Thursday comes. The true first day of Comic-Con.
I came with Nilla Wafers, water and string cheese as i was going to be venturing off to the
world of unexplored anime. The first actual Comic-Con panel i visit was the ASTRO BOY movie panel. So much people came for something i thought had little interest to anyone. So we get speakers from the director, producer and Astro's VA. Not much going on here... But i can tell you whos going to VA in the movie.. Samuel L Jackson as (lol i didn't take notes), Nicholas Cage as the antagonist, Bill Nye & sum other hoe as (didn't take notes cuz i didn't knoe lol).
What i saw had the charm, visual appearance and humor of a Pixar film, but with Baysplosions in it. The footage i saw would make you think of Pixar but with Tranformers violence (Without the gore) and what people in the 50's would think the future would look like- Type style. After that ended i went back to my animus.
As i was switching viewing rooms and shitting out my deposits of cookies and cheese, i would always see some fat cosplayer and seldom the actual great ones. But the great ones had been captured with my trusty camera. And not all the Anime the viewing rooms show is worthwhile... This just leaves me with more shopping! By the end of the day is bought
2 shits, 1 art book. This translates as $35+20+tax= $60
Picture came out shitty. Oh well right?
My day wasn't over yet. The Anime showings end at 1:00am.
What exactly would they be showing at this time? LOTS OF ECCHI GOODNESS.
I'll write my viewings in a different post as i don't have the space in this one.
But i get home at 1:50am ish...
COMIC CON 09 -THURSDAY
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Super Mario Marathon 2
Posted by Randy Kasugano at 4:23 PMI was the first person to email them last year during their first 10 minutes. Am i cool yet?
YES, Yes i am.
Last year the Mario Marathon team raked up $12,000 of donations to the Child's Play charity.
But this year..... This year they went hella organized and raked up $29,030.76 and have gotten thrice the amount of viewers. Pretty impressive. But not really since watching this was very very delightful. I hope they get a Couch Dog cam next year. Its not really done yet, but i'm not going to wait on them to finish so i can write this.
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HAIL ARCEUS! HAIL MECHA!
Posted by Randy Kasugano at 8:36 AMI know i'm a little late to jump on the train, but i just finished Gurren Lagann.
I've never watched an anime quite like this that was able to make me feel a positive emotion.
I mean, its like Courage Wolf was spawned inside me, and thus made me feel like Captain Falcon for those moments of watching. "ITS LIEK I'M RLY BADASS!". Now i officially like the Mecha genre. I liked G-Gundam a whole lot, but then SEED made me hate Mecha. But its okay now.
Code Geass was ok too. I was bored shitless from it, but i tuned into the last 5 episodes and shat myself from it having an amazing ending. Now i'm watching the series from the beginning since i understand wtf is going on now.
Anywho..
I'm also alittle late to know that Billy Mays has died a couple days after MJ & FF.
Its sad really. Because i wouldn't have known the awesome that is mighty putty.
In other MORE pleasant news, it has been confirmed that Mewtwo will be in Heart Gold/Soul Silver! I don't really give a damn about the Latios and Latias news. They're pointless to the Pokemon lore..
..Speaking of lore, join my new Arceus cult!
http://hail-arceus.blogspot.com/
or myspace groups
http://groups.myspace.com/CHURCHovARCEUS
I made up the whole "Genesis" story on that page with using factual Pokemon lore.
(I'm practicing my writing skills.)
Latios and Latias were so worthless. No need to include them in the chart or story.
Lugia clones.
lul, I drew that!^^^ Theres soo much symbolism in it, that its deeper than the Da Vinci Code.
The Arceus Sigil i made is just as hardcore.
I'm watching the Mario Marathon 2 right now.
I'll write about it when it ends. Shits addictive and awesome.
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Grilled Chicken Warz
Posted by Randy Kasugano at 6:26 AM
Fast Food notes;
El Pollo Loco > Kentucky Grilled Chicken
Not sure how the hell EPL keeps such low prices for the taste and hasn't been
bankrupt yet. I'm guessing they buy out all the leftover chicken hordes after the "Big 3" take
first dibs on the fresh chicken. Now Kentucky Grilled Chicken.. It tastes like the original KFC fried chicken recipe. Great right? Well no, the fried chicken is nice and oily with lots of juicy fats. The Kentucky Grilled Chicken is almost as dry as my dad's pork chops. Pretty much a block of eatable seasoning. They weren't kidding when the ad said "It falls right off the bone". IT REALLY DOES! Sounds like a block of ice when it hits your plate. Not too flattering. Even i can make better chicken, probably anyone who does not know how to cook. Now for those who MIGHT go off to El Pollo Loco to fuel their souls, i recommend to do the following;
1. Prepare some jasmine rice (Have it cook 30 minutes prior to leaving).
2. Go off to the Crazy Chicken and order some Mac and Cheese as a side with your chicken.
3. Get home, get a bowl, put in the rice and soy sauce (WHITE PEOPLE, DON'T ABUSE THE AMOUNT OF SOY SAUCE)
4. Pour about 1/3rd the amount of Mac and Cheese on your rice as the amount of rice you have in the bowl.
(If you have 2 cups of cooked rice in the bowl, then 1 cup of M&C is what you're aiming for)
5. Gently mash together. (Only just slightly Mixing it)
6. Eat with your crazy chickens.
You know whats really fun? If you replace the chicken with Fried Chicken and use the skin to wrap around the rice.
BUT! -El Pollo Loco's Mac & cheese complements the rice farrrr better than the Neclear Orange stuff you get at KFC. Most of you Asians probably already do this. I just laugh at the fools who think it sounds disgusting. But guess what? People think the idea of cheese is gross.
If you're really a ambitious eater, how about going to both places?!
Ps. If you want to push it to the extreme, throw in a sunnyside up egg and a hashbrown and mix it along with the 3000 calorie bowl of wet dreams. I've done this about 10 times in my lifetime. Its sooo amazing.
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San Diego Comic-Con 09
Posted by Randy Kasugano at 10:22 PM
ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN!
The only 4 days of the year where i leave my room!
Comic-Con is coming... Again..
I've been going every year since 1999 due to the convention center being in my backyard. Its like everybody came to my birthday or something. Which also explains all the free goodies. Last time i blew off $300 on-you guessed it, Anime and Video games. Which is fine because its very seldom that i get to blow off my parent's money like a madman (Which i'm very thankful for). But this year it'll come out of my pocket (maybe). The very pocket that I've been on other Comic-Con adventures with (same pants). But this year will be different. This year i'm mostly in pursuit of the hot nippon lady action.
Witches don't know about my
Gen Lai Sen.
1. Find cute girl
2. Feed her the best Chinese food in California
3. ????
4. Profit!
Gen Lai Sen is a family owned restaurant with the charm of looking like a hole in the wall with the typical indoor/street vendor type feeling of China. I've been going here for years and I've got to say, those rundown 17 year old carpets make the experience 100% more authentic, thus Super powering your date with whomever you choose. But be warned! Don't buy take out unless it's necessary.
Buying indoors= 1.5 times the amount of extra food (THAT YOU CAN DOGGY BAG). ITS WORTH IT!. If you ever do consider this awesome award winning sweat house of child labor- (with it's own parking lot), then try out the Beef Noodle and Pork Fried rice. SHIT IS SO BOMB. Stay close to these mainstream dishes, i'd say they've had a lot more practice with those dishes than anything else. And the Veggie Fried rice is even better than the pork (Weird isn't it?). And that's not even the awesome part. The awesome part is you eating there after leaving Comic-Con. Its just a few blocks away. Small yellow building that looks wayyyyy out of place from the City College and skyscraper apartment complex across from it.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/gen-lai-sen-san-diego
Now back to Comic-Con.
Heres my wish-list for this year;
1. Miku Hatsune Wall Mount PVC figure (as seen above)
83.66 USD -(thats actually really fucking good for the price)
2. Gurren Lagann limited edition Boxset.
60 USD
3. Tsukasa Hiiragi figure (seen on the right)
40 USD
4. G-Gundam Boxes 1 & 2
100 USD
5. Belphegor shirt
15 USD
^Those are just things that i want but wont guarantee it's purchase. If i do happen to get all of the above
($298) then theres a 80% chance that i would want to buy anything that suddenly comes up.
Like.. a bargan on Generation 1 Pokemon boosters, or Posters of awesome, etc etc. Maybe i can finally get that FLCL ultemate collection. Perhaps even the Disgaea art books.
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Good bye North Korea
Posted by Randy Kasugano at 1:35 PM
Meet your new daddy.
Oh you silly Nippon, You've done it again! Japan has a bid on the 2016 summer Olympics. And they need votes n shit from the International Olympic Committee by showing off everything they've got.. Not like they'll win by the vote. If Japan's efforts fail in making their docile actions please some votes, then they've got a life size 59 foot Gundam to win the bid with superior firepower (along with celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Gundam franchise). They've just finished construction on a RX78-2 Gundam (Basic, easy to make and oldschool) and its just sitting there in middle of Shiokaze Park at Tokyo's man-made Odaiba Island -ready to make the Olympic committee to piss their pants. Don't fuck with Japan.
So far the entries for the 2016 Olympics are..
1. Chicago (durr) for some stupid ass reason.
2. Madrid (Spain) Has fuck win culture
3. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Has A huge statue of Jesus
4. Tokyo (hurr) Anime babes n shit
Honesty.. The weeaboo inside me wants Tokyo to win this one. THEY'VE GOT THEM ANIMUS, LOLI GOTH MAIDS AND THEIR OWN HITOMI TANAKA!
I could imagine their opening cerimony having Samurai bullshit and then to top it off, you have a Pikachu powered Gurren Lagann fighting Godzilla.
ANYWHO
If the Gundam fails to attract... Japan has another secret weapon up their sleeve...
Meet Tetsujin28-
Aka: Gigantor. He was birthed on October 20th 1963. And now hes a 60 foot statue! After 46 years the big guy is finally going to the big screen.
At 0:55-1:00 hes doing a Falcon Punch
I've seen Gigantor on Adult Swim a bunch of times. But i had no idea that he was blue.
Final thoughts-
It would have made more sense for Japan to make the Shining Gundam as it represented Japan in a world fight during the 1994 G-Gundam series
Gundam picture uploaded on June 28, 2009
by Masaru Kamikura
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