This is one sweet looking car. I want one. Check out more about the Honda FC Sport concept car here.

I just wish there were more cars that look like this on the market. We couldn’t have our flying cars, but at least we could have vehicles that look like they were created in the 21st century.

I think if I had a car like this, I’d probably have a massive electric bill from just driving around showing it off to everyone.

I’ll be taking Japanese 102 in the spring. Hopefully I can take more classes in the fall, but that may be unlikely due to timing issues. I just need to remember to study a bit over the holidays.

日本語を勉強しましょう！

The story is about a girl, Shiratori Kuu. She is normal school girl who has a dream about her “prince charming”. When she finally meets a guy that seems to be her prince though, everything goes to hell. Giant robots, fighting angels and a massive case of sibling rivalry.

This show, even though it has plenty of fighting, seems to really be a romance story. A romance story that spends a lot of time focuses on girls/women kissing. Although it’s not kissing in a nice yuri sense, if you were hoping for that.

So, overall, this show wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t that great in my opinion. You’re left in the dark until about episode 5 and even by the end there were questions I wanted answering. Maybe I’ll read the manga and see if that answers any of them. If you want a show with a bit of everything then this is a step in the right direction, although I’ve seen better.

Rating: Decent…

Well I just finished this anime. It was a pretty fun, family friendly story. It’s a slightly older anime, from the late ’90s, which you can kind of tell from the animation style.

Shinohara Miho is a third grade girl who encounters two strange dinosaur looking creatures called Pigu and Mogu. These creatures give Miho a magic sketch book and pen which allows her to become an older version of herself which she calls Lala. As Lala, Miho gets spotted by a talent agency and the anime tells of her adventures.

This wasn’t a bad anime at all. If you’re looking for a fun story that’s generally happy then Fancy Lala will fit that bill. It’s got odd hints of romance, a helping of comedy, a dollop of drama and hefty serving of “mahou shoujo”.

Rating: Good, it’s worth watching if you like these kinds of stories.

So I watched Battle Angel over the weekend, after Scott said it was a good show. I’d seen the ending many times while watching AMVHell 3 so I kind of new what was coming. Heres the synopisis for the story, I pinched this one from ANN as it seems to sum up the story nicely:

Doc Ido, a doctor and mechanic who lives and works in the hellish, postapocalyptic “Scrapyard”, finds the – miraculously preserved – remains of a female cyborg in a junk heap. After he revives and rebuilds her, the preternaturally strong, amnesiac “Gally” begins to forge a life for herself in a world where every day can bring a fight for life. Adapts the first two volumes of the “Battle Angel Alita” manga.

I liked the episodes. It kept me watching through the full hour, and at the end I was wanting more. I guess if I want more I’ll have to buy the Manga. Oh well . The animation was decent and the acting was decent too. I wasn’t blown away, but it wasn’t a waste of time either.

Rating: Decent, good way to pass an hour and you want to watch anime.

I’m probably going to be posting some random Japanese things on my blog as I practice more in the language. Sometimes I’ll post translations, other times I won’t. Depends on if I want to practice translating it back into English on a later date.

I haven’t posted about this before, because, well I didn’t want to :p but now that I’m doing some work on it again, I think I’m going to talk about it and what I see for it.

I’m about to adding title tracking to it, so that after I’ve downloaded and burned a show I can click a link and it’ll store that I have it. That way I don’t accidently download it twice. Right now it only does it to me, and I wonder if anyone else would actually use it. Maybe, we’ll see.

I’m thinking about maybe releasing a version for people to use personally. I’m not sure if it would be hard coded for NA or if it would be something you could use to access and track any ftp server. I doubt there is much of a need out there, but I’m sure someone somewhere could use it.

Black Heaven is a show about a washed up rocker who is asked to go into space and use his “sound” to power an ultimate weapon in a war against a powerful invading alien race. It’s a great look at the hum-drum existence most of us face in our day to day lives… and the dreams we leave behind. It’s defiantly an adult show, not because it’s got fan-service (it has a little) but just because it’s a look at the world from a 40-something guys point of view. If you don’t have a day job you would never appreciate the story.

Rating: Very Good, don’t miss it!