Daft Punk Interstella 5555 Review

I remember when I first heard about this I thought it was a huge conspiracy lol. I've loved daft punk since the very first time hearing them which was one more time in a car ride to elementary school and I loved the whole vibe of it and it was easy to get the lyrics and I sang along straight away and i'm not the kind of guy to sing let alone around others but daft punk had me from day one and 

I listened to every song I could get my hands on when I started going on youtube and saw the music videos for the songs in the discovery album and I thought they all had the blue aliens with the blonde hair or things that looked like them and it wasn't til a while later that I found out that the reason I kept seeing interstalla 5555 in all the videos that were anime was because they actually made a whole anime movie out of their discovery album and I was like wow.

I don't know a single other artist that made a whole anime out of one of their albums which makes this unique and very avant garde. So as you guessed it this is an anime about blue aliens played to daft punk songs. If you don't already know daft punk is actually a french house music group that started in the 90s and is still going strong today. They are the techno guys who wear the robot helmets and this whole movie is house and breakbeat style music from france. It's a silent film in that its all just music no scripting but still tells a good story. 

Before I go any further this was produced by Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo), Cédric Hervet and Emmanuel de Buretel along with Toei Animation, under the supervision of Leiji Matsumoto. It was released in 2003 and its japanese name is インターステラ5555 Intāsutera Fō Faibu, "Four Five". The name is a bit strange the full english title is Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem. That's what the 5555 is its the S's in the title using 13375p34k. It is also dubbed the title "The animated House Musical" as you'll be able to see in the image.

The story of the film is about this space rock band that are blue aliens with blonde hair right and they get kidnapped and made into humans to be the next hit band on earth but is controlled by this evil guy who like does this weird occult ritual thing you'll just have to see it but they kind of regain themselves and try to escape to freedom and go back being blue alien dudes from outer space and stuff. Nice little story great use of colors true to raver culture, lovely music you can just chill to this anime its really a cool experience if you like house music and anime its just great. A real gem of a film i'm really glad daft punk made it. If you can get the bluray I would get the bluray to see it in that higher quality it enhances the experience  and make sure you got a decent sound system with a subwoofer to get that nice bass going on with the house music and if you have a decent sized tv all the better and that will make the best of this special film. If not its whatever its still great but blu ray etc makes this even better. 

If you don't like house music or anime or colorful things you might not enjoy this as much. Because of the fact that there is no dialogue minimal sound effects and all music and anime it makes it different to most other films so if you have a really short attention span and need multiple lanes of stimulus to stay entertained you might not be able to get through this one either. The people who watch this have to be the ones who wanna see how the story plays out and enjoy the music that's being played. You have to have an open mind or you will think this is boring and dismiss it, i've seen it happen. Some love it some don't care for it. You be the judge the film is available for free on youtube right now and has been like that for a while now not sure if the link I put up will stay up forever or if things with copyright change but I do know that daft punk has a more relaxed view on piracy. In fact their latest album at the time of posting this: Random Access Memories got leaked months before release and was already on youtube and torrent sites before it even came out anywhere and daft punk I guess figured it would happen and wasn't bothered by it it still sold well of course because it's daft punk <3. So there you go that's my review.

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and if you were wondering this is what the discovery album cover looks like:

3 Must Have Apps for Comic Book Lovers

Backup of my original blog post found here.

If you have an Android smart phone there are 3 really great apps that you cannot live without! The 3 apps I'm going to go over are for reading comics they all have their good points and virtually no bad points.

1. Comics by comixology

This app is not for pirates sorry. You can buy allot of mainstream comics from various comic publishers like Marvel and DC. They also have allot of free comics. The free comics are mostly the first issue of a series to get people looking. The others are from their online free comic day campaign which is very cool cuz most comic stores do that. what makes this app stand out from the rest is the way you read the comics. It doesn't just put a comic page up. Each comic is almost like a video. It pulls up one box at a time so you know which one they want you to read next and they do it very well to where it actually enhances the experience. And yes they have free issues of tales from the crypt XD!

2. Comic Rack by cyo soft

This is your must have comic book reader. It is used to open cbr and cbz files which are comic book archives. It
Generates a thumbnail, lets you organize how you like it and lets you read your comics in HD! It's a really nice app especially compared to other comic book readers out on the market. and it doesn't lag which is even better. If you don't know how to pirate comics you probably won't use this app cuz its for reading comics you already have. Look up how to use torrents and the pirate bay if you wanna learn. :)

3. Manga searcher by next group

This is your first and last stop for Japanese comics: Manga (pronounced Mon-Guh). Anime and Manga is just as well known as cartoons and comics. If you like comics you'll probably like this. :) If you're Otaku you already know about manga lol. This is a really amazing app that may look confusing at first but just play with it you'll figure it out. It has 5 pirate sources for all things manga if you know about a manga it probably does too and will give it to you for free not to mention it downloads to SD Card so you can give it to friends, spread it around, or move it from one phone to the next with ease! Edit: It might be called something different now. I can't find it on the app store but this looks like it might be the same app just diff name like they reuploaded it. The GUI looks exactly the same as the original app: SSManga by The Group Developer

Well those are your 3 must have apps for comic books. Hope out helps you out!