Saturday, March 14, 2009

yaaaa~wwwn

heya folks. or anyone. anyone out there? whatevs.


its been another quiet week overall.

biggest news this week is that my boss at work, Paul, is leaving us to transfer to another store. this was insanely short notice. :q he's decided he wants to spend more time getting outside and doing stuff like ride his mountain bike etc, which you cant really do in central london easily. so he's moving out to Biggin Hill and he'll be the manager of the Orpington store, which is close to where i do my Kung Fu Stick classes on a Sunday. in all fairness, Orpington store is a lot closer to me then Covent Garden store, where i work at the mo, is. but i wouldnt wanna work in Orpington...its such a dull place. i much prefer the hustle and bustle (and conviently located manga shops) of London. ^^

so we'll be getting a new manager on Monday. i dont him apart from what other people have said (he used to be a manager at another store) and he seems to be alright, but i guess i wont really know until i meet the guy. could be a case of "better the devil you know" or it could turn out that he's really and alrite guy. we'll see.


went to Orbital Manga and bought some manga (funnily enough) the other day. One of them is Appleseed vol 4, which i've been waiting for a while now. thats my regular dose of Shirow Masamune topped up. XD

the other thing i bought was an impulse buy. its a large graphic novel (in terms of paper size, the actual volume size isnt very great) called "Orange". Its by a man called "Benjamin" (which is a psudonym, it seems to be a chinese manga-ka) and the whole thing seems to have been done in Adobe Painter or something similar. its very bright and colourful, with no defined line art per se... i cant really explain it. its about a schoolgirl named Orange, who decides to kill herself, but is inadvertantly stopped by a drunk named Dashu. the rest of the novel is a glance at Orange's life, her non-relationship with Dashu
and her feelings about this world. The whole narrative and art work is chaotic and surreal, with no total linear plot line, and it all comes twisting around until the violent end.

Despite the vibrant and abstract art, you can always work out what everything (almost) is the panel, and some of the faces are rendered with amazing accuracy...more photo-realistic than manga stlyed. the art work helps enhance the feel of the city that Orange lives in, it accentuates the heart beat of the city, the pulse of millions of people doing their own thing, and yet also captures the lonliness and isolation of the protagonist, lost in a sea of souls. anyone who's spent a significant amount of time in a big city will empathise with this sensation and the final perspective of Orange's dilemma comes from a suprising source. the resulting epiphany is harsh.

"Orange" is published by Tokyopop, and its worth a look through, even if you dont buy it. it's one of those stories that require a couple of read-throughs to "get it", but it was worth it. i kinda enjoyed it, and it was an interesting break from the regualr manga that i normally read. keep an eye out for it.





i've got nothing else to say today. im gonna leave you with more pictures of Gundam models. im gonna photgraph my new Gundam models later this week and put them up too, so be prepared...lotsa Gundams coming your way. ^^ these are some of my older models...


Gundam 00 models:


Gundam Throne Zwei vs a Tieren Space Type




Union Flag Graham Acre Custom and Gundam Nadleeh




Gundam Kyrios attacking a Union Overflag




GN ARMS-D with Gundam Dynames. the kit came with a 1/144 scale Dynames anyway, but i havent got round to making that yet, seeing as i already owned the Dynames. The GN-ARMS is a huge kit, but to be totally honest, i only bought it cuz i wanted the beam pistols that came with it to give to my Dynames. ^^;;;;;

and here are my Martian Successor Nadesico kits:



Aestivalis Flight frame



Zero-G Aestivalis Izumi Custom



Akutski Custom and Hikaru's Zero G Frames.



Heavy Artillery Frame with Ryoko's Custom assualt pit. One of the big gimmicks with these models is that you can swap the Assault Pits (the cockpit and head) between the different frames, like they do in the anime. I havent made Ryoko's Zero-G frame up yet, but i think i prefer her Assualt pit in the Artillery Frame better than the default head that came with it. :q


and thats enough mecha from me today...but dont worry folks! i have The Cherudim Gundam, Arios Gundam, SD StarGazer, SD HeavyArms, SD Deathsythe and SD Tallgeese all waiting for you. XD (run for the hills!!!)

and when i finally get the Seravee, i'll probably show you that too!!! bwa ha ha ha ha!!!!


TTFN
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