I’m going to be upfront, and say it first thing: I watch anime.

Now that that’s out of the way, I have some issues with both anime haters, and anime lovers. First off, the haters. Many people that dislike anime throw out the ‘it’s just a cartoon’ card, and for all intents and purposes.. I agree. I mean, you can’t argue that.

However, what needs to be understood is WHY it’s a freaking cartoon. Quite often, it falls into 2 categories. The first being, animation is a hell of a lot cheaper, and you don’t need to worry about actors bitching/dying/showing up drunk. Secondly, is that many things just aren’t feasible. At least.. in long term sense.

What people need to start thinking about is less in terms of visual style, and more for what the core of it really is.. the story and setting. If you take the story and setting at face-value, most often it’s interchangeable between Live action and anime.

What I mean is, Ghost in the Shell could be taken, and acted out by actors, and tell the exact same story within the same setting as the anime. If you were to write a novel, make an exact film version of it, and a duplicate animated version, people would most often refer to it as a cartoon, and pass it off.

Now, personally, when it comes to drama or.. any emotion really, live action wins hands down. there’s just something much more.. there when a real person displays.. anything compared to a hand drawn actor.

Now, the people that go, “omg, I <3 Anime.” I hate you, I hate you so much. You’re jsut as bad as the haters. On the flip side, you simply gravitate towards shit because it’s a cartoon. With very little regard to the face value of the story or.. anything really. If it’s from japan, and it’s inked, you watch it.

I’m tired. Oh, and jsut to throw it out there, I hate Death Note, and Bleach sucks.

There, I said it.

Just how many alterations has this page been through?

Well, alot actually. At least six or seven I believe. No matter what direction I take the site, I always have the same dillema, which is.. “what the hell do I do with the front page?” I’ve made numerous attempts at various ways to tie it into the forum, however I’m pretty much giving up on that at this point, and focusing on waht the site really is.

My personal site. It’s an outlet for me to try new designs, learn how to do various things better, and focus on web development on something more interesting than locally on my PC.  One day I was jsut sort of messing around, and I figured, hell.. might as well just put a blog on the front, instead of that half assed SMF modification I made originally.

What will I be blogging about? Well, mostly media, such as games, and films. Actually mostly films, with some various life and current event type deals on occasion.. more importantly, what I hate about them, and why you should hate it too.

The reason it’ll end up being movies mostly is because, I tend to watch movies the majority of my day, as well as watching them over, and over. For example, in the last 6 days, I’ve watched Underworld 8 times, 3 of them being commentary. Anyways, I didn’t sleep last night, so I’m exhausted, and I need rest. I’ll start this shit up tomorrow.