and missed the point. Now I love the BBC and most of what it stands for but what really irks me is the title: Warriors and Maidens, eh? Not sure if that title is made up or written by a myopic dimwit.

Cosplay, I suppose must be difficult to define for those who are exclusive to wasting 100s of hours a year watching Pretty boys and Loliffed girls! (No-one even mentioned Anime). In fairness, that label could be worse. I find it a shame that the professionalism and dedication of the best costumes weren’t highlighted. They were certainly not short in abundance!

The feelings, imagery and sound from the night were truely euphoric. The first international ball was a definitive success. There has yet been a sequel announced but I’m sure to attend it.

To Aru Majutsu no Index – #01
Academy City

There are 59 new shows this season. Fifty Nine! That’s alot of time.
59 x 25 – 30 (for 15min animated shorts).= … 1600 ish?
or Profit?
or More than I can be, evidently given I’d just made the exact number of new shows,  bothered to count?
or More shows than I can even be bothered to check using Tee-Test Animu Vetting Sis(tm).

All the relatively meager anime I’m watching are conservatively, sequels, except one. My TAV Sis ™ has been good to me so far, not that it was used. No, this anime I picked because Kawada Mami sings the opening. This isn’t the first time and won’t be the last. Given my record, I may as well rename the title of this blog The-Anime-blog-with-one-of-the-I’ve-Sound-girls-in-the-opening!

There should be little sense in this, I’ve sound hardly review an anime before they send in one of the Girls, do they? Yet for me, this anime ticked all the right boxes: comedy, action, futuristic Tokyo, superpowers, magic, fanservice, lolis and costume. Of course, marketing tick boxes are definitely not a good show make. Sky girls, an opening sung by I’ve girl’s Lia, had all of the above but turned out to be a lewd drag. Kawada Mami is also responsible what I regard as a great opening to another sadly drab Shakugan no Shana the second show.

That I’ve sound have also produced this season’s softly hypnotic Clannad opening, among shows like Higurashi, Shana and Kanon, reveals a history of attaching to a mixed bunch of good and bad quality moé animé. It’s pretty random, I hope that Touru Majutsu no index happens to be one of the good ones.

Yes, I’m aware of the pompy audacity that a grand international cosplay ball that most of my international readers have never heard of ensures. Probably disrespectful of all is to have the event advertised in a language which isn’t even native in Japan, the home and greatest of cosu-play nations. Nevertheless this shall be a chance for the old masters of Gothic and Victorian wear to show off their laces on the historic streets of London. That is, if anyone makes it out that far without getting trampled on.

The first event of the weekend, to start in about 10 hours (My sleep being less than sufficient) and is staged at the Trocadero, right in the heart of London’s west end, next to our less busy and smaller Times Square or Shibuya billboards copycat, Piccadilly Circus. It is not a jolt near the gradeur of it’s imitation sake, la Trocadéro. Hence why you’d find a toy shop, speciallising in animé and Japanese toys, plus a Meron Pan dispensing Japanese supermarket round the corner.

Apparently some cosplay award winners are also attending both this event and the cosplay ball, errr… I don’t know who they are. I didn’t know cosplay awards existed nevermind winners of such. That’s probably because it’s one of those community self certified awards (I joke!) which are fixed to goto whoever decided to arrange it. Of course you can win an award if you invent it, it’s easy (Here’s a clue, don’t name it the Baka-Raptor Awards ).

Although I shall be camera carrying to these events, I have no idea what chances I’ll get to take photographic evidence. I shall need something that might prove to Japan that our Island is neither trapped in the 19th century, the battleground of invading aliens, a country of magic, french or imperial rulers through the British Library (+2 of my comments to whomever names all the anime first! – there are 3 animes in the 19th Century)

Links:

Tokyo Toys Cosplay Event 2pm, The Trocadero, London.
Grand International Cosplay Ball, Clapham Grand, London.

No time to watch silly cartoons means time to I be a little impatient. If at 2 episodes into a new series, I get bored to the point of struggling to pay attention for 20 minutes, that suggests a significant depreciation in the quality of the series right? In episode 2 of series 2, 2 things are clear: nothing happens and Yuki is a Moetard.

They have a costume, almost cosplay, ball, it appears. A so called vampire banquet but I’d rather attend one than watch one. I have absolutely no idea why a meeting of the Vampiric upper society was required as Kaname’s negotiations barely exceeded that nonchalant expression of his. He says something along the lines of “f**k you” and literally, the spineless aristocracy fall in line to offer him their daughters. Then the nasty aristocrats go away and leave Kaname to whatever he was going to do anyway.

What a drag, did something happen? No. Even the almost tense love scene between Yuuki and Kaname was all wrong. It was unatmospheric due to being lit up like a hockey match and the music didn’t even turn up to play something noticeable.

Whatever happens next, it’ll all be Kaname’s fault, it’s always his fault!

No… this isn’t evidence of too much time spent in /b/! This means I’m busy fighting off the undead, of course.

I have absolutely no idea how Martin manages to have a full-time job AND manages to blog lengthy, seemingly  well informed critiques on his animé consumption. I neither had the weekend free nor the funds to attend THAT meet. Maybe he’s an Time traveller? Or an Alien? Probably not an Esper though – that’s just another case of Japanese misusing the English language. Having now got a job it’s apparent that whatever his ability is, I haven’t got it. Here’s the crux of my problem: My animé consumption has essentially been 120 minutes… a month!

There is nothing to blog because there is nothing watched. A void of brightly coloured imagery and high pitched foreign vocals. An animé holiday it’s become, a break I  recommend to fellow bloggers if the season’s dry and the work seems laborious. For me, it’s been useful to redefine firstly, why given the abundance of substitutes, make an effort to become a fan of Japan cartoons? Secondly, why I would ever want to tell anyone about it; let alone the whole wide web (and it’s Lawyers -_-).

More reflection will be dedicated to a post with a picture of Haruhi in the near future, but here’s my scheduale for the relaunch:

Watching:

Clannad~after story (ep
Jigoku Shojo Mitsuganae (ep 4)
Ef ~ a tale of melodies (ep 1)
Vampire Knight: Guilty (ep 3)
Toaru Majutsu No Index (ep 2)
Naruto (ep 76-77) (OMG lolz)

To Blog:

• Reflections
• VK:G ep2 <- Booring Ball and stupid Yuuki
• Naruto Ship <- Timeskip
• Toaru Majutsu No Index ep 1 <- Bastard child of Shakugan no Shana
• Code Geass:
  4-Komas of ep 17 <- lol, Tokyo gets destroyed, how origional!
• 4-Komas of ep 18 <- Rocket Emporer
  4-Komas of ep 19 <-???
  4-Komas of ep 20
  4-Komas of ep 21
  4-Komas of ep 22
  4-Komas of ep 23
  4-Komas of ep 24

On hold:

Wagaya no Oinari-sama (ep 18) – I really, really don’t care about Wagamama anymore…
Itakiss (ep 20)
Kimi Kiss (ep 16)
Soul Eater (ep 4)
The daughter of twenty faces (ep 13)
Mai Otome  OAV (ep 3) <- Actually, after Sankaku Complex reports that this is fanservicy, do I want?

Vampire Knight Guilty First Night
Sinners of fate

There’s something about vampire knight that I can’t help but admire because despite the crappy animation, stale comedy, mellow drama and Yui Horie, I warmly welcomed Vampire Knight back into my life. That’s a privilege I usually reserve only for my parents and my cat – the latter doesn’t even have a blood sucking monster story behind it.

The ‘season break’ is becoming a regular occurrence in animeville now, To Love Ru and Kanokon are other uptakes. I like it. It allows time for fans to digest the plot, have a natural mid-season break in pace and in this particular case, underline a major turning point. Oh, I guess some of you also appreciated the chance to furiously sketch Zero x kaname Porn.

And there were significant changes, following some Sucking Events, Shizuka’s death has attracted the attention of the council and Zemo is now Kaname’s toyboy (which hasn’t warranted any reaction whatsoever!). Yet some beautiful plotting makes the episode begin almost as it began all of 6 months ago – Chairman Cross is still straight as a Boomerang, Z-EMO is a emo, Yui Horie Yuki Cross is still a Moetard. One change, I distressingly admit despite my extremely upset state (ohh how could you?) is that Kaname is turning into a bit of a cunt. Nooooo.

Nah.  I don’t really care, I care more about Maria. It seems she will probably serve little purpose now Shizuka is finished toying with her body. Cast off; like a unwanted doll. This should be a lesson to all of you who thinks being used by a blood sucking vampire is a good thing.

Kaname is now entangled in Vampire Council matters which must’ve tweaked his ego cos he’s only spent this episode being obnoxious, manipulative and snobby. The way he chides Yuki and looks down on Zemo is a bit shocking really. He’s an bit of a pommy cunt actually!

~ Teeif

Naruto Shippuuden 70
Resonance

But vot happened to mah Nuke?

Sora with Kuubi’s powers imbued within is like a Russian superpower, uncontrolled resurgence, angry and unpredictable. Sorabi easliy brushes away the best attempts by Chouji, Shikimaru, Ino and (laugthably) Sakura’s (useless) best wishes to restain him. Two massive overpowered AOE nukes and Captain Taichou’s improvised wooden shelters later (Lol, made out of wood?), and really there’s only one thing stopping that awesome monster – that’s the power of love Naruto’s origional Kyuubi.

Except, he fails to match Sorabi’s 4 tails, nevermind 5, or even 9. Perhaps I getting a little ahead of myself here, there can only be 4! We know this because, underwhelmingly, the concept art for nine tails hasn’t been drawn yet… -_- . There was so much build up only Naruto shut down Kyuubi and transformed back before the end with perhaps the lamest excuse since Iraq.

That’s like, lol, wut? How do you expect to win now? It seems America (You know, the blond haired Yankee) is not keen to stretch it’s military muscle so seems to have pretty much conceaded to the Russians, or has he?

Naruto Shippuuden 71
Friends

Forget the fight, or the making up gayness what not – that was rubbish!

Who were those 2 Akatsuki chasing the Jinchuriki? It was right, right at the end and hopefully represents how the storyline will shift up a gear now that the fillers are essentially over.

~ Teeif

Naruto Shippuuden 68-69 (Naruto 288-289)
Red Chakra! Destruction and Rage: Naruto Shippuuden special.

Naruto gets a bad hair day. This time it wasn’t even a mess up by one of the poor junior artists/slaves working at Studio Pierrot’s Korean workhouses. This was Fuuka, the woman’s scorn, something Naruto seems to get a lot of. It took pretty much all the first half of this filler for Naruto to defeat the old hag.

Soon after Naruto dispatches the floating hair and red eyes that became the essence of Fuuka (in full slow motion animation), he heads off in pursuit of his love/friend. Face it, he sucks up to Sakura for show, Naruto is only serious when he is gay.

See my case proof in Naruto’s love for Sora, for he is this arc’s Sasuke substitute. Naruto starts off rivaling lesser-Sasuke, spends last episode fighting with lesser-Sasuke and all of this episode chasing after lesser-Sasuke in desperation to ‘rescue’ him- does this sound familiar? If mentioning Sasuke in that sentence 3 times doesn’t give you a clue, go stick your head in some sand, you’ll find the answer there (but please don’t sue me!).

Not really a criticism. What better way to create a filler story almost identical to main plot then to rewrite it and change the characters slightly? Sora is a emo, wants revenge, has a hidden inner power and is courted by a fat version of peadomaru; Furido/Kazuma is yet another bad guy who manages to conduct unethical experiments enhancing ninjas within the walls of Konoha, gets kicked out and now wants it’s complete destruction. I actually can’t knock them for replicating the actual good things of Naruto; epic battles and colourful characters – but by colourful I just mean black !

Because of some retro-plot-making-up-age, Sora becomes Kyubi because Kazuma inserted Kyubi’s chakara into his son’s cells. Next episode, we are headed for Kyubi against genetically engineered Kyubi – I don’t care how it doesn’t make sense, this will be awesome.

~ Teeif

The Amecon Gallery of Epic Fail-win (1st edition)
Part 3: Crossdressing and others

Almost certainly the thread containing the biggest Fail-Wins ever since Man-Faye.

How to cross dress:

Believe it or not. Sasuke is a big girly. As is Jiraiya. XD

Rinku!
Why, despite infinite wisdom of Shigsy-sama does he create a character that most Japanese people can’t pronounce?

Z-emo
Tis a bit bright for him isn’t it?

Cloud
Has awesome hair… o.O

Visual-Kei

Heeellooooo NURSE!
Actually a reverse crossplay!

Sakura finally found Sasuke! How cute!!!

Sexy No Jutsu crossover is fine too.

Rimmer from Red Dwarf
It wins so bad! XD

How NOT to cross dress

Manchi
When you have a beard and hairy legs, dresses don’t look good on you.

ALSO:

The Aishiteru Inc Para Para Machine of Trap Attraction (+10 bleach damage)

When you put in a pink para para screen in the games room…

You are bound to attract the feminine boys…
I miss Alice, Anata wa… o.O

Others:

Deathnote man

Deathnote: read it here
(Click it!)

Ergo Proxy mask was awesome!

FAIL!!!

Pirate bag – £50?
This is not even an x-box-box. Look at all the other useful things I could have for 50 English pounds. FAIL!!!

Second biggest Totoro in the world – £150
Totoro was actually sold at this price and was driven off in a people carrier. Rumours have it that he was spotted hiding among the Durham hills in North East England. More pictures when I get them.

Ammo resupply in a convention full of Narutards – Priceless

Still to come: Group shots, my bullshit, my cosplay, other photos.

~ Teeif

The Amecon Gallery of Epic Fail-win (1st edition)
Part 2: Couples, Furries and the best Narutard eva!

Onto the couples

Ranma whole!

Yuri Win!!!
I failed to describe the trademark pose when I had the opportunity to tell them what to do , sorry girls (and guys).

YAOI win!?

Loli, Yuri, Yaoi… win
is not just a bunch of words I randomly wrote.

Shotabear Approves!!!
Apparently not enought B/tards turned up to the con!

Konata x Haruhi
Umm… not actually sure how illicit this paring would be.

Furries:

How to do Furry…
These Digimon are cuuute, I wanna take them home! – Rena

Mew ~too

Shinigami had awesome glow eyes…

Very much a Fail-Win Furry
You’re not supposed to cosplay over a cosplay!

That’s better!
You can haz carrotz nao! ^_^

Apparently it was hot in there!
Do a barrel roll (Press Z or R twice) – Peppy

Kon-kun was teh second bestest hugz (after End of ball Epic Glomp).

This Kimari costume is unbelievable!
He was the winner of the best cosplay! – Ami-chan

This Narutard is most probably 100% Win.
The first time I found him, he was smoking…

Next time I saw him he was drinking heavily.
This was at like 2:30 in the afternoon. I also saw this guy the night before carrying a 5Litre Keg of Beer and basically spending the whole weekend drinking epic amounts of Alcohol in a Naruto costume.
Poor Timeskip Naruto, he must still miss Sasuke. – Ami-chan

In his drunken state, Naruto reveals he has switched sides,
but WE knew that already…

~ Teeif

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FAIL or WIN? Help decide!

The Amecon Gallery of Epic Fail-win (1st edition)
This is a collection of annotated photos from Amecon 08 in Leicester, England. Some are taken by me, but I can’t be everywhere at once so I’ve included some from others with credit in the image name. Thank you to the photographers with their pictures featured.

Note: Click to enlarge any photo.

Disclaimer:
Before you go off sending more Lawyers after me, I warn you nasty capitalist pigs that blissmo has agreed to defend me in court – with suicidal bunnies if she has to! If however you wish to discuss a problem with me, you want something removed or changed, e-mail me .

Awesome iObject T-Shirt guy will also have you porky asses for breakfast.

Sadly there were no Ranka cosplays,
but I got Honey to do Ranka moe, moe modo instead.
Epic Wins, Shin, Epic Wins!!!

Neku and Shiki
I said I’d cosplay, didn’t I? Fail or win?

Yoko
Pierce the heavens!!!

Horo!!! Or as she would say, Spicy Wolf.
From Spice and Wolf if you don’t know; AKA the economics animu.

Vampire Knight Yuki-chan is most definitely win-win.

Yunie!!!
I don’t care about gameplay, FFX-2 was an awesome game.

Princess Sakura was very pretty.

Suzakuuuuuuu!!!
I just can’t wait to get the photoshop tools out for this week’s Code Geass R2 Parody

Suzakuuuuuu!
You must Live!

Dante.
Awesome Photography by Manjou.

Snake? Snake? Snaaaaaake!!!
Said the Major as our sneaky hero was glomped to death by rabid fangirls.

My favourite soul caliber character! <3
Wind, Share with me your courage – Talim

Master Chief – Legendary.

This is simply awesome, pretty gutsy playing around the graveyard.

Patsu Witch cosplay was OMG fail-win
Link is very, very NSF! (Please don’t sue me).

Fail-win x2!
But there was more than one hard gay…

Hard Gay was Hard!!

I know cos I checked!!! XD

Giant Rozen Maiden dolls are fail-win.
So large they still look like dolls -
desu!!! – Suiseiseki

Win or Fail?
Zetsuboushita

~ Teeif

Naruto Shippuuden 66
Resurrected Souls

Naruto Yaoi hardly ranks at the top of my list of important things but I really need to catch up on Naruto cos apparently it gets better.

Konoha is under attack from zombies and ultimate lightning spell hax (called limelight? XD) but they can’t even manage that without ruining it. Considering Japan is where Shoot the darkies resident evil 5 is made, the zombies were utterly disappointing. One of the zombies freaking talks… he doesn’t even look dead and makes time to apologise before attacking Asuma. Rubbish, rubbish and not scary at all!

When we finally catch up with Naruto and Sora, who resolve their differences while having secks fighting rolling around on top of each other, Sora is confessing to Naruto (or something of the sort). Sadly, Sora breaks something and runs off while Fuko cockblocks Naruto .

This episode ends in 3 one-on-one fights to finish off the parings from way back in episode 59 so for the next episode…

Naruto Shippuuden 67
Everyone’s Struggle to the Death

Woody wins, Asuma wins, even Sakura wins! Although her win counts for less cos her transvestite opponent didn’t even throw a punch. Sakura only had to say ‘kyaaaa’ and use an antidote – she’s still useless.

Kiddy this was not tho, Woody and Sakura killed their opponents in cold blood! Only Naruto hasn’t yet finished the fugly Poison Ivy. However, since Furedo embued his spells to his henchmen, who promptly off and got defeated, the barriers came down and his plan is undone. Well that was a bit stupid wasn’t it?

~ Teeif.

Here’s the reason I’ve dropped down to one post a week lately:

It’s cosplay! On Saturday night (Matthew) I’m going to be Neku from The world ends with you. This is my first time cosplaying and this was adapted by hand . To be honest there wasn’t much skill involved, just a lot of time and it felt like a D+T project. It was fun to do some practical things again and I wouldn’t be daunted at a project on a larger scale.

This weekend I’ll be off to Amecon in Leicester. It’s Britain’s biggest anime convention yet there is only capacity for 1,500. Anime expo in London is, perhaps, better attended but is not a convention. With such limited capacity, tickets are sold out (somewhat) way in advance (but there are often cancellations) and many people come without tickets so the numbers are a little higher than tickets sold.

While Amecon sounds popular, bear in mind that tickets are set lower than demand due to capacity restraints particularly those set by Health and Safety nazis. Nevertheless, Amecon is certainly successful, having been run since 2004.

I think, looking at some of the other reports on animé conventions there is one fundamental difference that sets British cons from almost everywhere else – this is alcohol. Asians aren’t too keen on drinking and if they are, certainly not on premises while Americans have a higher age limit. Amecon on the otherhand is about getting smashed!

There are events tho, Gothika is playing on friday who I plan to see. Brack is running a panel and I’m gonna go pester him. There are also the usual industry panels  – I’ll certainly be on the lookout for any more ‘don’t copy that floppy‘ zealots. Otherwise, we have masquerades, AMV compo, skits, dealers and other stuffs.

I’ll get some photos, videos and of course, lots of cosplay shots!

The only things that irk me about cosplay is achieving accurate costume, I am OTT about fit, size, details and colours and then looking good. For me: it has to be done well. I even put on a few muscles and attempted (but failed) at visibly loosing weight; frankly, Neku is disgustingly skinny XD.

I have reservations about cosplaying myself, mostly because of bad cosplay and crossplay. I refuse to crossplay full stop. When boys cross-play it’s often terrifying – although I have seen some very good traps (and by good I mean bad -_-). Grudgingly when girl crossplays, they look better than the boys because they have clearer skin, apart from like 3 anime characters – those who have beards!

Of course crossplaying is more complex than this, as Hidoshi explains, but it’s not for me. I’ll still be taking lots of photos and we can play the trap/not trap game ^_^.

~ Teeif

Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na koto: Natsu no Sora 1
From Biei

In childhood I was taught not to judge a book by it’s cover, to value the content greater than the presentation, to withhold prejudice on exterior outlook. Oh what bull this was!

Everything is presentation.

When you see a car advert, possibly the second biggest purchase in life, do you see To-toya explaining why you should buy their car? No. You get a something wizzy, arty shots of CG moving through some stunning panoramas; or even more abstract, a dancing robot.

Animé, even within it’s vast umbrella of products, films and TV series, is broadly the same in principle. Presentation sells products, details and longevity comes second. Take the car advert, substitute the dancing robot for oddball moé anime character x,y,z and put her on the DVD cover. SOLD!

The inevitable fact is that in Animé is largely a visual product and it pays to make your product look good, nobody cares how it’s done. Someday’s dreamers: summer skies looks stunning, there is almost no argument about this. Because of this, there has been and will continue to be alot of coverage on the premise of its visuals – for better or worse. I think the ultra-realism looks disjointed with the foreground, but my jaw traitorously drops at every breathtaking backdrop.

Okay, you sold me the car, but is there anything under the bonnet?

Well there’s a pretty decent engine, not much pace but quiet and reliable – it could become quirky. Not much happens in the first episode as fulfills the prologue, it shows Sora’s (the little girl in this animé) life before the city and is a well polished introduction to the series.

But pull a thread and something starts to become undone, though it does not at all fall apart. There are little niggling things: the backgrounds are made with Photoshopped photos (like the technique used in some visual novels) leading to static backgrounds and disjointed overlay; the backgrounds are HDR but the characters are not.

It is harsh to criticise these most minute of details, especially when taken in context of other products like Naruto or Code Geass. However, Someday’s Dreamers clearly sets itself apart by aiming for realism and I think it should be judged according to these standards. So far it’s a pass but I wonder how consistent this animé will be?

~ Teeif

Code Geass R2: 4 Koma No.14 -
Take me to your leader!~

Sorry, I missed last week. Normal service shall resume and an explanation for time loss should soon be completed . In the meantime, Biankita did a great job with some of her own comics! Check them out here.

  *yom*yom*yom* …Sponsored by PH… *yom*.

I think Sunrise, in attempting to create a competitive force to match Brittanian’s domination while making pretentious historical references, failed. The fact is, they made a heredity loli monarch head of the united nations.

The real life equivalent is letting the princess of Romania become secretary general at the end of World War 2, despite not having a country because the Communists are borrowing it for V2 rocket bases! I’m sure America would have been delighted at letting her establish a new world order lasting 60 years (and counting ).

In her defence, I suppose Kagaya is a little girl and therefore the only one capable of piloting the indestructible, sadistic weapons platform that Rakshata keeps in her garage (for a rainy day). Seriously though, she has the black knights to back her up, even though most of their units are provided by India. The black knights appear to be the only effective force in the whole of the UN.

Animu politics aside, Tamaki never got to be squad leader…

I think he’s the cook! XD

~ Teeif.

The beginning of the arc told of Orang-é-hasta-lá-vista-kun’s unlikely switch to Lelouch’s side which soon precipitated into the death of V.V. and a confrontation between Lelouch and The Emperor. Yet in bait and switch style trickery, The assassin from the past turned out to be Rolo sticking it into Shirley, faggot!

With Nunally completely unaware, Lelouch launches an Geass hunt on V.V.’s weird (probably inbred) underground colony in the Mongolian desert. V.V. loses despite his boss mech because Cornelia is GAR, and because Cornelia knows which buttons to press to expose his weaknesses. In the hunt for V.V. Lelouch gets trapped in front of the Sword of Akasha and his father.

Finally in the world of C, Bill Gates shows you how he shaped the world in his image and gained immortality through instigation of a computing language that rewires brains the Emperor shows us that Ikari Gendo isn’t the only one who can fuck his son over existential quizzing while plodding through abstract backgrounds. The Emperor refuses to die, meanwhile C.C. who wants to die but becomes a loli instead. This episode ends most curiously with the Moé-fication of C.C.

My babble and illogical musings on a Shinigami’s list in Code Geass:

While I usually appreciate a plot twist in my animé, breaking up the usual tandem of Asian repetition, my experience of the recent twists in Code Geass episodes 13 to 15 is rather sanguine. I can’t sake the lingering feeling that it’s forced like a random buggering.

The events preceding this arc, China’s liberation, include alot of development which was mostly irrelevant to Lelouch’s discovery and assualt on V.V’s base. Orange-kun and Shirley’s demise are really random prerequisites which have sparked the arc. With the results even more ludicrous than the cause, it’s disjointed writing which defeats any point in attempting to make predictions. What’s the point? Code Geass is unpredictable bullshit and I’m just here for a ride.

I suppose I should be grateful to have any development in regards to C.C. but I’m sad in a way. Not because it actually explains anything (Illogical fantasy-babble doesn’t mean anything) but because it means Code Geass is drawing to an end.

This was pretty much confirmed by Newtype leakages all over Iichan. As much as I’m SURE that the writers could magic up a continuation of Code Geass into a 3rd season, it looks like they have accepted fate and ritually slit their stomachs in disgrace decided to call it a day at the end of season 2. What a shame!

Progress report by the story originator and main writer Ichirō Ōkouchi:

I’ve finished the script for Code Geass! Finished! It’s not “to be continued”, nor “end of this season”. It’s over, finished, the end.

Starting from the planning of this anime, it’s been 5 full years. Although I’ve been having plenty of jobs, this has been the longest one for me.

My computer fell silent when I was writing the last episode. I had to try to recover it while making the final check on the last episode. It’s quite a handful. But the work in studio isn’t done yet. And my job isn’t completely finished either.

Laughter or tears, the ending is only 4 months away. As for the production staff, who will see the ending in a few weeks, I wish for them to join me in the joy of seeing the end of Code Geass soon.

Newtype Japan (July 2008).

So, there! Following a rapid acceleration into the plot, it looks like Code Geass is entering into the final phase. The series will finish at the end of this season, although with so many characters, I wonder how many will die before the endgame?

13 is lucky for some, but fated to be a bit crap for Shirley. Now it looks like the Star Wars thingy me-bob back in episode 7 might  Even V.V., the immortally annoying, dies due to the trickery of the Emperor. I dare say, though, that this won’t be the end of V.V, I fully expect him to return in another plothax. (Yes, Sunrise. I remember who was responsible for the ending of Mai Hime, it was you!).

Shirley’s death prompted a uncharacteristic fit of RAEG from Lelouch (and to more humorous extent, some bloggers). Whether it’d be anger at Rolo or power tripping from his helplessness at Shirley’s side, he condemns the residents of the cult to genocide, men, women, Lolis and Shotas alike. This is quite serious, having now walked the path treaded by Hitler, Milosovich and his own father, and with no less of a straight, calculating face, surely Lelouch has condemned himself to a bad end?

~ Teeif.

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And that’s as much as I can show you guys without getting into more trouble. It looks like even Phoenix Wright doesn’t even scare these guys away, maybe I need a new lawyer…

~ Teeif

Code Geass R2: 4 Koma No.13 -
What is your Brother like?

Despite last week’s comic, I was actually going to allow Rolo the benefit of the Law and let him be innocent until proven guilty. Afterall, the shooting took place off screen and we weren’t sure who pulled the trigger, Dallas style. But no, Rolo gets in there, aiming for faggot of the year by sucking up to Lelouch over Shirley’s dead body!

OH! Nunnally, you blind fool!

I forgot to put in the sponsor ~Aiieeee… (Don’t suspend my pizza stream, pls?)

~ Teeif.

Naruto Shippuuden 64-65 (Naruto 264-265)
Konoha, completely locked down! Strict guard Naruto Shippuuden special.

I found it bemusing that an act of god, like an earthquake rescued the summer Beijing Olympics from political turmoil. I am glad the athletes can now concentrate on training hard rather that get embroiled into the political quagmire of Tibetan propaganda. An athlete’s life must be gruelling,  training day in, day out repeating the routine again and again until you get your technique and your body into peak condition. Then comes the big day and you get beat by someone from a different country, whose name you can’t even pronounce!

Now we get to the latest Naruto but unlike China, the multiple acts of God aren’t going to save it, in fact it’s worse because of them. I wasn’t impressed by the earthquakes that instantly swallowed up Konoha’s legions of ninjas. Kinda like athletes who turn up to a marathon only to find their foreign opponents brought along a scooter. I thought the instant wall/dome was ridiculous. That corpses can provide these ridiculous powers even more so. So, Furido’s 4-man bulldozing of Konoha is pretty bullshit, except it just happened.

:-/

The invasion reminded me of Orochimaru’s invasion of the village and you only have to compare that to realise that this part of the filler was written by an imbecile. Just two words invaded my thoughts: WTF!? Haxorz.

These forty minute specials of Naruto, just like their titles, are just too long! It’s senseless and thus boring. You see, they’ve stretched the Naruto world a bit too far here and it snaps into a pile of broken (but pretty) images and sound effects.

~ Teeif.

Code Geass R2: 4 Koma No.12 -
Revenge of the Rolo.

I don’t know if this was obvious to everyone who also seen it, but Shirley’s death scene reminded me of a certain someone…

Rolo should have gone back and done his homework!

Lol. gg fansubs have a great sense of humour – even though I really like Ali Project!

Fuck Nestlé! Your laughs are sponsored by Pizza Butt.

~ Teeif