So did you all have a great Thanksgiving this last week? At our house we are currently doing the second Thanksgiving dinner for friends who want to just come hang out drink and have a good time with friends for those who may not have had a chance to get home for the holidays or had to do that working thing. Again I don't have any interesting pictures to share so I'll be entertaining you this post with another lovely Race Queen like usual.
Since we are having a party at our house it was a great motivator to get our house clean and holy hanna the place can actually really look good when you put some effort into cleaning it up a bit especially when the lovely ladies are coming over. Even cleaned my own room as well.
As for the rest of the week I did my Thanksgiving with the family on Thursday and was gifted a very old clay pigeon thrower and a box of 15 year-old clays to shot up. Sweet I say and a box full of fun. Of course the rest of the week was the usual routine that I've fallen into. The new schedule seems to be working out pretty well so far.
Archive for November 2009
X? Have you been missing the gaggle of girls from Ikkitousen lately? The new crop of fighting girl anime series just not the same as those high kicking clothes tearing school girls with a penchant for a bit of Yuri gropping. Well good news, you're in luck because it has been announced in the latest Comic GUM magazine that there will indeed be an upcoming FOURTH season of Ikkitousen called Ikkitousen XX (short for Xtreme Xecutor).
It's been noted that the series will probably start in April for the Spring 2010 anime season (yup it's already on my list to watch) but before that there will be an early promotional release of an "Episode 0" disk for us to ogle and check out at Comiket 77.
What I know about the new season so far is that it will be an original story and not part of the manga series (it'll take off after GG) and will even add a new character to the mix. Oh and since it is Ikkitousen you'll definitely be getting a good deal of yuri flavored fanservice and more than likely some good clothes ripping fights.
Enjoy a bit of girl on girl fighting with the Great Guardians Trailer:
Since Thanksgiving isn't really celebrated in Asia I really don't have any awesome anime or Asian idols dressed up in hottie naughty Native Amerian or Pilgram garb to treat you with. I did find this interesting short video of a cute American Asian girl and I'm also going to include another awesome video of my favorite idol Aki Hoshino for your entertainment.
Since it is Thanksgiving I'd just like to take this time to thank all the readers of my blog. I'm also thankful for my family and friends for all the great times had enjoyment had during the year. I'm also thankful for still having a job it may suck at times and I may swear up and down about some of the stupid crap that goes on but with this economy I'm just glad I get to go to work and earn a living. Now on to those cute ladies.
Bunny Mina as an "Indian" Princess
The ever lovely Aki Hoshino
Another Saturday another Halo Legends release. This last Saturday saw the release of the second story in the Halo Legends series and is a look back at the history of the Arbiter and the warrior elites. This one I didn't like as well as the first one but that may be due to the YouTube low quality video that I watched so my final decision will have to wait for the DVD version.
Halo Legends: The Duel is the story done by Production I.G and features a unique anime style that I haven't ever seen before but with the crappy YouTube quality it didn't actually look all that good. I'm sure it'll look much better with DVD quality video.
The story is what you could call a classic Samurai tail featuring an old warrior facing overwhelming odds and a heavily armored Samurai looking main enemy all to avenge his honor during the beginning years of the Covenant. The Arbiter easily faces off against an overwhelming force of Elites, Jackals, grunts and the biggest damn Hunter I've ever seen and easily dispatches an entire army of soldiers while dual welding energy blades. Sadly the Arbiter returns home after soundly defeating the army only to find his friend and wife slaughtered in his home sernding him to finally faces off against the Samurai garbed Elite who betrayed him and killed his beloved wife. Meeting his adversary for the final battle The two battle it out with a final lunge at each other. No fancy foot work no fancy jump, dodge and slash. Just a straight up run at each other. In a shower of blood both fall to their deaths, end story. Not exactly the most original story that's for sure and it's weird seeing Elites without their armor and even stranger to see them in a house type setting talking with human like jaws. Out of the two anime shorts so far this is by far the lesser of the two in my opinion. I expected more from Production I.G.
Check out the trailer
And that's the end of another week. That also means only one more full week of November left which also means it's Thanksgiving and Black Friday right around the corner. With that in mind this last week was well even more boring than normal but to spice things up how about a lovely Race Queen from the land of South Korea Hwang Mi Hee.
As for the week due to a change in my schedule I've been working until 8:30am and not getting home until a little before 9am which has really disrupted my personal schedule a bit but the upside is that now I have three days off instead of just two. Of course that meant I could do some catching up on my own things on Friday but decided to visit my Grandma since I haven't in a while and check out if they had gotten anything cool at the Porsche dealership but there wasn't anything cool but I was able to pick up one of Porsche's aftersale calendars which wasn't nearly as cool as last years was. But hey for a free calendar it still rocks. The rest of the weekend was spent watching anime, playing Call of Duty MW2 and hanging out with friends. Pretty much that's all that happened.
For your entertainment this week enjoy the new and improved trailer for the coming soon Trigun movie, yes that rocking funny anime will have a new story for a new movie. Can't freaking wait.
And with this event the Autocross season for the Snake River Region SCCA group is at a close. No more autocross until the middle of March weather permitting. There will be a lot stuff happening in the back ground though as the group prepares for next year's season. But all that is good for next year what up this autocross event how did the season end. Well with a smile of course.
First of all this event went back out to the huge South Lot of the Idaho Center in Nampa, ID, where a large and fast course could be laid out. While it was long and fast some said it was also just a bit boring to drive as well. Trade offs I guess. I set up again on the grassy area off course for filming duties and since the roommate had gotten back from SEMA with a rented super-wide angle lens I also took that along to do a bit of testing and what not with it some more in the parking lot.
For an end event I was surprised to see a lot of new faces as well as returning regulars as well. One returning regular had something new this time around. Bright yellow and supercar looking I spied for my first time a Noble...er wait what it's been renamed...oh OK so what is it... What was once a Noble M400 has been renamed to Rossion Q1 looks exactly the same and pretty much is but the importer of the Noble renamed it so there it is anyways I was excited to see something new and different but was said to only be able to get it on film once since the driver only stayed for the morning session and left after lunch.
As usual though it was the IMS class that rocked the autocross the hardest. For it's first year out as a local class for drivers who are out of the novice class but not exactly ready to jump into the larger modified classes just yet. It turned into a great class and became extremely competitive and many drivers will be moving out of that class into their respective classes next year.
With the day over it was time for one last go and the day ended with a three run fun run. Pay a dollar and shag your own cones but pretty much any one still hanging around that has done an autocross before could run their car for fun.
The day ended with the sun setting and everyone having a good time. I had fun filming it and working at getting better at taking action shots and of course editing those pictures. Next year I have plans of my own to add some new equipment and some fun stuff so here's looking to the new year and the new autocross season in March. In the mean time you can check out the videos and pictures from this last event at the following links. It took me a lot longer than usual to finish editing the pictures but I think they turned out the best of the entire season thanks to more playing around with photoshop.
VIDEOS
PICTURES
For some in post entertainment here is the only video that I got of the Rossion Q1:
Well I was thinking of what I should blog about and low and behold I remember that I have as of yet still not blogged about finally watching the Live Action movie version of Blood: The last Vampire. It's been about a week since I've watched it and I can't believe it's taken me this long to blog about it. Actually that should tell you something of what I thought of the movie. Is it good meh yeah it's pretty OK but it sure didn't live up to the hype and anticipation that I initially had of it when I first heard about the updated project many many moons ago.
I was one of those people that absolutely loved the animated short movie and thought that the 50 episode anime take off was really well done so my hopes were high for the movie but like all Hollywood movies they royally FUBARed the crap out the original movie to make up the time. I think everyone would agree that if they kept to the old script and fleshed it out more like a good back story as to what and why Saya is fighting would be great and then to go forward from the last fight of the anime.
Instead they add a lot more to the secret society even going so far as to make them look like bad guys in the end (way to go Hollywood) and then they add the all mighty mom vampire and while that somewhat gives you a handy back story it totally sucks especially when Saya and her mom have to do the big boss battle in some mystic land of all places for the climax. What the crap that was lame. Hello the title says last VAMPIRE not a Vampire and her mommy.
So yeah those are the most terrible parts of the movie what makes up for all this is the fantastic filming. They do a pretty dang good job of taking us back to 1970's Japan and Army base and even the full on monster looks pretty good even if it doesn't look anything like the monsters from the anime. The characters are awesome and it just looks really good for what it is. And while it's by no means Japanese B-movie gory there is a decent amount of blood and guts gore to be seen, just a word to the wise. So honestly I think it's a pretty decent rental choice but I really don't think it's worth purchasing unless you are serious die-hard fan of the series and absolutely have to have every title available.
Check out the trailer below:
Hey look it's another end of the week weekly review more on time but with the same boring nothing fun happened attitude. Well actually that's not entirely true some fun did happen but most it's your basic week and because I don't have any interesting pictures of my own once again this post will be accompanied by some lovely Race Queens.
So this week was another eat, sleep and work kinda week with long stretches of photo editing of the last weeks autocross event. It took a lot longer than I thought it would to edit all those pictures but in the process I did find another way to make the red cars look more red and way less crappy orange colored. So that was a good thing.
This week the roommate also came home with CoD MW2 and of course that cut into a lot of the week and aided in making the picture editing take long as I'd get bored of editing pictures and go watch the roommate play the game and then do a few multiplayer matches which usually ended in my getting killed many many times. MW2 is a much improved game of the prior version and allows you to pick a class in multiplayer games as well as online games which I really liked.
Oh and on Friday we actually had our first snow of the season in Boise. Not much snow and it was mostly turned to slush and frozen later in the morning, it's also all gone now as well. So yeah a pretty basic week.
For an interesting video for this week here is the crash of a Bugatti Veyron from this week when the driver was "distracted by a Pelican" and accidentally drove his million dollar supercar into the shallows of a salt marsh. I don't know how long this video will last as an earlier was was copyrighted and taken down.
