Kaiba

Finding an image for this anime was hard, not because of it's rarity but because of Yugioh. ≈_≈ Kaiba is at it's roots a sic-fi love story. Which I admit is old hat, but redoing old themes is in the execution, check out the opining. It's by Seira Kagami who has also done some of the songs for CHAOS;HEAD, Isekai no Seikshi Monogatari, Noramimi 1&2, and Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro. The art stile lends itself to show all the characters in a child-like form but they aren't, for the most part. The story begins on amnesia and ends on a crowning moment of awesome. Unlike my Elfin Lied review thinking back on Kaiba gives me a feeling of warmth, at the same time this anime can be vary fucked up, but because of the art stile it sweeps across your conciseness like a light breeze. You will, find your self smiling at this anime. I personally, at one point, yelled out loud the words "THE HELL?!" because something shocked me so. I hope you have as much fun with this anime as I did.

L'Illusionniste

It should be noted that if I put anything up here, I liked it. With that being said, The Illusionist is a damned good film. It's the kind of movie you talk about and debate over. It is a french-british film set in 1959, manly in Paris, centering on a magician and his dwindling career that can't follow the new cinema and what electricity had ushered in. This film has five english words, I think, but fear not this is a movie you watch, not listen to. What do I mean by that? Well, the story is mainly shown and few lines are spoken. This film has three languages in it; Lowland Scots, English, and of corse François are the ones I heard. You can tell what the characters are saying by what is going on in the seen. Now on to a bit of history, ¬_¬ on the film. The co-wittier, Jacques Tati, is said to have written this as a love letter to his estranged eldest daughter as an apology for abandoning her as a child, but this was never confirmed. In fact, the main character, L'Illusionniste, is a version of Jacques animated, and some people speculate that the young lady is Jacques real life daughter, but rest assured readers the closest the main characters get is what's in the picture above, which is more of a father-daughter thing. To say this has a good end would be wrong, but the opposite is true as well. I think that L'Illusionniste has a neutral end, but like I said you can debate over this film for eons because the film has almost no dialog in it you have to infer what is going on and why, not that it makes this hard. It's almost like watching a moving painting, you take away whatever you take away from this. So, watch this film...you'll be better for it.

Video Tutu?

If anyone would like to see more of these or another game let me know in the comments. I was thinking about doing a Bullet Heaven let's play.

Lord of the Rings

Normally I like to do stuff that isn't well known or only somewhat known but today I'm, In absence of ideas, braking that rule to talk about The Lord of the Rings books. Well sort of brake, since I'm talking about the books and not the movie, witch everyone has already talked about to death at this point. Where to start, where to start......oh! Yes. The trilogy of J.R.R.'s life's work is a rather long and drawn  out story that had all entranced within it grasp. It's not as though this is a story you can slosh through in a day it must be taken one page at a time, one book at a time. Most know that the story is good, and that the books where made into a trio of movies. Of corse all books made into movies have some if not all of their content edited out LotR is no exception. You get more detail with the books though. Man, it is really hard to talk about something everyone knows about, never the less you should read these, especially if your a fan of the movies. They are a set to follow, if you're writing your own book.

Neverland

Oh look another Peter Pan thing, well this might be good for a laugh....................... O_O dafuq did I just watch? Yes, yes, this is indeed a "prequel" to the Peter Pan mythoughts, but it has more of a Hook feel than the Disney production. Speaking of Hook Bob Hoskins, the man who plays Smee in Hook, comes back to play Smee in Neverland. This production has several adult themed subjects, like sexual favors, and the reality of death. There is only one fatly crux for the writing, it's one seen where Peter is forced to lose his memory, and yet not seven minutes later he has it right back. That's not a spoiler because it has nothing to do with anything. It has zero plot relevance, it's over to quickly, and serves no other purpose than to have him unable to talk for about five minutes witch they could have done ten other ways that wasn't stupid! Other than that, not bad. Of corse if you've seen any of the other PP works you know exactly how this is supposed to end, so yyyeeaaa...... Still, watch this.

Trinity Blood

Best unfinished Vampire Manga ever or the Twilight-done-right manga, I'll let you decide. Hold it right there, let go of that mouse. I know what you're thinking, but I made the comparison only because there is day-walker vampires in this, all though it is explained by having the story on the future, an this was a written novel before it became a manga. Now then back when I typed that the manga is unfinished, when it's not, is because the original writer perished before he could finish. The novel was also adapted to anime, but all three tell a slightly different story. So why am I talking about the manga? Because it is the most complete, in my opinion, of the three. Sorry for the short one, I'm tired. Read this, bla bla bla....

The Elder Scrolls

What a simple thing this was and how it has grown. Of corse I'm referring to The Elder Scrolls. I'm referring  to the series as a whole, not just Skyrim. Let's have a history lessen for those who do not know. First there was The Elder Scrolls: Arena which started as a tournament stile game where you'd face one opponent at a time, like a first person fighting game but it for a good turn, it got a shift into an open ended RPG type game within one town and was released for the DOS PC in 1994. The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall was a game fueled my the light sales of Arena, the world was expanded on to be twice the size of Great Britten and was released 1996 for the Windows OS. It was a better success, but was "famously buggy". The Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire is a dudgeon romping game with focus on item gathering, made in 1997. The Elder Scrolls Legend: Redguard is a third person linear story made in 1998. Both for Window OS. After the less than a success of Battlespire and Redguard the game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind retunes to the roots of the series with some voice acting for main characters only, witch was kind of a giveaway to who was important. I must make a special mention for the musical score, just about every time there was a sun set, in game, I would stop and watch it with the music in the background, look for yourself. Morrowind had two expansions, The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal and The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon. All of witch was released for Windows OS, XBox, and, a little later, PS3. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion made several AI improvements along with voice acting for NPCs. It too had two expansions, The Elder Scrolls IV: Knights of the Nine and The Elder Scrolls IV: The Shivering Isles, all were released for Windows OS, XBox, and PS3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was set two-hundred years after Oblivion, and I'm pretty sure I needn't tell you about this one, but  I was interested to hear about what had happened to Tamrial in the years that passed, oh the feels. All of these games, exempt for Redgaurd and Battlespire, were the games to birth the sandbox play stile, even if they were a bit buggy. Most of them have excellent writing and now Bethesda Game Studios has announced for 2013, The Elder Scrolls: Online with is set to be before the events of Arena. I can only feel excitement and, if all goes well, I will be playing it. Play these games, and see you on the battlefield.