Hajime no Ippo: 1

The anime has ended for a while now, but the manga is still continuing the story, and right now, the focus is on Volg, the boxer from Russia. He's my favorite character in all of Hajime no Ippo. He isn't the fastest, nor is he the strongest. He isn't flashy, and he doesn't get a lot of spotlight. However, as person, he's amazing. He's kind-hearted and doesn't get angry much. Throughout the series, he fights in countries away from home. As such, he has to prove himself to everyone, and the latest chapters are no different. He fights the WBC World Champion Mike Elliot. However, he is there only as a replacement challenger because the scheduled fighter injures himself while training. Because of that, Volg only has one week to train and goes into the fight unprepared.

Once again, Volg gets into another fight where he is the foreigner and has to overcome the odds. In Japan he loses to Sendo due to the officials being biased against him because he is Russian. In America, he faces the same obstacle. Despite giving it his all, he is still faced with disadvantages. This time, after nailing a destructive right, the ref deliberately counts slowly and even helps Mike to stabilize himself. Even though it seems like Volg always gets the unfair disadvantages, he still presses on because he knows he has to go through whatever comes his way to get to where he wants to be. In other words, Volg is strong.

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The spear in the daylight is easily avoided. The arrow in the night is difficult to defend against.

-The Ravages of Time

The meaning here is clear: Underhanded methods are the most difficult things to be aware of. While threats can be easily seen if they are huge, the most dangerous ones are the ones that remain hidden. Those that bide their time, those that hide their malice and hate; those are the ones to fear, while those who openly express their views can be easily taken care of.

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Song of the Day? Don't make me laugh! If that's your idea of revival then that's nothing.

Ahem

"When one can't figure out how to make a proper start, one can't make a single move. But that's a mistake! It's different in this world of ours. Even if it's not perfect, starting to move opens up a path."

-Akagi Shigeru

Anime and Video Game Characters: Yagami Light

There is no doubt about it. His sense of justice is different from the one held by society as a whole. Though, the question is: is society's justice the right kind?

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On the battlefield, all lives become meaningless.
If you don't die, it will be my death.
I do not care if you are the eldest son, father of a child, parents' precious.

-The Ravages of Time (Ch 10)

Quotations

Artist: Resona-Raille

For some reason....it's getting harder and harder to post. It's like....stagnation. Hopefully we'll be busy again, but until then I decided to make a new category that might inspire us to post more. I don't know how this quotation thing is gonna work or how it's gonna turn out, but it's better than nothing.

Status Update 9/1

Artist: saint-kageyama

Whoa, we made it to September. Nothing much has been happening, but last month we (more like I) managed to overcome the declining post trend. And I am never going to attempt something like that again. The quality of the posts were crap, and motivation was basically just me trying to get to 23. It didn't matter what posts I put up as long as it reached 23, and it did. So, expect declining posts this month. Especially since school has begun again.

Overcoming the Struggle

Artist: Shinzo-X

We've done it (more like I did most of the work, but still, they helped)! We've managed to finally stop the decline of posts. It took a lot of work, but now the downhill progress is over. Since this is the 23rd post of the month, we've beaten last month's count of 22. Though, it's way smaller than what we had when we started out (what were we thinking getting up over a hundred posts).

Heroes (Possibly Influenced by The Ravages of Time)

Song of the Day: Jasmine

From Tsubasa Chronicles is the song Jasmine, and it's sung by....Yui Makino. Yeah, I did my research this time. It's a catchy song, and, as usual, there's not much to say about it.

Anime and Video Game Characters: Jaccuzi Splott

Song of the Day: Utsukushi Kereba Sore de Ii

I haven't done this for a while. So here is the song of the day. It's sung by....that person who did the Gundam Seed Ending with....that equally complex name. Yeah, I am way too tired to do the research. So here's the song.

Ma Teng

If there's anything I can say about Ma Teng, it's that he sure likes to eat noodles. no matter where he is seen, he has a bowl of noodles. Even when invading the four generals in Chang'an Ma Teng sat on the battlefield eating noodles. When he speaks, he uses noodle terms. "I want 2 catties of beef" and that means killing this one guy. Heck, other than that, I don't know what else to say. Thanks to Jia Xu, Ma Teng is able to return back to his base before Lu Bu takes it over. In Chang'an after Cao Cao takes it, Ma Teng becomes one of the inside rebels. Ma Teng has a sizeable force that threatens Cao Cao during the Battle of Guandu. But....of course he gets taken care of. At this point Ma Teng still has time to get more development. But right now, he hasn't been seen very much.

Cao Xing

This guy is a master archer. He taught Xiao Meng everything about archery (both of them are experts). He first appeared in the Xuzhou incident where Zhang Fei competed against Lu Bu, and he nearly got Liaoyuan Huo. Later he decimated Xiahou Dun's army with just archers. It's too bad that he got a bit cocky and met the spear of the one-eyed monster. But still, there probably won't be any others as strong as him in....shoot. There's old man Huang Zhong who's pretty good with it. And...aw man. There's probably others as well, but he's a master.

Ravages of Time Insert

Just to clarify things, my character analysis of The Ravages of Time isn't the best. Your interpretations may be different from mine (they probably are; the manhua is hard enough to understand as it is) and that's fine. My posts are just guides to the characters so that you know who is who (because there are many many characters....even more than Baccano). And the person responsible for making all of this work (by this I mean making it so that I can read it) is merc from here so visit the site and you'll receive even more resources on this awesome manhua.

(yeah I know this is pretty much filler)

Yuan Tan

And here continues my look at the characters who have little significance in the big picture. Yuan Tan (someone unimportant) is the eldest son of Yuan Shao (someone important). He competes with his other two brothers to be the heir of the Yuan Clan after Yuan Shao dies. However Yuan Fang is the illegitimate son of Yuan Shao, so in this case he is competing against three brothers. Except...the first time he tries to show his might he fails miserably. Yeah, I gotta stop doing characters that are in the story only to fail.

Gongsun Zan

From the beginning it's obvious that this guy wouldn't last long. The Three Kingdoms story is mostly about the struggle between Cao Cao's force, Liu Bei's force, and Sun Ce/Quan's force. Rulers like Gongsun Zan have little chance to compete. Nevertheless, he lasts about the same time as Lu Bu in The Ravages of Time (which is pretty damn long).

Mid Month Update

Serious? Even though we were moving along so well....we're gonna fail? Man....that's depressing. All we needed to do was beat 22 posts, and we couldn't even do that! Well, I....haven't given up yet! There's still time. There's still enough time to get up ten more posts! And this one is one of them! And I'll just picture spam to have some relevance in this status update.

Anime and Video Game Characters: Elmer

The Immortal Laugh

Anime and Video Game Characters: Nanashi Part 2

So I am damn unsatisfied with my earlier Nanashi post, so this time I hope to do a better job. And to do this I asked myself a very crucial question.