Ehehe, yeah. ^__^

Don’t worry, I’m still going to update this blog- I just need some more time to finish the Ravex In Tezuka World review. In the meantime, you can visit me here:
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Look what I got in the mail. :3

OK, so I know it’s technically not the very best movie ever made… That one might still be in the works. But I do know that it is one of the best movies I’ve seen so far, and one of my personal favorites. ^0^ It was the first thing by Tezuka(OK, not really, but still) that I ever saw.

See, back when I was a kid, Sweden seemed to want nothing to do with anime/manga. There was some anime dubbed, but that was really low-quality-dubbing. We did have Sailor Moon on TV though, only most kids seemed to hate it. I loved it. So I learnt it was an anime and, uh… The rest is history. Really. (And it involves a little 8-year-old desperatly hunting for anime.)

Anyways, I first saw Metropolis when I was ten. I wasn’t really sure why I picked it up, probably because I thought “Hey, that looks like anime!” And then I read the back of the cover. Then Astro Boy was mentioned, and I knew then and there: I HAD to see that movie.

Sadly, the lady who was supposed to take me to rent a movie did not agree. She pointed out that the movie was “From ages 11 and up”. I nearly threw a fit. Needless to say, I was not allowed to watch it that time.

So I manage to get my dad to rent it for me(He’s actually got a clue of how these age-thingys work). I had a terrible cold when I saw it, so I couldn’t enjoy it as much as I otherwise would. It was a wonderfull movie, though. I remember being dissapointed at first, since everybody looked like disney characters with long eyelashes. Then Rock entered the picture. I had no idea of any of Tezuka’s characters at the time, but I liked Rock. He had a gun. He shot things. Therefore, he was cool. I felt really sorry for him, too… All he wanted was to be loved.

The VHS-movie was DUBBED. Yeah, dubbed. I sighed about it, but I saw it anyway. Thing is, it was dubbed in english. ENGLISH. Most movies in Sweden are only dubbed if they are: a) For children, or b) Animated. But this one was dubbed in english, and it’s still the only anime dub I actually think is pretty good. Especially Rock and Tiima’s voice, they were pretty close to the original.

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I loved the ending scene to bits. My dad cracked up when they started playing old jazz-music to scenery buildings crashing down. I nearly cried at the end, where Tiima falls to her doom… But it’s a bit of a happy ending too, I think. I love bittersweet endings, for some reason.

So, now I have the DvD. It’s a been given a wonderfull treatment that you don’t see often in anime over here, seeing as it has bonus material and dubbing in several langueges. Including RUSSIAN. And it has two disks, ^0^ lucky lucky me.

Ok, it’s been a while since I last wrote about games. This one here is a remake of an old game, a near-perfect RPG.

Rhapsody was originally released for the Playstation. I read a review about it and really wanted to play it, but I don’t have a Playstation, and it was long off the market by the time I read about it. Luckily, it was re-realeased for DS last year, so I’m finally able to play it now.

The setup is pretty simple: A girl embarks on her journey to save a prince. Yes, folks, it’s a game with a cool female protagonist. A PIXEL RPG WITH A COOL FEMALE PROTAGONIST. I’ll just let that sink in for a while.

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The developers did, however, add some more ingredients to the mix. Like the fact that Cornet, the main character, talks to puppets and uses them for battle. There are musical scenes, too.

Yes, there are musical scenes. The songs are in japanese, but there are subs on the bottom screen for you to follow. The sprites dance cutely in little musical routines, it’s adorable to watch. You can rewatch all the scenes in the menu once you unlock them. While some seem rather mediocre, they aren’t exactly bad. For a game, they’re pretty good. Not in the “This song rocks!” way, rather in a “Cute song, it’s OK” way-Although there are some gems, like the villanes’s song.

And the pixels. This truely is pixel RPG at it’s best. The characters are drawn in cute, anime-styled graphics, and the backrounds are gorgeous. The sprites are cute, too! You can choose to view all the sprites and faces you unlock in the menu of the game.

To summarize, this is a great game that really needs more attention. I hope more parents will buy this game for their daughters instead of the usual pink-princess bullcrap.

Here, everybody!
It’s not a very known fact, but I am quite a fan of silent movies, Chaplin, and Asta Neilsen. Although I do mostly watch movies by those two (And hoping to get my hands on the Henry Lloyd box), I occasionally dig up really old things from the time when “moving pictures” were considered entertainment in themselves, while developing precursors of modern filming technique. While most are primitive and of poor quality, they still manage to make me smile from time to time.

This gem here is, according to sources, the very first science fiction movie ever made. It was filmed in 1902, and retains certain elements detectable in Sci-Fi through the ages; A voyage to a diffrent planet, aliens, et cetera. Sorry for all the ado, here is the movie: