Lord Rahl of Clannad

Quietdrive - Both Ways The Cab - Living Louder

Watched How To Train Your Dragon 2 late last night. The first one was a brilliant film, but this one was even better. I literally loved every minute of this.

Disney's Lilo And Stitch. Frankly, I didn't expect much of anything from this, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was actually very good. Definitely another underrated Disney master class.

Mekakucity Actors is done, and I can safely say that I have never been so confused after finishing an anime as I have been with this. The series is instantly strange in a number of ways, not least the animation style, but the overall plot is basically an incoherent mess. In all honesty, I struggled to find much of an overall plot for the series; each episode (for the most part) seemed to be its own little sub plot, with only slight links between episodes at first. The way the plot was managed was just generally poor; being a 12 episode series did not help this, but a situation should not arise where so much confusing action and other stuff has to be crammed into one final episode. It was absurd. The characters were strange and I honestly can't remember much about very many of them. There was never a real major villain until right at the very end, and many different plot threads were hinted at but never built upon. So much unfulfilled potential. It's a shame really. Saying that, this series is still somewhat decent, but I've seen many series that are far, far, far better managed than this one. Next up will be another short series, this time in the form of Dangan Ronpa. Hopefully this series will actually make some kind of sense, unlike Mekakucity Actors.

We The Kings - Say You Like Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev3kH-vBEc4&index=2&list=PLy31tMdfMH66s9WEWpimLXSAxIa64D0HU Ed Sheeran - All Of The Stars

^ I doubt that we will see Ventriloquist and Scarface in physical form anytime soon, but it is probably safe to assume that both of them will be appearing in the game. At the same time, it is safe to assume that they won't be unlocked through the main story. After all, how would you possibly fit Ventriloquist and Scarface into a space-based story line?

Finished Waiting In The Summer late last night, after what had been an insanely disorganised evening. Anyway, Waiting In The Summer was an interesting series, with a relatively simple plot which was almost entirely realistic (more on that later). As I predicted after a couple of episodes, this did indeed turn out to be a romance series, which was a good change of pace after a couple of weeks without any romance anime. The characters were all very good and very interesting, and few of them seemed to fit stereotypical anime archetypes, which was good. It was interesting to see the character relationships develop as the series progressed, and this side of things was handled very well. The ending was an interesting one, starting out rather depressing (considering the events of the series) before saying that there was a happier ending but not "directly" showing it. That's the best way I can think of to explain it, and it doesn't seem entirely accurate, so you would need to watch the series yourself to understand what I'm getting at. All in all, this was a very good romance series, but I have seen better before. Next up is going to be a series called Mekaku City Actors, which sounds like it has a very interesting plot line. I guess I'll start to find that out tonight though when I get this started.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmaWbSQHMc Simple Plan - Astronaut

Now I've watched Disney's Aladdin and Mulan, both for the first time. Both are very good films, though certainly not Disney' best. However, Robin Williams as the genie in Aladdin is an absolutely spectacular and hilarious performance, and Eddie Murphy as Mushu in Mulan is similarly good.

There's been an unexpected, but very exciting, development today. Season 2 of Sword Art Online has now arrived, and it's definitely a promising sign of things to come. The relationship of the main protagonists (as previously established in the first series) has been consolidated here, while plenty of new characters (including a sinister character who is undoubtedly going to be the main villain) have already been introduced. The only thing that is even remotely negative about that is that the plot idea seems as if it's going to be more or less the same as the previous series. Saying that, the first series was very good, so "If it ain't broke don't fix it", as they say. As for Waiting In The Summer, I've only watched a couple of episodes so far, but it seems pretty interesting already. I'm almost certain that this will develop into a romance series soon enough, which will be nice if/when that happens. After all, it has been over a fortnight since I last watched a series with a proper focus on romance (Baka And Test has romantic elements in it but these aren't focused on so much, so I'm not counting it as a romance anime), and that series was Golden Time. Whether I will hold this series in as high esteem as Golden Time or not remains to be seen, but it will be interesting either way.

Watched Disney's version of Robin Hood today for the first time in years. It's an interesting take on the classic tale but a good one nonetheless, especially with the usual touch of Disney magic applied to it.

Poets Of The Fall - Cradled In Love

Deadman Wonderland is done already. It was a pretty good series, despite the heavily disjointed plot (some aspects seemed to be swept under the carpet when new ideas emerged). There was high levels of gore, which I was all too aware of when heading into this. Plot twists were used, though having watched a few prison-based shows before some of them were quite easy to predict. Saying that, the plot twists weren't too bad really; after all, why make up lots of new plot twist ideas for a prison-based show when so many good and popular ones exist already? Most of the characters were quite forgettable and relatively one-dimensional, but there were select exceptions to this rule. A romance sub-plot was hinted at near the end of the series but was never built upon; ordinarily I would complain about something like that, but in this case it's good that they chose to focus on the gore, violence and absolute insanity rather than turning to romance. Speaking of the insanity, that was one of my favourite things about this series, and the insanity was excellently and realistically presented to make it more believable, and it certainly was believable. All in all, this series wasn't too bad but could have benefitted by having a second season to make things seem less disjointed (in terms of the plot line). Next up will likely be Infinite Stratos, which I'm pretty sure is going to be an entirely different entity to what this was. *EDIT* To hell with Infinite Stratos, I'm not going to watch that at all, and am instead watching Waiting In The Summer now.

Quietdrive - Feel Alive

Just watched the season finale of One Week Friends not too long ago. The ending seemed a bit abrupt but wasn't the worst way they could have had it end. This last episode (and the others which had not been released as of my last post relating to One Week Friends) built on the already strong character relationships, while mixing things up with the addition of a new character as well. The simplicity of the plot was maintained until the very end, but this wasn't a problem. After all, the whole focus of the series was more about the character relationships and the rigours of friendship. Very interesting stuff. I'm hoping this will be dubbed at some point, as I really enjoyed it. *EDIT* Only going to be brief here, but I have finished the first season of No Game No Life (hopefully another is to come). To sum up, it is an absolutely amazing series, filled with vibrant characters and dramatic plot twists that literally came out of nowhere. The plot itself was amazing but the overall story could have been progressed more if the final arc of the series was shortened somewhat. But no matter, season 1 has ended at a logical point, and a season 2 seems inevitable. If one does come, it will certainly be fun, particularly with the baffling intelligence of the Sora-Shiro combination (AKA Blank). Next up is going to be Deadman Wonderland, which I have been curious about for a while.

^ He is? If anything serves to prove that I need to brush up on my knowledge of DC characters, this would be it. After all, I didn't even know that Martian Manhunter was a shape shifter at all (actually I know next-to-nothing about him in general).

^ It's an upcoming Disney film which I believe was originally a Marvel property (though I'm not 100% sure of that).

Alright, I'm very confused here. Why on Mars does Martian Manhunter have a big fig?

Poets Of The Fall - Carnival Of Rust

Disney's The Hunchback Of Notre Dame. It was certainly different to what I have come to expect from a Disney film, but that isn't to call it bad. It's actually really good, with a very good sound track and excellent main characters. Definitely one of the more under-rated Disney films out there.

Owl City - This Isn't The End

It took me way, way, way too long but I have finally finished watching Baka And Test. It was... well it was not exactly what I expected. The plot synopsis I read for it sounded promising enough, but the plot mentioned in that synopsis was barely even relevant to the events occurring. The fact is, most of the events in the series were simply one-offs, so most episodes had little to no coherence between them. The only kind of coherence that was evident was found in the character relationships, which were kept consistent with what was occurring. Speaking of the characters, there was an interesting mix of these. Some were your typically anime clichés, while others were more unique archetypes. The character that mainly stood out was the main character, and this was more to do with his remarkable level of stupidity than it was to do with him being the main character. On a different note, though most of the episodes were of a highly comedic nature (this series really didn't take itself seriously at all), three of the final five episodes were much more serious in nature, and hence much more interesting. It is quite annoying though; those episodes showed what could have been if the series took itself seriously more often (it would likely have been far better if it was more serious sometimes). Also, this was yet another anime in which the story was not concluded in the anime, though this is one of the more annoying examples of this. All in all, Baka And Test was a good series, but could have been so much better. Next up will be a shorter series again, which will likely happen in the form of No Game No Life.

Twin Atlantic - Brothers And Sisters

I'm currently listening to the entirety of my new Secondhand Serenade - A Twist In My Story CD which arrived in the mail yesterday. It's probably my new all-time favourite album, and it surprised me that one song was slightly different on the album to the version I had heard on YouTube - not as though that' a problem though - the album version of the song was so amazing that I cannot possibly complain.

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/exclusive-scoop-tidbits-on-avengers-2-ant-man-and-star-wars-vii-243 Not sure if any of this information is legitimate, but it is certainly interesting if it is true.