5 posts tagged “eureka seven”
That shot was taken at Anime Expo'06, back in July. It was the first time that we ever did Eureka Seven cosplay and the day we met both the director and character designer for the series (while in costume, even). Since then we've done it once more and it was even better the second time. Shelby's wig was improved by chance and we hiked up the fold on my pants.
Still, definitely the best Eureka and Renton pair if I do say so myself.
It won't be the only magazine I'll be appearing in this month and it's definitely awesome to be in foreign press. Thanks, Gogo!
I'm listening to this absolutely brilliant and equally illegal Eureka Seven fan album and with each thump, thump of the bass I can feel it reverberating off the inner lining of my stomach. It's that crawling feeling of the fluids and acids churning -- creeping their way up, up towards your chest and into your esophagus. Every synthetic hiss and cutting snare pulls it further into your lungs, wanting to drown your trachea with the last 6 hours of your life. Its that feeling that says maybe the last Coke your drank was a bad idea. That maybe, crawling into your bed was a better one.
And I turn around and I witness this terrible, lived in look that could only be made possible by someone doing what I do. The obsessive personality inside of me freaks out at the sight of controllers strung about, complimented by two day old socks and usb cables that seemingly serve no purpose but to create a larger disaster. I swear to myself that I'll be taking care of this situation tomorrow, but I know that forcing myself out of bed and playing more of whatever I just stood up until 3:30 in the morning to write up while in my underpants will sound like a much better plan. Cans of soda act as a barricade to stacks of preview builds and press discs.
Thank you for not exposing this to the world until we say it can be exposed.
On the floor is a stack of magazines, atop of which rests the final issue of Computer Gaming World and my baby is staring right back at me. Alan Wake. I can't begin to articulate my affection for this title at this time, but I can assure you that if I could, God himself would descend from the heavens, hop off his little cloud and say, "Kudos" for such an amazing feat of verbal fellatio. In terms of game design, what Remedy achieved with their Max Payne series was incredible. What they achieved in way of modern day storytelling is nothing short of genius. Needless to say, they have quite a high bar to clear when it comes to my approval. I don't have a reason to doubt them yet.
Obsession beget obsession and I'm reading and rereading this Alan Wake feature -- watching and re-watching Eureka Seven. I'm making a mental note that there are two screenshots amongst many in which the protagonist, Alan Wake, is joined by another physical being. This is, hilariously enough, a first. I'm going through and I'm judging and rejudging Hollands expressions in contrast to the musical work of Sato Naoki. These two subjects couldn't be further from one another, but their one link is the originality found in the worlds. Eureka Seven, Alan Wake, Halo, The Matrix -- they're all the same. Original creations, fleshed out to the point where they feel as if they could be something tangible.
Peculiar, though not an original concept. Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, even fucking Peanuts has done it. Some more gripping than others
Its then that I realize that I'm not sleeping nearly enough as I should be.
Jared: Still sober and still in the middle of nowhere. To make matters worse, Shelby and I are currently sitting in the hotel lobby, lamenting over the fact that we don't do any Star Wars cosplay. If we did, we'd get to swing around long hunks of plastic and go, "Whoom! Whoom!" The kids outside are getting to do it,so why can't we? Thats probably because when you only cosplay as nurses, tennis players and other such random professions, light sabers just never come into the equation. Anyways, we're still here at Ani-Magic and living outside of our hotel room. Her sister decided to bring a b-b-b-b-boy!
Shelby: So why are we at Ani-Magic in Lancaster? While Ani-Magic is easily the most boring convention to attend... It's still my convention. And it allows me to bring my dog.
Jared: A dog whom is a bigger attention whore than the two of us combined. Doing the couple thing with Eureka Seven is usually more than enough to bring the kids with the cameras to the bar, but with her dog, Momo, joining in on the fun as Holland, nobody even wanted us in the shot! Bah! It's funny though. While we've been together for a full six months now, this week has been one of our best, in my opinion. We've just gotten to bond better than we have in a long, long time and her dog actually seems to respond to me now.
The lounge next to us is bumping the greatest in late 90's booty shaking hip-hop. "Shake Yo Ass" by Mystikal was one of those songs that I'd hope I'd never hear again until I died. And while we can create bipedal robots and artificial hearts,we still have yet to discover just how many licks it takes to get to the center of Lil Kim.
Shelby: It's still a welcome change to the kids running screaming in a language that they don't understand.
While Momo may have warmed up a bit to Jared (and vice versa), my mother now thinks he's beating me. Over the course of this week I have ended up with several horrible bruises that I can't account for. I didn't think the sex was that rough.
Sorry, Mom. I fell down the stairs and into a doorknob.
Jared: As I type this, Shelby has gone off sprinting towards our hotel room in search for the AC plug to this laptop. God speed, tiny woman. Not tiny, however, are the aforementioned bruises that have been afflicted upon her. I've seen enough episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit to know that I should not speak of our actions anywhere -- especially not on the internets. But I will say this. . she fell down the stairs and hit the doorknob.
From the two pictures in this post you can tell that our DS' are playing an important role in this weekend. From playing Animal Crossing every day to Shelby humbling myself at Big Brain Academy (From which I gained redemption), the DS has kept our sanity in tact. We're both too lazy to bother with the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connect service, so being able to play the former of those too at the drop of a hat has been a blessing.
For now, it's time to go catch her sister in the act. See you!
In roughly three hours I have to be up and out of bed in order to catch a ride to the airport. For the next week (Sept.25-Oct.2) I'll be down in Bakersfield, California, hanging out with the girlfriend in preparation for Ani-Magic 06. Honestly, I'm not actually looking forward to the latter, but the former will be fun. I just wanted to give you all a heads up in case I don't actually manage to update my Vox sometime between here and there. There will be photo shoots, there will be Animal Crossing and yes, there will be cosplay.
Speaking of which, I won't be doing anything new aside from Tezuka Kunimitsu from Prince of Tennis. Does that even count? My Seigaku uniform has been sitting in my closet untouched since October of last year. No, wait. I did wear the shirt while on the "Damn You Internets!" panel at Fanime back in May in which during a drunken swing, I spilt a drink on it.
Shelby and I will be pairing up again for Eureka Seven cosplay which, funny enough, she recently won a contest for. Aside from that she'll be doing a lot of Pop'n Music (Which I'll be joining next time). This week she also plans on making little matching outfits for her dog, Momo, to join in on both the Eureka Seven and Pop'n Music groups. This is, hilariously enough, not the first time she has done this.
Maybe I am looking forward to that more than I thought. . not that anime conventions in the middle of nowhere actually do make me excited. Well, Bakersfield is a horrible place and if I don't get to sleep I won't be awake enough to experience it. See you all later!
As a (Now) struggling freelance journalist, I am prone to random mood swings when not actively pursuing work or working on a project. Today was one of those days and it led to a fit of shopping down at Best Buy and Borders.
Eureka Seven, Volume 2 (DVD)
Eureka Seven, Volume 2
Hikaru No Go, Volume 6
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Volume 4
Kingdom Hearts, Volume 3
It's obvious by a mere glance at my tags that I get a raging hard on for anything with the name "Eureka Seven" printed on it. The oddity in there is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, as I originally intended to stop buying it.
Admittedly, I'm really not a fan of old-school Manga and JoJo is painfully 80s. Every panel features characters with perfect posture, no matter what's currently happening. The gigantic, bulging chest muscles beget massive arm muscles beget face muscles to the point of ridiculousness. I love myself some Dio Brando, but JoJo is a bit of a pain.
It was that damned buy three get your fourth free deal.
