fantasy loves

Okay, so I don't watch movies at all so I'm just going to list what I do know lol:

• Yona of the Dawn by KUSANAGI FUCKING MIZUHO
• Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood
• A Lull in the Sea
• Rokka: Brave of the Six Flowers
• Akame ga Kill

These are some examples of animes with the fantasy genre but in all honesty, I only enjoy three out of five of them. Numbers one, three, and four. A Lull in the Sea is also a really nice show but I don't consider it as one of my favorites and Akame ga Kill is just a whole mess of characters, plot, setting, and conflict. It's one of the most messiest things I've ever seen but it's just an example of what can go wrong in the fantasy genre.

Yona is about a princess who turns 15, and on the night of her birthday, her father is killed by her cousin who wants to take over the throne. She's forced to escape her castle with her bodyguard to avoid being killing as well. She wants to protect herself and her friend so she seeks help from a priest who tells her that she should find the four dragons and unite them under her. She sets on a journey to find them.

A Lull in the Sea is about a new species of people, those that can live underwater. These people can go into the land but they need to return to the sea to avoid their skin cracking and becoming hydrated. The social dynamic of this show is interesting because the sea people and land people have different and bad opinions of each other. Then one day, a hibernation of sorts falls upon all of the sea people and they are forced into a very long sleep. The protagonist, a sea person, isn't affected by this because they were on land when this happened. This story is about how the protagonist lives with his sleeping world and the world above.

Rokka is about a monster trying to destroy the world and God, trying to save the world, gives six people the power to band together and take the monster down. The six people must unite at a certain location and then set on a journey together but once they meet up, they realize that there's seven of them instead. This is confusing. The line is drawn when the group realizes that someone is a fake and the show revolves around finding the fake of the group.

the hobbit book review

The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien is about the adventure of Bilbo Baggins, someone that genuinely should have a distaste in adventures. Here's my personal opinion on the story.

In all honesty, I can see why this story would be popular for little kids. It's a lot of adventure and action and make-believe things, so many younger audiences would be interested in this type of genre. The thing is, little kids can't read The Hobbit so just watch the movie instead. Unpopular opinion but this book was pretty boring to me. The action didn't really hold my attention and some things felt dragged out in order to hold suspense but it didn't have a good impression on me.

I had no attachment to any of the characters, so it was hard to empathize and be anxious for them. I don't care about Bilbo or Thorin or the other dwarves, not Gandalf or the enemies, etc. If I had to stretch, I like Beorn. He was pretty cool.

One chapter was extremely annoying to me and it was when Gollum and Bilbo wanted to have an intellectual conversation about riddles that I could care less for because that part could have been shortened at least 10-15 pages but no, you had to make it longer in order to make the movie have a better time stamp. A lot of scenes in this book are like this actually. It would have been so much better shortening the book and maybe it would have been a lot better.

That's about it for now. The Hobbit is a hit or miss.

the martian chronicles book review

The Martian Chronicles is the second book that I have read from Ray Bradbury and this time around, I wasn't as disappointed and uninterested. It was more intriguing and the story building was quite nice. However, I did have some problems with the story.

This story is about humans landing on Mars and starting a new civilization. In this process, they drive out the Martians and circumstances don't go so easily. Many of the problems in The Martian Chronicles are real. What can humanity do about the Martians? Will they turn the world into an industrialized business? What about those that want to escape poverty and prejudice?

Most of the problems, besides maybe one or two of them, are resolved by shooting someone. Oh, you don't like someone? Take out your gun and shoot them. This way of problem solving became so repetitive after the first three chapters, the first three expeditions, of the book. I wish that Bradbury would come up with another way to resolve things. Nothing is interesting about shooting someone as dark as that might sound.

The chapters in the story, regardless of the amount of shooters there were, were appealing. I liked the chapters "-- And the Moon Be Still as Bright", "The Martian", and "The Silent Towns" because there was a lot going on. Martians were explored and mentioned and their mysterious powers were observed. World building in this story is nice.

According to science fiction fans, The Martian Chronicles is unlike the other stories of the same genre to come out of their era. It is interesting because it has more speculative thought than a ton of action. I can respect Bradbury for doing this.

The Martian Chronicles is definitely better than Dandelion Wine. I wonder if there's a correlation between the Tom in the book versus the one in Dandelion Wine. DW was much boring. I'd choose The Martian Chronicles any day over its other successor (for some reason).