I downloaded and watched this flick a few days ago, it’s based on an adaptation of the popular manga series by Go Nagai, whose works mainly drew rave criticisms though they were typically controversial, consisting of very violent and risque content. Sad to say, I haven’t really read any of his works, so I’m not really a fan or reader of him, even though I’m a manga fan myself. Nagai’s most famous work was Devilman, which was first released in 1972, then later produced and made into animated form. (1 TV series and 2 OVAs were made to my knowledge) The main protagonist is a young man called Akira Fudo, who has a shy personality with a kind heart, but was often bullied in school due to his kindness and the purity of his soul. But one day his fate was changed, when his world was invaded by demons. His good friend, Ryo Asuka convinces him that the only way to subdue the demons, is to join their minds and bodies to a demon’s, so that they can assimilate its powers and become devilmen themselves. Unwillingly, Akira’s fate was sealed when a demon bird called Amon awakens from its long sleep and Akira succeeds in acquiring the demon’s powers by possessing the body of it, and due to his purity of his soul, he was able to control the demon within him, instead of letting the demon’s soul overcome him, thus becoming Devilman, the union of Amon, the Lord of Darkness and Akira Fudo himself. This came as a surprise for Ryo Asuka, on the contrary he thought Akira wouldn’t be able to successfully control the demon, Amon within himself. The truth is Ryo is actually Satan’s incarnation, and all the sudden appearance of the demons are planned by him, he was the actual mastermind behind all these. Interesting story? And from what I read, the OVA animation are indeed very violent and bloody, rivalling to the likes of Berserk and Ninja Scroll. Hrms so do I recommend this movie? Yes, even if you’re not a manga fan of the series. Just watching for the CG alone for this movie flick is justified enough for me, this movie has some of the nicest CG effects I have ever seen in a movie, like the transformation of Akira into Devilman, and the intense post-apocalypse battle between Devilman (Akira) and Satan (Ryo) themselves. And how can I forget about oh-so-beautiful Ayana Sakai, who plays Akira’s love interest in the movie, as Miki Makimiura. She isn’t really a new actress, saw her back in the highly acclaimed flick Battle Royale 2 as well as in the tennis-related japanese drama series Ace Wo Nerae.

Hrms, on the other hand, I seem to have gotten out of the ‘Star Wars’ craze already. Not really crazy about the show anymore, I guess it’s also because there’s nothing more to look forward to, the saga has finally ended. Oh, so you were saying that I didn’t do a review for it? But I figured that if you really wanted to read reviews for it you wouldn’t had come to read my blog in the first place, and what’s more there are plenty of sites out there for you to read upon for the impressions for Episode 3: Revenge Of The Sith, am I right? Well all I can say is, it did lived up to my expectations, but I didn’t really liked the flow of the story as it is, and somehow it didn’t really felt like a two hours and twenty minutes show to me, I just couldn’t feel the flow or pace at all. (?!) (-_-)”’

Anyway, had a pretty boring Saturday. Was actually gonna meet Henry for coffee in town today since we haven’t like catch up for a long time, but he said he was gonna start on his new job this weekend, aww such concidence. It was only for weekends though, so I figured that asking him out during weekends is out I guess, promised to catch up with him some other day. Then yesterday night was asking Jimmy wanna go out and chill only, he tell me he’s broke, and just wants to go Gamescore to chill. *faints* And I was like, eh is Gamescore the only place we can hang out and chill, why do we always have to go there like every Saturday? (or precisely, why Sats!) Then I was like argh, you jolly well know the crowd there on weekends, and somemore during Sats there will be this particular guy I don’t wish to see there, and yet he wants to go there. (-_-)”’ So in the end I told him, can we like go other places, if not it’s out for me. Sorta got into a trival arguement with him because of that. But my point is, if you’re really broke, I can always offer to pay first, you can pay me back later. Everyone who knows me well, knows I do small monetary favours for my friends, regardless of his or her status and I don’t expect any returning favours either. (Eh Shaun if ya reading this, I’m sure you can vouch for me for this right?) But he, been the one giving the excuse that he’s plain broke, doesn’t want to go anywhere that needs to spend money on. So I was like fine, I told him I won’t force him, forsake the plans for going out then. (but inside of course I was like pissed off, like show me attitude liao, of course I’m pissed lah) Then later on when I cool down and think about it, I decided that perhaps he was really broke, and I should really be understanding about it. But I really don’t like to hang out at Gamescore for nothing, you know? It’s not like I really adore games now, I think other than touching my PSP and NDS occasionally, I haven’t been playing any games on my PC and PS2 lately, in fact it’s been a long time since I played any games on my home consoles.

But then, something hit me hard today that really left quite a bad impression in me, about him. Earlier on today, Val smsed and asked me if I was interested in watching Madagascar on Monday. I initially didn’t ask him who else was going, so I merely told him that I was interested, but do let me know the timeslot for the show first. Soon thereafter he confirmed with me that it would be an evening timeslot for the show, so I was ok for it and told him to count me in. Then just now a few hours ago, when Val chatted with me online in MSN and was telling me the time for the show, I casually just asked him who else was gonna join us for the show on Monday. When he mentioned that Jimmy was joining us, I was like stunned. But I didn’t ask him anything else further, cos it was just a trival matter. But deep inside me, I know I was hurt. So is that all lies or what? The matter of fact that you told me you were broke, and I believed you. Then now you pulled out this kind of stunt. So how do you expect me to trust you again, as a friend? (…)

I probably should just forget abt all this, forget about trustworthy friends, forget about everything. Everytime, some point in my life, I get to know this kind of stucked up people, who just spill excuses and lies to cover up for themselves, regardless of either at the expense of myself or anything else. And I’m totally sick of it. Really sick of it. But no, I won’t turn to the dark side or anything, because of this. I still have my girl buddy, I still have my friends whom I trust, who never failed me before. Having these people as my friends, are definitely good enough. I shouldn’t ask for too much, desires will only kill and push a person to his or her limits.

I believe I have a devil inside me, but I’m still within control of myself, just like Devilman. Good night everyone.