After the Spring

Well seeing as how it was spring break last week, I didnt do much other than hang out with people and ski a lot while I was back home. I did watch like two episodes of Black Cat which is a pretty cool anime about a assassin named Black Cat who decides to turn to the peaceful ways of life after a string of events. He is then hunted by the organization that he once worked for as well as by a group of psychopathic people who want him to join their organization. It is an interesting show with a good cast, however its a Shonen show so there is no real gore or violence in it which is a little disappointing since it has so much good potential for it >:]

Website-y Goodness

For the class that I am keeping this blog for, I am required to create a few web pages.  The first of which will be about back country skiing, I am excited about its creation and hopes that people will use it as a resource when planning on going for a back country adventure.
Again, the website can be found at:
http://fs.finearts.utah.edu/~kpieper/PieperKP1Site/index.html

Finishing off Chrome Shelled Regios

So releases of One Piece are still super slow, I watched the newest one last night, which was cool even though it did not seem like much happened in it. In the mean time I have just been watching the rest of Chrome Shelled Regios which is an average length anime of 24 episodes. The show is kind of weird, and I do not really understand what is going on in it most of the time. Like why are there massive bugs called contaminoids, and why is the world toxic outside of the cities called Regios which move around on their own? Some things in it just make no sense and are not explained at all which is a little annoying to me, but whatever its still a cool show I suppose.

A new show in the off time.

So as I stated last week, the releases of new episodes for One Piece have been slow. Because of this I have started to watch a new show called "Chrome Shelled Regios," Which follows the life of a master swordsman named Layfon who was apparently expelled from his former Regios, which are cities that are atop a moving platform and encased within a protective shell because the environment on the outside is uninhabitable apparently. Its been an interesting show so far, kinda confusing though. I may or may not go back to watching shows like Naruto and Bleach, we will see I guess.

Releases are slow...

I have finally caught up to where the anime is for One Piece, and I must say it is torture waiting a week between every new episode. The episode this week however was pretty awesome because of all of the stuff that went down in it. Black Beard showed up and wreaked havoc, ultimately ending White Beards life, and later stealing his powers that allowed him to create earth quakes. All the while Luffy is unconscious because of the shock that he just witnessed, the shock of his brother Ace dieing by the hands of a marine admiral named Akoinu. With Luffy in hand, the former warlord Jimbei, first son of the sea (a merman with very powerful fishman karate), tries to escape the navy headquarters island, but is again stopped by Akoinu who blasts a hole through Jimbei and part of Luffy's chest. The episode ends with Buggy carrying Jimbei and Luffy by a strang turn of events and a rookie pirate showing up in a submarine to help save Luffy.

The war between White Beard and the Navy Rages!

So, I am almost caught up with where the anime for One Piece currently is so I have started to slow down my pace of watching. The amount of story development and awesomness that has gone down during these past few episodes has been crazy cool, and very sad at the same time because of the devastation that has been brought about by a navy admiral named Akeinu. One of the most famous pirates in the world of One Piece has a big part in this chapter of the story, and the moments where he fights are awe inspiring because of how brutally strong and cool he is.

Impel Down

Over the course of the past week I finished another arc of One Piece that took place in a maximum security underwater prison called Impel Down. After having learned that his brother Ace had been captured and sent to Impel Down, Luffy sought to free Ace before he is executed. Luffy ends up meeting quite a few people from his past in the prison, almost all of which are notorious pirates from past arcs.

Despite being bad guys in the past, all of the people that he encounters are willing to help him in his quest because it would also mean escaping Impel Down which is like a hell to the prisoners in it because of the various forms of torture that occurs. Among the people that Luffy frees is the first villain he fought, Buggy the Clown who is a hilarious pirate that ate the chop-chop fruit and can detach his body parts and float around as a dismembered body as long as his feet are touching the ground. The other people that are rescued are various members of the infamous crime syndicate Barouqe Works that Luffy had defeated a while ago. The members that are freed are Mr.3, Mr. 2 Bon-Clay, Mr. 1, and Mr.0 Crocodile (who is a former warlord of the sea that was dethroned by Luffy and crew).

The group along with the help from some other prisoners they meet along the way are able to make it to the bottom of Impel down where Ace was supposed to be held, however they are too late and then attempt to make their escape to head to the Navy Headquarters in hopes of stopping the execution that is meant to take place in a matter of hours.