Side Quest 003: {Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom} Gather Ideas and Inspiration from Anime - In Progress

Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom

I just finished watching this anime, I just couldn't stop watching it, I even gave up sleep just to watch it (I like to watch anime late at night, especially if it's a dark theme).

But I should tell you what the anime is about. To be honest, it's quite difficult to explain without spoiling the anime, even the description, so I'll just explain from what you'll learn from the Anime.

This isn't some badass Anime where assassins just kill everything (this is a Seinen Anime not a typical shounen), it has deeper meaning, I guess it's rediscovery of oneself. Rediscovery? Yes, the main character loses his memories of the past and is turned to an assassin.

But in this Anime, the main character not only attempts to rediscover himself, but also we learn in a surprisingly realistic way of what the life of a assassin would look like. Not only that, but due to many various events, you could expect anything to happen.

This Anime made me feel a whole bunch of emotions, happy, sad, angry, confused. I guess this is why I like Seinen Anime, they have more mature stories which creates many emotions, and is not bounded by typical Anime norms.

Recommendation

This Anime reminded me a lot of Gungrave and Darker than Black, and are similar in many ways. Although it is unique to other Anime of this type.

Ideas and Inspiration

This is another Anime which I could reference to for a deeper meaningful story and of one way of how assassins come to be. I also haven't seen many games that showed how the learnt how to use a gun, and they're just simply born with it. Also since I'm planning on having masked people in a future game I'm planning it helps a lot more.

I give it a personal bias 10/10, the Anime itself I probably give it a 9/10 due to some unexplained stuff.

Side Quest 003: {Infinite Ryvius} Gather Ideas and Inspiration from Anime - In Progress

Infinite Ryvius (Mugen no Ryvius)

The anime Infinite Ryvius revolves around a ship called Ryvius, which was discovered due to various events, but we'll skip to the main plot. 

The main plot is that there are hundreds of children who are aged 18 or younger who are attempting to survive in a unknown space vehicle while being attacked by enemies.

The anime attempts to portray how children of different abilities would emotionally feel and react to various issues. Infinite Ryvius does this in a realistic way with little to no illogical miracles that appear out of nowhere.

The main thing I want to gather from this anime is to find out in more detail on how and why the characters turned out to what they are, as this would greatly influence my ability to design characters and how they would interact with each other.

This is a very original anime and you should watch it! It's a bit old, but if you like character development and story over animation quality, you'll enjoy it! I give it a 9/10

Side Quest 002: {"Shingeki no Kyojin" aka Attack of the Titans} Recommend Anime to the Internets - In Progress

Shingeki no Kyojin

FIRST EPISODE OUT. WATCHED IT. FKINGAWESOMESAUCE.

This is not from the first episode

Okay, maybe I'm just a little hyped up about this Anime, or just easily amazed. Here I was thinking Bakuman and Zetusen no Tempest were going to be the best anime of the year for me, although they probably are for their genres. 

But this new Anime for this season came out of nowhere (for me at least).

At first I thought this was going to be a generic action Anime with flashy effects and stuff BUT I was fortunately mistaken and drove me to a sensation similar to what I felt when I watched the Berserk Anime series (not the movies), they have very similar sort of themes and the art style looked to be influenced by Berserk itself.

Not only this but the Director, Araki Tetsurou directed Death Note, Guilty Crown and Highschool of the Dead some of my favourite Anime of all time. In addition Kyoji Asano, the Character Designer of Shingeki no Kyojin, worked on Guilty Crown, Psycho-Pass and Sengoku Basara.

The Anime also reminded me of Lost Planet, How?

Not the snow. But groups of people working cooperatively in order to take down beings of greater scale despite their size. Also they have grapple-hook-winch thingies.

Whether or not you read any of this, is not the point, what I'm trying to say is..

WATCH IT NOW.
http://www.cyber12.com/page-Shingeki_no_Kyojin.html - Download and Donate! (Has a few ads that aren't too annoying)

Side Quest 001: {Ready Player One by Ernest Cline} Gather Inspiration & knowledge from books - In Progress

The book Ready Player One is just simply amazing, it has a perfect balance of friendship, video game references, love and tragedies.

This is also the first fictional book that I personally picked up and read (and hoping to re-read) in years.
It completely immersed me in it's fictional world within a fictional world, with a theme I like and which is scarily a possibility that might happen to us in the future, which made the book more immersive and believable.

It also directly referenced a lot (and I mean A LOT) of games and movies which made me feel more relateable  to the main character.

There is soo much I like about this book, that I can't put into words, so I just recommend to read the book.

READ THE BOOK NOW!

I'd like to thank Oculus for recommending the book in the Kickstarter Update #19 - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game/posts/421939 

And of course to the Author of the book, Ernest Cline! - http://www.ernestcline.com/

Thank you for this 10/10 Masterpiece.