At last, shows that put in effort

Recall my rant about cartoons (and live action shows alike) can't do archery? Well, last week I finally saw a series called Utawarerumono, that actually did proper archery (well, okay, close enough to proper. Technically you're supposed to position the index finger above the arrow, and middle and ring finger below the arrow. The archers in this series only used index and middle finger. But heck, minor detail. They even made the effort of mentioning knocking of the arrows, and the archers actually drew the string as opposed to the arrow. Yes, at least the arrows would fly forward with the way they're shooting).

The same thing can also be said with incidences when people are playing an instrument. You have no idea how annoying it is to watch something, and have whatever key they are playing not correspond to the music. Even worse is when in terms of piano playing, the movement of the hands aren't even remotely close to the rhythm, or when in a melody consisting of only high notes, both hands are positioned at the low notes. I was very impressed when I saw the series Innocent Venus syncopate the movement of the player's hands with not only the rhythm of the music, but actually hitting (mostly) the right notes. Okay, in certain places they were lazy and just winged it, and some places the action and the music was off by 1/2 a beat, but in others, it was bang on. It really impresses me when someone dedicated the time and effort into little details like these.

Well, I had my first interview today. It was a lot less mean than I expected it, which scares me. I feel that the meaner the question they ask, the better answer I can provide, especially when I really prepared for it. Unfortunate really. The interview was only 20 minutes, so I don't know how well it went. Alas, no point in worrying about it now. If they like me today, then I'll be called to do an interview face to face in Ottawa. I'll be hearing back from Iogen in about a week or two.