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Sky Girls 24 - Fight 2007-12-24 23:12:05 Oh this is getting exciting, and Ayako releases 24 and 25 at the same time, too, so they’re catching up, and watching more than one episode at a time is always fun. Everyone on the Kouyruu have some talks with each other as they prepare for this final mission, and then it’s finally time for [...] Read more:Girls
12 Days of Christmas: Day 11 - Giant Robots 2007-12-24 17:08:12 Mecha POWAH! Between Code Geass, Gundam 00, Gurren-Lagann and other series, this year had a lot of mecha awesomeness~! My favorite mecha, though, probably had to be D.Gray-man’s Komurin II, III, IV and IV Mini. Maybe I‘m a little biased because I love Komui so much (and you know you do too~!) but let’s review the [...] Read more:Christmas
ANN’s Kanon DVD 1 review 2007-12-24 15:58:23 I first found out about it on 2D-Complex (although it looks like the post has been removed; it was a bit angry): ANN has already review
ed the first DVD for Kanon, and it just feels a little biased.
Of course no review can be completely unbiased, but the reviewer seems to know very little about the [...]
12 Days of Christmas: Day 10 - Mahou Shoujo 2007-12-23 17:41:19 When perils about forgotten childhood memories or nice boats or throat-clawing syndromes plague the animeverse, you can always turn to your magical girls to restore a little bit of optimistic peace in the world.
When a friend of mine got a new computer monitor this month, he used Shugo Chara! to test his color balance. I’ve [...] Read more:Christmas
Japan’s Anime Conquest 2007-12-23 13:20:13 First an imperial takeover in the early 1900s and now this? :3 Although this movement is much smaller, much less violent, and likely much more successful. Heard it first from Anime
Diet, who heard it from ANN:
The Japan
ese government has decided … to spread anime, manga, and other elements of Japanese popular culture in Eastern [...] Read more:Conquest
My cosplay ideas have been shot… 2008-03-11 16:30:10 Believe it or not, it was my mother who brought up the subject of Ohayocon on the way home from school today. We chatted about Artist Alley for a while, but then the topic turned to cosplayers. And then my mother outright said that she didn’t want me cosplaying as a guy (aka crossplaying.)
So now [...] Read more:ideas
Hayate no Gotoku! 48 2008-03-11 07:30:51 When the first line of the episode is Hinagiku saying, “Boyfriend?!” you know this is going to be a lovely twenty-two minutes. “Hina Love” is the title. Much better than Love Hina! Well, it was great for its time and when I was younger and thought it really ecchi. Now it’s just slapstick, but I [...]
H2O ~footprints in the sand~ 10 - “Kohinata” 2008-03-11 01:58:12 We have our main couple in a super happy state, but will it stay that way? Do I sense a parallel with Clannad with the couple-living-under-the-same-roof situation? And yet more secrets of everyone’s past is revealed.
Status of soul: Yawning
Impressions
The episode goes from good to bad in terms of mood. I suppose this means the plot [...]
D.Gray-man Character Designs 2008-03-09 20:12:43 Out of all the manga series I’ve ever read, D.Gray-man’s character designs got slaughtered the most when made into an anime. (DN Angel comes in at a close second.) I’ve already ranted on this once, but I feel the need to reinforce my point by providing proof. A picture’s worth a thousand words, after all. [...] Read more:Character
, Designs
Motteke~! Hitode! 2008-03-09 13:20:34 …or something. Basically a MAD (a great one) of the ever-parodied Lucky Star OP except with Clannad characters. Not the whole OP, but the job done so far is pretty sweet. Hiiragi == Fujibayashi as expected, but Minami != Kotomi XD
Thanks to Neko Mimi Mode for the tip.
YouTube Link —
NicoNico Link —
On a semi-related [...]
Clannad 20 - The Real Story Begins 2008-03-08 14:27:23 Nagisa’s slowly warming up to me, just as she is for other people. But I’ll be stubborn and say it’s only because the other girls are being neglected that all we can do is focus on Nagisa now. It’s also since we’re slowing down the pace, too, from all the action and upbeat moods [...]
Nabari no Ou Promo Online 2008-03-07 12:37:00 ANN has kindly informed us that the spring 2008 anime Nabari no Ou now has a promo online. Simply put, now I wish they hadn’t reported it.
Nabari no Ou, which is based on a manga by the same name, has now lost a lot of my vague optimism and interest because the promo’s lame. The [...] Read more:Promo
[Impressions] Kaleido Star Season 1 2008-03-06 05:57:23 Kaleido Star is rather ambiguous in its target audience: is it a shojo series for little girls, or is it more oriented at older female viewers? Or, rather, is it geared at moe-loving adult guys?
*shudder* I certainly hope it’s not the last one, but fanart and Saimoe results make me think that might be [...] Read more:Impressions
, Season
“Pray” English Translation 2008-03-05 17:24:37 Yet another Nana Mizuki song I love and adore. The scene it was used during in Nanoha StrikerS episode 24 is completely and totally awesome. ^____^ A few other people have already translated this, but I wanted to try my hand at it; plus someone I know requested it. Corrections are appreciated~
Source romaji/kanji
Pray
vocals by [...] Read more:English
, Translation
No Dragonball Movie until April 2009 2008-03-05 09:46:42 Oh noes! Just when everyone in my anime club was going to have a mass exodus to the movie theatres on August 15 to enjoy (or laugh at) perhaps one of the most terrible movies ever to be made, we now have to wait 8 more months?! ANN has received reports that the live-action Dragonball [...] Read more:April
Shakugan no Shana 21 - Epic fight! 2008-03-14 04:56:45 This episode deserves some special attention — the actiony Shana we’ve always wanted. Sure, it’s been there since the end of the Konoe arc with Pheles and such, but Sabrac has been quite the villain. And JC Staff pulled out a lot of goodies in this conclusion episode of the fight
. Pretty effects, a cunning [...]
Yotsunoha 1 - the four friends 2008-03-13 16:40:28 Ever since seeing the posters in Comp H’s and other magazines (of pseudo-loli Nono), I’ve been interested in the story behind her and the plot of the series. ^^; Well the OVA is out now, and I get the chance to watch 37 minutes of this girl rather than 22. Turns out she’s one of [...]
“Sociometry” English Translation 2008-03-12 13:29:15 It finally came out today~! This is definitely one of my favorite KOTOKO songs ever. The TV size version has been played precisely 100 times on my MP3 player already… ^_^;;;
Source romaji/kanji
“Sociometry”
vocals by KOTOKO
Shakugan no Shana II ED2
My prayers to the heavens stopped the seemingly infinite time
Will you someday hear it?
The tangled-up voice that [...] Read more:English
, Translation
[Impressions] Petite Princess Yucie 2008-03-16 04:37:02 Known as Puchi Puri Yuushi in Japanese, this is Gainax’s story (aired 2002) of a girl wishing to become the Platinum Princess
. And she has to do a lot of odd jobs to build her character in order to be selected by the Eternal Tiara. The weird thing is that she’s seventeen but stopped physical [...] Read more:Impressions
, Petite
AnimeBlogger.net Donations (and other bits of news that don’t warrant their own post) 2008-03-15 13:24:53 Alriiiiiiight, everyone probably already knows this, but the fabulous administrator of AnimeBlogger.Net is calling for donations to help with server costs. If enough donations are received, then a brand new server can be installed. $1600 will cover three months of hosting and $2200 (total) can allow a new server to be purchased. The donation page [...] Read more:Donations
Clannad 21 - one more left 2008-03-15 00:15:53 As the festival draws near, the Theatre Club continues rehearsing and preparing for its play. Everyone is available to help out, and the episode turns slice-of-life for a majority of the time. But there’s still a little incident at the end that puts the success of the play under concern. Plus the viewers have a [...]
Anime on YouTube is good for the business 2008-03-18 06:30:39 From the news headlines at MyAnime
List:
Fukuda Tadashi, the president of Kadokawa Digix (the publisher of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Lucky☆Star, etc.) said, “It is quite sad to see that anime videos are deleted due to copyright infringement. We can use YouTube
and other video sharing services to advertise our titles outside Japan.”
He continued: “Anime [...]
Shakugan no Shana II 22 - well crud 2008-03-17 23:33:05 You’ll know what I mean when you watch through the episode. It’s full of twisty goodness. But don’t get me wrong — it’s very entertaining. Mostly leans towards the lovelove and moe side of things, but there’s a lot of promise for the other genres, too. I heard from other blogs that this is an [...]
ANN: Code Geass starts on Adult Swim April 26th 2008-03-17 18:22:52
Incorrect pronunciation included.
“Bandai Entertainment Inc. announced today that the Sunrise anime series Code Geass
: Lelouch of the Rebellion (pronounced “gee-S”) will debut on Adult
Swim April
26th at 1:30AM pacific.”
“Gee-S”? Do they mean “gee-ess” or “gee-uss?” If they mean “geese,” I will laugh really hard.
But any way you look at it, it’s still technically wrong. [...] Read more:Code Geass
Persona -trinity soul- Allegedly Licensed by Aniplex? 2008-03-17 16:16:44 According to an announcement on Crunchyroll’s series page for Persona -trinity soul-, the series has been licensed by Aniplex. No formal announcement had been made, and after much research on my part, I discovered that Aniplex rarely fully handles licensing operations in the U.S. They did manage Fullmetal Alchemist’s English release (with Funimation), as well [...] Read more:Allegedly
Moar Random News Bits That Don’t Get Their Own Posts 2008-03-20 17:10:51 Yay, another one of these posts.
First of all, I just found out that I will be doing a D.Gray-man panel at Matsuricon in August! I’m nervous, because this will be my first panel ever, but I’m a fangirl so I can pull it off. Or something…? ^_^;; I may be doing a [...] Read more:Random
Playing through Clannad… 2008-03-23 05:33:19 All that for a bad end? Bah! *frustration*
Well it was my first time through the game, so I guess this is expected. I wasn’t sure what decisions to make early on (I thought I could do a little bit of everything), and when I finally committed to a path, I suppose I didn’t do it [...]
Kanon Minasesanchi CD Drama 2.7-9 2008-03-22 19:07:46 The wait is always worth it, because Kanon rocks, and there’s no other great way really to listen to these drama CDs. This week, OTL has released the next group of tracks in the Kanon Minase san chi drama CD series. The second disc (out of about five) is subtitled Akiko-san no ban gohan.
What makes [...]
ANN: Bandai Pre-Licenses Code Geass R2 2008-03-22 18:29:20 In a industry panel at Anime Boston, Bandai Entertainment (NOT Visual) has noted its pre-license of Code Geass
R2 as well as the manga adaptations and novels. No announcement has been made regarding releases and such, partly because R2 hasn’t even aired in Japan yet.
As thrilled as I am that they licensed season 2, they’d [...] Read more:Licenses
H2O ~footprints in the sand~ 11 - “Hirose” 2008-03-22 13:35:35 Wait a sec, how’d I miss this episode? x.x It slipped past my torrent radar. Oh well, catch up time: Things are going full-circle now, with the happiness appearing short-lived and characters’ problems and complications coming back. Can Hayami and Takuma make their way out by overcoming even greater challenges? Or is the village doomed [...]
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