AHOY!

So I've been obsessing about One Piece lately.  I started watching the Funimation dub (they're the company that took over after 4Kids dropped it) and its much better.  Funimation knows how to make a pirate show, there's some cursing, blood and good-old fashion pirate lingo in there.  Everything isn't so hunky-doory.

Though, what I DO miss about the 4Kids dub is the variety in voices.  Now everyone in the Funimation dub sounds like the same guy doing a bunch of voice.  Raspy male.  That's IT.  Its very annoying.  I especially have a bone to pick about the voices of "Red-Haired" Shanks and Ben Beckman (his first mate).

In the 4Kids version Shanks has an (I believe) Austrailian-ish accent and Ben has a deep, low voice.  I approved of these because it gave Shanks character and just made sense for Ben.  No offense to him of course, but Ben is older and he's been smoking for god-knows how long.  That warrants a little raspy-ness, does it not?  But in the Funimation dub his voice has risen and isn't as raspy.

Ehh... that's about all right now.  I'll be disappointed if Mihawk doesn't have a French accent either.  Although it never said anything about him being French, it really fit him.  Anyway, that's all I've got to say for now.  Guess I should add some pics incase no one knows what I'm talking about.

Anime Conventions

I just put away the over one hundred pictures from that were taken at the Ohaya Con in 2009 when myself and two friends went.  It was awesome as hell and I'd really like to go to another con sometime.  With hopefully the same people because we had a lot of fun that weekend, there was no drama and no problems either.  The energy in anime cons is an indescribable kind that I'd like to experience again.  Being in a giant room of people with the same interests as you is different than just talking or roleplaying online.

So.. I guess I'd have to find one close by and actually start planning for it, huh?  Or perhaps I should wait since I will be going into college which is quite the money-sucker.

Anyway... there's the dilemma of, also, who to dress up as.  The Ohaya Con I had many options that I'd have liked, but wasn't sure who to be for a long time.  When I finally figured it out and was ready to order a costume all the places with decent Alucard costume designs were off for the Chinese New Year.  So I just dressed up like my normal self for the con and that was good enough for me.

Moving on, this time I'm considering these people:

"Red-Haired Shanks from One Piece

Ben Beckman from One Piece

Alucard from Hellsing

Legato from Trigun

And that's all I can think of at the moment that I might actually be able to do well.  Suggestions are always nice.

//ryAn

I was able to write today, something I'm very pleased about.

Its an old fanfiction that I started awhile back called "I Was A Halfbody First" based on Kingdom Hearts.  I centers around Braig (Xigbar's Somebody) that tries to delve deeper into the concept of the human heart with light vs. darkness and he ends up finding The World That Never Was, well that's what he names it.  He goes through finding all the places and names them as well.  For example, remember where Axel died in the second game?  He finds that place and calls it Betwixt and Between.  Remember where you fight and kill Xigbar in the second game?  He explores the castle of The World That Never Was and names the room The Hall Of Melodies.  I think you get my point.  But when he attempts to go back to his own normal world, he runs into a little mishap and loses his deep sense of emotion.  Braig doesn't lose all feeling, but he can barely feel the basics and that's it.  Therefore he is a "Halfbody."

Of course this plot line is completely made up by me and is going to be destroyed by the new game coming out (Birth By Sleep), but I only got a page into the fanfic and never picked it up again.  But I think its a good enough idea to touch on again, even if it will be meaningless.  I'm excited for Birth By Sleep to come out, though.  I have nothing against it, I love Kingdom Hearts!  Its slightly cheesy and there are a lot of plot holes but I think that's what draws me to it.

That and Organization XIII.  There's a reason I never played the first Kingdom Hearts game: the Org. wasn't in it.

//ryAn

Boredom, The Most Evil Of All Mistresses

I want to write, but I'm not sure what I should write.  Its terrible having empty inspirations because this has happened to me the past couple of months on and off.  Then when I actually come up with a plot line that I think will play out nicely, I don't want to write it.  Very annoying.

I've been drawing in the meantime to steady my fingers a bit.  They get very anxious if I want to do something (like write) but can't.  Drawing occupies them for the meantime and the urge to write disappears for the day; but it always returns the next.  So very sad.  I don't know what my body's expecting me to write.  I guess this can be viewed as a good thing, though.  My recent drawings have been coming very easy to me and they've all come out nicely on top of that.  This is only because I've been taking my time of my drawings lately which means I can use more detail and make everything look the way I want it to.  I take my time to prolong the busying of my fingers, as strange as that may sound.

At least I've gotten some sort of gratification.

Inspire me with story ideas, anyone?  I'd love to hear what you have to say.  I'm particularly interested in writing something along the lines of Kingdom Hearts that has anything to do with Vexen.

//ryAn

Blood, Blood.. and Repomen?