Zah Pillowz
After reading about this FLCL anime, I had to check it out myself. So I caught episode 2 on Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network. You can read even more about Fooly Cooly (as it’s also called) here. I have to confess that for the first 15 minutes of it I was in a state of mumbling “wtf…… is going on….?” to myself, but as the episode wrapped up, the bizarre show seemed to take on it’s own meaning. Although weird (what’s with the giant iron…?) and a little confusing, FLCL is definitely edgy and different in an interesting way (as opposed to an awful creepy BoogiePop Phantom way). The music, done by The Pillows, is excellent and a fresh flavor and departure from the standard J-Pop. No joke, the music is fabulous; it makes this series in the same way the music of Kajiura Yuki makes Noir. The animation is very nicely done and the pace is frenetic. The confusing and fast-paced nature of the show lends itself to rewatching too. I only caught one episode but I have to admit that I am very interested in what will happen next and I was left with a general satisfied feeling after watching it. Even the dubbing is pretty good, at least as far as I could tell.
Memories of Noir have inspired me to link to these lyrics to “Cante per me” . I also recently caught episodes of Betterman on Tech TV. I had thought from reading a little about it, that it would be a good series. However, I should have known to heed my friend Ender’s advice to avoid the series, but it was supposed to be like Evangelion (the first series I really loved) and plus he has been wrong before (ahem, Shaman King ^__~ ). So I watched some episodes. Wow, Betterman totally sucked. Big time. So add this to the Kabitzin List of Series to Avoid Like the Plague. I’m starting to think I’m not that big of a mecha series fan. Full Metal Panic is the only recent mecha type anime series that I liked. I’m also not a huge fan of the Loser Guy Without a Clue Gets Millions of Girls theme either. Is there any doubt why I didn’t like Vandread? I need more Naruto.
I did a little running today, though we only ran for a mile and power-walked the rest. My calves are a bit sore, I guess I’m out of shape. I think I had a bad hot dog at 7-11 today and so I didn’t want to upset my stomach further by sprinting for 2 miles. I hope it was a one time occurrence because I essentially live off those things. Sadly, I’m so cheap and lazy that hot dogs have beaten out rice as the chief staple of my diet =(. I also did some pencil work repairing a pic I started the other day. I made the guy’s head way bigger than the head of the girl he was standing next to. It was one of those things where the error isn’t egregious at first but the more you look at it, the more you hate it. But by that point, I had finished drawing his head so I was loathe to erase it and start over. Still, it bothered me so much that I had to just bite the bullet and do it. I’ll probably start using the colored pencils on the lineart tomorrow.