I haven't done one of these in a long time, mainly since I haven't had the time to watch a new series, start to finish. I came across this series by winning a cosplay contest, a couple DVDs of it were the prize. It was sometime around 2010...I watched a couple episodes back then, but never really got into it, however a couple weeks back I was sick and stayed home from work....with nothing better to do I popped in the DVDs again, and gave it a go. It must have been my mindset back then that kept me from getting into it, because this time around...I couldn't get enough. So! Let's start the Review!
Heat Guy J is an anime licensed by Geneon first, and then Funimation, that came out in 2002. It sought to seamlessly blend CGI with traditional animation in the same way and time period as Disney's Treasure Planet....with similar success. You can still tell what's CG and what's animation, but it still looks like it belongs together and the animation is rather clear and crisp. It's visually appealing and that's just the tip of the iceberg!
The plot centers around City Safety Management: Special Division agent Daisuke Aurora (Dice/Dais for short), and his android partner J. Dice is an upbeat rather optimistic young man in his early 20's. He's tough, doesn't complain too much, all things considered (his backstory is pretty sad, but he doesn't sweat it) and he's a very likable guy!
His partner, an Android simply known as J, is also pretty likable. He's known as the "Heat Guy" by most of the criminal underground, due to the large quantity of steam he releases to cool down after intense physical exertion. J takes on a fatherly sort of role for the orphaned Daisuke, who's only real family is his older brother Shun, the head of the City Safety Management office. J often advises Dice on how a "Real Man" should act, which can lead to either really deep, or comical commentary. Despite having no real feelings, J's AI can learn to act on it's own by observing the actions of the people he surrounds himself with. As the show progresses, Dice's lazy attitude and lax interpretation of the law start to rub off on him and he becomes pretty human.
The third and final member of the City Safety Management's Special Division is Kyoko Milchan. She's a stern and sensible young lady who's in charge of the budget and essentially being Dice's keeper. She started out pretty annoying to me, but as the show goes on, her quirks and charm start to grow on you in an undeniably cute way! She show's that she's a decent tactician too, rescuing Dice from his rival's clutches while he's under some pretty serious drugs.
The last solo character I'm going to talk about is Dice's main rival/enemy, Clair Leonelli. He's the only son of former mob boss Lorenzo Leonelli, a character who's funeral kicks off the series with a bang! Clair is semi-psychotic due to years of both physical and mental abuse from his father. He's a pyro-maniac but also an excellent strategist and leader to his men. I won't go into a lot of details but Clair easily became my favorite character from the moment I saw him to the moment he was last on screen.
The show is full of other interesting characters, that all have an interesting way of weaving into the story. One off characters you think will only matter to the episodic plots manage to work their ways back in multiple times making you rather glad you saw them too! A favorite of mine would be Kia Freeborn a guitar playing wanderer who was seeking revenge against his deadbeat father. Seems like a simple one-shot story you know Dice meets him and convinces him otherwise, story's done right? I thought so too, but he still manages to become an integral character in the final act of the story! The same goes for Clair's three goons, Giovanni, Ian and Mitchell. I won't say how, but those three really manage to surprise you, and make you love them!
This show has so many good things going for it, that it pains me to think that so few people know about it! It's a true gem. It manages to have that laid back episodic feel of Cowboy Bebop with a good Buddy Cop feel mixed in. The story easily wraps itself up in 26 episodes, yet it leaves you wanting more! I was satisfied with the end but demanded more epilogue, a downside I suppose, to having so many characters whose stories worked their way in and wound together. Another kudos to this show is its catchy opening, FAKE by Try Force. It had me singing along within the first few episodes and it really sets the feel for this show. If you aren't completely sold on this series, just watch the embeded link below, then check it out streaming dubbed or subbed on HULU!
I'll be back next week with new cosplay, cross-stitch patterns, and everything else I'm usually known for...I'll also be talking about my trip to see Fall Out Boy in concert!
If you're like me and are a hardcore yaoi fangirl...then this is for you! Consider it an early Christmas present...if you celebrate Christmas, if not, it's just another random act of yaoi kindness! Here is a cosplay tribute to my favorite Ace Attorney couple! Klavier Gavin and Apollo Justice! Not much else to say here so enjoy and please leave a comment if you enjoyed it, it spurs me on to make more videos like this one!
It's no secret that I've been obsessed with Ace Attorney lately, and now that I'm back from Nebraskon and have had some time to relax, I was able to make up a few cross stitch patterns!!! All of which are from the Ace Attorney Series! I don't have my own laptop right now, so I wasn't able to do anything spectacular like character busts....although Edgeworth is calling my name~~~~~ I did however manage to make some key symbols from the series that I am so eager to start sewing myself!!!!
So, to start these off, here's the symbol representing my favorite Ace Attorney Character!!! Klavier Gavin's pendant! I figure the nice cool grey will look stunning against a black fabric!
Next up is the Gyaxa Space Center Logo from Dual Destinies! I just recently started playing this case, and I thought it would make a nice little pillow or something.
Third is the Mood Matrix symbol, representing Athena Cykes, from Dual Destinies as well. It was simple and cute!
And finally representing Ace Attorney Investigations! We have the symbol of the three legged raven, The Yatagarasu!
Let me know which one is your favorite in the comments down below, and be sure to let me know if you stitch them yourselves!!!!!!!!
Well that was a whirlwind of a weekend! I was on the phone near constantly with Logan who was missing the con due to basic training, and we were going here, there, and everywhere! Some of the highlights of our weekend, was Ami meeting the Nostalgia Critic!!!
As well as our Ace Attorney pair meeting another Gavin, a Clay Terran (Ami was thrilled!) an Ema Skye, and a Phoenix Wright!
The BEST part of the weekend, was our Skit getting Second place in the cosplay contest!!
A lot of people loved our Squall and Cloud! And our Mom's plague Doctor was a hit! It even won our local Hancock Fabric's Halloween contest!
Sorry if this post seems really random and off the wall, I'm still all keyed up from the con and super excited to get back to my sewing machine!! Until Next time! Happy sewing/crafting/cosplaying/life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So...I've been....busy...... Ami and I attended another mini-convention about 5 days ago, as Apollo Justice and Klavier Gavin from Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice! We originally weren't intending to go, despite being invited much earlier in the year (a little after the last con), but while I was chatting away with a friend around 1am a month before the gathering, she convinced my tired brain to say yes, and a lot of complaining from Ami ensued... So, I promised her I'd make both costumes and all she'd have to do is drive, I procrastinated a lot with Apollo, but got him done fairly quickly...when I was actually working on him, in actual hours making him, he only took a couple days, in reality I sort of spaced him out over 2 1/2 weeks...so Klavier was a mad dash to get done, and I spent nearly 3 days straight on him haha....I may now have a very strong aversion to lined jackets.................................... Anyway We did really well with them and had a lot of fun, despite Logan not being around due to basic...It was really hard to work on them without him, I'm used to his constant pestering/motivating me to get things done, so it was kind of sad and lonely...but I persevered and they turned out amazing!
So, if you like Ace Attorney, Without further ado here's Ami as Apollo Justice, and myself as Klavier Gavin!
This first pic is us at the con :)
Here we have some shots from our own personal photoshoot!
And for any Klapollo shippers (KlavierXApollo love) here's a special pic!~
Ami and I are also currently working on a CMV (cosplay music video) to the song Camera Shy with these two characters, To follow that's progress, my cosplay in general, and any other WIP stuff, check out our cosplay page at : https://www.facebook.com/konspiracycoslay :
So I haven't posted in like FOREVER!!! I don't even remember what the last thing I talked about was....but anyway Akua Con was last weekend, and it was a blast! We got our groups outfits done just in time! Logan's Haru wig could have been better, but the rest of his outfit Rocked! And Ami's Elie was Stunning and Sexy!~ My Musica was So-So, but the extending Spear shocked the judges. Cameron also did a Dark Link that was phenomenal. All four of us got prizes in the cosplay contest to boot. So Here is a large group pic of some of us cosplayers! From Left to Right is Cameron's Dark Link, A Fem Link, our friend Rachel in her Kimono Squirtle Gijinka, A Werewolf Red Riding Hood, myself as Musica, Ami as Elie, and Logan as Haru!
And Here are some excellent shots of Cameron as Dark Link, and Ami as Elie
Don't they just look amazing!?
Anyway I haven't had a lot of time for art and such, but that's due to work and my newest obsession! ACE ATTORNEY GAMES!!!!!!!! I've been playing Apollo Justice nonstop for a while now, and Klavier Gavin has stolen my soul..................................... How can he be so amazingly sweet and annoy me so much at the same time?! Lesson learned, if I'm swearing at 3AM, Blame the Prosecution. I also dyed my hair a new color yesterday. I'm a redhead now and I am loving it! It reminds me of my Reno wig, such a lovely reddish maroon blend <3
That's about all I have to say, sorry for the boring post and random ramblings. Until next time <3
With the end of Logan's High school career fast approaching, and college looming over him, our groups prop master has decided to enter the National Guard. While Ami and I are totally supportive of it, (we're having lots of fun imagining him with a buzz cut!), he'll be in basic training during Nebraskon 2015. That means we had to rework our cosplay lineup, one that we'd had planned for nearly a year. We're putting off his Genesis cosplay and Ami's Cloud, in favor of her being the Laguna to my Squall and having our mom play Irvine. That way I can be Zack for 2016 with Cloud and Genesis. We think that should work out.
On the bright side, we got invited to another Mini-con that is just before he enters Basic!! So, we got together and decided we should do something simple and Nostalgic for all three of us. One that'd be fun and make some good memories for him to hold onto during basic training. We went with Hiro Mashima's Rave Master! If you've been reading this blog since the start, then you'll know for a long time I was in love with Musica from Rave Master, so my cosplay was a natural choice. There was no arguing over who was Haru, Logan got his first choice, I got mine as Musica, and Ami squealed at the thought of making Elie and her Tonfa blasters! I even hand stitched a Plue plushie
The con is on June 27th in Watertown South Dakota. If you're in the area, look up Akuacon on Facebook and see if you can come on out!
I've recently started playing FFXII on the ps2, and I think I may be making a few patterns based on that. I went through Dork Stitch's pattern selection, hoping she'd already covered some of the main party, but sadly she hasn't, and there are barely any other patterns out there (aside from Ashe, whom I rather dislike). I would have loved to perler Balthier and Vaan, as they are some of the most fun FF characters I've encountered in a long time. I'm surprised the game has such negative reviews online when I find it to be so much fun! I'm even on the lookout for the spin off Revenant wings for Nintendo DS. I really like the gambit system, which seems to be the main complaint most people have. If they don't like it, you can turn it off, so just do that!
I also bought a psp from Last Stop CD shop the other day along with Kindom Hearts Birth By Sleep, and FFVII Crisis Core. While I still need a memory stick, I've been replaying Terra's Story in BBS and I may finally get around to making that Ventus pattern! I just need a computer that I can call my own! (yep, still using Ami's...still to broke to buy a new one). I am a little stuck in FFXII if any one can help me, I'm fighting the Demon Wall in King Raithwall's Tomb...and it's kicking my ass! Any help will be appreciated, I believe my party's average level is about 16, and everyone but Fran has a staff that deals about 30 damage. Fran has a bow that does about the same. I have a quickening for everyone but Vaan, and Fran, Basch, Ashe, and Penelo have 2-3 quickenings unlocked....I'm not sure what all spells Fran has but its a lot, and everyone has a cure spell but Penelo. They're wearing Chain armor or strong anti magic armor. That's all I can remember about their stats off the top of my head, any help at all is welcome! And if you just wanna talk about the game or the characters or anything else I've mentioned above just leave me a comment!
