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Talking about (or at least listing) mecha anime with

worldserpent here and here, I was suddenly reminded of my love for Orguss, an eighties Macross spinoff that was nearly 80% filler and starred an almost total jackass.

The Story: horndog flyboy Kei Katsuragi sets off the space-time oscillation bomb, accidentally destroying the universe as we know it. He finds himself in a new patchwork Earth made up of many different alternate realities and ends up traveling with a band of space gypsies across a chaotic landscape filled with mecha and androids and aliens and Marie Antoinette. Awful as things are, they may soon become worse as the fabric of reality is rapidly unraveling -- but does Kei feel bad about having caused so much trouble? No! Because he is a Jackass. ( Read more... )

Anyway this is all incidental. The real news is that I found the OAV sequel, Orguss 02, online! Orguss 02 is an entirely different beast from Orguss. For one, the main character is a nice guy. For two, it's only six episodes long with no filler. For three, all these really big names in mecha were involved. For four, it's the Cold War all over again -- but this time fought as Europe versus the Ottoman Empire, in the 18th century, with Mechs.

Story: Set in a single reality several hundred years after Orguss and only loosely related. Two superpowers -- the Occidental Revilia and the Oriental Zafrin -- are at war using ancient technology (which is actually future technology dislodged by the space-time oscillation bomb). Lean, a mechanic, finds himself caught up in the conflict. Features political intrigue, charismatic but morally dubious guardsmen, and a mysterious woman who may be an escaped military secret.

Super Dimension Century Orguss 02
If you'd like the episodes, leave a comment and I'll leave you the link. *beams*

Six episodes, dual audio, English subtitles. The subtitles are in some cases horribly mistimed, but the English dub is good, so I actually recommend you listen to that (audio track 2). Orguss 02 isn't a life-changing experience, but it is a very, very solid series. High production values -- actually it kind of reminds me The Wings of Hommenaise, but with more likable characters.

Well, I guess this is sort of like a trial run. ^^; To test out how much bandwidth this uses, and whether DreamHost will let me get away with sharing movies on

telophase's dime.

I pronounce Mondays: Double Feature Days! Two movies every Monday that I have arbitrarily decided have something in common.

This week: You need subtitles for the English.
Featuring: Snatch and Brick.

[edit: taken down]

Needing subtitles to watch Snatch is a sort of inside joke: you don't really need them. There are characters who talk fast and use a lot of slang, but they also tend to repeat themselves a lot. (Especially the narrator, who likes to hear himself talk -- it's a lot of action, a lot of flash, disguising a lack of power, because the characters who have power never repeat themselves.) Anyway this is a movie about a stolen diamond and how in crime, anything can happen.

Brick, on the other hand, is all about creating pace and atmosphere by cutting out like half the words in the script. ^^; the characters all talk in shorthand and use slang I don't think exists outside of this movie. Just like in high school!! This is a film about infiltrating a web of (high school) drug dealers to avenge your dead ex-girlfriend. Twisty, great art direction. I swear to God Brendon reminds me of an old boyfriend.

Too lazy to comment more. :p But on weeks where the movies are less well known, I promise to say more of actual substance.

Courtesy of

wheezambu:

Perfect Girl Evolution

episode 01
episode 02
episode 03
episode 04
episode 05

Four pretty boys must turn Sunako "Horror Fanatic" Nakahara into a proper lady, or her aunt will make them pay rent XD. I've heard the anime is pretty horrible, but what the heck, in the spirit of the season right?

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Going through files deciding what I wanted to keep and what I could toss, I found all these things I don't remember writing. o_O; I don't suppose anyone is interested in half-hearted fic commentary?

( Just in case. )

Also found, the most Engrishy improvised poem ever XD.

Improvisation #1

A left-field nostalgia trip
Looking downwards into previous
Nothing to do but leaving behind

A face-down take-off
Looking upwards into blindness
Nothing to do but moving past

A deep-fried lung-hack
Looking inward into unhealth
Nothing to do but settling for

A no-ambition dice-roll
Looking outward to uncertainty
Nothing to do but going forward.

Written in under a minute over IM XD.

Fixed FST download links: http://sub-divided.livejournal.com/86235.html. Still missing WRCFST, but added the mysterious vanishing Fruits Basket soundtrack (tracklist -- scroll up for zip).

As long as I am dealing in uploads,

wheezambu put these up:

Welcome to the NHK
Ep:01
Ep:02
Ep:03
Ep:04
Ep:05
Ep:06
Ep:07

This is that series about the hikakomori who thinks all of his problems are caused by the NHK (the television station, though he refers to it as the Hikakomori Association of Japan). I gotta say, the anime doesn't do much with the "main character suffers from paranoid delusions" angle. Though it is brought up occasionally, most of the focus is on main character Tatsuhiro Sato's social anxiety and terrible interpersonal skills.

I thought this would be a comedy with serious elements, BUT NO, it's a serious social commentary. There are jokes -- mostly centered around otaku haha -- but they don't really deflect attention away from the seriousness being a twenty-something shut-in. And consequently, some of them are not very funny. -_-; On the other hand the production values for this are phenomenal. It looks really, really good. The soundtrack is also great, and the voice acting. Basically, Welcome to the NHK takes no shortcuts. This includes the script. Tatsuhiro is not secretly cool, his condition is not the result of a cheap traumatic plot device (though for a while the series fools you into thinking this might be the case), the girl who wants to help him does not know what she's doing, his path to salvation is script-writing hentai dating sims, etc. Who knows, maybe all this is common sense in Japan. I was impressed, though. I'm not sure whether I like it, but I'm interested enough to keep watching.

Also, the moral of the series so far seems to be that it is better to be an otaku depised by the majority of the population, but accepted by a subset, than to be so preoccupied with being "normal" that you reject all social interaction that doesn't meet with your high standards. And that is definitely a moral I can get behind XD.

Hey, it's a mix! For a friend. Posted here. If you listen to the radio at all, most of this will not be a surprise. ^^ Marcie was complaining that all we ever play at parties is eighties music (well, that and nostalgic stuff from middle school). So there are a lot of current (and not-so-current) hits on this thing. You have to understand how COMPLETELY ISOLATED we all are, musically-speaking, in order to understand the value of this.

Completely random and actually kind of awful mix, so I guess it doesn't matter whether you listen to it in order. ^^;

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Months and months ago I promised to upload music from that list of top ten FSTs from 2005 if I ever got my external harddrive back. Lo, it is back and here is music:

Bonus! The write-up has disappeared, but here's that Fruits Basket FST I was talking about:

ZIP
( tracklist )

You may notice a pattern. XD I was impressed by the way the original poster managed to balance good music with thematic consistency with the appropriately titled songs. With so many restrictions, something had to give, and in this case it's the characterization. ^^; some of these songs fit the characters, others...don't. Aha.

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I seem to have misplaced darenciel's Tokyo FST (edit: got it thanks to the OP) ~~and riko's Bruno and Boots FST~~ got it, thanks

biggersandwich!

mrmoonpants colossal anthropology project pretending to be an It FST is a little too large to upload on a whim.

fabulous_papaya's Outer Space FST was the victim of a tragic upload-deletion accident. Um.

AND SPEAKING OF TRAGIC UPLOAD-DELETION ACCIDENTS, I've just managed to lose WRCFST as well. Noooooooooooo. None of that was common music! Please please, someone help me out?

Also umich ate practically everything I uploaded. >_< HOLD ON A SECOND while I re-upload to a free service, like a pauper ;_;.

A belated welcome to everyone who added this journal in the last couple weeks! ~~Why~~ It seems some of you are here for Death Note, which makes me wonder what the last chapter of the official English release was. (Volume 6, chapters 44-52? The return of Evil Light? Cool, but not quite the chapters I'd have expected to have ahaha but anyway.) I don't really post about Death Note anymore.

...except for today! What luck.

Death Note Fake Omake Ending or: How the Manga Should Have Ended

I don't think I'll be spoiling things too badly if I tell you that it the real ending is nothing like this. :p Someone gave me the link saying it was a real omake ending, but it's just (just!) an excellently put-together collage. The version you can download from kefi.org is one VERY LARGE .png file, so I took the liberty of cutting it up. I was gonna put the zip on my webspace too, but uhhhh seems like google isn't the only thing wrong with our connection today.

(Remember how a few days ago, I couldn't use google search? Now it's all of google.com -- the pages just won't load. This means not only gmail but even more horrifying, every single page on the net with google-supported ads. Turns out there's a lot of them. )

And now: SLEEP. (Or an attempt, at any rate.)

Leaving for the weekend, see you guys Monday. Uploaded these elsewhere, here's a copy-paste before the files expire:

20th Century Boys (edit: taken down)

Manga by Naoki Urasawa, who also did Monster. Like Monster, it's meant for an older audience, has an adult protagonist, and deals with dark psychological themes. Unlike Monster, it has giant robots and psychic powers.

Sort of.

And some chibi icons! From the new FMA OAV.

01.

02.

03.

( Sum More Icons )

FMA OAVS:
1. CHIBI PARTY 6 MINS.
2. MODERN AU 3 MINS.
3. AT ADVENTURE 10 MINS.

Not subtitled (though #2 is wordless anyway). AT = Alternate Timeline.

No! It can’t be! …but it is. All 112 episodes of Yu Yu Hakusho, direct-download. (The English version. But it’s a good dub, so that’s okay.) I decided to start with the last episode and work my way backwards, but here’s the strange thing:

Episode 109 downloads: 314
Episode 110 downloads: 391
Episode 111 downloads: 364
Episode 112 downloads: 410

I can understand 112 having a greater number of hits, because I know that other people like to start with the end too ahaha, but why the up-and-down? Episodes 110 and 111 are both boring Yusuke slugfests. For a few minutes I flashed back to DBZ. (There is a brief naked-floaty Yusuke moment in 110. I refuse to believe that this is the reason.)

Joined

reading_genji because I’ve been meaning to get back to that. (I'd stopped because I was surprised by the end of my copy -- 1955 reprint of the 1925 edition, I think I mentioned. It’s paperback-novel-sized, and on the front cover does not say "The Tale of Genji: Book 1 of 20," but just "The Tale of Genji" as if that were all there is to the story. If I’d thought about it a little more I would have realized that this could not possibly be all of it, no matter how concise the translation.)

due Wednesday, seven major assignments. Have started two. NOT THE TWO I NEEDED TO START. I am dead dead dead dead dead.

Full Metal Alchemist movie:
Part 1 (repost)
Part 2

Now that the whole thing's up here's my rant on it, copy-paste from comments elsewhere:

( Five ways the movie bothered me, cut for spoilers and oversensitivity )

I think in the end there are two levels of offense here: one to see complicated ethical issues reduced to good-guy-versus-bad-guy, which the series never did, and one to see character after character destroyed for the obvious agenda of the (Japanese) script-writers. I'm not sure how much more I should say on this, being a biased party. (Japanese WWII-referencing movies have always bothered me, but as far as I can tell no one who didn't grow up on Holocaust horror stories has had major problems with this one, not even the parts I thought were lousy characterization or writing rather than misplaced moralizing.)

So that I do not end this entry on a completely negative note, there are good points too: a certain character's Big Dramatic Comeback, the Gypsy sub-plot, the outfits, the way the Sins were worked into the plot, the ending. I also thought the premise was a pretty neat -- just not, you know, something I could comfortably get behind.

Put these up for a friend, figured I might as well share here before the yousendit links expire.

3x3 Eyes first OAV series
Episode I: Pai (link)(alternate link)(alternate alternate link)
Episode II: Yakumo (link)(alternate link)
Episode III: Sacrifice (link)()alternate link)

The quality of episode I (ripped from the dub VHS) is terrible, but II and III are decent. Anyway!

( Summary )

Three by Three Eyes has a stong Hindu bent, although this is less obvious in the anime than in the manga. The series is extremely violent, often funny, and can be disturbing in a "tentacle monster" kind of way. The first OAV seres, as a whole, is rushed -- makes sense when you remember the producer had to fit many volumes of manga into only a few direct-to-video episodes -- but the unusually fast pacing of the first episode is deliberate, I think. Yakumo must think events are unfolding too quickly, too!

I'm still VERY UPSET with Dark Horse for dropping the English manga release a few years ago. Of course the sales were poor, you released half-length volumes for $15.95! I really, really want someone to pick this up for re-release in the current industry standard (unflipped, ~200 pages, $10), but I doubt it will happen.

This has been a good month for old series/zombie series love. XD

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Death Note Omake

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Last bit of procrastination before I start my math homework.

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