Sunday, June 19, 2005

   Happy Father's Day!
Hi everybody. Happy Father's Day! Wait, Father's Day? 0_o Holy crap! I gotta' get something for my dad! I better draw him something nice!

Anyway, while I'm on an adrenaline rush, I'll tell you what happened to me yesterday. I went to Barne's & Noble's yesterday, and Love Hina 10 was gone! T_T The first time I'm able to read it, GONE! Anyway, I started looking for something to read. Chrno Crusade vol. 3 was now in, along with vol. 4, but vol. 2 (the one I need), and Fullmetal Alchemist vol. 2 won't be here till mid-July! So, having no series I was in the middle of available, I picked up vol. 1 of Fruits Baskets. Everyone on this site has told me how wonderful and funny FB is, so I thought I could get into it. Well, I was wrong. I know this'll disappoint many of you FB fans, but I was really unimpressed. Both the art and the story were, well, mediocre to just down right 'bleah' in my opinion. I found the story no where near as engrossing as many said it would be. The characters were flat, single-sided and boring, and aside from Yuki, Kyo and Tohru (which I already knew of) I can't remember any of the characters names. And I enjoyed the art even less! The artist's lines are thin and sloppy, and her shading just down-right sucks. Shed seriously try to shade solid objects like this:

And her proportions were WAY out of whack! I was afraid Yuki was going to shoot me with some sort of death-ray or something. Ewwww, friggen' creepy eyes, man!
But, the anime sounds and looks like it's going to clear all those problems up. The good remarks I've heard about FB were pretty much all about the anime (though nothing bad was specifically said about the manga, that obviously didn't guarantee the manga's quality). So I'm willing to bet the anime puts the manga's story and art to shame (well, for its sake, I hope it does).

Josh: "So, what's so special about the guys from Fruits Basket?"
Megan: "They turn into an animal if they're hugged by a member of the opposite sex!"
Josh: "Hey, I do the exact same thing!"

XD I thought that joke up just now! Think about it for a second and you'll get it!

Since some of you (well, one of you, -_-') were interested in my series of ghost pics, I'll go ahead and give you a sneak peek of one! Check it out (and yes, he's floating):

Cool, huh? It's victim #205. Now guess how he died.
Grief over his dead puppy? No.
Gastro-intestinal build up? Guess again.
Believe it or not, the big ol' antique sword through is chest is how he died. Big surprise, neh?

OK everybody, before I go, here's a rejected Transformer:


XD A Trailer Trash Transformer! Get R' Dun!
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