Nothing to report for the past week or so here on TellNoLies, as I’ve just been busy with work and general gaming. Stuff’s a brewing though, so hopefully in the new year there’ll be some interesting project stuff to talk about. All I have to say is the new Foo Fighters album is pretty sweet.

I think I like every song on the album. A fan favourite is the song ‘Stranger Things Have Happened’, which has a bunch of renditions of it played by fans on YouTube. I was hoping there was a video for it, but instead, someone just put the actual full track with the album cover up. Well, at least you can give it a listen eh? Enjoy!

I took the day off today after waking up feeling like crap. Had a cold for the past week and thought I’d gotten through the worst of it, then POW! Couldn’t sleep a wink all night and all out of Night Nurse (zonks you right out, that stuff). Such a shame, as I had a really chilled out Saturday night and finally got to watch ‘Interview‘, which was a pretty good movie.

Called in sick and spent most of today in bed, and my evening was spent playing Team Fortress 2. When I first got the Orange Box, I tried it once and I was awful at it. But now, I’m awful at it and having fun The game’s cool. I found myself enjoying it a lot, mainly because the team work aspect of the game actually works.

Oh, Red Dwarf reruns are on!! I’ll catch an episode of that and then crash I think. Hope everyone’s had a pleasant Sunday

How does Tekkon Kinkreet the movie, compare to the Manga? Well, right from the get go, you see what is bound to be a cult classic piece of film. The first thing that struck me is how true to the original art-style the animated movie has been. It’s not only the story that makes ‘Black & White’ such a great series to read, but the fantastically quirky art plays a huge role.

I was very impressed to see a lot of originality in the directing of this story and yet they maintained a very familiar pace to the Manga. You can see what I mean from the comparison shots I’ve put together below.

The only differences I saw are purely editorial cuts and splices. Some items from the Manga I’m sure they had in the movie were probably removed to keep the pacing intact. Certainly a lot of scenes were shifted around, more than likely for the same reason. Such as the fight with Dusk & Dawn (which actually doesn’t take place until Book 2), was used as the introduction for the movie. While other small scenes from the book seem to have been cut out completely. It’s not a great loss, although I did at times question whether we fully understood Blacks psyche as much as we do from reading the books. You definitely get a greater understanding of both characters if you read the Manga.

Saying that though, I guess to people who’ve only seen the movie, the character development shown would suffice. On a sidenote, I watched this with the English Dubbing and I was very impressed with how wonderful the voice acting was. Especially the kid who does Whites voice. It’s about time Dubbing stopped being crap on anime XD