Oh, sure, in theory trying to write something about Tron: Legacy while it's fresh in my mind would make sense. But no, I actually went & failed a tower defense challenge a couple more times between watching it and now ( Read more... )

Stranger Than Fiction

Finally saw this. Well, it is strange. But I suppose there is a point at the end about the poetry of irony versus doing good in the world.

Movies that pretend to be more real than they are to cheat you into suspending your disbelief:

( spoiler cut for those who want to go in believing )

Escape from Terra, p. 13:
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So apparently I've been watching trilingual movies now?

Free Zone starts with a woman crying in the back of a car for several minutes. It gets better, though. Later, there's a story told by one character to another that seems like the movie was made to tell that story. Then the movie sort of thrashes about for an ending, & ends with the ( Read more... )

I haven't been doing my stupid little reviews. I have been reading stuff, though, if not really a volume a day.

Am not quite through Chikyu Misaki v2. Am loving all the eight-panel pages. This is narrative, people ( Read more... )

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OK, Just read volume 6 of King of Thorn. (In a version translated from a Portuguese translation.) Ow. Ever read something where your mind is trying to make it all a dream so it makes sense/is less horrifying ( Read more... )

Well, I've read King of Thorn vols. 4 & 5 now. One to go. Realized after borrowing a physical copy of 5 that I could read the whole thing in scanslation online. Stupid ( Read more... )

Oh, as for the actual story of Whistle! v2: It's pretty cool, actually. In v1 the team was effectively stripped down to six named characters, & we saw them come together to become a new team. This volume gets two more characters that were hanging around the edges to rejoin. But at some point the book has to have a footie game, right? In order to ( Read more... )

OK, up to two volumes of Whistle!Shonen Jump's translation of vol. 2 is disappointing. It looks very rushed. There are word balloons with misplaced arrows. I saw multiple cases of a character saying "he" when he means "I." And when a mysterious new character is introduced (some quick online research indicates it's Matsushita Soujū), he's called " ( Read more... )