Soul Eatober - Episodes 3-4

And hear we go. Hopefully this time I can get this up before midnight.

"The Perfect Boy"

And we meet the final set of protagonists; the Thompson Twins, Liz and Patty, and son of Lord Death, Death the Kid (always glad to hear Todd Haberkorn's voice). Something I've forgotten to bring up is that a lot of the monsters our protagonists have been fighting are based off of historical/fictional figures, such as Jack the Ripper, Al Capone, Rasputin, and Lupin.

Incidentally, I'm not sure who Lupin is referring to, because when I google search "lupin" I get Remus Lupin from Harry Potter, Lupin the Third, the plant genus, and then a character from an old series of French crime novels written around the same time as Sherlock Holmes. I'm guessing that last one is what they're talking about.

So in this episode, we are shown the team's shortcomings (in this case, Kid's obsession with symmetry) and at some point we see a male character have an encounter with (half)naked women. In the first episode, it was Soul crashing in on Blair taking a bath. In the second episode, it was Black Star sneaking up on Tsubaki bathing (and then again at the end of the episode in the women's bath). And in this one, Kid leaves Liz and Patty alone in the pyramid of Anubis to check on something, then comes back to find Liz and Patty strung up by mummy bandages, with said bandage slightly sliding of their shorts and shirts. I think I can deduce what the target demographic for this show is.

Good introduction to a group of fun characters. And now that we have the character introductions out of the way...

"Engage the Witch Hunter"

Maka, Soul, Tsubaki, and Black Star are given a mission from Lord Death to capture a dead teacher who had become a zombie. If they don't succeed, they get expelled.

This one began with Blair waking up Soul while being teasing and seductive, and Maka walking in, getting mad, and beating the crap out of Soul. I could probably listen to a long lecture that explains the constant use of soft-core porn as comedy in Japanese animated shows such as these, because I find this trend very fascinating, and that in the way that one would expect me to. Like, is there some sor of sociological reason for this? I'd like to know.

Anyway, another episode where we're sometimes shown how badass these characters can be when they serious the fuck up. Particularly Black Star. The serious badass moments with him are very satisfying, especially because of how annoyed I am with him most of the time. "Big" is still not the best word to have used here. "No one will ever be as great a guy as I am!" See? "Great" is so much better than "big".

The episode ends with the group approaching the house of one Dr. Franken Stein, who I recall being one awesome character. But that episode is for tomorrow.

Goodnight, everyone.

Soul Eatober - Episodes 1-2

Since it is the beginning of Halloween season, I random came up with an idea: Watch all of Soul Eater throughout October.

This isn't my first time watching Soul Eater. I've come across in a high school anime club years ago, and I bought a box-set with the first 13 episodes. As I recall, I watched 12 out of the 13. And there's 51 episodes to get through. Don't worry, I planned it out.

So, first episode is "Resonance of the Soul", in which we get the general feel of this world through exposition, art design, character setup, and exposition about character setup.

So there are Meisters and Weapons. If a team of the aforementioned can collect the corrupted souls of 99 evil "kieshens" and 1 witch, the weapon can become a weapon of Lord Death.

Now that I think of it, even the awkward exposition in the show explains it better.

The main characters in this episode are Maka Albarn and Soul Eater. Upon collecting the 99th "kieshen" soul, they must obtain the soul of a witch. The episode shows their plight in trying to kill someone named Blair. Long story short, she wasn't the witch they were looking for. She wasn't even a witch, "just a cat with lots of magical power". (Blair Witch joke, haha) Honestly, whenever I see her, I just think "older fan-service Nepeta from Homestuck", which is a pretty good thing, since I like Nepeta anyway.

Soul and Maka are pretty likable, even if Soul's constant talking about being cool makes me want to dislike him on principle. Though I think his always wanting to be cool might be a written flaw. Also of note is Maka's backstory involving her cheating bastard of a father, who is Lord Death's personal weapon and voiced by Vic Mignogna. From I can remember, I actually liked the story going on between Maka and her father (Maka not being trusting for a damn good reason, and Death Scythe trying to prove to her that he loves her). It helps that Death Scythe is a likable jackass.

This show seems to have a visual style that I would describe as "Naruto by way of '90s Tim Burton". I like it. I also like Maka saying "Your soul is mine."

So the second episode is another prologue, so this show will focus on more than one groups. Fun.

"I Am The Star!"

I want to punch Black Star in the throat.

I get it. I get that's the point to his character, but it just doesn't seem like I will ever like him as much as they want me to.

Also, the dub keeps having him say "big" a lot. I'm wondering if in Japanese, the word for "big" can also translate into "great", like the German word "groß". "Great" would've been the better word to use here, because then he would just sound like an arrogant twit than just a complete idiot.

I could comment that his teaming with the ever-so patient Tsubaki is a good match, but they have Maka and Soul do that for me.

Though, by the end Black Star does show some promise.

Just throwing ideas out there...

Okay, so I've been doing a lot more work on prose writing, mostly fanfics and maybe a little original stuff. And I realized that I haven't worked on any of the scripts I have in-the-works in a few days. Really, I'm stuck with somehow summarizing the climax of the everyone's least favorite Rugrats film and also describing the plot to a My Little Pony film that should've been considered mostly harmless but instead came at the wrong place at the wrong time, making me associate it with times of uncertainty and loneliness.

I've also started classes at my community college.

So basically, production has slowed down in favor of other endeavors, and I realized that I haven't uploaded a video on Youtube in quite a while. So I thought, "what if I started doing other kinds of videos, like quick edit vloggy videos where I talk and rant about random junk". I'm well aware that this isn't a new idea. Half of the more well known Youtubers basically do just this. But hey, it might be something fun that would get me back into the swing of things in regards to editing and videos in general. That is, of course, I actually decide to do such a video. Just spitballing.

If you want, you can read my prose writing either here or here.

Hopefully, I shall get back to my various video projects, even with college on my plate.

Goodnight, friends.

And then stuff happens...

So, on Monday, I had orientation at my community college, so I got to schedule myself some classes and fun stuff like that. I will be starting in a few weeks.

On Tuesday, I had my wisdom teeth removed. I'm amazed at how much I remember. I remember the doctor telling me that I will get the sleepy meds (anesthesia) "momentarily", and the last thing I recall before I went under was inhaling and thinking "Oh, there it is." Next thing I remember was waking up to various hit songs from the '80s. I'm pretty sure I started mouthing out the words to "Take Me Home Tonight" by Eddie Money. I think I also corrected the nurse when "You Spin Me Right Round" was playing; she thought it was by Flo Rida, I said "no, Dead or Alive". Amazing how even under anesthesia, I'm still a know-it-all. :3

For the past few days, I've been taking my meds, and I've actually been pretty productive when it comes to writing. Maybe the medication has mellowed me out somewhat.

Anyway, yesterday, our German-speaking guests arrived. They'll be staying with us for a month. It's fun, because I get to use my German. I should get back to reading or watching my German stuff. I have movies, books, and manga. Usually what happens is I read and then look something up in the German-English dictionary every...five sentences, or so. I've been trying to read K-ON!. Auf Deutsch. So ja.

Excuse me. My brain is tired, on meds, and trying to understand German, so I'm a bit loopy.

Here's a thing.

Commentary: Brony Nutcase - Pilot

Just thought I'd put something up after I got my wisdom teeth removed. Enjoy.

Nutcase Bloopers - Rugrats in Paris review

Enjoy yourselves.

Expelling Thoughts

On Monday, I have an orientation appointment at my community college. On Tuesday, I'm getting my wisdom teeth taken out. One is a small, but hopefully worthwhile step in beginning my own life and my own story, and the other is dental surgery.

While that's going on, I'm in the middle of a bunch of books (Ender's Game, Rubyfruit Jungle), have procrastinated on certain shows and comics (A lot. Currently watching Free! Iwatobi Swim Club, Attack on Titan, reading Homestuck, and haven't touched Doctor Who, K-ON!, and Supernatural in months) and have started a bunch of writing projects, which includes three scripts and one fanfic. Oh joy.

Oh yeah, no job yet.

Hopefully, if my school schedule is good, I may be able to go to Aki Con. I would very much like to. Even if going to an anime convention in a desperate attempt to make more memories similar to old ones may result in me feeling more alone and sad. Well, then again, I do have a friend up in the Seattle area who's going, so that might make it better.

I've also been experimenting with (and by "experimenting with", I mean "trying, putting no effort, and giving up on") piano and drawing. Speaking of which, here's a shitty thing I did.

"All is vague and hard to grasp. Making your own sense is just as hard." Came up with that quote myself. Bit of a pretentious thing, really.

So that's where I am. Trying halfheartedly to pass the time by trying halfheartedly to watch shows, trying halfheartedly to play piano, trying halfheartedly to draw, and trying halfheartedly to write stuff, WHILE ALSO trying halfheartedly to get a life.

It's a sort of thing where I don't care, but I know I should care, and I try to care, but I don't, but part of me really does, just not in anything that actually helps.

I lost most of you, didn't I.

So yeah, just checking in on here. And now, the weather.