Kiki's Delivery Service is getting a live action film O_o

So I'm at work being bored as hell and I check out some news online.  Kiki's Delivery Service is getting a live action film it seems.  This sort of scares me because live action films usually just suck if they're coming from an anime and especially a Studio Ghibli film.  Kiki's Delivery service by Miyazaki was actually based of a series of children's literature written by Eiko Kadono.  There are supposed to be 7 volumes of these novels and the animated film by Miyazaki is based on the first book.  The live action film is based off the first two books and will probably deviate from the Miyazaki film a lot.  Though I'm pretty sure they creators want the film to be compared to the books, everyone is going to compare it to the Miyazaki version all the way lol.
It seems filming wrapped up in July 2013 and the film will be released march 2014.
Funny thing, when I first read up about this on ANN I was for some reason expecting Jiji the cat to be CG... like for no reason too.  I just expected it to be CG and I had no reason whatsoever to be thinking that, so imagine my supprise when I saw the movie poster of Kiki and Jiji who... is a real cat... No duh its a real cat!  Of course they would use a real cat why the hell did I think they would use a CG one!?

Here is a trailer I randomly pulled from youtube, It shows you NOTHING about the film whatsoever! how lame... but I'm also typing this blog shit at like 2 am in the morning so I don't have any more energy to be showing you more pictures and whatnot about the film and what Jiji looks like and so on so google it yourself untill I post an update or edit this later :V

Goodnight and thanks for reading

So I started watching Kyoukai no Kanata

So Kyoto Animation released this new series called Kyoukai no Kanata.  They usually do slice of life stuff like K-On or Hyouka nothing too intense, but Kyoukai no Kanata is pretty over the top.  Just a lot of really good animation and directing going on, all the scenes are really cool to watch and its really a different feel from the usual pattern that Kyoto Animation has its great.  The story of Kyoukai no Kanata comes from a light novel by Nagomu Torii, which btw Kyoto Animation is also the publisher of said novel.  Currently there are three volumes for the light novel and the third volume was released very recenntly, October 2nd I believe.

This is the cover to the light novel

Kyoukai no Kanata

The show is about Akihito Kanbara who notices that a student at his school is trying to commit suicide and rushes to the roof to save her.  The person in question is a megane bishoujo named Mirai Kuriyama who looks really nice in glasses and wears glasses.  When Kanbara tries to stop her from killing herself she suddenly stabs Kanbara right through his heart with a sword made from her own blood and to her shock discovers that Kanbara is a immortal "half-youmu".  Youmu refer to creatures regular humans cannot see and are comparable to youkai or something more dangerous.  Kanbaru learns that Mirai is a Youmu hunter and the last surviving member of her Youmu hunting clan, from there their lives become intertwined as Kanbara seeks to help Mirai gain the confidence to kill Youmu so that she may stop attempting to kill him as practice.

So far there are only 4 episodes and I don't have much to say yet about the story as a whole, but each episode so far has been really exciting.  First the fighting scenes, there are a lot of awesome martial artsy what is going on!? kind of fighting going on which is just really cool to look at.  Second there is this mystery element to it where your not fully aware of the situation at hand but grasp whats happening as it goes along which is nice in my opinion because I start to want to know more things and keep watching to get my questions answered.  Overall the animation is amazing and really pushed to the front compared to the other works Kyoto Animation has done, you get to see more of what their animation skills are like so in a way its like seeing what this studio has to offer when they show off a little.  Most importantly one of the main characters is wearing glasses.  Most importantly one of the main characters is wearing glasses.  It's important so I said it twice, banzai for clumsy expert Youmu warrior with glasses!

Since there isn't a lot of content yet as there are only 4 episodes I haven't really had the chance to think about the story as a whole yet.  So far I think its really interesting and there seem to be a lot of background details to the whole thing that you have to take into consideration.  Each character seems to be a lot of work in general, but some people don't like that.  I guess because it might seem like the story is beating around the bush before reaching an important point.  Another thing is there are actually too many things to ask questions about which could also not work for some people.  There are too many characters who are too mysterious and we were just introduced too many of them to keep track of their damn names @_@.  Other than that I can't really find anything bad to say about the show, then again its really hard to say negative things about something you like a lot :s overall I would recommend it to anyone who is after a story content heavy series this season.

Here is some fan art and GIF I found online to give you a look at what its like

Someone grabbed this directly from the anime, but the actual thing looks even more smoother than this and even this looks great!

Kuriyama Mirai by y in

 Kuriyama Mirai by akizone

Kill La Kill vs Kyoukai no Kanata by oinario

is it because their weapons look similar?

Kill La Kill... holy shit!

So a new animation studio called Trigger just started their very first TV series called Kill La Kill.  I must say its fucking bad ass!  The animation is great, the story if tons of fun, and everything about it is just huge and epic!
Studio Trigger is founded by former Gainax employees Hiroyuki Imaishi and Masahiko Ohtsuka.  To give you an idea they worked on stuff like Gurren Lagann and Neon Genesis Evangelion.  They worked on some animation shorts like Little Witch Academia (2013) and Little Witch Academia (2014) which was funded by kickstarter, but anyways back to Kill La Kill.

The story takes place at a school called Honnouji Gakuen which takes place in what seems to be a post-apocalyptic Japan.  The school is dominated by the student council led by Satsuki Kiryuin.  The council members wear special uniforms called Goku Seifuku or Goku Uniforms that grant them superhuman powers, which they use to oppress the entire school (staff included).  One day a transfer student Ryuko Matoi comes to the school with a large half scissor-shaped longsword in search of the owner of the other half of the scissor who killed her father.  Since it seems like the student council leader Satsuki seems to know something about the large half scissor weapon Matoi challenges her right from the get go, but faces defeat almost immediately due to not having a goku uniform.  After retreating to her fathers home she discovers in the basement a set of clothing called Kamui, meaning god cloth, which grants her unbelievable powers in exchange for sucking her blood...

So far there are only three episodes out at the moment and they're all really great to watch.  The animation is top notch and will probably remind anyone who watches it of Gurren Lagann right away.  Trigger really took the extra mile to add to each and every frame per second.  The characters are really like-able and so loud that everything they say and do stands out in your brain and lingers there for a really long time.  The series in general is very epic and huge... just everything is supersized for your eyes to explode on.  When I saw the third episode I was literally on fire!... no seriously, I was sweating in my chair with my eyes wide I thought I was going to die watching this episode. That's how fucking amazing this shit is right now!  Stop reading this and go fucking watch it!

Oh right some disclaimers not everything is just awesome and only that.  First off maybe not age appropriate there is some nude transformation scenes going on, kind of like sailor moon, and the outfit they change into is very flashy.  Massive underboob, DAT ASS. lots of panty shots.  To say the least its a little vulgar, but that's also part of the show too :p.  Also the show is really random, some people might not be a fan of that and as far as the randomness goes its not on the level of Nichijou but its certainly very random.  Also the story is not very dominant.  It IS about the girl looking for the killer of her father but the side quests just have so much attention to me, but not so much that I'm forgetting what the story is about, but for some of you looking for a very detailed background story might not get all dem specifics and whatnot.  None of these downpoints are really that negative to me though, at least for my taste.


Here are some GIFs and Fan Art I found for this show as a showcase of its popularity, Credit for this art of course goes to their respective artists whose pen names I shall post with each one.

Henshin!

Matoi Ryuko - by Itou

Studen Council Staff - by Sushio

Kill La Kill vs Gurren Lagann - by hu58013901

(This makes perfect sense right?)