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Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:22:11 GMT

Some old stuff, i made for a german SciFi-Board and recently found on my webspace.
In german.

Anime and me

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:19:56 GMT

Only half a year after my last entry, i decided to write again.
Mostly because i wrote some comments lately and now feel sorry for my own livejournal. First i make a big fuss about being afraid of the fangirls/boys on livejournal and finally giving in... and then i completely ignore it. This storyline is so fraking lame, you could think my writers are on strike.

So... as i started watching "Avatar - The Last Airbender" lately, because childrens shows are the last stronghold of intelligence in TV, i thought, i could talk about Anime. Especially because hardcore Anime-Fans would cut my throat for saying "Avatar" is an Anime. Yeah, it's not. It's an american made Cartoon. And i agree, because most Animes are boring shit and i actually like "Avatar".

Back in 96-97, me and my friends were watching "Sailor Moon" on german TV. It was the first Anime really branded as "Anime". We had Heidi, Captain Future, Saber Riders and all that stuff before, but it was just "cartoons", not really associated with its japanese origin. "Sailor Moon" was the starting point for the huge Anime&Manga-Wave in Germany to come. And me, a 15-year-old Nerd, liked seeing girls in mini-skirts fighting monsters and shortly after that i discovered what "hentai" meant.

There weren't many Mangas out in Germany back then, it was quite easy to buy everything available. There was some Shirow-Stuff like "Appleseed" and classics like "Akira". After the success of "Sailor Moon" they started with "Dragonball", "Ranma", "Gunsmith Cats" and other big names. I was still in, reading everything and even going to some of the early Fan-Meetings with my friends. But the "underground" soon became Mainstream and the published Mangas and shows on TV grew exponentially. And i realized, most of it was crap. I was getting older too, but i still see the quality of the older stuff, which introduced me to the scene, compared with the brainless shows that came after that.

My last love for a long time was "Neon Genesis Evangelion", which showed my affinity for "shows i don't fully understand". It was a great Mindfuck in 20+ parts and so much cooler than seeing Son-Goku fighting a 10-Minute-Fight, stretched into 20 Episodes. Some of my friends stayed with the fandom, buying all the shitty Mangas and getting the "hot new fan-subbed shows straight from Japan". So i could keep track, what seems like good shows. There weren't many. There actually was only one: "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex", a show i didn't fully understand and therefore liked. Often my friends would give me DVDs with stuff they liked and thought i could like too. Most of the time i couldn't stand more than 1 or 2 episodes. I even tried the famous "Naruto". Hell, what a boring show...

Some weeks ago i finally saw some uploaded episodes of "Avatar" on Youtube and watched it. Clearly aimed at (american) children but with an amazing care for elaborated characters and a foreign looking cultural environment. No character stereotypes and braindead storylines like in most Animes. It's like Tom Cruise in "Last Samurai": Thousands of years of Samurai history, but it needs a fraking American to master it. The creators of "Avatar" adapted to the Anime-Style and made something far more entertaining, even for me. And so i'm back watching cartoons. That look like Animes.

If i would have posted that for a wider audience than just the 4 people in my friendlist, i am sure, that would be some good Flame-Bait. For the people who care, i murdered some holy cows there, i think.

The pressure...

Fri, 25 May 2007 13:14:53 GMT

There are people actually reading my LJ and friending me.

Damn. HAVE TO DO STUFF.

Some irrelevant informations:

Me:
German.
Student, Political Science.
Living online.

My place in the world of fandoms (if i would be an active member anywhere):
Battlestar Galactica - The best show on TV. Period.
Doctor Who - Good Entertainment. But it's a happy ending family show. Quite dark considering that, but not dark enough. ;)
Star Trek TOS/TNG/DS9 - There was a time, when Star Trek was intelligent and exciting. The times are long gone, the memories remain. But i'm afraid of Trekkies, so it wouldn't really be "my place".
Farscape - I only saw half of it, but if it's not in the list, Abaddon will eat me.
Futurama - Not much to say. Everyone likes the show. Thats why it has been cancelled.
Firefly - Dammit...
Space: Above And Beyond - Oh god, i have to cry...

Stuff, only germans understand:
Perry Rhodan - 45 years and 150.000 novel pages of Space Opera. And pretty much unknown outside of Germany.
Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion - Hell yeah! German SciFi in black and white!

My work:
Making comics out of screenshots, because i can't draw. See this LJ, Dark!Doctor and this comic (which is in german, so most of you won't understand).
Writing stories, no one will ever see. No fanfic anyway.

[good title]

Thu, 24 May 2007 22:30:45 GMT

I was afraid i should write something in my LJ.
Because it is there.

But then hmpf wrote something about the problems with "fandom's near-complete move to LJ" and now i can say:

"See! Thats... why... and stuff!"

Well done. See you in 3 weeks.

Geek-Stuff (2)

Thu, 03 May 2007 21:50:37 GMT

Lets see what else we find on my hard drive...

Well, that was after Torchwood Episode 2.
There was not much roofstanding in the other episodes. I thought that would become a meme.

Geek-Stuff (1)

Thu, 03 May 2007 21:37:50 GMT

Now that i sold my soul to the fandom(s)...

Here's the last Screenshot-Comic i did.
My take on the final episode of "Life on Mars".

So... Spoilers for the final episode of "Life on Mars", obviously.

I hope this works...

Livejournal is creepy

Thu, 03 May 2007 20:35:32 GMT

I would never make a LJ account. I'm afraid of all the geeks and fangirls and fanboys and gay fanboys and slash and the end of the world as we know it.

Now i have one.

dune_drd is the devil. Abaddon is her puppy.