Tuesday, May 5, 2009

hey hey hey
heya folks. so im updating again. yay!


if you read the last post, you would have read that i was going to an Anime All Nighter in London on saturday.

well, it was brilliant!! amazing. i got there at 11:30 pm and passed the time by drawing a little picture of Rei on the "manga wall" they had set up. ^^

then we went into the first movie. they gave us goody-bags (more about this later) then they started off the evening with the trailer for the new Bleach movie, and they also showed an episode of Bleach (i dont know which one) and then right after that we watched Ghost in the Shell VERSION 2.0! basically it was a digitally remastered visuals and sound and overall improved version of the original GITS movie. it looked as sweet as.

then we had a short break, and i stocked up on Red Bull and Ice Cream (which was complimentry throughout the evening). we also had a little pop quiz. the questions were fairly easy, but i got picked to answer one ("name two female protagonsits of the Tenchi Muyo series") and so i got another goody bag! ha ha!

after that we watched "Origins". if you read my review, you'd know that i wasnt particulalry impressed by this movie, but seeing it on the big screen with digital surround sound was pretty impressive. ^^

then we had another short break and then we watched the third Naruto movie. it was english dub and to be fair, kinda lame. but it got a few laughs from the audience, particualrly the bad guy "Shabadaba". everytime a character cried out his name, the audience went into hysterics.

another break and then we watched "Afro Samurai: Resurrection". another english dub, but this one was better. to be totally honest, i kinda slept through the middle of this movie, so i missed most of it, but i saw the beginning and the end fights, which were pretty impressive.


one final break (by this time its like 7am) and then into the final movie of the night: Hayao Miyazaki's "PANDA GO PANDA!" XD

"Panda" is from 1972, and you can almost consider it to be a prototype for Tortoro, the character designs and story being kinda similar. basically a panda and his child come to live a little girl called Mimiko. its kinda trippy, especially after you've been awake all night watching more serious anime. ^^; it was another english dub, not a brilliant one, but the entire thing had the audience laughing so hard, mostly cuz it was so rediculous. but it also had all that crazy Miyazaki formula to it, so it was kinda enjoyable too. a good end to the night. (if you are curious, you can watch Panda Go Panda in english on Youtube...just see how hilarious it is!)

of course, its now 9:30 am and i hadnt had any sleep, so i went home and straight to bed...i slept for about four hours, then i got up and went to Kung Fu Stick class. ^^;


so yeah. it was good. the goody bags werent bad, mostly full of sci-fi books and b-movie dvds. i also got a poster, an address book, a Voltron DVD set, a computer mouse and an Afro Samurai OST sample CD. and in the second goody bag (for answering the question correctly ^^ ) i got a Berserk T-shirt, a Vash the Stampede key-chain, and FMA manga vol 1! not too shabby huh?


so yeah. it was a very good night. ^^

anyways, im gonna show some pictures now from when i was wandering around London last week.






that last one was taken from the top of the monument. im gonna post the rest of the pictures up on Facebook, but those were some of the better ones i took. ^^


over the weekend i custom painted a Gundam model i had lying around (it was a spare i had from a Mobile Armour kit i bought a while back) and i gotta say, im pretty impressed with how it turned out.



On the right is the original Gundam Dynames. On the left is the Gundam Dynames Solar Swashbucklers Custom. (Or Dynames SS for short)

The black/red colour scheme is the official colour scheme used by the Solar Swashbucklers, a rogue pirate group in my original Gundam Fiction.





the only down side to painting this model in matt black and red colours is that the paint got on some of the joints, which has gummed them up. i have to be careful about posing the model.

but even so...



it looks effing awesome, if i do say so myself.


well, thats all i have time for today. take care y'all.



PANDA! PA-PANDA! KO-PANDA!
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