Undead

I'm the living undead now, returned to the world as a nerdy zombie. Only explanation I have for neglecting this blog for so friggin' long. For reals.

Watching Comic Con footage of The Last Airbender: The Legend of Korra and it's moved me so much I had to post for the first time in forever:

Korra and her mantourage look awesome. I'm having fangirl squealing moments that make me extremely ashamed of myself because I was beginning to think I had finally grown up and reached my mature phase.

Cannot begin to describe how pumped I am for the show...nor how much artwork I've collected over the past year.

Also excited for Mass Effect 3 as it looks amazing. We might also get a FemShep trailer! How cool would that be!?

And everyone is drooling over the steampunk wonder that is Bioshock: Infinite. If only I could play FPS without motion sickness. Or stop jumping everytime someone fires at me. This one will be relegated to me watching Tony as I just can't do FPS. Still looks amazing and thematic and everything we've come to expect from these developers.

Batman Arkham City is also a big fangirl moment for me. When I saw the Catwoman stuff I was very excited, but then a little sad. Her lines seem very cheesey. I'd hoped we'd moved on from Selena making all the cat references and just have her be a real person like Bruce. He doesn't make goofy bat references at all.

Still, most excited about Korra. It's been a long time since I've been looking forward to American animation like this.

Avatar update

So apparently Nickelodeon announced a new Avatar series at Comicon today. Not sure how I feel about that. If the same amount of writing/thought/time goes into this one than I'm all for it. One of the things I loved about Avatar: The Last Airbender was the character development. Not only were the characters cool and relateable, but they went through actual development arcs that contributed to the plot of the story. It was really great writing/acting. Of course none of this was expressed in the live action film, apparently. *sigh*

The new series is supposed to focus on the new Avatar after Aang. I hope it's a girl!

Animation

I'm totally stunned: American animation isn't dead. I just spent the last week watching Avatar: The Last Airbender (seasons 1-3) and absolutely loved it. I can't stop quoting it or searching for art on deviant art about it. The fact that this show aired on Nickelodeon still astounds me. Best characters are of course Sokka and Toph, and I'm a Zutarian (because heaven forbid I should choose the cannonical couple...) all the way. This show was just way too awesome. It combined all the best parts of anime and American cartoons while having some of the best characters I've ever seen on a screen. A friend lent me season one and I rushed out to buy the rest (in my defense I was going to buy Ouran High School Host Club part 2 but it was no where in sight). Kudos to American animation!

Also started watching an anime called Toradora! on Tony's reccommendation. It carries on the tsundere character-type created by The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya's titular character in the form of Taiga, a tiny delinquent. It's a romantic comedy that's hilarious, told from Ryuuji's POV (a boy with a gentle nature but with "evil eyes") about the two percieved delinquents trying to help each other hook up with their respective best friends. Beautiful and punchy animation combined with hilarious voice acting creates a cracktacular series. Not as great as Suzumiya, but still promising.