I went to Coney Island yesterday and helped myself to some Nathan’s Hot Dogs, the world famous ones you can get at any franchise but they are especially special at Coney Island. Yakitate Japan, Addicted to Curry, La Sommeliere, there’s all this food-themed manga in existence, so what if someone decided to aestheticize and romanticize the [...]
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Moon Phase has more details on the Tales of the Abyss anime, although still no say on OVA or TV anime. But the big news is that Sunrise will do the animation. The director will be Kenji Kodama, who directed City Hunter and Case Closed. Yoshihito Hishinuma (InuYasha, Yakitate!! Japan) will do character design.
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Yesterday we talked about the mangaka of Konjiki no Gash suing Shogakukan for losing pieces of his artwork from the original manuscript. Well today, another mangaka Hashiguchi Takashi, best known for Yakitate!! Japan has commented on the issue. He started a blog and posted about how the editors in Shogakukan wouldn’t be so irresponsible [...]
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Azuma Kazuma is a young man with a dream- he wants to create “Japan”, a bread that can stand alongside the likes of French bread, German bread and English loaves as a national icon. To that end, he enrols as an employee of the famous bakery chain Pantasia, but will his creativity, imagination and sheer [...]
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OP Theme: 「踊れ」 (Odore) by Micro Download: AVI version (27.1MB) | PSP version (17.1MB) | YouTube version My original intention was to actually blog this drama, but since I already picked up Last Friends on top of Zettai Kareshi, I have to put this on the side for a while. I simply can't afford to download more than 20GB worth of stuff per month and 3 one-hour dramas per week means losing around 2.4GB per week. Not good when I have other series to cover. It's especially hard since for some reason anime broadcast goes pseudo-HD, inflating the filesize up to 500MB each. Moreover, 3 dramas in one week would be a bit too much for me. Having said that, I'm still interested to cover this and will find a way to do it somehow. I probably won't be able to keep it up on a week by week basis but I'll catch up somehow every few weeks. Anyway, let's see what happens. I'm more concerned with the bandwidth thing more than anything else. At any rate, this is a pretty good first episode. It brings back good memories of old anime series like Fruits Basket and Yakitate! Japan. It's probably because this show is so entrenched in Japanese culture just like those series I mentioned above.
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Needed a more recent Osaka icon in anime besides Kotomi (Well, it wasn't stated where she was born). The All-Hanshin Kyojin will more than suffice. (Otherwise, it'd be Kawachi from Yakitate! Japan and this post would be called "NANDATTE?!!!" instead.) So it's confirmed, this little panda's going to Japan in a week. (Kawachi: "NANDATTE?!!!") No prize for guessing where, though you might get one
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Yay, today is my 19th birthday! *celebrates* It´s 19th day and I´m turning 19… To reminisce my many years of otakuhood, I´ve made a top10 list of my all-time anime favourites. Read and be horrified. 8D 10. Yakitate Japan Yakitate Japan is a clever shounen series. Basic idea is crazy and you may think that jokes get [...]
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I haven’t seen very many sports anime. The only ones I can think of off of the top of my head are Umisho, and if you count it, Yakitate Japan. But both of these are comedies, and the comedy is the focus, rather than the sport. Ginban Kaleidoscope probably doesn’t really count [...]
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It's all in her face... well, kind of.I really haven't much to say about this episode... except it was awesomely giddifying and superbly satisfying... Suffice to say the outcome of the previous episode has been gloriously reversed... But just by how much you ask?Aiming low to avoid disappointment?Tajima Good Job!!!Wish there was a better way for me to convey the sheer awesomeness of Tajima's swing this episode... (I'd make a GIF image if I knew how...) It was about time that he got to show off that batting talent of his in the game, up to then Tousei had been guarding against him pretty well (still wowing at that seemingly never-ending stream of foul balls he was forced to hit at his previous batting). But FINALLY Tajima pulls through with sheer skill against Tousei's battery -no fluke involved, they even deconstructed his decisive swing to prove the point (it would've been extra awesome if they did it Yakitate-style with reactions =P) - and as a result the game isn't only tied (again), but Nishiura takes the lead!!!*coughs* inyourfaceTousei *coughs*The reaction I had was quite the same as Tajima's... well, it would've been if there weren't as many people in the house already concerned about the sanity of the person cooped up with the computer all day. So I had to settle for that Momokan-ish-just-barely-holding-in-the-jubilation face (first pic in the post) with my fists balled up so tight it actually felt like I could easily crush a pomelo or two... And the game isn't even over yet!There's still one episode left in the game, and I wish I could say for sure how it's going to turn out in the end, but... All I have to go on now is Momokan's slightly vague expression in the preview... Don't want to get too ahead of myself though like poor Takase did...Not happening... just yet :PYES you can, just GIVE IT ALL YOU'VE GOT!!!Next episode... on with the raws! Wish me luck =P
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I´ve almost finished Yakitate Japan and was searching another shounen anime with crazy basic idea, when I ran into Katekyo Hitman Reborn. Series where a baby trains school boy to be 10th mafia boss? Yes, please. This far Hitman consist most awkward transformation scene and ignorant people ever. After male protagonist Tsuna receives his power-up, his [...]
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