Posts Tagged ‘gun’
Kino Is a Traveler
March 6th, 2008
Kino is a traveler. Shouldn’t we all be? Maybe not literally. No one I know takes time to learn about the place where they live. Like when I lived in Philadelphia, as far as I can tell, 99% of the people who live there never visited the Liberty Bell until family from out of town came to visit and they had to take them someplace. Tourists would stop a resident on the street and ask them how to get to Independence Hall and they’d blink back hemming and hawing because they didn’t know where it was because they’d never been there even though they were born there and lived there all their life. It doesn’t just apply to monuments and tourist attractions, but to everyday things that have grown invisible through familiarity. Looking at familiar surroundings with the eyes of a traveler is tough to do, but it should be something to do from time to time.
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Nadie, El Cazador
February 29th, 2008
Nadie let the man run down the ravine at full speed. A wake of dust that his feet kicked up from the dry riverbed trailed in the moonlight as he ran. He stumbled and kept going on all fours, using his hands, like an animal for who standing up straight asked too much of his spine. The sight and sound of the man breathing and whimpering would have been funny if he weren’t about to die.
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Saber, Kiritsugu in Black
February 5th, 2008
Kiritsugu waited on the rooftop for several hours into nighttime. He kept his back against the wall, hidden from the street and out of sight from those in the building on the opposite side. Saber stood guard, but he planned not to use her. Kiritsugu had a rifle and a night vision scope. Twelve grams of lead, it was all he needed to save one hundred people from a Magus and their war. The blood on his hands would be a fair trade to Kiritsugu.
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She’s Miss Nobody from Alter
December 21st, 2007
Miss Nobody stole Slash’s hat. Miss Nobody walked right through a cold November rain, across a wide open plain, to a desolate church graveyard and swiped the hat off his head while he cried with his ax. He didn’t protest. He didn’t care. From his fingers, one of the great guitar solos of all time. The Donne Anonime smiled back a thank you and continued her journey without breaking stride.
Black Lagoon vol. 1
May 31st, 2007
From the second I hit play, I knew Black Lagoon was two-hands of awesome. I love the opening of the show. It’s got guitar on shredd, pounding drums, and some rock diva screaming into the microphone. Lately, openings have been very pop driven, glossy, and polite. An opening with shredded guitars like in Black Lagoon feels so old-school. It’s like the nineties again and a TNS girl like Priss is what’s hot for an anime babe. That feeling of old-school extends beyond the opening of Black Lagoon, which makes all the difference.
Black Lagoon follows the Lagoon Company, a mercenary band of pirates on the seas off South East Asia. These are adult characters who live in a rough world, cutting deals and risking their lives to put food on the table…and to buy more guns. The non-school-age of the characters is one of the things that appeals to me about Black Lagoon, which in this era of anime seems to be exceedingly uncommon for the main cast to be. Every now and again it just feels good to see anime characters on the screen that won’t be late for school.