The Good, The Bad, The Weird

Look! I changed my blog!! I thought it'd make sense to use toffee colour being toffeeish and everything. What do you think? I might change it again, but it's better than the ocean don't you think?

This film is really good!! The plot is pretty simple, but it's executed so beautifully. It is inspired by 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly', but since I haven't watched that, I can't make any comparisons or anything like that! It's all based around this treasure map that EVERY one wants!!! Amongst the people who want this map are three villians that are the focus of the squabble. Really, that is the whole movie in a nutshell. But there's also the Japanese army and Chinese Bandits chasing after this map which makes for some pretty extreme battle scenes. It all starts because Yoon Tae Go stole the map on what he thought was a standard train theft, but when news gets out he finds himself running for his life all for a map. It ends with a climatic shoot out between the three of them. Winner takes all.
I did say the plot is simple!!! Of course there are some mysteries and back stories which I could tell you about... but that would spoil the film! In all truthfulness, I did get confused by said simple plot.... but only because I had some difficulties in remembering the characters names..... I'm no good with Korean names ok!

AKB0048

This anime brand spanking new!! In fact as you read this, the 9th episode is being aired in Japan so think of this as your hip and trendy anime review!

The concept behind AKB0048 is worth more than the plot. If you know the group AKB48 then you can probably get the gist of things but for those of you who don't.... Well you have some catching up to do. Basically AKB48 is the biggest icon in thee Japanese organisation, they have 64 members split into four teams and hold the Guinness World record for that! They have their own theatre where AKB48 performances are held everyday. New members are admitted as 'trainees' to stand-in for busy members before becoming fully-fledged members and old members 'graduate'. Is an idol group unlike anything in Europe and are the basis for AKB0048, so I hope you understood all that!

Broken Dolls - Reach For The Sky

Japanese. That's right, I don't just listen to Kpop! It's just that there is less Jpop! :P

I bought this at expo because a they were playing it when I walked past. The seller said they are a new Harajuku band but 'Broken Dolls' is also the name of a Harajuku fashion label and shop. All three run by Kensuke (Broken Dolls Guitarist). Now enough about Harajuku, let's talk about Reach For The Sky!
First let me say how cute the album cover is. The mess and destruction that still looks so adorable and innocent! Anyway, when I originally listened to the album I did notice that there was a lot of English, but when I looked in the lyric book I was shocked to see that ALL thee lyrics are English. Well, Engrish. Sachi is a cute singer, but her English fails her.... Most the lyrics are good enough, it's just her pronunciation!! But you have to pardon her Engrish because her cute and bubbly voice should be in Engrish.

Mirai Nikki

Dark and sinister, cruel and deceptive. Think of a mash-up between Death Note and Eden of the East. Although, instead of Gods of Death, the leader, so to speak, of this show is the God of time and space. So, this God resides in the head of a young boy, Yuki. Yuki can't get along with other people so instead he spends all his time on his phone making a diary about everything that happens around him. For his entertainment, the God of time and space gives his diary the power to see into future. In fact, 12 people each with different diaries, can now see into the future and are set the mission of killing or destroying each other's diaries. So, a battle-royale kind of scenario breaks out. It's a really interesting story because every one has different diaries so can see different parts of the past. Like Gasai Yuno, who made a diary post every 10 minutes about what Yuki was doing, now she can see every that Yuki is going to do. Now, with Yuki and Yuno allied they need to beat all the other diary holders. But with lies and deception around every corner Yuki struggles and owes his life to Yuno many times. It has got gore in it, but only when necessary, it's mostly a psychological thriller. And a very good one at that! The complete freaks and the background stories and I especially love all the unexpected twists.