Hiatus!

This would be the last post before my short hiatus due to my enlistment being on 1st Feb, this coming Wednesday, so I'll thus be going on a hiatus until my first book out, presumably 2 weeks later. Future updates would only be possible once a week since I am out of camp only once a week... so there won't be much changes to how the updates run, perhaps just more organised since it'll either be updated on a Saturday or a Sunday. There'd possibly be more stories after I head into NS so for now, it's still a bunch of common topics to cover.

Finally headed out to meet up with friends again earlier today. Went lepak-ing in the park area, chatting and stuff, admiring ppl's shaved head in preparation for NS etc etc. Met up with a close friend too after a long time and had a long chat on current issues in Burger King till near 10pm. It's always exciting to be discussing about all these current affairs, like debating and offering different views with your close friends. It's like exposing yourself to a large and diverse view of the different topics of concern. Had a slow chat about school live too which was over and a future education route to pursue after the fateful month of March. Oh well, a few more days to go and its overseas for me, all the way to Tekong :)

Took the opportunity to rush up all the latest episodes for the ongoing series, which in fact there were actually a couple or surprising changes that actually seemed to make the series even better than how it already was.

What was actually surprising for a comeback was actually Guilty Crown. For the past couple of episodes, what we actually saw was a good climax to the plot, a horrible abrupt end, truckload of secrets slammed in, awkward high school return + awkward action scenes that ended up to be too cliché. But what we actually saw in the latest episode, was finally a plot movement of Shu moving up to be the leader. I mean that, is something that should have been done long ago with his power of the Kings. It does seem like a good plot opener, just like the moment when Shu actually joined the Funeral Parlor, just that I hope it doesn't turn out to be as bad as the previous arc had shown. Now the students are ranked according to their void strength, which really does create a kind of hierarchy, which the larger void strength individuals being the higher ranked ones and vice versa with the rest. Seems like a high school dystopia to me, but since Shu's the only one that can actually draw out the voids and are now able to let the user use their own voids, things must progress more interestingly as the plot deepens. So now this series is positively heading to a good arc, but I'm still sad about how the animation has changed. There was already a clear indication of a change of drawing style in the previous episode and that was retained here too, so I do guess that this style is going to stick to GC for the rest of the series. I really did preferred the old style though...

Last Exile had just gave us an eye-opener in the previous episode, with the element of Last Exile returned. All their unique ships and weapons were all up against the opposing enemies, and the unique vanships of the country of Glacias. Exiles of both Turan and Glacias were brought in as well and the episode was brought to a cliffhanger with Turan's exile heading towards Glacias. That really did kept my hopes up for a more exciting battle in the latest episode, which really did left me disappointed yet again. The opening scene had already shown the aftermath of the destroyed Glacias, with all the "supposed to be fabulous" flying scenes all just fast forwarded to the present time. Nothing much happened for the rest of the episode, just meer conversations to patch up the story and to add more plot developments. Am still missing all the air fighting scenes which were rampant in the 1st Last Exile series so I'm really really inclined to seeing more of those scenes in this series of Last Exile as well. Would hope to see Anatoray soon, perhaps a cameo of Claus and Lavi? Well, it'll be nice if its true, or perhaps a peek at Anatory's exile again :D

Nisemonogatari is getting better with its wordplay and after so long, we were finally introduced to the lovely voice of Shinobu, the little vampire. I daresay that the seiyuu had did a great job in voicing Shinobu as it really did give her the personality that fits her and her voice just blends into the character perfectly. She really is a rather talkative one I would say and it's great hearing her speak since she was a rather popular mysterious character since season 1. Much more -monogatari styled fanservice are appearing in this season, there wasn't much in season 1 as I had remembered but at least the wordplay covers that out and their fanservice is more or less different from the ones we see on the other obvious series, like C3. I wouldn't say that their fanservice is really needed but in this case, it's more of a art than just rather pointless attractiveness attempts.

Just to leave a beautiful track of Guilty Crown OST here, would definitely get this if it was available...



So till then! 2 weeks more! :D