Samurai Flamenco is Kick Ass! (sorta)

Samurai Flamenco

This show is literally Kick Ass!... like the film Kick Ass, but that isn't to say this is pretty kick ass in its own way too.  The story takes off with a nice touch of naivety, and a really weird way of initiating your own courage for something your passionate about, the main character Hazama Masayoshi becomes Samurai Flamenco!  He dons a suit and takes off fighting crime little by little doing what he believes is right.  Naturally he doesn't have any super powers and is physically a normal person, but even then he slowly overcomes all limits and even powers up here and there becoming more like an actual hero.  A police officer whose name I can't remember but I know is voiced by Tomokazu Sugita (Gintoki from Gintama) finds out Samumenco's identity and becomes a close friend and support for our hero wanabe since fighting crime in a suit like your some crazy person is probably very very discouraging and very ill advised.

Eventually more super hero like people join the cast and the city becomes more and more a safe place.  It would appear that the effort Samumenco and his friends put in is slowly making a change happen for the better in the city.  I recently saw the latest episode ( which is episode 7 at the time of this post ) and it was very traumatic O_o.  Something very impossible happens and I literally jumped from my seat shouting "WAT!?" with a shocked face (probably a shocked face).  I don't want to spoil it for anyone so just letting you know that episode 7 is the "trauma" ep should suffice for now.  However for any of you who have seen it and know what I'm talking about, I personally hope that the show doesn't decide to stay in that knee deep lake of "sudden plot twist" because the plot twist in question was too much WAT and not OH MY GOD or anything like that.  Go back to the Samumenco I know!!!  I will be following this show very closely and post more thoughts on this at another time.

Also to my imaginary audience who is not reading this blog (because I never really told anyone about this blog so absolutely NO ONE is reading this) sorry for not posting for over a week, I straight up forgot to make a post because I was too busy playing smite.  I will make a stronger attempt to post at least within three days for better consistency go me!

**will post fan art on my update about the story in the future

Scientia is making science

A looooong time ago like 6 months maybe? I found a manga by the title of Scientia.  It was really fucking interesting...  sadly there is just such a mix of things I want to say but am not able to describe properly about what the manga is about.  Briefly its about a city that has forgotten ethical taboo's and enjoys a life with clones, body swapping, and drugs.  I like to imagine its basically a world where perhaps if said drug wasn't abused this could happen.  Or if cloning wasn't an invasion of the so called "gods territory" maybe something like this is possible.  If love potions could be used this way.  Lots of "what if"s its really interesting.  Perhaps the concept of the work in general is very dark and twisted somehow, but most certainly not in a negative light.  For as dark as it gets it brings you to a new place, and after feeling really insecure and scared for most of each chapter you are suddenly awakened to something much more significant.  At least that's how I felt while reading the manga.

There are only 7 chapters and each chapter is worthy of being a short one-shot, but they all take place in the same city and time.  There are no repeating characters so each character is basically unique to that chapter specifically.  Each character faces problems with the heart, you could say they're falling apart emotionally.  In the first chapter you have a girl who wants to die because she has nothing to look forward to, however by renting her body to someone who wishes to experience one last thing they cannot do in their own body she comes to a realization that maybe there is something in life she can look forward to after all.  The second chapter grabs my attention more than the first chapter.  Its about a man who just like the first chapter feels like hes missing something in life.  He wants to experience what falling in love is like, but has also become tired of the subject in general... he's just not feeling it.  So he turns to a drug that can "make you feel like your in love" its literally a love pill, but instead of using it on someone he uses it on himself.  Could you imagine what crazy shit might happen if love pills like that actually existed? people might technically get away with rape for a lot longer than they should...

One of the things I like about this manga is that it makes me think more about the topic of each chapter.  Its also controversial, very controversial in fact, each topic seems to pose enough potential for debate.  In the end was it human effort that saved each character? Or were they simply taking the easy way out?  A lot of people in life seem to be trying to find meaning in their existence, or having a meaningful life (whatever that means), or straight up look for ways to have a happy life.  Some of us become the "winners" and become very wealthy with much to spare for their future.  Some live a mediocre life never having too little or too much.  Some of us less fortunate, and were all seeking ways to become happy.  How much effort do we put to be able to enjoy certain things later?  I've kind of derailed from this point, but I think this manga really does pose questions like that and that they are all things people really should think about more.  Especially our younger generation, seeing as they are pretty much the future of our world, it would be nice if they had some more praiseworthy answers to life than our current adults do.

Anyways it probably sounds like I'm typing a bunch of random nonsense at this point, but please go read Scientia, its a work of genius if I may say so myself.

Sorry no pics this time, there was no fan art or good covers on google with decent resolution so this post comes without any graphics :V

Witch Craft Works TV series airs December 29th

I read a comic called "Witch Craft Works" and although the updates are fucking slower than anything else on the earth on mangafox I really like the manga.  There's all this strange shit happening in the background and each panel has like a trillion things to look at, in other words the art style is really fun to stare at.  So then ANN announced that Witch Craft Works is getting a TV series and will air on the 29th of December which is great news for me since that basically means the manga I like is popular enough to get an anime (does that mean I have good taste?)

Here is the cover that was released on ANN (sorry ANN I stole this from your site)

When I saw this poster I was really relieved somehow, because in the manga all the females have ridiculously large boobs.  Like just these huge jugs, its fucken unnatural, and even the flat chested girls seemed to have correctly proportioned boobs and was just called flat chested.  Suddenly gave a new meaning to bust size and I kind of didn't like that.  That's not to say I don't like Big boobs, but I don't like unnaturally big boobs, which isn't to say I want to put my hands on a... Anyways what I mean to say is that it seems like in the anime the absurd boobs thing will not be absurd anymore!  While certainly there are a whole bunch of girls with very large breasts here its not as absurd as in the comic where the bust size was just more ginormous in all sorts of ways and actually anime girls in general always have impossible breast sizes anyways so what the fuck am I saying.  In fact the reason why I read this manga in the first place wasn't because of the boobs, but because the story had a really hilarious opening.

For those of you who don't know what this manga is about the story literally starts off with the main character being assaulted by some witches who demand he hand over his "white stuff".  When our distressed and confused (male) main character asks what they mean by "white stuff" they correct themselves and say "Hand over your seed!" causing even more confusion.  Naturally "white stuff" followed by "seed" in that order obviously does not mean anything sexual or perverted or have anything to do with that nor imply all of that because totally "white stuff" and "seed" are terms used by witches when referring to magic related shit.  The main character is then thrown into a world where two factions of witches (and rarely wizards) are fighting to obtain his "white stuff" whatever that may be.

For any of you who love ginormous boobs this series is totally for you! For any of you who really love fan service with all the stripping and exploding clothing and stuff, this is probably not for you.  Strangely enough with boobs as large as theirs I saw not very much nudity or any at all, and even though tons of explosions and buildings and cities get destroyed throughout the story there are like zero deaths so the manga in general is not very violent.  The content is also pretty cute and its got a really nice mystery element to it since no one really knows what this "white stuff" is, and just that bit of mystery element is something I like a lot so just shut up and check this series out!