The Gendie-Bendie of Suzumiya Haruhi

Maybe its cuz I never bother to surf forums, but I’ve only recently found out bout the new Suzumiya Haruhi Genderbending project. Apprently, it started cuz some people on 2chan thought it would be funny if the genders in Haruhi were all reversed, and thus, started to make fanart (as they ussually do on 2chan). Then it was blown outta proportions into this hugeass fan based project, and people are even petitioning for an official anime season based on it.

So, what comes outta the Genderbender of Suzumiya Haruhi? Much lolwut. Personally, I find almost anything that has the word genderbender associated with it to be instant win (of course there are exceptions that quite often result in instant fail). Asides from the fanart, there are like thousans of doujins, (unofficial) merchandise, and a doujin game is in the making iirc. People started digitally tuning the image songs from the anime so they’d sound like their bended counterpart. Some were extremely good, some failed… well, alot failed. Baka-tsuki is also doing a parodied genderbender translation of the original novels, so check those out at their website (google it, too lazy to link).

Well then, I’ll start by introducing those who are unaware to the new SOS-dan!:

From left to right:

• Itsuko: щ(ﾟДﾟщ) rejoice fellow males! You will no longer have to feel awkward or desperately try to make it to the puking bag when Itsuki is being ambiguously gay! Why? Cuz he and Kyon are now female, thats why! This project has blessed us with possibilities far beyond your wildest imaginations! Not to mention she’s pretty openly lesbian in the doujins and 4koma I’ve seen, but that’s just doujins and 4komas. Anyway, all hail yurism!!
• Haruki/Haruhiko: personally I prefer Haruki, but meh. Anyway, yeah, Haruhi ist now a freakin’ dood. I could pass off her antics cuz she wus a girl but… well, we’ll just have to wait and see how this comes out. Oh yeah, and instead of pulling on Kyon’s collar/necktie, he now pulls on Kyonko’s ponytail (which is kinda cruel) or just carry her like a ricebag. On a side note, I feel that the hairband is outta place, and personally prefer the earphones version of Haruki better, but this was the best picture I could find of the entire group.
• Kyonko: YES! Kyon is no longer the ordinary sarcastic and gloomy guy with “sigh” for a quote that he once was. He has now been transformed into the sarcastically tsundere moe Kyonko with “sigh” for a quote (if you didn’t understand a word of what I just said, I suggest you use wiki). I mean, Kyonko is apprently so moe that fanboys all over the world are fainting at the sight of her… and I’d AGREE O.o She’s been designed to take full advantage of Kyon’s ponytail fetish, it seems. Google for more glorious pictures of the moe tsundere Kyonko.
• Yuuki: yes isn’t Japanese great? Add an extra ‘u’ and Yuki is transformed into her male counterpart. In contrast to his original form, Yuuki is now the tallest member of the SOS-dan. He’s still Yuki inside though, and this pretty much makes the hordes of fangirls world-wide worship him, and drool uncontrollably just by seeing an image of him. No glasses Yuuki is kinda weird though, for sum reason.
• Mitsuru: Mikuru hasn’t changed much, really. He’s still short, and girly-faced. Not much to say about him, he’s still being forced to dress in costumes, which I don’t feel that, uh, excited about >_> But the wimpy personality is kinda weird on a guy… Fans are speculating that the “power” that once resided in her chest area has now been relocated to a more, er, appropiate place…  as shown below in this 4koma I found:

Anyway, heres an image of the original SOS-dan for those who don’t know them(and I suggest you drown yourself in the glorious win that is Haruhism this damned instant), and a tribute to the incredibly moe tsundere Kyonko (yes, I like using that line, so sue me):

                                                   

Model Birthday Gundam 00

Ah~ I feel what one feels after spending 5 and a half hours working nonstop on a gundam model – like krap. But other than that, I also feel a sense of accomplishment when looking at my awesome 1/100 Gundam Kyrios that I got for my birthday yesterday (Happy Birthday me!). Anyway, I’m not gonna go into the details of the kit or review it if thats what your expecting, I’m too freakin’ tired and I need to save my energy for the major revision-ing that I must do tonight. Not to mention I don’t have that sort of skill or experience, seeing as how this is my third model (the previous two being 1/100 High Grade Strike Freedom and Master Grade Freedom). Yes, I’m a Freedom fanboy, so sue me.

Anyway, the kit itself was 1/100 with no grade, but I’d have to say that it surpasses my 1/100HG Strike Freedom by FAR. Not to mention its slightly bigger, but that could just be cuz the Kyrios is bigger than the Strike Freedom… kinda weird though… The joints on the Kyrios are tough (for lack of a better word) and help keep it stable. As opposed to my Strike Freedom who can’t even hold its guns properly anymore… the only complaints I have about the joints is that the ones attaching the Kyrios’s legs to its lower torso is pretty weak. So it does those ballet spreads alot, unless you position it right…

However, this kit is still lacking a few details to make it comparable to a MG. The interior has little to no detail. The torso is definitely lacking in the shoulder joints department. Not to mention ya can’t open the cockpit (but that’s to be expected though). The fingers are those snap-on-for-posing ones, meaning they can’t move. The head is pretty detailed though, and other than the things mentioned, its VERY near to a MG. Oh yeah, its slightly smaller than my Freedom, so I guess its still 1/100 after all.

The one thing I would praise Bandai INFINITELY for are those new GN beam sabers. Their shape is slightly flat so it makes them SO MUCH MORE stable than the round beam sabers. And the ones in this kit had pretty high quality too. Oh yeah, I found the stickers to be slightly dissapointing. The green ones for the camera/lights thingies on the GN Gundams are very dark, so it looks kinda black if you don’t pay close attention. And the one on the Kyrios’s forehead should be dark green with green in the middle, but Bandai decided to be lazy and put it as green and silver/white in the middle, which kinda pissed me off since it made the head look stupid. The hand joints are also pretty weak, and they fell off a few times while I was trying to transform the Kyrios into its waverider mode.

Anyway, overall I’d give it a 8/10, considering how it doesn’t have a grade. I’m definitely looking forward to the MG releases of gundam Exia and gundam 00. 00 will prolly take awhile though… Oh yes, I’ve also noticed how I’ve neglected the philosophical side to this blog, so I’ll try to get into rambling about something next time. For now, enjoy these pictures with krappy resolution and lighting of my 1/100 Gundam Kyrios model, and thanks everyone for getting me this awesome model and informing me that Canberra actually has a place that sells em >_>:

The Kyrios posing with two GN beam sabers, thus ripping off the Exia.

Kyrios with its evil hugeass claw pose.

Kyrios in Waverider mode.

Absence and Re-emergence

Psh, damn Aussie services have to be so frickin’ systematic. I went without internet for the last freakin two weeks cuz of their idiocy. To sum it up, my phone service contract ended so they cut, and my ISP saw that my phone was cut so they cut the net too, but this was all fine and dandy, since I wanted to switch ISPs anyway. But when I got mah phone reconnected (like three frickin’ days later) and signed up for a new service, they wouldn’t freakin let us (me and mah flatmate, if that’s what you wanna call him) sign up cuz the addresses were different. So we were like wtf and called up the phone provider (Telstra, as you might have guessed) and it turns out they got our address (the suburb) wrong for some screwed up reason. So we called the ISP and told them the deal, but noooooo, they can’t give us internet if the addresses were different. All of the aforementioned took some four days mind you. So we had to sign up for internet again with the screwed up address from the phone provider. So we waited 7 (working) days for our internet to get activated. So basically, we were screwed. I felt like such a hick without interent…

Alright, enough about Aussie services and their stupidity. I dled this little doujin today, and thort this part was funny as hell, mebbe even for those who don’t know wtf Code Geass is:

Anyway, the doujin is Code Geachu, written by whoever did Nano Strikers, which was also as funny as hell, and scanlated by J-Sis. Search for it on MangaUpdates.

Uh, right, philosophical ramblings. I’m feeling lazy today so I’ll leave you with a quote. If you want more wiki Karl Marx or sumthing.

True fate is achieved by defying a predetermined destiny.

Yes, this was totally influenced by superb RPGs such as Riviera Yakushoku no Chi (the promised land) and Odin Sphere, both of which I recommend.

Death and Rebirth

 

No, this is not a post about how krappy Evangelion’s OVA/movie thingy was.

As you all know, I was on the verge of death as I was writing 6000 freakin words of pure Soviet krap. I finally felt reborn as I handed in the 2nd one today. But mah tutor had to go and ruin it by saying, I won’t give you the topics for your next 2000 (x2) words essays YET. I’ll wait until a week after for you to be deluded by the sweetness of free life then I’ll hand them out when its ever so close to your exams.

Well, looks like I’m alive again for another week. Seriously, I feel as if college was kindergarten compared to Uni (YES! Omg! For who don’t / has never (hopefully will never, no offense Aussies) live in Australia, High School is called college here).  Anywho, Johnie refused me the joy of rebirth by forgetting to bring me the game cds I asked of him. Even though I spent like 5 mins yelling at him to stuff it in his bag. But noooooo he was like: I’ll wait and see if I can remember later on in the evening, kho`h kho`h kho`h (<- his trademark weirdass pervert old man dying while high on cocaine laugh).

Alright, back to philosphical ramblings. Right, so as you all know, death is an inevitable part of life. If you didn’t, too bad, ya do NOW (and seriously, read more books or something). Ehem, so, why do humans continue on living knowing that they’ll eventually die and be reduced to nothingness (actually, you’ll be reduced to an old corpse rotting away six feet under the cold wet icky ground while nature is sucking every last bit of you out to make the ground around your grave green and lively, ironic eh?). In any case, what are we living for? Is it for the sake of sadistically bringing more of us to this miserable world or suffering and cruelty? Or is it for the sake of our utterly infinite egos, preserving the existence of a bloodthirsty and war-mongering race? Well, in Johnie’s case it’d be for the sake of being as indebted as possible to brothels and the like. But he’s “special”, so we’ll disregard him. I guess every individual has a different reason for their existence. Some realise it and some don’t.

Well, I’ve wasted that last paragraph trying to make you people who read my posts (I’m feeling like theres no1, sniff) to feel most krap about your own existence. Fun, eh?

Too bad, there ain’t no philosophical quote today. Instead, I’ll leave you with dis link and some of mah anger.

http://zepy.momotato.com/2008/04/27/mx0-to-end-in-shounen-jump/

YES! OMFG they’re killing Mx0!!!!! DIE JUMP DIE!!!! Dammit, I swear to god universal knowledge that Jump has been taken over by a bunch of monkey high on caffeine. Seriously, Mx0 of all mangas?! ZOMG I’ll even believe in god or buddha or watnot if some other publisher picks this up. Dear mother of all living existence please let Bush hit his head on the “Launch nukes by accident” while they’re doing a test targetting and is aiming at wherever the hell Jump’s located (I know its in Japan at least, so shut up).

So, I tribute half-ish of this post as a farewell to Mx0’s crazy ecchi magical rampaging hormones school-life cute girls goodness… May you rest in peace… Sniff.