Gurren Lagann just doesn’t cease to impress. Ever. I was expecting just a bit of utterly cool ass kicking and winning. What we got was so much more and so much better than I expected.
We. Like. Giant Robots…
What totally slipped my mind actually was the unification thing, as it has not been overtly referred to as of late, so it was a huge surprise to me at least when the Gurren Lagann unified with the Arc-Gurren to become the huge Arc-Gurren Lagann… which looks spectacular by the way.
With the power to break through space-time 0_0
What got me was how it was strong enough to shatter a Mugen through space-time and yet, not strong enough to repel the moon but oh well. I also found it hilarious how it was just overlooked as well afterwards.
And now they control the moon, or the Ganman that it encased at least which is huge. Brings back memories of the prologue and also makes it very apparent how we are very near the end of this.
Now, I want to see this unifying with Gurren Lagann…
For a while I also feared Nia may never pull through from the whole villain thing but this episode has given me hope. Simon’s exclamation of ‘if it’s not zero percent, to me, it may as well be 100 percent’ does sound maybe too arrogant but man, do I want to see him make it happen.
Can’t wait for next week.
Spurned on by posts from RunningKid, I too thought, ‘Hey, I can go outside during the summer as well, going into London and do some shopping like I used to…’ Well, I did go outside but I just popped out to Illford closer to the outskirts of London. But I sniffed out a Waterstones and quickly found the manga. I’ve found myself buying less manga recently which worries me so I bought another 6; vol. 13-14 of Negima (yay!) and vol. 1-4 of Rurouni Kenshin (‘cause it’s a great classic and they didn’t have vol. 2 of Fruits Basket and yet had all the rest up to 14 :S ). A good haul that cost me less than expected.
However, manga wasn’t the only reason I was out about in the sun (even though it was all overcast, and it even rained… stupid British weather), as I made way to an art store that saw me through my graphic design days, and took the plunge and got me a traditional nib dip pen and ink.
I’ve been drawing for a while but just haven’t shown off anything really except the odd thing or two that I inked half-assedly. Well, I’m am going to try and improve now and get some artwork done. Sadly this may take me a while, as seen above, I will need some practise with the pen to actually get a good effect. (strangely enough I worked upwards on the page :S )
Above is one of my best works which is still sadly pencil. From the stage of getting this inked and scanned is my biggest roadblock at the moment, but I’m working on it and hopefully, I can grow as an artist past the drawing some pretty pictures stage. Making a web comic/manga of my own would be marvellous. Here’s hoping XD
Watch this space and my deviant art account because the dream has never looked closer to me than ever before.
After a long bout of seeing things just go downhill, I am in epic awe of how great it is to see the Gurren Brigade back to a level of it’s old glory. It was beautiful…. Now, the majority of the episode was about something completely different though.
Now, that is a sky to fight for…
Continue reading ‘Gurren Lagann 21: Gurren-Dan-Kai!’
It was something that could make me have to give up Anime for the next year: my grades…
Today was the results release day for all A-Level exams. After doing an hour of charity collecting in the morning, I then rushed home to then rush over to my school to pick up my results. I had promised myself if these results were bad, I would have to change my habits i.e. cut down vastly on Anime and actually work.
Luckily for me, I won’t have to do such a despicable thing… XD
Overall Results:
Maths - A
Chemistry - B
Physics - B
Cisco - Achieved CCNA1
It may not have been as good as I wanted but this was a lot better than what I feared when I actually took these exams. Chemistry is fine at a B, but I need to pull up my physics grade to a strong A by the end of A2 examination or my University plans could crash and burn. But apart from that, I am totally in the clear! XD
Which means after some fretting, I can get back to my Anime-obsessing ways… I so need to catch up with my backlog for that to work though… Hm, I have a few episodes of School Days I haven’t watched yet…
Haven’t caught up with the rest of the anime that I needed to but I am now back on track with watching Gurren Lagann weekly again. I have been awaiting episode 20 with much anticipation seeing how 19 left off. After seeing 20, I have affirmed my hate of cliff hangers…
Continue reading ‘Tengen Toppen Gurren Lagann - 20: She’s Back…!’
Oh… So that’s where she learnt it from… 0_0
I remember some time back when I first watched Zero no Tsukaima. It was a good show, definitely not the best but I enjoyed it a lot for it’s easy going story and it’s likeable characters. The second series to me feels less like a whole new section but rather a continuation of the first season, which suits me just fine…
It’s all still there; the weirdly acceptable love-hate relationship between Louise and Saito, Saito’s sometimes bad attitude, awkward situations and yeah, there’s still some thing about magic. I like the new characters as well being introduced, particularly Louise’s sisters. It’s nice to get to know more about her and her family… and see maybe where she gets her whipping habit from…
At the moment, I am hoping for more story-wise but the episodes at the moment are quite fine…
This took me a while to catch up, not as good as I used to be, but caught up I have. Gurren Lagann being a very good pick for this season, was something I have been missing for some many weeks. After watching it, I was speechless at how good it is and where it was going. I was cringing for more and screamed in outrage when I found out I had caught up… just because I then had to wait like an avid fan. =P
Teh Gasp… The ring is still on her finger…. also, I love the new outfit…
I feel sorry for Simon. I truly do. Throughout the series, his life has been getting better until something just has to happen to ruin all of that. This is the second, and I am not sure which was worse. This twist was great though, coming in after I thought we had run out of story. Simon is no longer the hero to the people; he’s a criminal. He has lost all that he’s gained and to see him stand back up from this will probably be of epic proportions.
Just a little added note of also, that the flashback episode was the best ever. I actually watched it in it’s entirety from start to finish. Who knew there was actually a right way to do these types of episodes?
Seriously though, it was July when I last posted and now it is August. I have failed at a rudimentary blogging criteria; to regularly post. I can say a lot of things (one actually being that I have not really been keeping up with anime in the last month and am just now starting to work my way through the back log) but I’m not going to use the statement I just wrote to excuse myself. I’ll use another reason.
I don’t know how many of you have actually read the about box which resides at the top of the sidebar, and how many of you wonder who Benneh is, considering the only authors who have written for this site have been myself. Benneh is my coding friend who has volunteered (been coerced to, some say) to help me in this little website project of mine (including the blog).
Our plans were to make some cool websites, maybe some wordpress themes, etc. So to the actual point of the long preamble, we spent the better part of last month creating our first full design for a design contest: specifically the sandbox design contest.
What I liked about this project was that it was purely design, and most of the coding work was laid out quite finely already. All we needed to do was produce a css and image add on design which was excellent for our first project. We only entered one design but it took a lot of work and thought. I like it and I hope we get a good standing.
Well, I hope that is at least an adequate reason why I have been gone for most of the month, and hope none of you will blame it on getting back into Warhammer 40,000. Nor will any of you expect to see some posts on a newly done Tau hunter cadre or any sort…
Seriously though, I hope to get back into the rhythm, and start fully blogging again. We sort of need to pick up the slack since the whole odex thing I guess… *catches up with some Gurren Lagann*
Note: don’t expect me to post so soon… I’m going on a shopping excursion today where i may or may not be picking up manga or dwarves.
