Hello, and welcome to Yamcha's Anime universe! Some of you may know me from visiting my Myotaku page (username: Yamchaa), but if you havent visited or dont know me, then thats cool too lol. Im a big anime fan and ive been one for as long as i can remember. I collect anime movies, magazines, figures, all things related to anime, and im proud to say that i have a pretty hefty and diverse anime collecion which is usually constantly growing, and with this new world i hope to make new friends and spread my knowledge of anime to whoever may need it ^_^
This post has actually been a few days in the makingbecause alot has gone down since this past weekend, so ill try to get it all into this post the best i can :)
Frist off, Id like to thank you all for helping me reach 3000 visits. I know that may be chump change to some of the members up here, but its pretty cool for me lol.
Last weekend i also reached the end of Gears of War (xbox 360), I didnt beat it though - I ended up turning it off because i was tired, and eating and chatting in theotaku chatroom all at the sametime , so something had to give lol. I couldnt save the game anyways because i still dont have a harddrive or memory card, so i didnt feel so bad about turning it off lol.
I actually ended up staying in the chatroom basically all night until 7am the next morning, which is quite a feat for me since i tend to sleep quite a bit, but something special happened saturday night that got me pretty excited lol.
Well, what got me all excited was that while i was in the chatroom, i was chatting with a few different people about my original Yamcha profileand how one day 5 years ago it just quit working on me and i couldnt log into it anymore, but somehow it still stayed active. Well SunfallEasked me about it while she was in the chatroom and checked it out. After a few minutes and some Help from Adam, she let me know that my old original profile was accessable again. apparently there was an underscore in front of the screen name _Yamcha, that conflicted with the system, combined with me possibly forgetting my password hich had caused the problem lol.
Logging into my old profile was like opening a treasure chest lol. It was a door to the past, that i had pondered for 5 years if it was ever possible to be opened again and almost exactly 5 years to the date, Fate would have it's way and present me with what i had yearned for, for years :)
Ive updated my original Yamcha profile, and ive also created a world that links my old profile to this new profile. I even updated my original Myotaku page by changing the look and theme to coincide with my other pages :) The past and present meet as one and all of the links to each page can be found at the top of this world in the introduction section, so be sure to check them out if you want :)
Sunday i really didnt do much lol. After staying up all night, i fell asleep and ended up waking up around 4 in the afternoon sunday lol. I spent most of sunday evening doing most of the updating on my sites, as well as chatting and watching movies.
I watched
Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves Interview With the Vampire
i enjoyed both movies, especially because it had been a while since i had watched either film, so it was pretty fun to be lazy and watch them thats for sure lol.
Monday i basically slept all day again, but yesterday I decided to pull out my vhs copy of the animated movie i have called Heavy Metal. Ive never really watched this movie completely through, i decided to try it yesterday. i watched about 30 minutes of it before i fell asleep, but from what i watched of it, it seemed pretty psycadelic, and music -videoish. There was alot of nudity and violence and it also had alot of science fiction themes to it. It's very different than alot of the other stuff ive seen, but somewhat enjoyable in different aspects. ill have to finish watching it today so i can tell you all what i ultimately thought of it :)
Hevy Metal
A pic of my Laptop with my external dvd drive lol (i know its a random pic lol)
Well, I think that will be all for todays post, i think im going to get something to eat and watch this movie before i get too tired lol. I thank you all for visiting and i hope you all enjoyed the post :) Im also glad to be able to share my original Yamcha profile/Myotaku page and world with you guys. I know it may not seem like much , but it's the beginning of my history here at theotaku and it is really exciting to be able to share it with you all alongside my new profile :) i hope you all enjoy :)
It's been a good while since i last posted, so i knew that i needed to post today lol. I just woke up and i had plenty of time and nothing to do , so i thought id give it a go :)
Im going to start today's post by talking a little bit about the anime magazine called Anime Insider. I noticed yesterday on the front page of TheOtaku News section that Wizrd had ceased publication of the Anime Insider magazine, and i really couldnt believe it. It was really hard to believe because the Anime Insider magazines were always really good and they always managed to weather the storm, especially when other anime magazines would come and go - Anime Insider would always be there. It's pretty sad to see it go, especially so suddenly. What makes it all ironic is that i talked in my last post about waiting for the next issue to come out and how good of a magazine it was. I guess all good things come to an end at some point, Now i have a collection of obsolete anime magazines
Newtype USA
Raijin Comics (books very similar to Shonen Jump)
Toyfare (another Wizard publication)
Anime Insider
Hopefully eventually another magazine will rise and find a way to take the leading spot of anime publications the way Newtype USA and Anime Insider did, because i really believe fans enjoy and need things like that these days, especially in places that may not sell anime such as small towns , etc. All i can say is that These magazines gave alot of people alot of good times and it is certainly a travesty that we had to see them go.
Now onto the main part of the post i suppose lol.
Since I last posted, i havent really been up to much. 2 weeks ago i bought a new computer desk and spent most of the day putting it together (im not sure if i said anything about it in my last post lol) and i also bought a few movies as well. Most of them are a bit older, but really good lol.
Last Friday i got a little spending happy and ended up buying an Xbox360 while i was at Gamestop lol.
When i bought mine, i ended up being really lucky lol. I planned on buying a used Arcade version, which would be about $159.99 (comes with a wired controller) and it doesnt have a hard drive, but the guy at Gamestop brought a box from the backroom and said "This is the one you want" lol. He said that a guy had came in the store a week before and bought an Xbox360 ELITE, took the system home and removed the hardrive, then brought the system back up there and sold it back to them not even an hour later. So since it didnt have a hard drive, they were then able to sell it for the same price as a normal Arcade version, which is waay cheaper. Plus, my luck kept rolling when he showed me that the guy brought back the Rechargebale wireless controller with the system (sold alone they are $64.00). So in all, i got a brand new ELITE 360 model and a rechargeble controller for the price of a normal Arcade model w/wireless controller. Pretty Lucky lol.
I still dont have a hard drive, but ill still save alot of money in the long run by buying a smaller hard drive seperately, since i certainly wont need a large one like the one that normally comes with the Elite model. Oh yea, i also got the service Plan too, so if they system dies on me, ill be able to take it back and get it fixed or get a new one :)
I also bought 2 games for my 360
Gears of War
Legends of WrestleMania
I bought Gears of War the same day i bought the system, so i spent all week playing it until a couple of days ago when Legends of WrestleMania came out, then i bought that game too lol. Im sure most of you know that im a big fan of wrestling, and also a big fan of Wrestling videogames, and this game didnt dissapoint lol. The visuals on the Xbox360 are just really good, especially for this Legends of Wrestling game. Watching the wrestler's entrances for all of the older wrestlers that i grew up watching is pretty awesome because they are all done so well. Ive found myself falling in love with the Ultimate Warrior, and Rick Rude's entrances lol. Ill most likely see if i can find some videos of them on youtube to share with you all lol. That game just takes me back to when i was younger i guess and the good feeling i always got while watching wrestling as a kid lol.I know Xaos know what im talking about :)
Other than playing games, going to the chats, and sleeping/working, i havent really been up to much lol. A couple weeks ago i got a message that informed me of my Upgrade to Senior Otaku+, which was a shock to me because i hadnt really been active on here lately - besides making a few wallpapers and posting occasionally. I did notice that the subscriptions to my profile had jumped from 17 to 29 in the past month, so im sure that has something to do with it. Im expecting to break 3000 visits by the end of the day, so that is pretty exciting, I never thought id get that many visits, thats for sure LOL.
A few days ago i managed to make some new wallpapers, here are some thumbnail/links to them :)
If you are a fan of fighting games, im sure you will enjoy them. Im hoping to make some more SNK/Fatal Fury/ King of Fighters wallpapers in the future, thats for sure :)
Well, I think im going to get back to watching the live-action Street Fighter movie lol, so i better let you all go :) It was fun to post today and i certainly hope you all enjoyed visiting. I thank you all for visiting and i hope to chat with you all soon :)
I finally finished it lol. Yesterday morning when i woke up, I started watching the rest of this series while i cleaned out my closet, and i have to admit that i ended up enjoying Doomed Megalopolis quite a bit, especially the ending. I wouldnt reccomend it for younger viewers because it is very violent, and ver adult in nature - with violence, blod/gore, nudity and stuff like that, but it is one of the best Supernatural anime series that ive seen. (and ive seen quite a bit of anime lol). i wont explain details of the story and everything, because i dont want to ruin it for anyone who hasnt seen it, and may eventually want to, but the series itself takes place over the course of decades and the ongoing battle between a family and it's friends against a demon bent on using one of the chosen family members to revive a much more powerful demon. I personally liked some of the characters and im hoping to make some wallpapers for this series so that i can request a section for it here on Theotaku. Id say it deserves that much for sure :) In the meantime, if you like supernatural/horror anime, this is probably one of the best ones youll find and i reccomend it to anyone :)
While i was watching the series, i was also cleaning out my closet. The main reason for doing this was because there was an old bookshelf stashed in the back that i didnt have a use for when i had originally organized my closet. Plus, i had grown tired of seeing my anime magazines stacked on the floor out in the open lol. Those of you that know me, know that i like to have everything organized and stuff lol. Here is a pic of my Newtype USA, Shonen Jump, Raijin Comics manga, Shojo Beat, Anime Insider and DBZ Beckett magazines, stacked next to one of my anime collection shelves. Now they are back in my closet on the other bookshelf i was able to dig out :)
I was still organizing my closet by the time I had finished Doomed Megalopolis, so once i finished that, i just popped in my dvd of Princess Mononoke, which of course i am sure you all know how good that movie is lol.
Princess Mononoke
About halfway through Princess Mononoke, i finally finished working on my closet, so i turned off the movie and browsed Theotaku a little bit before i finally went to sleep.
By the time i woke up last night to go to work, my sister wanted to go to the hospital because she had some kind of infection on a cut or something (nothing serious, she just wanted to make sure), so i called into work and took her up there and dropped her off with one of her friends. Then i came back home and started to watching disc 9 of my Thundercats box set. Im currently on the season 1 volume 2 box set. Ive always been a big fan of Thundercats, and ive really been enjoying seeing some of these episodes lol. some of them i remember watching from when they were originally shown on tv back in the day lol. After a few hours, i ended up picking my sister up from the hospital and i came back home and fell asleep watching one of the Thundercats episodes.
Wen i woke up this morning, i finished watching Disc 9 of the Thundercats, and now im about to start watching the anime series i own called Gatekeepers 21, which is only 2 discs long. Ive had these 2 discs for a few years and ive always wondered about it, so today is as good a day to find out i suppose lol. Ill be sure to keep you all updated on what i think about it as i watch it :)
Well i suppose that will be all for today's post, To end the post i thought id put up a scan of my Fatal Fury 2 Super Nintendo game package lol.
Fatal Fury 2
While i was browsing my photobucket account, i came accross it and remembered that i had scanned it years ago lol. Its a cool piece of nostalgia for any fighting game/fatal fury fan lol.
Well, i thank you all for visiting and i hope you enjoyed the post :) I hope to chat with you all soon :(
I was sitting here bored out of my mind, so i thought id find some stuff to post about lol. I actually wasnt sure of what i wanted to post about, but earlier today some cool stuff happened, so i figured they were worthy of posting about :)
To star things off, Earlier this morning i woke up around 7am. I had managed to sleep most of yesterday (saturday) afternoon and all night, which is a rarity for me because i usually sleep for a few hours at a time. I must have been pretty tired from work friday night lol. When i woke up, the first thing i did was finish watching Die Hard: With A Vengance, which i had fallen asleep while watching the afternoon before lol. To take a step back, yesterday before i left work i bought Die Hard With a Vengance and Superman Returns on dvd :) Ive always been a big fan of the Die hard movies, i have the first 3 on vhs, and now i have all 4 of them on dvd as well, but i had not seen the newest Superman movie, so when i saw it at work for only 5$, i figured i would check it out. It was a pretty good movie, alot better than i expected it to be thats for sure.
Now back to this morning lol. After i finished watching Die Hard 3, i felt like playing Final Fight: Streetwise (an xbox game). So i got up and ordered 2 pizzas and started playing to pass time until the pizza got here. By the time the pizza guy got here, i had made it to the 3rd to last boss lol. A couple of them managed to be pretty difficult, but once i figured out their attack patterns, i was able to beat them pretty quick. Im also glad to say that i enjoyed the ending quite a bit. It kinda makes me want to play my copy of Final Fight 2 for Super Nintendo lol.
Here is a pic of my Final Fight: Streetwise game
A while after i beat the Final Fight game, I did some testing with my webcam and microphone to get it ready for my Kamehameha contest video enrty. What ill most likely end up doing is recording the video on my desktop computer, then save it on a disc, and then use that disc with my laptop and the wireless internet connection at work to upload it. Mostly because it would take forever for me to upload it on youtube with the dial up connection here at home lol. If i cant get it uploaded today, hopefully ill have it uploaded tommorrow :)
A couple of hours ago i also remembered that the celebrity chat session was today, so i dropped into the chats to ccheck it out. I managed to make it in there just before the last 2 questions were asked, and i stayed a little while after the guest left, but no one was interested in chatting with me, so i went on my way lol. So now im just sitting here posting lol. I'll admit that it does feel good to be posting on a regular basis again, and im also glad to say that the wallpapers i made a couple of days ago have been getting some good comments, which is always good, especially for me lol.
When im done posting, im probably going to finish watching Doomed Megalopolis. Im dead set on finishing all 4 episodes before the day is over, because i hate trying to remind myself that i need to finish it lol. Im going to post again when i finish it and let you all know what i think of it as a whole :)
I also need to get back into watching my season 1 dvd set of Rurouni Kenshin Season 1. Ive actually had this dvd set for a few years now, and ive already seen (and recorded) most of the episodes from Cartoon Network, but this dvd set has the orginal opening and ending sequences along with the original music, which is pretty cool. It's an enjoyable show thats for sure , and what is insane is that this little dvd set has 6 discs. When i first bought it a few years ago, i thought it would only have 2 or 3 discs, but i was pretty shocked when i opened it lol.
To finish up my post, i thought id post a pic of the very first Anime Insider magazine that i ever bought lol. Since i bought this magazine, ive basically bought every issue since. They are some pretty cool magazines and they have alot of useful information in them, especially for someone who may not know much about anime, or someone who wishes to know more as well :) So if you are looking for a good anime related magazine, Anime insider is one of the best ive seen to date, and the best part is that they are still in publication, I reccomend them to anyone :)
Well, i guess that will be all for today, i thank you all for visiting and i hope you enjoyed the post :) I hope to chat with you all soon :)
Im glad to be back posting a bit sooner than usual lol. i know lately i have been slacking off a bit, so its always good to get back into the groove of things, especially when it is posting about new stuff and experiences thats for sure :)
Here is a run-down of where i am at with the current anime i am watching -
Doomed Megalopolis: I am currently almost finished with the first disc. Ive come to realize that the "episodes" are a bit longer than i expected. Yesterday when i thought i was finished with the first disc, i was only finished with the first episode (there are 2 episodes on each disc).
Yesterday morning before leaving work, i bought an Asian Film called Ashes of Time: REDUX. The dvd cover looked very convincing, so i ended up buying it on a hunch that it would possibly be good.
Ashes of Time: REDUX
To be honest, this movie was really good. It wasnt your average Samurai or Kung Fu action epic, It was a movie about people and how their lives intertwine through one man, and how the time spent with him changes their directions and choices in life. Though it did have its own share of action, it was not the dominant part of the film. If you are a fan of such films as Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, or Curse of the Golden Flower, then you are sure to find worth in this film :)
The past few days i really havent been up to much, The weather has been drastic here, from cold in the mornings - to hot in the evenings, and i believe it has been affecting me and making me a bit more tired than usual lol.
After being lazy the past few days, Today i found myself itching to be creative for the first time in a while. When i got home from work this morning, i spent a little while in the chats, then i rested for a while and did some laundry. While i was waiting for my laundry to finish, I began messing around with my PhotoImpression program (what i use to make wallpapers). After messing around with some screenshots, i finally managed to get some things together into some pretty good pieces of work, especially since i hadnt created any wallpapers in a good while lol. After all, most of my good stuff is usually derived when im not really trying to create anything lol. Im honestly proud of these 2 wallpapers i made today though. They tooks some time and some new skills to create them and they are a bit different from my previous wallpapers :) Here are some thumbnails/links to them so you guys can check them out :)
It was really fun to be able to create some AKIRA stuff, hopefully ill be able to use this creative boost to build on and create more stuff sometime soon thats for sure :)
Well, i hate to make this post so short today, but i better head to bed for work tonight lol, i thank you all for visiting and i hope you guys enjoy the post :)
