Impressions: What’s been on my screen lately (Feb edition)

Well, having survived another St David’s Day weekend (a bit like St Patrick’s Day, but us Welsh tend to be much quieter when we’re drunk), I was faced with the unenviable task of either finishing off ‘Nosebleed’ (which will remain as a work in progress for now; methinks I’ve created a monster there), or kicking my brain into gear and coming up with something original.

So, after staring at this little white input box for ages (whilst consuming two cups of strong, black coffee) I thought I’d fill you in on some of what I’ve been watching this month. I know, it’s probably not the most earth-shattering blog posting you’ll ever read, but it gives me something to do, and who knows… you might see something you’ll like.

Is that a nosebleed… or are you just happy to see me?

I mentioned facefaults in a previous post, which are more likely to be seen in anime and manga, than in Western cartoons. That’s not to say that cartoons don’t have them, but anime seems to have a wider variety and uses them across the board to depict standard emotions / scenes / wotnots – regardless of who the anime is actually made by. So, bearing in mind that I’m really a kind of facts and figures and useless trivia kind of guy, I thought I’ve have a scrounge around and see just how many variations on the theme I could find. (Ok, and it was also a fun excuse to trawl through my collection looking for examples. That’s another reason why this took so long – I’d often end up watching 3 or 4 episodes of something I hadn’t watched for ages…)

One day you might get deep and meaningful reviews out of me and I might blather on about artwork and such, but until the rest of the world realises that Picasso was a fraud and anybody who bought his work was a sucker, I’ll remain an artistic philistine and stick to facts and figures and useless trivia.