slow blink and sigh

 So there's new series on Netflix called 'Yasuke' and it looks mighty interesting, not least because it has got samurai's and such but the plotline seems different and the graphics are the exact kinds that I'm drawn to.

Perhaps I'll give it a shot, once I've finished watching the one that I am currently on called 'B: the beginning'.

Right. Next on the agenda is to get on with today's work and I shall.

tidbits

Say one thing about lunch say it was leftovers that combined to make too huge a meal portion and I ate it all.

I sit at home waiting for people to come and install the machine and it might take a while since it's pouring. The rain has abruptly started and ts coming down like a flood.

Ah well, not like I've to be out someplace.

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I've started watching a new Japanese series on Netflix called 'the naked director' and it's looking quite interesting.
No one does sex stuff like the Japanese do.
They pick out the oddest topics to build upon and do it exceedingly well.

So far I've watched 'my husband won't fit' and 'Love fortune' and they were both excellent, both in terms of the kind of sexual intimacy they show and the issues they amplify.

Also in the market for a new anime and there's this lovely manga I'm reading up on called 'Gogol' which is also going pretty good.

oh yes, and the current audiobook after Black Knife Caine is from Dresden Files called 'the change' and after caine, it just feels so mellow.

I also did a bit of palette cleansing with an Agatha Christie audiobook called 'the third girl'. It was a Poirot mystery and pretty interesting as these books go.

Yeah, so there has been a lot of content consumption and while I read the 9th Malazan book I realize the need for reading something else because Malazan isn't what one would call a binge read and so I'm contemplating some serious literature or something madly fluffy.
Can't decide.

\m/

I haven't read the manga though I think now I'll have to since I've gotten myself hooked on the anime 'kengan Ashura' on Netflix.

It's gritty, messy, violent, bloody and full of fantastic fight sequences which is basically what this entire manga and thusly these series is all about.

Fight fight fight fight!!

VPN voila

The thing about VPN as much as I get exasperated by it is that it can be full of such incidental surprises that the frustrations it causes can sometimes be glossed over.

Case in point Netflix.

In order to watch Arrested Development or other some series I have to connect through American locations but today since I had work that needed doing and vpn was of importance and none of the locations in the USA seemed to connect me I got through Hong Kong and just for kicks browsed Netflix. 

I didn't find Arrested Development nor Peaky blinders but by the gods, I hit a treasure trove and how did it come to go amiss is beyond me but I found myself deliciously ensnared by a Japanese CGI anime movie which is easily filling the void that I'd been feeling for a while, viz, not having found some yummy anime to get glued on to.

The movie in question is Gantz:o. 

Science fiction to the level what on earth, awesomely weird in the way only Japanese can manage with insanely lovely action sequences hammered to seamless perfection with gratuitous violence. Oh, the blood and guts and overall mania that is this movie and did I mention the graphics? 

I mean they've done it again or rather outdone it all over. I couldn't get my eyes off the perfectly computer generated strands of hair that characters have and it's a visual delight this movie.

As beautiful as the Manga was as fantastic as the anime must have been (I didn't watch it, but I will have to) this movie kills every way possible without the glossy blood spurts too.

It's raw, filthy, grimy and abhorrent in a way that makes you open your eyes wide. 

It's got an 18+rating so that's all good in my book.

Halfway through and I'd have watched more had I not to get dressed to go out for Friday night drinks and dinner.

But I know what I'm getting glued to next.

Go to hell

I'm stuffing a big wad of 'why' in a punching bag and going medieval on it. Imma punch the life out of that bag until my knuckles are sore, until that 'why' is obliterated, until I can hear muffled screams of anguished beseech seeping out with a thick red streak of blood, until there are no more why's left to question that why oh why is there a live action movie of the phenomenal 'Death Note' on netflix???

Why? just why? I mean why?

Ruin all that's good and turn it into slop. Studio executives making this movie have committed heresy. It's five kinds of blasphemous and if there's a cult that assassinates heartless studios from creating live action movies of awesome manga then direct me the cult doors, I shall bring my glock!

There isn't enough stabilized rage within me to form coherent sentences about the number of things they've done wrong, starting with making it. 

Was it not happily existing as a manga and a fantastical anime that it had to be ruined on Netflix doors with whitewashed characters. I mean Japanese movie industry has already done a number on it and what was left of the savaged remains are now plucked at mercilessly with obnoxious distaste turning into a foul fest of festering revulsion. 

I don't know where to start and I won't because then I wouldn't stop.

Is there any reason why netflix feels the need to bring this extraordinarily complex philosophical manga to the masses? 

Can't a few good things remain in their niche, only to be explored by patrons of the abstract.

Why is there a need to dumb it down and condense it to fit an idiot box format for the consumption of those who're not initiated into the rites of all that is manga and anime?

Netflix doesn't need this and neither does the audience especially those who know and love the real thing.

Fuck you NETFLIX!

 

things

something random that'd made me smile.
anime: planetes

eyegasms

Now watching Forbrydelsen II, aka The Killing II.

I cannot stress enough how eerie gloomy and blue black its vibe is, which adds to the convoluted web of suspense that this series spins.

Slow paced and thrilling, its a whole new flavour of tv series.

Also, recently finished Mushishi Zoku Shou which deserves a whole new galaxy of existence and praises.

more..soon.

Bewitched in layers

Hefty sandwich for lunch 

oh and there's work..so much work. From preparing the guest room to binge watching new anime series. Yessir..I'm hooked on to a new anime series called 'Mononoke' not to be confused with 'princess Mononoke' 

More on this series later, for I am only on the second episode and I can't get enough of the conflagration of colours that has entranced my screen. 

The animations have a beautiful paper quality to them and the coloring feels like it's done with water colours. 

Beautiful!..soon. 

Berserked

It's blazing hot, it's scorching.. one needn't step out unless you wish to sink into an asphalt pool of molten roads.

Hotter also because new episodes of 'Berserk' are out. Yes sir, new Berserk anime series is out.
After the golden age arc in 1997, this is the black swordsman and conviction arc.

If you've read berserk manga, then these series might be a cause of annoyance, because the story progression is really not how it should be. They've stuffed a lot of stuff from many manga volumes into an episode..the pacing comes off all wrong and is a great cause of agitation and concern.
But if you're a fanboy/girl, you'd soon overlook these problems.

If you're a big fan of the 97' series, then the new CG might be a bit of concern, because it doesn't have that anime feel of the original berserk.
The graphics in this are more like amped up computer games graphics with a solid fusion of manga art. It doesn't disappoint, just that it takes a while to sink in. There's a lot of depth, they've left no stones unturned in the detailing but it might take a bit getting used to.
The music isn't remotely as ethereal and haunting as the series, but it's not bad either.
So it's going to be a bit acquired, but as a diehard fan of anything 'berserk', these concerns, conveniently die a hipster death when you glue yourself to watching Guts' sword in action, spilling blood, crunching ribs and shattering skulls.

So yeah, nice and violent..good on gore and blood splatter..all the ingredients of 'berserk'

These are days of momentous mourning, since downloading doesn't feel the same, post kickass fiasco.

https://www.monova.org/torrent/41655065/bakedfish-berserk-2016-01-720paac-mp4.html

I found subbed episodes on this link, hope this works..in case.

snow way & a bit on binging

so yeah, there's been a bit of snow, everything's white and glistening..and excuse the innuendo.

A bit about binge watching..

I've mentioned somewhere in these forgotten archives about my inability to ration on tv/anime series, and how imperative it is to formulate something of a binge watchers anonymous, or binge rehab, cuz goddamnit I binge watch to the point that I'm ashamed of my existence..and then some. 

In the past two weeks, I've finished with an anime series (Unlimited blade works, 25 episodes), house of cards S01& S02, Narcos..and every couple days I update myself on the running American dad & Family guy seasons. 

So one can effectively say that I've no life.

I finished Herushingu (anime series) in two days exact (and I'm not proud of that), but can one help it if these things are so addictive? I've nothing in my system that even minutely resembles self control and when faced with enjoyable series dilemma it goes in for a complete search & destroy mode. It's like you've tasted blood and why stop with a small sip when you can plunge your head in the bloody cauldron and drink till you've emptied its contents, after which you move on to fresher pastures. 

Too much of a good thing is bloody wonderful..and then the inevitable..you've exhausted all the good stuff. Now lurk on the precipice of threadbare average and try to enjoy those..Been there, done that..and binge watched those as well. 

Life, where art thou? It could be possible you might have shimmered in front of me and received a swift kick in the pants cuz you might have gotten in the way of my binge watching. 

My Top 5 lame anime list

ANIME..

To say that I love them would be a gross understatement. 

I.THRIVE.ON.THEM.

They reach life so differently. Wow!

how you say in video games — it's not the graphics. It's the gameplay. And that's exactly how it translates to anime's. It has soul a plenty, and graphics are to die for, yes.

But this blog isn't about anime glory. 

It's about anime's (series and movies) that I'd enthusiastically watched, but didn't care much for them by the time they were done.

1. Samurai X. 

This series wasn't as good as samurai x: trust and betrayal, in fact it was too shōnen for me to like.

Ok, the first arc was interesting. Shishio Makoto was a formidable villain and there was decent sword fighting too, but a lot of it didn't appeal to me. 

The later arcs were not so great, in fact it felt like it jumped the ship. 

Fair warning: if you're looking for seinan this ain't for you, as it wasn't for me. 

( but I watched all the episodes. Binged on some too)

2. Macross plus 

The only reason I watched this movie was because shinchiro watnabe was its co director. 

Totally mecha, science fiction and great music score by Yoko Kanno, and 'voices' was a great song. But that's about it. 

The male characters were too manly, the girl a whimpering fool and I didn't get the logic behind why she cared so much for her rapist and didn't want him to feel guilty about raping her??!?? 

I mean I just didn't get it.

3. Code Geass 

The story of this series was fantastic, lot of mecha and weird philosophy, and cliffhangers et al.

However it screamed shōnen, school antics and silly school dating stories, and a twisted gifted school kid (Lelouch) parading as 'zero' empowered by Geass. Its sequel - 'Lelouch of the rebellion' was still better, but hardly awesome. 

So this was a no go.

4. Steins;Gate

This was an anime series, made on a Japanese game of the same name. It felt like a nerd prequel to edge of tomorrow. 

Again shōnen. It started totally science, and ended like a childlike love story; in fact the first few episodes were full on fuzzy physics and it was fantastic for a while, but soon after that it became a lot of useless plot points and side story. It really didn't need a romantic angle in between the mystery and the time machine, but goddamit, it became so ridiculously silly towards the end that it started to drag. 

5. Last exile

 Nothing really wrong with this anime, except that it was not gripping. At all. 

Out and out steam punk with lovely graphics and wonderful story, but it was too easy to spot the tried out formulas and it was predictable too :( 

More lists coming coming soon. 

Mushishi anime

http://youtu.be/sjwlkQd8_4E

Mushishi is one of those animes that makes you feel like your brain is a contortionist. 

It's a next level ultimately superior thought tangent stratosphere mind boggling anime. 

That stuff is loaded with awesome. 

Like if it were a cake, it'd be a cake prepared by a celestial eyed, plant life based Angelic geisha.