mellowSPACE

27 Dec 2008 mellow_bunny

Goodbye.

Short and sweet. I won’t be posting on this blog anymore nor making any updates to it. Projects I was working on for people can be considered unfinished and I apologize for this (if you want PSD design files that I was using or whatever then drop me an email mellow@mellowspace.com). I will not be running the ABA’s with Impz and Akai. I will continue to lurk on the #ab channel but I doubt i’ll be very talkative and i’m sure i’ll disappear eventually.

I leave because I need to for my own life’s sake. I leave behind angry people, happy people, sad people. I’m sorry. Do not fear this is not a suicide note. This is merely an end to my existance as mellow_bunny. So laterdays chaps. It’s been fun. But all good things must end.

-mellow_bunny

19 Dec 2008 mellow_bunny

Rage | Shove this up your piehole.

This is beyond my normal character to write these sort of things. I hardly think I even think these sort of things often. It takes a combination of sleep deprivation and niggling aspects of the unknown to drive me to rage at anybody. But this is just ridiculous. Also it would seem i’m not alone in this thought albeit in a slightly different manner. Read more…

01 Dec 2008 mellow_bunny

Tired | Yet still truckin.

(Heads up there is a slightly NSFW image in this post.) I really don’t know what to write today. Except that I have a desire to express myself with the written word. Today was much like any other really. In it I got to work early, consumed muesli with bananas for breakfast, finished my “urgent” workload within two hours, watched anime, worked on projects completely unrelated to my place of employment, chatted on IRC, ate lunch and dinner, conversed with family and showered.

Those really are the points about today that I remember. I spent some time working on Taiga (see: awesome project with RyanA) and discovered that I really must learn more PHP and general coding practice .. fast if possible. I spent more time getting to know melative. I also daydreamed about working in a place where I was free to develop the projects I would dearly love to see flourish.

Eeeep! I feel so naughty posting this.

But anywho, on to anime. Kannagi 9 was delicious. So many reasons, but in my mind mainly for the development of both Tsugumi and Jin’s characters and their relationship together. HE WAS SAYING TSUGUMI DAMMIT NAGI. In any case I have a much desired ending of Jin x Tsugumi at the end. I don’t want to see a wishy washy no one wins no one loses ending. There has to be hard choices. Hard hard choices. True Tears type choices. I honestly cannot fathom why I keep referencing to True Tears by the way. Maybe it’s a subconscious method of lashing out at JT.

I have heard others mention the “low quality of animation” of recent. Stating that animation “even if crappy” will be accepted as “a new and edgy art style” if the writing “makes up for what the animation lacks”. I guess to a degree I can accept that point of view. Indeed a lot of the time people can end up mindlessly watching a show and when prompted the only reason they can give is “the art is different and cool”. I would think that art style is merely a more obvious way of explaining why we like a show.

In my case I like shows because I like them. I don’t try to quantify why that is. If I do that, it seems to strip away the enjoyment factor I get from watching anime. It makes my viewership another statistic. I get herded into a category of viewer. In my mind it’s somewhat related to some who cannot contemplate the “horrid” act of watching an episode in AVI format let alone FLV. Er.. get a grip guys it doesn’t change the content a hell of a lot. All it does is make things a little fuzzy.

I guess for some it is hard to just relax and watch anime because it’s just enjoyable. They seem to have the need to explain it to others using SOLID FACTS and BULLET POINTS. Why? Why bother? The fact is you watch it because you like it. You don’t have to filter down your motivation or the reasons why each particular show/episode made you enjoy it. (There is no need to feel guilty for watching “a cartoon” as it may be described to you.)

I’m not entirely certain i’m being coherent here but the point is just enjoy it. Just enjoy it.

As a final note I watched Toradora 9 in raw and it was most enjoyable. I had to of course rush to the nearest raw watcher blog to understand some parts of the show (parts with major amounts of dialogue). All in all I found it much easier to watch then with subtitles, I could enjoy the aspects of the show that I normally miss while reading. Which reminds me how touching were the scenes with a) Minori and Ryuji and b) Taiga and Ryuji (feet on his back). Oh.. also.. final final note if BONES would please release Xam’d on dvd with english subtitles only… and really soon I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER.

May your days be filled with oxygen. Mellow.

P.S. Some more Tsugumi.

29 Nov 2008 mellow_bunny

Aroduc | A tale of CSS selectors.

Hohohoho, yes I do like inside jokes in my post titles. That or i’m just mad. I managed to feast on BBQ for lunch today which was oddly timed but delicous. Onwards now! I interviewed Aroduc of Tenka Seiha with some burning questions. He was gracious enough to reply and to also draw a picture. I think there should be a fan club but sagematt probably has dibs already.

It Begins!

1. Your name of course is Aroduc. Let’s not beat around the bush. Why do you love Jubei?

Amazing direction and choreography, excellent pacing, very unusual and offbeat humor, excellent music, and the Siberian Snuggler.

2. Would you agree that J2 is possibly the best animation to come from that season/year?

Let’s be fair. Winter 2004 wasn’t exactly the height of anime. It was up against… uh… Burn Up Scramble and the nonsensical half of Read or Die TV. However, 2004 was overall an awesome year… just not until the summer. It’s certainly my favorite, but I don’t know if it’s the out and out best of 2004.

3. If you had a lovely eye patch would you share it with sagematt?

Anything to make him more presentable.

5. I don’t like 4 so straight to 5. If you were given a budget of $10,000USD for seiha.org specifically, what would be a bullet list of changes you “might” make.

Well, at the moment, it certainly needs a server upgrade. Otherwise, I already do pretty much whatever I want with the site right now honestly, so aside from alleviating the server issues, I might try to create my own conglomerate in some form or another, or maybe try to launder it in some way into some translation and/or localization projects that I don’t have the time (or expertise) for.

6. I do like 4. So i’ll ask two questions now. If you were to meet another anime blogger from #ab who would it be. If you were to meet a second person from #ab why would you hit them?

I don’t see Kabitzin around too much anymore, but he and I have the Alma Mater thing going, so I’m sure we could trade horror stories about Ithaca. Otherwise… hmmm… Sage and Totali both seem like pretty okay guys, but I don’t think either would be able to keep up in serious Quarters play.

I’d hit them because I need to establish myself as the alpha male of the pack.

7. Do you own/rent/lease/borrow/steal a pet?

I am currently the general caretaker of a sheltie and a miniature labradoodle.

8. Does Totali really suck? If so why does he eat cats.

Only when the moon is in the seventh hour.

I assume because he gets hungry.

9. Will you ever worship a Spatula Diety?

Sorry. I’m Orthodox Norse. Odin would smite me… if the frost giants hadn’t already killed him.

10. Think of your own question here. Then answer it.

Well, I think so, but shouldn’t we shave the pigs first?

11. Same as 10.

One shucks between fits.

12. Could you please attach an illustration of what you think of me.

Thanks Aroduc!

28 Nov 2008 mellow_bunny

MINORI UPDATE | THE UNIVERSE HAS SPOKEN

and it has seen fit to gift us with TWO MINORIN’S! ALL HAIL!

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26 Nov 2008 mellow_bunny

Sneaky | Anime watching on the sly

So I have a new living situation in which my internet is now shared between five people. Before I moved I used 20-30gb a month on my own easily. Now I have to share 6gb with four other people. Yikes. So I thought perhaps I could watch my anime just streaming. I’m not a purist (although HD does look sooo goood) and streaming is fine so long as I can keep up to date with shows.

There are so many cool things about this picture. BANDWIDTH GET

12 Nov 2008 mellow_bunny

Fanboyism | Part 1: Kannagi, True Tears and a little bit of Toradora!

I have come to .. adore Kannagi. It has reminded me of True Tears, most likely because it was being discussed in #ab as I watched episode six of Kannagi. I’ve decided to do a series of Fanboyism posts. Basically posts which delve into shows or characters that I like a lot. Usually I will discuss characters that I actually fanboy. Tonight I will touch on Tsugumi from Kannagi and briefly on Noe from True Tears. Both characters that I have on my himegimi list ;)! Read more…

11 Nov 2008 mellow_bunny

himegimi | Grabbing my list NAO before the new site launches.

That’s right dawgs. Go ahead and post your himegimi list on your website NOW with the post title “himegimi|yourname” and then link it in a comment on this post. IF YOU ARE FIRST IN THE COMMENT LIST WITH AN UNCLAIMED HIMEGIMI YOU WILL THUSLY BE GIVEN “FIRST DIBS” ON THAT HIMEGIMI UPON LAUNCH. <– READ AGAIN FOR GREAT JUSTICE. NOW GOGOGOGOGOGO AND POST THEN COMMENT! DOOO EEEEET. Oh yeah if you don’t have a blog then just chuck your list in a comment.

Remember the same rules apply as before, your list must contain your top ten himegimis. If you don’t know what a himegimi is then pshaw. You can find out from someone who does know.. they will become apparent when the posts start appearing.

mellow_bunny’s list

Aoba Tsugumi (Kannagi)
Isurugi Noe (True Tears)
Kushieda Minori (I am leaving first dibs open on Minori) (Toradora)

As you can see my list is smaller then most of you will probably have. There will be many who will have great difficulty in choosing their list. ANYWAY FOR FIRST DIBS GOGOGOGOGOOGO!

I leave you with the below image of suspicious cheese.

02 Nov 2008 Pablo-kun

Bleach - 192

This screen is from HorribleRaw’s release of the episode, that’s why the quality’s low and grainy.

Synopsis

Nell Transforms into an adult, more mature looking form and fights Nnoitra, getting Ichigo out of harms way first. Nnoitra fires a cero and Nell uses her ability, the double cero, and swallows his cero and adds hers in the mix making a powerful explosion but Nnoitra survives and prepares to take on Nell yet again.

This episode was poorly directed, it had bad looking & dis proportioned characters, laggy & reused frames and 40% of it was a recap of episode 191. but most importantly it was Tomoko Kaneda’s voice that delivered the final blow into this episode’s verdict. She is quite bad at doing Neliel Tu’s adult form voice.

30 Oct 2008 mellow_bunny

Update | Designing is fun when you are in the mood.

So just thought i’d give a quick update on my progress with mSPACE 09. I have the layout for the front page completed but I have as yet to finish off the fine details. Here’s a shot below of the almost completed post design. Needs a little more work yet.

I totally watched a couple more episodes of Kurozuka as well. It was in French so I was a bit @_@ but the show was good anyway. Toradora 4 was good also. I think there is another episode out so i’ll go try find that.

I read the first volume of Runaways a Marvel comic. Very cool. I’ll try grab the second volume I think. I also badly want to read Civil War stuff.

Anywho onwards to the weekend!