And another one bites the dust...

First of all, an update is coming to celebrate the 10000th hit. I apologize that the update didn't come when the actual 10000th hit occurred, but as you probably know, RL usually does catch up on us :)

Anyway, on to the main reason why I'm typing this. A new Key Animation Drawing book was released...As you probably read in some of the other entries in this section, I'm fairly disappointed with the recent key animation books (volumes 4 and 5), because they are based on Kite Liberator exclusively. And I'm really not a fan of Kite Liberator...
The first 3 volumes of the Key Animation Drawing books, were very good. Mostly storyboards of series/OVAs or movies Mr Umetsu worked on, but they also had awesome original artwork, that was never seen before. Volumes 4 and 5 however, have nothing but Kite Liberator storyboards. Nothing original whatsoever, which was very disappointing for me, since Kite Liberator was probably Mr Umetsu's worst animated feature in the last ten years IMO (the character designs were awesome though). Now, volume 6 comes out and guess what ? Based on Kite Liberator again...*gasp*
As a fan of Mr Umetsu's artwork, I find myself in a dilemma. I do want to collect them all (no Pokemon pun intended), but it's...Kite Liberator...again...
But then I look at the cover art of this sixth volume and look at that: a Umetsu babe as cute as ever. And I think to myself: "The man is luring me in...but I shall resist! NO MORE KITE LIBERATOR I TELL YOU!! NO MORE!!". But one of the auctions for the book, contained not only the front cover, but also the back cover of the sixth volume and...the aforementioned babe, is only wearing panties.........And so I bid on the book....DAMN YOU!

I know I'll only find Kite Liberator storyboards inside this one...AGAIN, but Mr Umetsu totally lured me into these repetitive books, with awesome covers, filled with the sexy girls only he can draw...I know I'm sounding like a perv as I write this. But it's a true story. I bought a book solely based on the "sexy" cover and knowing almost 100% that inside, I'll find only Kite Liberator storyboards...Pathetic isn't it ?