Yes, in case you’re wondering, they ARE holding hands. I delight in reading the NHK manga, but it is in episodes like ep9 which offer some form of alternate storytelling and more fleshing out (compared to the manga) which also make me delight in watching the anime. It’s quite refreshing seeing broken people try to give [...]
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A short teaser clip is online in promotion of eroge maker G.J?'s next game, with the working title of "Project Queen". The clip consists of a silent pan over a mostly obscured character portrait, followed by a video of one of the game's voice actresses (dubbed "Renka-san", a pseudonym with some history) informing us that further details will be revealed on September 21st both on the official site and in the pages of PUSH magazine. HD will be keeping track of this release as these details become available; of note at present is the rare videographic appearance of an eroge seiyuu in promotion of a game - the first in what will apparently be a series of seiyuu video introductions for the game in question. (no more)
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I dunno. Maybe it's the new school year -my biggest school year- that's making me really take every scene to heart but this episode really got to me. "Hey, Shuu-chan, what does living mean? You breathe and you eat. What are you supposed to do? I don't know". That pretty much sums up the situation [...]
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With all the Eva hype around, I’ve decided to make a new banner accordingly. Well, when I say make, I mean crop a desktop wallpaper. Actually, I did slightly more that just that. I found on the wallpaper section of theOtaku.com, which was made by tassium. Apart from simply cutting the banner out from the [...]
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While I’ve only been ranting about Louise’s tsundereness and Siesta’s sweet meido charms, I actually enjoy ZnT’s simple but coherent plot very much too. Ep 10 reinforced this with the revelation of lost Void mages and it suddenly dawned on me how apt Louise’s title is. Zero How befitting for a Void mage! I look [...]
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Staff: 脚本家：福嶋幸典 演出：吉田俊司 コンテ：奥野耕太 作画監督：内原茂 制作協力：動画工房          Fine and Rein are going to be late to school, as usual, so they run at full speed, almost hitting a girl, but thankfully, Fine was able to do quite a jump over her. The girl, Torowa, princess of the Step Planet (another quite inventive name there...), was very impressed with Fine's display of physical ability, so she wants Fine to be her partner in the upcoming dance contest. Last year, Team Wonder (looking very much like that Wonder 5 group that sings the ED) won the contest, so she absolutely wants to win this year. After that, she trained and trained and trained more, but her teacher said that something very important was missing from her dance, but she didn't say what it was. Torowa knows what that is, however -- the signature move of her teacher, the maboroshi no oowaza puribaua. Rein tells Altessa, Leonne, and Chiffon about Fine's entry into the dance contest. Chiffon calculates their chances of winning at 0.3% (^^;;) Rein runs off, ready to get some footage of Fine and Torowa practicing for the news... perhaps that wasn't such a good idea, though, as the practice Torowa is making Fine do is rather ridiculous -- jumping from moving platform to moving platform high off the ground, running 100km in a day, climbing walls, tightrope walking, or jumping through these cutouts of positions or whatever. And on top of that, no more eating all the food she wants for Fine. Fine is out of it by the end of the day... Poor Fine (^^;;) Fine ends up sleeping until noon the next day, late for practice with Torowa. Torowa's in a rather dark mood when they arrive -- she thinks that Fine's going to quit since this is exactly what happened when her previous partners quit because her practice regimen was too rough. But Fine's not going to quit since she promised to win together with Torowa -- it's fun, too (que the instrumental version of the 1st season 1st ED... very nice song). Fine suggests they practice outside since it's a really nice day. Fine takes Torowa up to a place with a very nice view of a lake since she thought it'd be more fun to practice there -- they're going to do it!
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Starting from today, I’m moving all my anime and manga related posts to THAT Anime Blog (that.animeblogger.net) ran by Impz and his friends. I won’t be saying bye-bye to this thing just yet, since I have a lot of things that I want to talk about, but aren’t related to manga or anime. [...]
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Yeah, school started and so I’ve kinda put this thing off for a little bit. Also, I’ve mostly grown bored of everything airing at the moment other than Honey & Clover 2, Ouran and possibly Coyote. Random stuff that I want to say: 1) As I said in the title, Xenosaga 3 was [...]
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With the Fall season coming up, the main thrust of this week’s podcast was in looking over the upcoming shows. hung has never watched this anime. but that’s okay, since i’ve only seen one episode of cowboy bebop
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Episode 9 of the Anime Nano Podcast is upon us! We discuss the Evangelion movies (which Hung apparently skipped altogether), the new Fall 2006 anime, and answer some mailbag questions. Your hosts for this podcast are (as always): Hung from Basugasubakuhatsu Anime Blog jpmeyer from 見ないで! 恥ずかしい Hinano from Ex-Fansubber ひとり言 Bittorrent link (help us save bandwidth!): Anime Nano Podcast [...]
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From Adult Swim: “Ichigo Kurosaki is a normal high schooler — except that he has the ability to see spirits. But when a Soul Reaper named Rukia gives him her power to defeat an evil ghost, he’s tasked with keeping the city safe from the monstrous Hollow spirits that plague the world’s earth-bound souls.” If [...]
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If one were to liken story-driven anime series like beer, Saiunkoku Monogatari would make a nice drink under the tepid breeze of summer. To me, however, that’s sort of besides the point. It is either delicious or disgusting. It either goes well with what I am eating and doing, or it doesn’t. It’s either affordable [...]
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I’m not too sharp on the Japanese political system, but if I’ve been following the news correctly, Jun’Ichiro Koizumi is stepping down as prime minister, but is not choosing a successor. Therefore, the Diet will be choosing his replacement. The lead candidate so far is cabinet secretary Shinzo Abe. In a distant [...]
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This week on Titanic..err School Rumble the gang gets stuck on a boat in the middle of the ocean. I recently read up to volume 13 of the School Rumble manga and was pretty surprised the anime (seasons 1 and 2) followed it so close that I actually ended up just skipping through most [...]
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Kuuya is such a naive emperor, and while Genjimaru is out and about, her advisors Hien and Hauenkua keep suggesting she unite all the lands under her rule. Hien is idealistic, and Hauenkua just wants to pwn n00bs, but eventually Kuuya relents. Her misguided rage at being attacked (as everyone fears her power) [...]
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This is what happens when you take advice from household appliances. Sato is like totally in love with Misaki and can’t stop thinking about her. He regrets not buying anything for her at the festival and imagines buying her cotton candy and then kissing her. He quickly exits from his dreamland and beats his [...]
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I've had so much fun watching Giant Robo for the first time this weekend - an impossibly epic, jaw dropping spectacle set against frame after frame of sprawling neon-lit cityscapes and the kind of fluidic action packed excitement you just don't see anymore in modern anime - it has again sparked that raw enthusiasm for anime inside my heart, you know that feeling you get when you uncover something special. Compare this with my somewhat dulled interest in the current and former 2006 seasons, where I'm en..
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All thanks to Otakuism, I have stumbled around Nipponsei and found myself a paradise of OSTs. I generally loved OSTs a lot, as anime music tended to have rather good quality. For this, I decided to do a little review of this compilation of songs from Aria the Natural OST. Aria, as you know, is [...]
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