Retsgip’s Anime Blog

Darkshaunz makes sure he insures his scouter

It’s been a while folks, if you’re wondering where Rets and I have been recently, well I’ve been busy preparing for exams and finishing off university assessments and will still be out of the loop for the coming weeks. Retsgip is currently in Los Angeles, so he’ll be out of it for at least a week (I’ll scrounge him for an entry for you BLEACHers when he gets back though). But I had a special request from a fellow blogger recently, who was organizing a series of guest entries for his blogging pad, his name is Runningkid and he runs Ruki: The Running Blog, he’s a fellow Shana enthusiast like me (well like all of us, who doesn’t loev tsundere loli?). His request was pretty simple, “Shaunz, I need you to write something about your favourite genre”, and so in Retsgip tradition, we powerup our memes and pay homage to Saiyan-wannabes across the anime world. Kamehameha Bitches.

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Darkshaunz follows Trunks back to the future

Score: 9.9/10 (An anime movie for the Ages)

As people move from place to place, as events happen, as the landscape changes and as the mankind tries to fill the void between past and future, there is one thing which will always stay the same. There is never enough time. For as long as I can remember, we have done everything in our power to change the one element we could not harness to our advantage, we have construed strange and bizzare astrophysical formulae to comprehend the manipulation of time and to our dismay, it seems it will be a long time before anything of the sort happens in our lifetime. Conveniently, the power to change everything, to turn regret to happiness, to change bad to good, lands on the palms of a young high school girl named Makoto. The master of Time, is truly the master of everything. But…even Masters make mistakes.

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Darkshaunz drinks Orange Fanta in the Entry Plug

It’s the later half of the university semester (assessments and more group projects), which means that I will have to drop my current coverage of Ikkiboobsen unfortunately, however in my recent coverage of the series, I enjoyed it immensely and I definitely recommend it to those who have not watched it already (if fanservice is your alley). I’d also like to take this opportunity to say that Retsgip has gotten a job recently, but he will be trying his best to write an entry when he can. That aside, how about that flashy new Evangelion Promotion Poster huh? I saw it and went, “There could be clues hidden within this visual aid”, clues which could enlighten us on what to expect on the First Evangelion movie remake coming out on September 1st (Entitled: You are not alone). Actually, I am alone at the moment, but I won’t be if you join me in some Angel-bashing and Eva-piloting.

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Darkshaunz assesses the IchiRuki war machine

Looks like its going to be a Bleach-heavy week for Retsgip Anime Blog. As readers here know, I am a Rukia fan, amongst other things. I think overall as a character, she has traits which appeal to me, you know, the prideful and capable kind of demeanour. The kind of lady which knows how to handle herself, yet has a soft and soothing presence about her (The cute and ridiculous sketches help too). I am intrigued by her character because she’s got a wonderful chemistry in the series with Ichigo. So I decided I’d take some time out to just see where the two are currently at in terms of their interaction as characters, and maybe try and figure out just whether or not our Lady Kuchiki has got a rival in terms of Orihime.

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Darkshaunz on Lolipops

I’ve wanted to do an entry on this topic for a while now. Admittedly, I have been distracted by all manner of real life obligations and well, Ikkitousen D.D. Lolis, now thats something we all love and adore. These little ladies are slowly changing the trends of anime we get every new season. They’re typically harmless, cute, hapless and always bear around that innocent “sex” appeal. They commnd massive fanbases and they are a huge market in Japan. Question is, are Lolis the dawn of an entirely new anime future?

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Darkshaunz checks out Shippuuden

Special Note: Gong Xi Fa Cai!, Have a Great Family Reunion, to all my chinese bros and sisters!

Retsgip’s the resident Naruto expert here, he reads the manga and probrably knows the name of a character’s second cousin if you asked him. On the other hand, I would be lucky if I don’t mistake a kunai from a bowl of ramen. The last episode I watched was when Naruto and Sasuke were killing each other at a waterfall place (thats like 10,000 years ago). Now that the “fillers” were over, I wanted to peek at what the community was up in joy about. Think of this as Retsgip Anime Blog’s Naruto Xtreme!!! coverage on the world’s favourite ninja series (aside from Ninja Scroll, of course)….I swore I left my soldier pills on my bloody desk.

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Darkshaunz knows he likes the Silent Types.

I’ve read a lot about this so called “2D complex”, its almost a buzz word amongst observers referencing Otakus. It deals with some of our fixations with anime female archetypes in anime. The Irony behind most anime, is that they deal very much with the grim, joyful and sometimes surreal translations of real life. If you look at Black Lagoon, its not that hard to imagine something seedy happening in a dark alley in a law-forsaken place somewhere in our world. Then I stumbled upon all the different types of girls in anime, and why we often fall for their charm. So join me, as I explore why we love our anime girls so much, and which types are realisitc representations of the real thing, amongst energy beams, saiyans and gundams.

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Darkshaunz tries to DDR without tripping breaking an arm.

It’s finally here, the Full Dance ED sequence to last year’s hyped Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Personally, we at Retsgip anime blog were entertained by the series, and we always did appreciate the cool dance they did at the end of each episode. Now that the full thing is here, something crossed my mind whilst watching it, the individual poses which make up the full thing are actually nothing but references to Dragonball Z, real ife, memes, hip hop and even Nazi Germany. Yes, its finally a true dancing animu. Ladies and Gentlemen, I invite you to a journey into the workings of a 1 minute ED sequence.

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