"Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you."

Bleh, Mondays blow.

Weekend summary then some actual useful stuff. I'm currently not working on a project rough draft which is due in the morning. Heh.

Saturday night we hit up Deland but the place was dead. Yeah...that was Saturday, exciting.

Sunday we went and played paintball. We just had 4 guys so it was 2 on 2. Me and Mike (the Irishman) dominated both rounds. First round Mike got one guy then laid down covering fire on the other while I ran full sprint for a flank. Got around the side and landed some shots, great fun.

Typical Monday today, woke up feeling like absolute crap. Took a lot of energy to go to class. Napped all afternoon.

Wow...why did I even bother writing all that? I could've just said I did nothing all weekend and today. Regardless, moving on with something different.

Finished acquiring a new anime series. As to how I would acquire it refer to the title of this particular Blogspot.

The series in question is titled Area 88. Its a remake of another series which was made back in the early-mid 80's. As far as the original series goes I've read that it was pretty good, pity it was never released on DVD or brought to the States. As usual its all based on a Manga, one which I'm not too fond of because of its character design style. Anyway, I'm off track, this is a review of the new series as a whole.

All characters in the new series recieved a facelift. The main character, Shin, retained his..."interesting" 80's anime hair style, but at least he doesn't look like a woman anymore. All the aircraft are done in 3D with a cartoon texture style applied. It comes off very well. Animations on characters is kinda weak. A lot of the 80's styles are retained there, I found myself thinking of G.I. Joe a lot. The air battles on the other hand are something else. The aircraft are depicted very well in the air, they have a sense of weight and balance that can be lost in 3D animation.

Storyline wise (I won't go into any of the details, at all) the story retells the 80's series as far as I can tell. Certain characters are given more wieght while others lose some. Overall the story doesn't come off too predictable. The mini-stories throughout are well thought out too.

My personal favorite parts of the series are the aerial combat sequences. Now, those who know me are thinking "of course" but bear with me. For a little known anime series the dogfights are really realistic. The things the pilots do make a lot of sense and almost replicate what their real world counterparts would do. Plus the series mixes in some great techno beat music that help drive the combat.

In the end I think Area 88 is a decent anime series. I'd like to see more of it, especially since the quality was improving toward the end of the series. While its not the greatest series ever, I believe it deserves space on my hard drive more-so then Gundam Seed Destiny, that might not be saying much though.