Saturday, April 02, 2011
Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu - The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya Screencaps Gallery.
Okay, so I finally uploaded them into two different albums on Picasa.
Part 1 Gallery | Part 1 Batch Download.
Part 2 Gallery | Part 2 Batch Download.
Friday, April 01, 2011
Anime Image of the Day 215.
Going to the Final Fantasy concert tonight, so have some of my favorite female character of all time, from any game! I love Tifa and her she looks awesome in Dissidia!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
ISML 2011 Preliminary Period — Phase III, Day 3
Hopefully I remember to post this more often.
ARENA 01: Kotobuki Tsumugi [Elucia de Lute Irma] [Ichinose Kotomi] Shirai Kuroko Oshino Shinobu Maria Shiina Mafuyu Himeji Mizuki
ARENA 02: Hirasawa Ui Hiiragi Tsukasa [Fate Testarossa] Cecilia Alcott Illyasviel von Einzbern Yūki Mikan Index L. Prohibitorum Nakagawa Kanon
ARENA 03: Akemi Homura [Ibuki Fūko] Ōkami Ryōko Louise Vallière Sanzen'in Nagi [Tainaka Ritsu] Iwasawa Asami Astraea
ARENA 04: [Takamachi Nanoha] Sakurano Kurimu C.C. Ika-Musume Shiina [Kawashima Ami] Haruna Tomoe Mami
ARENA 05: Merry Nightmare Saten Ruiko [Kushieda Minori] Akaba Chizuru Seraphim [Holo] Laura Bodewig Kirishima Shōko
ARENA 06: Shiina Minatsu Konjiki no Yami Kiriya Nozomi Aragaki Ayase Kanzaki Kaori Shiomiya Shiori Kuroi Mato Ikaros
In case you can't tell... I wasn't very interested in many of these people. I had to force myself to pick eight and then I picked one more.
Go ahead and vote! http://www.internationalsaimoe.com/voting/
HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY, EWAN MCGREGOR!
I hope you have a wonderful birthday!
Love,
One of your biggest fans!
Trainspotting: 15 Years Later.
Trainspotting: 15 Years Later.
Fifteen years since its release, Trainspotting is without a doubt firmly positioned at the forefront of most audience’s minds when they think of British cinema. So iconic is the film that it even edges out golden oldies such as The Bridge On The River Kwai in the BFI’s top ten selection of the favorite British films of the 20th century.
Telling the story of a group of junkies in Edinburgh, it arrived amid Cool Britannia, when Britpop ruled the airwaves, and introduced an incredible ensemble cast whose careers were ultimately transformed overnight: Robert Carlyle, Ewan Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kelly Macdonald and, in the lead role, Ewan McGregor.
“At twenty-four, I was in a brilliant youthful, ruling-the-world kind of mood,” explains McGregor, who played the film’s lovable but disreputable skag-obsessed Renton. “I thought everything I was involved in was going to be some huge hit back then, but truthfully, I don’t think that anyone could have predicted just how successful Trainspotting would be today. I mean, it’s still the main thing people ask me about when they come up to me in the street. I really get a sense that it’s possibly the biggest film I’ve done, or definitely the most successful in terms of being in the human consciousness.”
Yet, despite the film’s infectiously entertaining and quick-witted humour Trainspotting has not always been on the receiving end of positive press. In fact for many years after its release, it was routinely condemned, forever at the centre of debates for its apparent attractive and sexy allure of glorifying drug use. “I’ve never believed that,” an authoritative McGregor proclaims. “The story is right there in front of your eyes to see and there’s a great deal of grief and terrible shit going on in it. I mean, yes, the film had a flavour about it, but that’s because it’s very engaging. In the book, you didn’t want to put it down because you wanted to be in amongst these people - when in actual fact if you met these people it’d be a nightmare - and I think that’s kind of what we achieved with the film.”
“There’s something very vibrant about it and something charming about these characters. Yeah, there’s moments in the early scenes when they’re taking drugs and they look like they’re having the time of their lives, but that’s because it is the time of their lives. In a way it’s because they haven’t really got anything else, that’s why people take drugs and why people become addicted to them. It’s an escape, and it’s an escape in their case because of poverty and hopelessness. So to not show that side of it, that moment of high they we’re trying to reach, that wouldn’t be the whole story. Maybe people just don’t like the mix of that stylised look and the subject matter, but I think ultimately it doesn’t matter. The film’s not saying ‘taking heroin is great’, and there’s just no question really; we’re not showing a happy way of life.”
Since the release of Welsh’s 2002 follow-up novel Porno - set ten years after Trainspotting, with the pornography business providing the central focus of the story - news of a possible movie sequel has been rife; with the latest mumblings coming from Danny Boyle himself, when in December he said simply that “it will happen”.
“You know, through all the years of talking about Porno, I’ve never actually been given a script,” confesses McGregor, who has regularly been suggested to disapprove of a sequel. “I don’t like being the guy that’s making it not happen, especially when all the other guys want to make it. But I wouldn’t want to do a sequel to Trainspotting if it was just for the sake of it, and if I’m honest about it, I wasn’t that blown away by the book. I mean, I love Irvine Welsh’s stuff and I think he’s a brilliant writer - Trainspotting blew me away - but I felt Porno was kinda going over old ground a little bit from the Trainspotting novel. It felt a little bit like Welsh had written a good sequel to the movie, but not a good sequel to his novel. There’s too many poor sequels in the world, and it would be terrible to damage Trainspotting’s reputation by making people remember a slightly poorer, clumsy follow-on.”
“It’s not something that I would completely dismiss off-hand until I’ve seen a script,” he admits. “I mean, it could be excellent, but even then cinema’s moved along so much because of Trainspotting, because of Danny’s brilliance. Some of the shots and the energy in that movie, audiences have become so much more used to that vibe now, whereas then it was new, it was different. So on top of the script, we’d need to feel that sense of originality again, and how would that be created? How would they do that? I don’t know myself but it’d be interesting to see what they could come up with for sure. So I guess the answer is, we’ll have to wait and see.”
Read Clash’s full interview with Ewan McGregor in the latest issue of Clash Magazine out now. Subscribe to Clash magazine here.
Telling the story of a group of junkies in Edinburgh, it arrived amid Cool Britannia, when Britpop ruled the airwaves, and introduced an incredible ensemble cast whose careers were ultimately transformed overnight: Robert Carlyle, Ewan Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kelly Macdonald and, in the lead role, Ewan McGregor.
“At twenty-four, I was in a brilliant youthful, ruling-the-world kind of mood,” explains McGregor, who played the film’s lovable but disreputable skag-obsessed Renton. “I thought everything I was involved in was going to be some huge hit back then, but truthfully, I don’t think that anyone could have predicted just how successful Trainspotting would be today. I mean, it’s still the main thing people ask me about when they come up to me in the street. I really get a sense that it’s possibly the biggest film I’ve done, or definitely the most successful in terms of being in the human consciousness.”
Yet, despite the film’s infectiously entertaining and quick-witted humour Trainspotting has not always been on the receiving end of positive press. In fact for many years after its release, it was routinely condemned, forever at the centre of debates for its apparent attractive and sexy allure of glorifying drug use. “I’ve never believed that,” an authoritative McGregor proclaims. “The story is right there in front of your eyes to see and there’s a great deal of grief and terrible shit going on in it. I mean, yes, the film had a flavour about it, but that’s because it’s very engaging. In the book, you didn’t want to put it down because you wanted to be in amongst these people - when in actual fact if you met these people it’d be a nightmare - and I think that’s kind of what we achieved with the film.”
“There’s something very vibrant about it and something charming about these characters. Yeah, there’s moments in the early scenes when they’re taking drugs and they look like they’re having the time of their lives, but that’s because it is the time of their lives. In a way it’s because they haven’t really got anything else, that’s why people take drugs and why people become addicted to them. It’s an escape, and it’s an escape in their case because of poverty and hopelessness. So to not show that side of it, that moment of high they we’re trying to reach, that wouldn’t be the whole story. Maybe people just don’t like the mix of that stylised look and the subject matter, but I think ultimately it doesn’t matter. The film’s not saying ‘taking heroin is great’, and there’s just no question really; we’re not showing a happy way of life.”
Since the release of Welsh’s 2002 follow-up novel Porno - set ten years after Trainspotting, with the pornography business providing the central focus of the story - news of a possible movie sequel has been rife; with the latest mumblings coming from Danny Boyle himself, when in December he said simply that “it will happen”.
“You know, through all the years of talking about Porno, I’ve never actually been given a script,” confesses McGregor, who has regularly been suggested to disapprove of a sequel. “I don’t like being the guy that’s making it not happen, especially when all the other guys want to make it. But I wouldn’t want to do a sequel to Trainspotting if it was just for the sake of it, and if I’m honest about it, I wasn’t that blown away by the book. I mean, I love Irvine Welsh’s stuff and I think he’s a brilliant writer - Trainspotting blew me away - but I felt Porno was kinda going over old ground a little bit from the Trainspotting novel. It felt a little bit like Welsh had written a good sequel to the movie, but not a good sequel to his novel. There’s too many poor sequels in the world, and it would be terrible to damage Trainspotting’s reputation by making people remember a slightly poorer, clumsy follow-on.”
“It’s not something that I would completely dismiss off-hand until I’ve seen a script,” he admits. “I mean, it could be excellent, but even then cinema’s moved along so much because of Trainspotting, because of Danny’s brilliance. Some of the shots and the energy in that movie, audiences have become so much more used to that vibe now, whereas then it was new, it was different. So on top of the script, we’d need to feel that sense of originality again, and how would that be created? How would they do that? I don’t know myself but it’d be interesting to see what they could come up with for sure. So I guess the answer is, we’ll have to wait and see.”
Read Clash’s full interview with Ewan McGregor in the latest issue of Clash Magazine out now. Subscribe to Clash magazine here.
Live Action TV Drama and Movie of Arakawa Under the Bridge Announced.
According to Young GanGan magazine, a live action TV drama and a live action movie adaptation of Arakawa Under the Bridge were announced. The TV drama will be aired from this summer and the movie will be premiered in 2012.
Source: MyAnimeList.net + scan in post.
Haha. I will check this out solely because it should be so amusing. Who will play Sister? Who will be Nino? Or .. Stella? O.O
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu - The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya Screencaps
Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu - The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya Screencaps Incoming.
I know I usually don't post before I post screencaps, but I thought I would post that I finally have some screencaps! I screencapped Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu yesterday, but I haven't gone through the nearly 2,000 pictures I took (literally: 1,987) and they were not numbering in the correct order, which was really bothering me, but I finally got around that (used two different programs to cap it, so switched in the middle and it gave me problems) and the like. So, as soon as I am done going through them and deleting ones that are practically doubles, I will make a .rar file (probably two or three, actually, since it would be too large by itself) and I will try to upload them to Imagebam and Imageshack, but we shall see. Don't really want to try to upload 2,000 pictures into three different albums in Picasa, so won't do that. Anyway. Look forward to it! I will give some highlights, I guess, whee.
Original size of images: 1048 x 590 For the first 200 or so.
1920 x 1080 for the rest.
1920 x 1080 for the rest.
Distant Worlds: music from Final Fantasy Giveaway from http://www.thesixthaxis.com/
I was going to write about this a few days ago - not the giveaway, but the concert itself! I am so super excited about it and posted about it in a few places and my Uncle Alfie was awesome enough to get my boyfriend and I tickets for the first night of the show! However, I was ranting around to everyone that I know about how much I wanted to go and how excited I was about it and today someone showed me the giveaway, so I thought I would share here, on Playfire and some other places so others can win the awesome prize, too! Well, not that I won, but it's still awesome!
The concert is in New York, and here is the line-up for the two nights!
April 1st
Final Fantasy VII: Prelude
Final Fantasy VIII: Liberi Fatali
Final Fantasy XI: Memoro de la Stono – Distant Worlds
Final Fantasy VII: J-E-N-O-V-A
Final Fantasy VIII: Fisherman’s Horizon
American premiere of Final Fantasy XIV: Answers (featuring Susan Calloway)
Final Fantasy X: To Zanarkand
Final Fantasy XI: Terra’s Theme
Final Fantasy XII: Kiss Me Goodbye (featuring Susan Calloway)
Final Fantasy V: Clash on the Big Bridge
Final Fantasy VII: Opening – Bombing Mission
Final Fantasy VIII: Don’t Be Afraid
April 2nd
Final Fantasy VII: Aerith’s Theme
Final Fantasy V: Dear Friends
Final Fantasy IX: Vamo’ alla Flamenco
Final Fantasy VI: Opera “Maria and Draco”
Final Fantasy IX: A Place to Call Home – Melodies of Life (featuring Susan Calloway)
Final Fantasy X: To Zanarkand
Final Fantasy VI: Terra’s Theme
Final Fantasy XII: Kiss Me Goodbye (featuring Susan Calloway)
Final Fantasy V: Clash on the Big Bridge
Final Fantasy VII: Opening – Bombing Mission
Final Fantasy VIII: Don’t Be Afraid
Final Fantasy VII: Prelude
Final Fantasy VIII: Liberi Fatali
Final Fantasy XI: Memoro de la Stono – Distant Worlds
Final Fantasy VII: J-E-N-O-V-A
Final Fantasy VIII: Fisherman’s Horizon
American premiere of Final Fantasy XIV: Answers (featuring Susan Calloway)
Final Fantasy X: To Zanarkand
Final Fantasy XI: Terra’s Theme
Final Fantasy XII: Kiss Me Goodbye (featuring Susan Calloway)
Final Fantasy V: Clash on the Big Bridge
Final Fantasy VII: Opening – Bombing Mission
Final Fantasy VIII: Don’t Be Afraid
April 2nd
Final Fantasy VII: Aerith’s Theme
Final Fantasy V: Dear Friends
Final Fantasy IX: Vamo’ alla Flamenco
Final Fantasy VI: Opera “Maria and Draco”
Final Fantasy IX: A Place to Call Home – Melodies of Life (featuring Susan Calloway)
Final Fantasy X: To Zanarkand
Final Fantasy VI: Terra’s Theme
Final Fantasy XII: Kiss Me Goodbye (featuring Susan Calloway)
Final Fantasy V: Clash on the Big Bridge
Final Fantasy VII: Opening – Bombing Mission
Final Fantasy VIII: Don’t Be Afraid
And here is the giveaway Not hosted by me, but I thought I would give others a chance to see it in case they did not! This is an awesome giveaway, so yay and thank you to them for having awesome taste.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
New Higurashi OVA! Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira!
Frontier Works' official twitter account has announced a new Higurashi no Naku Koro ni OVA to commemorate the series' 10th anniversary. The title is "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira".
Higurashi Kira official website
Release dates:
Vol.1: Jul 21st 2011
Vol.2: Sep 22nd 2011
Vol.3: Nov 23rd 2011
Vol.4: Jan 25th 2012
Higurashi Kira official website
Release dates:
Vol.1: Jul 21st 2011
Vol.2: Sep 22nd 2011
Vol.3: Nov 23rd 2011
Vol.4: Jan 25th 2012
This has me super excited - I am one of the biggest fans of Higurashi I know and like fans of it, I want to see more! A 10th Anniversary OVA is sexy, but I am really hoping it's not like REI, so even though I have my hopes up and will definitely watch it, I am not entirely sure what to expect. I didn't really like REI since the first and last episodes were lame comedy episodes and I didn't want to wait months in between episodes just to watch crappy episodes... but that's just my opinion. Anyway, yay for more Higurashi. I want to see more Mion!
But so far apart! So cruel.
Hanasaku Iroha PVs.
This show looks amazing.. I think. At first I thought it just looked beautiful and had some awesome voice actors (Mamiko Noto, yay!) but I wasn't sure if it had any story, but after watching a few more promotional videos, I saw that it probably and hopefully does. I would have watched it either way, I am pretty sure, but I just wanted to post something about it here! It's so beautiful and charming looking, I hope there's a good story to go to it.
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