SSWI — When in doubt, buff it out.

Well I am back from my retreat; it was an experience to say the least.  But as fun as that was it isn’t what I want to talk about right now.

So yeah, as the post name implies I just finished watching the Japanese release of Final Fantasy VII Advent Children and all I have to say is wow.

I feel robbed, robbed that I wasn’t able to watch this on the big screen.  I won’t say it was everything I had hoped a FF7 movie would be, but it was close people, very close.

The story was very well written, in terms of being true to the characters we all know and love from the game, and the animation was wonderful, especially the fight scenes.  The director didn’t shy away from very hectic action, which allowed for some very impressive sequences.

All in all, a must see for any FF7 fan, or for any fan of animation.

I have been kicking around an idea for a comic for a while now called ‘User Group’.  It is a synthesis of geekery and ridiculousness that fits snugly into the fabric of SsWi.

I am a huge fan of sequential art and have produced a couple of home grown books in the past, so this isn’t new territory for me per se.  The main difference is that I have become… disenfranchised with art and comics over the years and find it hard to get motivated.

The newest trailer for the “movie” Advent Children has been added to the japanese site.  Go watch it, and then come back here and read the rest of this post, wherein the author pontificates on the failure of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

Wow, I just noticed after commenting on this post, that I wrote that almost one year ago.

What is so amazing to me is that it is still an active thread.   It is up to 32 posts now and probably will still grow over time.   To me that is one of the most powerful aspects of the blog, not this one perhaps, but of those blogs that are really worth the screen realestate they occupy.   That something pithy or important once said can be expanded on and exlplored for months or even years to come.

I know that I was not supposed to be blogging about just anything… but this is just to good to let pass by.

I am really not happy about this.

Even though the technology is there to bring the look and effects to life, I think that there are some things that should just not be… re-envisioned.

As a follow up to the DBZ post from yesterday, here is a nifty little formula for you to ascertain your power level.

1. What’s your weight?
2. What’s your age?
3. How much can you lift?
4. How tall are you in inches?
Now, add your weight, age, pounds you can lift and how tall you are in inches, together and divide by 50. There’s your Power Level. The normal Human is between 5-8. What’s yours?

Well the final episodes of one of my favorite anime’s Dragonball Z are finally rolling on Toonami.

The Buu Saga ends the Z saga, and closes the book on the lives of Goku, Vegita and the rest, at least for awhile. I say this because shortly after the ending of this show another show was begun, namely Dragonball GT.

Just when I thought my day was ruined by the lovely folks at Alltel, I run across this site, graciously liked from Blogs4God.

If you have never heard of Yatta!, or seen the video, please do your self a big favor and click here.

I just stumbled upon this announcement over at Dragonball Z.com. It seems that 20th Century Fox has optioned he rights to produce a DBZ movie. It is scheduled to be on a fast tack release sometime in the summer of 2003. I have no idea how I feel about this. I am actually a HUGE DBZ fan, but I can’t think of anyone I could actually see playing the different parts. Anywhoo. Just thought everyone should know.

And in other news Hasbro is releasing a new 2d Transformers cartoon. Transformers Armada. They have decided to introduce a new “race” of transformers labeled Mini-cons. Seems a little contrived to me. Why couldn’t they just let things rest with the wildly amazing and popular Beast Machines produced by Mainframe? It looks as though It won’t be made by Saban like the abhorent Transformers: Robots in Disguise that we had to sit through last season on Fox. This show will air on Cartoon Network, and then find its way into the Toonami block.