An anime movie that came out in Japan in
Sept 20, 2019 plus a spin-off 3-episode anime which also came out in Sept 13,
2019 titled Another World. The movie was directed by Tomohiko Ito.
The story takes place in year 2027 and revolved around Katagaki Naomi
and Ichigyou Ruri both first years and classmates who were both assigned to be
part of the Library Committee of their school.
KATAGAKI NAOMI
ICHIGYOU RURI
Katagaki Naomi is a rather timid looking and
undecisive young man who loves to read books in most of his time. Him becoming
a member of the Library Committee was a majority vote among his classmates
since he was very silent and seemed he will not object to the vote.
Ichigyou Ruri is a rather opposite of
Naomi who would voice out her objections as well as her being straight forward
with her decisions. Although it was not shown in the movie if she volunteered
to become part of the Library Committee, but I guess it is safe to assume that
she volunteered herself for the position. She also has a tenacious personality
making most students keep their distance from her.
The movie is tagged as sci-fi, slice of
life, romance and action. The movie involved time travel, well technically it
is still time travel, another character in the movie is the Katagaki Naomi who
is from 10 years in the future supposedly. Future Naomi came back 10 years in
his past in order to correct or rather to prevent an incident that rendered his
beloved Ruri comatose for 10 years.
FUTURE KATAGAKI NAOMI
The movie is like another anime movie “The
Girl who Leapt Through Time” which came out last 2006 that has a rather similar
flow of events. Just like any other or most time travel sci-fi films there are
those characters who wants to tamper with the flow of time changing history and
most of them involves the main character changing their instead of preventing
it from changing, but for some reason the intervention seemed to be part of
history as well, according to their scripts.
The form of future Naomi being somewhat
digital or a hologram reminds me of one American sci-fi TV series called
Quantum Leap where the main character was accidentally sent back in time and he
is being guided by his friend who appears before him as a hologram that only he
can see but cannot touch at the same time. Which is the same with young Naomi
he is the only one who can see the adult Naomi but they cannot touch each
other. Quantum Leap series by the way was aired way back in 1989 which will be
for another review.
QUANTUM LEAP ZIGGY
Future Naomi also reminded me of both Black
and White Woz from Kamen Rider Zi-O who plays the role as the guide of the main
character. But Woz is not a hologram like future Naomi but rather a physical
body that travelled through time since he is somewhat an observer and one who
makes sure that the flow of time is not tampered with, technically. Kamen Rider
reviews coming soon as well as Sentai and other Tokusatsu series.
WHITE WOZ and BLACK WOZ
The movie is also like the Matrix film and
those anime series that involves main characters playing virtual reality games
and being stuck in the game or the virtual world. I got this vibe after the
future Naomi mentioned that the world of the young Naomi is just a recorded
data inside a huge computer that has recorded history for future references. This
movie also reminded me of SSSS Gridman since the main characters living inside
the virtual world as well.
THE MATRIX
SSSS GRIDMAN
The flow of the story transition in the
movie from start to finish was also quite good since it showed the character
development of the characters namely Future Naomi, young Naomi and Ruri. There are
some boring parts for me but in general the movie was interesting enough to
watch from start to finish as well as several plot twist in the movie which
will leave viewers asking themselves “How did that happen?”, “When did that
happen?” and “What the heck is that?” as well as other questions. That was
somewhat amazing, great movie but still there are questions left about to the
viewers to figure out if they want to.
Another thing to take note of and this
will be a spoiler, if you guys have read the Golden Boy manga you will see
similarities as well specially the ending although this movie kept an almost
friendly parental rating since the movie was clean enough with no crazy fan
service.
GOLDEN BOY MANGA
Before I end this review blog. The side
story Another World takes place on the world of the Future Naomi and shows his
perspective of the story but don’t expect his diary is accurate.
If someone asks me for a good anime movie,
“Hello World” will be one of the titles that I will give for them to watch and
enjoy with some snacks as if they are in a movie house.
I don’t give ratings but in case anyone
will ask 1 being to lowest and 10 the highest I will give it an 8 as my
personal rating.
Both series is about a secret tournament held and in certain locations and only those connected to the founders or those who were invited can enter the tournament. Both have watchers or overseers that reports the result of the match between individuals or clans. Clans from both series have their own territories and leaves their marks in order for their opponents to know who rules certain territories. Winners depending on the agreement and the wager can win everything from the loosing team including the looser's territory.
For the characters:
Kaname Sudou the main male character from Darwin's Game
and
Itsuki "Ikki" Minami the main male character from Air Gear
both almost similar not because of their personalities but their character development although Kaname was a bit late in the game before he completely got used in the game. Ikki on the other hand was more aggressive.
they are similar because they were both guided by a veteran player and the main female character of the series. Shuka for Darwin's Game and Ringo for Air Gear. Both also carries an alias Queen of Thorns and both fashions twin tails except Ringo is a lot more bustier than Shuka.
both girls were key characters for the development of the main male characters of the series.
Both characters also chose the bird crow or raven a black bird.
Sunset Ravens chosen by Kaname
Kogarasu Maru or translated into English as Little Crows chosen by Ikki
Too bad Darwin's Game only had 11 episodes, they could have pushed for more but I guess they might be planning on making a second season for the series.
Might as well wait and see if there will be a second season for the Darwin's Game which was quite hinted in the last episode of the series. With that Air Gear is another that also made me feel that it needed a second season and not an OVA, but it is still something to wait and see since a long interval for a sequel or a new season for an anime series is quite common in anime.
With
another Terminator movie coming out this 2019, I figured making a quickie review on the
past movie series of The Terminator. The Terminator is one of my favorite
movies that I got to watch. Although I have not followed any other media of the
Terminator story other than the Sarah Connor Chronicles which came out as a TV
series that came out in 2008 and 2009 for two seasons.
The
movie first came out in 1984 directed by James Cameron and features the now
famous Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as T-800 model 101 or otherwise known as
the titular character The Terminator. His character was also the one that used the famous tag lines "Hasta La Vista, Baby" and "I'll Be Back". If there are some of you waiting for me to say the other tag line "You Ugly MF" that is on another movie and another review.
The
movie came out with several movies but the famous movies that came out was the
first batch for the trilogy. The Terminator (1984), Terminator 2: Judgment Day
(1991) and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machine (2003). These were the famous movies
that came out that starred Arnold with him.
The
second batch of trilogy for the movie series are Terminator Salvation (2009),
Terminator Genesys (2015) and the upcoming movie Terminator Dark Fate (2019).
In Terminator Salvation Arnold was a no show for the movie but a CGI of him was
made for the sake of having the iconic actor making an appearance in the movie but
in his younger self. In Terminator Genesys and Dark Fate, Arnold once again reprise
his role as the Terminator. In the upcoming movie Dark Fate Arnold is not the
only original actor to reprise their role from the original movie, Linda
Hamilton also returns to reprise her role as Sarah Connor and this time they
team up to protect another target that the new breed of Terminators is coming
to kill.
The
movie is about a time travelling humanoid machine that went back in time to
kill the biggest obstacle of their master, Skynet, the human John Connor. In the
first movie Skynet sent back in time one of the Terminators it had created to
kill the mother of John Connor, Sarah Connor, who at that time was just an
ordinary office worker who has no affiliations with any military ranks. John Connor
in order to have his mother protected from Skynet he sent back one soldier
named Kyle Reese, who in turn was also his father. He sent back Kyle Reese
without telling him that they are father and son in order to preserve the flow
of time and in order for him to be born.
1991 scene
The
story was rather confusing since in the second movie Arnold or T-800 is no
longer the bad guy of the story but rather the good guy sent back by also John
Connor to protect his younger self from the T-1000 Terminator which this time Skynet
sent back in time so that Judgment Day will go as scheduled, but it was stopped
by T-800 and protected John Connor as well as preventing Judgment Day from
happening, or rather postponed. Third movie Rise of the Machine is the third movie
where Arnold portrayed his role as the Terminator again. Just like in the
second movie T-800 is once again sent back in time to protect but not only John
Connor but also Kate Brewster his future wife, in this movie it was not John
Connor who sent back the new T-800 but it was his wife. John Connor according
to the new T-800 was already dead and killed by his hands, caught by the
resistance and reprogrammed in order to be sent back in time to protect both
John Connor and Kate Brewster with the directive to send the couple to the
supposed resistance base once Skynet starts its human extermination. This time
around the antagonist is a female terminator T-X which seemed to be a
combination of the endoskeleton of T-800 and the liquid metal properties of T-1000.
One
of the iconic scenes in the movie was the time travelling scene in almost every
movie (except Salvation) where characters from the future appear out of nowhere
inside a ball of energy and naked. Arnold as the T-800 taking clothes that will
fit him from others. In the first movie he sported what seemed to be a brown
trench coat and armed with a shotgun. The trench coat later becomes what I suppose
is the signature outfit of his character, an all-black outfit of leather jacket
unzipped with an under shirt and black leather pants which he got from big bike
riders and black shades, also the shotgun is still there which is also I think
the signature side arm of T-800 in every movie.
Edward Furlong (1991)
Nick Stahl (2003)
Christian Bale (2009)
Jason Clarke (2015)
Both
in movies 2 and 3 they kept the same appearance of the T-800 making it look
like that it never age and got to hand it to Arnold for being the professional
that he is for keeping his body fit for each movie of the Terminator that he
came out to reprise his role. Except in Terminator Salvation he was given a
homage where a CGI of his younger self from the first movie was used in the battle
against John Connor and his companion Marcus Wright, a human experimented by
Skynet by making him a human-terminator hybrid which failed and kept his
humanity and fought alongside humans and later sacrificing himself to save the
life of John Connor.
In
the movies Genesys reprised his role once again as T-800 but this time the
timeline is being altered since this time around Kyle Reese who was supposed to
come back in time to protect Sarah Connor ends up being saved by Sarah Connor
who was later revealed to have been trained by the T-800 who was sent back in time
to protect Sarah Connors since she was 9 years old. The Genesys serves as a
reboot of the first Terminator movie altering the course of action as well. This
movie has given viewers some sort of confusion as to how will the story go this
time since in this new timeline Kyle Reese is alive along with Sarah Connor who
has just started to become lovers and John Connor is to be conceived in this
new timeline. But that remains to be seen as of yet.
In
the new upcoming movie Dark Fate is said to be a direct sequel to The
Terminator 2 Judgment Day movie. According to the wiki the movies Rise of the
Machines, Salvation and Genesys are all alternate timelines which might explain
why John Connor was no where to be seen between movie 2 and 3 as described by
T-800, forcing Skynet to target other characters that will help build the
resistance. T-800 said that John Connor could not be detected in any timeline
after the Judgment Day incident, he was “off the grid”.
T-1000
T-X
T-1000 Genesys Version
T-Rev 9 Dark Fate
It
seems like in this new movie it is like a reunion of the main casts of the
movie series which will I believe will be the hype of the movie. Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Edward Furlong the stars of The Terminator
and Terminator 2 Judgment Day are said to be reprising their roles T-800, Sarah
Connor and John Connor respectively. Another rumor has been going around is
that Michael Biehn was said to reprise his role as Kyle Reese but according to
Biehn he will not be in the movie. So, things are still yet to be seen once the
movie comes out and as well what role does the two new characters have in the
new Terminator movie other than being a new target to be terminated by Skynet.
It
would also seem regardless that the spin-off series Sarah Connor Chronicles
follows the move Judgment Day it seems like this new movie has a timeline of its
own. There are different charts as to how the Terminator timeline goes and how
it follows the story from the first movie to the current one. But since this
movie involves too many time travelling and some alterations in the story, the
movie has created many possible timelines for itself.
Considering
the age of Arnold Schwarzenegger who is always seen in tip top shape having to
see Linda Hamilton back to reprise her role and seemed ripped as well for her
character Sarah Connor are both very impressive. The movie also showcase Arnold’s
character the T-800 to be a model that age through time ever since it was sent
back in time to kill John Connor, just like in the movie Genesys, his character
which mission was to protect the young Sarah Connor and to train her also age
as time goes by making it look like more human except for the endoskeleton.
Another thing to take notice of in these movie series are the special effects and animatronics used for the film. Imagine since 1984 they have been using puppets and animatronics for the moving endoskeleton of the T-800 and slowly evolve to modern special effects in each film continuity. CGI or Computer Generated Images and Chromawall effects were later used for most scenes for adding more effects and explosive effects in some scenes.
I
have to wait for the movie to come out in order for me to see if Arnold’s T-800
character is the same as the T-800 in the movie Genesys who waited for the arrival
of Sarah and Kyle who time travelled from 1984 to 2017, but as I have said it is
something to wait for since it was said in a wiki that this T-800 is just one
of the T-800 models that was sent back in time by Skynet and these models can
have aging feature to make them look like more human.
Just
by watching all the movies itself, a viewer will have to piece everything out
to connect which continuity to follow, even though there are those who has made
timeline charts, there are too many of it made by fans and movie reviewers but I
want to see a timeline released by the producers, writers and directors themselves
for a much more accurate chronology. This is because aside from the movies and
the spin-off tv series, there is an online series that came out on YouTube and
comics that came out.
Dark Fate Trailer
So
right now, it is a waiting game for the new movie to come out to see what story
it has for the fans, considering that the plot is almost all the same since the
first movie. Main character is being hunted down by a time travelling humanoid robot
and is being protected by a time travelling soldier or a reprogrammed Terminator
T-800 from the future turned good. Whatever this new movie has in store for the
fans is something to be seen specially that Edward Furlong is to reprise his
1991 character in this movie so that is another thing to wait and see how he
will appear in this movie since the trailer has only shown Linda and Arnold
reprising their respective roles in the new movie along with the two new
characters and the new terminator enemy that also has a new feature which is to
be seen.
Will be making another review for each movie on another date.
Found this while cleaning up so I figured sharing it.
The game was released in 1999 in other countries, developer is UBIport (not Ubisoft) and published by OnGamePort as a Real Life RPG.
OZ World was released by Level-Up Games in 2002 as the very first Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) here in the Philippines. So this was released a year before the release of the first Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) and later on ROSE Online and RF Online under their trademark here in the Philippines.
OZ World was more like the current Minecraft, Second Life, VR Chat (Steam) and other similar online VR World where users mostly just chat and do VR Jobs to earn their online money (well except for those games which have been said that they can exchange their online money for real world money like Second Life check google to find out who earned tons of real life cash just playing
Second Life). So just to put it plainly OZ World is a VR Dating Chat back in the days.
Unlike today's VR Worlds, before I forget, this game never required VR Goggles. The game runs with the traditional monitor, keyboard and mouse to play the game and the system requirements to run the game was not that high as well.
OS: Windows XP/98/2000/Vista
Processor: Pentium 166 Mhz
RAM: 32 MB
Hard Disk Space: 50 MB (at least)
Video Card: Direct X compatible
So yeah does not require much to run this game compared for today's games.
Graphics were OK for its time and much like the game The Sims.The game also includes environment control which includes changes for day and night. Cannot remember if they have weather control in the game. The game also includes getting players to mingle with each other thru VR but just like any other online games the players can choose the gender that they wish to use, hey it is a free fantasy world where players go to just to blow some steam or entertain themselves.
I never got to experience playing this game very long since I got bored with it after hearing that the game will not be free to go online anymore and I have to purchase game time prepaid cards which costs Php. 50.00 up. So I forgot to mention the game was released as free then later on I have to buy the game time, I don’t have that much budget for playing paid games at home or at computer shops since back then I was using prepaid internet and dial up modems which Internet was only a tad faster after 12 midnight up to 4 or 5 early morning (was that a word?). So in short I stopped playing after playing a few games after buying game cards. I don’t blame the company for making that decision they have to make money, but it took me some years before I realized that.
As for my experience in playing the game itself it was more like a chat world than playing a game, the game itself was more like just to earn the online money and ranking up for online social status to brag about with other players. Much like buying skins for today’s game which shows how long a player has been playing or for others skins show how good you are at playing the game, I don’t ever understand that logic it is just a skin and nothing more for me considering other games have online quests where getting skins will give a player points or online credits to spend online. The game also has quests to earn points and stuff as well as to level up the avatar and rank up as well.
So just making this short the OZ World was back then the talk of the town when it comes to online games for its short-lived popularity until the rise of Ragnarok Online and other games that came after it. Even so the game still got a place for other gamers which I think they still remember the game and played it for as long as they could.
Pics from the Internet
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
BIRDS
OF PREY
With a new Birds of Prey movie coming out next year, I might as well do a quick one on this since I did watched the Birds of Prey series that came out last 2002 to 2003 which was aired here in the Philippines some years back.
An
all-female superhero team under DC Comics which started since 1996 which was
composed of Black Canary and Barbara Gordon who has adopted the codename Oracle
for its timeline. The comic series was created y Jordan B. Gorfinkel and Chuck
Dixon.
The
Birds of Prey Team is mainly all female team but, in some occasion, some male
characters become a member of the team. The core team is made up of Barbara
Gordon also known as Batgirl or Oracle and Black Canary, and they are later
joined by other superheroines teaming up with them. Not only does this team
sometimes gets male members but some known supposed villains under the Batman
series also gets to join the Birds of Prey, just to name some are Catwoman and
Poison Ivy.
The
team Birds of Prey has made their appearance in some animated series like
Justice League Unlimited where the team was composed of Batgirl, Huntress and
Black Canary and two male members acting as their dates while doing their
undercover mission. Another appearance of the team was in Batman: The Brave and
The Bold series and this time the members are Huntress, Black Canary and
Catwoman. So the members or team composition depends on what characters exists
in the series leaving only the core members to recruit additional members, just
like in The Brave and The Bold, Black Canary is the recurring core member since
Barbara Gordon exists in the series only as Batgirl.
Birds
of Prey was represented by Black Canary in the Injustice 2 game.
The
comic book series also received a live action series titled Birds of Prey starring
Dina Meyer as Oracle and Ashley Scott as Huntress and is later joined by Dinah
as the third member. Barbara here is paralyzed and is often seen in their
headquarters on her wheelchair and Huntress introduced here as the daughter of
Batman and Catwoman. The series aired from 2002 to 2003 the series only had 13
episodes with the trio facing off with Harley Quinn as the main villain in the
series.
I
was not able to watch all 13 episodes of the series as far as I can remember,
but the series for me during that time was something that I would wait for each
week, and since I rarely had internet connection back then nor did I cared how
many episodes does one series has during that time I just watch it until they
do a rerun or a new series takes over its timeslot. I am not a total DC or
Marvel geek but knowing that a series is a supposed part Batman I think that
was a reason why I got glued in the series specially when Huntress was said to
be the daughter of Batman and Catwoman that peeked by interest to watch it. The series by the way was a so-so rating for my taste, I just watched the series thinking Batman will later appear later in some episodes.
Now
jumping to 2019 a trailer for the a new Birds of Prey series came out where
this time the main character is Harley Quinn as she teams up with Black Canary,
Huntress and Renee Montoya to protect a young girl named Cassandra Cain (who
also later goes by the name Batgirl in later stories). The new Birds of Prey is
out to protect Cassandra Cain from Black Mask, the supposed main villain for
the new Birds of Prey.
His
new Birds of Prey is a film that will take place after the Suicide Squad
storyline where Harley Quinn is seemingly left Joker and has teamed up with
Birds of Prey members Huntress (Helena Bertinelli), Black Canary and Renne
Montoya.
I
have not seen Suicide Squad yet so since this movie will be out by next year I still
have a chance to go and find me a copy of the Suicide Squad movie since Birds
or Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is said to be events
to take place after the story of the other movie.
Other than the regular team up of the various members of the Birds of Prey, for me I sometimes consider the random all girl team up in DC may they be pure superheroines or some female villains joining their ranks, I consider them as the Birds of Prey. So yeah I know some will disagree on that but that is just my own opinion on their random team ups that later ends up fighting against the same opponent. Since Birds of Prey is often composed of women from both sides teaming up you can expect some of them will be fighting or performing in a rather not so conventional ways or how others are used to seeing them fight their opponents. Rather also Birds of Prey is most of the time out of the box mix of heroes and villains teaming up against one opponent.
Pictures from the internet credits to the owners of the pictures
Youtube channel The Rap Sheet for the video of 2002 Birds of Prey
Youtube channel KinoCheck International for the Birds of Prey 2020 trailer
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