Flying and Apples
Watched episode one of Macross Plus. So far, I like it, but for some reason everyone’s nose looks huge. I don’t remember that in Macross 7.
Isamu is pretty awesome, Guld seems like a dick, and it’ll be interesting to see what the Myung-Isamu-Guld triangle brings to the plot table. I’ll probably finish it this month/next at this rate, I really enjoyed it!
BABY BABY BABY vs Bearsona: The Match of the Century
So, do I like Persona 3 or Persona 4 more? I like both a lot, actually, but for different reasons.
- I like Tartarus more than the myriad of 4’s dungeons, however, I find 4’s dungeons more original.
- I like 4’s characters more so far, but on 3 I’ve just barely gotten Akihiko so I’m not far.
- I like that 4 took out the three types of physical attacks bullcrap that drove me nuts in some of the other SMT games.
- I’m looking forward to Incense Cards and Sword Fusions on 3!
- In other news, I can hardly bear that unbearable bear sometimes, but I can’t bear the hardships of playing Bearsona 4 without Teddie.
Macross (or: Anime’s Fastest Wedding)
One of those infrequent larger-than-twitter posts that I even got this thing for. Better than a wordpress for that!
I think I like Macross so much because it seems a lot more down to earth for me than say, Gundam or VOTOMS. It’s made me laugh and be depressed, whereas Mobile Suit Gundam is just depressing for me and VOTOMS is pretty much “hell yea 420 badass chirico and awesome coconna, vanilla, and gotho erryday”. I like the Valkyries a lot, and I think it was an interesting decision to go into a timeskip to depict a time slightly in the future when the Zentradi and Humans are trying to get along (with the Zentradi naturally fouling up because they’re not used to culture and whatnot). I’m about eight or so episodes from the end and I’m hoping I’m able to finish the show before the year’s over!
And I maintain that I wish Macross had been longer so the Max and Millia wedding didn’t seem so impromptu. I haven’t seen DYRL yet, so I’m interested in seeing how it handles it.
This is like the most romantic thing I have seen in an anime in some time, I swear to god.
BBBBOOOKZ
You know, as much as I love video games and anime, books have a certain flair and importance that the other two media don’t. In the course of a month of playing video games with plot or watching anime you can’t go through over 2000 pages of virtual reality shenanigans, a bar full of empathy that sees lots of strange people that you would normally freak out about, a man still alive but paralyzed who is about to experience his own autopsy, an old man’s story of when he met the devil in a forest while fishing, and a large novel about the building of a cathedral.
Sure, you can see lots of cool stuff in video games and anime, but there’s an unwritten rule (for lack of a better term) that they’re more narrow-minded in scope due to cultural limitations.
TL;DR: Books rock, motherfuckers.
