The last few months I have been neglecting my anime stash but as of a few weeks ago I have started it back up and I didn’t know what I was missing. Now that I am back into them I barely have enough time to watch them, I want to watch them all one shot. I just have to sort out all the downloads since I haven’t downloaded since August of 2009 so now I have to address all that I have missed.

Watching:

• Bleach
• Koukaku no Regios
• Shikabane Hime Kuro
• Naruto Shippudden
• Soul Eater

As the release of the game is coming out they are releasing this animated movie in February. A deep dark anime with the right kind of violence, deep animation and the story line to match. An innocent soul must be saved at any cost to stop hell from breaking loose on earth. Dante’s love was taken as hell’s sacrifice to free them into the world, but Dante must destroy all that is in hell to save his loved one. Looks like its going to be one those amazing animated epic movies.

Link: GeekTyrant
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With the success of Iron Man, Marvel Studios has followed up with an Iron Man animated show called Iron Man: Armored Adventures. In this case they take the younger version of Tony Stark the genius and go through how he developed all the different version of the suit and it’s purposes, as this monstrosity called the Dynamobuster which is meant to destroy all that is in it’s path. Then the other versions for deep space travel, atmospheric flight and battle, the other version is a stealth suit meant to penetrate all kinds of surveillance and security. This is looking to be a very fun show, the animation and CGI quality is very good so they haven’t ruined it as I would have expected, its a bit of kid’s story line but still very entertaining and I have just seen a few episodes.

When his industrialist father Howard Stark disappears in a plane crash after refusing to weaponize the Earth Mover at Obadiah Stane’s behest, 16 year old genius Tony uses a high-tech suit of armor he has constructed and investigates a charge that Stane may have been involved in his father’s death. As Iron Man, Tony spends his time stopping Stane’s plans and saving the world from other villains such as Mandarin, Mr. Fix, Whiplash, A.I.M., Madame Masque, Living Laser, the Maggia, Firebrand, Controller, Crimson Dynamo, Blizzard, Killer Shrike, Unicorn, M.O.D.O.K., Ghost, Fin Fang Foom, Black Knight, and Technovore. He is assisted in his crime fighting efforts with help from James Rhodes and Pepper Potts. Tony’s activities as Iron Man usually result in his needing to make up excuses as to why he is constantly late or missing from school and other activities. Now dependent on his phenomenal technology for survival, Tony must balance the pressures of teenage life with the duties of being a super hero.

Link: iO9

Plot Summary: In the bloody Warring States period of feudal Japan, many generals fought in an endless struggle for power, but one man proved to be too big a threat – The dark lord Oda Nobunaga. Sanada Yukimura and Date Masamune, two young warriors from different regions who become heated rivals, begin to form an unlikely alliance with the rest of the generals to take down the Devil King.

Its rare for an anime to pull you in from the first episode, and that is what Sengoku Basara did to me, it pulled me right in and I knew which characters I liked and which I didn’t. I hated Oda Nobunaga from the onset, I didn’t expect it to be this good, so much struggle so much passion in all these fighters it gets me worked up. At certain points I’m about to jump and hit my screen, such amazing characters with the perfect amount of action an anime really that should be watched with a colorful history.

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There was always something special about the cartoons back in the day, I would be stuck to the screen. I remember Mumra from Thunder Cats really scared me and pissed me off, I don’t know how many things I broke swinging a stick around saying “Thunder Cats, Thunder Cats, Thunder Cats! HOOOOOOO!”, I remember even hitting our Sony Tri-Color TV back in the day, and it weighed around 60 Kgs.

My List

• Thunder Cats – The best cartoon of the 80s, Panthera was cool always making gadgets and still kicking ass
• Voltron – The best of the 80s
• Silver Hawks – They were really cool!
• Centurions – Man and Machine Power Extreme! I wanted to be Ace McCloud, always wanted to fly!
• Brave Star – Some many different powers!

Worthy Mentions

• He Man – I wanted his tiger!
• GI Joe

Battleship Yamato has been anounced for realese in Dec 2010. The legendary anime show finally coming to a live action movie, I heard rumors but the trailer says it all. For fans of this anime it looks badass, good music, decent effects, great customes, and the bearded man topping it off.

The story’s hero is little Shotaro Kaneda, whose scientist father dies after spending his life building the ultimate weapon, a giant robot. After his passing, the robot is then given to the son, who uses it exactly the way you or I would: to fight crime and other evil robots.

Now this I wasn’t expecting, a T28 animated movie by the makers of Ghost in the Shell and Sky Crawlers. This is going to be fantastic, and the trailer looks fantastic, I could see Ox in it too. This is going to be bring back good memories, which kid doesn’t want a big robot to control via remote control, this time the controls are smaller.

I have been saving up a bunch of Blu-Rays for some time now on my Amazon Wish List. And I decided to ship them all one go through MyUs.com shipping service. This was the ultimate test, and I chose DHL Express Service to see what would happen to this shipment and how many BluRays would be confiscated from this extensive list of epic and lifetime movies. And thrown into the mix is one Sonos ZP90, an addition to my current Sonos unit, to play music in other areas.

I had several shipments of Blu-Rays and the ZP90, and MyUS combined all the items into one big box for easier shipping. 23 lbs in total for all the items combined, turned out to be $180, the items got into the MyUS mailbox in Florida over a two day period, so after getting several boxes I clicked to combine them all and ship, the next day I get a DHL tracking number to Kuwait. Three days later all the items are in Kuwait and I just give them my civil ID and pay 10 KD for the tax of the full value of the invoiced items. Overall a much better experience, much faster, cleared in two days from customs and delivered to my house, couldn’t ask for a better service. MyUS is only good for heavy shipments as others have mentioned, its too expensive for small parcels, so if you want to order a bunch of items try combining them one shot and sending them over in one heavy box, turns out to be a lot cheaper then Aramex and a lot less headache. I will use Aramex for small shipments but for big shipments I’m using MyUS.

Items:

• Sonos ZP90
• Justice League – The Complete Series DVD

Blu-Rays:

• 300
• Batman Begins
• The Dark Knight
• Star Trek
• Transformers
• Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen
• Gladiator
• The Matrix Collection
• Dead Space Downfall
• GunBuster The Movie
• DieBuster The Movie
• Robotech The Shadow Chronicles
• Appleseed Ex Machina
• Samurai 7
• Samura Champloo

In G.I. Joe: Resolute, the raging battle between G.I. Joe and Cobra has never been more intense. Every life is at stake… and even the good guys can die.

This is no game.

Your favorite characters are back… but this time, no one is safe. No parachutes. No lasers. No rules.

All games end today.
Now you know… and knowing is half the battle.

A quality animated movie or tv show of G.I. Joe is long overdue, this picks up assuming you know a degree of the storyline. Cobra seems to be destroyed but something is brewing under the radar, and Cobra goes into full attack with G.I. Joes caught off gaurd. The best part is that the story jumps in Snake Eye’s past, you start seeing Cobra Commander’s plan coming together, this time around people are dying, it isn’t like before if the character dies then they are dead. And there is the usual big kick ass fight between G.I. Joe and Cobra, a great short movie and I’m looking forward to more episodes of G.I. Joe.

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Now this turned out to be an interesting shop, I haven’t been to Muthana Complex in at least 12 years and Mark told me about this place a while back so I decided to check it out. The only other Anime Model place I know is rihab and they also have a decent collection. But this store is a little different they have a huge collection of Gundams as well as other items, he had one Transformer model that looked really cool but turns out it wasn’t for sale, it was BouSaleh’s private collection.

Then they had other items such as Jet’s and Air Craft Carriers which were genuine miniature models. The place is packed, you have a large selection and the prices aren’t bad, a bit more then buying it online but the satisfaction of having then item right away is nice. Sometimes when buying models you don’t know what type it is but in this case, you get to see them and I picked up a few that I was looking for. It took me about 15 minutes to find the store because it isn’t in easy to find location on the second floor but at the end it was worth looking for it.

Picked Up:

• Sensheiro
• Captain Harlock’s Spaceship(Rare)
• Mazinger Z Fist