Code Geass

“That anime stuff is just for kids”

“Anime is a kids thing”

“When are you going to grow up and stop watching cartoons!?”

How many anime fans have had to weather these comments from parents?

Even as adults, we are embarrassed to admit that we enjoy our favourite past time? Why? for fear of being labelled an ‘adult child’.

Don’t you wish you could sit these people down and have them watch an anime that challenges their views on anime as a medium? Something to silence their disdainful, dismissive remarks that anime is merely a child’s plaything.

Enter Code Geass. Now, on the surface it has all the hallmarks of a typical anime: flashy colours, bright costume, and outragous characters.

These are where the similarities end.

Code Geass is one of the most thought-provoking anime’s I have had the privelage of seeing. It forgoes the usual monochrome character arrangements: “This is bad guy, this is good guy” for something far more interesting.

Perspective. If you look at a character from this point, they are good, look at it from another and they are bad. It really does depend on how you want to see a character.

The storyline is far too complex for children to understand and the battle scenes are too intense, this is not some child’s show where people are knocked down or just hurt in some mild fashion. This anime has death, lots of it, it has weapons of mass destruction, it has terrorists and issues that strike a bit close to home.

I highly recommend this anime for anyone who is looking for something that is a departure from the Bleach or Naruto’s out there.

Character designs by CLAMP, and featuring Johnny Yong Bosch as the main character: Lelouch vi Britannia!

Code Geass: an anime that tastes almost as good as carrots! ^^

TTRPG Profile: Kimiko Watanabe

This is the profile of my first TTRPG (Table-Top RPG) character, these are her vital stats and some information about her.

Name: Kimiko Watanabe.
Age: 22
Race: Human, Japanese
Class: Samurai/Shrine Maiden
Weapon(s) of choice: Black Katana “Kurosame”, Longbow
Magic: Dark Element, Holy Element
Armor Class: Medium/Light
Fun facts:
Kimiko Watanabe’s name is actually taken from real-life actor Ken Watanabe: an up-and-coming actor from japan.

Kurosame, her sword, means “Black Rain” litterally. It’s horribly cliche yet fun!

Her sword has the power to absorb other swords, allowing her to change it’s shape on the fly, she also gains knowledge of how to use them. Her favourite forms were the single katana, the double katana, european longsword and Rapier.

Kimiko’s goddess was Amateratsu, this afforded her some fun abilities and bonuses.

Kimiko functioned as the team’s Cleric, effective in one-on-one combat, and capable of mass-healing as well as creating shields of light. However, her sword gave her dark magics in the form of sword-arts which would zombify any foe she slew.

She was an angry girl from the beginning,but calmed down as the game progressed, becoming more focused and gentle natured. SHe’s still one of my favourites!

Her armor was initially black with violet highlights, but at the end of the game, became white with red adn violet highlights. I’ll add her story later…maybe.

I hit it with my carrot!

I love to RP. Role Playing has always been a major past time for me, especially the fantasy-setting ones. I get to make my characters up and have them act how *I* want them to act!

However, a lot of my character’s share a lot of the same character traits. I make quite a few angry girls who attack boys and blame things on boys.

I was talking to my DM (Dungeon Master) about this and he thinks that it’s my transsexuality angry about my body and the like. He believes it’s my feminine-identity attacking masculinity out of anger. Hmmm..there may be something to that…

pizzabunnie

I have pizza…be jealous.

Creativity

If you have trouble putting words to paper, I’ve perhaps got the opposite of that problem (or maybe it’s sister.) My largest difficulty is finding inspiration, although a close competitor is actually finishing anything. I can write the emotions, sometimes the characters, but the plot evades me, and the descriptions and settings are simply often overwhelming.

There are no sounds,  the visuals are lackluster at best. On this definition, it probably means I’m not truly a writer. I think my strength lies in editing anyway, but the part of writing I really enjoy is characterization. I can almost fall in love with my characters, not in the I dream of them way, but in the sense of dreaming about them, wondering what makes them cry or laugh. It has it’s risks, obviously – it’s too easy to make them into my own version of a Mary Sue – but at the same time it helps me get more in tune with them, and if I can go through phases of editing to control their perfection (more often a startling lack of such, but anyway)  then it often ends up reasonably ok.

Somewhat, tho. Actually, that brings up a question: when is it that you can call yourself a writer? Is it simply the act of putting carrot to paper and having words come out in an order that pleases you?

Sexually Confuddled Bunnie

I am not attracted to girls. I want that stated right now; I have never had any sexual attraction to girls. I have only ever had desires for boys.

However…ah this stuff is emberassing as hell >///<

Anyhow, I started discovering that I find femmenine boys so very hot. Crossdressed boys are soooooooo sexy to me, the girlier the better! Panties, miniskirts, tube tops, blouses, make up, jewelry and prefferably: slightly emberassed about the whole situation.

Those of you who have read some xdressing manga know the kind I mean, those super femme ‘practically-a-girl-with-a-penis’ kind of characters? Why is it? Why is it that I find that so desirable? Could it be somethign related to my own transsexuality? Do I find masculine guys frightening or unapproachable? Do I feminine boys safe?

I know that I have an undeniable love of writing and reading stories where the main character is transformed into a girl, and I love it when it happens to some super ‘manly-man’ guy into a gentle girl, or even a tomboy. In fact..it doesn’t matter what kind of girl she becomes, I just enjoy seeing it happen. It’s…confusing, disconcerting…IDK.

Anyways, comments? Observations? You know where the buttons are. I’m going to go back to the TTRPG I’m missing :3 (I’ll blog about that next time)

Stuck in my head ><

It’s a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake. If the way is haaaazy,
you gotta do the cooking by the book;
you know you can’t be lazy!
Never use a messy recipe;
the cake will end up crazy.
If you do the cooking by the book,
then you’ll have a cake.

You gotta have cake!
You know that I love cake,
now it’s finally time to bake a cake!