MK: Season's Eatings

[Shokushu]

I think I'm going to have to play another dwarf fortress now...

[Se-vens]

I think I should warn the neighborhood pharmacy to beware Viking attack.

[[Celeste Verselles]]

Gaia lied to me and said that Hana had posted. I'm dissappointed now. crying

[Celisasu]

[Celeste Verselles]

Gaia lied to me and said that Hana had posted. I'm dissappointed now. crying

Gaia likes to twist your feelings.

[Anonymooo]

Actually, I posted, and realized that I was on Hana's account. xd

I was gonna say that New Super Mario Bros. Wii is actually four players, and I like the fact that I can drag people along to play platformers with me now.

Quick thoughts on this week's crack "big three" shounen manga:

One Piece- GOD DAMN YOU, HORRENDOUS CLIFFHANGERS I swear, Oda Eiichiro is a master of his craft. That had to have been the only way to stop the war, but I wasn't expecting it at all. They've been hinting at Whitebeard's death for a while now, but the way it happened--if that's what this really is--came as a total shock.

Naruto- Naruto growing up and changing from a hotheaded brawler to a surprisingly even-tempered diplomat is strange... especially when he's confronted with something he's wanted since day one. Who's really lying to themselves here?

Bleach- Ichigo, on the other hand, changed from a hotheaded if slightly dull main character with a protection complex to, uh... an even more dull, far too-cool-for-school main character who tries to carry everybody's weight. It was nice seeing him get the wind taken out of his sails for a change--Bleach has a huge and terribly mismanaged cast.

[Celisasu]

Quick Celisasu anime update:

I watched Clannad: After Story Part 1(episodes 1-12) last week. So far I'm really enjoying it. It's rare for a season 2 to be as good as season 1 and considering how awesome season 1 of Clannad was that's quite a feat. I would've watched all twelve episodes in one day but alas, I had work the night I bought it so I had to take two days to do so. xd Damnit, I want to watch episodes 13-24 now! I cry for the lack of Fuko in Season 2 but I understand why. I still wish she at least got to have one or two of her "I pop up, do something insane, vanish, nobody knows what the hell just happened" moments that happened after her story arc in Season 1. Just let us know her ghost is out there or something. crying


And on my continuing run through Dragonball Z(and GT and DB for that matter, it's just I started with Z as...well that's what they had in cheap boxed sets first), I'm currently almost to the end of the Imperfect/Perfect Cell Saga and will be starting the Cell Games Saga soon. I noticed like the Namek Saga, the Android/Imperfect Cell Saga for the most part have had pretty good pacing discounting a few weak moments(the episodes where they trained for three years before the Androids came were boring, they should've just said "Three years later....." wink but once the actual Android Saga starts, the pacing is good. Most fights are over in one to three episodes, very little filler, etc. I've also noticed as I watch DBZ is that...it has really weird taste in music. The music often doesn't fit the mood for me. Even if it does fit the mood(the music that plays for Cell at least sounds like it belongs to a villian) it often kind of sucks. On the plus side, once I hit the Cell games we start hitting episodes that I haven't seen all of. I'm pretty familiar with the series up until right before the Cell Games, saw maybe half the Cell Games at random, and then maybe one episode out of 10 for everything after that(ugh, the Season after Cell Games looks like a season made only of filler to cover a time gap between Cell and Buu, I'm kind of dreading it).



Edit:

Oh yeah, some manga stuff too.

I read v1 of a series called Tenna on S-String. About a guy who after an accident can see musical notes around people and a girl who dresses in gothic lolita style who says it's because his lifescore has been infected by some sort of viral notes. She's trying to collect these notes. So far it's only so so. I honestly can't recommend it.

I also read v1 of Ballad of a Shinigami. A series of short stories about an angel of death. Well sometimes they aren't so much about her as the people she deals with, although sometimes they're about her. All of the ones I've read so far have been enjoyable. They tend to be cute, often bittersweet though as they usually involve someone who's about to die or is already dead.

[Celisasu]

http://www.gaiaonline.com/demonbusters?sub=followers&user_id=63619

Oh yeah, people should follow me. And stuff.

[Tsuchirinhon]

Celisasu

Just let us know her ghost is out there or something. crying

Fuko is prominent in the latter half of CLANNAD: ~After Story~.

Anonymooo

Naruto- Naruto growing up and changing from a hotheaded brawler to a surprisingly even-tempered diplomat is strange... especially when he's confronted with something he's wanted since day one. Who's really lying to themselves here?

If anything, this week's chapter has shown us that Sakura is the worst character in recent manga history.

[Anonymooo]

Tsuchirinhon

If anything, this week's chapter has shown us that Sakura is the worst character in recent manga history.

Which is disappointing for many reasons. I never have much of a problem with characters in shounen series not doing well in fights--there always has to be somebody to get beat on--but Sakura's standing out as a fickle fangirl with this whole thing. The potential shown during the Sasori fight was thrown right out the window and hasn't been revisited since.

Y'know what I want? I want a new sports manga to follow--Eyeshield 21's ending left a big football-shaped void in my manga-reading habits. Nobody's scanlating King Golf, sadly, and most modern soccer manga are trying too hard to be like Prince of Tennis in how grandiose the games are.

[War Diaz]

Hey Anonymoo, care to bust out your character for a spar?

[Tsuchirinhon]

Anonymooo

Which is disappointing for many reasons. I never have much of a problem with characters in shounen series not doing well in fights--there always has to be somebody to get beat on--but Sakura's standing out as a fickle fangirl with this whole thing. The potential shown during the Sasori fight was thrown right out the window and hasn't been revisited since.

Part of the problem is that Sakura and Hinata's entire purpose in the manga is to be something for female readers to relate with. Well, that and for shippers.

Most of the females in the series are pointless.

[Shokushu]

Tsuchirinhon

Anonymooo

Which is disappointing for many reasons. I never have much of a problem with characters in shounen series not doing well in fights--there always has to be somebody to get beat on--but Sakura's standing out as a fickle fangirl with this whole thing. The potential shown during the Sasori fight was thrown right out the window and hasn't been revisited since.

Part of the problem is that Sakura and Hinata's entire purpose in the manga is to be something for female readers to relate with. Well, that and for shippers.

Most of the females in the series are pointless.

Has there ever been a series that was improved by throwing in a character for the audience to relate with that doesn't otherwise serve a purpose?

...why do people keep doing that?

[Anonymooo]

Sakura originally served a purpose--she was the intellectual part of the trio, the "average" person that people could identify with if they weren't incredibly raucous or misunderstood (haw). The only problem with this is that Kishimoto forgot that he had three starring roles instead of two, and gave most of the really cool s**t to Naruto and Sasuke. Okay, fine, I understand the series is about them, but then why give us false hope every few arcs that Sakura's finally gonna do something important?

Hinata, on the other hand, was there to fill a niche--the shy, quiet type that shows up in almost everything. I saw her there for comic relief, and once her little arc was over, I didn't think we'd be seeing much of her or her dickhead cousin after the "tournament." I was (sorta) right.

Edit: Diaz, sorry, I just don't RP online much any more. I'm practically retired, save for Se-vens' game once it starts up again, but that's closer to a tabletop game.

[Tsuchirinhon]

Anonymooo

Sakura originally served a purpose--she was the intellectual part of the trio, the "average" person that people could identify with if they weren't incredibly raucous or misunderstood (haw).

She was never really that, either, simply because most of her earlier scenes involved her squealing over Sasuke. Kishi tried to have her fill every type of archetype simultaneously [well, except for Hinata's]. Sakura never really felt like a character, but more like some giant amalgamation of every girl who would be reading the series.

Shokushu

Has there ever been a series that was improved by throwing in a character for the audience to relate with that doesn't otherwise serve a purpose?

...why do people keep doing that?

Because it attracts more readers, especially when the target demographic is children.