Hungry?! Nissin Cup Noodles...
26th November 2006, Monday
Imagine this scenario, you had spending all your lives in a policed state where your every moves are been monitored...
The authorities "handcuffed" you with a bangle which is a mode they will summoned you whenever they had caught you up to no good business...
Once you had deemed to be out of line from their stringent mode of ruling a state of slightly around 3 million citizens, they sent you to hours of reformatory volunteer work...
Apparently they had been hiding a giant conspiracy from its law-abiding citizens, which could lead trust loss to the authority and led to uncontrollable havoc in the form of standoffs and rallies...
Sound familiar?
No I am not referring to some governments in our world today, but the storyline of of "Freedom Project" which I had caught at the National Museum of Arts last Saturday which kick starts "Animation Nation 2007" 's anime festival...(actually no, Tekkon Kinkreet was shown the day before)
Foo had perked my interest few months back with this event though the listing of anime to be featured was quite murky at the juncture...
But after Zero's "ad" on his blog, it was clear that I was not to give the event a miss with some alluring titles to catch...
"Freedom" was another brainchild of Katsuhiro Otomo who gave us the cult hit "Akira" back in the late 80s, but fell a bit short in terms of critics' acclaim and box office with "Steamboy" 3 years back.
The characters such as the protaganists, Takeru and Kazuma as well as the design of the racing vehicle are evidently his style...
Foo, the initiator for this anime festival in the end pulled the plug for his participation due to his dire need to free up whatever time he had away from work to beef up his portfolio to impress the people at Lucasfilm..
However my buddy had previous engagement with his friends for the same show while CS couldn't made it as postulated, and no one from La Tendo was interested, so in the end I asked Foo whether he could make it again before I booked the tickets online...
He managed to cajole Howe Chern to join us for a show as he claimed, "he knew nuts about"...
I had wanted to whet my appetite before the show with a meal at Carl's Jr but a high tea at the Straits Cafe at Hotel Rendezvous with the missus in commemoration for the 7th year since we became an item kind of spoiled it for me as I was stuffed as a Thanksgiving turkey when I met up with them...
Despite not an avid anime fan like ourselves, you can always count of Howe Chern to enjoy whatever company we could provide which always involved corny jokes about old J pop songs and the soccer scene...
The venue for the screening got me marveled as I hadn't really visited the Museum since its revamp years back and the architecture within was a site to be behold, which really captured a contemporary feel in a building with history....
We got there at around 8 plus to collect the tickets and not many people was in sight of the viewing gallery despite claims that it was a full house show...
TW came by and got mingled with the lads a while before joining his own friends for the show...
As 9pm approaches, you suddenly see the audience started clustering outside the hall, mysteriously appearing out of no where...
We were handed a paper with dialogs before heading in and Howe Chern immediately was alarmed that they might be a lack of subtitles and his doubts were founded as the organizer mentioned that the prologue to the series weren't provided by the distributors, Bandai Visuals and they had to use the DVD format which didn't come with the subtitles...
We would love to read the script while the movie was screened, but the they decided to dim the lights...bummer...
Actually I thought it was a movie but it was really an OVA and on that night we caught the first 3 episodes of a 6 episodes long series...so the ending was pretty open-ended whether we liked it or not...
The series began with "This is Love" taken from Utada Hikaru's last album, "Ultra Blue", a pretty upbeat track which got us cozy for the show...
But then when we followed up with 2 more episodes, the repeated opening and ending got us pretty restless...
The storyline surely built up in the end with the lead character, Takeru and friends started to have doubts over the authorities of EDEN, their residence on the moon after Earth by then had became depleted and not fit for living...
It intertwined with Takeru's desperate search for this earthling girl who's photo he found while on volunteer duties on the craters of the moon, which provided some comedy reliefs in an otherwise tense action flicks with the future as a backdrop (glimpses of "Total Recall" was felt)
The ending of episode 3 left me wanting to catch the rest of the series (only available on DVD) and was pretty into the main sidekick, Kazuma who played a big role in the ending...
Of course, the strong presence of Nissin Cup Noodles was immensely recognized to the amusement of everyone..
Takeru and his rivals, Moonshine gang was kept seen sipping the cup noodles for snack while somehow a carton was found lying somewhere in an age old rocket hangar...
Of course the 6 CMs (commercials) of the cup noodles got us in fit as well especially the latter ones, and as my companions mentioned...the show had a strange effect to make you go grab a Nissin Cup Noodle from your nearby convenience store...perhaps it had a strong subliminal message for the sales of the noodles...
We then pondered what if Indomee had sponsored the show...would the nationality of the characters be changed?
Next up Tekkon Kinkreet this evening with my buddies and 5 cm/sec on Wednesday...
Imagine this scenario, you had spending all your lives in a policed state where your every moves are been monitored...
The authorities "handcuffed" you with a bangle which is a mode they will summoned you whenever they had caught you up to no good business...
Once you had deemed to be out of line from their stringent mode of ruling a state of slightly around 3 million citizens, they sent you to hours of reformatory volunteer work...
Apparently they had been hiding a giant conspiracy from its law-abiding citizens, which could lead trust loss to the authority and led to uncontrollable havoc in the form of standoffs and rallies...
Sound familiar?
No I am not referring to some governments in our world today, but the storyline of of "Freedom Project" which I had caught at the National Museum of Arts last Saturday which kick starts "Animation Nation 2007" 's anime festival...(actually no, Tekkon Kinkreet was shown the day before)
Foo had perked my interest few months back with this event though the listing of anime to be featured was quite murky at the juncture...
But after Zero's "ad" on his blog, it was clear that I was not to give the event a miss with some alluring titles to catch...
"Freedom" was another brainchild of Katsuhiro Otomo who gave us the cult hit "Akira" back in the late 80s, but fell a bit short in terms of critics' acclaim and box office with "Steamboy" 3 years back.
The characters such as the protaganists, Takeru and Kazuma as well as the design of the racing vehicle are evidently his style...
Foo, the initiator for this anime festival in the end pulled the plug for his participation due to his dire need to free up whatever time he had away from work to beef up his portfolio to impress the people at Lucasfilm..
However my buddy had previous engagement with his friends for the same show while CS couldn't made it as postulated, and no one from La Tendo was interested, so in the end I asked Foo whether he could make it again before I booked the tickets online...
He managed to cajole Howe Chern to join us for a show as he claimed, "he knew nuts about"...
I had wanted to whet my appetite before the show with a meal at Carl's Jr but a high tea at the Straits Cafe at Hotel Rendezvous with the missus in commemoration for the 7th year since we became an item kind of spoiled it for me as I was stuffed as a Thanksgiving turkey when I met up with them...
Despite not an avid anime fan like ourselves, you can always count of Howe Chern to enjoy whatever company we could provide which always involved corny jokes about old J pop songs and the soccer scene...
The venue for the screening got me marveled as I hadn't really visited the Museum since its revamp years back and the architecture within was a site to be behold, which really captured a contemporary feel in a building with history....
We got there at around 8 plus to collect the tickets and not many people was in sight of the viewing gallery despite claims that it was a full house show...
TW came by and got mingled with the lads a while before joining his own friends for the show...
As 9pm approaches, you suddenly see the audience started clustering outside the hall, mysteriously appearing out of no where...
We were handed a paper with dialogs before heading in and Howe Chern immediately was alarmed that they might be a lack of subtitles and his doubts were founded as the organizer mentioned that the prologue to the series weren't provided by the distributors, Bandai Visuals and they had to use the DVD format which didn't come with the subtitles...
We would love to read the script while the movie was screened, but the they decided to dim the lights...bummer...
Actually I thought it was a movie but it was really an OVA and on that night we caught the first 3 episodes of a 6 episodes long series...so the ending was pretty open-ended whether we liked it or not...
The series began with "This is Love" taken from Utada Hikaru's last album, "Ultra Blue", a pretty upbeat track which got us cozy for the show...
But then when we followed up with 2 more episodes, the repeated opening and ending got us pretty restless...
The storyline surely built up in the end with the lead character, Takeru and friends started to have doubts over the authorities of EDEN, their residence on the moon after Earth by then had became depleted and not fit for living...
It intertwined with Takeru's desperate search for this earthling girl who's photo he found while on volunteer duties on the craters of the moon, which provided some comedy reliefs in an otherwise tense action flicks with the future as a backdrop (glimpses of "Total Recall" was felt)
The ending of episode 3 left me wanting to catch the rest of the series (only available on DVD) and was pretty into the main sidekick, Kazuma who played a big role in the ending...
Of course, the strong presence of Nissin Cup Noodles was immensely recognized to the amusement of everyone..
Takeru and his rivals, Moonshine gang was kept seen sipping the cup noodles for snack while somehow a carton was found lying somewhere in an age old rocket hangar...
Of course the 6 CMs (commercials) of the cup noodles got us in fit as well especially the latter ones, and as my companions mentioned...the show had a strange effect to make you go grab a Nissin Cup Noodle from your nearby convenience store...perhaps it had a strong subliminal message for the sales of the noodles...
We then pondered what if Indomee had sponsored the show...would the nationality of the characters be changed?
Next up Tekkon Kinkreet this evening with my buddies and 5 cm/sec on Wednesday...
Japanese word of the day: 広告(Advertisement)What if Kao tied up
with an anime to sell their sanitary pads...
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