Voices from a distant star review

The anime this week is Voices from a distant star which is an excellence short film by director Makoto Shinkai, who also did all the animation and all the CG. Voices from a distant star is bittersweet love story about two young lovers Nobuo and Mikako who try to continue there relationship eventhough their are separated by a war with aliens known as the tarsians. The only way Nobuo and Mikako can stay together is through email that takes months and then takes years to arrive as Mikako moves further into deep space. The story starts out with Nobuo and Mikako spending what would their last day together before Mikako ships out in a TRACER ( giant robot ) to fight the tarsians.

The visuals in Voices from a distant star are amazing because of the well done CG backgrounds, as well as hand drawn backgrounds, CG effects like smoke or laser beams are great, the CG animation on things like the TRACERs and tarsians is well done and hand drawn animation is excellence considering its done by one person. The audio is also great with a nice main theme playing through out, the Japanese seiyuu's (voice actors) do a good job and ADV films also did a good job with the english dub. The story is this anime greatest quality which is emotional and intense.

Voice from a distant star get a 10/10. It's short but sweet.

Conservatives in Canada rant

I'm part of growing minority of Conservative minded Canadians,who have been painted as rednecks,misfits,religious fundamentalist's or tools of corporations which is simply untrue. Conservatives are not all like the Geogre W.Bush's or Bill O'Reilly's of this world,their are compassionate people and who are trying improve this country. Conservatives are improving this country by fighting for lower taxes for all Canadians and corporations,a two-tier health care system that will preserve public health care and better government not more government. The reason the Canadian people never hear this is because the media is slightly biased toward conservatives and the liberal parties (liberals and NDP) are always demonizing the conservative party.It's not completely hopeless for conservative minded Canadians though because of organizations like the National citizens coalition and Simon Fraiser institute are getting the conservative messenge out there. I'm not asking you to vote conservative in the 2006 election I just want you to hear them out.