Kara no Kyoukai: Fukan Fuukei

So I watched the first (of seven) Kara no Kyōkai movies just recently, fansubbed by gg-Takajun (yay Takajun! :D Now go work on Heaven's Feel XD).

Well, it certainly made more sense for me than some other viewers, as I'd read the first few 'chapters' of the books, so at least the scene where Ryōgi grabs a spirit with her prosthetic left arm wasn't a 'holy ****, why can she do that?!' scene.

Anyhoo, a wonderfully animated fifty minutes, particularly the bit where Ryōgi leaps onto the rooftop with all the water and skids across. Very snazzy, ufotable! :) You managed to capture the jarring of her feet very realistically, and the scattering water was just that bit more realistic than that seen in Advent Children... although that movie came out a while ago, I suppose. *rolls eyes*

I also enjoyed Kajiura Yuki's music (to be expected, though!), particularly the co-op with Kalafina for the ED. 'Oblivious' is a very nice song, but it's not going to be dethroning 'Egao no Wake' by Kaori Hikita anytime soon.

As for the story... well, considering the source material itself wasn't a big fan of 'pointless exposition', some people may find this story confusing. Others will say it's like that in a bid for realism - after all, what hero(ine) or villain(ess) spends their time talking about how their powers work, what it does, and why they're doing what they do. After all, many of the people in KnK don't actually know the answers to those in the first place...
While it can be argued this 'realism' has been taken too far - after all, it's supposed to be a story first and an alter-world second - further 'chapters' provide more information.

Anyway, movie #2 was just subbed a few days ago, so I'll be watching that. It's the first half of 'Murder Study', and will be about Shiki when she was a child... and before the accident that sent her into a coma.

Code Geass

OK, srsly, 'geas' is pronounced ɡɛʃ, as in... gesh (see the footnote).

Many people pronounce the title as ' Code Geese', because it's spelt 'geass' and saying 'gay ass' is just terrible. The Japanese seiyuu pronounce it 'gee-ahsu'... which is also wrong. In terms of the Irish, that is.

Geass is another form of geas, or geasa, or geis. Wiki it. Irish roots, it's an obligation/prohibition.


So~ how to refer to it?

Code Geese? Code Gay Ass? Code Gee-aaaaaaaaaaah-SU!

Maybe it's more like Code Guess?

Footnote:
g: get, go, guard
ɛ: bed, net, dress
ʃ: she, sugar, machine

Boo for Unrelated Subjects

Aaaand all the related and - more importantly - relevant courses have been assessed. Of course, two of them are actually year long courses, and I don't get a GPA for them until the end of the year. <_> And we have to pass every single unit for one, and assessment for the other... ;_;

Anyway. That's unrelated to the topic.

Final exam: biochemistry.

What. In. The. Nine. Hells. ?.

Useless subject. Why the hell do I need to know about metabolism... it's got nothing to do with me! All I need to care about with regards to digestion is the process of mastication and carbohydrate digestion beginning with amylase being secreted in saliva... and maybe if the person happens to regurgitate stuff, that it's bad and will cause damage to their oral tissues.

Regardless. Here I am, learning about carbohydrate metabolism, the fates of glucose/pyruvate/etc., lipid metabolism, amino acid metabolism (this is even more WTH)...

GARGH. What a waste of my money. ;_;

Yay for Related Subjects

So, exam for Oral Biology was Monday evening (got home so late T_T), but yay for the fact that I don't have to study the periodontal tissues for Clinical Dental Practice because... I've already studied it.

...and the epidemiology of today's Public Oral Health exam also covers some material for the periodontal diseases component of Clinical Dental Practice.

The odd man out, Biochemistry... is on the backburner. I'm not studying for that until after Clinical. Mainly because there are three whole days to study for Biochem.

And it's boring. And stupid. And useless.

TL;DR, studying this EOS period was a little easier than previous ones because studying for one subject meant studying a little bit of another...

FINALLY, we move onto relevant material.

Random 'Friends' on FaceBook

It's been under a week since I joined, and I've already had several friend requests from people that have made be think 'who the hell is s/he?!'

Um... And to find out, I had to add them, just to see if they were some poor underclassman that I'd only been introduced to once and I'd - in my scatterbrainedness (META LANGUAGE YAY) - forgotten...

Quite honestly, I still go 'wait a minute, did I even talk to this person for more than two hours in the whole time I went to the same school as them?!'

In fact, of one them I don't think I ever spoke to. Ever.

And it's just too rude to delete them. I think. <_<

So if you happen to be one of these people, do drop a line... I'm curious as to why you'd add some almost-stranger. I, at least, had a reason. ;)

Get Off the Road, People~

...because SOMEBODY has their Provisional license. :D

Battle Moon Wars

This isn't actually a visual novel... it's a turn based strategy fighter game based on the TYPE-MOON novels (visual and not).
The fight mechanics are pretty much a clone of Super Robot Wars, and for gamers that were old hands with SRW, BMW was easy enough to pick up.

In this story, stagnation is occurring in Misaki City (setting of Tsukihime), and some members of this investigatory government group (I think they're government XD) are sent to determine what's causing it and to help the guardian of that land out. Seeing as the Tohno family is the guarding family of Misaki City, it's Akiha the two agents have to seek out.

Anyway, vampires once thought defeated, servants of the Holy Grail War that was thought to have been ended forever - all these resurface in Misaki, and a collection of characters from Tsukihime, Kara no Kyoukai and Fate/Stay Night (and their related spin-offs/sequels, such as Len from Kagetsu Tohya and Kaleido Ruby from Fate/Hollow Ataraxia) all end up working together to defeat the evil that shouldn't even exist.

While the story is intriguing (there's some really LOL moments, such as when Arcueid sees a mahou shoujo movie and decides she's going to be a magical girl too, under the name Phantasmoon), it is worth noting that all the characters are equal here - there is no 'a servant possesses roughly 1/4 of Arcueid's strength' (although she isn't really fighting as Arcueid, but rather a nerfed mahou shoujo), nor 'only Ciel and Kishima Kouma [of Tsukihime] would be able to fight against a servant in a defensive fight'.
Of course, there isn't really any other way of having a strategy component if just one character could practically god-hack all the characters dead in one turn...

Anyway, there's a translation project of this game in progress, alongside the fact that WERK (the company behind BMW) haven't actually finished all the expansion packs to this game yet... Part 4 is apparently going to come out in August this year.