Oh what's this another anime review?  Yup it's been a while but lets see if I can remember how to do this.  Of course this review is about Dragon Crisis! an anime series that I hadn't originally planned on watching.  Thanks to MoNAC though I got hooked.  We started watching it at MoNAC and I enjoyed it so while MoNAC was on a sort of break for a while I finished it up on my own.

The basic premise is a teenage boy's easy going high school life is drastically changed one day when his older female cousin stops by his school and yanks him out of class to do a little job.  It turns out that Ryuji isn't just any ordinary teenage boy.  Ryuji is a level 10 breaker and is able to use "Lost Precious" items.  His cousin Eriko (my favorite character, by far) knows that and grabs him to help her steal a case containing a "Lost Precious" from another underground group called FANG.

They succeed in acquireing the case and discover inside the case a young blonde haired little girl with a secret.  She knows Ryuji and falls madly in love with him at first site.  She also loves ice cream, oh and she's a red dragon.  Ryuji calls her Rose because of the red jeweled design on her left hand.  From that point Ryuji's and Eriko's job is to protect Rose from others like FANG who wants her so that they're leader Onyx the Black Dragon who wants Rose to be his wife so he can become more powerful.  Ryuji fight's back using a powerful "lost precious" left to him by his parents (who are off hunting other 'lost precious"s).

Ryuji succeeds in rescuing Rose and injuring Onyx badly enough that he takes off for most of the rest of the series.  From there the story pretty much goes episodic as the group does some more "Lost Precious" hunting and running into interesting other people along the way.  Some help and some hinder the progression of Ryuji and Rose's budding relationship.  Infact Ryuji suddenly finds himself in a bit of a Harem situation with his classmate, Rose and a couple other characters along the way.  Ryuji's and Rose's past is explained and their relationship grows more powerful until Onyx and another Dragon Bride that he has acquired unravel it all making Ryuji and Rose believe that they are hurting each other and split them up.

Ryuji is consoled by his friends and is told the truth.  That makes him more determined than ever to win Rose back and rescue her from Onyx clutches once again.  Thankfully everything works out for them and Ryuji and Rose are reunited and Onyx is kicked in the ass once again.  And it ends there.

Honestly I though it ended way to soon.  Sort like an oh crap we need to wrap this up in an episode so blah blah blah there's a quick ending.  It's not by far the most epic of epic stories but you know it wasn't horrible.  Cute in a lot of ways.  Fun in others.  The action isn't bad either.  I definitely think it was worth watching and a good time waster.  It definitely could have been made better with a longer time frame or a better story structured to the episode limit. 

Made for a good sleeper hit of the season.  MoNAC even got permission to watch it at the club from Crunchyroll and that's were I finished watching it.  You can still even watch it there if you would like to check it out.

You can check out the trailer for the series here

It's the end of another week and time to review exactly what transpired during it.  This last week was pretty normal standard fair with an autocross event at the end of it.  Nothing to special nothing to exciting just another average week in Boise, ID. Heck even the Race Queen search was pretty bland this week as well.  Not that I didn't find some good stuff just stuff I've already seen.

So lets see anything exciting going on at work?  Nope the remodeling is coming along slowly and I do mean slowly.  But for the most part nothing all that OMG! exciting nothing even to rant about either for a change.  Kinda nice really.

The roommate was gone all week so I had a chance to really clean up the house mow the lawn wash the car and just get a ton of stuff done.  Did some work on the car as well.  It was a nice lazy clean the house week.  Worked on the new computer as well.  Getting all the files off the first computer moved over to the new one so I can reformat the old one and turn it into a Computer for MoNAC to watch videos on instead of having to rely on people bringing a laptop all the time.

Once that's done the kitchen table wont be my work space when I'm working on photography stuff as I'll be picking up some extra ram for the new machine soon so that I can use Photoshop on it as well.  That's the only thing I can't do on the new machine since it's lacking some RAM power.  Other than that it has been a great little machine.  And I'm sure MoNAC will be happy with their own computer.

With that it was the weekend and time for another adventure out to the DAA for more autocross action.  The Jetta handled the drive out there great until the drive back and the Odometer stopped working, thankfully that not that hard of a fix just takes some time and isn't something that will cause the car not work properly I'll just have low miles on the car.

One great thing about this autocross though is that I got a chance to try and take some pictures of the handful of flying WWII fighter planes that are housed at the airport by where we race.  I tried my best but I wasn't in the best of places to take pictures of them this time.

Now I'm just sitting at the kitchen table editing photos eating dinner and writing my blog.  I did find some interesting videos this week as well to share.

Not nearly as late this time around with the Weekly Review even though I've had a pretty busy weekend.  The roommate is off in Hailey looking after his parents house and he took Mr. Wiggleslot with him so I have the house to myself for a while.  That means CLEAN but I started a little project earlier in the week which has taken all weekend to finish.  And I've been busy looking for the latest and greatest in Race Queens and have found some good stuff this week.

So I've had two computers that I got from work that were just going to be thrown out so I picked them up and brought them home.  Roommate laughed and said those are just going to sit around for a while now aren't they.  Well I proved him wrong as I dismantled the older one for spare parts (for sale by the way) and I checked the other computers power supply which I believed to be the reason it wasn't working and sure enough that's the only problem the computer had.  So a new power supply, a reformat and clean install of Windows XP later I have a new computer.

That means that finally MoNAC has it's own computer as I'm giving the group my old one that way no one has to bring their own laptop and the group now doesn't have to rely on a couple people to bring equipement to the meetups (when ever we start those up again).  And with the clean install of windows I can finally blog realiably from my desktop computer and I don't have to rely on the laptop to do posts.  So maybe I'll get around to doing more blogs again. It just took me all weekend to get the new computer to work right though.

But that wasn't the only thing I did the week or weekend.  Well actually during the week it was mostly just work and getting things ready to tear into on the computer.  The guys from MoNAC picked up the tots for the Anime Oasis meetup that I didn't go to because I was busy with the computers and a bit drunk as I was nursing some Stella Artois while I worked and read the newest Article on RAUH-Welt Begriff which you can check out on the car blog.

Also since the roommate took the RX8 I got to use the garage to check out the underside of my car, the brakes and suspension on the car and I was surprised what I saw.  I have a very slight leak from the oil and power steering but nothing like the old Lumina.  It's the power steering as well that I believe is making the noise when I have the tires turned to lock but I did notice a crack in the passenger side CV boot so it also might be that as well.  Thankfully I still have some pad left on the brake pads though so don't need to replace those just yet.  I'll really need to replace the tires first and get an alignment as I have some neg camber going on in the back good enough to round off one of the tires.

Not to bad though I thought there was going to be more.  I also found out that if the fuel pump ever goes out it'll be much easier to fix as it's outside of the gas tank but the fuel filter looks like a serious pain in the ass.  So now I'm just chilling and writing my weekly review and completing the setup of the new computer.  Found some good videos this week as well.

Awesome Anime Trailer


It's Gumball 3000 time again


It's hard not to find this lady's videos very interesting