Archive for July 1st, 2008

Red Eyes of the Lunacy: Not as Planned!

For the uneducated ones, Reisen Udongein Inaba is the adorable moon rabbit living in gensokyo, the imaginary land featured in the Touhou game franchise. In the same fashion as the legendary Basilisk, her eyes can cause lunacy. You can say that her cunning plan has not gone thru.

To my dear readers, you can mail me strange, funny, “not as planned” stories, be it in real life, manga/anime, or in history. Just make sure you explain how it went “Not as Planned”.

1980s are here and still kicking!

From my own personal experience, my relationship with JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has been… on the strange side. Back in the mid-1990, I disliked it. Mind you, if was a VHS rip of the OAV, in japanese with no subtitles. I has no way to grasp what was going on, excepted a bunch of strangely dressed people who would have been in the Village People. I could consider myself fully converted back in 2002, thanks to the efforts of a Viking who named his son after a King of Fighters Boss and a Tard from Kuwait who dreamt to ride a mecha version of Godzilla.

It somehow did help that the manga has started to be published in France.

So let me ramble about JoJo,

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