Sunday, June 27, 2004

Smile through the sorrow and win a free T-shirt.


A new little myOtaku intro I made out of a lack of anything to do. I'll explain where this came from later.

Last night my mother and father went to some sort of charity dinner, which was held by some sort of business club that one of my dad's subordinates runs. My brother and I stayed home, I was on the computer doing my regular shpiel, and my bro was watching TV or something. After a few hours of quiet, my dad suddenly called and told asked my brother to come to the phone as well. He then told us that he was going to help his coworker unpack a fireworks booth early on Sunday. My brother immediately went into happy-optimistic-sure-I'll-do-it mode, while I heard "morning," felt that my right to sleep had been infringed upon, and said I would have to "think about it."

Well, somehow my parents dragged me into it, and I was brought out of my happy little nap at 8 AM to go into the mall parking lot, wait for a truck of fireworks to come, and then put all the boxes inside of a metal shack-booth thing. When we got there, the truck had not arrived yet, so we just stood around for a minute. It was not too long until the truck came, and two greasy stereotypical truck-driving people took inventory of the oddly titled fireworks. Some that stood out in my mind were "Screaming Willy," "Dragon Breathes Fire," "Exploding Balls" and "Bunker Busters." Who names these things..?

Anyway, they spent about fifteen minutes making sure everything was there, and there was a surprisingly large amount of explosives in the middle of the mall parking lot by the time they were done. Some boxes were surprisingly light, but most were painfully heavy. :/ Somehow my brother got away with carrying the boxes two feet into the booth, and I had to put the boxes on the highest shelf. He hardly did anything, by his own decision, and now he's complaining about how he feels he didn't help enough.

I don't plan on selling any of the fireworks when that all starts tomorrow. In fact, I'm hoping that we won't buy any fireworks. We're going to be in Anaheim (At Anime Expo, hooray!) on Independence Day, with a view of Disneyland from our hotel room.

Hmmm, now let's think for a moment here.

Disney is a big theme park. Theme parks tend to have big shows. A lot of them are at night.. Now what sort of show would a major theme park with lots of money do on the Fourth of July, and I wonder if we'll be able to see it from outside the park?

Sparklers suck. Major theme park explosives are where it's at.

We went to the mall for a short while after that, and I just read some manga in Suncoast and Waldenbooks for a while. Normally, I just look at manga for a minute and move on, because I have to meet someone or the people I'm with don't want to stay, but today I was pretty free, so I just stood in there for a while and read various manga.

And now for today's..



:} I like using that picture.

Last night I looked at the revised AX Film/Video Programming Schedule and found that they're showing the first two episodes of Shingetsutan Tsukihime, a series that Azure particularly enjoys, and one that I would like to see. According to what I have read, the series has been liscensed (By Bandai, I think, but I'm not sure) under the name "Lunar Legend Tsukihime." It should be out in October, if I read right, and the viewing is going to be in subtitles, not dubbed, thank God. It's true that I've never heard the Tsukihime dub, and I'm not sure if they've even started it, but I don't want to take my chances. :/ I haven't trusted dubs ever since Evangelion.

Also, while in Waldenbooks today, I picked up the manga version of an anime that I had downloaded once- Comic Party. From what I gathered, it's about a guy who didn't make it into art college, but is determined to become an artist anyway. I don't think he originally wanted to do anything manga-related, but it seems that he eventually becomes a doujinshi-writer. Doujinshi is an "underground fan comic," in case you don't get it.. CLAMP and Rikdo Koshi (The creator of Excel Saga) started off as doujin-writers and went pro, which is pretty cool.

Comic Party takes place at a doujin convention named.. Well, Comic Party, or Comipa for short. The beginning part of the first volume seems to poke fun at fanboys, and the general musty-grossness of non-industry conventions. Heh, I thought parts of it were pretty funny, but I don't think I'll buy the series.

The art in Comic Party is pretty damn inspiring. The color art especially moves me. It's high quality CG anime pictures.. Bliss.

..And now I realize that a lot of that had nothing to do with Anime Expo, but eh. Whatever.
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