Valvrant: The rant about valvrave

It's been a long time since I watched anime, the last good one being geass(i think) and became too lazy to catch up with the newer versions of gundam 00, gundam unicorn, gundam turnA, gundam sagittarus, gundam cancer or whatnots.But one fine day i read a post about valvrave at *coughGcoughGkcoughthwheezex* and it seemed like such an epic anime i decided to watch it. After all, it's from the fine people who brought you gundam aries and gundam gemini and geass!

So I just watched Valvrave episode 1. While the animation was pretty good, the storyline was..... kinda cheesy. Actually, rather than the storyline, I would say that the characters are the cheesier ones. So much cheese that I revived the ancient blog of anime and manga thoughts, where years of dust had settled upon... for ranting.

And here goes my thoughts on Valvrave: Episode 1.

The opening of the episode was okay, showing the futuristic "age" of space colony, accompanied by a short monologue. Typical of such anime/manga, the protaganists are school students (no idea how old they are) and you see the everyday lives of students. At one point someone thought it was a good idea to put the background story (continuing the monologue as a news report) in the scene where students were talking on a cellphone (to make it look like a natural bustling space colony or something) but the attentive me wasn't particularly pleased. How am i to attend to two conversations at the same time? The mundane phone convo that probably has no significance in the whole series, or the news report which should be significant in the story; i caught bits of both but understood neither of it. If the goal was not to let viewers understand what the heck is going on, it's a job well done. The school life is shows the cheesy wimpsy side of the main male character, and the impossibly dense female character, lik-


Oh perhaps I should say, since I am ranting about episode 1, I may be obliged to tell you SPOILERS POSSIBLY AHEAD (or before if you haven't noticed.)


You have been appropriately informed, so it's none of my spoiler business from below onwards.



-like when they say "the one with the wierd(or something) shirt" and she looks around, looking confused as if she had no idea who it could be, despite the conversation being only between the two of them, and that ALL OF THEM ARE WEARING THEIR OWN UNIFORMS AND SHE IS THE ONLY ONE WEARING A DIFFERENT SHIRT makes that whole klutzy/ditzy female character impression, which is so cheesy I probably would not eat Al Fungi for a week. In fact, this scene would make a good anti Al Fungi therapy for anyone severely addicted to al fungi and needs to stop eating al fungi. Or anything too cheesy can be substituted with al fungi too.

Oh damn this. Just thinking of that scene makes me sad.

Scene of main male liking female main character. I had no issues with it.

Anyway, another group of Dorssian terrorist-spy-covert-spec-ops (which obviously will be a bunch of teenagers...i think) busts in the colony to steal stuff. Whilst they are on it the Dorssian army invades the space colony (DIOR? or something) and threatens the protaganists' friends (more specifically, hurting the female lead right before the male lead's eyes and implying possible death of female lead) led main male lead to sunriserage / SEED mode ~anger version~. The following is an excerpt of
what i saw(not necessarily accurate):"WAAAAAAAAHHH U KILL MY CRUSH I WILL CRUSH U". Main male jumps into super secret robot suit and here we learn that sunriserage / SEED mode ~anger version~ gives you lv999 piloting skillz. Suddenly main male is some pro piloter flying around dancing like water and leaving the enemy in awe and rubble. Robot saves the day from the invasion of the small squad of Dorssian robots, and main male's profile is shared on their interwebz. His friend request jumps to over 9000 and he sits in robot crying for female lead lost. When he gets off the robot he meets L-elf who stabs him in the chest and finishes him off with a few more rounds. (this is a big improvement! One of the scenes which I felt was better in this episode.) which consisted of less bullcrap. Then just before the episode ends, we see him rise like bread.

I actually watched episode 2, saw a couple of things and became motivated to rant about valvrave, but because I was recalling episode 1's rants I forgot what parts of episode 2 were intriguing, and am debating about watching episode 2 again to recall and blog down the details on a blog which nobody reads. But for now this is episode 1 of Valvrave. I hope you all have more fun with Valvrave than I did! :D

Kurogane (by Kezawa Haruto)

Anyone who enjoyed Hikaru no Go will enjoy Kurogane.

First few chapters were well written.. there's a lot of potential!

Go read!

Potential Manga: Tripeace!

Hai my school term just started, been on the ball with keeping up with my weekly readings (and trying to read the next week's), attempted twice (or thrice, i'm not sure) to buy my textbooks but gave up after seeing the sea of people at the bookshop.

So anyway, i decided to browse through manga a while ago. "the collapse of the world as we know it" is still as random, it doesn't have a storyplot. Hell it doesn't even have a plot, not even an event. All it has is a sequence of pictures that lead to the last frame with no meaning.. that random.

Well my point wasn't that manga anyway... As mentioned in the title, i read Tripeace.. The first few chapters were cheesy, especially the first chapter- Amnesia again? argurerghagrvbc if the main character had FULL amnesia (or such a thing) then how can he know that has amnesia? More specifically, how can he know that he had forgotten something? Or at the very least, he shouldn't even know the word amnesia. He knows the word amnesia but not the quantitative words like "billion"? Really??! If we go according to brain function, he should be either fully capable or incapable of speech. There's no loss of half of your vocabulary or some crap. Then again, we apply the golden rule of Manga-"anything can happen" and i get pwnt hard. Who cares about the logic of the nitty gritty details (ok, NOT so nitty gritty- it was practically the background introduction of the character), shoddy first chapter full of plotholes and cheese?
I digressed. Tolerate the first few chapters, keep your mind open (well it's evident mine wasn't that open) and the following chapters will become better. I generally like mangas that show how the characters train up from weaklings to becoming super strong and stuff, but i don't really like sports manga. Contradicting lolz.

Still, Tripeace seems like it has alot of potential- I've only read till chapter 7. There's so many ways it could go right, so many ways it could fail.. isn't it exciting? :D
P.S.: Upon reflection, I liked Kurohime's storyplot! Gantz story was good through 4/5 of the whole story. If you read the later chapters, i personally think that it was crap- it was way out of this world, literally.


So.. yeah. Go read Tripeace! Endure the first few chapters!

related... to wut?

Bacon... 

related to life jacket?

Anime Re-reviewL Code Geass R2

this was an old post, so i though, why not just publish them all, since nobody reads this blog :D



I was surfing the net randomly and i found this animanga blog.
The blog had posts of diff manga, anime, some of the posts were episodes of code geass r2. Reading his post on the last episode (episode 25 ). i reawatched the ending part of R2.

I couldn't get it until i watched the anime again.


:D

=.=

i just saw my own recent post titled ",", which was created about 7 years ago.
and now it comes out as the most recent post!

also it looks silly =X but i will leave it as it is to remind me how silly people ( i ) can be.

Setting Laptop Resolution for DoTA

This was just a handy tip for those who don't like playing DoTA on a stretched screen, like a widescreen laptop.

1)Find out your desktop resolution, or preferred resolution. For example, mine is 1366 x 768. (Because your desktop resolution is usually fine and not stretched.)

2) open "regedit" (registry editor), go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Warcraft III\Video.

3) Under the "Name column", look for resheight and reswidth, and doubleclick on it to change the values.
Change the base from "hexadecimal" to "decimal", and then enter your screen resolution under "value data", under the respective names(resheight for height, reswidth for width). Finally, click on "hexadecimal" to convert your desired screen resolution into hexadecimal format and press ok.
For me, i changed reswidth from decimal 1024 to 1366.


Hope that's helpful :)

silver spoon

I must say...

one of the most interesting mangas i found today!

Gin no Saji (Silver spoon)

It's a manga about agriculture, which is a refreshing new genre away from the millions of battle/highschool mangas out there. Ever since Haruhi beca

me popular, even more highschool mangas came out (sket dan, yank

ee kun to megane chan, L*S, etc). Some series try to provide a different concept, like Eden no Ori, which is a survival manga with mostly highschool students on a dinosaur island( those who read eden no ori- forget it, just call them dinos. it's simpler this way, just forget about being accurate on what those creatures are ATM). In my opinion it ends up as a survival manga, the dino part was simply what differentiates it from other mystery/survival mangas like Judge, Meteor, Sprite, Higanjima etc.

Which at this point i realised, most survival mangas incl

udes a mystery, which the main characters attempt to solve as they try to survive. The increasing amount of mystery/survival mangas made my interest in the two genres decrease. Maybe because i have been reading too much of such genres and had enough of it. Right now i'm most interested in dining/wine mangas like Bambino, Bartender,

Sommeliere, etc. Not sure if i mentioned it before, but Bambino is a manga on a young man learning to cook in an Italian restaurant, as he finds out more on the different roles of those working in the restaurant, and the types of customers that enter the restaurant. Bartender is a manga on mi

xing drinks(that sounded crude), and Sommeliere is a manga on choosing wine. I find Bartender more interesting than Sommeliere, even though th

ey have the same concept (providing the appropriate alcohol/drink for the customer), maybe because there is mixing involved in Bartender. It's like why Dota is more well known than X Hero seige- there are combinations of items you can choose for 70+ heroes, and there always

will be a new combination of items that works best after some time(popularity of RoR -> tango in the past). Of course, Dota is more popular than X hero for more reasons(like having competiton among people), but let's just pretend that you are in awe by the crap i said about item combinations making things more interesting and stuff.

O yeah i almost forgot to put pics for the manga:

Gin no saji (holy this image is big)

Bartender (manga)

Sommeliere (Manga)

Oh and i read somewhere FMA seems to be related to Gin no saji. Same author maybe?

I guess i really need to do my research =x