D.N. Angel

About an hour ago I finished the D.N. Angel anime for the second time. Originally, I watched D.N. Angel in 2004 when the series came out. And I've been meaning to watch it again for a while now because there were only two things I could remember about it: episode 6 was my favourite, and the anime seemed too short. (And I'm serious that was all I could remember. I didn't even remember that Dark stole pieces of art.)

Surprisingly after watching again those two things still hold true. I guess that's why they stuck with me so much. But there were a lot of things I noticed this time that I didn't before.

For one, as I said in a previous post. Dark and Risa's age differences is a little weird. Like Bella/Edward weird.

Another thing, in episode 18 when Riku and Daisuke told each other that they liked each other, all I could keep thinking was 'they're too young to be dating'. I guess I didn't notice it before because I was their age when I first watched it, but now, 5 years later it just seems odd watching two 14 yearolds date. And ironically enough, I was 14 when I started dating. Sort of makes me feel old...

Also, does anyone else think it's odd that Daisuke's father was gone for 12 years and when he came back it like he was gone a day? I don't know, it just feels like they should have been more 'Wtf were you doing all this time? We sort of needed you.' and less of 'Welcome back! Want some coffee?' But I guess when you only have 26 episodes you sort of have no choice but to leave some plot holes.

When I think of the series overall, the first half of it was a big mess of introductions and random crap, while the second half seemed to be all plot and story. Which is why I still think the anime ended too soon as it feels like they were planning on going for more than 26 episodes but were cut off and had to conclude the series in 2 episodes. I just don't see why they would go into so much detail about Freedert and the Second Hand of Time if they weren't planning on have the series go longer.

But I'm sort of glad they went into all that detail with Freedert because it was probably the most meaningful part of the series. When Elliot's sword stabbed Freedert I had to stop for a moment and just think. The sword stabbing her would have finally killed her but it allowed her to be with Elliot. The symbolism in that was very striking.

In the end, all I'm left thinking is that I want the story to continue. I want more of the phantom thief Dark and I want to actually hear the full story. So I'm reading the manga! Which I guess this is a good time to start reading now that the hiatus is over, but it means I have a lot of reading ahead of me.

Overall, D.N. Angel was an okay series. Not as good as I thought it was simply because they didn't have enough episodes to get the full story in.

Epic Post...

...To Come at an Undisclosed Date in the Very Near Future.

So there's been something that I've been dying to blog about. But I don't really want to blog about it until it's official and there is absolutely no turning back. Which should be very soon. Approximately 2 weeks.

In the meantime I'm going to talk about three things: 1.) Blogging. 2.) Programmming. and 3.) Sky's Content.

For the longest time I was the only one I knew who blogged. I know others who posted once or twice on their blog and gave up. Or people who post once every few months with some random thing they just learned to make themselves sound more intelligent. But now it's like every one is blogging about anything and everything -_- The ratio between my friend's blog posts and mine is about 4:1 in any given week. I feel like I should be blogging more even though I've done it consistently for 9 months now. But I'm going to try to stick to my 2 - 3 posts a weeks. I don't think I could possibly come up with enough interesting topics to blog more than that.

Otherwise I've been planning the site overhauls. Right now the next thing on my list is redo-ing skys-content.com. The first thing I need to do for that is to create a new layout. And I'm not looking forward to it. The more php and programming I learn, the harder designing seems to become. The layout on this page took about 5 tries before it turned out like this. I can't even begin to imagine how long the Sky's Content layout is going to take me... Blah...

But also I've been planning the EOE redo. I've pretty much got the database stuff down, I just need to learn how to code SQL queries and how to create a proper login. Oh and I need to learn how to set up registration. I'm really itching to start that.

In the meantime I'm working through a PHP book I bought that's supposed to run you through making your own blogging system/web applications. Unfortunately, the only thing I've been able to do so far is set up LAMP due to my slow internet connection... Le Sigh.

AND LASTLY, Sky's Content.

Last night I couldn't fall asleep so I went through and thought out the rest of chapter 16. I thought it was going to be painful and annoying to think through but it actually flowed quite nicely in my brain. So much so I'm beginning to wonder how much I actually know about plants that my subconscious isn't telling me...

I would divulge more but people who read Sky's Content are reading this blog and I can't spoil anything like I used to in this blog. Well I didn't really spoil, but I would give hints like how in chapter 15 there is one paragraph that I'm so proud of because it actually sounds like it's something that Shikamaru would say. Something that embodies his character so much there's no denying that given he were in that situation, he would say that.

Anyways, *traditional exit to blog where I say I'm going to do something*

Sundays & The Website

Sundays are usually really short lived for me. I never really concentrate on the day itself but more on the fact that tomorrow is a Monday. So even though I could do so many different things on Sundays I feel like I've accomplished nothing at all simply because Monday will come and I still have something else I need to do. Blah.

Anyways, so I've been marathoning DN Angel today and yesterday and I've noticed a few things.

1. Dark is a pretty boy. So much so it's not really appealing at all. I prefer Daisuke over Dark any day.
2. It seems really weird how Risa is 14 and Dark (who is seemingly much older) is interested in her... Like sure he's interested in her because of her aunt, but still, kissing her is sort of awkward.
3. Risa and Riku are really rich. I didn't notice it the first time I watched the series but their house is HUGE. But on a side note, if they have a driver to take them to their beach house, how come they have to walk/bike to school everyday?
4. Also, Satoshi is adopted right? He has to be if his 'Dad' is 26 and he is 14..

Yeah, I'll probably notice quite a few more things before I finish. It's just weird because I watched this anime like 5 years ago and I can hardly remember anything that's happened in it.

OH AND I ALMOST COMPLETELY FORGOT TO MENTION.

If you haven't noticed the site is now hosted through blogger, so the layouts are temporarily gone. I need to set up Sky's Content to prepare for the layouts to move over there. I'm thinking of putting my icons back up as well, although I don't know how often those will be updated... Oh and I'm going to start tutorials. It's mostly going to be php stuff and cool little shortcuts you can do with your web code that I learn from time to time.

Ok, back to marathoning for me. BYE