Some Pics

Here are some pics of anime and games. Sorry, but one image plays three times

Outlaw Star

"Legend speaks of the Galactic Leyline, offering the ultimate power of the universe to those who seek it's glory."

150 years into the future, after the development of faster-than-light travel, mankind has since then spread into space, colonizing, meeting alien races, and searching for treasure and adventure. One treasure is coveted above everything else. The Galactic Leyline. No one knows what it is. Riches, power, anything. However, at a time, everyone wanted to find it. Some still do.

Gene Starwind is a bounty hunter running a jack-of-all-trades business with his young friend and partner Jim Hawking. What seems to be a normal bodyguard job, becomes something more. He and Jim are brought along to retrieve a ship that made to find the Galactic Leyline. By twist of fate, the ship becomes his and he decides to become an outlaw. Gene, Jim, the mysterious and innocent Melfina, the former Ctarl-Ctarl (ka-tarl ka-tarl) Ambassador Aisha Clan-Clan, the female assassin Suzuka, journey the stars, battle space pirates, and search for Galactic Leyline.

This is one of my personal favorites. The series was supposed to be a broad reimagining of Treasure Island. I think that's one of the reasons I like it so much. It really captures a sense of freedom. Another great thing is the narration than plays before almost all of the episodes. They vary between lessons and past history to show what that particular episode will be about. It also does a good mixing magic and technology with the Taoist space pirates Gene and the others have to battle from time to time.

I recommend this series for anyone.

Outlaw Star wiki

Full Metal Alchemist

Another very popular one.

The story follows Edward Elric and his brother Alphonse. They lived with their parents in Resembool in the country of Amestris (ah-meh-stris). When they were still very young, their father, a master alchemist named Hohenheim, left for unknown reasons. A few years later, their mother dies from a terminal illness. Refusing to except her death, they train themselves and study advanced alchemy, particularly human transmutation. When their training is finished, they attempt to bring their mother back to life. The results are disaterous. Al's soul is now bound to suit of armor, while Ed is forced to have a prosthetic right arm and left leg provided by their friend Winry and her grandmother. After a visit from Roy Mustang, a state alchemist of the Amestris military, who was looking for their father to see he'd join, Ed decides to become a state alchemist himself. He hopes that the military and government would have info and techniques that would help him and Al get their bodies back. Through this way, he finds out about the Philosopher's Stone.

This is a really good series. I would recommend this series to anyone going into some kind scientific work. The series goes into government corruption when Ed is told the truth of the Ishbalan Massacre and things happening behind the scenes. State alchemists and soldiers like Roy and his team show that almost all soldiers hate war. During the war with the country Ishbal in the manga version of FMA, all of the soldiers, te state alchemists especially, wanted to get out of there. The only ones who weren't affected was a complete psycho and the commanders that wanted status and glory. When becomes a stae alchemist, he becomes one for the people, letting the people getting the bigger end of the stick and punishing those that have become corrupt. Shows that you don't need to be a a total jackass to run things.

Things get even more complicated when Ed and others start fighting homunculi, find out more about the Philosopher's Stone, and the others that want it.

FMA wiki

Code Geass

Here's an anime I was really into a few months back.

The show follows Lelouch (pronounced leh-loosh), a cast off prince of the totalitarian nation of Britannia. It's been 10 years since Brittania took over Japan. During a battle between Britannian forces and a Japanese resistence group, he is given a power known as Geass (pronounced gee-ahs). His geass has given him the ability to issue one command to anyone via eye contact and voice and make them follow it no matter what. With this ability and his incredible military battle tactics, he forms the Order of the Black Knights under the disguise ,Zero, to destroy Britannia, a nation that controls over a third of the world. If that wasn't hard enough, he has to fight the last prime minister of Japan's son and his best friend, Suzaku, who has joined the Britannian military to try and change it from within.

In order to get this, you must understand that this in an alternate history with the creator's touch. This made anime of the year with many magazine and media groups, showing it's popularity. It's a good series. My only problem is that, and I'm not the only one, it doesn't take the direction I wanted it to go. Near the end of the first season, Lelouch's sibling Euphemia finds a way to give the Japanese some land where they can call themselves Japanese again and be treated better. Lelouch eventually excepts it. However, when he begins to explain his Geass ability to her, he accidentally geasses her into ordering the military to kill all the Japanese. He is then forced to kill her in order to stop her. It wasn't exactly a good day for him. Especially when Euphemia and Suzaku were REALLY getting close. Then in the middle of the second season, Shirley, Lelouch's classmate who has a crush on him and was this close to becoming his girlfriend, is killed by one of his close subordinates that he was just using. After this, he crosses the moral event horizon. For the rest of the series, we shown one of the truths of war.

Rarely is there a good side. If there is, it is really small. There is just a bad side, a just as bad side, and an even worse side.

Code Geass wiki