Long story short:

Ice cream: 500 Ft
Registration Fee: 300 Ft
Two sushi rolls: 2150 Ft
Three FMA trading card decks with a buy two get one free offer: 1000 Ft
Kurosaki Ichigo figure: 1100 Ft
One bottle of tea: 200 Ft
One Anime Stars Magazine: 1000 Ft
One Yasutora Sado bagde: 300 Ft
One set of chopsticks: 800 Ft

Total: 7250 Ft

Available cash on entry: 6000 Ft
Remaining cash on leave: 1500 Ft

Reason: None available. The only rational explanation I can come up with is that one of the vendors gave me the change and the item, and forgot to take the price. It didn't bother them much when I went back to ask about it.

Okay, so what is this about anyway?
J-cult fest is something of a mini-con in a Budapest school, organized by some group called the MAJA. It's pretty much what it says on the can. The con included Japan related exhibitions, films, presentations and activities. Among other things, demonstrations were held by two sports clubs (the Phoenix Kendo Club and some archery club that's name I don't remember), and a drum ensemble.
The corridors were filled with vendors, selling all sorts of stuff from anime merchandise to books, magazines and various other random stuff. And since I had money to spend, I bought all sorts of stuff, and somehow, managed to spend more cash than what I had on me. Not much else happened. I'll post pictures sometime this week.

I have a review waiting to be written. I'll get to that too.

I'll be leaving for two weeks at most, and I don't know how often I'll be able to go on-line. So here's one review I don't want to delay for too long.

Yesterday... I mean early this morning, I watched Naruto: Bonds, fifth film based on Naruto. While it had a lot to be desired, it far surpassed that pukewalanche they called Naruto Shippuuden: The Movie, which was a complete wastenado of my timefoon.
First, let's see what it was all about:

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A large fleet of steampunk warships approach the land of the fire, and start bombarding, in what appears to be a remake of Pearl Harbor. Entire squadrons of soldiers called Sky-nins leave the decks, and use chakra powered wings to fly over the Hidden Leaf, and begin shooting people and buildings using guns that shoot knives, and some weird balls that look like hand grenades. They eventually leave to restock, and prepare for a second run. Shikamaru and Neji observe their movements, determine the location of their base, and move out along with Kakashi and Sai, for a surprise attack.
Meanwhile, Naruto, Hinata and Sakura are tasked with escorting a doctor who helped treat the injured, and his apprentice (Amaru), back home. After a dangerous trek through a jungle, (during which Naruto makes friends with Amaru as they save each others lives, and he finds out more about HER past with doctor Sinno), they finally arrive to the village, which has been raised. Desperately looking for survivors, Amaru accidentally triggers a booby trap, but the good doctor saves her in the nick of time and gets impaled by a volley of knives. After burying his body, the party splits up to look for survivors. Hinata is captured, apparently, while Naruto and Sakura have a run-in with the Notails (yes, they added another beast, even though there are only 9 of them). The beast apparently possessed Amaru, because of her despair over the loss of her teacher. After dealing with his own inner demon, who really wants to have a go with it's long lost relative, Naruto manages to get to Amaru and help her exorcise the demon. Sakura goes looking for Hinata and the villagers, while Naruto and Amaru explore the ruins, which turn out to be a flying fortess called the Ancor Vantian, and manned by the leader of the Sky-nins, who is none other than doctor Sinno himself. Turns out, he didn't die, he just staged his own death, to manipulate Amaru's emotions. Something he's been doing all this time. He did this so the Notails could feed off her negative emotions, and convert it into dark chakra, that eventually allows him to go Super Saiyan, and beat Naruto Dragon Ball style. Then Sasuke, who has been following Sinno, on Orochimaru's orders, shows up to break the fight, and disables the villainous old man. Sinno escapes, and Naruto along with Sasuke, chase him through the Vantian while Amaru goes to rescue the prisoners. An epic showdown takes place in the core of the Vantian, where Sinno fuses with the Notails, going all mutatey on them and starts draining their chakra. But he's in for more that he bargained for, as the large amount of chakra he absorbs results in a meltdown, leaving him vulnerable to the finishing moves of the two youngsters. Amaru rescues the prisoners (Including Hinata and Sakura, who were captured at one point), and they all escape in a flying machine, while Naruto stays behind to blast the Vantian into oblivion.
All the while, Shikamaru's team successfully decommission the enemy fleet, by infesting the ships with Shino's bugs.
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Epic battles at sky and sea made this film really worth watching. The graphics were a little too cartoony, but the animation was good at least. The story got a little hard to follow at some points, but besides all this, it was enjoyable. It didn't beat the first one, but it's a close second.

Now off to packing. I need to get ready for the big trip i mentioned.

Not really. This anime isn't what my title suggests, though there is plenty of blood in it. In fact, it has so much blood, that episodes are numbered with bottles of blood.

This is the story of a cute schoolgirl, and her creepy looking but very nice boyfriend. Together, they go to school in the morning, and work at a restaurant in the afternoon, and since the poor guy can't afford to buy lunch, she prepares box lunches for both of them. The catch? The girl is a vampire. No scratch that. Make it an UNpire. What does that mean you ask? Well, first off, she doesn't need blood to stay alive, and her skin isn't sensitive to sunlight. The drawback is, that she produces an excess amount of blood, and nosebleeds a lot. The bigger problem is, her boyfriend pretty much matches her preference in blood, being a very unhappy guy, causing her blood to react to him... and spray out of her nose with high pressure.

Of course this pretty much makes it a sitcom. So, enter the incompetent vampire hunter, who happens to be the first guy she ever bit. The poor loser thinks it was some sort of romantic dream, and believes her to be his first true love, while being completely oblivious to her nature. Then come his grandpa, who has a long standing grudge with the friendly neighborhood vampires, and the vampire girl's grandma, who wants to turn her granddaughter into a normal vampire. All is hyped up to a big climax, and suddenly...
THE LAST 10 MINUTES GET F*CKED UP WITH THE BIGGEST DEUS EX MACHINA IN ANIME HISTORY. It pretty much involved an unlikely wardrobe malfunction, and disney death [link]

Yes, up until the last 10 minutes, Chibi Vampire Karin was a good anime. Cute, funny, with occasional drama. It's a shame that something this good was ruined with such a stupid ending.

I started this one months ago, but it's so frickin long, it's not even funny. Anyway, let's sum up what this is all about.

In a different world, where magic is real, animals talk and technology comes packed in tiny capsules, a strange little monkey boy sets out on an adventure of epic proportions, to recover seven mystical crystal balls, that when assembled, summon a powerful dragon capable of granting any wish (one at a time). on his journey, he's accompanied by an obnoxious teenage girl, a talking pig, a handsome bandit and a cute flying cat. His dream, is to become the greatest fighter in the universe, saving the world every now and then, defeating dangerous foes, and meeting interesting friends on the way.

This, is Dragonball, a manga series created by Toriyama Akira, and it's anime adaption. Not necessarily the best, but doubtlessly the most important work in it's genre, inspiring Jump's three flagship series, and pretty much setting the standards for fighting manga and anime.

I recently finished the plain Dragonball (with Hungarian dubbing, which pretty much sucked, since it was re-dubbed from French) and moved on to Z. The fillers pretty much killed it for me though, so I picked up Kai instead, but I still keep watching Z, with original voices and WHITHOUT any subtitles just to practice the language. I'm making progress.

At least I think so. I watched what I could call the longest music video ever made. If you know of Daft Punk's album, Discovery, then you may be aware of Interstela 5555, an anthology of animated music videos, that together, form a coherent story. It's pretty much a one hour long animated feature film with no spoken lines, a few sound effects and no spoken lines. I don't feel like writing a longer review, so check it out for yourselves.