Random musings & some anime
Aug. 4th, 2009 09:06 am![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mwbworldNow the hard part.
I'm back at work and striving to hold on to the planned changes in my life, which is a struggle. Naturally it will get worse as things become busier in the next month or so and resume their more normal frenetic pace.
I'm trying to balance myself and not worry about the fact that fumbling starts are going to happen to anything I try to change and are inevitable. It will take a while to change my habits and build new ones that serve me better. On the other hand, I could just do the usual and feel guilty and beat myself up.
Anime
Well, I roared through Kenichi, The Mightiest Disciple Season 1, part 1 - and loved it. Certainly not original but addictive fun. Basically, a comedy about a victimized kid, who learns to fight at a dojo filled with really crazy but incredibly strong martial artists. The kicker (pun intended) is that as he gets stronger to deal with bullies, stronger bullies start coming after him forcing him toward even more intense training to survive. Personally I think that the antics and bizarre training techniques of his sensei are the best part of the show. I'm not expecting any big or dramatic surprises in the show, just alternating bits of action and comedy. Sometimes that's just right. Now I'm waiting for part 2 to arrive in the mail and Funimation to license the second season and release it.
I also finished Familiar of Zero and had more mixed feelings about it. Set in a world of magic where nobility are magic wielder and peasants have no magic, it is the story of Louise the Zero (so called because her attempts at magic fail) who a second year student a school of magic so much so she is constantly mocked by the other students. When she attempts to summon a familiar, instead of get some special animal like everyone else she gets a human "peasant" from our world. And, of course, we learn there's more to Louise and her familiar than everyone, including the two of them, think. I actually like some of the characters and find some of the back stories quite touching. I find the rules of magic and its connection to our world interesting as well. Problem is too much low comedy undermines a lot of it including panty jokes galore (which in the interest of fairness I did laugh out loud at one of them and felt bad about it afterward), breast size jokes, a tsundere (violent girl) lead, etc. It's a shame because I like the other elements. Despite the negatives, which may be too much for some, I liked it enough I hope we get the second and third season released here.
So I'll call them inverses of each other in Kenichi I liked the comedy but not the more serious parts, while in FoZ I liked some of the serious aspects but not the comedy overall.
I'm back at work and striving to hold on to the planned changes in my life, which is a struggle. Naturally it will get worse as things become busier in the next month or so and resume their more normal frenetic pace.
I'm trying to balance myself and not worry about the fact that fumbling starts are going to happen to anything I try to change and are inevitable. It will take a while to change my habits and build new ones that serve me better. On the other hand, I could just do the usual and feel guilty and beat myself up.
Anime
Well, I roared through Kenichi, The Mightiest Disciple Season 1, part 1 - and loved it. Certainly not original but addictive fun. Basically, a comedy about a victimized kid, who learns to fight at a dojo filled with really crazy but incredibly strong martial artists. The kicker (pun intended) is that as he gets stronger to deal with bullies, stronger bullies start coming after him forcing him toward even more intense training to survive. Personally I think that the antics and bizarre training techniques of his sensei are the best part of the show. I'm not expecting any big or dramatic surprises in the show, just alternating bits of action and comedy. Sometimes that's just right. Now I'm waiting for part 2 to arrive in the mail and Funimation to license the second season and release it.
I also finished Familiar of Zero and had more mixed feelings about it. Set in a world of magic where nobility are magic wielder and peasants have no magic, it is the story of Louise the Zero (so called because her attempts at magic fail) who a second year student a school of magic so much so she is constantly mocked by the other students. When she attempts to summon a familiar, instead of get some special animal like everyone else she gets a human "peasant" from our world. And, of course, we learn there's more to Louise and her familiar than everyone, including the two of them, think. I actually like some of the characters and find some of the back stories quite touching. I find the rules of magic and its connection to our world interesting as well. Problem is too much low comedy undermines a lot of it including panty jokes galore (which in the interest of fairness I did laugh out loud at one of them and felt bad about it afterward), breast size jokes, a tsundere (violent girl) lead, etc. It's a shame because I like the other elements. Despite the negatives, which may be too much for some, I liked it enough I hope we get the second and third season released here.
So I'll call them inverses of each other in Kenichi I liked the comedy but not the more serious parts, while in FoZ I liked some of the serious aspects but not the comedy overall.
You're back at work for an hour and you're already writing a big blog entry? Must not have much work piled up after 2 weeks, hey?
...or is it that the hard part is working? ;)
The back at work part started yesterday.
The post mostly written last night.
And quickly doubled checked and made public this morning.
Because I rock in stages...