Monday, February 28, 2011

DoorToNothing vs. Blogger: Battle of the Backgrounds

So as you may have noticed, the snow and winter theme that previous covered my blog has disintegrated. Replacing it is... stars. Lots of them. Actually, it's more like a lot of lights in the sky, though I think they are all stars. Seems safe to assume such.

Anyway, I planned to make this awesome new theme--it combined a purple hue of the spiral Julia Fractal over dark and enigmatic space clouds that I quickly rendered. I spent an hour making the beautiful theme--it even had a GURREN LAGANN quote at the end of it next to a spiral. Then, I tried to upload it.

I was expected to suddenly see only pure, unfiltered beauty all over the page. Instead...

Friday, February 4, 2011

Gurren Lagann

Throughout my various ventures through different types of media for entertainment, anime is one that I hardly take. Actually, the only anime I've ever seen in full is Cardcaptors with my little sister, back when I was a little Doorsey and finished later on. I have a certain detest for Fullmetal Alchemist, but I do not totally hate mainstream anime. For example, I'm really just itching to find the time to watch all of Cowboy Bebop and Neon Genesis Evangelion. Oh wait, what was I talking about? Right, Gurren Lagann.

About a week ago, a friend of mine introduced me to a very recent anime series, entitled Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann--or just Gurren Lagann for the English version. I checked it out on YouTube, noticing that the company that owned the series had made it fully available on the site--albeit in anything higher than 360p, boo. I watched the first episode, and there my journey began. Sure, my journey wasn't exactly to reach the surface, transcend the stars, or pierce the heavens, but I definitely had started something extraordinary. By the way, I am totally going to spoil half of this anime, so be cautious in reading further!