Well it's certainly been a while, and I apologise! But no laptop in Japan meant very view chances to email everyone and update my DA journal.

So what did I do? Well being the nutter I am, I spent a ski season in Japan (Nozawa Onsen in Nagano) and managed to learn some Jap, and learn to snowboarding stuff along the way! I also drew a teeny bit when work got dull so I'll post them up at some point.

I also went to Tokyo and popped into Akihabara and didn't enjoy it one bit. Horrendous I know but I found it a bit too much for my liking. Don't get me wrong, I still like anime but that place made my eyes bleed (an 8 storey hentai store will do that to most people -_-). Nonetheless I enjoyed my time there a lot and hope to go back next year!

In the meantime I've been getting my anime fix now that I'm back in OZ and 2 rather old series I've just finished watching are 2 of the best I've ever come across.

The first is Berserk which I'm sure most of you have heard of or seen. What an epic story. I won't say much in case you haven't seen it, but suffice to say it's gory, epic combats got me hooked and the story is just incredible! Shame they ran out of money...

The second is Gundam 0083: Stardust Memories. This is even older (circa 1990) but is the best Gundam I've seen to date. The fact it was only 13 episodes may have helped, but nonetheless the story was great, the mecha were all gorgeous and the animation was very very crisp. The characters were actually designed by my fave anime artist too, Toshihiro Kawamoto. Anyways I'm going to get back to looking for a job!

Good to be back on DA