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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Space Battleship Yamato

Yesterday, after the annual house cleaning at the end of the year, I watched the film Space Buttleship Yamato on TV. Its rough story is, as Wikipedia puts it:

Set in the year 2199, an alien race known as the "Gamilas" ("Gamilons" in the English Star Blazers dub) are raining radioactive bombs on Earth, rendering the planet's surface dead and uninhabitable. Humanity lives in refuges built deep underground, but the radioactivity is slowly infiltrating the underground cities too. Earth's space fleet is hopelessly outclassed by the Gamilas and all seems lost until a message capsule from a mysterious crashed spaceship is retrieved on Mars. Blueprints for a faster-than-light engine are discovered inside the capsule, and an offering of help from Queen Starsha of the planet Iscandar in the Large Magellanic Cloud, who says that she has a device, the Cosmo-Cleaner D (Cosmo DNA), which can cleanse Earth of its radiation damage.

However, the story rather seemed a scheme of Iscandar to me. Iscandar is a
sister planet to Gamilas, and might have worked a plot to trap the Earth to
attack Gamilas so as that Iscandar could "cleanse" Gamilas without putting their
own hands on it.....

Or, ..... I should have seen the movie while young,
when I used to be less corrupted.



Tuesday, December 29, 2009

I wish you all a happy New Year!

Change. Changed? Changed!

I am not practicing regular verbs, but remembering the year 2009. Some have changed at school, in Japan, and in the world; some others haven't. I am just wondering how many changes I could have brought about, and hoping to generate more in the year of the Tiger, 2010.