Anime

[Zero Kirby]

I'm also not terribly into it, though I used to be! After finding out about Dragon Ball Z (right around the time Future Trunks showed up, too, and nobody can convince me the whole Android Saga is not the best Saga because it is), I was hooked into it, and tried learning how to draw in that art style (though not very well - I was still in the third grade at the time). So I would also watch Pokemon (though I had no idea it was an anime at the time), Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece (that dreadful 4Kids dub), Naruto...

After a while I kind of became disillusioned with it. The anime boom meant the anime art style was how a lot of people online drew, and eventually I realized that just using a "how to draw anime" book meant I was creating cookie-cutter anime art along with so many others. Along with starting to find the shows I used to like kinda dull, and the quality and style of animation drastically changing (I'm much more fond of older anime art, before CGI models took ahold), and generally finding the kinds of stories not interesting, I stopped watching anime in general. I still like Dragon Ball Z and have the whole collection in both comic and cartoon form (even if I have the "butchered" Orange Boxes), but I just can't get into Super at all - I think Battle of Gods was a great movie and a great way to "end" the series, honestly, anything after just feels superfluous.

(It probably helps that aside from like, a couple shots, most of the movie is traditionally animated or at least doesn't use 3D models, including the entire fight sequence after Goku drops out of God-form, and looks incredible whereas Resurrection F afterwards used a LOT of CGI and has a pretty disappointing-looking final fight as a result.)

A lot of my friends back in Seattle were really into anime though and would often have conversations about it, which meant I got left out of a lot of conversations. They did sit me down to watch Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind once, which I did, since they were nice enough to watch The Lost Room for me. Unfortunately I found Nausicaa kinda dull. Such is life, I guess.

Falcon Punch is the result of the Sun heating fists. It drives the Blue Falcon. Heating causes destruction of water into the pain, where it then hurts, creating rain. Rain creates flowing water in tears, which can then be converted into other forms through more pain.



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