Nagi pointed this out to me while looking at some of the new squenix game screens released just recently.
Coincidence, or something more sinister?
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Just wanting to get a bit of a show of interest here. A while back I attempted to write down the process that I go through to complete a vector, since at the time people were asking me about it. Assuming I get around to making another one some time soon, I was considering recording what I do via a screencasting program. That way I can demonstrate the steps while actually narrating it and you can listen to my sexy Australian accent* and stuff. I think that given what we’re talking about, having someone demonstrate and explain what they’re doing is probably far more valuable than having it written down. Probably make it easier for people who actually know what they’re doing to tell me how shit I am at it too.
* technically my accent is a blend of New Zealand and Australian and I sound very boring
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New vector, first one I’ve done in ages. I spent longer on this than I was originally going to - once I got to Charlotte’s horrible ugly set of pilot wings in the original image I took some time out and actually went hunting for a real set. Charlotte is based off Chuck Yeager, who had command pilot wings. I took the liberty of tracing the photo from wikipedia and using that as the basis of her wings rather than that boxy looking number with the big blue ball on the top. I think it was worth it. I also think I may have OCD.
Oh, and to save commenters the trouble: MAN STRIKE WITCHES SUCKS HOW COULD ANYONE ENJOY WATCHING THIS UNLESS THEY ARE HUGE GIANT CREEPY PEDOS WHERE ARE THEIR PANTS OH GOD IT’S NO WONDER GONZO ARE GOING BANKRUPT WE NEED TO NUKE JAPAN AGAIN LOLOLOL
Crap. Looks like I won’t be playing for a few weeks. I think that it must have seen me ordering a Japanese PS3 and gotten angry. It’s one of the Australian launch batch, though not purchased until 6 months after launch, so it’s surprising how well it’s lasted.
So I was reading this entry at ANN, specifically Enoki Films ‘presenting’ Slayers R, the imminent new Slayers show. Now, putting aside that I thought Enoki had been dead for years and the implication that this show might actually have been pre-emptively licensed, the ‘plot summary’ really grabbed me.
Part I - Episodes #1-#13
The story unfolds in the usual pattern with Lina involved in a fight with bandits in the woods. Gourry arrives to her rescue and escorts her to Atlas City. Lina and Gourry struggle to defeat Rezo the Red Monk, who has awakened as the Demon King after finding the Stone of the Wise. Lina is interested in Gourry’s sword, the “Sword of Light” and allows him to accompany her after leaving Atlas City.
Amelia and Xellos the Priest join Lina and Gourry and they encounter many weird incidents relating to the Demon Tribe. Lina realizes it’s because the weapon she used to defeat Rezo, “the Giga Slave”, is empowered by tremendous forces. Hellaster Fibrizo takes Gourry as a hostage and demands that Lina give him the Power – Giga Slave. Can Lina defeat this powerful enemy and save Gourry?
Wow. Just wow. We’ve waited what, ten whole fucking years since Slayers Try, and they’re going to piss away the first half of this by summarising the first eight novels again just so they can retcon Slayers Try out of existence? What the hell? I want to believe that I’m reading this wrong and there’s no way they’d try to condense something that took maybe 45 episodes (when you cut away the filler) into the space of only 13? For the love of god, why? Sure, they changed a few things towards the end of Next in order to fit Try in, but why can’t this just make a few small changes and continue as if Try never happened?
I hope this doesn’t mean that they’re trying to pitch Slayers at a brand new audience rather than the sizeable existing one. That could bode very, very badly for the characters - the last thing I’d want to watch would be Lina reduced to a tsundere moeblob.
Guess we’ll have to wait and see. This news knocked my interest down significantly, though.