I remember watching Daimos and the love story of Richard and Erica when I was 7 or 8. This show taught me that a man can love a winged, alien girl who looks like a super model.
True love can transcend race, creed or religion - as long as you are hot and not that much different.
If you want the hottest online manga scanlations you should check out One Manga. They have 669 manga scanlations available for your online, manga reading pleasure.
They cover every genre from shonen & shoujo to josie & seinen. They even have 238 complete manga scanlations.
Another good online manga site is Manga Fox. It has almost the same collection as One Manga but it also has some ecchi stuff. Everything can be read for free but the mature stuff needs registration, as it should.
Click on the links above to scan the manga directory of this site. If you really need to read a particular manga, it's probably listed in their directory.
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Edit 2: No virus. Links are up again.
Edit: I temporarily removed the link to OneManga because of possible malware infection to Windows users. I'm not sure about this and I'm not accusing anyone. Just be cautious if you're a Windows user.
Chronicle of the Radia War - Find the Japanese ROM and Patch it. Play it on a NES emulator.
This little NES game is an RPG way ahead of its time. I've been playing this more than crappy PSX RPGs out there.
Radia Senki or Chronicle of Radia War is a Japanese only release made by the awesome people at Tecmo. It's best played on an emulator with an english patch.
The game is the basic noble guy with a big-ass sword, destined to rescue the kingdom from evil people. Yeah, the story sucks but the gameplay is classic. The mechanics of this game will be copied by games like Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean.
Here's my take on this game:
Story: The game starts with an awesome cut-scene of two air ships dog fighting. This is the freaking NES we're talking about here. It's that impressive.
The story over-all is pretty generic and sucky at times. Watch the intro below and tell me that it's not a programming marvel during its time.
Gameplay: This is where this game really shines. You control the main dude in real-time, like Link in Zelda. You have companions of up to 4 at the most during combat. You control your companions strategically in the game menu where you can set their attitude to be physical, magical, aggressive, defensive or laid-back.
I have to mention that Radia Senki is somewhat realistic for a NES game. For example, you will only get meat or bones when you kill monsters. You can sell these spoils to shops for money. When you kill people, you will get money, as you should. It's so refreshing to have this kind of realism in a console RPG.
Graphics: The super deformed sprites look great for this game. The game has a tone that takes itself a bit seriously in some places but the chibbi look does not detract from this kind of tone.
The art work for the character portraits are awesomely done.
Sound: Music is standard NES fare, repetitive and annoying. It's not bad but I just zone out the music.
Bottom-line: Nice and fun game. I will definitely finish this game when I find the time. This is better than a lot of crap coming out today.
Orcs & Elves is a very engaging fantasy role-playing game made for mobile phones. It is based on the Doom RPG engine, but is much more improved.
The news is: it's coming to the Nintendo DS. It is John Carmack's first DS game. This is great news for DS fans but I hope that Carmack will not abandon mobile phones to stick solely with the DS. I'm still anticipating Orcs & Elves 2 for the mobile phone.
Everything old is new again. I just found an entertainment goldmine for your MP3 players--it's called Old Time Radio (OTR). I know, it may be old news for most of you, but for some of us new to this stuff, there're tons of entertainment here.
Just imagine listening to the Sherlock Holmes radio dramas, or to that completely cheesy but very entertaining Tom Corbett: Space Cadet. Not only is it a free stroll back to memory lane, it's also tons of fun to listen to the acting style of yesteryears. Heck, even the old commercials were entertaining.
You can download MP3's of Dimension X and X minus 1, the sci-fi dramas written by luminaries like Bradbury, Asimov, and a host of others. Listen, this is better than the Twilight Zone.
Visit Zoot Radio for an extensive list of OTR downloads. You will be obliged to a free registration. I urge you to do it. It doesn't cost anything, but you'll get a ton of content. The content in Zoot are just too much to list here. Just give it a visit and you'll see...or hear great OTR from the 40's, 50's, and 60's.
