one zombie in a billion

Okay I realise I’m fairly behind on this one, but the dvds have only just hit the UK in the last couple of months.

This 2004 series by Cowboy Bebop visionary Shinichiro Watanabe is quickly becoming my new favourite anime, mixing an Edo period setting with modern sensibilities(such as Adidas stripes on kimonos), we’re presented with a fresh style that smacks of originality from the start.

The story follows a group of three vagrants, Muden – the cookie cutter anti-hero loose cannon, Jin – the more restrained and technical ronin and Fuu an ex-waitress who provides the MacGuffin as she want the two fighters to locate a samurai who smells of sunflowers, whilst stopping the two from trying to kill each other.

I’m only two episodes in, I’ve heard the story can be at times lacking, but the fantastic fight scenes, which in execution are on par with some of the best seen on screen make up for this. The kinetic fluidity of Muden’s capoeira influenced fighting invokes the Cowboy Bebop character Spike Sigel’s moves infused with a spider-man like agility that is truly engrossing to watch.

I’d recommend this to anyone who enjoyed Cowboy Bebop (obviously), Ninja Scroll or Kill Bill Vol 1.

First look at the new FF cartoon.

Dear lord….did the thing spray paint a 4 on his chest to be “xtreme”?

I think that “Marvel Babies” poster to the right is even more worrying though.

Looking around for junk to buy this month so far the list is

• Mac OSX Tiger - Been on my list for ages, decided to take the plunge today after reading all the good press on the OS and in particular Spotlight, word running round the tech circles, is that once Longhorn features a similar option, folders could be a thing of the past.
• Superfriends vol 2 – I never got to see these as a kid, so it’s been kinda fun getting into the series. I have much love for the overall Silver Age style madcap adventures the JLA are sent on. Plus vol 1 had a great documentary that interviewed some great comics writers like Mark Waid and Geoff Johns.
• Batman Vol 3 – Anyone who has read Batman knows this is the best media representation of him, bar none. Just an awesome, dark and haunting version of batman that set a bar for other comic book animated series that few have lived up to.

There’s some other stuff I’m looking at too, but I’m watching the funds these days so I can’t go crazy with the spendy like I used to.
This has been another useless post brought to you by James McEwan and his credit card.

It’s been a weird week, snowed like crazy monday-thursday, was like 5 inches in my neighbourhood, yay spring!

As such, after seeing “Assault on Precinct 13″ on Tuesday night, I decided to start skidding in the snow, which would have been a great idea if I wasn’t wearing trainers. So now I have a fucker of a cold, was out of action wednesday+thurs, now back in action and still feeling shit.

On the brightside, I spent Thursday watching volume 2 of Batman the Animated series.