Starship Fandoprise

Hello there! I'm stararnold, and welcome to Starship Fandoprise! This WORLD features a mix of features/news posts based on multiple topics regarding anything of pop culture (incl. animation/cartoons/anime, comics/manga, music, books, video games, live-action TV/Film, etc.), as well as webpolls/websurveys and brief posts about what goes on in my fanboy life. Hope you enjoy your visit!

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About the WORLD's Host

Other WORLDS runned by the host (check 'em out for more content by this guy)
Leijiverse 999, DC and Marvel Assemble, Star Trek Nation

Known at DeviantART as
beavers2010

Birthday
04/10/1986

Gender
Male

Where I live
LaSalle (Montreal), Quebec, Canada

Anime Fan Since
Early 1990s when I started watching The Transformers (1984), though that was before I learned that not all cartoons are American (However, while the classic Speed Racer series was the second anime I got into, you may consider this what made me the anime fan I'm today if you don't consider the original Trasnformers to be anime)

Member of theOtaku.com since
05/30/2005

Achievements
Medal for Meals-on-wheel's service, Medal for conflict manager team, Mabel Award at High School Graduation, Honouroll at college, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting and Drawing concentration) in University

Favorite Music Genres
Rap, Rock 'N Roll, Disco

Created By stararnold

News: Blood & Chrome Now On Streaming Video

Today marks the launch of Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, the prequel to the 2003 BSG miniseries to focus on William Adama's involvement in the 10th year of the first Cylon War. Recent sources confirmed that Universal Studios pl...

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News: A Live-Action Gatchaman Planned for 2013

Yesterday, ANN revealed that Japanese film company Nikkatsu is planning a live-action movie version of the 1972 Japanese animated...

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News: 1972's Mazinger Z and 1973's Cutey Honey Coming to R1 DVD

Retro anime fans in North America, get ready to Pilder On for some oldschool Go Nagai anime fun! Today, ANN reveals that Discotek Me...

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stararnold's Plan Regarding The Dark Knight Returns

Yesterday marked of course the release of the made-for-DVD animated film Batman: The Dark Knigth Returns, Part 1, which is an adaptation of the first half of comic book writer Frank Miller's classic 1986 comic book limited series Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Originally, I was going to buy a copy of the DVD film right way as I was feeling hungry for a more dark-and-edgy animated superhero drama, but as it turns out, that day would be a rare moment in my life as a fanboy where I decided to buy a copy of the trade paperback of the entire series collected first before watching the film itself so as to do a compare and contrast scheme to see whether or not the makers of this PG-13 rated film toned down too much on Miller's grim-and-gritty dramatic content, a kind of content that many readers and critics consider to be important in redefining and revitalizing Batman's image as an anti-hero-type superhero for the modern age of (western-made) comic books, although it usually does not matter to me on what to do first between read the book or or watch the film version. Once I finish reading the book, then I may or will buy both parts 1 and 2 of the animated feature. And here's hoping that part 2 of the animated version of this Batman classic goes for an R rating from the MPAA so as to ensure that the animated grim-and-grittiness still matches the legendary comic book limited series itself, otherwise I fear that Warner Bros. has made no effort to evolve the dark-and-edginess for animated DC Universe content (especially for Batman of course) to the level of today's awesome canon continuity DC Universe comics, though I am usually neutral between the classic comics and the modern ones when it comes to DC Universe and Marvel Universe.

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Update on Decades of Anime Outline

A couple of months, I posted online at theOtaku.com, an outline on how I plan to work on my 5-illustration instalment series “Decades of Anime”, which is plan...

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