Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - Fuck Yeah!!

My passion for this manga series has been relit and goddamn the new anime is awesome.
The thing I like about the new anime is that it doesn't seem like a really bad fan-fiction like how the other one felt, the first try at a fullmetal anime was not interesting enough, like seriously after reading "After being revived, Edward risks his life to bring back his brother in exchange. As a result, Edward ends up in a parallel world..." you have to admit it seems like a fan-fiction gone horribly wrong.

I also realise parts of the new anime have been shortened and small details, like the inclusion of poor Mason, have been removed, but I understand it's to not confuse and have to go into too much detail. I still like it, at least it still keeps close enough to the main story and god the animation seems so crisp and so much more actiony than I remember the first series, it has a nice flow and pleases my eyes.

Also the manga is getting so interesting, want to read more!!

DIGIMON ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION!!

Just last night I was sitting down watching T.V. with my boyfriend. Suddenly this advert comes on -


Of course instantly i didn't realise what the advert was for, i just recognised the music, i had heard it on that advert before, funny it is that i was so troubled by the music that i didn't realise it was an advert about erectile dysfunction. I thought i must recognise the music from an anime.

And i remembered.



Please to be comparing the music from said advert to the music on the first 34 or so seconds of this video.

TRAVA: Fist planet

Trava: Fist Planet

I recently stumbled across this on youtube whilst looking at AMV's of Dead Leaves to get some inspiration to draw an action based image. What a surprise it was to find something else in the same intriguing block bold shaded and flat coloured style. I quickly without hesistation went straight to watching it.

At first i wasn't too sure about it, i liked that it was in japanese with subtitles and not a godawful dub as most dubs prove to be, don't get me wrong sometimes there are good ones but when it comes to adding the english dub it seems like hardly as much effort is put in compared to japanese voice casting.
As i carried on watching i suddenly began to get hooked, enjoying the characters and their quirky designs and the mystery of what they were doing led me on to watch more. Unfortunately there were only four episodes which made me sad that i was not yet able to witness what exactly the fist planet tournament was like but left me happy to have been able to watch something so fun.

I recommend this to anyone who has a similar taste in action packed cartoon fun as me. It follows a short story about Trava, an ex-military power user, and his mechanic, Shinkai, surveying a small planet to raise money for entry to the Fist Planet Tournament.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqPRgMlWEUI&feature=channel_page
here is the link to the youtube upload of this
the links to the other ones will probably be easy to find down the side of the page.


Dead Leaves
(デッド リーブス, Deddo Rībusu)

Talking of Dead Leaves, this is another brilliant work of the same style. This is by far one of my most favourite anime movies. It is short and leaves you feeling mildly visually violated, in a good way.
There is not too much talking and plenty of action, fast fights and loads of brilliant effects to drive the senses wild. I have this on DVD which i was surprised to find sitting there on the shelf in HMV months back and quickly nabbed it as i had remembered hearing about it from somewhere. I was quick to fall in love with it.
I would say you should watch it in Japanese as i have tried to watch the dub but honestly Jaxon Lee does not sound good as the voice of Retro and there is alot more passion seemingly put into the voice acting by Kappei Yamaguchi, especially at a particular scene.
Unfortunately i have been unable to find anything but the dub on youtube so you may have to settle with that or by chance find and buy or rent it for yourself or hunt it down in torrents or websites to sate your need to watch it.

Until then have a good peek at this trailer to get a taste for it.





ALSO whilst on the subject
FLCL
(Aka フリクリ, Furi Kuri / Fooly Cooly)

another action filled piece of greatness. It is not quite drawn in the same way but has a similar feel (i believe there were people who may have worked on all these things i have so far talked of).
This lasts longer then the others and has a bit more of a plot line though at first it may seem confusing and bizarre it soon makes sense if you think about it. Though it is still short in comparison to other more popular anime series it still manages to entertain and inspire me though still leaving you feeling like you're missing something as it finishes so soon. Throughout music by The Pillows is used, who i believe to be a fairly brilliant Japanese Band, which adds a great atmosphere to the series too.
It is a wierd tale of a 12 year old boy called Naota and his life which seems boring and the strange happenings that entail due to the arrival of a certain extra terrestrial known as Haruhara Haruko.

A link to the first part of the first episode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3z_PtpqQ-s



ALSO

OvalXOver




i don't know much about this and i can't find anything with subtitles
but it sure as fuck looks smooth.

LUCHA LIBRE

Well it's been a while and christmas has just been (i hope you all had a good one) so today my topic is "Lucha Libre". I recently just got this comic, i had found it a little while back and it caught my interest unfortunately i had to wait until today to get my mitts upon this item and let my eyes roam freely across it's glossy full colour pages.


It is brilliant. A cracking book.
The art style is delicious, action-filled, colourful and the story is interesting and funny.

So what is this comic book i so suddenly have fallen in love with about?

Lucha Libre is an anthology of comic books that are written by Jerry Frissen. The comic is regularly illustrated by Gobi, Bill, Fabien M., Hervé Tanquelle, Nikola Witko along with several other guest artists (again, the style of the illustrations is superb).

There are various stories about a range of characters.

Firstly there are the Luchadores 5.

These guys are a group of 5 middle aged latino men who all don lucha libre masks and protect east L.A. They face arange of unusual and entertaining foes but are usually seen by the pulic as a group of overgrown nerds rather then a group of superheroes.

Then there is Tequila.

Tequila is another who dons a lucha libre mask and faces the daily rigors of married life in a trailer park but ends up on the run as he is framed for the death of a friend.

The Tikitis.

A team of supposedly science minded superheroes (who also wear lucha libre masks, of course) who have retired to a small island in the South Pacific and charged with preventing its strongest resident 'King Katch' from leaving the island.

There are more characters that i have yet to discover as i only have this one book and i'm sure there are a many few of these stories that have yet to be read but i can say this book has won my heart. I've already grown fond of the Luchadores five, particularly Red Demon and Dr. Pantera (though i like all 5 of them of course) and i do so like Tequila and his wife Cheryl very much. But enough talk about this, i'm sure you can go read up more information about this if you wanna know more but i must say, if you like the sound of it, buy it, it's brilliant or at least in my opinion it is.

Let's start this shit then....

Well, today i'm gonna talk about music.

Lately i've been finding some very cool tunes but there are some new bands that i was introduced to a while back by a good friend.

These bands i would like to recommend to any one who likes music like : The klaxons, CSS, Daft Punk etc.

First things first: Metronomy

These are an electric music group.
The current band consists of Joseph Mount(Composer, Singer, Keyboards and Guitar), Oscar Cash (Saxophone, Backing Vocals and Keyboards) and Gabriel Stebbing (Keyboards, Backing Vocals and Bass Guitar)

I once visited Oscar Cash's myspace music page, he had some pretty sweet redo's of songs worth checking out especially his version of golden skans.

Songs that i would recommend are : Radio Ladio, My Heart Rapid, Thing for me (i don't know if they have released this yet) and Heartbreaker.

Second recommendation: Late Of The Pier (LOTP)

They have done some amazing stuff that makes you just wana get up and groove along.

I like all the songs on their album "Fantasy Black Channel" of which i would recommend also. Particularly i like : The Bears are Coming, Space and the Woods, Broken and Bathroom Gurgle.


Thirdly (for people who like Kate Nash or folk/acoutic stuff): Laura Marling

She does Folk-Pop and man has she got some beautiful songs going on.
My mother introduced me to her music and the first song i fell in love with was "The Man Who Sings About Romance", i have seen this brilliant tune go by a few other names such as The Man Sings and The Man He Sings, i can't find it on youtube but i did find it on imeem.

Some other songs i really do love by her are: Ghosts, Mexico and It's Only My Opinion.

I don't hear about many people liking these artist very often but they, in my opinion, are worth a listen, you might find a song you like.

Be sure to tell me if you're a fellow fan or even just say that you liked something here or even recommend something else by these people.

So dig open those earholes and let the music flow~~

FIRST POST

HEY! look, i'm on a website doing a blog!

yeah i'm cool and full of radfunk

expect to be bored by my meaningless rambles!

leeeeettttt'''ssssssss gooooooooooooooooooo!!!!