We are just having fun reviewing and discussing comic books, graphic novels, manga, anime/animation, music and movies that we have recently read, listened to or watched.
Let’s see could we say Warm Bodies is the first romantic comedy of the season. It is February, the sweetest month since it has Valentine’s Day on the 14th. Just go and have fun at this movie, don’t over think it. Thanks to “joblomovienetwork” on YouTube for the following trailer:
The high school student/poet, suspended over a poem she wrote that mentioned her feelings about the Newton school shootings, has been allowed back in school at the Life Learning Academy. It’s nice to see that the school realized that children emotions shouldn’t be repressed or demonized, but worked with and through. This last bit if from the Comic Book Legal Defense Funds website that contained quotes from Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. that I’ll leave off with.
In his 1929 autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Gandhi wrote: “I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.”
And in his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King warned:
If…repressed emotions are not released in nonviolent ways, they will seek expression through violence; this is not a threat but a fact of history. So I have not said to my people: ‘Get rid of your discontent.’ Rather, I have tried to say that this normal and healthy discontent can be channeled into the creative outlet of nonviolent direct action.
http://cbldf.org/2013/01/suspended-student-poet-allowed-back-to-school/
The Pasela Resorts cafe, in Tokyo’s Shibuya ward has transformed a part of their cafe into a xxxHOLIC themed cafe to kick off the debut of the xxxHOLIC live action Television Series. January 21 – March 3 the cafe will have a themed xxxHOLIC themed menu and those that order off of the special menu will receive one of six limited original coasters, that can be seen above. If you happen to be in Japan during this time on vacation this could be one of your stops in Tokyo. Pictures were provide from Kodansha’s Young Magazine and AnimeNews Network. For additional pictures follow the link.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2013-01-28/clamp-xxxholic-cafe-unveiled-in-tokyo
Aksys Games, the distributor for Hakuoki: Warriors of the Shinsengumi, North American release began streaming the trailer below on their YouTube Channel. The video game will be available for the PlayStation Portable on February 19. Might be something to consider for you next video game collection purchase:
Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken might be a title you want to consider for your young adult collections. These types of books always seem to be popular. Thanks to “hyperionteens” on YouTube for the following trailer:
James Rollins latest is entitled Blood Gospel and is co-written by Rebecca Cantrell. Thanks to “WilliamMorrow1” on YouTube for the following trailer:
For all of the fans of CLAMP’s Xxxholic will definitely be interested in this. Xxxholic will be a live action television series this year and the above pictures are the main cast members. The top picture has Anne as Yuko Ichihara and Shota Sometani as Kimihiro Watanuki. The second picture has Karen Miyazaki as Himawari Kungoi, Shota Sometani again and Masahiro Higashide as Shizuka Domeki. Hopefully when this goes to DVD/Blu-ray it will be made available for the North American region.
A 17 year old senior of the Life Learning Academy charter school, in San Francisco, expresses herself through poetry. A teacher found her private notebook of poems and read some entries. One caught the teachers attention and promoted the teacher to turn it in to the administration. The poem showed empathy for the shooter in Connecticut shooting. Because of this poem the student has been suspended from her school. Here is the excerpt of the poem that caused this suspension:
They wanna hold me back
I run but still they attack
My innocence, I won’t get back
I used to smile
They took my kindness for weakness
The silence the world will never get
I understand the killing in Connecticut
I know why he pulled the trigger
The government is a shame
Society never wants to take the blame
Society puts these thoughts in our head
Misery loves company
If I can’t be loved no one can.
This case falls under the freedom of speech and that people can express themselves, even though the content might be sensitive. This can also send a message to kids that if they go to officials and share their feelings on their high school experiences they will be scarred that they will be suspended rather than helped. Is this the message we want to send? The article on CBLDF’s site ends appropriately:
As psychiatrist Ronald Pies pointed out in a blog post at PsychCentral, “[w]e would be fortunate, as a society, if more lonely and alienated young people expressed their feelings in poetry, and fewer, through acts of violence.”
You can click on the link below for the full article on Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s website:
http://cbldf.org/2013/01/california-student-suspended-for-newtown-poem/
Parker hits theaters this week. This is based on the book series of the same name by Richard Stark and three have been adapted into graphic novels. Thanks to “FilmsActuTrailers” on YouTube for the following trailer:
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters comes out this weekend. It looks like it could be fun. Thanks to Paramount on YouTube for the following trailer: