Jul 11, 2011

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Jul 11, 2011

Click “Like” for updates on Facebook   Just thought I’d pop in a new front page news to show that I am indeed still alive. I’ve been adding new graphics and resources every once in a while, so stay connected via Facebook, Twitter, or RSS – for you tech savvy kids… Who actually uses RSS here anyway? Leave a reply and...

Jun 22, 2011

At one point or another, you Anime geeks have either cosplayed or fantasized about being an Anime character or live in the world of an Anime character. What would that mean exactly? Well according to mainstream Animes:   If you’re a girl, you’re probably useless. That’s right kiddies. If you’re a chick, you’re just there to...

Jun 7, 2011

Most of you probably don’t play Starcraft 2 or know what the GSL is, so this blog post will be for me… And maybe two other people.     I love Tastosis. Who are they? They are Nick “Tasteless” Plott and Dan “Artosis” Stemkoski, the casting archons. Basically they are the English commentators for the Korean Starcraft...

May 29, 2011

Episodes 12 Review Junpei Kosaka is a second-year high school student who despises cats due to his allergy to them. It just so happens that his family loves cats and even has one named Nyamusasu. While walking home from school, Junpei kicks an empty can and unfortunately beheads the local neko-jizō-sama statue (guardian deity of cats). He is suddenly able to...

May 27, 2011

Well my boyfriend just bought me tickets to see Glee Live Tour, so you know I’m a fan. (Seriously? Hundred something for tickets? It’s more than Broadway tickets!) While the first season’s flow was somewhat consistent and easy on the brain, second season was full of horrible, horrible bumps. Overall I felt they tried to cram in too many songs...

May 27, 2011

Want to be updated via Facebook? CLICK THE “LIKE” BUTTON BELOW TO JOIN THE FORGOTTEN LAIR’S FAN PAGE ON FACEBOOK!     Technically you’re following a part of me (TFL Design). Actual me still remains out of reach but I have posted pics of myself, if you haven’t already seen them on Flickr or MySpace. In any case, if you...

May 21, 2011

Want to be updated via Facebook? CLICK THE “LIKE” BUTTON BELOW TO JOIN THE FORGOTTEN LAIR’S FAN PAGE ON FACEBOOK!     Finally updated the site with something larger than an icon. Check out my new wallpaper. Bring your sunglasses. I want to update the site’s tutorial section with another Video Tutorial. Comment on this post of...

May 21, 2011

Silent Rouge 05-21-2011 1920×1440 (normal 4:3) 1600×1280 (square 5:4) 1920×1200 (widescreen 16:10) 1920×1080 (HD 16:9) Something quick and really, really bright…   Assimilation/ Disintegration 07-31-2010 1920×1440 (normal 4:3) 1600×1280 (square 5:4) 1920×1200 (widescreen...

May 9, 2011

If you google the term “Anime Graphic” or “Anime Graphics,” this site is ranked either first or second. Usually the chances of a link being clicked after the first few decreases exponentially, unless the viewer has a lot of time to do research. How did I get the top spots? Here are some tips:   1. Is your site SEO friendly? SEO...

May 7, 2011

At last! I recently finished Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 and let me tell you, the game is CRAZY good and addicting. I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in 2.5 weeks! Hurray for insomnia! I’d recommend the game to anyone that likes RPGs, FPS, and games with an awesome story. You get to create your own character and decide the fate of you and...

May 7, 2011

10 Speckle Brushes for Adobe Photoshop 7.0+. They make really cool textures for you to use on small or large...

Apr 23, 2011

Episodes 26 Review James Links is a 49 year old, rugged space transporter returning to Earth to reunite with his estranged children on his daughter’s birthday, when things get complicated as he is framed for murdering the inspectors aboard his ship during the voyage. James had unknowingly agreed to transport the highly-advanced Orbital Frame “Dolores,”...

Apr 23, 2011

Episodes 52 Review Classic old school Anime involving suped up cars, suspense (as much suspense as 60′s animation can give you), mysterious racers that try to kill you, and fun. For the time and in that moment it was cool. I remember watching it as a kid and following the whole story. It’s funny when you grow up and realize how gullible you are as a...

Apr 23, 2011

Hello people. Been playing a lot of Mass Effect lately. Guess I’m going to play through the first two games before the third one comes out. It’s pretty addicting and the story is great. Any decisions you make, especially the dialogue, directly influences the outcome of the game. In the game, my character is female of course and is pretty much a...

Apr 19, 2011

I’m not that old. (Twenty-four, for those of you interested.) I grew up with morning cartoons and after school marathons of not just Anime, but American productions as well. As a matter of fact, this rant will be about Western cartoons. Towards the middle of my High School career, I started to notice that there were less and less cartoons I wanted to...

Apr 16, 2011

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Apr 16, 2011

Here is an HD Video Tutorial for you to view. Please note several things before watching… 1. You must know the Layer Mask Tutorial to understand use of Layer Masks and Pen Tools. 2. You must know what Blending Options are. You can see uses of it in my Blending Stock Images Tutorial. 3. Pen tool details such as right clicking for options are not explained....

Apr 13, 2011

I don’t find a lot of time for myself nowadays between a full time job, traveling a total of 4 hours to and from my job, sleeping, and other human necessities I will not mention. However there are certain websites that I feel I must check out daily (Besides my own awesome site… to make sure it’s spam free that is…), just to keep myself...

Apr 11, 2011

THE ANIME REVIEW SECTION FROM A-Z IS COMPLETE!   Feel free to post YOUR anime list in the comments! I’d like to see them! CLICK TO COMMENT HERE   I’ve also decided to reinstate the GALLERY.   So most of the screenshots and scans this site had offered before are up. Some will not make it to the cut, simply because they don’t...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 54 Review Animals! Fun! Samurai? A cute kid’s show about three cats that deliver pizza by day and fight evil bad guys (usually blackbirds) whenever they strike.   Rating 7.3

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 13 Review Much too short to develop a full story in depth, but from what was seen, this series had been paced well and showed promise. The end is another one of those cliff hangers that would have to be continued in its manga counterpart. The story tells of a high school girl named Michiru Kita who has the “Shinigami Eyes.” With it, she can...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes Multiple Series Review First season was funny and cool. Nice battles and great all the way through. Second season was a snore until the second half of the series. Then it went somewhere. And then it ended. First season was about legendary animal mechs used for tournaments and the second was about a war using animal mechs to fight. Rating Zoids- 9.1 /...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 112 Review Yes famous for its tournaments. And more tournaments. It seems all these kids ever do is go to tournaments to get their butts kicked… But it’s all for saving the world. Don’t forget that. “One day, 14 year old Yusuke Urameshi suddenly finds himself dead, having died pushing a child out of the way of oncoming traffic....

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 27 Review This is another example of anime turned into kiddish children’s cartoon. Sorry to tell you this kids, but there is no “Heart of the Cards…” And the power of friendship isn’t that powerful. And the “Shadow Realm” is a place I call the bottom of a cliff. This show was originally more violent and not so...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 12 Review The budget seems small and the story seems incomplete. The story was horribly paced and a plot is almost non existent. Four teenagers run a town full of humans and demons. When a threat in the form of their former friend possessed by an evil demon threatens their way of life, they are forced to make the decision of their lives....

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 52 Review Two policewomen- One a soft-spoken mechanic and the other with a loud kickbutt personality. No, literally, “I will kick your butt” personality. Most of the time they’re giving out traffic tickets and impounding cars, otherwise they’re stopping bank robbers by throwing fish at them. A pretty funny anime with the...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 13 Review Chick flick about Shinigamis, serial killers and guys on the edge of glomping each other every other scene. It doesn’t have to make sense, it’s all just eye candy ^_~. I actually prefer the Tsuzuki and Muraki coupling over the TsuzukixHisoka. I’m not sure about the manga, but the anime makes them seem so distant. “Even...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 24 Review This series starts off slow at first, but then it becomes clear why. So that we can get to know over 14 characters in 24 episodes. And grow an attachment to them? Not really, unless you spot someone you like. Otherwise it’s pretty one dimensional and is up to the audience to expand on each character’s personality.. Plus the reason...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 26 Review Too slow a pace for me, but pretty touching. I’ll admit Toboe’s death was really painful- so much so the writers decided that the following deaths would be quick, swift, and pointless. The rest of them died in such stupid and non-touching ways. Maybe if they lingered on a little longer I would have felt something… Nah…...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 24 Review This was an adaptation of the popular American comic. I wanted to like this series so bad. The art was good (as expected from GONZO) and the female empowerment thing was at hand, however it lacked a decent plot, fluidity, and worst of all, contained way too much in your face fanservice. In case you forgot the main character was female, her...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 26 Review Robin, a craft user, arrives from Italy to Japan to work for an organization named STN Japan Division (STN-J) as a replacement for one of STN-J’s witch hunters who was recently killed. Unlike other divisions of STN, STN-J tries to capture the witches alive in order to learn why and how they became witches in the first place. However soon...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 52 Review Even as a child I knew something was up the way they killed off the original blue dude (the one the princess replaces) as I watched the English version. Upon rewatching the episode in Japanese, it was the first time I realized how much the editors hacked away. Also it was confusing at first how the leader piloted a black lion but had a red...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 26 Review Well the anime targeted the girls with the whole love triangle thing, and the movie targeted the guys with the whole, blood spilling at everyone’s feet thing. But hey, I liked them both… Is this considered mecha? Not one control panel in sight… “High school student Hitomi is transported from Earth to the magical world...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes Movie Review Boy this plot is overplayed. You know, the half vampire, half human plot. But yes very bloody but rushed a bit. Plot holes? Not really but they could have spent a few more minutes in the movie to develop the Ray character and tell more about the freaky talking hand. Also the ending revealed that D might have been some sort of prince. I wish...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 26 Review I can’t believe my brother said this was a good series. First off, the plot was nowhere in sight, the development of the story was weak, even after the main point of the story was being told in the last few episodes, and finally, the characters are so one-dimensional with no development, it wasn’t even funny. Besides the...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 24 Review Yuki Sakurai grew up in an orphanage after being abandoned as a baby. His power to feel other people’s emotions at the slightest touch is a burden to him, as he is unable to control whether or not he wants to know of other people’s pain. One day a man claiming to be his brother offers him a home with the Giou Clan, a clan...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 26 Review This is one of those very incomplete series that begs for a second season, but may not get one due to not being popular. What makes it even more unpopular is the lack of shininess and super involvement with cast that is needed to catch the limited attention span of kids nowadays. A highly political and social issue focused anime for a more...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 24 Review This series was almost a carbon copy of Hellsing and Trigun put together in terms of plot and characteristics of main characters. Abel Nightroad (Vash the Stampede) is a 900 year old Krusnik (Vampire that feeds on vampires only) that survived after the Armageddon on Earth. Basically four people: Cain, Abel (Cain’s twin brother), Seth...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes Movie Review Pretty funny stuff, although when I first watched it dubbed in English, I immediately spotted the noob voice actor. I later found out he was Johnny Yong Bosch who coincidentally was my favorite Power Ranger. That’s right- the Green/Black Ranger from the Ninja series… So he was too old for Power Rangers but decided to make it to...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes Movie Review If you’re going to make a series based on a boy’s love game, do it right man… This show definitely did not. Not only did they not have any smut, it lacked major action and a plot. So if you’re not going to go all the way on any field, why bother? Another major thing that irked me were the camera angles and weird...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes Movie Review A girl discovers she can leap through time after a strange experience in her high school lab room. With this new ability, she can easily redo the events on the “bad days” she has. However, there are consequences to every action taken, and sometimes benefiting yourself can mean hurting others. A touching tale of responsibility...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 24 Review The Oh! Great studio is known for its excess of cleavage- this series being no different. If you’re not watching clothes getting blown off in a middle of a fight, then you’re seeing someone lose blood by the gallons. The series cuts short on the manga, feeling completely rushed and incomplete. From the middle of this series, you...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes 27 Review In a fictional future, humans are forced to live underground by the oppression of the Beastmen who live on the surface. One day, a boy name Simon – known for his ability to dig – finds a drill-shaped key that activates a mecha also found within the soil. He and his “brother” Kamina defeat invading mechas of the Beastmen...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes Multiple Series Review I would first like to say, that the amount of editing for the editors must have been fun… This anime clearly aims for nosebleeds from the guys. What, am I wrong? The first two series were pretty cool and I didn’t mind the way they re-met each other… The last one though was pretty weak and rather a snore. The...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes Movie Review Two orphans named Black and White rule the city of Treasure Town, chasing and beating away unwanted Yakuza and foreign entrepreneurs. However, it is up to the gentle nature of White to save Black from his own destructive nature. While the animation of the production is simply stunning (details of movement, etc.) I found the movie lacking a...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes Movie Review Did I enjoy seeing one of my favorite fighting game’s characters fight on a deserted island overrun by machine dinosaurs? Meh… They changed the color of the hair to a few of the characters, made a pretty weak storyline surrounding the search for the Doctor to help the little girl Jack is always with and ending up in...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes Movie Review In a world where magic and technology coexist together, human-demon mutations become a result of exposure to the use of sorcery. Tactical Sorcerists who use this magic to fight these monsters are nicknamed “Strait Jackets” for their risk of becoming monsters themselves. An unlicensed sorcerist named Reiot Stainbarg uses his Mold...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes Movie Review The visuals- Absolutely astonishing. The story – It will touch your heart. My beef- There’s no “umph” to it. This is one of those anime movies where you will just acknowledge the fact that you saw it, but nothing more. It takes place in Victorian England, though slightly more science-fiction. A boy acquires a metal...

Apr 11, 2011

Episodes Movie Review Interesting and a bit disturbing as usual, Mr. Hayao Miyazaki. What is the plot to this story? You can tell me what happens, but what IS the plot? And they live happily ever after. A weird version of Alice in Wonderland. Rating 8.6