i love art.

i love art, if i see something that looks damn beautiful i will look at it forever. this can be just landscape, a girl, the style of drawing, anything.

and here today i'll start by telling you my favorites.
i guess i'll go top 10? first 5!

10) starting off, viewtiful joe. everyone say's it's a beautiful game, i say it's a damn masterpiece of the genre.
it's not just the way it looks, it's how they incorporated that into everything, from the invention of the word viewtiful, to how the art style blends in with the fighting and gameplay, the brilliant use of cel-shading, and the crafting of all the mechanics, it's all just love and passion of the creators matched by skill and genius.

9) saki. both the manga and the anime. it's just so damn beautiful. the characters are so well developed and designed (and for nodoka it's doubly-so haha), i've never seen more beautiful characters anywhere before. from the design of saki and nodoka, to the outfits of the varying mahjong players, all the way to the design of the locations. in the manga, the art is damn amazing, i would sell my legs for skill like that.

8) light novels (story). i love reading light novels, any i can get my hands on i will read them. be it touhou stories by ZUN, or original stories like shiina ryo. i've read the entire haruhi series to date (10 will elude me for a while due to licensing and release dates). and in all of them you can hear the voice of the author. and in that voice is where i find the beauty. each author writes in a different way, and their verbal tics and reoccurring plot devices are so varied and whimsical i can't help but smile and laugh. whether it be the thought patterns of the main characters, or the reasons behind why the characters end up where they do, i just can't help but sympathize with whatever the author was thinking.

7) kara no kyoukai/tsukihime. i was one of the few people who played the original visual novel for tsukihime, and followed it through the melty blood series, and tried to take in every angle the world had to offer, all the way to watching every kara no kyoukai. it's a beautiful series in the expanse of the world, and it's take on the ethereal forces everyone fantasizes of. let it be how ghosts and magic works, to the marble-eye powers of the shikis (there are 3 shikis so far) the eyes of death perception, even the realistic but fantastic styles of the animation.

6) SaGa of Japan. they're a band. raison d'etre. i won't talk much about them, or this would take an essay's worth of fanboy rambling. so i'm limiting myself to holding that off for another blog. sure they wrote the song for viewitful joe's anime, but that's not why i love them. see here, i found them during a period of depression for me, and their song brighter side actually pulled me out of it. the words in their songs are pretty powerful (to me at least), and i found life from it. eventually i stopped playing viewtiful joe, having beat the shit out of that game, and found my way out of depression, and started living a very happy middle school eighth grade life, even so much as falling in love. few years later i fell into depression again, and once again their song pulled me out of it. i owe alot to them. and the fact they pretty much saved my life with their songs is enough to be called beauty.

end of first 5. top 5 up next!