gem2niki's thoughts

Been doing a bunch of marathoning over this summer.

Early May: Shikabane Hime. 26 episodes.
Nice fluid animation as expected from Gainax. Weird plot. Too fanservicey with all the himes, but still serious and twisted. The comedic parts seems out of place. But Ouri has a nice chara design for a male lead...not so plain looking but so weak XD And Makina was pretty cool tough female lead. Keisei's part were so sad. They make a cute couple.

Late May-June 12: Star Trek TOS. Season 1-3
Brought the geek in me haha... I think I'm more acceptable of episodic plot. I still haven't watched the movies yet!! D:

June 12-June 27: Gintama. Starting at ep 20ish-163 since I watched some before.
Now I'm just waiting for the new episodes. Since there were a lot of depressing stuff happening over the summer, it still managed to make me laugh or smile. Such lovable characters. Even the filler episodes were fun.

July 6-July 20: Eyeshield 21. Starting at ep 7-145.
Same as Gintama, I watched a few episode back when it was still coming out but stopped for whatever reason. The characters here are also so lovable. The way they give each character their own backstory makes them feel important and not some side character. Even I feel sympathetic to the rivals who come back throughout the series. The fillers weren't that bad (unlike Naruto or Bleach) since they use existing characters and develop them more like Juumonji!! Also fun music!!! Back-On. ZZ. TRAX. Fav bands~~ Somehow I'm obsessed about looking for which episodes storyboard artist Katagai Shin and director Masayoshi Nishida worked on...because those were the good episodes and nicely animated ones.

Now I'm starting Soul Eater (7/21). I am actually pretty ahead from where I left off...hoho...

Multitasking is the best!

Which I'll probably finish tomorrow at work~~

To prep up for the movie, I was looking the trailers....and by god they age so quickly over time o----o;;; (What? They're not immortal?) And Shatner voice changed...not as deep anymore haha...

I'm hoping the movie enhances my enjoyment of the TV series...and not ruin it with all its high budget special effects etc. Tho it does look good to see it in more updated format...but god Kirk's hair so puffy and the uniform...ugh Kirk looks like he's wearing a bib.

No issue with Spock as his weight remains so consistent throughout the years.

There are a couple of episodes not up on CBS ): Need to go find those!!

/stargeeking


There's only like a 1.5 week left till AX?? NOOOO!!! Not ready for that either!! ARGH...

Finally sketched something for the Kyoko/Ren pic. When kitmun mentioned THAT MAN NEEDS TO BE VIOLATED in my prev post I had an image of a dominatrix Kyoko rofl. Hindering my ability to think of an alternative. It'll be generic lookin' sexy pic instead... jen_kat mentioned Natsu Kyoko. So I got a chance to look at those chapter at last. Next to Sunako (Wallflower), Kyoko is hawt *A* (puts her down in my list of female crushes)

If you think of Skip Beat as a live-action...how does that work? To get Kyoko's genkiness to a more mature looking adult. And she looked like she got taller? hahaa...

Also, Ren is freakin hard to draw....

Finished Season 1!! Overall enjoyable. A lot of the episodes felt familiar. Did a lot of anime referenced from Star Trek? Cuz I swear I've seen plotlines and characters somewhere... Now I can move onto Season 2! Now i see why sjen  said its better to watch them than shortcut my way around the series XD The character has really grown on me.

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