For some strange reason, people seem to enjoy when I review things. I don’t know when I gave the impression I know anything about anything but I guess them’s the breaks. XD
On that note; here’s the latest review I’ve done for Otakus and Geeks.
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New Reviews! :D
I’ve expanded my reviewing to manga over and O&G. There are two more for your reading pleasure!
In These Words and Blade of the Immortal vol 25.
Enjoy everyone! 😀
Monday Writing Update
Holy crap, Monday. Pull no punches, why don’t cha? *chugs coffee*
Anyways, after a stressful week, I am hoping to make up for my complete lack of motivation to write and fly through my word count goals for the week. Those goals include but are not limited to:
- Finish Winter Boot
- Start one anthology entry
- Edit 10 pages of Greenhouse
- Finish another review for Otakus and Geeks
I have been “subtly encouraged: to hurry and finish Greenhouse and honestly? I’m over due with that. I should have finished it months ago. You guys deserve to hear what happens next with Darjeeling and how Auris plans t0 exact his revenge. >} Dun, dun, DUUUUNNN!!!
No, haven’t had enough coffee yet. Somebody bean meh!
H+ Trailer Review
Sean over at Otakus and Geeks keeps me clued in to the latest news involving impending geekdom I may enjoy. Recently, he’s told me about the impending series H+. Here’s the sneak peak:
I have to say, as someone who’s attached to her smartphone enough that people tease me about having something implanted in my brain so I could be connected all the time, I am intrigued! 😀 I can’t wait for this series to start (should be in August). Like I need another thing to distract me from writing but the episodes are only 5-12 minutes long (I hear) so I think I can spare that. 😉
The idea of technology gone wrong is hardly new but I like the track H+ is taking with it. It seems to be filmed in the same style of 24 or Lost where you are taken through the story in small chunks at a time and not necessarily in order. I enjoy that format because I can go back when the story is complete and discover new things. I live for those “Ah HA!!!” moments in my entertainment. 😉 I feel almost rewarded by sticking to the narrative.
I have high hopes for this series and I’ll keep you all posted on my thoughts as it goes on. 🙂
Devil May Cry: The Complete Series – Anime Review
I was so excited to get this dvd collection as a big fan of the first two games. Sadly, this anime is completely forgettable. Even the battle scenes and gratuitous posing are standard anime fair. I would have liked to see the plot from the games play out without risking dying in the game play and I was very disappointed.
Speaking as a girl gamer/geek, I was also let down by every major female character. Lady and Trish are so freakin annoying! Patty is a little girl. She’s supposed to be annoying at times when its convenient to the plot but the hunters are catty poseaholics who live only to cause Dante trouble and drive him deeper in to debt. They seem to help him only by accident.
And don’t get me started on Dante being a perpetually poor demon PI. If I want that, I’ll get the DVD set of Dresden.
All in all, I’m glad I borrowed this form a library instead of buying it. It’s so very bland and formulaic I would have kicked myself for spending the money.
Finished that Book Review!
The nice fellows over at Otakus and Geeks (who think I know stuff for some reason) have asked me to be their book reviewer. 🙂 Here is my first review for them if you’d like to check them out.
They’re a good bunch and friends of mine so be kind when you drop by. 😉
Updated book count!
2. The Demon Lover, by Juliet Dark
5. Never Cry Wolf, by Cynthia Eden
8. The Woman In Black, by Susan Hill
9. No Longer Human, by Osamu Dazai
10. The The Lady Flees Her Lord, by Michele Young
11. Eternal Hunger by Laura Wright
12. A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison
13. Eternal Captive by Laura Wright
14. Eternal Blood by Laura Wright
15. Eternal Kiss by Laura Wright
Clothes and Romance: Paradise Kiss review
This anime, based on this manga by Ai Yazawa, tells the story of a high school girl (there’s a shocker) Yukari, who usually has her nose to the grindstone trying to get through her high school exams. Unlike her perfect little brother, Yukari has to study nearly to death just to get by. Yet one day, a guy in punk rock gear chases her into a giant drag queen and everything changes.
Much like reality, life is meaningless and colorless without a drag queen in it, and Yukari discovers an entirely new world of possibility when it’s revealed these strange people she meets are part of Paradise Kiss; a group of fashion school students working together to start their own line of clothing and win the school’s competition. They all feel to win, they need Yukari as a model.
Enter George. Ok, George is kind of a dick and that’s being kind. As the resident bishonen, he’s charming, superhawt and omg, you just wanna bite him (says the anime, I seem to be immune), but he also has a short temper when it comes to little high school girls who think they know everything and expect men to do things for them without a lick of effort on their part. To which I agree. But he’s in COLLEGE! If you want that sort of maturity in your girlfriends, try not wooing high school girls!
I won’t spoil the outcome of the series but I will say, just like in the manga, Yukari gets better as she goes along. She learns there is more than one road to success outside ceaseless studying. The world has color and life and should be looked at every so often.
If you like the books, you should check out the anime just to see the fashions in glorious color and movement. They make so much more sense than back when I read the books. However, if you already read them, borrow the anime. I just don’t see much point in watching this one more than once. *shrugs*
Finally, the Peach Girl review
Since I’ve had the type of day leaving me with my foot up and ice pack on my ankle, I’m making the rounds on all my blogs to do some sorely needed updating. I need to keep off the foot and keep it on ice till I wrap it for bed so it’s a very good use of my time. 🙂
Peach Girl follows the adventures of Momo, a Japanese high school girl with dark skin and light hair. People think she’s an empty headed party girl but since she’s on the swim team, the chlorine bleached her hair and the sun tanned her skin. All the wants is to be taken seriously as a normal girl, fall in love with her middle school crush, Toji, and be happy. But her "friend" Sae just keeps screwing things up for her in the most malicious ways.
As a fan of the manga, I was just completely stoked to see it on screen. I could see they changed some plot points here and there but it’s generally verbatim from the books. This is pure high school drama and I love every freaking moment of it!! Hell, I even knew the end and I was still biting my teeth and crying like a big mush by the end of it. XD I love this series!! In fact, if you wanna get the Lenni a gift… Naw, I’m kidding. But if you like lovable characters and are the type to yell at the screen when a character does something stupid, this is totally the anime for you. There’s no blood, no guts, no mechs, no sex (that rhymes on purpose) but it’s perfect. Kudos, Miwa Ueda; the anime version of your manga is excellent. ^_^
On a totally random note: I added more to my Zazzle shop. There’s a few sketches I did on stuff now. Yay…
Now, back to icing my ankle. =_=
It’s been awhile! And an anime review
I’ve been really busy trying to get Dreamhunter ready for re-publishing and brainstorming ideas for that other anthology I want to query. But in between those things, I managed to get my hands on some anime! So, here’s a long overdue review of Maria Watches Over Us.
I’ve watched season one and two and I’ve come to two conclusions:
1) I have a weakness for shojo. I can’t help it. As warped as I am, give me a good silly story with decent characters and I get emotionally invested. I wanted to know everything about these girls and I wanted them to have beautiful friendships with their "sisters" (it’s kinda their way or mentoring in the school they attend) for the rest of their lives. I laughed with them, teared up when they cried and genuinely wanted them to graduate and succeed.
2) Yuri is nothing like Yaoi. When searching around, this title came up under Yuri and me being ME, I’m thinking "If it’s anything like the yaoi titles I’ve seen, this is gonna be demented and I would want the rest of my family to be far away when I’m watching it." Not even close. Maria is primarily focused on the emotional relationships between the girls. In fact, it’s ONLY focus is how the friendships function and why, and how they grow and change over time. Grab any yaoi manga or video and that’s SO not the case. Given that the market for both genres is the same (young women) you’d think there’d be some more emotion in yaoi or more… *achem* sleeze in the yuri. While I am VERY glad there’s no sleeze in Maria (it’s set in high school, for gods sakes…) I see this divide everywhere. Even in so called yuri manga. Even if the women are obviously in love, they barely share more than a meaningful glance. Meanwhile, the men are boning like jack rabbits through the whole damn thing, sometimes before they even know each other’s names.
So, if you’re looking for Maria to be like say, the female version of Kizuna, you will be absolutely disappointed. But if you want a classic high school drama filled with real emotion that keeps you going to the next episode, I encourage you to watch Maria. It’s just too adorable for words.
Oh, and keep voting for my story on Web Fiction. They refresh the votes every week so daily voting keeps me in the top 5. 😉
I’m almost done with Peach Girl so I’ll be reviewing that next. 😉