This post will state the upcoming DVD/Blu-Ray release dates for certain anime.

Most of the Fall ‘09 animes are starting their releases.

22 Dec ‘09:

Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd GIG (Volume 2) [Blu-Ray]

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Special Edition-II – End of the World [Blu-Ray] [DVD]

Genshiken 2 Box [DVD]

Sacred Blacksmith (Volume 01) [Blu-Ray] [DVD]

23 Dec ‘09:

Serial Experiments Lain RESTORE  Box [Blu-Ray]

Darker than BLACK – Ryuusei no Gemini (Volume 1) [Blu-Ray] [DVD]

The Twelve Kingdoms Box [Blu-Ray]

Black Lagoon (Volume 1 & 2) [Blu-Ray 01 & 02]

Inu Yasha: The Final Act (Volume 1) [DVD]

Kimi no Todoke (Volume 1) [DVD]

Kampfer (Volume 1) [Blu-Ray] [DVD]

25 Dec ‘09:

The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi 5.571428 (Volume 5) [DVD]

11Eyes (Volume 1) [Blu-Ray] [DVD]

Sora no Otoshimono (Volume 1) [DVD]

Note: The three images are the DVD covers of the anime in bold.

[All links lead to CDJapan.]

Back for more baby let’s do this. By the way, today I finally reached comment 2000. That’s pretty crappy considering this site is almost a year old. On to the good stuff.

Samurai 7 -Shimada Kambei

*This show was dropped at 23

In the actual live action/originally film done by Akira Kurosawa (which was absolutely brilliant), my favorite character was quite easily Kikuchiyo, but they turned him into a fucking stupid Robot in this one, which not only made me angry, but mad, flustered, perturbed, and angry as well (not to mention angry). Of course, the characters weren’t all that bad in this anime, but the immensely slow pacing and lack of any type of action/points of intrigue were a problem, and the main reason why I dropped the show (the whole robot adaptation thing also pissed me off a bit, and seemed kind of corny and stupid to me).

I’ll go ahead and say that Kambei is my favorite character, just because he looks like the man, and acts like the man, and thus, is the man. He’s also a nasty fighter.

Samurai Champloo – Mugen

Well let’s see, considering that Mugen is my header, I’d say that most people could tell beforehand who I was going to choose here. Mugen is the man. Mugen kicks ass. Mugen is voiced by Kazuya Nakai.

The End.

Wait: Mugen is fucking awesome, and one of the best characters ever, which can also be said for the series.

The End for real.

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (all seasons) -Matoi Tsunetsuki

Before I even begin this, I will say that the cast of SZS is the best that I have seen ever, besides Hayate and maybe FMA. I honestly could put almost any character in a top spot for almost any other show. but among the many awesome characters, My favorite would have to be Matoi Tsunetsuki, because, quite obviously, she’s a stalker, and stalkers rule (in anime). She stalks whoever she falls in love with, and she has fallen in love with Nozomu, and thusly always shows up at points where you least expect, because she’s literally always stalking Nozomu. It’s great. I give her the ASA (Anime Stalker Award) for her great performance at being a stalker.

Other Notables:

• Chiri Kitsu – Crazy Bitch.
• Abiru Kobushi – Bandage Girl who steals tails from animals.
• Kiri Komori – Hikikomori girl, except instead of staying at home, she stays at school, wrapped in a blanket.

Never mind Notables. I would have to name every single character. God I love this show.

School Days – Kotonoha Katsura

Meet Kotonoha, a quiet girl for the most part. She is generally shy around people, and it takes a LOT for her to actually confess to the main character, Makoto. Eventually the two date, and couldn’t be happier. Then a few small things happen, and when it’s all said and done, she is carrying around Makoto’s head in a dufflebag, and even killed her rival for Makoto’s affections. What a dynamic character.

Sengoku Basara – Nobunaga Oda

I really, REALLY, shouldn’t have to explain this one, but I will anyway:

1. Voiced by Norio Wakamoto.
2. Drinks for a fucking SKULL.
3. Kills EVERYTHING.
4. Doesn’t give a SHIT (about killing whoever, whenever).
5. Just fucking awesome.

I’m done!

Serial Experiments: Lain – Lain

In this, completely awesome show, which is one of the coolest shows I’ve seen, Lain is probably one of the most dynamic characters that I’ve seen. At the start of the series, Lain is nothing more than a shy 14-year-old girl, living a seemingly normal life, until she’s introduced to The Wired (kind of like the internet). From here, she…….well….I don’t want to ruin it in case no one’s seen this show (go watch it now), but Lain changes in several ways. personally, I loved this anime’s complexity and how it dealt with the definition of reality, along with the definition of one’s self (did I even get that right?).

I kinda want to re watch this now.

Shakugan no Shana – Shana

Well, not a big surprise here. Shana, besides being one of Rie Kugimiya’s most well-known characters, is actually one of the best tsundere characters…..ever. I’m sure by now most people know that I really really really really like Shakugan no Shana, and all of its characters are great, but Shana? Pffffffff. Fagetaboutttt it. First there’s the character design. Although it’s pretty much the norm for most Rie Kugimiya characters (short, no breasts), Shana is a Flame Haze, and is generally awesome when she decides to get serious. Here hair pretty much turns to fire, and she looks fucking awesome. Then of course there’s her.

As a character, Shana has a lot on her plate. Not only does she slice up the bad guys with an awesome SAMURAI SWORD, but she also deals with adapting to human interaction (or I guess Torch interaction at first). In the beginning, she seemed pretty apathetic when a person died or became a torch, but through interacting with Yuji, she begins to change, and develops feelings of love and friendship (honestly that’s not even a reason why I like her, I just like her because she looks cool, kicks ass, and is played by Rie Kugimiya).

The second season was pretty shitty, and Shana kind of got annoying (as did all of the characters) until they started fighting, where Shana suddenly became fucking awesome again, and whooped ass.

Shaman King – Anna Kyoyama

She is Yoh’s fiancée by arranged marriage, and is pretty much awesome, because she is such a bitch, but at the same time, you can tell that she has genuine feelings for Yoh. She is always the person who has to whip Yoh into shape and force him to get his ass in gear, and she also demands. See the picture above? That’s her general demeanor. She rarely smiles. Oh, and yes, she has powers.

I didn’t have much to say about her, but despite that, she’s actually one of my favorite characters (I’m not going to try and rank her, but out of all the characters on this list, she’d be in the better half of them.

Shikabane Hime – Hokuto

First and foremost, as you can tell, she’s a crazy bitch. Considering that she’s a Shikabane with no regrets, or feelings whatsoever, she treats everything like a kid seeing something for the first time. Except she’s a kid who likes to just kill everything. If you say, “Kill that person,” then she’ll start laughing, and kill that person, and not just kill them, but shred them to pieces. It’s a nice trait to have.

Point number two, look at her eyes. They’re inverted, which is like heterochromia to another level. AWESOME. Not to mention the white hair and the crazy red mark on the left of her face (her left). She’s just one more reason to like Shikabane Hime (which was good).

Simoun – Aer

Aer is the best. Neviril is the worst. That is how it goes with me. In case you didn’t read the picture title, Aer is the one on the left (your left). What makes this whore so special?

Well first of all, she’s a whore. Okay that’s not true, but as far as characters go, she was one character that was upbeat and fun, and helped make this anime become really good. She really went at Neviril (in a lesbian way, although not technically), and that’s something I can respect. not much more to say here, but I do want to touch on he show a little bit.

Simoun was a great show (even though I got a bit confused by the ending). But to say that it’s yuri? Meh. Not really. You see, in their world, all people are born as females, and then later choose to be males, or remain as females. So technically, nothing is really yuri from the stand point of the characters. Any relationships (or most anyway) that form between these girls usually would not be yuri, because one of the girls would more than likely eventually decide to become a man (gotta make babies). Of course, this show still managed to produce a set of lesbian incest girls, but that’ Japan for you.

I understand that that explanation sucked. But I sort of, kind of got out what I was trying to say.

Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo – Honoko Kawai

I’m beginning to think that all shows starting with the letter “S” are instantly awesome. I like almost every single show on this list so far, albeit the first one. Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo is no different. Great show, great cast, great greatness. I almost picked Jun Fukuyama’s character, which was almost like a robot version of Lelouch, albeit funnier (I need to stop saying “albeit”), but in the end, Honoka’s greatness could not be overcome. Reasons:

• She’s got a fucking cool hat.
• Telekinetic powers and glowing red eyes.
• She’s a typical quite girl character.
• She’s just, really, awesome.

Spice and Wolf – Horo

Anyone who’s seen Spice and Wolf knows that Horo makes the show. Her personality is so awesome, that without her, the show would suck. Fortunately, the show includes her, so it is actually really really good. Basically, Horo is a couple things.

Firstly, she loves to tease Lawrence. Sometimes she acts turned on by him, just to get a reaction out of him. Sometimes she asks odd questions, to make him embarrassed. However, despite her teasing, it’s pretty obvious that she has genuine feelings for Lawrence, and here she develops sort of a tsundere attitude (sort of). She’s not full tsundere, but she definitely displays characteristics of one.

Why else is she awesome? Well for one, she loves eating and getting shit faced on  regular basis. Does that really make her cool though? Yes. Yes it does.

Strike Witches – Mio Sakamoto

Strike Witches, despite being a bunch of lolis without pants, was actually a pretty good show, and I was able to tolerate the blatant fanservice because I kind of enjoyed the plot (zippin around in those boot things looked kinda fun). Anyway, Mio Sakamoto. Look at the picture (stare HARD) and you should find out one reason why I like her.

That’s right, a magical eye that is covered by an eye patch. What can I say, I dig the eye patch. They make any character look cool. Even Watanuki looks cooler when he has an eye patch (in fact, I’d say the episodes got better when he had an eye patch too….God I miss xxxHOLiC).

Besides this, she wields a samurai sword and has an attitude of a winner. She’s a born leader and has the ability to not take shit, or act like moe garbage, or realize that she’s in a fanservice anime, like most of the other girls in this show.

Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu – Yuki Nagato

Well, here is a character who for some reason I keep reverting back to when I see other characters like her. She’s a typical quiet character, but she certainly isn’t the first. However, she is probably one of the most popular.

First of all, I would like to say that anyone who thinks that Mikuru is the best character can either suck my dick, jump off a cliff, or punch themselves in the privates until they become numb. Mikuru sucks. She’s just fucking annoying in so many ways. She cries and gets embarrassed all the time. She’s honestly just a pain. Where was she on my top 5 most hated characters post, is what I want to know.

Anyway, back to Yuki. She’s an alien, which is awesome. She’s all business, and rarely talks, which is awesome, and she’s generally awesome, which is awesome. I mean, she had to go through the endless eight around 15 thousand times. We only had to endure it for 9 or so episodes. I might have to consider her a bad ass now (she does do some bad ass stuff).

Well with that I have finished “S”. I’m probably going to do two more of these posts (maybe three). Almost at the end baby!

“If you don’t remember something, it never happened…

If you don’t remember someone, that person never existed…”

~Serial Experiments Lain

I love this quote in that it summarizes the human condition in two simple sentences.

Isn’t it true that once we die, in some hundred or two hundred years, our footprints would be no more? Once our peers die and once our descendants move on (hell, I don’t even know my great grandparents and it’s only been a century or so since their death), no one will remember us.

And thus, our existence would have amounted to nothing.

If no one remembered the terrorist bombings of 9/11, it never happened. If no one remembered the holocaust, it never happened. Events only get their significance if people acknowledge their existence. Events become forgotten, as human lives will be, if people forget about their existence.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons for the existence of this blog. Perhaps one day, when I move on, some one will stumble upon my humble (oh the irony) webspace. Perhaps then I shall live again – in someone else’s life.

Isn’t it true, that we only live if people acknowledge our life?

On a more cheery note, I got my F4 Special Edition CD from Yesasia.com along with four pairs of earrings. Now my collection of Asian music amounts to some thirty CD’s including albums from 周杰伦， 林俊杰，F.I.R., 光良，陶喆， DBSK, Super Junior, Mika Nakashima, Fahrenheit, Bi Rain, Boys Over Flowers OST, and BoA.

On the left are my DBSK CD's and my new F4 Special Edition CD; On the right are my new Hero Jaejoong wavy cross earrings

YesAsia was a pretty decent seller. The customer service was quick and always responded helpfully to my payment inquiries. Shipping is quite quick too. The only drawback was that they damaged the case of my F4 CD by wrapping it in bubble wrap. The paper casing (the black case shown above) got bent. The plastic CD case was fine, however. This is just like how UPS bent my cubes from Architecture camp.

I also took to painting these past few days. I’m working on my first real painting ever – I’m serious – I’ve never painted in my life (okay, other than that time in Art and Design class where we painted a flower on thick chipboard. But it wasn’t real painting anyways)

On the left is my flower on Saturday night; On the right is my flower on Sunday night (haha I paint at night >_>;;) Yeah... I need to work on my painting skillz (wait - what skills?)

I’m still not done with the painting – contemplating on editing the flower a bit. The canvas measures 9″x12″. I’m using acrylic paint (lol – the paint that’s been sitting in my cabinet for over a year…).

I actually started the flower about two years ago. I painted the flower body and drew in pencil the outlines for the leaves. I never got to work on it more, however, and let it sit. I had a sudden impulse to paint on Saturday (at midnight… ha), and pulled up my vase of flowers (and I had to use another flower to model my painting because I don’t remember which flower I used to model the original painting).

Okay. Enough of that. Gotta go work on the homework on which I procrastinated. Again.

oder auch: Schönen Grüß zurück an Klaus!

Deine Zögerlichkeit gegenüber Anime-Serien ist vollauf berechtigt, zu groß ist ganz einfach der Ausschuss. Aber du hast eine glückliche Hand mit der Wahl der Serien erwiesen, die du dir bislang doch zu Gemüte geführt hast – und mit Haibane Renmei machst du ganz sicherlich nichts falsch. Das ist eine der (leider recht wenigen) Serien, an die ich nicht nur den üblichen Maßstab anderer Anime anlege, sondern auch ohne Bedenken mit großer und größerer Filmkunst vergleiche. Und selbst da schneidet Haibane Renmei reichlich gut ab. Dafür sind so einige Dinge verantwortlich, etwa die ätherisch schöne, kontemplative, introspektive Stimmung, die der Anime schafft; die schon mythische Geschichte, die die Grundfesten der menschlichen Existenz berührt; oder der Soundtrack von Ôtani Kô, ganz ohne Übertreibung einer der besten, der je für einen Anime geschrieben worden ist.

Das liegt vor allen Dingen aber an ABé Yoshitoshi (kein Tippfehler, nur Exzentrik). Der Mann hat nicht nur Haibane Renmei entworfen, geschrieben und gezeichnet  – kurzum, es ist sein Werk -, sondern war mit Serial Experiments: Lain und Texhnolyze auch an zwei weiteren bemerkenswerten Anime beteiligt. Nicht ganz zufällig. Er hat das große Glück, in einer Branche, die nach DVD-Verkäufen bemessen und entsprechenden Anreize finanziert wird, sein eigenes Ding machen zu können. Wie der Manga hier beweist, in dem er – wunderschön unflätig – erstens den Boom der moé-Designs angeht und zweitens zu verstehen gibt, dass er sonstwas darauf gibt. Und auch geben darf. Dafür bin ich dankbar.

Natürlich ist ABé aber nicht der einzige Kreative der Branche, der mit seinem Schaffen herausragt. Da sind noch einige weitere zu nennen. Spannend wird es immer dann, wenn zwei oder mehr von ihnen zusammentreffen. Das war bei Serial Experiments: Lain der Fall, als ABé die Designs für ein Drehbuch von Konaka Chiaki J. und die Regie von Nakamura Ryutaro lieferte. Die drei laufen sich immer wieder über den Weg – zuletzt arbeiteten Konaka und Nakamura zusammen an Ghost Hound, Konaka und ABé waren an Texhnolyze maßgeblich beteiligt. Im nächsten Jahr aber wird sich exakt dieselbe Konstellation wie vor bald zwölf Jahren für Serial Experiments: Lain ergeben, und zwar für den neuen Anime Despera.

Darin soll es um ein Mädchen namens Ain (!) geben, dass sich in einer stark steampunkigen Fassung Tokios der taishô-Ära, ein Jahr vor dem verheerenden Kantô-Erdbeben von 1923, als Erfinderin versucht und Prototypen etwa für Computer baut (!). Also wohl nicht nur ein Nachfolger im Geiste für Serial Experiments: Lain, sondern sogar ein ganz handfester. Abseits der Ankündigungen und einigen – wunderschön anzuschauenden – Promo-Artikeln gibt es leider nicht sehr viel mehr Informationen, auch keine zum genauen Startdatum oder zum ausführenden Studio. Sicher ist nur, dass das Projekt kommen wird. Das reicht aber auch schon, um meine Vorfreude gegen unendlich laufen zu lassen.

Seitokai no Ichizon is in the top half of the MAL ratings for this season, but does the concept show a lack of ambition?

A few months before I started this blog, I decided to take a trip back in time and find out if I had in fact been living a lie, or if anime really was better back in the day. Ten years seemed a decent enough cutoff, so I watched all of the Summer 1998 new shows , all three of them.

This number wasn’t all together too surprising to me, as the explosion in number of new shows had a clear starting point, so watching all 3 should have been easy enough. Turns out it didn’t quite work out like that.

Serial Experiments Lain was something I had always intended to go back and watch at some point anyway. I definitely wasn’t disappointed, but as the best of these shows it looked worryingly dated. A symptom of trying to use technology as the defining plot element in all likelihood.

NightWalker ended up simply being an episodic rehashing of various Western monster cliches packaged into a short series. The ending is also shockingly ruined in the final minutes while hilarious alluding to a second season that never happens.

Shadow Skill seemed a pretty average fantasy/action series with an animation budget that seemed to approach zero with each passing episode. I ended up dropping this before I got to the supposedly awful ending.

So 1 out of 3 dropped, which is about on line with how I am in general, but I don’t think it really means anything here. It could mean I could not want to watch anything longer than 13 episodes (Shadow Skill being 26). More likely, it means I simple watch for the purpose of being entertained and nothing more than that. Instead there was something else that struck me about these three shows. There didn’t seem to be any catering toward a niche audience.

While the steam may be opaque the attempt to drive DVD sales is as transparent as ever

The hallmarks of a lot of more modern anime that I watch like token onsen episodes, blatent attempts to sell more DVDs, casts of characters with no depth so they are easy to write for. Instead it seemed like was about trying to put out the best product possible within whatever meager constraints they had and hoping the quality would sell the show. Essentially all three showed ambition even if 2 of the 3 utterly failed to make a mark on me.

The conclusion I ultimately reached was that in 10 years anime had slowly gone from something desperately trying to reach mass appeal to something that was just content with the safety of a niche audience in 90% of the cases, but lacks confidence in selling itself to that niche. What does the new product say about its intended niche audience though?

Titulo: Serial Experiments Lain
Genero: Ciencia Ficción, Psicologico, Drama
Estudio: Pionner LDC, TV Tokyo y Tatsunoko Pro
Direccion: Ryutar Nakamura
Episodios: 13
Duracion: 24 min.
Año: 1998
Idioma: Dual /Jap / Español latino
Subtitulo : Opcional Japones
Tamaño: 70 ~ 75 mb
Resolucion: 640×480
Calidad de video: DvD Rip – Excelente
Formato: MKV
Estado: Completo
Server: Megaupload, Megavideo
Uploader: AnimeDD

Sinopsis:

Tras el suicidio de una estudiante llamada Chisa Yomoda, sus compañeros de escuela comienzan a recibir extraños correos electrónicos póstumos de Chisa desde la red -o Wired-. Entre ellos se encuentra Lain Iwakura, una niña de 14 años a la que se le hace difícil convivir con los demás. Sin conocer el funcionamiento de una computadora, abre el correo de la joven suicida, y, por curiosidad, trata de descubrir más acerca del tema, pidiéndole a su padre un nuevo Navi para poder conocer más acerca de la Wired

[Online][MU] 01 La Red
[Online][MU] 02 Chicas
[Online][MU] 03 Psique
[Online][MU] 04 Religión
[Online][MU] 05 Distorsión
[Online][MU] 06 Chicos
[Online][MU] 07 Sociedad
[Online][MU] 08 Rumores
[Online][MU] 09 Protocolo
[Online][MU] 10 Amor
[Online][MU] 11 Infornografía
[Online][MU] 12 Paisaje
[Online][MU] 13 Ego

UN RESUMEN DE LO QUE TRATA:

En Serial Experiments Lain se tratan temas como Dios, el inconsciente colectivo, Internet (en este caso, WIRED), teorías conspiratorias y muchos otros temas comunes en la literatura cyberpunk.

Desarrollo de la trama

Tras el suicidio de una estudiante llamada Chisa Yomoda, sus compañeros de escuela comienzan a recibir extraños correos electrónicos póstumos de Chisa desde la red -o Wired-. Entre ellos se encuentra Lain Iwakura, una niña de 14 años a la que se le hace difícil convivir con los demás. Sin conocer el funcionamiento de una computadora, abre el correo de la joven suicida, y, por curiosidad, trata de descubrir más acerca del tema, pidiéndole a su padre un nuevo Navi para poder conocer más acerca de la Wired (que es un sistema de navegación similar a lo que conocemos por internet).

Poco a poco, la vida de Lain comienza a girar sólo a través de la Wired, por lo que su única amiga Arisu (Alice, en inglés) comienza a preocuparse, incitándola a que comience a salir con ella y sus amigas. Así, conoce la existencia de un misterioso Psico chip, que tiempo después le permite entrar a la Wired de forma libre, y que gradualmente la convierte en un ser omnipotente dentro de la Red, como una especie de dios. Conforme, Lain va descubriendo más al respecto, notando que unos extraños hombres de negro comienzan a vigilar su casa, al igual que los knights (especies de hackers dentro de la Wired.)

Gradualmente, Lain se hace famosa dentro de la Wired, ganando un gran prestigio, con lo que también incrementa su poder, y, en consecuencia, pierde el interés por vivir dentro del mundo real.

A medida que descubre nuevas cosas, sus amigas comienzan a recibir rumores acerca de la otra personalidad de Lain (su otro yo del internet, que era completamente distinto) creando confusión. Lain se va a haciendo cada vez más independiente dentro de la Wired, hasta que finalmente descubre que ha dejado de reconocer a su verdadera personalidad, y comienza a preguntarse “¿quién es Lain?”.

Personajes

* Lain Iwakura (岩倉 玲音, Iwakura Rein?) (Lain)

Una niña de 14 años, introvertida y solitaria que sólo tiene una amiga llamada Arisu que intenta acercase a ella, invitándola a bailar junto con sus amigas. Poco a poco Lain comienza a adentrarse en el mundo de la Wired después del correo de Chisa. Pronto Lain empieza a mezclar el mundo de Wired con el real y empieza a plantarse grandes cuestiones como por ejemplo “¿que es dios?”.

* Yasuo Iwakura (岩倉 康男, Iwakura Yasuo?)

El padre de Lain que siempre se preocupa de que a la familia no le falte nada, pero no se da cuenta de lo que realmente les hace falta a sus dos hijas.

* Miho Iwakura (岩倉 美穂, Iwakura Miho?)

La madre de Lain. Acostumbra ver la televisión cuando no se ocupa de la cocina. Con el único que conversa es con su esposo.

* Mika Iwakura (岩倉 美香, Iwakura Mika?)

La hermana mayor de Lain. Al principio no le importaba su familia y pasaba todo el día fuera de casa, aparte de saludarse y hablar de temas de la casa no hablaba más, pero después de un tiempo ella se preocupa más de la familia. En el transcurso de la historia ella se vuelve loca.[4]

* Arisu Mizuki (瑞樹 ありす, Mizuki Arisu?)

También conocida tras la traducción al inglés como Alice. Es la única amiga de Lain. Tiene otras dos amigas que se llaman Reika y Juri. Estas se burlan de Lain, pero Arisu trata de defenderla y mostrarla como inocente de todos los hechos que pasan dentro de la historia, donde Lain es la principal sospechosa.

* Reika Yamamoto (山本 麗華, Yamamoto Reika?)

Una de las mejores amigas de Arisu, que se relaciona con Lain sólo porque ella se lo pide. A Reika le encantan las fiestas y está acorde con los tiempos contemporáneos.

* Yuri Kato (加藤 樹莉, Kato Yuri?)

Otra amiga de Arisu. Tiene características similares a Reika, pasan la mayoría del tiempo juntas, pero ella cree que Lain está metida en algo raro.

* Chisa Yomoda (四方田 千砂, Yomoda Chisa?)

Era una compañera de escuela de Lain, que se quita la vida tirándose de una azotea. No fue amiga de Lain pero sí la vio. Ella fue quién envió un correo por toda la Wired, y también a todos los alumnos diciendo que ella no estaba muerta y que Dios está en la red.

* Taro (タロウ, Taro?)

Es un niño que frecuenta ir a la discoteca Cyberia, donde habla mucho con Lain. Más tarde es de gran ayuda para la protagonista.

* Myu-Myu (ミューミュー, Myu-Myu?) y Masayuki (マサユキ, Masayuki?)

Son amigos de Taro, también van seguido a la Cyberia para reunirse.

* Eiri Masami (英利 政美, Eiri Masami?)

Es el supuesto dios de la Wired, que en realidad murió, su cuerpo se encontró cerca de la vía del tren.

Comentar es agradecer....!!

. Genero: Drama, Ciencia ficción
· Episodios: 13
· Año: 1998
· Idioma: Japonés
· Subtítulos: Castellano
· Fansub: [AnimeDoser]
· Duración: ~ 24 Min.
· Tamaño: ~ 65 MB
· Formato: Mp4
. Calidad: media buena(son los unikos que encontre para converitr en japones con subtitulos), pero su calidad no era tan buena, por ahi hay dvrip en español pero para mi el anime es mejor en su idioma original ya siq ue mejro lso converti del de calidad media buena.

http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/3198404917/Deknisone_Lain_01_-_La_Red_.mp4
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/3198404913/Deknisone_Lain_02_-_Chicas_.mp4
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/3198404915/Deknisone_Lain_04_-_Religion_.mp4
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/3198404954/Deknisone_Lain_05_-__Distorsiion_.mp4
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/3198404938/Deknisone_Lain_06_.mp4
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/3198404956/Deknisone_Lain_07_-__Sociedad.mp4
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/3198404948/Deknisone_Lain_08_-__Rumores_.mp4
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/3198404981/Deknisone_Lain_09_-_Protocolo.mp4
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/3198404977/Deknisone_Lain_10_-_El_Amor.mp4
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/3198404980/Deknisone_Lain_11_-__Infornografia.mp4
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/3198404976/Deknisone_Lain_12_-_Paisaje_.mp4
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/3198404987/Deknisone_Lain_13_-_Ego_.mp4

http://hotfile.com/links/6773462/f9219b0/Deknisone_Lain_01_-_La_Red_.mp4.html
http://hotfile.com/links/6773965/bd13e84/Deknisone_Lain_04_-_Religion_.mp4.html
http://hotfile.com/links/6774169/2e1ea19/Deknisone_Lain_05_-__Distorsiion_.mp4.html
http://hotfile.com/links/6774388/8ded85a/Deknisone_Lain_06_.mp4.html
http://hotfile.com/links/6774709/28c0f3c/Deknisone_Lain_07_-__Sociedad.mp4.html
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http://hotfile.com/links/6774973/6f4e92a/Deknisone_Lain_09_-_Protocolo.mp4.html
http://hotfile.com/links/6775040/e0b08c5/Deknisone_Lain_10_-_El_Amor.mp4.html
http://hotfile.com/links/6775150/15e058b/Deknisone_Lain_11_-__Infornografia.mp4.html
http://hotfile.com/links/6775237/b54567c/Deknisone_Lain_12_-_Paisaje_.mp4.html

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Så såg jag klart Serial Experiments Lain. Återigen sjukt bra anime. Fantastiskt fin stil. Fantastiskt innehåll. Frågor om mänsklig existens. Internet och vad det gör med oss. Jag gillar. Jag gillar skarpt.

他の人の記憶になければ、存在した証明がない。

Sen idag såg jag och Micke (min kompis, inte min bror) klart Paranoia Agent. Jag gillar den också. Likaså där en diskussion om vårt behov av att fly verkligheten och hur man gör för att leva i den här världen. Jag gillar mycket.

ただ、逃げようとしている。

Se de här två animeerna. De är faktiskt värda besväret. De är bara 13 avsnitt vardera (cirka 4 timmar). Väl investerad tid.

Idag fyllde min kära mamma år. Idag fick jag också min första heltidslön för sommarjobbet. Vilken känsla! Spenderade dagen innan jag började jobbet med att köpa present till mor, hon fick dramatenbiljetter, något jag hoppas hon uppskattar. Sen tog jag mig till sf-bokhandeln och tittade lite. Jag unnade mig en dvd-box: Serial Experiments Lain. En av mina absoluta favoritanime som jag länge velat ha inte bara i lågupplöst realplayerformat. Härligt! Nu är det dock slut på unnandet tills nästa lön. Får se vad vi kan hitta på då för något?

Serial Experiments Lain

På rasten på jobbet var jag uppe hos mor och fick lite middag och tårta i en låda med mig till jobbet. Fest liksom! Träffade också alla mostrar, det var trevligt. Sen var det förstås en sunkig kväll på jobbet, men vafan. Så kan det gå. Imorgon är jag ledig och har bokat tvättstugan… Tjoho… Tjohej.

Sometimes, I find myself thinking like Kyon.  I wish that something amazing would happen to me.  Like maybe that if time travellers, ESPers or aliens really existed, my life would be absolutely perfect.  Granted, I wouldn’t have to go on wacky adventures (though that wouldn’t be entirely out of the question), but just knowing that they were out there.  That they really existed and were interacting with the dreary humdrum of everyday life and everyday people might give me some hope in thinking that my life wasn’t so boring after all.

I mean, living in a small city is an amazing feeling, because you feel like you know everything there is to know.  About your surroundings.  About life.  About people.

The world is so closed in that you don’t think about what’s out there.

Well, not everybody!  But I didn’t even realize how encased my life was until I discovered anime.

I know, I know, I know!  Anime is in no way a substitute for life or even a provider of great epiphanies, but the first time I turned on the TV and saw Sailor Moon, my whole life changed.  There was this place, out there across the water and all around the other side of the world, called Japan.  Land of the rising sun.

Growing up in school, we had a few Asian students, most of which were Indian.  They were minorities… there weren’t very many of them and elementary school was pretty miserable if they had accents.  It’s not that we didn’t like them or that we thought they were bad people; it’s just that they were different.  And I think, as children, we were scared.  The adults less so, but I think they were too.  We didn’t think of them as any less than human beings, with equal rights and everything… but it was their own lifestyle, the life they had lived and the life they had left behind that caused the people in my class to stare when they felt that no one was watching.

And then I watched anime.  Suddenly, a whole new world opened up to me.  A world where girls had magical powers and saved the world from evil aliens.  A world where teenagers piloted giant robots in space and fought epic battle after the other, all while still remaining loyal to the ones they fought for.   As world where an ordinary high school girl discovered she was the catalyst to preventing or begining the destruction of a completely fantastical world.   YTV (a Canadian cartoon channel) was my sanctuary.  It was my escape.

Maybe, out in the world, there was a place where monsters that attacked the city were normal.  The more rational side of my childhood said that was impossible.  And the little kid inside my heart never stopped believing.

Even now.

Manga and anime is how I continue to live my dream.  Pretend that magic really exists.

But I’m out of high school now, and have been for a little while.  Those childish fantasies aren’t going to get me anything but laughed at as I get older and disappointed as I continue aging.

So that’s why I’m here, typing this out at a gas station that graciously has provided Wi-Fi.  I’m out to find the magic of real life.  The magic of escaping the town you were born and heading out on your own.  The magic of the wind against your face and helmet as you tear down the highway.  The magic if seeing an empty stretch of road ahead and wondering if anyone can see you as you throw back your head and laugh so loud that the birds fly off fences and electrical towers as you pass by.

This world is connected to me.  And I am connected to the world.  Every action has a consequence, and I’m tired of living in a world where the consequences are isolated to a small cubicle in the corner of the office.  I want to get out.

I want to live.

Hahaha… I was so nervous on my first day; I don’t really remember much of what happened.  I’m just stopping here, about an hour away from Kamloops, for gas and a lunch/snack.  I haven’t really met too many people yet, but I’ve got about five weeks and to fill up that requirement.  Will probably stop in Kamloops to sightsee, then will move on to Revelstoke and stay there for the night.  Will update there, too (hopefully).

Getting crumbs all over my computer…. shoot.  Hope all of you a doing well!  See you guys soon!

Love,

Tally

Here’s a starting point. Over the past 4 or 5 years, I don’t really think I watched more than 12 to 16 anime series. But then I’ve been in shops, looked up trailers and checked titles as well. Also there is all the series that didn’t hook. If you don’t get hooked on a serie, it’d be hard to say it’s a good one (or else they’re missing out on fairly basic devices)

Bear in mind that I’m excluding (maybe literally) hundreds of import.

1. xxxHolic
2. R.O.D the TV
3. Serial Experiments Lain
4. Kino’s Journey

I just fell in a trap, attempting a ranking. Don’t take that too seriously. Now Runner ups.

• Elfen Lied
• Ergo Proxy
• Vampire Princess Miyu
• Wallflower
• Samurai-X
• Saikano

Illustration – xxxHolic, from [To Be 204] (no copyright notice)

Introt till Serial Experiments Lain, en bra cyberpunk-animeserie.

Yoshitoshi ABe es un artista gráfico japonés que se ha destacado mayormente en la producción de trabajos artísticos para manga y anime. Se graduó de la Universidad Nacional de Bellas Artes y Música de Tokyo.

Sus trabajos se diferencian por poseer un estilo propio, que entre otras cosas se destaca por no hacer uso de reglas y parámetros utilizados usualmente en la mayoría de los trabajos artísticos estilo anime. El primer trabajo que lo hizo ganador de cierta fama y respeto en el medio, fue el anime experimental Serial Experiments Lain. ABe es también el responsable del concepto y el diseño de los personajes de la serie NieA under 7. Es también el creador del doujinshi Haibane Renmei, el cual fue adaptado a una serie de anime de 13 capítulos.

He quedado realmente fascinado por el trabajo de ABe con Gaisokyu, tanto en su calidad narrativa como gráfica. Me encantan las líneas que toman sus historias, pero particularmente su estilo gráfico definido, fluido, elegante y con un gran juego de luces y colores; esto se aprecia cuando vez su trabajo de cerca.

Dentro de sus mundos predominan los seres alados como los ángeles, entes tribales, criaturas reptil-volantes, sirenas, aliens, y humanos comunes (¿o no?). Todos dentro de escenas comunes o ajenas a la realidad, futuristicas, post-apocalípticas o más allá de la mente en sí.

Les dejo algunas imágenes que fueron las que más me gustaron:

Si quieren conocer más de la obra de ABe, les dejo estos links del grupo “ASDFers” donde pueden encontrar dos de sus trabajos:

• Haibane Renmei: http://asdfers.awardspace.com/t/proyectos-concluidos/haibanes-de-la-vieja-casa/
• White Rain:  http://asdfers.awardspace.com/t/proyectos-concluidos/white-rain/

Bueno, les dejo el artbook para que lo descarguen; las imagenes tienen una calidad excelente.

• Gaisokyu – Parte 1
• Gaisokyu – Parte 2
• Gaisokyu – Parte 3
• Gaisokyu – Parte 4
• Gaisokyu – Parte 5
• Gaisokyu – Parte 6

P.D. No me importa si ponen los links en alguna otra parte, pero supongo que me gustaría algo de crédito.

Laughing Man logo (see Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex)

OK, here we go. A list (I’m going to try to be comprehensive here) of all the anime I have seen, am currently somewhere in the process of viewing, or wish to see in the future (that last one will probably be the trickiest). If you like anime but aren’t sure where to go, maybe you’ll find something listed here that sounds interesting.

Oh, and if you don’t like anime…well, all I can say is that you don’t know what you’re missing. You probably think what you’re missing is something it isn’t, if that makes any sense at all. Hmm…that’s for another time.

And on a related note, if you don’t recognize the above image, well, I hate to break it to you, but you aren’t watching the right television shows.

ANIME I’VE SEEN AND RECOMMEND (sort of roughly ranked in the order of how much I liked them)

series

• Serial Experiments Lain - couldn’t not put this first on the list. 13 episodes in all. You should watch this.

• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – two seasons. You might have thought the movie was great and that the series wouldn’t be. You were wrong. (Besides, don’t you want to know where that logo comes from?)

• Cowboy Bebop – all my favorite bounty hunters in a single series…how is that even possible? This show promises nothing but pure enjoyment. Recommended for the anime non-viewer.

• Noir - funny, come to think of it probably my all-time favorite assassin is a character on this show. She practically defines the word stealth. One great thing about Chloe is her wardrobe lets you know how badass she is. Not to give too much away, but in any case, you know she’s not playing because of the way she dresses. Here’s what she likes to wear:

Chloe character sketch from NOIR

Like, every day. She never doesn’t wear this outfit. In fact, her closet is filled with this. She’s a great character. By the way, lots of people seem not to know about this show. Check it out…not necessarily what you might expect. The opening episode is killer…it pulls you right into the storyline. Props to my friends Ryan and Starr for turning me on to this.

• Neon Genesis Evangelion – anything I should add? Oh yeah, I guess I’ll just mention that this show was voted the best TV show…ever. Weird – I thought it was The Wire, or maybe Twin Peaks (Definitely one of those two).

• Gunslinger Girl – an Italian government agency adopts abandoned or seriously ill young girls from hospitals under the guise of a beneficent charity, then brainwashes them, pairs them with handlers and trains them to be assassins! Sounds a bit preposterous but this show’s worth checking out…it’s a strong production with really high-quality drawings and animation. I’ve only seen the first season. The second is being produced by a different studio, and I’m not sure it’s even gotten a U.S. release yet (frankly it doesn’t look as good as the first season).
• I can’t leave out BLAME! This mini-anime is freaking weird. I love the art, though. Thank you Ryan for sending this to me in the mail. I should try to find the manga…

I’m sure I’m leaving something out here, but since I can’t think what it is at the moment I’ll move on to…

films

• Ghost in the Shell – not much I can say here. All I can say is I will never not want to watch this movie again. Sheer brilliance.

• Akira – everytime I see this film I am struck by the level of detail and thinking that went into its production. It proves conclusively that anime has unique potential as an art form (can you imagine Akira as live-action production?), a fact that few seem to understand to the degree that Otomo has. Must see.

• I recently watched Memories – a film divided into three parts, each by a different director, but overseen as an entire project by Otomo. This is worth checking out. Unconventional, and brilliant.

• Spirited Away – this is actually the only Miyazaki film I’ve seen. I need to check out some of the others…

• how could I have forgotten Appleseed? This film is awesome! Don’t sleep.
• Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence – some people bad-mouth this movie. It’s pretty different from the first film, both stylistically and in terms of narrative. I would consider Innocence to be the most abstract production in the Ghost in the Shell “canon,” as it were. I have to see it again to form my opinion more completely. If you have seen the original but not this, give it a shot. If you haven’t seen the original you know what to do…

• Cowboy Bebop: The Movie – When I first watched this I hadn’t seen the series all the way through. I need to see this one again.

• Paprika – Mixed feelings about this one. Stylistically and artistically, it was excellent, yet I felt it was over-the-top to a degree that took away from character development and other aspects, resulting in a less-than-completely enjoyable experience. Yet the execution of some artistic elements was so impressive that I would most likely recommend it anyway. I like the dream machine.

• The Evangelion movies…not even sure what to say about them, other than, if you’ve seen the show, watch them. Come on, don’t you want to know what happens to SEELE?

Again, can’t think what I’m leaving out, though I’m surely leaving out something. I’ll tell you

WHAT I’VE BEEN WATCHING LATELY:

• mainly, a series called Last Exile. I really like this one. It’s pretty unique, lacking a lot of the familiar anime tropes any critical anime viewer might be on the lookout for. The setting seems to be an anachronistic, somewhat dystopian future that seems reminiscent of medieval Europe, perhaps post-apocalyptic. The plot focuses on two young pilots of a vehicle known as a vanship. You should check it out…

• And also, from the same studio (GONZO) I’m planning to watch the rest of Blue Submarine No. 6. A story with four half-hour episodes, it was also released as a film. I’ve seen only the first episode and don’t feel qualified to comment, other than to say that the art is awesome.

And what does the future hold?

ANIME I’D LIKE TO SEE IN THE FUTURE:

films

• I’ve actually never watched Vampire Hunter D all the way through. Someday soon…

• Pretty much everything by Miyazaki, but I’m told Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is really great.

• I’d also like to see Perfect Blue…never heard of it until recently, but sounds like a classic.

series

As I was writing, I started watching the preview on Netflix for a series called Paranoia Agent. From the director of Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon) and the character designer of Spirited Away, this series about a bat-wielding killer on rollerblades looks pretty great.

• Madlax…from the director of NOIR, looks like this might be worth checking out…

• I want to check out Ergo Proxy. Don’t really know what it’s about but I’ve heard good things about it.

Not sure what else for the moment, but I’m getting tired. Did I leave out something crucial? Or was my assessment of some anime classic completely misguided and wrong? If you have responses, questions or criticism, you know what to do.

Oh and by the way, this blog entry might give you the impression that I am a huge anime nerd. In fact, I didn’t really start watching it much until the last couple of years. Props go out to Cary for this. Anyway, notwithstanding the fact that I lifted my alias <megatech> from a certain anime cult classic, I’m not actually really too much in the know about this. So feel free to leave suggestions below. Peace..

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np: Porcelain and The Tramps – Redlight District

Se tem um anime que eu amooo de paixão é Serial Experiments Lain. O anime é pouco conhecido no Brasil e grande parte dos que o assistiram não entenderam o sentido da história ou até mesmo não o assistiram até o final por ser considerado complexo demais.
Definitivamente Lain não foi feito para o público infantil e pré-adolescente. Sem contar que na época em que foi lançado (1998), foi considerado inovador. Quem o assistiu, pode até o comparar com Matrix ou até mesmo pensar que um copiou o outro. Mas não, isso não aconteceu.
Eu pretendo fazer uma tattoo no ante braço (imagem abaixo) com a garota. Por quê?
Lembra que eu mencionei no post  “About me” sobre a confusão entre o personagem e o real?  Ela representa tudo o que eu tenho vivenciado na minha vida. Lain realmente teve um grande significado para mim.
Instrospecção, timidez, solidão, paranóia, a existência de um Deus e também a seguinte pergunta.
“O que eu estou vivendo é realmente real? Até onde eu sou a garota real e até onde eu sou a Mitsuka?”
What is real and what is not?
É um anime que eu recomendo mas atenção !!! Não se deixe levar pelas aparências e só o assista se tiver paciência por que realmente é complexo e exige uma certa carga de experiências vividas para entendê-lo.
Abaixo segue infos sobre o anime. É longo o texto e contém spoillers mas leia e se se interessar assista-o e me diga o que achou e quais são as suas conclusões.

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Serial Experiments Lain – (シリアルエクスペリメンツレイン, shirialu ekusuperimentsu lein)
fonte: http://migre.me/21P7

Lista de episódios

01 – Weird
02 - Girls
03 – Psyche
04 – Religion
05 – Distorsion
06 - Kids
07 – Society
08 – Rumors
09 – Protocol
10 – Love
11 - Infornography
12 – Landscape
13 – Ego

Sobre o anime:  Serial Experiments Lain é um dos clássicos do renomado autor Yoshitoshi Abe.
A história é centrada em torno de Lain, uma garota de uma família (de certa forma disfuncional) de classe média. Um dia ela é apresentada, com um computador novo, ao “Wired”… seria a Internet em algum lugar do futuro.
A partir daí, vários elementos entram em cena… como teorias da conspiração, fantasmas que se comunicam através de redes de computadores, e outros elementos.

Crítica:  Muitos dizem não ter entendido o anime. Muitos inclusive abandonaram o anime pela metade por não entender nada. O anime tem um estilo estranho, figurativo, com elementos e idéias escondidas aqui e ali. É um anime no adulto, não no sentido de conter conteúdo erótico, mas de compor temas complexos que crianças e jovens provavelmente ainda não tiveram contato.

Idéia por trás: Assim como muitas obras com temática voltada a filosofia, Serial Experiments Lain foi criado “complicado” de propósito… mais que entreter e mostrar uma história linear, o anime é um convite à reflexão. Alguns dos temas abordados são:
- As fronteiras da realidade;
- A percepção individual e coletiva da realidade;
- O que reside na memória das pessoas;
- Consciência, interconexão e alucinações.

Destrinchando:  Tentando decifrar a trama o anime, temos Lain como uma espécie de chave que quebraria as fronteiras entre real e o virtual, através de códigos escondidos por Eiri Masami, diretor chefe de pesquisas sobre Protocol 7, o protocolo da “Wired”, e funcionário da Tachibana Computers, praticamente monopólio que domina a produção de computadores.

Estes códigos escondidos dariam controle da “Wired” para Masami, através de uma comunicação sem fio que funcionaria sem limites e sem fronteiras usando uma teoria conhecida como Schumman Ressonance.
Esse sistema teria uma influência tão grande num futuro onde praticamente todos estão conectados de alguma maneira pela “Wired”, que a distinção entre o real e o virtual se quebraria, borrando as definições do conceito de realidade.

Apesar da complexidade da história, vários elementos centrais para entender o que se passa são apresentados somente no meio da série, o que causa muita confusão para aqueles que assistem só alguns dos primeiros episódios.

Finalmente, vários outros elementos são abordados, com autores citando obras distópicas, Jung, temas como timidez, solidão e isolamento, diferenças de personalidade entre entidades virtuais e reais, teologia (evidente perto do final do anime), entre outras idéias.

O final (SPOILERS):  Próximo ao final do anime, Lain se dá conta do que está acontecendo, e descobre que consegue moldar a percepção das pessoas da forma como bem entende. Através disso, ela consegue controlar a realidade. Alguns interpretam que Lain, percebendo o poder que tem, decide apagar eventos e memórias ligadas a ela não só por terceiros, como também dela mesma, para poder voltar a ter uma vida normal, renegando o poder total de uma deusa.

Curiosidades:  No primeiro episódio, Weird, a aula de Informática básica apresenta comandos de computador com estrutura similar a linguagem C/C++.

Em outro episódio, Society, pode-se ver Lain programando seu celular. No caso, a linguagem que aparece a linguagem LISP. Detalhe: Lisp é uma linguagem muito usada em programação para estudos de inteligência artificial e sistemas especialistas, o que aparece bastante em Lain.

O sistema operacional utilizado na série, o Copland OS, é baseado no Mac OS, tanto na parte gráfica (como pode ser observado no computador do pai da personagem principal), como no nome, já que Copland OS era o codinome de uma das versões do sistema dos Macs. Os computadores também são bem similares aos Apple – sendo os NAVI portáteis baseados nos Apple Darwin e o primeiro computador da Lain (o vermelho) sendo baseado no Mac de Vigésimo Aniversário. A voz que anuncia a série também é produzida pelo Mac OS. é a voz chamada “Whisper”. Existem outras referências a marca Apple na série, devido ao fato de que seu criador é um usuário ávido dos Macs.

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Conseguiu chegar até o fim? HAHAHAHA
Então comenta !!!

xoxo =**

En abril Yoshitoshi Abe, conocido por su trabajo en Serial Experiments Lain y Haibane Renmei comentó que estaba trabajando en un nuevo proyecto que llevaría por título Despera.

El número de julio de la revista Animate confirma que efectivamente Despera ya se está desarrollando y añade nombres al proyecto: Ryutaro Nakamura en la dirección, Chiaki J.Konaka en el guión y Abe en el diseño de personajes, repitiendo los tres la colaboración que llevaron a cabo en 1998 con Serial Experiments Lain.

Despera, cuyo nombre deriva de un poema de Jun Tsuji, es una serie de ciencia ficción situada en 1922 durante la era Taisho.

En el número de julio de Animate, además, da inicio una serialización en forma de novela gráfica que durará un año, posteriormente se pondrá en marcha otro proyecto del que todavía no se han dado más detalles.

np: Fake Number – Aquela Música

Bom dia !!!

Agora são exatamente 06:17 a.m. e eu estou aqui depois de ter passado a madrugada conversando com meu ex.  Não vou falar muito sobre ele hoje. Só digo que ele é mexicano e está me ensinando a falar espanhol. Eu já falo, mas somente o necessário para sobreviver e ele quer que eu o fale fluentemente. Então, já que ele está disposto a me ajudar, vamos aproveitar né?
Mas ok !!! Outro dia (mentira, muitos outros dias) eu falo sobre ele. Coloco foto e etc. Hoje não. Hoje quero falar um pouquinho sobre mim.
Ele disse que meu blog é chato (aburrido) por que não tem nada sobre mim. Nada sobre a minha pessoa. Eu não uso isso aqui como diário. Mas baby, meu blog é novo e eu sei lá, quero postar o que me der vontade.
Mas beleza, vamos falar sobre mim. O que eu conseguir, por que eu para descrever eu mesma sou uma desgraça.
Let´s start !!!

 foto recente :p

Pra começar, meu nome não é Mitsuka (pronuncia-se Mitská) mas é assim que eu gosto de ser chamada net a fora.
Por quê Mitsuka Murasaki?
Antes, eu tinha o apelido de killybee, fiquei muito conhecida em fóruns do Nigthwish, do Midnattsol (e até no meu antigo myspace) por este apelido.
Um dia eu estava conversando com a irmã do Philippe (meu ex) e percebemos que eu tinha que me renovar. Eu tinha que mudar. Já que eu mesma já não me comportava mais como a killybee.
Eu já não era mais gótica, eu já não curtia mais somente gothic metal, não andava mais só de preto, entre outras coisas. Eu tinha mudado e o que ainda não tinha mudado dentro de mim, eu queria mudar a todo custo.
Logo deletei meu primeiro myspace e quando fui fazer outro, ela me disse. “Você combina com Mitsuka por que o significado desse nome é “em busca de uma vida bela”".
Sim !!! Realmente combinava comigo.
E por que o Murasaki? Por que murasaki é roxo em japonês e eu simplesmente sou fissurada, viciada, paranóica por essa cor.
E quem é a Mitsuka Murasaki?
A Mitsuka é uma garota destemida, que não tem medo de enfrentar desafios, de quebrar a cara. Ela chora, briga, grita, sorri, canta, se diverte.
Chega uma hora em que o personagem se confunde com a realidade (o que me faz lembrar do anime Serial Experiments Lain).
Os meus gostos musicais, conceitos são os mesmos tanto virtualmente quanto na vida real.
Eu gosto de jmusic, kmusic, doramas, screamo, eu sou feliz e eu amo a minha vida. Claro que depois eu mesma vou entrar várias vezes em contradição o que é perfeitamente normal para um ser humano normal (sim, eu sou, embora não pareça :p).
Eu não tenho esse look emo (não é photoshop) só por que eu quero fazer fama na net. Não !!! Essa sou eu. Parecendo emo ou não, sendo emo ou não, essa sou eu.
É engraçado que quando eu voltei para o orkut, todos pensavam que eu era fake. Dei muita risada com tudo isso. Eu não tenho cara de fake, tenho? Mas depois todos viram que eu sou essa da foto e pronto, foi decepção geral. Hahahaha.
Por que eu criei um personagem se eu coloco fotos minhas?
Pelo seguinte fato. Eu queria evitar confusões e também queria me manter de uma certa forma anônima, embora isso seja meio impossível.
É complicado explicar mas acho que dá para entender.
Na rede você pode ser quem você quiser. Ter o nome que você quiser, a idade que você quiser, a profissão que você quiser e até mesmo ter outra vida.
Pois bem, foi por esse motivo que eu criei a personagem já que ninguém sabe nada além de mim de que simplesmente sou eu essa garota da foto e pronto. Nada além de mim do que eu quero que saibam e do que eu deixo transparecer.
Deu para entender?
Creio que seja somente isso até o presente momento. Se eu lembrar de algo mais, eu volto depois e edito o post ou até mesmo faço um novo.

Sem mais delongas

kissu =*

WORD UP!!!  Triumvirate of Awesome ABe, Konaka and Nakamura are coming out with a new project.  Serial Experiments Lain had ABe for character design, Konaka for story and Nakamura as director.  These three are working together again!!!  Could this be the new Lain?! (Ghost Hound was supposed to be the new Lain but ABe was missing so it doesn’t count…)

ABe wrote the following on his blog:

“The announcement is at Mr. Konaka’s website.  Starting with the July issue of Animage (on sale from June 10th) it will be serialized for one year.  The one-year period is our current estimate.

About ten years ago, when we were releasing serial experiments lain, I became completely absorbed in the project and worked almost blindly on it, but now that I look back I feel that something like the core of my art came out of that work.

On this occasion too, I will try my best to have it turn out that way.”

I was the first to comment, telling him to gambare!!!

Project Pic from Konaka's site!!!

Konaka’s website has it titled “The New Project of Yoshitoshi Abe, Ryutaro Nakamura and Chiaki J. Konaka”.  He writes:

“I’m in poor health, and this will go on forever…Just as I was thinking this I get to announce a brand-new project.  Starting on the upcoming issue of Animage (the 31st anniversary issue), a new “graphic novel” or something like it will start serialization, the product of a collaboration between Yoshitoshi ABe and me.

Strictly speaking, the first chapter will appear on the issue after the next.  This time it will be sort of an introduction chapter.  In addition to this first glimpse we are planning an intro to the composition of the work so I hope you will check it out for more news.  Naturally, Director Nakamura is also involved in the creation of the concept for this project.  The “page design work” is being directed by Senior Editor Matsushita.  We’ve also asked help from Norihito Nezu, to whom I have often be in debt in relation to Geneon work.  Already I was making unreasonable demands regarding fonts and I am very grateful that help is coming so quickly.

Wow, it’s been a while, huh…this session-style series (laughs).  The plan is to run this for one year.  Updates will be on the Animage page so do check that out too.”

My translation was kinda rushed but I’m sure you get the point.  Sure, it’s a graphic novel, but what is Director Nakamura doing in there??  I smell awesome anime coming, and that pic is delish!!!

ABe’s post is here, Konaka’s announcement is here.