So this is my favorite anime I've been watching lately. It's really fluid and fun. Lots of random black scenes and little flashes of text here and there. Many weird panning angles.

Oh and the plot is good too.

It is about a dude in high school who was turned into a vampire but got helped out, he in turn helps out other people with their supernatural problems.

In which ingorance rears its ugly head

So I went with some friends from pocky club to fright night. There was a guy who came up and asked if I was a jedi, I said no I'm a character from an anime.

He said "is that those weird comics from china that you read backward?"

me, "Yeah?"

him, "Haha, you need to get a job"

me, quiet, but angry I told him I had a job but he was already walking off.

Kumoricon 2009

I was panel staff again this year yay!

I actually went smoother than last, however it was very crowded. Wasn't terribly happy with the venue. Also, the lack of a park adjacent to the hotel was an annoyance.

High point tho was the church service on sunday. Only a handful showed up, but the girl who was running the panel looked to be a teenager. I think it's cool someone much younger than myself has the courage to stand up in front of a group of strangers and share God's word with them. It was cool to hear stories of people and how something like a little service with not flashy productions can work in the hearts of people that might not otherwise be inclined to attend.

Oh, and most everyone was in costume :D

Macross Frontier

Haven't updated in a while but just got the torrent for Macross Frontier. It is actually quite good.

Some may have known of this anime before. It has been on going sense the 80s. Macross 2 was the very first anime I ever purchased. I still have the VHS sitting around somewhere. It was very epic.

Anyway, as far as genre. Macross Frontier is deff space opera. There are big robots and spaceship cities. The battles are amazing way better than macross 2. Anyway, not too far into it but there some romance and lots of singing. Do like !

Animes I've been watching

Kurokami, it's about a world where everyone has doubles, but if they meet, fate will kill one of them. There are other worldly being that control the flow of tera (fate / lifeforce) a reclusive high schooler teams up with one to challenge fate.


Natsu no Arashi

What happens when time travel mixes with ghosts mixes with middle school romance? Epic romance comedy. Very amusing anime.

Subversion

So some of may know I was involved in subversion anime film festival at the clinton street cinema. It was lots of fun, a few people came, and I'm really sore (because I'm out of shape).

I headed down to SE Portland around 10:00am yesterday. We were supposed to do setup at 10:30 but had to fetch a few things. I don't think we started setting up until 11. Not nearly enough time. Also, do to difficulties, most everything I thought would go wrong did.

First, the person who was supposed to be doing the playlist with his fancy laptop flaked out at the last minute. So me and another guy had that thrust on us with no time to prepare. All the anime was put on Meg's lappy which was old and maybe good back in the day but not so much now. She had a 17in dell with 2 gigs of ram and a core 1 processor running onboard video. The digital projector didn't like the vga output so much (Remind me NEVER to buy a sharp projector) Also, the high def files that person-supposed-to-be-projecting caused her computer to choke. We played the first movie okay but it was a lower def file. But only two out of the 15 anime files we had were actually .avi so yeah.

We tried to play some but the sound and video were always off. Eventually we just had to switch to dvds, franticly renting from movie madness and clinton street movies. That worked out okay, but we annoyed the crap out of people at the start of the event with the choppyness. I think we gave 6 people half refunds.

The annoying part was that I wasn't even supposed to be doing projection. I was just going to setup gaming (the last event the gaming was kinda fail). So here all this drama is going on with the projection and the bulk of the responsibility ended up getting set in my lap.

I had plenty of stuff to do gaming but knew it was going to take some time to do. Sadly, I did forget the wii sensor so I had to rush back home at around noon to get the sensor I forgot. I had the projector, projector screen Dave let me borrow (Thanks Dave, it worked awesome!) and the pile of cables / adapters that go along with setting up a wii to a projector and pc speakers. But yeah, the rockband was a huge hit though. People were playing it until about 9pm.

So yeah, equipment comparability issues--check, projection person flaking out---check, forgetting gaming equipment---check. After a few hours of frustration after frustration my nerves were about shot.

Anyway, after we moved to dvds things went nicer. It was nice to hang out with friends, meet new people and hear their stories. The whole thing was a learning experience and while not pleasant at times I have some ideas about what would make it go better if we do it again. Did I mention I'm crazy sore? Yeah running up and down stairs from 11am til 2am the next day will do that to a guy.

monochrome factor

So I was watching the first ep of what looked like it could be a good anime. However in monochrome factor two guys kiss to unlock a super power. Meh, why spoil this? I'm so *cough* *choke* *Sputter*

I'm so not into yaoi (waits for women to pummel him)

Monochrome Factor