Europe tour Interail 2006 : One day in Denmark, Århus

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We arrived in Malmö early morning and took the train to Copenhagen by the Oresund Bridge. We then took an other train to Århus and arrived there in the late morning. We started to walk in the city, near the train station, Paulskirken (Saint-Paul church) and the harbor. We then walked to the city center's pedestrian streets and the river "Århus" with Å meaning small river in Danish. We listened to street musicians and one of them was playing "Harry Potter" movie music on crystal glasses. We then took the train for Hamburg, Brussels to spend the next day in Amsterdam.
Europe tour Interail 2006 : Introduction 
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パプリカ (Paprika)

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パプリカ is an animation movie by 今 敏 (Satoshi Kon) from 2006. 今 敏 also directed パーフェクトブルー (Perfect blue) and 千年女優 (Millennium Actress).

Doctor Atsuko Chiba and her associates have a machine, DC mini, that allows them to travel into people's dreams and record them. When she digs into her patients subconscious to help them, she becomes Paprika. She is currently trying to help detective Konakawa Toshimi who is having the same dream over and over again.
However some DC mini are stolen letting people going into each other dreams letting the guilty hide.
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Europe tour Interail 2006 : Back in Stockholm

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When we arrived in Stockholm, we walked from the ferry terminal vinkingterminalen to the train station to leave our bags there. Our next step will be to go back to Denmark. We passed the city center to go to the island Djurgården (animals garden). It is famous for the zoo and museum such as Biologiska Museet and Skansen, an open air museum showing a reconstitution of Sweden's olden time, Vasamuseet, a boat museum and Junibacken, Astrid Lindgren's museum. Astrid Lindgren is the famous author of Pippi Longstocking. we walked back to Gamla Stan and the train station and watched air-balloons flight from Sergelstorg square. We took the 10.30pm train for Malmö.
Europe tour Interail 2006 : Introduction 
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Demon Soul, the making of part 1: A very narrow relationship

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I truly believe that you can’t have a great story without great characters and at the same time you can’t have great characters without a great story.
Characters are a bit like the people you know in real life. So you have to ask yourself whose story you like to listen to better, the story of the guy telling you his last travel in Southern Asia, the story of the guy who went to the parasite museum or the story of the guy who spent his last week of holiday watching TV. For me, if you read this blog, you already saw the choice.

That doesn’t mean that I don’t like boring character, for example I truly think that Isakael, my angel is really boring. But the thing is that a character is like a person, it needs a good reason to be boring.

Before entering the story, each character lived (except Sahel, right) so before entering the story, each characters needed to have their own story, something that will determine their behavior and point of view and feeling and actions. (More about that in the Character series)

Before starting, the story needs someone there to do something. That’s how stories starts, something happens and there is no coming back. The story makes the characters move forward and the characters make the story take the path that only them with their own background can give to it.
If you are familiar with this blog you would now that the story would have been really different for example if Hitomi had been the main character instead of Brownie. She wouldn’t have done the magic by herself without Gideon and the outcome would have been totally different.
The narrow relationship between the story and the character force me to develop them in parallel, even though I still start with the main characters. But you will soon understand why.

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