One Piece When I first saw something related to this anime I was like" there's no way I'll ever watch something like this". An anime of pirates and a main character whose special ability is to stretch himself sounded boring to me. And the fact that by that time it had almost 800 episodes were enough reasons to not even try to watch it. I also remember that in two ocasions I was so bored that I tried to watch it but the first 2 episodes were enough before I was tired of it and not entertained.Then I met Ruben in my work and he told me he watchs anime too. And he said my favorite anime of all times is One Piece, and I said I've tried to watch it but is boring. "give it a chance" he said.And that's what I did , to watch the first 10 episodes is not easy but then it becomes so good . One Piece is the story of a young boy named Luffy and his dream is to become the king of pirates.When you first see him he has this big smile like if he is happy all the time and also has a lot of confidence. It will take a while to understand this character cause most of the time he looks like a dumb kid who doesn't know what is going on. But when someone hurts any of his friends he will do anything to save them.A very well defined character , if it was a movie he would win an Oscar for his acting.Then we have the crew of Luffy all of them with a sad story and a dream.Zoro is the the stronger one after Luffy he wants to be the best swordman, despite his power he is a nice guy and the one who is very honest and cold when something has to be done. Nami is a young girl whose dream is to navigate around the world and create a map. She has a special ability to read the weather and later she learns how to control it. She is the girl who yells at the rest when she is mad and also she loves money and treasures.Then we have Usopp , he just want to be a brave man like his father...Usopp is a coward and probably the character that will make you laugh the most. He is very good at shooting from long distances.Sanji is a cheff and his dream is to find the "all blue" a sea that has all the fishes in the world so set a restaurant there. Sanji loves women and act weird when he is close to them. He is always fighting with Zoro and he is almost as strong as Zoro he fights only with his feet. Chopper is a deer combined with a human , he is very small and he is a doctor. Chopper is very innocent , sometimes he is scared of everything like Usopp but is very strong. Chopper has the ability to transform ...

Japanese anime vs American cartoons I don't consider myself an "otaku" but I do like japanese anime. Do I like it more than american cartoons? The answer is yes. American cartoons represent my childhood , growing up in the border with USA and having available like 8 or 10 english channels on the TV was the best way to watch all the cartoons that were popular in the USA at the momment.And I am very grateful that in one way or another watching cartoons in english helped me to unconsciously learn a little bit more everyday about the language.And of course I also watched american cartoons in spanish. Now about the anime cartoons they came to my life when I was a teenager , watching animes like Saint Seiya, Dragon Ball , and Captain Tsubasa. I remember my first impressions about anime cartoons.The first one I saw was Saint Seiya, and I was impressed with the designs of the characters. By the time american cartoons were all about weird things that we got used to see as normal, for example the designs of characters like the flinstones or the Jetsons , for me is hard to remember american cartoons in where humans look like well...humans. Some cartoons from the 80s were on the right path like He-Man and Bravestar , but most of the american cartoons are animals who talk and act like humans. And I am not saying that cartoons must be like real life, but american cartoons are worse everytime. Some examples are squarepants bob, the powerpuff girls, dexter , rugrats, and others. Not only they don't look like humans anymore , the designs are very simple.When I compared american cartoons to japanese there is certainly a huge difference. In Saint Seiya the characters designs were amazing, and everyone of the 88 Saints had a different armor , the way the hair of each character moves and the scenarios gave me an idea of what I was missing.And that is only on the design of characters if we talk about the stories well... it is very simple american cartoons are stupid. No I am not angry with american cartoons , but now when I look at them with another perspective I realize how lame they were. For example Teenage Mutan Ninja Turtles , I was a big fan , mostly cause I like ninjas. But if i try to watch one episode nowdays omg not only the stories were lame, the action scenes are nothing to what you can find in anime cartoons. And as an example I can say Dragon Ball, it has some of the best action sequences.The truth is that american cartoons are mostly about comedy ...

Trabalenguas Hola a todos los que quieren aprender este idioma les dejo este trabalenguas si lo pueden decir de forma rapida entonces estan mas cerca de dominar la pronunciacion de cualquier palabra en espanol. "Tengo un paranguaricutirimicuaro muy bien paranguaricutirimicuarizado el que lo desemparanguaricutirimicuarizare muy buen paranguaricutirimicuarizador sera." Parangaricutirimicuaro es una palabra derivada de un pueblo existente en Michoacan Mexico llamado Parangaricutiro llamado asi por el volcan Paricutin famoso por haber hecho erupcion.La palabra que yo utilize para el trabalenguas es mi preferida porque es la que pienso tiene mayor grado de complejidad.

Saint Seiya ( Los caballeros del zodiaco ) part 2 This is the second part of I don´t know how many of me writing about Saint Seiya, so I was writing about the characters . Saori Kido:She was the chosen one to represent the goddess Athena who is reborn every 200 years , Saori Kido grew up as a mean girl treating bad the orphans(of her same age) of the institute of her grandpa . When her grandpa died she took care of all the business of the family , Saori became a sophisticated young intelligent woman . At some point Athena awakes in Saori and she becames a more lovely person, as a goddess she sacrifices herself several times to save the earth. Seiya (Pegasus saint) Seiya is the main character of this anime he and his sister lived togheter as orphans when they were abducted and separated by Kido. Kido promised Seiya that if he returned with the Pegasus clothes and became a Saint he would help him to reunited to his sister.Trained in Greece in order to win the pegasus armor Seiya had to fight a giant guy named Casio,Seiya beated him using his "cosmo" (cosmo is the inner energy of the saints using all the energy of the universe).Seiya is the rebel guy of the group kind of stubborn and obstinated for that reason he is the only one who keeps standing up after a deadly atack,he is the only japanese of the 5 main saints,his principal atack is the pegasus ryu seiken ( pegasus meteor) in this atack Seiya throws thousands of punches per second.At some times the real skill of Seiya is to see the weak point of his oponent in miliseconds.The clothe of Seiya is the Pegasus armor , but sometimes Aioros (the saint who saved Athena as a baby) send his clothe to Seiya , the golden clothe of Sagitarius .At the beginning Seiya beats Shiryu and stopped his heart but he revived Shiryu by hitting his heart from the back , from this point they became very good friends.Finally there is another reason for Seiya to never give up, that resaon is Saori even though they don´t mention it , it´s kind of obvious that he is in love with her.Seiya was punished at the end of the series for kicking the ass of some gods, they deleted his memory and Seiya was on a wheelchair , Saori was taking care of him and protecting him with her goddess power but that is only the start of another story...

Saint Seiya ( Los caballeros del zodiaco ) Hi I want to write about something that I liked a lot in my childhood and that is Saint Seiya ( Los caballeros del zodiaco in spanish),a Japanese cartoon or "anime" that went around 1996 in México. I want to start from the beginning , the first time I saw something about Saint Seiya was on some little cards that were included in some cookies that I used to buy in my school. We all in the school liked the look of this cartoon, the design of the characters was something different from what we were used to,and that means american cartoons the really good ones, Tom and Jerry, He Man, Bravestar,Thundercats,Batman the animated series, etc.But unfortunately there was no transmision of Saint Seiya here in Tijuana, so the only thing we knew about the serie was the cards that I must say they were in 3D.So after a couple of months as I was changing the channels of the tv I found 2 new channels and one of them had a lot of cartoons from 12:00 pm to 5:00pm they all were japanese cartoons , for me it was something new and exciting but the surprise was bigger when I found that the last one was Saint Seiya.From that point I never missed a chapter, luckily when I started to watch it , it was like the fourth episode.So what is Saint Seiya cartoon about? It is about a group of warriors called Saints (In spanish it was translated to Knights , due to religions issues that the word saint might have caused) that are reincarnated into humans every hundreds of years to protect the earth again.These saints must defend their leader the goddes Athena who is supossed to live in the sanctuary located in Greece.A series of events caused that one of the Saints betrayed the leader of the sanctuary and tried to kill the baby Athena, but one of the saints the most loyal Aioros arrived at the last momment and sacrificed his life to save Atena. At that momment an old rich man that was touring in Greece walking in the ruins found the saint Aioros bleeding to death and Aioros gave him the baby and his golden clothes , the clothes of Capricorn. Aioros told the old man about the Sanctuary and asked him to take care of the baby Atena and also train new saints to confront the now corrupted Sanctuary in the future.The old man was owner of the Kido foundation so he took and raised a group of orphan kids then sent them to different locations to be trained and become true saints.Characters: Saori Kido:Saori was a rich mean girl who grew up humilliating the other kids. When her grandpa died she...

Movie Review Scream 4 Hello today i saw the movie scream 4,despite everyone claiming the movie sucks I liked it.It was just what I expected, nothing more nothing less, a bunch of killings with a knife, everyone being suspect of being the killer.,an unexpected ending, etc. Sometimes the movie is ridiculous, like when they are seeing a movie inside of another movie inside of another movie.It's not a must watch movie, but it's better than a lot and neve Campbell still looks good.

New guitar Today I got a new guitar I'm so happy everytime I buy a new one. I've got 5 in total. My favorite music is heavy metal so I spend most of my time playing covers of bands like Metallica, Megadeth,Ozzy Osbourne etc. Today I was trying to learn Pink Floyd's solo of Comfortably Numb song or should I say David Gilmoure's solo. Either way it's one of the best guitar solos of all times.It's kind of tricky to get the effects and tone of the original but it's worth it. The solo by itself is not hard or complicated to play.So if you have never listen to this amazing song what are you waiting for? Go and search for it and be ready to "fly" to another dimension with the Pink Floyd style.

Jonathan's notebook entry: Apr 22, 2011 Movies Reviews part 2 Hi I'm gonna talk about another movie Monster House wich came out in the year...I don't really know, but it's kind of old.When I was reading a magazine and I saw the characters design I tought they sucked.Years later changing some channels on the tv, I saw a little bit of this movie and it got my atenttion , it was somehow entertaining.Now I finally got to see it and I think it's awesome.It's just what you can expect from a horror movie made for childrens.Something I loved about this movie is that it doesn't have songs. I'm not saying that songs are bad in cartoon movies, It's just that sometimes songs are not good and it seems like a struggle to keep the tradition of musicals even if they don't fit.Now back to the movie at some parts it seems like a little bit to scary for childrens,but it's ok for teenagers.Or that point in the middle.Another thing that I liked about this movie is that it's short, precise and direct to the point.Even tough I don't like the characters design I liked the effects, camera angles etc.Perfect for the childrens on a rainy day when they want to see something different than brillian colors and humor.