Matt Bellamy

What's kind of sad, but also kinda awesome... Judging from the designs of certain parts of Blades armor... I could see them doing a recolor of Blade, in Tekkaman Blade 2 colors. And if it would be normal price I would still buy it in a heartbeat... Though IF it were made, it would be an "exclusive" and probably $100+. And it would STILL be tempting... Since I liked the main color changes from TB2. Speaking of the Armor Plus's, which do you have? I'm a bit behind, as I only have Blade, Evil and Blastor Blade... But thankfully, other than Blastor Evil, ebay's prices on them seem pretty average.

WEEK 02 - Chibi Movie Iron Man Mk 7 This time a chibi... An Iron Man Chibi. The Mk 7 Armor used in The Avengers movie. There is still a whole lot of armors I want to do... Including the Iron Man 3 designs... Despite the horrible color choices. [attachment=0]IMmk7002.jpg[/attachment] So far so good!

WEEK 02 - Chibi Movie Iron Man Mk 7 This time a chibi... An Iron Man Chibi. The Mk 7 Armor used in The Avengers movie. There is still a whole lot of armors I want to do... Including the Iron Man 3 designs... Despite the horrible color choices. So far so good!

DOOM! Ok, maybe not so much. Now to quote my DA page: Yep. Going to try this and see how it works. I am going to draw and upload something ONCE A WEEK. It could be a finished color piece, a chibi, or even a finished sketch. BUT THERE WILL BE SOMETHING DAMMIT! I got a new sketchbook to break in, as well as my tablet and such, so I have no real excuse. And I am dissapointed/mad at myself for WANTING to draw a lot of things ( Mass Effects chibi's, how have I not... Garrus/Tali ftw!) but never actually even sketching anything. Plus I only did 8 images all last year, and only 7 in 2011... When in 2010 I did 54. I WANT to draw. And I swear I have the free time to draw a lot more. Time to fight the lazyness and do some drenn. ROW ROW FIGHT THE... not so much POWWWA! So let's get this started! Take note this is LAST weeks entry. Just posting it a bit late. ----------------------------------------- WEEK 01 - Gigantic Guyver Alfa The first image actually comes as fanart... Fanart. There is a fairly new Guyver fan artist on Devianart.(http://lucithea.deviantart.com/) Well, the artist has an original character, who has a pretty original design in my eyes, despite all the watering down by drawing the countless Guyvers that I have done over the years. My mind then thought " She'd probably look good as a Gigantic." And oddly, my muse woke up and agreed. [attachment=0]alfagig001.jpg[/attachment]

DOOM! Ok, maybe not so much. Now to quote my DA page: Yep. Going to try this and see how it works. I am going to draw and upload something ONCE A WEEK. It could be a finished color piece, a chibi, or even a finished sketch. BUT THERE WILL BE SOMETHING DAMMIT! I got a new sketchbook to break in, as well as my tablet and such, so I have no real excuse. And I am dissapointed/mad at myself for WANTING to draw a lot of things ( Mass Effects chibi's, how have I not... Garrus/Tali ftw!) but never actually even sketching anything. Plus I only did 8 images all last year, and only 7 in 2011... When in 2010 I did 54. I WANT to draw. And I swear I have the free time to draw a lot more. Time to fight the lazyness and do some drenn. ROW ROW FIGHT THE... not so much POWWWA! So let's get this started! Take note this is LAST weeks entry. Just posting it a bit late. ----------------------------------------- WEEK 01 - Gigantic Guyver Alfa The first image actually comes as fanart... Fanart. I am sure everybody is aware of Cannibals art thread, in which he shared another fans work? Well, the artist has an original character, who has a pretty original design in my eyes, despite all the watering down by drawing the countless Guyvers that I have done over the years. My mind then thought " She'd probably look good as a Gigantic." And oddly, my muse woke up and agreed.

The first few eps of SAO are pretty bleh in terms of the shows later theme... Which is the relationship between Kirito and Asuna. It is mainly because the episodes without Asuna are basically extensions of the story from after the original lite novel, and were added to try and flesh out Kirito a bit more and add some of the newer side characters into the plot. Once you get the about episode 5, that starts dealing with Asuna again it does start to fit together a bit better. Though 5 and 6 do have to do with a heavy death theme again... Once it gets going though, the idea of their relationship is there through the rest of the show. I really liked eps 1 and 2, so I soldiered through 3 - 6 and found myself not dissapointed with the later episodes. And I don't think it is much of a spoiler to say that, after episode 7 they stop with the really large time skipping, so things feel a lot more fluid. But then again, if you didn't like the first 2 episodes very much, even getting to the good relationship parts probably wouldn't be easy.

Figure Dump! Some good looking figures coming... LATE, despite when the show ended. Asuna Nendoroid Kirito Nendoroid Kirito Figma Asuna Figma I normally am not the type to buy girly figures, but I do make exceptions... But since they are releasing both Asuna and Kirito... I gots to get them both!

Lesse... on my 360... Borderlands 2 - Playing through a 2nd time, this time with friends and as a different character, so progress is kinda slow. But new DLC is still coming! Halo 4 - Waiting on season 2 of Spartan OPs, and slowly making my way through Legendary Campaign solo. Farcry 3 - Got to finish a few of the co-op missions with my bro, but done the campaign. And now I have DMC: Devil May Cry, Bioshock Infinite, Aliens Colonial Marines, Gears of War Judgement, and Dead Space 3 all pre-ordered... Nothing on PS3 right now... On my (NEW) Vita I am playing: Assassins Creed Liberation - Not that far into it, but feels like a decent Assassins Creed game. Ragnarok Oddyssey - Picked it up on a whim... Light on story, but is a solid action RPG. Feels very much like Phantasy Star Online, which is not a bad thing. Just need to find other people to play with. And over on my 3DS... Heroes of Ruin - Kind of a Diablo clone kind of dungeon/loot game. But playable with friends locally or over the net. Simple game, but fun with friends. But that's it. So far.

I got this when it first came out... God... That was YEARS ago. Damn I'm old! lol! Not posable at all, but still a very impressive and light weight statue of Guyver 1. Though I honestly cannot remember how much I paid for it way back then. Its size is still very impressive against the size of most figures.

The Armor Plus Figures? They have a few out now. Blade Evil Blastor Blade Blastor Evil Rapier/Miyuki Aki from TBII Sol Tekkaman Unit 2 Sol Tekkaman Unit 1 Plus Figma Blade was recently released, and Figma Evil is coming soon.

This is why I am glad I left Marvel comics after the Thanos Imperitive, and before Fear Itself. Not only did they "Kill off" two of my favorite characters ( Richard Rider/Nova Prime and Darkhawk) after making so much effort to revitalize them, but then they just ended one big crossover and start right into another. These large crossovers were great a decade or more ago, because they were RARE. I remember The Age of Apocalypse, and how epic everything felt since they took over the regular releases. Then there wasn't a big one for a while. But over the last few years there has been a large crossover practically every year... Basically only giving individual comics a few issues ( 5 at max) to do their own thing. There should be at LEAST a year between these events, if not two. And now Marvel has ruined big crossover events by over saturating the market with them. So now they have to go and pull a stunt like this in order to dig up some press. Sad.

Oh crud, that's right... He did have his stats reset. Yeah, that kind of screws up any plans for GGO. And all they needed to do was not say that line and it would have been fine. Though I am sure if they really wanted to do it, they would come up with an excuse to somehow still do it. Could just relogin to Heathcliff's account and alter his stats, lol.

Yeah, I felt the ending itself was a bit less dramatic than I expected. Was nice to see the other girls aren;t giving up... But they will have a hard time convincing Kazuto to leave Asuna. Was never a big fan of Suguha liking her own brother. It would have been ok if she had just liked Kirito, and freaked out when it turns out he was her brother... But the Brother X Sister/Cousin thing just didn't sit right with me. As for GGO... Isn't it pretty short? They could probably do it as a movie or an OAV. In the ending of SAO he did mention that people were able to transfer accounts between games, so it could be set up... I just don't seem them doing another full season if GGO can't fill on itself. I just don't see them doing Alicization... It seems to be too big of a change. People want more Kirito X Asuna. They don't want a character like Kirito starting a new adventure not remembering anything from his past.

I basically meant, "In the hands of a lesser director, this would probably have been a B-Movie with a lower production budget and crappy special effects." Don't know why I didn't just say that, lol! But Del Toro has the weight to pull around now, and can demand a good sized budget for his projects. And yes, the "B-Movie" type that I am refering to, is the kind of movie that goes straight to DVD. Usually lower budget movie with lesser known actors ( with the occasional known). Granted, it's not that they are BAD movies by default. I have seen some really good "B-Movies" ( Dark Hero anyone?). They are just movies that don't have the backing and star power for a full theatrical release. This includes movies with aging stars who aren't as popular anymore ( Steven Segal, Jean Cluade Van Damm, Dolph Lundgren etc...), or low budget sequels to existing movies ( Starship Troopers, Universal Soldier, Darkman etc...). There is an untold variety of movies that never get any hype, but are just as entertaing ( sometimes more so) than big budget films. This is why I hate the fact that movie rental places are practically gone now... Some of them were full of old B-Movies that were definately worth a rental.

Using GLaDOS's (Portal/Portal 2) voice/tone for the computer was sheer genious. I don't care what anyone says. That being said, using 2 pilots ( one of the Jeagers uses 3) seems a bit overkill... But I still am optimistic. As for people saying it seems like a live action Evangelion movie... One of the things mentioned in some of the promotional info, is that the main Jeager, Gipsy Danger, is an older Jeager ( first one ever created if I remember correctly) and may have been made differently than the other Jeagers. Similarily like how Eva Unit 01 was made from Lillith and not Adam like all the other units. Rumors are it may not be entirely mechanical in nature... Thus the bit of Eva similarity. Using the monsters to create mecha to fight the monsters. That and a few of the Jeagers have a somewhat similar look to the Eva's ( or at least Jet Alone...) This certainly is one of the movies that could be totally a straight to home video B-Movie with crappy special effects. But DelToro being the director gives it hope for great things.

It can feel very slow at times, and does have quite a few episodes that feel like filler episodes or "Monster of the Week" episodes. But the plot itself is very good, and the drama is handled well. As mentioned in an older post, the animation can be really bad sometimes... But really high quality sometimes too. They used multiple studios to make the series and sadly you can tell very easily. It's one of the flaws that can really turn somepeople away from the series.

There was a lot more edits than that throughout the series. If you wish to see "Tekkaman Blade" the only way to watch it is the original Japanese version. You probably won't be missing out on much if you only stick to the Teknoman series though. I've heard from many people that it still covers all the important stuff... Just with a lot of regular editing ( like blood etc...). It was edited for TV... But not US TV, so not as heavily mauled. Like for instance, spoilers of course:

Anyone else see it yet?

No, the book I got is all from the Out of Control OAV. Those look like they are from the OAV Series, or the 2005 TV series It's all mostly art with some small notes around the character work.

Nope, scanner at work is too small. Damn. Going to need to find a full sized photocopier that can scan for this thing...

Welcome! Gotta say, love the avatar =P

Warriorguyver.com still exists. Though has not been updated in years sadly. Bioweapons.com still exists too... Though Dave is a busy busy man with his costuming and effects stuff.

You totally mean KAZUTO didn't you. Yeah, I know you did

The thing has freaking huge pages... Bigger than most art books like the VDF. Going to see if the scanner at work is big enough to scan the pages. From what I remember the book covers: - Sho/Guyver 1 Designs - Mizuky Designs - Possible male Guyver 2 Designs - Valcuria/Female Guyver 2 Designs - Chronos Lackey designs. Oddly only the suit wearing guys, no comabt uniform) - Genzo Makashima designs - Zoanoid/human designs ( Gregore, Ramo-cheese, Vamore, possibly some others that I forget at the moment) - Zerebubuth early designs. Seems a bit more lankier than the design used later. Less refined - Guyver 3 designs - Sho's school mates designs - Set/background designs Most of the stuff listed only have maybe 1 or 2 pages per entry. Not really a whole heck of a lot... But still awesome to see.

I'm more for just putting a large watermark on the images. As it has been mentioned, people find a way around most everything. Watermarks however are pretty much forever. The only thing someone could do with a watermarked page is take the translation and scanlate it themselves onto a raw chapter... Which VERY few would ever do. I have seen it, but it is rare. All it needs is a large watermark diagonally across the page. Doesn't have to be a thick one that covers a lot, just the URL and the name But sadly, just putting the name and a link at the top/bottom/side isn't enough anymore.