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May

Iron Man The Movie - SciFi Fanboy Pandering

By Deranged 4 Comments

Categories: Gunpla, Live and Random

This isn’t Anime. That’s right… I sinned! Instead of watching Evangelion 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone which I recently picked up, I instead went outside into the nice sunny outdoors (it wasn’t raining today for once, pretty odd) to transverse to a indoor location to watch a Movie. That’s right, I sinned and it was good. Very good!

I remember talking a while back about being a fan of SciFi a while back in relation to Macross Frontier, and talking a bit about one of the biggest pulls of the genre for me was fine attention to mechanical detail and imaginative works. Iron Man delivered all of that to me as well. The suit was done so well, the armour moving plates to accommodate different working parts and Jarvis, the funniest and coolest AI with holographic interface computer system ever. I so want that is real life.

I did hear some complaints of bad acting but who can concentrate on that when Iron Man in all his mecha glory is being badass on screen. My favourite part being when he is caught by his assistant in his Iron Man Suit, and he retorts, ‘Well, you have caught me doing worse things…’ to which I completely cracked up. I like the AI and the bots working in his private lab. Who needs Haro’s when these were so much cooler and funnier, what with the putting out a non existent fire.

Iron Man has always been my favourite Marvel-verse Super Hero. He is somewhat like the Batman of Marvel, a hero with no outright powers at all, using technology to bring the edge up and I always loved that idea since I could maybe identify with that more. I loved Iron Man more because of the mechanical aspects. Things like that have always intrigued me. Growing up, I loved the Megazords of Power Rangers (I nearly had them all!) and Transformers (the best part was getting it working and transforming it without instruction) and when I first came across Gundam Wing in my Youth I was blown away. I guess there was the birth of a Mech Anime fan.

In all, this movie was fantastic and deserves multiple viewings which is what I plan to do… This has also made me really want to build some more Gunpla, especially a Perfect Grade which was what I was thinking about as the new Iron Man suit was tested in the movie, with the armour flaps moving to expose the interworking parts… I need a perfect grade so badly now… I will just have to content myself making my master grade Stike Noir…

While I am at it, I so desperately want this figure… It is damn expensive but would be so worth it…

Oct

Oh, How I Have Missed This!

By Deranged 1 Comment

Categories: Gunpla

I have only noticed recently that the second season of Genshiken has come out. Man, have I been living under a rock. Even more so because i have yet to watch the first season. Well, even though I have read the manga and thoroughly enjoyed it, I wasn’t going to watch the second season without the first, so i marathon-watched it today at the expense of the Chemistry coursework I was to do.

Continue reading ‘Oh, How I Have Missed This!’

May

Maybe The Expo Was Just An Excuse To Shop

By Deranged 4 Comments

Categories: Anime, Gunpla, Manga and Purchases

Hm, I believe we have been through this before but I have a shopping problem. I guess going to the Anime Expo where there was much stuff peddled was a bad idea for some one of my condition but luckily I was capped at £100. Doesn’t help me at all when October’s Expo comes around with my having an estimated £500 by then….

So the spoils. Again at any chance I get, I went for a bunch of manga. I found it strange actually that after looking in many places, this was the first time I was able to pick up something from the Shonen Jump line. Gladly I did find this as Vol 5 of both Busou Renkin and D.Gray-man are one of my favourites to still get. I would have gotten more Negima as well but alas I only saw a Vol. 14 and no 13 T____T

My best purchase, has to be the RX-93-V2 Hi-V Gundam. I was looking for the Wing Custom KA actually and was about to set my sights on something else until I saw this beauty on display going for £57. I am going to have so much fun putting this thing together being that this is the first Gundam I have bought in a long while… Expect some posts about it maybe…

My friend who I went with bought a heavy arms custom and the Noir Stirke. I was about to blow my manga money on getting the Noir Strike as well because of its sheer coolness but I resided to later on ordering it. That should come in about two weeks.

So yeah, enough of the conquests, onto thoughts of the actual Expo itself. I found it okay, but it really wasn’t that much for me except as a shopping excursion for all of the niche items I would ever want under one roof. About the only interesting thing was seeing some of the really good DDR players and the Cosplayers. A new experience for me, I actually had fun Cosplay-Spotting. Man, was there a lot of Jariya’s.

Well anyways, it was still an enjoyable excursion and was only a twenty minute walk from my house so I was able to quickly arrive back at a place to get started on my Gunpla XD Expect some posts soon, most probably on the gunpla as all of my attention is attuned to that at the moment, and I don’t think I could concentrate on anything else until it is finished.

But after getting back into action with a huge Master Grade Kit, this could take a while… with the Noir Strike afterwards and also probably a 1/100 scale H.M.S. Victory, I may not get off my modelling binge for a bit =P