Must be Thursday Again

Blimey, just what have I bought?



Death Note: How to Read manga and that Another Note novel. Great, I need to add to my Death Note collection (excluding the merchandise). And what's this entering through my house?



YAY! Persona 3! Right, I'm going to name the student, Ryoutarou for this...



Funny thing is, you know Inoue Toshiki (guy who's currently doing Kamen Rider Kiva scipt)? He does the Death Note anime scriptwriting, as well as Devil May Cry the anime and Cutie Honey the LIVE. Though I like his scriptwriting in terms of narrative, I think he's pretty unsuitable to scriptwrite children's shows, even though anything to do with horror (or just emo-drama-crap) is his speciality. Oh dear. I think someone is going to shoot me for this.

Quote of the Moment - "I don't want to ruin this!" - Me on that Death Note: How to Read manga, which has a name card stuck on this manga. > ___ <

Absolutely Going to Watch This

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!

I haven't seen any of my favourite shoujo manga-ka's, Yuu Watase, work, since the original Fusihgi Yuugi and Ayashi no Ceres, but I found this!

IT'S TURNING INTO A LIVE ACTION DRAMA!!!

/ ^ o ^ / I AM so HAPPY right now! \ ^ o ^ \

At least, it's not another anime adaptation, only to get dubbed poorly, like what the manga-ka's original works were. And the best part: two of the actors (one of them in Kamen Rider Kabuto, which I'm not a fan of that) are going to be cast as the main male characters! And who are two exactly?

Mokomichi Hayami as 'Tenjo Night' (wow, I haven't seen him since Densha Otoko the drama version (he was Hermes's brother if I recalled)

Mizushima Hiro as 'Asamoto Soshi' (For Kamen Rider fans (and especially Kabuto nutters), he was that 'Path-of-Heaven' guy, Tendou. But I like him when he's in the Lovely Complex movie as that shy guy (I forgot his name) and it's going to be interesting to see him play Night's 'human' rival.)

As for Izawa Riiko, she's going to be played by Aibu Saki (must be a newcomer; haven't seen her acting skills in any JDrama).

I really can't wait to see this! And it's going to be premiered in the Japanese TV channel, Fuji TV, on 8th April. Better start telling the forum members over at the TV-N forums (and hopefully start convincing the staff to sub this)...

Source: Sankei Sports (in Japanese)
ANN (English)

Quote of the Moment - "THIS MANGA IS SCI-FI?!" - Soshi and Riiko's amazement that the manga version of Absolute Boyfriend, is indeed sci-fi. XD

When Toku Goes Acid

Watched Phoo Action on BBC3 recently and all I could say was...

WWWWWWWWWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

It's like watching Kamen Rider on acid, only the two main characters are not really Riders at all, they don't henshin, but they can kick butt on the baddies. And Buddha's loincloth; someone at the writing department must have been a genius of giving pants to Whitey Action (and it's a girl, BTW) and then make anything appear from in 'there', whether it's chocolate or...erm, a dog or whatever.

And being that it's based on a comic strip by Gorillaz designer, Jamie Hewlett, I'm automatically a fan of Phoo Action now. And as for the show itself, it's got plenty of action, some really funny moments and...it's fun. Okay BBC, just give us more dramas like this. Watching this really reminds me of watching a Toku show, only if the people behind the scenes were drunk...

Quote of the Moment - "Buddha is as Buddha does." - Phoo Action

Such a Shave that There's No Film Like This

Been to watch Sweeny Todd at the cinema just recently as I'm typing this post just now and although it's VERY bloody (though, to be fair, it wasn't that realistic to see Johnny Depp slicing his victims on the neck in that fashion), this was one bloody brilliant (excuse the pun) film that I've seen for a long time.

Got to give props to Tim Burton (my favourite director) for directing this film, otherwise the film would have been an entire put-off for me and Johnny Depp for who could not only act brilliantly as always, but he can sing like David Bowie! I like Helena Bonham Carter's performance very much, but I can't believe her character! I'm not going to spoil what really happened, but let's just say, the business relationship between her as Mrs. Lovett (eurgh, I'm not going to eat her pies) and Johnny's Sweeny was great, but yet something very devious about them. And the great thing about this film, is that, despite being an adapted musical by the same guy [Stephen Sondheim] who wrote for the film of the same title, the songs are NOT that cheesy and I like for the fact that the songs advances from scene to scene rather than another corny dance number. And thank God for it didn't detract from the storyline. And with Tim Burton, I knew that he directs such a brilliant visual look to the film. If it was owned by Disney, I knew that he would rather jumped off the cliff than work for them (thank God it's Warner Brothers and Dreamworks). I was a little disappointed that Danny Elfman wasn't involved in the film this time, but the really catchy music and songs just distracted me for a good reason.

*Sighs* If only 555/Kiva/Devil May Cry (anime)'s writer, Inoue-san would have watched this brilliant piece of movie and then followed the example of what makes a great movie/series, instead of writing some kind of alternative universe crap or make a musical that doesn't involve dancing or inserting horror in THE NEXT (to be honest, Kamen Rider wasn't meant to be a Horror series IMO) or write a brilliant story, only that the ending rushes in at the end unexpetedly. I felt that he's really unsuitable to write something for a children's show. He's brilliant in Cutie Honey THE LIVE, but...

Quote of the Moment - "My friend" - Sweeny Todd (Johnny Depp) talking or singing about his precious razors from Sweeny Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

OMG! IT IS REAL!

So a Den-O anime does exist after all (well, sort of).



Yay! All six Imagin are in it with the VOICE ACTORS! Yes, now I don't have to worry who's going to replace Yusa-san's voice as Urataros. Can't wait to see how it goes! \ ^ o ^ / In other news...OMG! Suit actors in the flesh!



I can't believe that the Ryutaros suit actor was THAT short! And it's very nice to see Seiji Takaiwa acting as all four Den-O Forms, as well as being Momo in the flesh. Too bad there wasn't any Climax Form antics. XD I would love to see him going crazy with his body. Source: 101fwy.net

Quote of the Moment - "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU BETRAYED ME!!!! *sobs and runs*" - Liner_Form from the TV-N forums after I tricked him about that there is such thing as Den-O video game.

Publishing, Somewhat different from Photoshop

Eurgh. Had a hard time doing some crap publishing skills for my dad's prayer book or something. Apparently, he wanted me to print a book in A5 and my mind must be lost somewhere. God, no wonder some Graphic Design (from GCSE to University) students are pulling their hairs when it comes to resizing stuff just for one client.

Maybe I should practice Adobe InDesign more often or something. That could help me on how to publish a book into more careful consideration.

Quote of the Moment - "If you are watching this, you're fired." - Some boring guy from Ratchet and Clank 2. God, when I played R&C: Tools of Desctruction on the PS3 in some Virgin (now called the stupidly named Zavvi) store yesterday, I just love on how the gameplay never manages to screw up, unlike the Jak games.