Hello again. I am back and it has been, hmm let's see... 9 months since my last blog post. 9… That’s incredible. I can’t really say why though. I’ve been super busy since October last year earning minimum wage (I think) at a video store, which subsequently put everything else I was working on, on hold.
I haven’t worked on my book in months. It is really quite depressing considering the fact that I have so many wonderful ideas for it.
Actually, that is quite an interesting story in itself.
I was busy working on it like I normally did, 50000 to 60000 words or 200+ book pages in total at the time, when suddenly I stopped and decided to read through my work. About 4 hours later I came to a very clear conclusion. Save for a few chapters, the story was developing into something SO incredibly corny, I am sure one would get whiffs of corn when opening the book for the first time if it ever did get published. Normally I would get all depressed and scratch the whole project, but corny as it was, I had grown attached to the characters I had created. I couldn’t just cast them aside.
Basically, I was inspired to radically change the story and to radically change the characters. They needed more life, more purpose and more, well, character. It was an epiphany. An epiphany that succeeded in exciting the hell out of me, so even though my writing has been put on hold for the time being, the project is still very much alive in my mind.
Anyway, moving on… Lets face it. It has been 9 months since my last post, and in that 9 months my love for Anime and Manga has not evaporated into thin air. No… if I were to list everything that I have watched and read over that period of time, the culmination of that list would take roughly 9 months to read. So instead of doing that, I will only mention the shows and stories that have stood out among the others.
First up, Green Green… the most perverted show you will probably come across. Honestly, if there were three boys in the world who did the things three of the characters did in this show, it would become international news and they would be castrated and locked up forever. Or so I would think.
Instead, they get away with a severe beating only. In all honesty it is actually pretty funny. As far as the story is concerned, it goes as follows: Somewhere up in the mountains of Japan, where no Cell phone gets reception and no TV or radio probably works, an all-boys high school gets a surprise. Their school is considering going co-ed. Meanwhile down in the city an all-girls high school is contemplating the same thing. In order to find out if it would be easier to just merge the two schools, they propose a one month trail run. A bunch of girls soon gets on a bus and heads for the boy’s school. Chaos ensues.
In the end, the show is shallow as hell, but if you can get past that, it is funny as hell. Upper-class ladies should probably steer clear though. There is a reason why the show was aired at 1 in the morning.
Next we have To Aru Magutsu no Index and its spinoff To Aru Kagaku no Railgun. Here is one seriously awesome anime series. Both are based on light novels of the same name and both are, as Barney would say, Legen- wait for it… wait for it… still wait for it… dary!
I don’t want to say much about the story, but I will say that both are your typical good vs. evil shows, and both take place in a city called Academy City which consists mostly of teachers and students. It really is worth the watch, so I am not going to say any more.
I do have one warning though. While Railgun has non of this, Index does touch a bit on religion. What I mean is there are numerous well known religious factions in the magic community of the show and we all know that in the real world, most religions have a strict magic-is-a-no-no policy. Keep an open mind when watching it and don’t take those things to heart. Do what I did and simply ignore it. If you do that, you’ll be fine. (Also keep in mind that this explanation makes it sound a whole lot worse and more prominent than it really is)
Lastly there is K-On!! (note the extra “!” in the title)
Yes, the second season is airing as we speak, and although it is still far too early to report on it, from the 6 or so episodes that I have seen, you can expect the same fun that we had in season 1.
That’s all from my side for now, so, be it one or two or nine months from now, I will post again soon.
Till next time…
Jya ne!
Gideon


