Well I've been on this account for many years but Banekamisama has lost its luster as a name. It feels kind of juvenile and is way too long and weird to tell people where to find my art.

So I moved to Those who like my art feel free to add me. Seeya there.

Good Lord I decided to watch Anime again. Why? Because Hulu has them for free! Ka-CHING! Therefore Anime is once again cheaper than crack. And I don't have to cry if I start watching one that sucks, which many do.

However xxxHolic by the anime/manga super girls Clamp is very good. I had to watch all 20 something episodes in one night since sadly they were expiring in 24 hours so sorry guys, the episodes aren't on Hulu anymore.

xxxHolic stars this very dramatic nut job of a boy named Kimihiro Watanuki who can see spirits and the spirits are generally either dangerous or annoyingly demanding. He runs into a shop owned by a spindly exotic woman named Yuki who says she can grant wishes and can make the spirits stop bothering the crap out of Watanuki, for a price. So Watanuki agrees since his yelling and falling and general actions in public often cause people to think he's nuts since no one else can see the spirit who just sucker punched him. His payment is to work in Yuki's shop. Insanity and adventure ensues.

Oddly enough while this is a comedy and lighthearted with plenty of Japanese slapstick it can be very unnerving and creepy at times. They do a good job with the build up to revealing a dangerous spirit while balancing it with Watanuki being a general dork in his attempts to win his sweety's heart. The relationships between Watanuki, his oblivious sweety Himawari, "rival" Domeki, and Yuki are well developed and feel real for how unreal the anime is. Well except maybe Himawari. While she fills a very needed dynamic in the group of characters, it's hard to believe she'd be that dense since Watanuki is constantly skipping around blushing in a flowery backdrop.

I strongly recommend this to people who like and dislike Anime, though people who can't take slapstick might try to ditch out before it really gets good and the really lanky character designs take some time to get used to. Anyone who loves adorable creatures has to stick around for the pipe fox, perhaps the most adorable sidekick creature in anime history. As a plus, it doesn't talk.

I've been seeing a lot of animated films lately, which makes sense since I'm a 3-D animation major and have gotten quite hooked on viewing the movies in 3-D since it honestly does add a lot to the movie. So after Bolt and Coraline the latest movie that anyone cares about to come out with this feature was Aliens vs Monsters.

Really from the beginning of the hype on this movie I didn't really want to go see it. Sure the animation looked nice, it had some funny jokes in the trailer, but the 'Scan your butt' sequence was a red light in my head. This was probably going to be a kids movie and only a kids movie.

For the most part, I was right.

Aliens vs Monsters doesn't have the intellect like Wall-E, Kung-fu Panda, Bolt or Coraline (Which wasn't a kids movie really). Most of the jokes are aimed for the kids and while the entire audience will laugh at most of the same stuff, it's the kids who are really enjoying themselves. That and it becomes fairly obvious over time that this movie was mostly made to utilize the 3-D viewing function and at times this made me want to smack someone upside the head and scream, "Having a paddle ball fly at your head repeatedly is not fun!". Coraline and Bolt both had their moments of something coming towards your face, but it didn't feel like they were doing it for the sake of making people awe at the effect.

The characters were fun but not very memorable. Blob's laugh (Sorry, Bob) was enjoyable and he was very cute. Susan was interesting but her dialog was given a little flat. I didn't care much for the Missing Link and his turmoil in the film wasn't very strong. It felt pushed in there for the sake of conflict. Insectasaurus and Dr. Cockroach PHD were my favorites (who doesn't like Huge Laurie) though Insectasaurus ended up really weirding me out by the end of the movie.

As for the plot, it was entirely forgettable. This Alien squid thing (Who had the best sound effect for walking, ever) wants Susan because she got smacked by some special radioactive meteor or something. They didn't really explain how it happened or what the substance is. You don't really need to know but once again, the story seems half hearted. Anyway she gets picked up by the Government who has a secret bunker for Monsters and later when the Alien squid starts waging war on the world, the gov sends Monsters to fight since that sounds like the best idea. So the story is lacking for us, though Kids won't care. Gotta give credit to General W.R Monger though, he's funny.

So in the end it isn't a bad film, but doesn't hold up to any of the other animated children films. If you have a group to see it with, it's worth a gander and if you have kids they'll enjoy it and you'll laugh too but it isn't one I'll be buying the DVD for or seeing again.

Yeah I'm bored. I was meaning to write a review for Lich King to put here some time but it'd take a long time and I'd really want to put time into it and probably split it into a few sections because... it's AWESOME.

But I suffer from lazeeitus. It's an epidemic. So... instead I just goofed around with my dev page... and got a trial for Star Wars Galexies which sucks. It's graphics are so out dated and didn't age well at all unlike Beyond Good & Evil. I will not be reviewing that game though because my character is a grand total of LEVEL... TWO! Yay! Thats how fast I got bored. Didn't even get my damn light saber. Didn't have Togruta anyway.

Oh, for those who actually care about my art, check out my webcam on occasion. I will update it with WIPs and sketches. Mostly comp generated things but possibly some actual sketches too. I will also eventually get off my lazy butt and photo the stuff I'm drawing for Drawing II. I just have to try to get good photos since I can't scan 18 x 24.

Anyway that's the end of my rant. If anyone is interested in an art trade I'd like to draw some character out of my norm. I won't be doing full scenes for anyone because... as I said, I suffer from lazeeitus and haven't yet found a proper medication. I'm sure the cure will be something strange. Like ferrets.

No I don't mean eating them, weirdos.

For the next entry I bring you the new Will Wright game, Spore: A game that's been hyped for a good few years as impossibly epic. We were promised five different styles of gameplay, and told it'd be like getting five games in one. While there are five modes they aren't quite as I expected. They are not five different games, they are five modes.

Now the modes are Spore mode (or the primordial soup), Creature mode, Tribal mode, Civilization mode, and SPACE MODE! (say it with an echo. It's more epic.) My favorite personally is Spore mode. It's simple fun. You're a little creature that is speedy, spiky or both and you're trying to eat not be eaten. Even when I grinded eating plants for a long time to get Omnivore status instead of Carnivore it was still fun, which is not something I can say about-

Creature Mode. This is what it's all about in some ways. Finally you get to really bulk out exactly how you want your four armed, raptor footed, four eared, demon cattish thing to look like. However, this mode gets boring fast if you don't like grinding. In order to get all the parts (which most of us want to do to get the perfect critter) you have to either befriend or kill a ton of other native creatures on your planet. Both ways get boring and frustrating pretty fast, faster after you hit the evolution goal and you know you want to go on but can't. To befriend a species you use your skills of sing, dance, charm and post and wouldn't you know it; when trying to befriend a creature they ALWAYS spam the one skill you're the worst at. So you kill em. Because it's easier. Moving on!

Tribal Mode. This mode gives you your first funny cut scene with your creature going ballistic working his big brain overtime... sort of. Anyway I like this mode. While again it's simple and I've only found two ways to play it you don't have to grind like in creature mode. However it is incredibly short. Really short. I think you only encounter seven tribes. Anyway once again you only have two ways to deal with them. Hold a friendly concert, or kill em. But here's the twist- Playing a concert is way easier than killing them. So my annoyance based killing machine was forced to play the dijerido for them, which I didn't mind so much. After you deal with all the enemy tribes appropriately you get another cut scene. How come everyone shoots down the pie guy? Apparently the Avan'Kel don't like pie... Or the Shweek, or Caploo.

Civilization Mode. Eh, I feel so so about this mode. While now you have THREE ways to deal with your enemy, sing them to death, buy them to death, or kill them to death, I ended up losing pretty badly in this mode on normal. The enemy took my starting town, I was stuck with a religious town and I didn't think there was any way to win. So I provoked my enemy. Called them space slugs heh heh, then left my computer and watched Myth Busters. When I came back, I was still quite alive. And had a ton of money. So I went from nothing, to the whole damn world all with the help of Myth Busters. Also this is the first mode where you make buildings, and my building suck. Except maybe Heritage Hall. And the Observatory. But they're still sorta boring.

SPACE MODE! (remember the echo) THIS is what the game is about. Space mode is HUGE! I haven't even beaten it. I don't even have the plant blower-upper gun. What I do have is two binary systems I took by force. They're religious holy ground for my species. Or so I dictate with my four angry hands! They deserved it... they attacked me first. I just um... finished the jobanyway! Space mode is fun because it's so damn vast. Tons of species, intelligent and not. Plenty of abductions. And quests! And I love quests. They also did a good job of keeping doing the same quests over and over rewarding by giving you badges for marks in your history, and with each badge you get BIGGER GUNS! Or a wildlife sanctuary. That's good too. I'm collecting my friends species.

As a game it's quite good. If you like sandbox games pick it up. You certainly have an unlimited selection of ways to make your creature, even if you are limited a bit until Space mode. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go take that binary system from you. By FORCE! Pew Pew