The U.S. has Superman, brought to the Earth by a destroyed alien civilization and granted super powers based on the color of our sun, but he’s a perpetual bachelor. Japan has Dragon Ball, a manga-and-anime series about an alien superhero named Goku, and eventually his extended family. Superman never had kids, let alone those that could kick his butt.
Story Intro
(Dragon Ball) In an Earth with both science gadgets and dinosaurs, there was a young boy named Son-Goku (later just Goku) who lived alone in the forest. Hunting with his staff and fishing (with his tail) were his favorite things to while away the days, until he met a loud demon racing through the forest. This “demon” turned out to be a girl named Bulma on a motorcycle, searching for something called Dragon Balls — looking for such a strange part of dragon anatomy only served to convince Goku of her weirdness — so Goku brought her home to visit “Grandpa” and help her find them. “Grandpa” was not the old man who raised him in the forest, but a small sphere that was left to his care: a Dragon Ball.
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To help give the new blog a more standard schedule, I’ve setup a few more “Favorites” for Friday posting, and not a moment too soon. I’ll get a few more things going for more than once-a-week postings, but it’s certainly been better than the once-a-year (or less) updates from the old version of the site.
Last weekend, a few friends and I went out for a cosplay photoshoot at Gasworks Park, a local industrial complex-turned-city-park, part of which is suitably painted in cartoon colors. See if you can identify tomorrow’s “Favorite” anime from the few photos shown here. Of course, following down to full gallery link will give it away, too.
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Bridging the gap between man and God didn’t work so well for Victor Frankenstein, but that won’t stop the folks at NERV in GAINAX’s Shinseiki Evangelion (or here in the US, Neon Genesis Evangelion) from trying their hand at it.
Story Intro
Commander Ikari and his defense-department corporation NERV lead a battle against invading aliens with large robots controlled by fourteen year olds, children born the last time the aliens attacked. Rei (quiet and unemotional), Shinji (Ikari’s shy son), and Asuka (spoiled rotten) pilot these huge “Eva” bio-mechanical robots, at the command and care of Misato and Ritsuko, among others. While the show has plenty of action in each episode, the relationships between the various characters and the feelings brought out by battle and unknown forces really takes the center stage.
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How is it that I had the blog on auto-pilot shortly before the convention, and it’s been quiet ever since? I still have plenty of former pages to repost with updated info, but figured I’d have at least a few “teaser” shots to post. They can’t all be “Favorites” reposts, though some like the following will foreshadow some of them to come. ^_^
Eva Unit 02 and Asuka from Neon Genesis Evangelion
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From some of the anime staff behind Serial Experiments Lain and at times including similar sort of “other-worldly” seffects, Boogiepop Phantom is coming to get you.
Story Intro
Five years ago, a series of disappearances and murders took place, affecting a group of people surrounding a high school in different ways. An urban legend began as well: that strange feeling of being watched on dark evening streets just might be Boogiepop Phantom coming for you.
Like the classic Kurosawa film Rashomon, each episode follows a different character’s point of view of the events, which links their stories and different styles into one story arc across twelve episodes. At times an episode will show a scene and bring about assumptions in the viewer, then another episode will show things from another character’s point of view that collapses any preconception about the same scene.
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