Elfen Lied

About 20 minutes ago, I finished watching the final episode of Elfen Lied. I'd say it's the greatest thing I've ever watched. Only 1 game I've ever played, Metal Gear Solid 1, has come close to comparison, but even then, still cant compare. I was going to play a game, but there's no point. Nothing can come close to Elfen lied. The story is so dark, the characters are so well thought, the first 7 minutes are so violent.

Elfen Lied is an Animé, which tells the story of a girl named Lucy. She is a genetic mutant, called a Diclonius (Not the dinosaur). The Diclonius have horns on their heads, which look like cat ears. They also have a set of invisible hands, called Vectors, which they can use to lift things, or, as the first 7 minutes show, horribly butcher people. Lucy was imprisoned in a research facility, for testing. She is released and fights, or more like slaughters, her way out of the facility, before being shot in the head, and falling into the sea. She is washed up on shore, and found by Khota and Yuka. Khota and Yuka are cousins, who start living together towards the beginning of the series. At this point, Lucy is found to have Amnesia (I think I'd be a bit forgetful after taking an anti tank round to the head...), and also posses' very little capability of speech. She is re-dubbed Nyu, because that is the only thing she says at the time, and is taken back to Khota and Yuka's house.

I leave it at that, since I don't really want to give anything major away. Just expect alot of violence, and one of the best storylines you'll ever witness.

I'mma Post Some Blog

Well, I haven't updated in over a month, main reason, I forgot. 'Nuff said.

Alot has happened. I've finished two modual's at college, Flash animation, and Concept Art. I'm really happy with the Concept artwork I did. If you compare it to the work I was doing at the beginning of the modual, I've improved by leaps and bounds. I did most of the work in a very Manga looking style. I really like the whole Animé/Manga artwork style, and wanted to base my game style around it.

Anyway, enough work. I've started a "band". My friend Kai, Whyte, and Myself. I say band, but we're more of a group. When I think band, I think of a rock band, or a boy band, or a metal band. But I don't really want to limit us to a style. Basically, if we sit there and think, let's make a House track, then we're gonna make a house track. If we wanna make a rock song, we'll make a rock song. We listen to a wide range of music, so we have alot of influences. Recently, me and Kai were listening to Daft Punk's Alive 2007, and heard a part which is very brief, and isn't heard in any other song they've done that we're aware of, however, we want to hear more of it, so we sampled it, and got a drum beat, and played around with chopping the beats up, automating effects, and generally making it our own. After a day's work, we came out with this:



I really like it. It only uses two samples. The said Daft Punk sample which is the main meat of the piece, and the drum beat, which is from Don't Bring Me Down, by ELO. The drum beat was cut up quite alot from it's original 2 second loop, and I think we did a good job of it. I'm buying a load of recording and mixing gear at the end of march, and hopefully a huge P.A system at the end of May.

Also, check out our Myspace page:

www.myspace.com/insomniousband